The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-10-07 00:00:00

I%;* Muerveratst. fteronms, 1. e: AttorneyTivtons, /;11 get/V.4ND —The Edinburgh Paper, the Scotsman, sts'es the following curious instance of Ministerial Rop•nchment t—" It appears that the purchase of New St am p Office was not the only object of Mr. Seaxeick's recent visit to this city. This missionary ',former has actually commenced a reform in the de. • r e Went of the Stamp-office here; but agreeable to the towel practice of Ministerialists, he has begun by cresting new offices. A Gentleman, learned in the law. has just been appointed Solicitor for Legacy Duties, with a salary of 5001. per annum ; which sa. jury is equal, we understand, to the highest office, • enjoyed too by a Gentleman who has been 46 years . In the pohlic service. The d u ly has been hitherto ,performed with ease by the Solicitor of Stamp Du. sues : hut this is not all. It seems we are to be fa. w o ofed with another kgacy from Mr. Sedgwick ; two additional leeches, in the shape of Clerks to the new Soliiitor, are to he fastened upon the Public, with handentne salaries of coarse, which will afford a rea. • Womble ground for an application to the Treasury For an •addition to the present salaries of the other ' Clerks. This may induce us again to resume the *object, and to point out some of those artifices and piactlees by which the Lords of the Treasury have • been misted and prevailed upon, from time to time, ' to make Unmerited additions to the salaries -6f Com missioners and other officers of Public Boards. 'The porliamentary pipers recently published sere to throw some light on these matters, cud we recom mend them, in the mean time, to the consideration of • Members of Parliament." • Carve or THE RISE IN THE PRICE Or riiilT.R.•-• A Correspondent in Milk-street, Cheop-side, but • who is apparently no milksop, communicates the Gil ' .lowing satisfactory esplanstion :•-±lt was in answer to question from my landlady, a very notable woman, who asked an Irish milkman, in my hearing, one day during the late dry weather, the reason why the price - of milk had a "risr —"By my snot, Madam," re. plied Pat, with a look of arch simplicity, " I he- Hove it is altogether owing to the scarcity of ten ' ter!"—This else explains the true meaning of the ' extraordinary howl of all the milk carriers in the streets of London—nil-eau, which, be it known to a ' all pretty maids," signifies half•teater. AEERDE/.N DEFA LEATION•—A list of the Cre ditnrs of the once flourishing town of Aberdeen, has been published, from which it appears, that the enormous sum of 223,V211. was borrowed, for the 5. swim's. of opening trio new streets ! Of this sum, • the greater part consisted of the Funds of the Cha ritable Institutions, the Trust-monies of Widows end Children, the Savings of poor Tradesmen and Ser. • tants. There are a great many sums under 1001. and s one poor woman is a Creditor of this great Corpo • ration for Two Pounds! !! It does not appear, that there is a single shilling lent by any of the Ma gistrates themselves. A melancholy accident occurred lately at Juliens, in the department of here, where the keeper of a pohlic house, going nut to shoot, was arranging the flint of his gun, when it went off, and killed a young women, the mother of two children, in an adjoining • meadow. :t ' Geld has increased in price, Bsrs being now worth 4' ?s. per ounce. Silver is et 54. 441. A singular bankruptcy is mentioned in the French Psi ere, that of the Canons of St. John de Late ran,. whose creditors have taken possession of all their property, including one of the Churches of Rome. • We ere concerned to state, that the respectable and hitherto peaceable town of Carmathen has this week ezhihised symptoms of a riotous compl ex ion ; a mis guided multitude having interfered to prevent the shipments of cheese for other ports from that bo. rough. However, the spirited and determined con duct of the present worthy Chief Magistrate, sup. ported by . the military, prevented mischief, and the • ,merchants *hipped their cheese without molestation. Ali was quiet when our accounts came away on Fri day evening.—(The Gambrion ) FORGERY.