The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-10-22 00:00:00

l NAVAL I.NTR L LIG ENCE. Mowraosc, Oov. 18.—Arrived the Acorn, Bernie, and the Lelloll4, Burn, from Riga, with part of the crews of the Esperiment and Rothumurchus, lately •wrecked in the Baltic ; the crews saved, as also the cargo and materials of the Esperiment. • LIVERPOOL, OCT. 20.—A rrived the Partridge, Clarkson, from Bombay, sailed 2d of July. The Carron, for Liverpool, was to sail on the 3d of July. The Colombo for London, sailed on the 25th of June. The Partridge sailed from the Isle of France on the Ind of August, and from the Cape of Good Hope the lit of September. NORTH SHIELD!, OCT. 19.—This afternoon, in a thick fog, the Union, Wright, of Whitby, got upon the Rocks under Typemouth Castle, and bulged ; a part of her sails is landed, and it is expected the prin cipal part of her materials and stores will be saved ; but as the wind blows fresh from S. E. and a heavy • sea is coming on, it is doubtful that the vessel will be. coma a wreck. The Regent, Jameson, of London, was wrecked on the 4th Sept. on the Island of St. Anna, on her some from Pernambuco for Maranhao. The specie and two men lost. - . Jamaica Papers arrived yesterday to the 6th alt. They concur with the American Journals in confirm ing the report of Commodore Auuv having taken possession of Old Providence. Advice. had reached Kingston from Porto Rice, that the greatest alarm *listed at that place, and all t he military from the coun try had assembled at Sur Quam, to place the works and town in a more formidable state of defence.— . The occasion of all this confusion is supposed to have arisen from the number of privateera, which had completely blockaded the' harbour, and threatened destruction to the town. Jamaica continued per fectly healthy ; but a paragraph in one of the Papers states, that in Surinam an epidemic prevailed, which bad swept off a considerable number of individuals . Many of the Dutch died in four or five hours after they were first seized with it. A Meeting was held at George Town, Demerara, on the 20th of June, to take into consideration the best means of introducing the use of steam-boats in that settlement, whets one. third of the estimated sum necessary fur this purpose was subscribed in the course of a few hours. It was expected the remaining shares would be quickly bought up, as the local advantages which would re sult from their adoption were so obvious and im portant. The Duke of Kent packet has arrived from Lisbon in seven days, and brings letters and Papers from thence so late as the 10th inst. The former corn. , plain bitterly of the very impoverished state of the country, in consequence of the enormous sums re quired by the Court of Rio Janeiro for payment of the forces which the King feels it necessary to em ploy, to overawe all attempts at insurrection. For this purpose the standing army has of late been con siderably augmented. It was not believed at Lisbon that the differences aubsiiting between Spain and For. angel had been monied, Intelligence from - Quebec awd Mont net, use the date of the 19th ult. was received, yesterday. On the 11th the shock of an earthquake was felt at Que bec, along the base of the mountains to the northward of that city. It is represented as having been suffi . , ciently powerful to cause a tremulous motion of the windows of the houses and of the furniture. By a Census lately meld', it appears that the population of Montreal and its suburbs amounts to about 94,000 inhabitants. The prospects with regard to the har vest were very good, in both the provinces. We are glad to find that public and private enterprise is di. rectirg its attention towards that fruitful source of wealth and power, inland navigation. The land, Jim the head waters of the 12-mile creek to Chip's paw% river, had been examined, to ascertain the prat. 'ticability of cutting a canal, and connecting the waters of the Upper Lake with Ontario. The belief was pretty general that this desirable object might be af. fected at a moderate eapence. The LORD ADVOCATE of Scotland, in succeeding Lord Primitcy, who, it is said, is to fill the office of LORD JUbTICE CLERK, will have no fewer than three gowns —as an Ordinary Lord of Session, as a „Lord of Justiciary, and as a Judge of the Jury -ICourt ! Such are the rewards now conferred on . Courtly Lawyers, er rather on subservient Adro cotes, for his Lordship never was yet mentioned as a lausee, even by Isis own deputies. The coalition, or rather the combination, of the Water Companies of Westminster, to raise the price of that indiapensible necessary of life, will no doubt be the subject eta Parliamentary enquiry ; in the mean time the pavements are dancing in all directions to the music of the Union pipes ! We urderstand that Mr. GALLATIN, Ambassador of the United States at Paris, left town yesterday ,morning for Dover, on his return to the French ca pital ; nothing has as yet transpired as to the result of the negociarions in which his Excellency has been engaged (with Messrs. Rows/sole and GOULBURN, our Plenipotentiaries), during his stay here. LEGITIMATE VIIITUE.