The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-12-07 00:00:00

, sonso-- • • . d ot r ople have been duped, sad Moist - duffel for the rr ichistbsers of their leaden, in whose train Mr. ELL* qiis was sot the least conspicuous. The Noble Chair- sun boasted of bating so funded property; so much the , oror oo for his Lordship, as the funded' as oat-lived .tit landed, although in a short tulle even this may Ow it close on the road to oblivion. No doubt his L o rslship may soy “ my land cannot run away from me ; sos ponge may blot out the other, so that in all human probability. I am better off as I sin, with my land' litboat rent." We cannot help agreeing with his Lor d s hip; for, if the Ministers tamper with the Funds, down comes the delusive fabric which enabled them to s port with the rights of his MAJIIIITT'S subjects for the thirty-two-years. That Meetings or Petitions can b e productive of so ultimate good to the Farmers, eves •if listened to, we feel confident. But nothing we fear o sa divert Ministers and their supporters from the evil cour se that has already disgraced them, and ruined the prospects of the country. So bigotted are they, and ssiformly attached to place and power, that we doll not be surprised to see them adhere to the phon on, like SAlirsox to the Philistine" pillars, until the *le temple came down. The news received today relative to South America Ise( a remakably recent date, and very interesting c h ar acter. We refer our readers to the preceding co lumn for the details, which tend to throw strong light upon the views and plans of !turbid.. It is sow said that Earl Talbot will, on his return from Ireland, succeed the Duke of ►liontross asMaster of the Horse. Lord Cochrane it is undentood, has sent over to this country for a diving bell, the recovery of some of the valuable property being deemed practicable. The O'Higgins, it is stated, foundered on a bed of rocks sear the shore, and in shallow water. Every arrival from the country brings the most un pleasant accounts of the effects of the late continued rains. The fens in Lincolnshire are above a foot under water, and several small bridges have been destroyed. The 2 I battalion of the lst regiment of Guards, pre forming duty at Windsor, amounting to about 550 men, received instructions on Sunday last to hold themselves in readiness to proceed to Knigtsbridge barracks, where they arrived on 'fuesday evening. This battalion is to succeed the 31 battalion of the same regiment no w on their route fur Ireland. We understand that Government has, with prompt and judicious liberalty, granted fifty pounds to John Shea, of Tubber, in the county Tipperary, for the pur pose of giving a slated roof to his house. He was bro ther to the late Edmund Shea, the atrocious burning of whose house, person and family, Ireland is deploring. —(lraterford Mirror.) Au arrival from Batavia bas brought letters to the 24th of August, containing the sequel of the expedition against Palembang, which may be related in very few words :—After the attack on the principal fortress, which took place on the 24th June, the Dutch troops landed and took possession of the other forte, the palace •ft d city, without further resistance. By the Ist of July all warlike operations had ceased, and the Sultan, who Accompanied the expedition, was quietly seated on the throne of his brother. The deposed Prince bad been einveyed a prisoner to Batavia, and it was believed would be sent to Banda. ley • vessel from Rio de Janeiro, letters dated the 4th of October have been received, which is two days later than the packet. The city is represented to have been then quite tranquil; and, as the Bank continued itspay meats regularly, confidence in mercantile affairs was re. turning, and the Exchange had risen to 49. Some ap plebensions appear to exist respecting the political state of the capital of Brazil, but the authorities of the best class express their belief that there is nothing in reality to be feared. New Yonn, Nov. 11.—" Flour ! Flour ! Flour ! Tie speculators, and all the wounded pigeons,' were yesterday in a great flutter, at a Liverpool ship, juet telegraphed. More white bats, white coats, and white faces were visible on the battery, than Mr. De Clew, of the flag-s• aff. remembers to have seen since Corn wallis was taken. Every spy-glass was in requisition, and it is said that a dealer, who was in for it to the tune of 10,000 barrels, borrowed our friend Mr. Lati mer's telescope (which by the bye, is an excellent one, and he wishes to sell it,) in order to have a better peep at the Euphrates, when, 10, and behold ! Capt. Reed telegraphed that Flour in England bad fallen to its old price, and crops were better than expected. The knowing ones, who bad sold out, went off to dinner with a pleasant shake of the bead, and drank three glasses extra, while those whose enteprise ontstripped *dr prudence, and who would not look before they kapild,' walked home with lung faces, and soliloquised :on tie eccentricities of commerce. ACIIIIDENT AT COVENT-GARDEN THEATRI.