The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-10-04 00:00:00

N7B ' BRITANNIC )11J1WIltrhIllr.111*0111116111.1 101 , 1.4:.1 7.. • ,t • (Tlselollowing is given *Ale Pant Vlll tuna Bing pap/IV - as the copy of a lettet f4ant t a stir Ofrit eisrtiipan dear, hut without any remark oti the imiiisidn of his litsfrftr's preliminary prOgress, Odd Rifts. Ortisieb. This letter may hari clittre g bileily bfCtlaiit, int] that which contains the paihiUnlare 'ornitted may bitelieen previously sent by the Flanders Mail, which has bten delayed for several diysti: Accorang to the pot R arr his Majesty nanit , l9tv*:lT, , Tei Re on the atlg of the 27fh. (tilangt y f :rmi.tbe press the 28th i cu eutioned,) aod, WAS earaie4 to retc h Ba assele; Lithe evening of ;bet deo , chlt.± left the former place.* • , Brussels', Sept. 29. ..atenlac t,srr • S ov eneigudined with his . Betgian Ma. sleep of imekeir. Three of the - Royal CirresfPs Were in readlitki it° half past three o'clock: when his Maksty, Who woo' . dossed in the full uniform of a Fici , l-31arOisl, took kie seat, attended by Lord Cleocarty and the Marquess of Conyngbani. Sir Ben jamin Bloomfield, sisyt eagle other gentlemen of his m a j no wa su ite, tolitisend immediately after. The an nesuncseaseut that hie 'Majesty was to set out Brought together a rrcovd of spritators ; but there ,wai no de eiormrs.tioss of feeling on the occasion,. aria they hem t„ sc a . ,asi, a e ald,isolifference, appearing is if they ,z•etcyuvmly.. urtrnitsilful that the greatest Monarch in the world drigited to honour them with isiv.preeenre. pp conduct of the French was far different; and'hia Majesty's reeeptiuu, from Calais toTourpay,. was stir passs.4i only bj tisa. which he ,inexperienced Ireland. At which is in 'lie Belgian territory, the Authori t!es Lid neglected snaking any previous arrangements, and the consequence was, that the Royal suite were delayed an !stoic and a half waiting fur horses. An Eoglials gentleman, who has been a resident here for thirty veers, informs me that the Belgians detest the people of our country. They regard us as commercial tyraras, and say we have bound them in an un natural alii.uss e with the Dutch, in order to insure more effectual!) the thraldom of both countries. There is hut one opinion here as to the sentiment of the in habitants in the event of time country being invaded by *ranee. It is universally believed that the po pulation Wool., rise to a man in favour of their late tiMb:C:6. 1;6 Milichty did not return from the Pa lace till past one o'clock this morning, and I under stand he nits much pleased with the style in which he was rec eived there. A company of French per farmers, from the principal theatre, acted a private play fur !heron-delimit-Ist of his Majesty, and a few select individuals received invitations to attend. Sir Eduswal Nagle was to have been presented yesterday to the King of the Netherlands, but was seized with a sudden indisposition, which presented his joining the Royal party, and the conseqsrence might have been serious to the gallant Admiral, hail it not been fur the prompt and skilful aid of Mr. Walker, the King's Apothecary. This day our Sovereign will dine alone in his apartment, and afterwards his Majesty will Is osuur the theatre with his presence. The Duchess o f Devonshire is here, and was one of the Tarty yes t"irlay at the Palace. tlis Majesty will leave this shy to-morrow for Waterloo, where the troops will go thruugh some usassesovres representing the auovensents that took place on the day of ads Mina.. Liis Ma itsty, on'rositting that metnarable field, Will proceed to N anon, where he is to sleep to-morrow night,and thence continue ilia journey with all time rapidity that bad 'kW' 3a, and stitl er,arr ruin!; will admit. I can inform you mos a certain fact, that he will not this year visit either Berlin, Vienna, or Paris. Oe r. 2.—Tlais moment, at half-past five u'. loch past userilli in, the Royal Squadron, returning from !;alias, consisting of two frigates, a sloop of war, and gull Lag, with the Royal George yacht, appeared off llataings. bound to time westward, within a wile and a half of the shore. The King of England left Lille on the morning of the nth, at half pest nine o'clock, after breakfast, at which were present MM. de la Chatre and Jurrsil bac, the Prefect and the Mayor. his Majesty took time route to Belgium. At the moment of his depar ture, Al. de Jumilisac received a very beautiful snuff box; the proprietor of the Hotel de l'Europe a draft fur 6000 francs; the guard another for 501) francs ; awl the hand one for 2.110 francs.