—There was an abominable erstablishment in the Park at Versailles, under .the management of LE BEL, first Valet de Cham. bre to Louis XV. Into this infamous sink of wickedness were aliened, by every nefarious art, girls of the tenderest age, to be debauched by Louis le bien-aime. Their numbers amounted at times to ,more than a hundred, many of them purchased of their parents! Their children, by the King, were re. ,gelarly provided for, and they themselves, when they became , too old for the Father of his People, were married of, with good .fortunes, into the provinces. The whole thing seems to have been conducted with ,as much regularity, and in as business-like a manner as any department of the State. It is horrible such things should be, but right they should he known when they are, or when they have been, that men may see what thou* arbitrary Monarchs often are, upon whom thekr affection', their blood, and their wealth •ra lavished, and that they may learn, by such pic tures, the dignity end the necessity of being free.— such was the morality of the Court during the reign of Lours 'XV. - By the returns on the books of the harbour Com pany at Margate, it appears that 30 ) 000 persons have pogd the Pier defies this season. ON T'YRANTS. TO THE EDITOR OF TUB STATESMAN. " Lear Interet personnel est preinieremeni que le People soit foible, miserable, et qu'il ae puisse jamass leer resister." Rovssa•v. • Ste,—ln all the proceedings of Tyrants, however remote the period and scene of action, there casts a striking analogy which is apparent to every attentive observer. A common sympathy of naturecreaterin them the same propensities ; and hurries them to the corn. mission of the moo disgustful crimes. Thus we find them dastardly, cruel, proud, avaricious, and pro digal, with an inveterate hatred of every thing as. earning the apearance of virtue. They fly from crime to crime as an arrow from the bow ; no sooner have they imbued their hands in the blood of one 'victim, than their vulture eyes Gs on another, which mast instantly fall a sacrifice to their ferocious brutality. Their enjoyment, if so it can be termed, is being the scourge of the human race, to whirl, they seem to have imbibed an eternal antipathy. The un happy objects of their fury, are pursued so incessan... ly as to make an escape from their overspreadiug and all powerful fangs, to be morally impnss:ble.— Strangers to pity or remorse, these monsters march on in their career of blood with an audacity which et once astonishes and confounds every beholder. It cannot, indeed, be said that the Buroughmongers possess all the bad characters of the Nsaos and CALIGULA' of antiquity, but that they are imbued with the spirit of tyranny is but too manifest. One prominent feature in the conduct of tyrants is, to reduce the People to a state of misery. Hence that torrent of abusew hich has lately been poured on the wretched journeymen manofactureriin Lancashire, for their attempt to recover the former price of their la bour. Though this price was not enough to support comfortably them and their families, yet their em ployers curtailed it during the depression of trade.— T o c,,nremph i r e the lower class enjoying the most di minutive portion of the comforts of life is torture to the Boroughmilnger, as well as to the other descrip tions of inferior task-masters. The Corn Bill is another instance of this feature. By prohibiting, its certain circumstances, the imports. lion of corn, the price of bread becomes so much en hanced as to place it almost out of the reach of the People, though indispensible to their subsistence.— Here is a powerful source of misery, which will con tinne flow with the utmost velocity. This mea sure being in such a high degree inimical to the inte rests of the People, submission is a matter of sato nislsteent ; and every constitutional method ought to be adopted for the purpose of obtaining its repeal.— One may justly term it a most impudent and bare faced robbery. The ponderous texstion is also irrefragable dente of the prominent feature above mentioned.— It grinds the People to powder. Every chink feels the effects; for it is omnipresent as well as muds. none. By it the middle donate precipitated bete, the state of the lower, and the lower into a state of starvation. Starvation, with its consequeirt el►. cleanliness, is the cause of various diseases among the lower class. Shocking it must be, for a father to behold his hungry children, with ghastly visages, and in squalid dress, crying for a morsel of breed, without being able to administer to their wants. — Hut what pen can describe the poignancy of his! feelings, when the sane cause which afflicts his children with fatal disease, disables him from pro. curing them medical relief. Boroughrnongers reflect, sod shudder at your crimes. Nearly the whole of this taxation has been created by bloody wars, en. . feted into ender the specious pretests of supporting tbe honour and independence of the country ; also of defending the liberties of Europe against a gigantic enemy, whose ambition knew no bounds; but in reality for the infernal purpose of tearing op by the roots, not only the liberties of this country, but of Europe, yea, even of the world, and of