—bast nit a distressing accident happened to Mr. Abbott while performing Protests, in the Two Gentlemen of Perona. In the banditti scene of the last act, when encountering one of the banditti (Mr. Comer, we be ' ' be was wounded severely in the fate by the • sword of the latter. From the unexpected nature of the blew, and the great pain it occasioned, he shrieked so load as to excite a shuddering sensation among the audience, and to create a belief that he was mortally wounded. Their painful sympathy was not much al layed by the report of Mr. Jones, who came forward, and, informing them that Mr. Abbott was desperately wounded, begged they would allow the play to proceed without him. The spectators did not feel a disposition to sit and be amused after having so recently witnessed so painful an accident ; and required that the curtain ' should be dropped, and the play concluded. This state of anxiety continued for about ten minutes, when Mr. Egerton came forward awl announced to their sa tisfaction, that Mr. Abbott was not so severely wound ed a s i sas at first apprehended ; and that his eye, which was at first believed to be injured, was not toadied. The wound, we have heard, is immediately under the eye, the point of the sword having pene trated and laid open a part of the cheek and the side of the nose. Mr. Abbott was conveyed home in a hackney-coach soon after the accident. THE,STATESM4N • antra OP ZIELAND. DPIIOII Taa DUBLIN POST, MC. 51 . O'n last Sunday the Commander of the forms ,peat several hours in inepectiog the various departments of the Military depot at the Pidgeon House. The Patriot of last evening contains the following account of the barbarous murder which was stated in Tice Morning Post of yesterday, to have been com mitted in the County of Roscommon : " Boyle, Dec. 3,1841. " Sin—Referring to my last letter, written in a great burry, I have now to inform you, that the mur der was perpetrated on the night of the lot instant; the circumstances respecting it are as follow :--Three ruffians, with their faces blackened, (one of them dis guised in woman's Clothes,) forced their way into a shepherd's cabin, sear Knockadoo, within three miles of this place, when they lit a candle and demanded whiskey—bat the shepherd, who was in bed with his wife, told them he had nose ; they then drew from un der his bed a box, wherein was contained W. in bank notes, belonging to his master, which they took. Perceiving the shepherd was about to leave his bed, one of the villains immediately stabbed him in the left breast with a bayonet, which be Lad fixed to the end of a bludgeon, and which the shepherd seised and wrested from hiss—in the mean time, however, he was stabbed by another of the savages in several places with a knife, part of which was left in his body. He made his escape—running across two fields to the cabin of a neighbour—the blood gushing from the wound in his breast to each a degree, that the door of the cable where he took shelter, and against which he reclined until opened, was com pletely covered, and the colour of the wood nearly ex tinguished. When the shepherd had effected his escape, the inhuman miscreants stabbed his wife in several parts of her body, and fractured her skull with a piece of wood which the poor family had used as a candlestick—leaving her quite dead by the side of a suckling infant, and two older children, on an adjacent pallet. " The shepherd is still alive, and may recover, though his case is at present very doubtful. He has given in formation against one man ; and another has been appre hended upon suspicion, from what transpired yesterday at the inquest. " There is no doubt entertained that the shepherd knows the three savages that murdered his wife, and that they are known to a maid servant, who was in the house at the time: yet, the dread of being murdered pre vents them flora even communicating their suspicions; but both declare, that they can identify all the perpe trators of this dreadful deed, if brought before them. " Henry Fry, Esq., a Magistrate of this County, has been very active on the occasion, and 1 have no doubt will cause the other two suspected persons to be appre hended. Constabl-s are in search of them." This case appears wholly unconnected with the causes of the existing disturbances in other parts of the coun try; but it is each times the midnight prowler will al ways select as the most, favourable for his purpose of plunder and murder; and affording also the greatest chances of escape, by being confounded with the mere numerous crimes of another description. Lieut.-Colonel Hooper has bees appointed by •the Commander of the Forces, Superiateesleut of the 011,- embodied Soldiers in the Province of Munster, under his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant's late Proclamation s of the 23d inst. and has proceeded to Charleville, at which place he has fixed his bead-quarters. Lieut.