—At the Circuit Court, et Glasgow, Margaret Kennedy was convicted of issuing forged • Potes-of the Stirling Banking Company, and sea. nenced to be esecuted en the 4th day of November. The poor woman, who is young, was totally un lit mbia to read or write, and wa i earnestly recommend ' yell to mercy by the Jury.—This is the only instance • ,:of any person being tried in Glasgow for forgery r *ince 1805, when two young men were convicted of • :engraving the plates fur forged notes, end issuing the • 'notes. She is the only individual now in custody in • -Scotland nn a similar charge, and only one has been dulecieted the last 15 years for forged-notes.—( Edin • 'burgh Paper.) • DRERY• LA LE —Last night the excellent Comedy • of the Suspicious Husband, was performed at this 'Theatre.' Mrs. Mnanys appeared for the first time this season, in the character of Admirer. She played with spirit, end was extremely well received. Mr. pper.ty also resumed his professional duties, in Oil place in the character of Jack ; he sees greeted on his entree with a most cordial reception. The performance altogether afforded much elottirlsio. scent toe numerous audience. The Farce of Lace laughs at LocksmitAs followed, in which a . Mr. WiLt.taits made his first appearance before a London audience in the character of Tutterion. From the specimen presented to us last night, be appeared to • possess considerable claims to public approbation ; his receptiim was flattering. The present Managers appear determined to exert themselves to the utmost in procuring novelty, for the amusement of the Public; and we are happy to see them rewarded by poblic approbation, which is apparent to the most casual observer, on casting his eye round the audi ence part of the Theatre. Two mere of the gang of Surrey robbers have been apprehended by May, Goff, and hall. the officers ; their names are Charles Brown and Thomas ilar 'loon. The former was taken at a brothel in Artil , lery-street, the other was taken at a bye-place in an obscure part of Lambeth. Eleven silver three prone • forks, nearly one hundred pawnbrokers' duplicates of gold rings, watches, seals, chains, and plate, were found upon them, as were also a dark lantern, crow bars, phosphorus boa, matches, and other articles used for koose.breaking. A tree in the garden of CIIARLts Stmrsorr, Esq. of Whitburn West-house, has this season produced the astonishing amber of 15uO apricots ) of the finest 6.ual 'riff`, g r r A TtgY Ati I Tar CONGRESS. AND Tux CONSISTRNCY or " UIG II CONTRACTING PARTIES." - It is now more than half a century since Ait•la. Chapelle WWI honoured Kith the presence of an as. sembly of Statesmen, professing to have in view the estehlishment of pacific relations between the States of Europe. It then contained Plenipotentiaries from England, from Maria Thriresa, Q teen of Hungary and Bohemia, from Louis XV. of France, from the King of Sardinia, from Spain, from the United Pro. vinces, from the Republic of Genoa (now no more), and from the Duke of Modena. Those Powers, comprising the great Arbitrators of the destinies of Europe, held long and weighty negociations, which terminated in October, 1745, in the celebrated Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, the chief articles of which breathe such a spirit of pure philanthropy and be nevolence, that we trenscribe them verbatim on the present occasion, when, it 14 highly probable, they Rill furnish (the first of them at least) a precedent for the diction of our Treaty-makers now in Con gress assembled. 46 Art. 1. There shall he a Christian, universal, and perpetual peace, both by sea and land, and a sincere end inviolable friendship between the Powers before mentioned, their heirs and successors, king doms, states, provinces, countries, subjects, and vassals, of what quAly or condition soeser, without exception of place or person, in. such a manner, that the High Contracting Parties shall have a constant attention to maintain between them and their said states and subjects this reciprocal friendship and ctn.