establishing in their stead a despotism invulnerable to every at. tempt at its overthrow. These are the primary ob. jects of the Holy, or rather un.Holy Alliance. They evet were, are, and will be the primary objects of al!tyrants. _ _ _ Thus are the robust bodies of Englishmen enerret.. ed. A Boroughmonger, like any other tyrant, be. lieves that the reducing of the People to a state of misery is a sure preservative of his power. Besides, he may imagine that in paralyzing the physical fa. culties, he patalyzes the mental, whereby there will be an annihilation of that noblespirit which.timolated oor ancestors to such glorioos deeds,iind caused their mighty efforts to be crowned with _decisive success : those ancestors, by whom the standard of liberty was erected in Runnymede, by whom CHARLES I. was brought to the scaf f old, and by yr hem James 11. was driven out of the kingdom. Were this spirit to be come extinct, the Bosoughmongers might safely' in., solve the People in war, for the purpose of west ' ing their blood and treasure in the restoration el the Bounnoars and the POPE. No enquiry into thiPie treachery would take place. Suspension and Gagging Bills would then become unnecessary ; though not quite so a Corn Bill. Tyraany would reign tri umphantly. Notwithstanding all the essays the Borooghenonger Faction may make in order to deceive themselves ; all the hopes they may infuse into the breasts of their, accomplies ; the mauceuvres and conspiracies; the implicit confidence in the misery of the People, prov ing for them a fortress of impregnibility ; should they cast their eyes athwart the history of this country, they will find, to their utter confusion, that slwsys when resistance began to display itself, the People I were involved in excessive misery. Instance the reign of the tyrant JAMES 11. He had his horrible JETPERIES, whp even made a boast that he bad ban( e.l more men the. all the other Judges of England. This Woell)PfWeSn4PSef at rest except .he was val. lowing in hereon blood. . The fetocieus JAMES, cute complimenting him, look the opportunity of term.' ing one of the Circuits which he had just finish ed, . his campaign ; so manifold had been his . murders. Wat t mark the result, vengeance cime in due time. The People rose and tore this , cruel monster into pieces. Jesus himself was THE • STATESMAN -_ AMiiiiiii..,-, 1 glad to save hit h ea d by a prec i p i tate fl &ht.-- At the approach of danger, the most brutal tyrants are the basest cowards. if this event is too remote to produce the effect for whiCh it is so well coley. listed, take a mote recent one. I allude tb the French Revolution, which it admirably in point.— What People suffered so Much ender the unrelenting hand of oppression as the French, previous to the Revolution ? What tyranny so unfeelingly, so wan tonly, or so universally eserclsed, as the tyranny of the BOURBONS! What chains so huge and galling, as - tiinse by which the BOURBONS bound down that unfortunate race? The immense mass of taxes, and the unprincipled mode of levying them, formed a fright. fulscene. Still, as If the cop of iniquity werenot filled to the brim, there was the domineering and cruel ty. ranny of the Noblesse, with the ihquisitive and per muting tyranny of the Priesthood. Was ever mi sery so stupendous! However this, fat from pre vessiiii; resistance, was the very cause itself. The People were compelled to rise. What were the con• sequences? The Bestile was attacked, though at first without success; and the inhuman Governor having, by stratagem, made a few of the wretches prisoners, ordered them to be immediately hanged on the walls. Here is a glaring proof of the cruelty i of tyrants when they get the upper hands averse ID all mercy, they indulge their savage propensities 1 ekb the blood of their victims, without experiencing the least satiety. These persons Were immolated l ' without a trial, consequen.ly contrary to all law; nevertheless had tyranny obtained the victory, this disgustful act would not only have been palliated, but justified and applauded. Necessity, the tyrant's plea, would have been brought foulard in its de fence : it would have been witted vigour. But this vigour did not produce the intended effect ; instead of inspiring terror, thereby causing resistance to cease, it inspired horror, and thirst for vengeance. The people, exasperated even to madness, renewed tie assault, fought with the fury of tigers, carried the fortress—what can withstand the efforts of li. berty !—seized the Governor. and hanged him op as an example to future tyrants. How do his brother ty. rants relish this vigour ? On the news of the taking of the asstile, the whole covey betook themselves to flight. Princes, Priests, and Nobles, were scattered in every direction, precipitately endeavouring to make their escape. Some did succeed ; hut others not being sn fortunate, tasted a little of that vigour which they had been in the habit of giving to those who happened to come within their gripe. The day of visitation, though tardy, came at last ; and dread ful were the tears of the guilty. Justice stared them in the face. The French Revilution presents an awful example for tyrants to profit by, ye enslavers of the nation!