The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-04-25 00:00:00

h'n .fivi essa - •. ,~--t -~ . Mr. IV. CA EVEIIT conceived ils:ot the (Amon fur taking Ifthul the Pistems, feeding. citable,. sad educating the chit -dregs ar pie per.. s nelioned the mischievous principle. that all ;persons must be provided with nook or &Inis:ewe from the Mr. S. not: UN F said, it was expressly provided in the 9ta. *Owe of Elizabeth, Shut shoe children shoat their parelit,•cuald Sin uwiwt..in should lielvut Mali, work. Mr. IL bU NN EH expressed the bitter disappointment telt by the eons ry Haw thew* Bitto-dirtior Nile. The llouse resolved into the Committee, in veltictra canverss tiou took place.; and a Member mh•r•emante we roma nut made so..•e observations repuitioint to the C 1 (.r separating children frown their parents. even for the reefs Pr of eduratooto. Hut after is fen remits ks from Mr. N. tatsiscr. General thoaNcoN, and lhrt.. Muitca, theClaalla was adopted. Upon t .e Clouse for authorising the m sjority of the inhabit ants of loos ;arid, in owing .g, We nitro for the.plyment of the I.,terest of any debt is Meta *he pm. ish Might owe, oriind it ne oessory ',woo race, Mr. I). Gil I. ItEitl' moved an Amendment, that no such morgare shout t ke plate but 'with the consent •or two-thirds of the land on to!rs sit such .parish, whether tree !whirls or cop) iiiilders. Mr. S. I. mid, that he had no objection to-any pro visi.as again. improvidroot rspeudhture.and iherefurc he bbould Lot Opit.r.r Slur lififiouteinlC Member's Motore. Sir I'. tic iiiiircred to the whole Classes because it .was iticonoi.tent w ith t e principle of tier Poor Lows. Hy that. principle .he pprifilietirefsitho had means were called upon to . provide sob-Weave for tire pour, seconding to the circumstances of the parish at the dine; but this Clause proposed to saddle parishes w ion debts o ntracted many years before, and thus pos terity would be called upon to pay t. e debts if preceding rese t:wools. Mr. S. BOURNE observed, that the Honourable Baronet's objection applied nut merely to the present clausa but to several *aiming bins. When, boa ever , a debt was contracted for the erection of a workhouse which belonged not only to the pre , sent but to subsequent generations, was it fair that those alto erected the house shoul d alone hear tie burden ? Accoroing it. justice that expellee should be fairly apportioned between thine I.y whom the workhouse was erected and Move who were to tollaw. This provision was obviously just. and that was the tr i li m ciple upon which the clause was founded to which the Hon. et bad objected. Messrs. HOLUbWORTiIi IFILATMLAND Irtirts, Sir E. EtitTeloal.. and Mr. 13Ro s onoßai, also commeuted upon the clause and the proposed Amendment. Mr. (Albert's clause for conferring the power of Toting on the question of Morteaging the l'ours' Itate to t o-tbiras on value of the Freeholders. Copyholders, and Leaseholder., whose tenures were ro coutivae 15 years, was, after some des voodoo, agreed to. Oa the Clae.e ferretrdering the owners instead of the °mu piers of bosses alder WI. a year liable to l'uors' Rates, a long dimension ensc 1 , in 'which Mr. Littleton, Sir It. Heron, Mr. Phillips, Sir C. Mooch, Sir C. Mordaunt, Mr. E. Lewis. Mr. .AWernma Wood, hte.Thotnpson. Gen. Thornton, Mr. S.Bourne, Air T. Baring, Mr. Butterworth. Sir E. Brydges, Mr. 1). Gil beet, Mr. N. Calvert, Col. Wood, Mr. Mellish, Mr.% rotieskY, Illy. Correa, Mr. I.an.b, fie. participated. Various amend awies were introduced. The principal one was mused by Mr. N. Calvert, sad Heated the rase to a hich uers of such houses . should be subject to be levied on half the rent. On the question for agreeing to the Clause as intended, Geo. Thornton insisted on a division. The numbers were, Few the Clause Sf • Against it Majiriry -- - -51 The retaioiok clauses of the Bill Oren underwent der..hle diacustiou and ilmendoeot. The House resuaied. die Nepali received, and ordered to be taken into enavidera ins se Tuesday. and to be printed. A Petition wa.