—(Courier Francais.) To the details which have already been given rela tive to the stay of this Sovereign at Calais, we have to samid, that on drinking time first glass of wine after din ner, at the Hotel Dessin, his Majesty gave " Gentle men, I drink the health of the King of France.'' — With his last glass he toasted " The good welcome which I have received in this town."—(Jortraal de Many of the inhabitants cried out to him " We owe to you our good King; ne owe to you the Boor bons-"—(French Paper.) We understand, from authority, that it is the de termination la Isis Majesty never, iu future, whets there is a possibility of eroding it, to travel on the Sabbath. Thus, our good King, while he is solicit ous for the amoral and religious improvement of Isis subjects, does not hesitate to impose equal restraints on himself.—(B.l;AtonCAromiele.) BO.VAPAR7'E. Cunnts Bertrand and De Month°lon have conjointly addressed to the Editorof a London paprr, in the French language, a letter, of which the following is a literal translation:— London, 2d October, 1621 Sir,—Several works, under the titles of " Manuscript come from St. Helena," " Some Thoughts," &C. " Maxims," &e.. " Sentences," &c., " Secret Memoirs," " Napoleon painted by himself," " Domestic Griefs," " Verses," &c. &c., have been published or announced as productions of ie Emperor Napoleon. They are not by him. His manuscripts have been communicated to no person. We also disclaim the memoirs announced under our name. We pray you to have the goodness to insert this letter in your Journal; and we have the honour to be, The Count BERTRAND. The Count D MONTUOLOX. We have already mentioned that a reduction in the Revenue cruisers is about to take place. The indivi duals employed on board them, it is said, will be added to the Preventive, or Water Huard, which is to be augmented. - ,„: ..II vd alma AN4644fiti Boa& I- • , • k-s• t s.- . , V 1 0,1)4444 Mu or 4taad In two distinct points of view ; as Om pia* opitdostoly :Its ha Indet.• fr eirlighteus•the ntied Oftbe . dommunity• by the Incessant . diseusittheek ail important politiCal Measures, and communicaiesi more accurate and detailed ideas to the mass of.iiian kind than they would he able to form without its as-, sistanoe. lint is Napa to the. goveroing principles . _ ... and predensinating feelings which actuate he Awes, we irei*nilleed ' tethink that h receives rather than gives tie impulse, ti4t it is passive rather than naive, and c tiolAmposes rather t i iiri governs the tossi, and tesapamanpeiety. If this be true of the press 44, ge neral; it must be more certainly true of each separate lind portion of the press, as the champioes antripiesintatives of the different interests and Mil riioimitike community. The conduct and temper of the 'PreiS' thus becomes a subject of curious and inter esting observation ; by its means we obtain an insieaf, not tuerety Into the political opinions and momentary, Objects ottonfliaing parties, but what is of infinitely; more importance, we acquire the materials for a( jolt cismpirison between the moral and intellectual qualities of the different political classes of society, and the means - of fairly esthnating their average worth as citinedi and men. Perhaps there never was a moment when a comparison, founded upon these materiels; could base produced a result so glorious to some aid so degrading to others of our political classes as the present. We undoubtedly belong to the party, which must triumph on this comparison; but we will make it fairly, and we challenge any the ablest of our oppo nents to controvert a position we shall lay down, or to demur to the conclusion at which we most andoubts' edly arrive. Neglecting all the Blighter shades of difference, or the more minute sub-divisions of opinion, English poli- ticians may be divided at the present day into two great classes ; the friends anal enemies of reform.