The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-06-02 00:00:00

BELLIAtII.I.4I. -f- We copy the following from the Liverpool Mer. cwry of Friday last :—By the exertions of a friend, we are enabled to give publicity to the following -iginal letter, written by Bellingham to ass acquaint , Ic e in Liverpool, on the very day in the evening of ..hich he perpetrated the desperate deed, for which he l astly fell a victim to the violated laws of his coun try. Little can he added to the store of information be public already possesses respecting this iufatuated ,man:—he has been minutely followed through all the circumvolutions of a life obscure, and otherwise un:. interesting,—he has been traced from the place of his birth, and the exploits of his childhood, to the e tamination of his heart, and the analyzation of his brain. This letter, however, is interesting in one point of view, as it shows the firm and collected temperament of mind with which he entered upon the fatal enterprize. At a time when he was about to terminate the mortal existence of a fellow-creature, and commit a crime far is hich l under any degree of palliation, he would have been sacrificed to the manes of his unfortunate victim ;—at such a time to write calmly on matters of ordinary business, merely adverting, in a slight manner, to his supposed injuries, and hinting at an adequate revenge, must stamp on his character, in that point, a degree of derangement which cannot be ettliced by his anteCedent sanity, or subs.2quent dis p:a) of calmness and strength of mind. As we have I been informed that several original anecdotes and do cuments, relative to Bellingham, are preparing for i the press, we shall forbear, at'present, making any comments on the character 'and conduct of a man whom we must consider as insane, although it ap p:iis he has, on those points, been considerably misieprisented, as we hear from very good autho- Tit% t' a' dr %Urged separation from I.k wife was whw y unfounded; and that he was always remark. abl% bolicui.us auout the welfare of hi:: family, which must now suffer considerably from the guilt in which it cannot lie supposed they participate. Any detri ment to their pecuniary affairs on that account, will, Wehrle reason to hope, be obviated by the generosity which forms a very prominent feature in the British character, and we are glad to find, that the example of a worthy Alderman alluded to in oar last num trr, has been followed by a donatiou of 501. from Lord G. L. Gower. Loudon, May 11, 1814. I have to stknowledge your favour of the 4th. • Ten days ago, I wrote to to forward the which suppose be will do, without loos of time. As you have out mentioned any thing about the Russian :hip, suppose nothing has been dooe by you ; or that has pro• cured one through another c4onel. Herewith is letter to —, and got the bad returned borne same days before your letter came to Trod, as yito most most likely he apprised. Seventeen pounds is the price bete, six months credit out of the yard for duty paid ; that is testy, for suds as has paid duty, sad the seller retaining the drawback; so that I, ought to be 21. less at least. If is inclined for it, the strong (quality) would be objectionable to , him; but that coo be given off to advantage at home. Hamian friend has offered me th• 1 , ,a4:..4 of four vessels to --L . —, and to teCC:• : the rck:rn cargoes on consignment. I with my affairs were come to a conclusion :—every thing, I . la point of law, is in my favour; hut Mr. Perceval and the hli- Wry base shewn themselves more inclined tb favour Lord Griever, ! t."..!3 .1) dojastke to me: however, as r ant resolved on having jos tke, to oe.ie o seed, 1 aiU.sery shortly play a court cord te atop. , pet them to jinirh tae game. I as yourr's, sincerely, JOHN BELLINGHAM. It is reported that a promotion of Captains, 4n ducllrg Sir H. POPHAM, who was made Pest in 1795, to the rank of Rear-Admirals of the Blue, will take p' ee On the PRINCE REGENT'S Birth-day. It is also reported, that there will be, on the same occasion, a clistributid . of military medals to Officers of a par ticular rank and command, who distingui•' , 41 them .l%e= a the sieges of Ciudad Rodrigo and Peidajos. A Philad.lphia Paper of the 2d of April says, the Florida revolutionists had taken possession of St. kt:u ti •e (the Spa! *s!l capital); all but ,the citadel, to wh h the little'Spanish garrison had retired. The Spaniards had sent to the Havanna!' for reinforce ments, but the affair would be settled before any suc cours could arrive. An improvident generous temper, is characteristic of a British sailor. Friday, one of the Minden's crew (lately returned from the East Indies), in a dru.iketa frolic, threw 461. in Bank-notes iuto the fife, at a public-house in Portsmouth. Two other s. amen were on the same day robbed, one of 401. and the ether of 171. by girls. The latter depredator has bee:► apprehended, but the sailor (as is generally the case with.them) refuses to appear against her. Awl, a f w days ago, at Richmond, County of C:l.%ay, the seat of James Burke, Esq. Mrs. Bel liv!aCrawford, aged 115 years.—She was 18 years old the 22d of April, 1715, the day of the great and •total eclipse of the Sun, and had her match made the same year with her first husband, James Smyth, J.sq. of the County of Leitrim. She retained all her faculties to the last hour: could read and sew with out spectacles, and what is remarkable, looked as youthful as a girl of 18 years; had a blooming com plexion, her eyes animated and lively, and walked occasionally a distance of two miles to prayers.— Mont seventeen years ago, she was asked in mar aia,o by two Gentlemen of considerable property, whom she refused, contrary to the wishes of her friends. . A singular' ins•ance of overstrained power cifirna- I gi anion urred at Torpoint, a small village , opposite Ply mouth, oa Tuesday last. For three weeks before ROBERT HARRIES, a Calvinist, re siding there, had distu:bAl the place frequently' with loud rantings and declarations, that he should die between twelve and one o'clock in the night j of •Tuesday last, and so thoroughly were the lower' classe:r .of the people assured of the truth of his presentiments, that, at the appointed time, a c ewd collected round his door, in awful expecte- ti of bis anticipated decease. Si) much was the wreched victim of credulity overcome by a conviction of death, that he lay for several hours after his time Of warning as he termed it, in an insensible state; but lAN it;seems, would not depart to please him, and by surviving the appointed hour he was convinced of tIP fallacy of his foolish prophecy. During his pre-1 Fri atolls for death he covered several sheets of paper , 'with a farrago of the 410 t ridiculous absurdities, the niost prominent feature of wLich wat the certainty of his own salvation. •••• 11 . l'E STATESMAN. EARTIQUAICE. IN SOUTH AMERICA. ~: • [EURTRT.R PARTICULARS./ EXTRACT OP A LETTER raom.