• presented flow St. Luke's, Chelsea, against the Parish Vestry Bi 1. The oilier ()niers hf the Day weredisptned of and the Howse adjourned to Monday. EAST INDIA INTELLIGENCE. [PROM THE CALCUTTA PAPERS TO TUE 30TH NOV.] Since the ratification of our Treaty with Seindish, Neer Khan, the active General, had been deprived of his power in Jeypoor and Jelpoor, and had ac. ceded to the terms offered bias by the Marquis of Hastings. • There are melancholy accoants of the fatal effects of the prevailing epidemic iu the centre division of the army. It is stated that 4;0 natives had fallen a sacrifice to ft in two days; nor has it been there confined to the ratites ; eight Et.:opeans have fallen victims to it.— Letters of the 16th mention, that after rather a long march the preceding day, many Europeans had been attacked, ard that the whole road during the march was strewed with dead and dying natives. An Officer remarks, " I am fortunate in having lost only two servants." The accounts of the 17th are still more atliicting. The number of deaths reported on that day amounted to 500 natives and 1.9 Europeans. Only two officers had been attacked, and had speedily re. corered. The chief mortality was among the camp followers, and the Sepoys, accustomed to poor fare. Latidanum, with brandy, was generally successful when administered in time, and calomel completed the cure. The following statement of mortality from this disease many years ago, is said to rest on high medical authority. At one of the great 3lallaLs held at Jlurdwar, every twelfth year, in the month of April, a sudden blast of cold air from the hills, which came down the course of the Ganges, produced so fatal and violent a cholera morbus, that '20,000 per sons perished in the course of three or four dab s.— G rest as this Bomber is, it will not appear incredible, when it is known that nearly a million of people are supposed to be collected. In common years the nem .lber at the fair is estimated at 300,000. INSURRECTION AT CEYLON. We are unable to add any thing to the following notice of an insurrection at Ceylon, which has ap. peered in the Calcutta Government Gnsette 46 We are concerned to state that accounts have been received from Ceylon, of an insurrection having taken place in the interior of that Island, the object of the Insurgents being to place one itc the family of the deposed King on the throne of. Candy. It is to be lamented that one of the cieH servants in that Pro►ince has fallen a victim to the fury bf the assembled rabble. We have no further' particulars of this melancholy event." ESUPPLEMENT TO THE •RIENTAL STAR, Or NOT. 29] Since the ratification of the treaty with Scirsdiab, otherimportantevent hasoccurred, which willgreatly expedite the object of the present confederacy. Meer Khan, well known for his bravery, and the preda. tory system of war which he pursued, has fortunately L en deprived of his power in the provinces of Jond pore end Jypore i the former scenes of his exploits end devastation. This enterprising and extreor. dinary Chief has acceded to the terms offered to t.im by the Marquis of Hastings. The Rajah of Kerow loy has also agreed to an amicable arrangement, •rid engagements with Jondpore and J, pore artiespected to be immediately formed. • [FROM TBE BENGAL UURLAIU, Or NOV. 29.] The contingent of the Berar Rajah amounts to 3,000 horse and 2,000 foot, and was assembled in the vicinity of Nagpoce, preparatory to marching on service. This force is under the superintendence of Major Agnew. The Madras battalions are centoned on very high ground, about three miles from the Re eidency, aid the detachment of the 6th regiment Bengal Native cavalry, about seven miles on the slope of a hill. Much rain had fallen in that quarter in the beginning of this moo& • ;04{. ' 1 4 TIIE S'FATESMAN. The right of the army, under Major-Genikral Don kin, arrived at Dholpoor on the 9th. On the oppo site side of the Chembel,. a small guard of Scindiah's troops was stationed. The division under Getters! Dosikin remained at Dholpoor on the 12th, bet it was4spected that it:woutd move on the 13th, keeping along the left bank of the Chumbul. Whether it might afterwardapraceed towards %hyper., or to the' Southward, appeared uncertain. The corps com posing this division are very Moire. His hiajetity's 14th Foot, 960 rank and Ale, Bth Dragoons and lit Native Cavalry, 600 each. Three complete Sepoy battalions, 1,400 Gardner's Horse, and 1,200 Ebert pore. Lurrtet TRW( Covract.