— The former class includes all those who wish well to - _ the progress of liberal opinion over the world ; and who, believing that the institutions of their own country are capable of improvement, think such improvement worth pursuing. The latter comprehends those who view with jealousy and dread the progress of foreign nations towards freedom, and who deem the existing practical institutions of Great Britain so neatly per fect, that any attempt at improvement is more likely to he i.ijurious then beneficial. The latter have one only adage, " Let well alone." The former are of opinion that there are some things not quite so well as they might he. The object of one party is, that so ciety should be stationary ; it is the anxious desire of the other that it should be progressive. To contrast the moral and intellectual qualities of such different descriptions of men, may appear a useless task ; the very statement of their respective creeds may he supposed to do enough in that way, yet for the sake of the very few disinterested adherents who may yet remain to the anti-liberal party, we cannot neglect the inferences to be so fairly drawn from the conduct of the •anti-liberal press. The Beacom and Joh* Bell are the fair exponents of the morals awl vnitfda , of this >Nttiaihatwls Ins., a boar - - Gene of these papers is the avowed creation of the leading anti-liberals of Edinburgh, the other is encou raged and patronised by the anti-liberals and their most accredited journals in London. They both had their origin at the time of the prosecution of the late Queen, and were obviously, we might al most say, avowedly intended to deter every indivi dual, and particularly every female of the upper or middling class of Society, from visiting, or in any other manner paying respect to that high-minded and oppressed WO:11all. And, by what means was this mag nanimous object to be attained? By arguments to convince the world of the Queen's guilt? Certainly not. The Attorney-General had been entrusted with that task, and had failed, notwithstanding he had ex aggerated the case vastly beyond the swearing facul ties of his Italians. The noble method of proceeding was to threaten every man and every woman who ven tured to approach the Queen, with the revival of every forgotten tale of slander that had ever been whispered against them or any of their relatiocs, or if none such could be found to invent them. The range of calumny quickly became wider than this, and embraced or threatened every opponent of Ministers, and every ad vocate of liberal opinions. Of the baseness and atro city of this conduct, it is, surely, needless to speak. No comment we can offer, would strew its enormity so strongly as the conduct of the Edinburgh Anti-liberals. Whilst they could, with impunity, and in the dark, distil their weekly poison, they kept on their process of moral assassination with industry and without re morse; hut the moment they are dragged into day. they skulk before the rising storm of indignation and abhorrence. Whilst such has been the conduct of the anti-liberal press, we feel an honest pride in reflecting on that of the liberal press during the same period. To its integrity and talent our testimony might not be deemed impartial ; of its negative merit, as compared with the positive offences we have been commenting on, we feel that we have a right• to speak. It has made no systematic inroads upon private happiness; no man, however opposed to it in politics, has found his fire side less tranquil or secure; it has dealt out manly invective upon political profligacy, but it has disdained to wound any man as a fa ther, a husband, or a brother. I t may, perhaps, be said that in this abstinence there is no great merit. that to avoid great crimes is a very slender title to praise. It cannot be denied, however, that the liberal press may claim comparative merit. We are inclined, indeed, to go much further, and to say, that in the circumstances of provocation and temptation which have existed, the forbearance of the liberal press to wards private character was positively and highly meritorious. When your enemy fights with poison weapons, you are surely nut en strictly bound by the laws of honourable warfare, as if you had a less cowardly and malignant foe! But independently of all idea of , retaliation against such things as Beacons and Bulls, and Lord Advocates and Clerk of Scottish Courts, and other slanderers, whose names are yet unknown to fame, we confess that at one period of the Queen's prosecution, we were half inclined to institute some enquiry into the private morals of certain of her most rancorous and active enemies. The temptation wa, strong, but we resisted