-Colonel Hooper is an officer of tried merit. Captain Henderson accompanied him as his Secretary. The Earl of Donoughmore has addressed a letter to Lieutenant James Butler, ed Regiment, Ardfinnan, making his acknowledgements for the offer of assistance in securing the armed post of Ardfinuan-bridge. His Lordship contradicts the paragraph which had appeared is a Dublin paper, stating "as amongst the rumours of the day, that his residence at Knocklofty had been forced to surrender its arms to the deluded peasantry, though some policemen were inmates for its protection." In reference to such unwarrantable rumours, the Dub lin Morning Post remarks, • We have, ourselves, to no tice an exaggeration, copied into the Morning Post of yesterday, from the Correspondent ,of the preceding evening, which might lead those at a &stance to form a very erroneous opinion of the State of the - County of Dublin. The paragraph we allude to was the following : " Mr. Martin Burke, of Seapoint, near Black-Rock, had been erecting two houses at Dunleary, and had on Saturday last, nearly completed the work ; but this morning, the whole of Me structure was frond levelled to the ound. Informations have been sworn before Sir Wta. gr Betbatn, that th e building had been neglieiowsly destroyed." Now we are enabled to state, on the very best au thority, that the whole damage sustained by the " build ing." which was thus " levelled to the ground," was repaired in a couple of hours on Monday! This work, so far from being nearly completed. bad not the walls raised nfare than a few feet above the ground, and but , a very small portion of it was pushed down by some mischievous or drunken person, on Sunday night. The public Press should be very cautious in admitting such statements into a series of paragraphs, elecidatory of the State of the Country; We know that many stories of mischiefs and outrages have beta invented. but the respectable portioo of the Press should not give currency to the statements which are not satisfac torily authenticated. ENNIS, DEC. I.—The most dreadful storm we ever recollect visited us last night; it commenced about five o'clock and continued with unabated fury until about half-past four this morning, when it became exhausted and lay down in a perfect calm. The mail reached town last night about ten, and was conveyed by the guard from Carnolly, at which place the coach was obliged to 'stop, and return t o Newmarket. in consequence of the trees being blown down exactly across the road. A oar was immediately procured to convey the passengers to town, who were forc ed to come is by auras-read, and that with the greatest difficulty tad &ogee of being drowned, as the water rose some feet above its usual level. From Latoon to near Carnolly, in may places. it was feared the coac h would have bees swept 'thy the coed, as the horses a t different times Dearly lost their footing. but from the experience and Mutation of the coachman and guard, all difficulties were overcome, sad we are happy to sav, no injury contained but that of fright and delay. the guard set a ibis morning with the m ail. and is to meet the coach at Newmarket, that is, if the floods have faUma.—(Esusie Cfirenick.) JAXRE PERRY, En. On Weiseeday morning, died at Brighton, is the 6lith year of his age, James Perry, Esq. for many years Proprietor and Editor of the Morning Chronicle. In announcing this melancholy event. the present COS (1111111111N of that Journal say that 48 motives, which may easily be appreciated, prevent us from doing more at this time than merely allude to our loss. Those of our centessporaries, to whom it was known, have spokes of his virtues and tektite with a kindness of feeling as honourable to themselves as it must be gra tifying to his disconsolate family, and to the numerous friends to whom be was eadeared." The most decided opponents of the .forcing Chronicle ate ready to ad mit that the press owed much to Mr. Perry for the spirit and liberality with which he upheld his rank in so ciety as a Public Journalist. As the celebrated William Windfall was the first who gave a new fea ture of correctness to the reports of Parliamentary debates, so was Mr. Perry the first who contributed by his example to give a respectability to English news- papers, which they never possessed before. It was in the I year 1783 he commenced this highly valuable et,rt on undertaking the editorship of the Gazetteer, when instead of following the usage.which till then prevailed in the management of newspapers, of employing only one person in each Hower Parliament to report their) proceedings, he suggested to the proprietors, and pit in train the plan of employing several reporters to faci litate the publication of the debates. As an early indi cation of that independence and spirit by which the conduct of Mr. Perry has been distinguished, it may be proper to state, that on the commencement of his un dertaking, he made it an express condition that he was to be left to the free exercise of his political opinions, which were those asserted by Mr. Fox, opinions which from their liberality in the cause of freedom, justice and humanity, had made, on his first entering the gallery of the House of Commons, such an impression on his mind, as time could never efface. In all the party conflicts in which he was called to be engaged his adversaries were obliged to confess that his hostility was carried on with honour as well as taidit•; and as a testimony of the esteem in which he *MI held by his opponents, we subjoin the notice given of his character in The Courier of last night, on announcing his death Mr. Perry had long been in a declining state of health, from the attacks of an in ward complaint, which defied the power of medicine. His political sentiments were well known ; and not less known were the amiable qualities which endear ed him to his family and an extensive circle of friends. He was liberal towards all who bad any connexion with him, and steady, alike, in his public and private attachments. Those who differed from him in politi.