---Massaub Khan's, one of the Jugbuudoo's Chief Sirdars, has been killed, and another, Gunnaiss, severely wounded in the breast. The different detachments have been hunt leg Juebundoo in every jungle, where he attempts to halt, and the general opinion is, that be cannot escape much longer. steamvogine t by which all the mscbibery was pet in motion. Unhappily some of the troilism have ite- Vhdkl in Ibis dreadful fire, Which brhe oat in the ((Ise, in the lever story, and rapidly toothaickked to the ether party of the building. VIENkA, APRIL 4.—Yesterday evening the ho. rizon of this capital was lightedvp by a prodigiots fire in a wood magaiine belonging to the bakers. A misunderstanding caused the fire-engines to be sent to the other side of the Danube, by which the estin6 guishing of the fire was delayed. the quantity of wood harnt is estimated at ioo cords. • FItENCII PAPERS. Putts, APRIL 21.—Seteral Charges d'Affaires and Commissioners of the Foreign Powers residing in Peri+, .for the purpose of demanding indemnities, as sembled this morning at the Duke of Wellington's, where 'they held a long conference with hi. Grace.— The dispositions that have been made at his hotel authorize the belief that Lis Grace will depart imme diately for London. Letters from Albi state, that another procedure will follow the sentence of the present prisoners.— Madame Manson is destined, it is said, to play a greet part as witness. The Sieur Capstans, Ex-Com missary of Police, who had been arrested, and after. wards set at liberty, has withdrawn himself, by flight, from the researches of which he has been the object. Ile is supposed to have fled to Spain. In examining the plan of Rhoden, we have remark. ed that the house of M. Fealdes and that of Bence!, though situated in different streets, join in the rear. A partition wall forms the only separation, and on the seine story in the respective houses is the chamber of Colard, and the cabinet which M. Fualdes gene rally occupied, and where the crime received its final consummation. The S per Ceots. are 67 f. 60 c.; Bank Actions, 1625 f. EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER, FROM PARIS, DATED APRIL W. There is nothing settled absolutely with respell to the important negociations about private claims. The nearer the termination approaches, tki more the difficulties increase. Prussia atone appears tg hare been rated at bt millions, in the conference of Thersday ; and the Count de Gulls hes just sent to Berlin a Courier Extraordinary, one of his Secre taries of Embassy, probably for the purpose of an nouncing this result to his Court. Yesterday (Sunday) the Doke of Wellington had a private interview with the King at the Thuilleries ; it lasted nearly en hour. During the last Sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, M. Puymaurin, Deputy from Thouloose, proposed a tea on all periodical works of a political character; which is only subjecting them to a censure under another form. The proposal appeared specious to the centre, and to the right side; bet it alarmed ex. ceedingly the left side, and the party of the Theorists. Messrs. Bignon, Chauvelin, and Dupont de PEore, hastened to demand the previous question; but it was rejected. They were going to pat the Amend. meta to the vote, apd it would no doubt have passed, if M. Beugnot had not eagerly mounted the Tribune. He made the Chamber feel the extreme importance of the question under discussion; and addressing himself to the right side, he expressed his astonish. ment at seeing the same Members who so loudly called for the liberty of the Journals, now tote for new restraints on periodical writings. Vain efforts ! A part of the right side and ell the centre were still for the amendment, when M. de illele, who had just come from the trial of M. Fievee, and who understood that the article concern. ed the Correspondence of that author, as well as all other works, demanded and obtained its being sent back to the Committee on the Budget. It is this day (Monday) that this great question will be decided. If the amendment he adopted, there is en end to the Minerve, to the Cenrenr, to the Bibliotheque• lfisto rtque, to the Pere Michel, to the Letires Nor-- mantles and Champenoises, and even to the Corre spondance Administrative, to the Vendeen, and to the itnti-Minerve, for the Authors of these three last work would certainly not comma to submit to the censure* The Address of the Emperor Alexander to the Diet of Poland, is still the subject of conversation, chiefly among the diplomatic circles. On Saturday, General Pozzo di Borgo gave a grand dinner, at which were assembled the principal French and fo reign Ministers, as well as the Duke of Wellington. It is pretended to have been remarked, that when. ever General Pozzo was spoken to on the subject of this Address, be prudently abstained from answering, or at least from allowing his thoughts to be discover., ed. Already some persons venture to predict the re. newel of frightful calamities in Poland. DUTCH AND IiAMBURGII MAILS. Sr. PETERSBURGR, MARCH 28.