it, and we ass happy that it .eallltespeation. Melees been. by "Sr. she wea M have Isad.'like every other subject.. a right of challenge. Considering the nature of tlee impetedoifeace, personal profligacy; or the toleration and eacottrageosent of persoaal profligacy in t juror, utotad have bees a pind ground of challenge. for these phis reasons, that inch a juror, not having % a due seam of the magnitude of the crime, would be more prose to convict of it, than a purer man; that con scions of pollution himself, less cogent proofs might catmint* him of its existence in another; that, habi tingly surconntled by vice, be might have imbibed the iceman scepticism of libertines as to the possibility of virtue. When the Bill of Pains and Penalties' was mini a first time in the Hesse of Lords, there certainly Meted no ordinary temptation to enquire whether every noble Peer, who said content" on that occa• could have met such a clallenge. Those who ars best atquainted with the pirate habits and 'va cations of our nobility can • best appreciate the stag, nitude of the temptation. We will not pursue this sub ject further, it might perhaps lead us too near the boundaries of that offeece which we have been con. deeming. We have said enough to indicate to all re flecting readers, that the peculiar temptation, the mote plausible apology for private slander was with that portion of the press, which has altogether disclaimed the use of it. It was necessary to do this. or leave the comparison we institute incomplete. We trust the conduct of the liberals and anti-liberals will, on every future occasion, ditTer as widely as the present, and that the cause to which they are respectively pledged, may advance or retrograde only in proportion to the relative merit, moral and intellectual, of its adherents. TO TIM EDITOR. SlR, —The Courier assert; as a reason why Sir Robert Wilson could not be tried before a Court Mar tial, that "being an Officer on half-pay, he is not amen able to the Articles of War;" and adduces, as a proof of this assertion, that in the case of Ueneral Ross, in April, 1785, the twelve Judges " gave a unanimous opi nion that he was not, as a half-pay Officer, subject to military law." __ . _ 1:po;1 this statement three questions naturally arise. In the first place, if a half-pay Officer is. not subject to nal. Nary law, to what law it he subject ? Secondly, having ascertained to what law he is really subject, whether lie has not a right to claim the protec tion of that law, in cue no proof of grilt can be substan tiated against him. Thirdly, whether half-pay Officers are generally aware that they are not amenable to, nor protected by the Ar ticles of War; but that, by an arbitrary exercise of power, they are at all times liable to be cashiered without any explanatioh whatever ? I eonceive,,lir, that no comparison can possibly exist between the situations of those Officers in actual ser vice, whq are amenable to, and protected by, the Articles of War, and those on half-pay, who, if The Courier be correct, have no tribunal to which they can appeal ! riAlips some one of your more intelligent Corres pondents can throw further light oa this subject ; await ing which, I remain, Sir, yours, &c. PUBLICOL 1. P.OIIVN:BRUirItI t.4Larrs it 11. TO TOE ROME OP TR& STATESMAN. • .yr 01,.., I,: -,- i :P• 1=r1 1 1.: lte i c ; i : e t. t i • :‘5 ru""?Ft"3l .” 12 3 t ,' n ,ri•PXt'l s P e Jri e r .1N • j v irititny genthriipi!,,dias.,ent bp :e9tj Jp, . tO rettoiet ? Cornet, oCyou t rAtili.rdeq_ aftwl, , ,far .a ialiect , 4 so much cooirre,pyld foilit.l)l,lo9wn to the poor/ classes, wlift .iti cr Most by tin;ipmes and loaf ositions daily practised on them.' Intiivnitaais who ace.4rineP.llo . tlais last resource are afraid to poblish„their distriftes to the world, by which the Pawoehrokers canape; al. though the•moster is liable for t heads of theserdaatis.the later are generally made the actors io. these flagrant impositions. There is nothing move' gulling to 'a poor Orson who may have a particular nAde sold; as 'toted it sold for less than the SIMI • for width it was' ph;dgedr and this one sample of' Pawnbrokint ingenuity;. or *hat is termed ROBBING 'T4 F. ' 'PAWNS. Suptiose a gentleman or laity pawns a gold 'tyavit worth 50 iili neat; for 5, and tbatthrotwit twee' et or inability, it gets beyond the time, the Pawnbroker sehili. a gold watch, not worth 5!. to be sold instead olthe valuable one. When the owner comes •to examine-the hook, expecting SO-receive the °tiepin* be •is •told he must• pay' for the examination. lie there finds the watch he'.is told was his, Sold fur less than he borrowed on' It ;‘'he has no other • remedy' than pocket the affront: or if be is refered to the Anctioneer who sold theilledges, be will tell hire tiothing &hotel, it. Pawnbrokers, I don't say ally bat generally, are i most powerful in waive t0..