—surrender to the King and the People their rights, which you have usurped.— By this means prevent a convulsion, which would plunge you and your concretions headlong into .the gulph of destruction. A light has gone forth; it has pervaded the mess of the People. All are politi cians; especially those termed the lower class. They hold discussions daily and hourly, di•coveriog much talent anti information. Ask but a miller, a black. smith, or even a scasenger, whence flows the heavy load ol.oppression *Web weighs him down t• the earth? Ire sill immediately answer, from the roashmotagoring aiystem. Sophistry con no longer &wive them. They ire acquainted with all the ope rations of the corrupt practices. On' a redress of grimmer@ they imist. Lean not on a broken reed, lest it pierce you. Now is the time to restore hap. pines. to your disconsolate country. But if an on. paralleled perverseoess possessing itself of your in fatuated minds, impel yo• to proceed its your' ne ferious practices, you yoursel►es will be respoillible for the cotisPquenees. October 17, 1818. W. M. FAVOURABLE IN7'ELLIGENCE OF THE IVOATILWEST EXPEDITION. Althnegh thelabjeet.of the Discovery Ships under Captain Buchan has been defeated for the prevent by ttessolortunate occident which heel the Dorothea, and inconsequence thereof the_caestion of a practi cable passage over the North Pole remains precisely where it did, there is every reason to believe that the North-west Eapedition, under Captain Ross, will prove.successful. We have just seen a letter from Mr. Wm. Burst, Master of the ship Ariel, to his Owners, Messri r lianornond end Smith, dated Strom. ness, October 8, ohich_says " A heavy gale,came on on the 9th August from the Southwasd, • aed we gut close beset among Ismael Saws of ice, where we were detained till the Atter September, without any possibility of getting out.—: The ship was in great danger while we were beset, but happily we escaped clear oil, and observed is let. 76. 8. N. and there found an open sea. We stood off to the Westward for 12 hours, and met with no ice. The Discovery Ships got out of sight of us about the middle of August, and from the appearance it bad when we left the ice, I doubt not but they may God 'llbeiv,wished-for passage." Tars it appears that the Isabella and Alexander irtfrto the Northward of 76. three weeks before the "dale/ had run to the Westward in an open sea, free 'firom all ice; which three weeks, in the event of the] sea continuing open, is more than sufficient to have carried „them to Behring's Strait. At airy fate, we think it probable,tbat, should they not be . ibl to reach that length, they will pass the winter in'the Hyperborean Sea, on the Northern shore of America. y socr.toon, Dowson, and Miss Brant are non, performing at .the Liverpool Theatre , where they ' appeared, on Monday last as Dont:irks, Isaac Meadow, and Clara„ in theDisenna. A pear ; was gathered, last week, in the garden of Mr. Spencer, at Newton St. Luw, neer Bath, which weighed t wenty.tvro ounces, and measured thirteen inches in diameter. There are three others on the tree nearly at large. Taesday night the house of Mr. Simi, In the New. road o ,was broken into and robbed of 101. in Bank. notes, a watch, a gold, locket, *et in pearl, a bine Hock coot, and wines other articles. Yesterday, a fine boy, named Thema+, son of Mr. %melt, of Clare-halt-row, Lierrehoese, playing in the back yard, lost hi, bat in the water. closet. lie instant') followed It. Unfortunately the' lid was sairecated before assistance could be obtained. . •:., • AMEft/U.4V RRVOLUT/ON. SKEttil OF TI#R t.IPR ASO CIIAtAC.TSIt Or PATRICK /13/1111tY. (C 0511044 from out Piper of If esterdayi) Soon after the opening of the Court, the caule was called. It stood on a writ of enquiry of (lea mages, no plea having been entered by the defendants .since the judgment on the demurrer. The array he. fore Mr. Henry's eye was now most (pilau!: On the Bench sat snore than twenty Clergymen; the most .learned men in the colony, end the most capable, as •well as the severest critics before whom it was pot. .sable for him to have made his debut. The Court+ house was crowded with an 011,ralhelming meltitodei arid surrounded with an immense and ansinatt throng, who, not finding room to eater, were endeivouring to listen without, in the deepest attention: Bot there -es something still more awfolly disconcerting than all this ; for in the Chair of the presiding Ma. *Write, sat no other person thin his own fatker.