% cal opinions, never hesitated to acknowledge the since rity with which he had adopted, or the candour and simplicity with which he maintained them. Ass pub lic journalist, he did much, very much, towards elevat ing the principles upon which such a duty should be performed. The integrity of his motives, we believe, ' was never questioned ; we are sure they could ■ever be so justly. His loss will be deplored, not only by his family, by whom he was tenderly beloved, but by some of the best of those he has left behind him." Extract of a lean. frana.../tralusbnco, dated October, 1821. " Weave muds satisfaction in acquainting you, that hostilities were yesterday terminated in this province, by a suspension of arms between the contending parties. " It is understood that the principal conditions are for the Goiana Insurgents to return to that place, with their forces. where they are to govern the Districts, now subject to their orders, until a decision is received from I the Cortes in Portugal, as to the government of the Provinces. In the mean time, all prisoners made on either side are to be released and hostilities cease; and the roads communicating with the interior are to be quite free. This Government continues its functions as here tofore, and we hope in a little time that Cottons will come forward again, and trade in general revive. The Insurgents have already retired, and some few country people have come in with beef, which was at 6,400 per arr. and is to day at 2,240 per arr." EDINBURGH, Dec. 4.—On Sunday night it blew a strong gale from the west, with rain and sleet, and early yesterday morning a heavy shower of snow fell, which covered not only the neighbouring hills and those in Pifeshire, but abso the streets of the City, and gave them a very winterly appearance. Saturday afternoon a violent storm of rain, accom panied with thunder and lightning, passed over Lass wade. The lightning was very vivid, one of the flashes of which struck a house, to which it set fire, but none of the inmates were hurt, and the fire was speedily es tinguished. .11 A brutal and cowirdly assault was committed is Saturday morning, about three o'clock, on one of the sergeants of Police, in Toddrick's Wynd, by four OHM who it is supposed, waylaid him. The sergeant was going his rounds. and, when about the middle of the Wyss!, was attacked and cruelly beat. His groans brought some persons to the spot, who carried him to the Royal Infirmary, where it was found that his right atm was broken in two places, and the front bones of both his knees were out of their sockets; he was also otherwise much bruised in different parts of the body. The cowardly ru ffi ans who attacked him escaped, and have not yet been discovered. Os Saturday morning, between three and four o'clock, a gentleman who lives in the Gotha's, Glasgow, rose while asleep, and fell from a window on the third story, and was found lying groaning on the ground by one of the Police. About the same time, a gentleman, when going to Cathcart, fell off his horse, and, his foot re gnainiug in the stirrup. he was dragged along the road a considerable way. These men would possibly both have perished, bad sot the Police promptly procured medical assistance, and done every thing for them %% bids humanity could suggest. They are both in a fair way of recovery. , I Me regret to learn. the Nairn pier. Of rather its out works. have sustained damage frees the increase of the river by the late rains. The excavation for the new bed of the river not being of sufficient breadth. considerable portions of the sides have fallen in. and the force of the stream, frwai its coafinement, has un dermined tbe bulwarks to seaward, which have also &ea way. OLD BIILIIY,—(Tria MOAXINI.: - John Chapman, Aged 17, was capitally indicted for assaulting Bledsoe Wade on the King's Highway, suit taking from her person a pocket book containing two gold rings and 131. in Bank Notes. Mrs. Wade is the wife of a respectable tradesman, and on theitOth November on returning home from the honse of a friend, she observed a house on tire vvy near her own. She bad occasion to pus. he tire, and in so doing she was surrounded by a gang of ruffians among whom was the prisoner. He held her by the pelisse, whilst the other pulled up her clothes and robbed her of the property mentioned in the 'indictment. Prose cutrix made her loss known, and in about half an hour she was informed that many suspicious characters had been apprehended, and were then in custody at the watch-house. Prosecutrix went there, and singled out t risoner from eight or nine others. He had been tak r the fire, but nothing had been found upon his permit The prisoner in his defence alledged that he was absent from the place at the time mentioned. He called three girls to prove an alibi, all of whom swore that at the time when Mts. Wade was robbed, the prisoner was at a dance and raffle. at Lambeth-street. These witnesses were examined, and differed in the minute parts of their testimony. The Jury returned a verdict of Not Goilty. William Cordell was indicted for stealing a gelding, value 71., the property of James Baldwin. The animal was taken from the pasture in which th.s prisoner had been directed to place it on the night of the 13th November; and the prisoner, at an early holt the following mornin, was stopped with it in his sion on the Wisitecha g pel-road, by the patrole, whose suspicions were excited by the appearanms of Vie prisoner. The prisoner did not give satisfactory an swers to the questions put to him, and was in conse quence stopped. The father of the prisoner stated, his son had been subject to fits for the last five years , i n conse q uence of a kick of a horse, and that he was frequently in a state of mental derangement. The Jut) , retired for a short time, and on their return pronounced the prisoner frailty. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT AT TATTERSALL'S, DEC. 6. DESIBV.-12 to I agst c. out of Landscape-12 to I agst c. out of Silvertall's d.-1S to I agst Mart:onus—lS to I agst c. out of Sycorax Oszs.— II too apt Lout ofParasol-13 to 2 agst f. out of Meteors. BOXING. - Notwithstanding the attraction at the Tennis Court yesterday, the amateurs mustered strong on the Essex Marshes, four miles from Rumford, to see the sporting fight between Gidgeon, the scientific Jew, and Valen tine, the Bristol tnan. famed for putting hie adversary to donee with his right hand. The seconds were Tort Owen and Josh Hudson fur widgeon, and Scroggins and the Komford baker for Valentine. The battle lasted one hour and 50 minutes, in which time 79 rounds were fought. In the first round, after an exchange of hits, Valen tine fell, from the slipperiness of the ground, and the Jew was backed at 6 to 4, being the heaviest man and the best fighter. The second was a merry fighting round in favour of Gidgeon, who placed his hits very scientifically, and floored his adversary. The four following rounds got the odds up to more than 2 to 1 on V the Jew Roni4/., abeatiae . penis& a hit. and gave his ad versary a rattling facer with the right band, and it was a good fighting round, but Valentine was down. Until the 13th round the Jew kept the lead, and knobbed away with the left hand, and brought his ad versary's head down to right handed punishment. In this round the Jew received a smashing hit on the tem ple, which produced the cleanest knock down blow in the fight, and eseheptered the Jew's bead. This brought the betting to nearly even. (lidgeon recovered the effects of the blow in the 16th round, and gave his adversary a receipt for his hit by flooring him, and he kept the lead after, occasionally re ceiving round hits upon the left ear, which left the marks. Valentine bad no alternative but the roley-poley system, and which, favoured by the swampy ground, lie worked well ; but the Umpires at length dec l ared he had fallen without a blow, and the Jew wathe winner. SPARRING. Hickman bad a benefit yesterday, at the Royal Tennis Court, Great Windmill-street, preparatory to his battle with Neate, on Tuesday next, and such was the anxiety to see this great striking character, that the Court was crammed to a stand-still. Every precaution was taken to guard against depredations , as there were plenty of Police Officers and Constables mixed among the con veyancers, for the protection of dummies and yacka. The sets-to were chiefly among mediocrity professors, and the only ones which excited interest were the tut lowing : Crawley and Ab. Belasco.—This was a fine specimen of ski 11, and notwithstanding the disparagement in length and weight, Belasco proved himself a master of arts in keeping pace with his opponent. Hickman and Shelton closed the performances in a masterly set-to, in which Gas bad best. Practice has made him hit out with the left hand, and he placed several blows against his opponent's will. His right was ready, as usual, and Shelton felt it. The performances gave much MARKETS. CORN-RIMIANOR, DEC. 7.—We had several fresiarzi vals this morning. from Suffolk, bet not the lea ins prOvement in trip demand for any °rain. Prime dils , samples of Wheat were the oely description that cc.sld be got off, and which sold 2s. per quarter lower than on Monday ; but all other sorts were totally unsaleable. — Barley at from Is. to 2s. per quarter cheaper, and exceed ingly heavy sale at that abatement.—Beans, Peas, and Oats went off very slowly at a declibe of Is. per quarter. SUITUrraLD MARKET, Doc. 7.—There was bat a mid dling supply of Cattle at market this morning, and all prime articles went off higher than last market day. To sink the offal per at of Sibs. Beef .... lis. ad. to as.i7.l. CATTLK A T MARKT? 420 Matton.. Is. Od. to 3 s. M. Beasts I Veal .... Is. Od. to In. Od. Calves .....i. and tombs Pork .... Is. Od. to 4 e. Id. Shee p Lamb .... Os. Od. to Os. Od. Pigs 190 HAY-MAIIIMT.--No alteration is Day.--Clover as per last. it Hay V 10s. to 41. 4s. I Sway .. 11 Os. .to U. Ids. Closer 41. Os. to U. Os. I The magoificeet woods of Holkam bale afforded the most brilliant sport this season ever remembered. Th e Dukes of Gloucester, Norfolk, and Bedfora, the Lords Tavistock, Althorp, Lyndock, and Nugent, Sir Ronald Ferguson, Sir Harry Goodwin, General Walpole, Ad. miral Lakin, Mr. Adair, &e. were amongst some of the best shots. The first day, Nov. 7, the umber of game killed was 603 ;on the Stb. 9; and on the 9th, 555 head well' bagged, part of w 6 h o ich were 502 bares. ,~~~ 11 • :ti I ' 7 ' i..