—The Pannpticen, a large wooden building, fire stories high, which lay out of the city on the other side of the Neva, was • prey to the flames. This building was erected only a few years ago, after a very ingenious plan, and as workshops for many branches of the marine. It was also used as barracks for sailors. It was capable of containing 3000 persons. In the middle of the building there was a hollow cylinder, which went through all the stories, and in the middle • chair for the seperioteudent of the works, from which, without been seen himself, he could see every thing through the openings in the cylinder, and overlook each of the work-rooms, which were furnished with glass-doors; and, by another contrivance, could let himself ep and down as he thought proper. In every story were doors to the cylinder, opening from the inside, so that the superintendent could come *et of the cylinder, and show himself whenever it was no. misty. The architect of this building was the lab Generalßeathass. lu the lowest story. 'oaths • LONDON: SATURDAY, APRIL '4, 1818 The indisposition of Lord CASTLEREAGH last night occasioned the postponement of several important questions which stood for discussion in the House of Commons. The important subject of the Poor Laws, however, underwent some consideration, when the proposed amendments relative to additional assess• moots in Vestries for building workhouses, and for making the owners of houses, not exceeding the an. nuol rent of 201., liable to the Poor Rates, occasion. ed some divisions. It will be observed that the Clauses in the new Bills will have the effect of making a very material alteration upon the whole system of the Poor Laws, by no means, we suspect, in favour of the interests and established usages of the mass of the community. The division upon the very injuri ous Clause, obliging the owners of houses under 201. a-year value to pay the Poor Rates, eihibits a curj. Dimond instructive view of the sentiments of the Re presentative part of the great proprietors—For the Clause 54, against it—none, except Gen. THORNTON, who called for the division. The Resolutions of a Vestry Meeting in the parish of St. John's, Southwark, for Petitioning against the new enactments, are given in our second page. The voting inhabitants of all parishes out of the Metro polis (which has fortunately for Its residents been ex empted from one of the most injurious clauses), should be equally alive to the importance and inevitable con sequences of this infringement of the popular right ; for, as the Resolutions of the Southwark Meeting justly observe, these " Bills, so far as they relate to ravish Vestries, and the right of voting therein, if carried into effect, will not only infringe on the rights and privileges of the greater number of Vestry. men, but produce the most baneful consequences, and, at the same time, obstruct the exertions of the best informed and most useful classes in parochial affairs." In the House of Lords the subject of Officers Widows' Pensions was introduced by the Marquis of Lattsnowits ; and it would appear, from the state. meta of Lord Livaaroor. on the occasion, that a principle of regulation, founded equally on liberality and justice, is at length likely to be immediately adopted. The precipitation with which Ministers are ca►ry. ing besiness through the Houses, gives reason to presume that the Suasion will be cut short, and that a dissolution will take place soon after Witsentide. At lust nothing will be left to prevent Ministers frost doing so, if they shall find It their interest. Soave farther iotelligence has bees received from fedi', is Calcutta Papers to the 29th November.