- respondence,without permittingeither one party or the other to commit arty sort of hostilities on any tic count or pretence whatever, and shunning every thing which may tend to disturb or alter the union now so happily re-established between them ; en gaging themselves on the contrary to procure, on all occasions, whatever may contribute to their mutual glory, interests, and advantages, withiout giving any succour or protection, directly or indirectly, to those who may so much as attempt to prejudice either one or the other of the High Contracting Parties. " Art. 2. There shall be a general oblivion of all that has been lobe or committed during the war, which is now pot an end to; and each party, on the day of eschange of the Ratifications on all sides shall be restored to the possession of all his effects, digni ties, etclesiavtical benefices, honours, and revenues, which he enjoyed, or ought to have enjoyed, on the commencement of the war, notwithstanding all the disposals, seizures, or confiscations occasioned by the said war." Then follows the enumeration of the restitutions, ^ It is impossible for human ingenuity to devise words more final and conclosive for a bond of per mauent amity than those employed in the first Arti cle of the Treaty of 1748 ; how they were under stood by the " High Contracting Parties" (for that Is the way, as in the late Treaty of Paris, Treaties it seems are to be construed), we must learn by their subsequent acts, which furnish the most est raordina ry illustration of pacific intentions that can be found In the page of history. 41K40 41 14 , 00 In 1748 the Treaty was signed. In 1750 (a period of less than eight years), there was not a quarter of the globe in which the " High Contracting Parties" were not engaged in sanguinary wars with each other. France and England, not only in America and India, but in the heart of Europe; France and Prussia mu tually charging each other with the invasion of Ger many, and Austria aiming at the possession of the dominions of the latter. It is curious to observe the alleged causes of these several hostilities.— For the possession of the then barren and inhos pitable soil of Nova Scotia, France and England revived the war, and the Indians were instigated to acts of outrage, which each party laid to the es citement of the other. In Europe, France and Austria accused England (as Elector of Hanover) and Prussia of lighting up the torch of war in Germany, and overturning the laws and constitutions of the Ger. manic Bodies, under the specious pretest of defending the Protestant Religion from attack, but in reality for their own aggrandizement. Prussia seized upon Saxony awl other smaller States to protect the Reli gion of the People; and France and Austria in their torn aimedjat reprisals in the territories of Prussia and Hanover, for the purpose of securing the independ ence of the smaller Powers; while Russia and Sweden entered into the views of France and Austria, in the hope of acquiring a settlement in the west of Europe, as the reward of their services. Such are the acts which, in little mere than seven years, followed' the Treaty of Ail-la-Chapelle, for the inviolability of which such solemn pledges had been reciprocally given. The blaze of war continued throughout Europe, with little intermission, for a succession of years, until the smaller Stales, w hope in. tegrity and independence gave such a mural lustre to the social compact of European Powers, fell in their turn a prey to the ambition of individual despots, and sunk into provincial degradation —.-What moral rege neration the approaching Congress at Aia.la•Chapelle will work, time alone can develop. The following is a List of the Ministers named and deposed since the return of King FERDINAND to Spain, which took place in May, 1814 : MINISTERS OF STATE AND Foaatow RILLATIONL—The Duke de San Carlos, l'on Pedro Cevallos, Don Jae Pizarro. Mixstruts or THE INTERIOR, OR OP GRACE AND JUATICII.— DOis Pedro Macartaz. Don Tomas Mo.,ano Don Jose Queipo de Lana, Bishop of Meehoacan, named in t hei morning nod de. posed and imprisoned the same day at night. AltNtrrzes or FINA NCE.—Don Christoval de Gnagora. Don Joan Perez Villamil, Don Valligo, Don Luis Salazar, Don Martin Garay. MINISTERS OM WAR.—Don Heredia, General Dallas terns. El Conde de Campo Sagrado. Mtats-rnas or Idatusiz.—Don Luis Salagaz, Don Jose Flatiron. MINISTER or Pouce.—Don Pedro Echcverria. CHINA.