The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-02-03 00:00:00

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Now, %bitterer some people may think of this, I consider it u very shinning, inasmuch as it shows that we are sinking into that horrible state of corruption which prevailed in the dark ages. The wicked doctrine now set up, and which was then generally acted upon, that might constitutes right, gradually subverted every prin ciple of justice, and left the mind in that state of ig- InAIIItICP which the poet calls the ,curse of Con.— Tint this ignorance in that particular point in which true wisdom consists may yet be combined with ele pile• and refinement is very true—all which may be confirmed by the example of many nations pre vious to their fall. We sometimes heir it said of a man who possesses great accomplishments, but whose conduct, nevertheless, is the very reverse of a rational beim:, that be has every sense but common sense: just so, these nations esteemed other people barba rian-. when they had most degraded themselves by a pro•titution of reason, and a dereliction of virtuous sentiments. This is intended as a reply to these who may think that no cnroparison can be found between the pre. pent refitted age and the times of ignorance. In some rep , cts it may be so ; but in the gland point which is to constitute public happiness, the love of justice and the corruption of that religion which binds us, both eatiotntly and individually, to do unto others as we woul.l he doue unto, there is a strong resemblance indeed. Let me remind the Reader of the words of pLat 11.4) Father of the primitive Church, St.Ct one r, who say., thatphilosophy was sent by the Author of all Geed to She Greeks, as wu the law to the Jews, and ti e gospel to the Christians, for the purpose of improving them iq sentiments of justice and piety— not speculative but active piety ; not that false de votion which, in the middle ages, was mixed up and amalgamated with robbery and murder, sad which made some of these banditti call themselves the. " Friends of Goo and the enemies of all the world ;" but that true piety which seeks the friendship of Goo its the way that be himself requires, namely, by acts of goodwill towards his creatures. So. ca sits says, " many carry the Thyrsus, but few are inspired with the true spirit of &scenes:" and may we not app.y this to ourselves ? May we not say this of those who carry the Cress instead of the Thyrsus? May we not say, many bear the badge of Christianity, lee• few are inspired w;th the true Chris tian spirit : Very, very, Au, ftwv iodised rtgle ..Christianity the rule of theigConduct in public :trod private life,--many, in fact, so far from be ing inspired with this true spirit, do act as if they were inspired by the spirit of Anti. Christ ; wit. ness those war incendiaries, who, for 20 years, preached hostility and desolation from th.• pelpits dedicated to the God of Peace S Were they inspired by the true spirit of Christianity ? No ; l. eniglites well say that their old predecessors in religious hy. ,pecrisy, the Monks, who participated its the fruits of rapine obtained by the Noble Freebooters of themid. die ages, and who, like FROISSART, 'called such rob• bery by the name of " co/agues!" and "noble *O4 of arms," 1 might as well say that those emu, at the time they prostituted the Christian altars to the ser vice of MoLocn, were inspired with the true Chris tian spirit. Where then am Ito look for tbls fluty divi..e spirit ? Shall I turn to the Disseeters from • the Estiblished Church ? a very numerous and highly respectable body, I Will admit: But what public not have they done to prove their amain theseniceof Chris tianity ? What have they done to prevent or shorten the war which for 20 years has desolated Europe ? Have they even proceeded to any public act of disappro. batiar. during all this time ? Have they aspired to the noble v..e s actor of peace.makers ? Jo, no, no ; if they had been Iliteloos or Mahosuetaus, Using un der im• protectiou.of the British Government, they could no, i.uve Iwo more quiet. But yet when their 'own particular interest was struck at, they raised a mighty arm, and crushed at once the meddling politics of L.rti omouTu. This shows ultat they might have done had they pleased. The Christian duty is an active duly ; it is sot sa tisfied ,by men abstaining from doing eYil, it requires 'thorn to do good. IVe must tut only refrairt front unjust and unnecessary „wet, we must promote peace. • Tire persetes of where tnovi speakVittongh I really rutertaltoMere respeit for them collectively ' • than any other class of Ch mi d i's, are n2 t, I think, free from blame; for have tt paid tIM war cots- tributionv, if • not with cheerfulness, at least without remonst. a nce ? and what is that but a tacit approba tion of the uor ? If, indeed, they were convinced that it was _just and necessary, no imputation can be made; but if they thought otherwise, then must they be convrious of misconduct. One circumstance re spectingthem I am sorry to learn—lsm told that they are now among the most eager to sbift those burdens hich the war has occasioned from