-robbery of every deactiption, particularly among domestic servants, as the goods can be stolen and turned into money in a few minntes : a r.-cent ex ample of this happened at the Old Bailey, where a friend of mine proseented his servant for a cotnpli cation of robberies—such as plate, table linen, and even his boots ; it appeared this woman was a ser vant in the Strand, her master had a house out of town where his family resided, while the servant maid had the care of the town-house; she was an adept in pawning, and took a silver cop worth 4/. and borrowed Is. on it; then, after, as she wanted, got to the amonat of 205.; she continued to pawn until a variety of articles were mirsed ; her trunk was searched and all the tickets found. Upon an investi gation, the worthy Pawn-broker did not lend more than two or three shillings in the pound upon the property, well knowing she would never redeem. She was pro secuted, convicted, and sentence of death pronounced upon her, which she would have suffered were it not for the merciful interposition of the injured and pinn dered master. The Judge made severe animadversions on the conduct of the Pawn-broker, and made him re. turn the goods to the lawful owner. But this is nothing to cases of robbery, which a knowing artist will not al low to come toextretnities if lie sees his way : he don't hke to stir the filth least the perfume might not 'agree with hi II ; he returns the goods and there it ends. In fact, the Pawn-brokers shops are the deposit of thievery and the most inviting stimulus to a bread; of the Laws. There are some of them so confirmed in their impo sitions, that they not only rob you but insult you.--I remember a recent case, where an article was out on Sunday, the party hail forgotten and went on Monday to redeem it. The worthy Pawn-broker said it was not sold—there it was—the party offered to pay the principal and interest ; but no, the honest little hero said they-might have it for such i'eunt, which was 30 per cent. more than the whole amount due on it.—. These and a variety of other extortions shall become the subject of my next letter. Snow-Hill, Oct. 3, 1031. SAM. SPOUT. SPORTING 7.‘"1 -I EL LICENCE. NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING. WEDN kir, OCT. S. Lord Exeter's Athenian, tist. 51b. beat Mr. Thornhill's Sardonii, 7st. 131 b. T. Y. C. 'Mtgs.—etc , lon Athenian. A Gold Cup of 90gs value. by a subscription of 15gs each, for horses of all ages. Ab. M. Mr. Batson's Rosierucian, 3 yrs old, Gib. 121 b. (F. Boyce) I Lord Clarendon's Mirandola, 4 yrs old, Ist. 2 Mr. Wyndham's Robin Hood. 4 yrs old, Sit Lib—, 3 Mr. Greyille's Soota, 5 yrs old, fist. 91b. Lord Grosycnor's Manchester. 4 yrs old. tist. 51b... Mr. Fox's Podia. 5 yrs old, Sst. 91b 4 to I agst Rosicrucian-4 to I agst Mirandoia —2 to I agst Robin flood-8 to I agst Boots-5 to l agst Mancbes ter.—Won by a neck. Fifty Guineas, free for any horse. Ac. 4-yr-olds to carry Ist. 41b. ; s.yr-olds, fist. 51b. ; 6-yr-olds, 841. 111 b. ; and aged. 9st. B. C. Mr. Windham's gr. h. Little John, 5 yrs old (W. Antall) I Mr. Batson's b. f. Luss. 4 yrs old Major IVilson's b. f. Rotterdam. 4 yrs old Lord Clarendon's b. f. Antiope. 4 yrs old Alrett, 2 to I on Little John —5 to 2 agst Luss—W to 1 agst Rot. terdsm.—Won by half a length. The next conference of Westleyan Methodists is to be held in London, on the last Wednesday in July. 522. That in Ireland on the first Friday in the same month. The following is the statement of the num bers this year in the Society : In Great Britain 260,354 In Ireland In Foreign Missions Total under British and Irish Conferences 252,570 Ditto under the Anieric4n Conferences . 256.881 Total of Methodists throughout the world, exclusive of Travelling Preachers . . 509.45)1 Increase this year—ln Great Britain . p,137 In Missionary Stations 1,93 t; In America . . . 15,957 Decrease in Ireland 262 Total Increase . , 0111 EN rAI. LITERATI: E.