—The General Harris East Indiaman, Captain WELsTED, is arrived off Portsmouth from China. She left the mouth of the Canton river on the Ist April last, and brings the most favourable re ports of the nature of the intercourse between the English and the Chinese. The Chinese, however, as if the continuance of this harmony was doubted on their parts, were busily employed in erecting forts along the shores of the Boca Tigris, which, though not of the most formidable description, implied the wish to be prepared for a change of circumstances. — Trade was geing on prosperously, and the *tory in a healthy state. To rex EDITOR of Tin ST4 Stn,--The disorganized state of the procedure itt the Scottish Courts of Justice, and the distress thence arising from piotracted and expensive litigstltio. gave, four years ago, rise to a Royal Commission toenquire into abuses and report upon them. Since that time three Reports have been given into the Commons which, I am sorry to say, after pe rusal with all the attention I am master of, *ill 'ne ver enable Parliament to afford us in these respects substantial relief. They will not do so; for besides being in themselves incorrect and imperfect, they bear sot upon those prominent abuses which produces to us so much distress. Oot of twenty easel appealed, eleven' ate (+her, sent back as snintelligible, of re. versed as unjust ; a fact of itself solficient to awaken the attention of any Commons. Nal is an acquaintance with the Law of Scotland in any respect necessary to relieve us of so great an oppression; and the Commons may, when they chase it, supply themselves with the most atahenticinfor sta. lion to enable them to do so. It is sufficient that etch Member understands the just rights and prero• grdives of the Commena -.that the minutest toleration Lay hint of encroachments upon these prerogatives are direct breaches by him of a national trust. do more or leas in each occurring instance disliiive that connec tion, weaken the tie between them and the Na tion, and at last consign the People to a strengthen ing political and superseding faction, capable of either destroying or protecting them and nine C 11 0 ,4 oat of ten, with that very doNres• of litigation and expence which the. tran.ifer of the Courts of Justice, into the hands of that inteejected faction never fails to pro duce. _ _ can assure yon, Sir, that the very first proofs of indication by the Commons to reinvest themselves in its just prerogatives, the trust property of the nation —the first instance of a jealous exercise by them of their undoubted rights in freely and unreservedly controuling their Courts of Jirstice, the paramount object of their sittings—the first distinct indication of a determination manifested by them to repel every encroachment on the liberties of the subject, and to prevent the national rights involved in their own pre rogstivee from being usurped by Courts of 1.3 w, mill then, and not till then, supply, through legitimate channels, the most authrntic information upon those abuses which they feel; and then, and not till then, will oar Judges come to respect a People, whose Re presents lion, alive to our complaints, will, in the mere act of resuming their prerogatives, put them more frequently in mind of the objects of their institution. It is only where misunderstandings have arisen between the National Representation and its Constituents, that jobbing Commissions, and expensive, incorrect, and seducive Reports, are made to supersede and stifle the more authentic complaints of the People.— While that Commission is in existe,nce, no person in this country will titer think of complaining. His apaplaiftw.witi-betentiited to the Corumissiosets, or delayed till their reports are given in. If a complaint to the Commons from en injured individual is pointed, clear, and correct in fact, it mat ters not whether that complaint comes from Scotland or not ; for the Commons represent Scotland es much as it doss En ;land : nor is their unacquaintance with the Scottidh Low, either a receivable or a valid objection ; for ti e party complained of, however high his situation, n n►t, out of the existing law of the land, distinctly thaw, where the complainer had ne. glected to avail himself of an adequate and existing remedy. if in probing his complaints, Parliament shall find an abuse without a remedy, that discovery is worthy the trouble bestowed upon it. Bet if in that investigation it shall turn oat, as in nine cases oat of ten l pledge myself it will, that Parliament has already done its duty—that whole some laws, the property of the cation, exist, hut that 'the individual's sufferiogs arise from the Statutes of Parliament being either rescinded or sent into desue tude by Judges, who, with their Prince, have sworn he give effect to them, what confidence can any per ion pet, after this, io either House of Parlia. 