their own to other men's shoulders. These burdens now press •••ry hard on the farmers, and soon most extend to the landholders; but they cannot rest there; the com verrial interest meat and will have its share; every class of citizens will partake in the general calamity, and it is but just that they should. Let the Dissenters then patie:ttly beat their portion of the punishment so justly inflicted on the nation by that Providence whose laws are never violated with impunity ; and let them join their fellow-citizens in .patriotic exertions to mitigate our present burdens by a rigid economy, as well as to prevent, by a real representation of the pcopte in Parliament, the accumulation of fresh ones. (To be conlitme,ll.) From Ireland we learn that the tenantry is in great distress, and the land proprietors are, in con sequence, very deficient in the receipt of their rents. This situation has its relative effect both ou the mercantile aad banking interest. THE 'S'I'A'VESMAIf: .._. _ REFUGE FOR THE DESTITUTE. ,is indeed just ground to hope, from her general de. pertinent, that the seductive influence of her aban- INSTITUTED —.. se gess— IN WA. Jotted mistress has been e ff ectually checked by the salutary admonitions since conveyed, and that the [ANNUAL REPORT CONCLUDE], PROM OER PAPER or I humane exertions of the gentlemen, by whom she. J Ail CARP 26.] I was recommended to the Institution, have not been To melds the Ppblic to judge more accurately of , made in vain. the benefits of this Institution, the Committee has : * i ls' Since the report of this case, the father of submitted to their consideration the following cases: Ithe girl has requested that she may be restored to SECOND CASK. i him ; feeling convinced that from the amendment of A young woman, of the age of 23 year., was het' mind, produced by such intervention and care, brought to the Refuge in the most abject state of he can with confidence:recommend her to any situa wretchedness, he one of the attendants of the flight nom the Lord Mayor. She was born of poor and tiou of respectable service that may offer. SIXTH CASK. honest parents, in a populous town of one of the I A woman, 32 years of age, a native of Scotland, eastern counties, and had lived some time in respect- led to deviate from her integrity, by many disap. able itervice, with much credit to herself end to the poititments, ending in abject poverty and nakedness, satisfaction of her employer. Mit she did not retain was committed to prison for pledging the furniture her situation in consequence of one of those slight of her apartments. She was convicted, and sentenced disputes which unhappily are too frequenty allowed to a long imprisonment; upon the conclusion of to create irritations of indignant feeling that seldom which, finding herself destitute of all appearance fail to operate to the inconvenience of both employers calculated to recommend her to employment of any end employed, by separating a useful servant from kind, and knowing that her relations, who might an eligible aenice. ' have been disposed to relieve her from such a state of L'igea by false representations of the facility of desperation, were deceased, she approached the getting into some profitable place immediately, she 6, Refuge," bearing in her hand the testimonials o f left the country, and came up to London ; but after the humane Governor of the prison, and in her eye having, in vain, applied at several Register - offices, the full tear of penitence. She was instantly rescued at all of which her expectation was kept faintly aline, from the horror of her situation, and was permitted by the fruitless purchase of p ro mises of infortatit'cl. to look forward once more to a repatable condition she found herself utterly destitute in the midst of our .in life. T. this she was restored 15 months since by wide metropolis, oithout any further means of sub- being recommended to the family of a most respect. sistence, the small gains of her late servitude having able Clergyman in one of the nortieern counties, been long expended—without friends—knowing no who, upon visiting Londoe, became impressed with one, and wiliness it to all—without clothing, for all . the salutary plan of the Institution, and, es the best had been pledged or sold—her last scanty meal oh. , mode of trying its effects, solicited that one of its tallied with the sacrifice of her last rag of under- , objects, not unwilling to travel so far, might be al clothing, and only the bare covering of a ragged great lowed to become his 'servant. The Committee are coat left for her almost famished frame.