— Mr. Lyons opened the cause very briefly .t in the way of argument he did nothing more than vanillin to the Jury, that the decision upon the demurrer had pat this Act of 1760 entirely out of the way, and left the law of 1748 as the only standard of their damages ; he then concluded with a highly wrought ealogium on the benevolence of the Clergy. A, d, nose s came on the first trial of Patrick Henry's strength. No one bad ever beard him speck, and teriosity was on .tiptoe. He rose very awkwardly, and faslterell, much in his exordium. The people hung their hoods at so unpromising a commencement ; the Clergy were observed to exchange sly In. Its at each other ; sod his father is described is hating almost sunk with confusion, from his seat. But these feelings were of short duration, and soon gate place to °there of sl very different character. For now were those woe. derful faculties which he possessed for the first time developed; and now was first* witnessed that Aye. terious and almost supernatural transformatieh of spa pearance, which the fire of his own eloquence never failed to work in him. For as his mind toiled along, and began to glow from its own action,elt the Minket of the clown seemed to shed themselves spoons**. ously. His attitude, by degrees, became erect and lofty. The spirit of his genius awakened all his features. His countenance shone with a noblenets and grandeur whit h it had never before exhibited..-. There was a lightning in his eyes which seemed to rive the spectator. He. action became graceful, bold, and commanding; sod is; the tones of his voice s bet, more especially in his emphasis, there was I We& liar ci.atate, a magic, of which any one Who ever heard him, will speak „pa soots as he is nameol s bat of • kch no one can give any adequate description.— They can only say that it struck open the ear and 'upon the heart, in a manncr whicklangauge canna fell. Add in all Wes., conder• w ork ing fancy,. and the peculiar phraseology in which he clothed its ionages; for painted to the heart, with a force that almost p-trified it. in the longues, of these who heard him on this occasion, " he made their blood tun cold, end their hair to rise on end." It will not be dilficalt for any CPP I who year hard this most extraordinary meet, ,to believe the, whole account of this transaction which is sites lity his ..stueitring beaten; end, from their amorist. the COW t.livute of lisisover Coen'', most have eahibit. ed, on this occasion, a scene as pictoresque, as his been ever witnessed in real life. They say, that the yeople, %hose countenances had fallen ss he arose, had heard but a very few sentences before they to I-nk up ; theft to look at each other with surprise, as if doubting the evidence of their own sense.; then, attracted by some strong gesture, struck by boNse roNjestic attitude, fascinated by the spell of hit eye, the charm of Lis emphasis, sod the varied end commanding expression of his 'countenance. they could look away ne mote. in lees than twenty minutes, they might be seen, in every part of the -house, on every bench, in every window, stooping forward from their stands in death-like silence; their features tiatd in amazement end awe; all their senses listening and revisited upon the speaker, as if to catch the last strain of some heavenly visitant.--• The mockery of the Clergy', wet soon turned iota alarm; their triumph into confusion and despair; and at one burst of his rapid end overwhelming in. 'nave, they fled from the Bench in precipitation and terror. As for the father, each was his ssrpriee, sash his amazement, such his rapture, that, for. potting where be was, and the tharecter which he wig ailing, tears of ecstany‘wireamed down his dwells, without the powerve itmlinalioll 10 re* press them. .The July seen In have been so completely he. wahlered, that they too sight not only of the Ad of t 1748, but that of 175fi elso ; for thoughtless even of the admitted right of the Plaintiff, they had erarrely . left the bar, when they returned with a verdict of one penny damages. A motion was made for • new Isis! ; but the Court too, who had now Inst the eqvi. poise of their judgment, and overruled the motion by 6 an unanimous vote. The verdict and judgment vireo. ruling the motion , were followed by redoubled serfs. Ination, from within and without aim house. 'Dv people, who had with difficelty kept theii hands off .their champion from the moment of closing his ha .f&e4oe, no sootier saw the fate of the cause finally 'WO, than they seized him at the bar, and in spite of his own 'setting's, and the continued cry of 44 or der" from the Sheriffs and the Court, they bore him 'out of the CourtJhouse, and raising him on their shoulders, carried him about the yard, in a kind at electioneering triumph. 01 what a scene wad this for a father's heart 1 so !Addeo, so polooked for, so delightfully overwhelm. it% I At the time, lie was not able to give ortteratten to any armament ; but, a few dyes after, when srierik. .ing of it to Mr. Winston, he said, with the most en. dpging modesty, and with a tremor of woke, which elinwed how much more lie fel& than he expressed— " Patrick spoke in this cause sear an hour I and in •a manner that surprised oven; and showed himself well informed on a subject, of which 1 did not tibial& be had any knowledge !" • 1 base tried much to procure a sketch of this cola. brated speech. ,But those of Mr. Henry's hearers mho aurvireommem to have been bereftof their lease& Tr - on only toll - lir Inotal, that they weretaken 1 They can only tail you in general, that they were takes e capiive ; and so delighted with their captivity, the they followed implicitly, whithersoever be led thews. • e ' at his bidding, their tears flowed haws pity, Itlti . their cheeks floated with indignation. 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