—Oriental Literature and Education have just suffered a severe and unexpected loss in the person of M. Ellions Boetber, born in Egypt, Professor of the vulgar Arabic at the School of U lentil Living Languages, and in the dower of his age. We lose in him a most valuable means of communication between Egypt and France. The re lation in which he stood between the two countries would have been, very speedily, much more efficacious, by the erection of a college of Egyptians at Paris.— M. Ellions would have beer the friend of this eeta blishwent. But though he has not been left to fulf4 • this great service to his paternal country, and to that of his adoption, yet he has left us an honourable me morial ; and the great Dictionary which be composed —a work of fifteen years perseverance and profoood. study, will preserve hi: name from oblivion, or the in difference of mankind. In causing the manuscript of this work to be printed, the Uovernment, in some measure, mitigates the unfortunate loss.--(3loaitenr.) k. 41- If. *Hasa eiteareTe er bq~ ; fes!esegi 161 Miler 40iipirmieite eke Iserit ihektirsood. Tic * imisint awl *he brim al. tope 'temptation ravioli* au% `. Fulda 'tautly to he considered. Ad wsndearrosr to espial Tear IS -the irofieh - I elikOleimptaition. If the. Melees had , been mid a w ort hy DANK OF ENGLAND NOTES. The point respecting Bank of England notes to which our correspondent Ilumanitas, yesterday, very forcibly called the attention of the public, is of the highest interest, not only to the feelings of humanity, but to the principles of policy. The determination of ' the Direr tors of that Institution not to prosecute the utterers of forged one pound notes, is a determination excitive of a thousand important considerations, and full of equally important consequences. How unfor tunate, if such determination be right, that it had not been adopted earlier, before hundreds of wretched beings bad been*molated at the shrine of the • now abandonded system. Those who ignorantly or vainly imagine that there will no mortal retribution attach to the acts which are inherent in this system, are strange ly or wilfully mistaken ; retributive justice may be long deferred, but it is certain as fate ; and as sure as the moral attributes of that Being who, who, in sonnd4 of thunder, proclaimed " thou shalt do no murder." There is also such a thing as political retribution : and that, as respects this dreadful system of fiction and fraud so long pursued, is now making itself known, as is abundantly manifested by the compunctions visi tations of conscience, which can alone have dictated this measure. But, if those who have tenaciously supported the Pitt system abandon this important branch of it, what a reflection is east on the memory of its author,—Mc ,ereat Statesman no arm. more !—Me Pilot that ',wither ed the Storrs :??—and what a subject for practical ap prehension arises out of this determination not to pro secute, as to the means of identifying forged notes, to say nothing of the difficulty of discriminating between those which are genuine and those which are forged. Of the millions of these notes pat into circulation by the Bank, many must remain out ;dhe Bank declines issuing more, and are not desirous that the public should receive them with the former credit strangely attached to them ; it is, therefore, considered safe to depreciate them ? If they are brought in, in consequence, it is what the Bank is said to desire; but who is to be the judge between the Bank and the Public as to the fact of one pound notes being forged or not ? A million of notes may be taken to the Bank, and rejected as forged ;—are the decisions of the clerks of the Bank to be final? Suppose they make mistakes in favour of their employers, who would be enormously benetitted thereby, (such mistakes as have been made,) are the holders to submit to their arbitrary decrees ? These, are, indeed, most important considerations ; yt t they are only a very few indeed of those consideratinns of enormous magnitude, which will arise out of a bane. ful system of finance. Yesterday a Coart of Directors was held at the East India House, when the undermentioned Captains were •worn into the command of their respective ships, viz. Captain W. Hunter, Sir David Scott, for Bengal and China ; Captain W. Marjoribanks, Thomas Coatis, and Captain H. Smith, William Fairlie, for Madras and China. ~~. V