—At length happy to bear the most ample testimony to her con. the door of her miserable lodging, for which she duct ; a pressing request having been - received, that paid four-pence a night, was shut against her ; her another of the objects, possessing a similar disposition, and attention to business, might be sent down to take last farthing was paid the night before ! this had left her no resource for food ; and she was ew without a different department of service in the same family. even a shelter for her miseries. All ho was gone ! ; Thus a fellow-creature has been saved from a subse. Hitherto she had withheld all knowledg of her sues t quest life of vice and misery, and has been restored Ito the society of virtuous people, in a part of the cessive disappointments from her parents, that she might not communicate the afflictive tidings to them I country, approximating to her own in custom and from whom she had voluntary withdrawn herself;; habit, where she is likely to pass the remainder of and now, she could not, if she would, return ! ! her life in sobriety, honesty; and happiness. During the greater part of the day, on which sh.: ~ 1 SEVENTH CASE. had left her lodging, and throughout the whole of At the termination of a long confinement in pri. the following night, she wandered in a state of de- , son, a young woman, 18 years of age, made appli. spondency front street to street, without having cation to the Committee of the " Refuge for the tasted any sustenance. Ott the succeeding morning Destitute," and was admitted. When 16 months she passed by the Mansion-house, when her wretch- ' had expired she was restored, by mutual desire, to ed appearance attracted the observation of the pas- , her father in the country. SOOll after her return to sengers, and site was taken before the Lord Miyor, him, she was engaged as servant in a most respect by one of his Lordship's attendants. Her sorrow- . able family, in which she has lived a year and a half, ful tale was heard, and his Lordship actuated by a i and continues in much estimation as a valuable do humane desire of saving her from the contaminating ' mestic. Thus, when nothing but ruin and despair association of a prison (to which she must have been was before her, when she had no friend upon earth subjected, had she beet , committed on the Vagrant Act whose protection she could at that moment solicit, to be passed to her parish) sent her, by his officor, and trembling at the prospect of being impelled, its to the 44 Refuge for the Destitute," with a revest l a few hours, by extreme want, to a repetitiou of t that she might be admitted—lt is needless to add that kind of crime for which she had severely suf.l o that euchi canal was urn ntly acknowledged - by 1 4 . lilted, she was, by the tiniely hatervostion of this Committee, and attended to as a case of prevention. I Establishment, rescued from misery, and has been She was fed and clothed, and after having beer a restored in useful, and, it is hoped, permanent rank short time lodged at the expence of the Establishmeut in virtuous society. . she was conveyed to her friends in the country.o— I fly Order of the Committee, And thus a misguided young woman, who, by 1110 l ROBERT Cti ()sin'', secretary. e visionary anticipation of an ill-founded hope, hid : Retiree ow th Destitute, tit ittetesei.timee, Hackney-rand, April 23, ISI4. involved herself in all the most afflictive exposure l,f ' inexperience, and was plunged in the severest th tretnities of want, was rescued from the destructrin LAO MTH LLIGENCE. that was ready to close in upon her steps—was snntched from the ruinous consequences of her nWn own improvidence—was saved from the corruptioas of the vile and abandoned—was restored to herself— and was preserved to her parents and society. Thfs being the Purification, no business was done at Westminster Hall. The Low) CHIEF JUSTICE Silt for a short time at Guildhall, and tried two London causes of no publit interest.. THIRD (ASE. A young female had committed an act of felo which subjected her to trial, and she was capi y convicted. The circumstances of her peruliar were, however, such as to engage attention, and On the report of it being made to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, he was graciously pleased to par don her, on condition that she should he delivered over to the protection of the " Refuge for the Des titute." In the anxious hope that this wretched col lect might prove deserving of the Royal Clemency, she was received into the house. With much pleasure it INSOLVENT DEBIOR.S" COURT, FEB. 2. is added, that she has ever since so conducted her self, as• trot only to warrant a belief that she deeply laments the wickedness of having yielded to the temptation which beset her, but that the time is not far distant when she may again mix in sock , ty, and virtuously repair the Injury which she had committed against the laws of her God and Her country. FOUItTIi CASE. In the year 1808, a young woman was committed to the county gaol by the Magistrates of Surrey for stealing some stockings and other articles of wearing apple!: while in the gaol she was recommended to the " Refuge for the Destitute" by the same M trate*, and admitted into the house. After, se than twelve mouths' gond conduct in it, a plaCa :its obtained for her, in which she gave such satisfaction to her mistress, that she kindly interested herself in procuring for her another place, wherein her servides might be more amply remunerated. In this latter place she has continued to the present period ; con veying to the Committee of the 11,-.titution the yetis fac‘ien of seeing their 'anxious hopps of restotation accomplished, and affording th-qn the pleasing oppor tunity