— Our Readers will recollect the deposition' of the King of CANDY, and the travuferratice, u the seizure was called, of the sovereigety of his capital and do. tuitions to the British Crewe. The unpleasant Intel. t . . , }i ) - J_]_ -, ~.: 'irate), now communicated of an loserrectioe of the Citisiiins aglinst the CO's, Governesent,in whi r * I d t it it is sal !it Mr. Wil.adivoo Lilian, has be es ki lled, and one f their cor p s h as l ost many men. Th e object o he Revolt ers 111 stated to be the takings( one of the deposed family to the Throoe. This i s almost all the information we have upon this ergot, It is probable, that the subordinate Chiefs, *bea n retained in authority under the British Governsc have disagreed among themselves, and that ooe party h is availed itself of the name of some relative of the& posed King, not implicated in the crimes for whi c h he was ; deposed. The insurrection, however, wil l doubtless be geelled in the same summary manner as General Beoutsatoo was enabled to overturn the former Candian Government. We art gratified to observe, that the report r 4 SCIIaDIAB'S having broken the Treaty of Glesliork not trite, and that the celebrated Chieftain Mena KUAN bas also acceded to the terms offered him b y the GOVERNOIt•GENERAL. The same is to h e o b. served of the RajLl of Kartowcor, and 'timeliest' are expected to be immediately entered into eio r the Sovereigns of Joedpoer and Jypour. The Bhortpore Rajah, who was at first thouglg t o b e disinclined to our cause, has actually fora*, ed his contingent against the Pindarreso. ---The wily deduction to be made' from th e favourable completion of this news is the circus. stance' that our army has suffered considerably fro g attacks of cholera morbus, which had prevailed very mach among the natives in the hill country. This disease had produced a great mortality among the cam p.follo ts ers and the Sepoys accustomed to poor fare; a very few Europeans had suffered, chiefly or the lowest class: only two Officers had been attacked, and they bad speedily recovered. -..N1N0...- There is now no doubt that the negociations re. specting the claims of the Allies upon F►ance are terminated, and that Prussia has been the most sec. cessful in pressing her demands, exorbitant as they have been. The Paris Papers which have reached us (to the dale of Wednesday last) state, that from the preparations making at the Duke of Wsr.. LINGTON'S hotel, and the dispatch of Coeriers to Foreign Courts, there was reason to belie►e that his Grace would immediately set out for London, sad that the conferences among the Foreign Ministers were satisfactorily concluded. The good people of Paris will not be a little pleased to see the reduction of the Duke of WELLINGTON'S Capital establishment and the departure of his numerous Staff, if the statements in private letters he true. It is said the Duke of WEL* LINGTON'S to ble,wine, and fuel are providedfor by the French Government; and that when Mr. WELLEs. LEY POLE, his family, and servants, arrived there, notice was sent ro the competent sethorities to make an augmentation of in ovisinus, &c. When Lord and Lady BURGIIEItaII and suite arrived it was the same —further augmentation was made in the provisions. The Parisians ask in vain, is it fit that the French Go. vernment should maintain the whole family of the WELLEILEYS? They cry shame also at the Spanish General ALTA'S receiving his rations end lodgings from the French Government, as ei-devant Aid-de. Camp to the Duke of WELLINGTON, although he is at this moment Spanish Minister at the Court of the King of the NETHERLANDS ; consequently he finds it cheaper to live at Paris than at Brussels. This is something like the provisioning plan of the orderly serjeanis, who, when their master, the Captain, rata- Wishes himself in good quarters, always try to forage iu the kitchen. Lord Ka senten, the letters add, had left Paris pri. • 'lately. His Lordship sent on Tuesday for post hones to proceed to Brussels, but he was refused. When application was made to the Police, his Lord. ship was told that he could not be suffered to depart till the trial of Gonfalon was over, as he was sub pcenaed on the trial , end was already esamined be fore the Jags d'lnstruction. The Budget was still the topic of discussion in the Chember of Deputies. The Chamber of Peers closed the discussion on the Project respecting the Bank of France 011 Monday, end adjourned the consideration of the articles ,till the nest day. The Concordat, according to • the private accounts, will not b. pre sented to the Chambers; it has been sent back