'root, who, after allowing themselves to be debarred f og our whole national rights bold in trust by them, l ate now contented to act subordinately to the Court of Session ? The. Statutes which the Three Estates ' of Parliament make, the Court of Session rescinds, or sends into desuetude, ■nd there is an end to the mat. ' itf. That Court, armed with legislative authority, combined with the lash of judicial power, has driven, in virtue of a heavy taxation imposed at every step of the proceedings, without the sanction of the Com mons, almost every subject of this kingdom from the bar of justice. These are abuses which the primary objects of the Sittings a both Houses are to prevent. With what patience then can we see D!OOESES sent here with his lantern to di:gores:abases 7—a COM. missaire, which we might with much more propriety properly return to Westminster Hall, to discover if a House of Commons existed, end to bring back an elect definition of the object sad meaning of Perna• men'. One act of vindictive justice upon a well probed ind well founded complaint of an injured individual for these wrongs—nay, one mark of reprehension or displeasure entered upon the Journals of the Com mons, would long since have brought Into tone • hundred dormant and remedial Statutes—would have brought into the Commons ample and correct in• formation, and without one shilling @spencer to the Nation, upon abuses as they are felt, end would even now show, in a variety of bearings, the most pro. minent errors in the Commissioners' Reports. It woold show how very little their Reports bear open the real causes of our distress. I am, Sir, your most obedient Servant, Edinburgh, Sept. 21, 1818. JURIDICUS. CORN OCT. 7.--Although we have had no fresh supply of English Wheat since Mon day, yet the sale of that article was very heavy this morning, in consequence of the reduction of 54. per tact no Flour at the close of Monday's market. — Barley, Beans, and Peas maintained Monday's prices, but Oats are rather cheaper, owing to the very large arrivals of that article for *hick the demand is bat INTR LLIG Brivax. Deal, OcT. 6.--Atrived and edited for the RNA' the General Harris, from China, &r.; General El. licit, 'Grant, from Qusfbet ; and Sales, St day* from' Richmond; Yirginit —.Cube down from tint Riser the Mary, Barnard, for Jamaica; fittest of Oak, Read, for Leghorn; Criterido, Meryl foe :New York; Trelatiney, M'lvot, for Jarhalcs I 104 dettry, King, for the Smith Seas; and the Soallow; Ford, for Newfoundland ; the whole remold with . the osit*ard.bennd as before; Omit the Swiato,fiti • which has sailed. Pou*smouyn, Oct 6 —Arrlied the John tuna; froin Ceylon, Cape of Growl flepe, and St) Heleosselled . €26th April, 18th J.. 1) awl 13ih .Al, goal. Spoke the Sspph!. from B ,mbay p. off $ t Ho_ len+, and may olfrti.d here in a fets days% Spoke Oth,Sttptenther the Seaforth from 11. 1 00 11 0 ,i Lit-tp olOtt lat. 2§ . ..ft. Inoga 364 W. Tilt Sestorth fell ip sitA a 6811 vessel io tat 4 _flint hol.rwil Eoga lisp eoloursi on the Seiforth ley g toi tht ship hoisted Spanish colottes, and 'again slated OA rut another flag. fired several AA; and tdt her boil out 10 lintird the S;.*farih, bit the Capi; Min threatening to itssitc age ship ;ore aluyt Leg at St. Oelepti ft his Mijisty's ahr4 Conquer ti t Racoon, Mesquite, Podargus, pelf, and the Daaid (transport). The Colrain of the • Ateripolo died at Ascension, and Captain . 11 - r 4 oce(late 1 11 44 Lieutenant) was appointed ill bor.—Also arrived, tusk galliot Gustaf Waldemar, —, from Illoshurgrt for Cadiz, our 16 days, comes in to repair, hat;og been struck with lightning yesterday off Penland, Its a heavy storm. and shivered her maiii•masi. • I S LYHOUTU t OcT 6 - , -Cattle in the tl'ene, ant Grace, Dymond, from Galloway to London, out ‘.lt days, want of prowirfoos ; Hope, Williams, from. Newport to the Gulf of Venice, dut eight days, des mageri in her rigging.