of assuring a generous public, that, in this, as in many other cases, they are more than attempt ing good—that thg trust reposed in them has actnal ly been employed to succour indigence and reform Vice. FIFTH CASE. A girl, aged 13 years, had the double misfortune ! of losing her mother when very young, end *f being placed for education with a school-mistress, who wickedly abused the trust reposed in .her, and en. couraged her scholar in various acts of dishonesty, thifruits of which she was accustomed basely to partake of. For these nets this deluded child was; taken before a Magistrate, who, in consideration of her tender years, was much disposed to try the be nevolent efforts of this Asylum for penitent °gen ders. She was received, upon upplication from some gentlemen who knew her, and commiserated her condition, and now continues, in the hotse, an ea ample of patient industry to her companions. Thus A BENEVOLENT CREDITOR. Yesterday a Prisoner, wbo had been several times remanded, was brought up for filial hearing. The principal objection to his discharge was, that he had offended - igainst the cessio bonorum Act, by assign. ing bis property to a favoured creditor. The person to whom the deed of assignment had keen given was a Miss Jepson, a Lady of fashionable appearance. It came out during the investigation of the Prisoner's affairs, that the Lady, influenced by humanity only, had at different times advanced him and his family pecuniary Rid. On this occasion her charitable dis position went so far as to induce her to propose can celling the deed, solely with the view of releasing the unfortunate man, who was ill, and had been se veral months in gaol. Mr. RocEns, jun. the Solicitor, who attended in behalf of a detaining creditor, rather opposed the hu mane intention of Miss Jepson, and, in addition to the - charge offraudolently disposing of his goody, ac cused the prisoner of prevarication and perjury, at a previous examination. The Lady, who sustained the part of a Counsellor, with great ability, answered the objections of Mr. R. and refused to admit that the man had been guilty of perjury. She observed, " his illness and long con finement made him almost incapable of knowing what he said. I have seen Counsellors, and you Gentle men Solicitors, so brow-boat a witness, that he did not know whether he was sitting, or standing, and it was not extraordinary if a poor sick debtor varies a little in his evidence:" Mr. Commissioner PALmen jocosely said, he had seen witnesses often bewildered in the way Miss Jepson described. After the Lady had cancelled the deed in Court, by mating off the seal, the prisoner obtained his (ha ! charge, and she was inndo one of his ass ignees. In answer to a remark made, that she must be rich if she could • afford to give up security for.the debt Clue from the priseuer ; she said, it was not her wish to keep an unfortunate person incarcerated, n lid when she had money to expand, she was happy to apply it in this way. On the Whole, her conduct iu a humane point of view, was most amiable. Lady ARDEN and Mqt. PERCEVAL had a full-length statue of the late Premier executed since his death, which stood in the drawing-room of the latter Lady, but which has been xemoved since she became Lady WAR. • • • POUGE. ..1. UNIO!F-tt r.. Mary Rogers, a ren*Ct3h!e look, ing young wornau, was on Tuesday brought below. the Sitting Magistrate, by the yarish Officers of Newingtuu, for the purpose of swearing her illegi t i. mate child, she having become chargeable to the pa. rish ; when before the Magistiate, however, she p os i. tively refused to give any account of who the father was, and, in consequence of this refusal, she w as committed to the House of Correction. She was yesterday agabt brought up; and refi ne _ tion having taught her wisdom, she stated that h... r seducer was a servant in a .gentletnatt's family is t h e neighbourhood. On this information he was Mun e . dialcty apvreliended, and brought herore the Mills: trate, aid having . given the necessary security to th e r ar iJi, both he and the KVo^►au were 41;icha!eeil. A Gentleman of the highest respectability, rNidiag in Blaclifriars'-rnad, was brought up, charged by a woman who had lived servant in his family, wi•l ; b ar . lug assaulted and attempted to ravish her. On investigating the charge, bower.-r, it ciesrly appeared there were no grounds for the accttsatioo, and the Defendant was disoltari t' ed. M AR LBO P.OUGJI+STREET.—Ayouth, named Stoic was c h arg ed with stealing a watch and apparel from a boat on the Paddington Canal. The Prisoner is a respectable map's son at Pad. dington, and after he committed the robbery in the cabin of the barge, he fell overboard in getting on shore, and was thus detected. He was fully committed for trial. MANSlON•lloM.