to ittime to be modified, hut the Poets will not recede . The French Stocks' have advanced again, being now at• 67 fr. 60 c. It is probable that the adjustment of the affair of the Indemnities has been the cause of this improvement. w •r The Doke of CLARENCIeII determination to es emplify in high life the delights.of Love in a Cottage, if the Princess of Shea-blateirtoem will receive him witboeta magnificent provision, would not be the first sample of Cottage felicity which Royalty has gives. , to the nation. We have heard of a certain Cablge, the furniture of which cost Joon BULL fifty thou- ' sand pounds. These are low delights indeed. The Duke of DEVONSHIRE is expected in town to morrow or Mouday , next, from his seat, Chatsworth, Derbyshire. Lord CASTIAREAGII has been indisposed for several days; he, however, gave a grand o f f i cial dinner on. Thursday in honour of the Rarrettes birth-day : the consequence of which was, that his Lordship was worse yesterday, and unable to attend his Parlia mentary duties. The Doke of RICIIMOND's salary and military al lowances, as Governer-Genera and Commander-in- Chief in Canada, Bloat to wrath at 10000 i. a year. ST. JOHN'S, SOUTHWARK. AT a VESTRY holden the 21st April, 1818, to take into consideration Two Rills pending in Parliament, the uoe •• For the Itegulatitm of Parish Vestries;" the other Fur the Amendment of the Laws for the Relief of the Poor," Mr. JOHN GILLIRS, Chtirehwurden, in the Chair; the Vestry-Clerk read ME said Bills; and 'hesitate having been severally taken into comidenteion. the following Resolutiuul were tinan moully agreed In. via. -- That it is the opiniim of this Meeting. that the said Rini. so far to they relate or Parish yestrim. arid the right of tomtits; therein, if carried into effect. will nat nntv infringenn the rights and privileges of the greaterriumber of Vestrymrn, hut produce the ;nest bow ful cnniesturnces ' and at the same lime obstrtict the eletti..tth of the best isfurnteci anti most useful classes in pa rochi.il Thol. gene allly F peaking, the placing a Clergyman In the Chair to preside over Yahl a Vestries. will, inricatl of being beneliciol or &Minato/Leon.. canoe endless dilierenees and disputes twined, the pablor and his flock. be inimical to the best in 11the ;wrist), and prejudical to tbe general interests of religion. 1 fiat inasmuch as intellectual facilities do not always keep twice wi h the tocreme of property. it appears to your Peti tioners cam to I , gtsloie no each principles would be subvenive of the coagitati••nal rightt of freeshen • nod that granting it plu talny of votes in the mailer prop, seat by the said Bill, is likely to create a par , chin' otno..pnly, and operate so as to transfer the management ••f vie Poor ft Mu their natural guardians. and ulnce them under the direction• of Abbe w ho, Coin being in affluent circumstances, feel the duties of parochial office irksome and difficult, and will not fatten,' to the mininite thereof. That it is with pain this Meeting observe. In it the Bill for tl,e amendment of the Lows fur the Relief of the Poor contains scarerlv any thing ht wficial, but what saay be enforced by the already exi.ting Laws. Tl.at Select Vestries have bees at ell times Could preludicial ' and obnoxious. as conveying the valuable and equal right► of ail Vestrymen into the hands of a few wealthy individua s. who ' in ge.seral ate unacquainted *hit, and frequently unwilling to attend to, the due a•'mint•tratimt of the Parochial Laws where by the imere,i. of 1/..11.1te1i ate prejudiced, and the Poor fres quend suffer incren-ed misery and distress. That a Petition,. founded on the above Resolutions, be pre pared to be signed by the Vedrymen of this Parish, and pre seated In both Homes of Parliament. Thht the Petition do lie at the Vestry Hull fur signa ture-. until Thupitlitv nett, no one o'clock. Thu Charles Culvert, Esq. nod Charles Barclay, Esq. the Rept eNentative. of the Borough of S.uthisark, be requested to presrut she some to the Honourable Wire of Common-, xtid that a Member of the House of Peen be requested to present one to that llothotiahle House. That the Thal•+ of ibis Alerting be given to Mr. Ganes, for biiimparahl conduct it the Chair. JOHN GILLIES, Chairman. ST. M A ni.—lisliday at the Public Offices. : 4 1 1 e t i 1 .~ i i THE STATESMAN. 41 O Ji 11 his Ua se VI go of 32 IRO enti ci G