---Soaeial merchant v.. 004 hound outwards, hay , been sooken iih by the pilots off this port, and it is efpectel they will fetch Falmouth. NiAocinA,Scev 15.—The aose , Cnpt Anderson, haring 1,..rd Cochrane, Ike. on board, arrived Here o n th e i.27,h August, and sailed the sane day for Colombo [User. Tile Austrian brig Le Madam de Motile Alegre, hormd to Oporto, was.buarded off Lisbon by an Insurgent brig privateer, which told raptured two Portuguese vessels, the ?lymph de Lisboa and the Luise, from Lisbon bound tit the Brazils; and the. Portuguese schooner Maria, front Madeira to Oporto, which lost they dest r o ) od, and 'they pot the crews of the three vessels on board the said Austrian brig, and ordered the Captain to land, them here ; upwards of silty people in all. Ike Cacodor, from thence to Lisbon, *Si plundered off Lisbon bar by a privateer; and ordered• bads to Ma. deira. FALMOUTH, OCTOBER 4.—Arrived the Montague packet, with Mails, from New York ; sailed on the Bth, and from Batiks IGth September. Also snivel( a Danish ship of war, from Copenhagen to the West (tidies. Liw.—Sitting• in and after Mich'.lehaa TPtio, 1818, before the Right llon. Sir VICARY GUM, K (sigh', Lnrd Chief Justice of his Majesty's Court of Common Pleas t-- 1,4 TERM. rattroLdrx. Tuesday Nov. 10 M..ndny Monday 43 A FTI..H Monde• ,. Now. SO I t,oproott. Wednesday a @NOV. t Pue•dsv l7 Tuesday 424 TER M. Tue•day ...flee. I. Lewes, Oct. 8.--Thr followittg circumstance oco cursed at Chaney, neer this town, on Wednesday last:—The gardener of Captain Rainier was ems ployed in mowing a walk in his maw', psrldock„ when, on finding it necessary to quit his work for a Short time, he filed the point of his scythe, in a slop. ing direction, in the sod, with the sheath of counts resting oil the erountl, and left it ; but before he re turned to the spot, a hare that hail beets accidentally started Flom her seat, in the rapidity of her escipe rats foul of the edge of the scythe, which, incredible as it may appear, actually amputated one of her fore-legs at the shoulder joint, and cot off e portion of ono of her hind-legs ; not withstanding which, the poor little etsimal, crippled and lacerated as she was, pursued her coarse to a neighbouring copse, and was therein soon afterwards found, and pat nut of her misery.--. The contact was so violent, that the scythe, being well tempered, eshbited a large gap made by the bones of the hare. CIIABGE of MUADER.—On Saturday last Mr. Seville, one of the Officers of the. Privy Council Chamber, Wtittehsll, London, arrived at 'the hear( Police Office, Dublin, bringing in coat ody a mats uamed ltof(et 'O'Neill, charged with having coin. milted a murder in the county of Sligo about sit years ego, upon, the body of a man named Matthew Callboy. The Prisoner was brought frogs ;he Island of Guernsey,,, and the c i rcum stances of .his arrest are "curious ; under the eliding laws of the Island if' Guernsey, no warrant either from the Judges of the King's Bench, or other Magistrates, call be executed there, and it was found necessary to assemble the Privy Council of 'London, and the Prince Regent (acting for the King) to sign the warrant. for the arrest of the Prisoner, wbo was on Su J Sunday committed to Kiimainham ail, in order for transmission to Sligo, to abide his trial at next Assizes. This morning, at three o'clock, a dreadful fire broke out at Mr. Harris's. watch.maker, in Tooley. street, which consumed that and two more Whose, adjoining ; damaged several houses. end commoni• cited to a stable-yard et the back, where it did comae dersble mischief. Dreadful to relate, several persons are missing, two of whom were taken out most dreadfully burned this morning at 10 o'clock. About the same time another fire broke out in the warehouse of Mr. Eliot, of Bond-street, over some stables, which raged most furiously backwards, Coots sooting stud doing much damage to the warehouses of Mr. Parry, glees-manufacturer; Mr. Bushy, India. warehouse ; Mr. Bushy, hatter ; and Mr. Phillips, the auctioneer, together with stabling and coach. houses; luckily all the horses were saved. On Monday night the house of Mr. Williams, of Sun-court, WhitechaFel, broker, was broke open, anti robbed et fornitere and prate to a great amoeut. :1111 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 141. _ _ i