—Yesterday John Fencourt, youth not exceeding 14 years of age, was brought before the LORD Anton, charged under the follow ing circumstances : Thomas Sapwell, an Officer of Bishopsgate Ward, deposed, that ou going his rounds yesterday tum n i ng , at four o'clock, he observed a cart and horse drawn up at the corner of a lane, at the lower end of Bishopsgate-street, and the Prisoner standing i t s charge of it. Upon asking his business with the cart at that early hoar, the Prisoner seemed alarmed for some time, and refused giving a satisfactory reply: Being threatened, however, by the Officer, he at length said the cart and horse belonged to his father, who had appointed to meet him there, to carry goods to the country. The Officer proceeded to search the cart, when he pulled forth a large sack, containing two iron crows, some keys, a lanthorn, some clubs, and other articles used in housebreaking. 1 The Prisoner was immediately taken into custody, , and the cart and horse left at an inn in Bishopsgate. street. Since his apprehension, Fencourt has told four or five different stories to the officers, hut de. nies all knowledge of the articles found in the cart. !The account which he gave to the Lord Mayor yes. terday, was, that he resided with hie parents is Whitechapel ; his father was at prtsent the country lookng after a job; that on Wednesday evening, a strange man came to his mother, and asked to borrow the horse and cart to carry some goods to the country early the following morning : thiarsho-oe.first refused, but ON Pinfili*Dg tßa t le . handsomely for their use, and allowing the Pri to go and take care of them, she consented. The man, he stated, accordingly cure and awoke bias `about three o'clock yesterday morning, and after they arrived at the spot, where the eflicer found him, i he observed the man take up a bundle of straw Irons la dark passage, and puz it into the cart. The cart bad neither numher nor name to it. Under all these circumstances, the Loan MAYOIt thought it a very mysteriocs case, and as a vigilant enquiry might. lead to a disclosure of something serious, he recommended proper steps' to be taken, and the Prisoner, in the mean time, to be re. Minded. FIRE. A few minutes before nine o'clock; on Wesrnesday night. .some !mesons going along_ Red Lion-street, Hollsoru. percetvid quantity of sinoLe isseing from the shop of Mr. Lewis, barb draper, in that street ; they gave the alarm. and the patrol,, constables. and several neigObours, came and knocked at Ile doors to alarm the inmates. hot to uo purpose. It was obvious that the shop was on fire, and the apprehereion was the vane'. as the next shop was an oil shop. and lifty barrels of - oil 114 been laid in the same day ; one of the lossrole broke the fan light over the door, and the Hamm rushed oft very violently.— The door was so strong that it re-is rd all their strength to rive it open; at length a neighbouring butcher came with his pole axe and cut it down. Some of the constables gnawed the door, whilst others went in at the risk of their lives. The shop was on fire its three different plates, hat after puilinE down the goods that were on fire, and throwing several pails of water, which they brought from the butt in the yard, over the place, with much difficulty and danger sucec-eded in completely put ting it out. The Oro pillan which ,upported the floor over head were snitch burned, and a vast quantity of the gpods wits destroyed. Some time after Mr. Lewis made his appearance, and on being asked where he was all the time, he said he was in the kitchen. The engines arrived just as the tire was got under; the stock being insured to n large amount, both in the Cliche and County Fire Offices, the firemen remained on the prani , es all night. Some suspicion being entertained. that the fire nil not accidental, an enquiry took place 4-vierday. the result of which is not yet publicly known. The loss is valved atb 01. 1 The mysterious paragraphs respecting rumeettt oe• co rrence at Brighton,. have excited a considerable de gree o f c ur io s ity ; the srillql, however, will not, is rill probability, tarn out to be of any consequence. Two women, we understand, have been 'examined upon oath before one of the Magistrates ;'but the principal person (a coachman), who is st:pposed to have cause for complaint, has not yet appeared for the purpose of examination. If be does not appear, the complaint must not only be dismi+ce+l, but the parties may probably be indicted for a conspiracy. HiliT;is. ' On the 2d inst. at Fulham, the Lady of MojoreGestetol Sit H. Too ren?.. of a daughter. On Tuesday last, in Upper Bedfordplace, the Lady of H. H. lOddie, jun. Esq. of a nn.t 1 , On :Sunday last, in St. James's-street, the L e idy of Richard 1% alker, Esq. of a daughter. MARRIED. On Monday, of Croydon. Robert Parkinson, F:aq . . of Pa' • mt•rvion, near Dublin, to Charlotte, youngest daughter of tlic 1. 4 :e Rev. T. Chamberlayne. of tiolvroden. Kepi. 'Thursday, at Cheise3 i Samuel Proudfoot Hurd, FAN. Ist :Uarilf. ton of Capt. Ha rd, Royal Navy, to Miss Frederica Wynyard, daughter of Lieut.-Gets. W. Wynyard. DIED. Ob the Ist imt. John Rowdier, jun. Bcq. Barrister at Law. Soddenly, on the 17th ult. at Sotuer's Tan n, en her sway home. M rt. Butler. Sne had formerly lived upwards of twelve %ems ' as house-Leeper to Lady Fraser. and bad as the day of her death called to enquire for the fau3ily, by whom she was deserveCy respected. !ON 1)Ohi • Printed and Pnhlished h! D. LovEz.L, at • Fleet-stieet • *e V • • 1 a I J