„A MERCHANT AT. t. I TO HIS CORRESPONDENT AT NEW YORK, P.trxn ArRIL 1. "You will perceive by this that lam alive, although the danger and misery we have been in since my last are beyond description. On the 26th ult. at 4P. M. we had an earthquake here, which has completely I ruined this part of the province; not a house is standing that any person would venture to remain in , for a single hour, and riine-teoths of the town are !vet with the ground. From tiventy-five hundred to hree thousand persons have lost their lives. Ca recces has shared the same fate. I was there the time it happened, and escaped by running from the house to a large Court-yanl, iu which tiothingcould fall up on me. We have had one or two more shocks everyday since. There is not a house in Laguyra, nor more than SO in the whole city of Caraccas, but must be pulled down, or the places completely abandoned; wnich I latter, I think, will be the case, and cities and towns built in places adjacent, and of wood. Ten thousand lives are said to be lost in Ca' recces, but it. is mi possihle to tell to a certainty. They have b een digging eat the bodies ever since, and burning them. It is shocking to see, at the close of the day, !semis, ' arms,- and legs, that have been left unburnt as the ire dies away, and the stench is terrible. E ver y person is ordered out of Caracas, except labourers, to avoid a pestilence. Three-f Purths of the wealth of Caraccas are lost ; and as [today has passed with out a shock, we are waiting, with fear .and trem- Whig,- to know when it will be entirely over, or what the effect of the next shock will he. All fo- ' reigners, and every person having the means, are leaving the place for the island and elsewhere. There is a report that Porto Cavello is safes If so, num bers will flock to it, but a long time will be required to make it a place of extensive business." Extract of a letter received at Baltimore, per schooner Independence, from Laguyra, dated April 4 A few days prior to our arrival, this town was almost destroyed by an earthquake ; it corn. menced about four o'clock, P. M. on Thursday, the 26th of March ; its duration was about four minutes and its effects horribly destructive ; since my arrival, there have been a few shocks, but no material damage done. Such is the alarm of the inhabitants that the , town is entirely deserted, and they are uow living without the walls, beneath little tents and huts which are erected merely to shelter them from the rain and heat of the sun. It is not within the compass of my ability to describe to you the misery of these peo ple ; fear and despair, grief and ruin have complete ly overwhelmed them. Parents have escaped, with the loss of their children—children with the loss of their parents, and very few without the loss of their property. Already five hundred persons have been found, and the probability is, that a great numh..r still remain buried beneath the ruins. The detruc tion at Caraccas is much greater ; 2500 bodies have been thrown on the funeral pile, and burned already, and it is supposed that from Sto 10,000 souls are lost. Out of 40 churches in that place, two convents only I remain standing. Stich is the lamentable situation of these two places, that it will be a long time before they can be reinstated. No business of any nature is doing. All the Americans here will go to Puerto ICabello." The total number of fives lost in the late earth. quake at the Caraccas is estimated to be from 12 to 14,000.---This lamentable catastrophe, it appears, happened on the second anniversary of their Decla zation of Independence, at the very hour that they had formerly dragged their Governor to priien ; a circumstance which, from their superstitious princi ples, it is conceived, will produce a very sensible change in the politics of that -Continent, many of them considering it as a judgment of the Ajmigitty for their separating themselves from the Mother- Country. Indeed, their Priests have already avail ed themselves of such arguments in their exhortaz tions to the people. The earthquake was also felt at Curacoa, but no damage whatever occasioned by it. One of the most fatal accidents that ever happen ed in this country occurmd on Monday sennight, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne : from some cause, with the particulars of which we are enacquainted, two coal pits at that place took fire, by which catastrophe, seventy-nine persons were burnt to death, and five others taken out of the pits so dreadfully scorched as to afford little hopes of their recovery.—(Leeds Mercury). RACE AGAINST TIME.—A galloway, belonging to Mr. Prince, of Stour-street, yesterday started to go to Bushey from Kilburn, and return, a distance of twenty-three miles, in an hour and half, for a wager of 100 guineas. The animal was rode by young Clue, and arrived at Bushey in thirty-nine minutes from the time of starting. After five tbinutes stop page the match was renewed, and the animal won with great ease in seven minutes less than the given time. It is a fact to be relied on, the galloway was fired, and sold in Smithfield within twelve months for 41, 10s. NAV.IL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, Juve 1. Arrived his Majesty's ship Wanderer, from a cruise ; Active, from Plymouth ; Vengeur and Asia, at St. Helens, from olf Cherbourgh ; the Porpoise storeship from the West Indies, with a convey; the greater part of them passed by yesterday with his Majesty's ship Gluire. Also the following transports from Gibraltar; and are pat underquarantine, viz. Edward, Thames, London. John and Robert, and Abbstrass. DEAL, JUNE 1. Arrived ►is Majesty's ship Gloire, with upwards of 90 salt of West lodiausen, under convoy, hound to the River, &c.; ►is Majesty's ship Grillo, (ruin tie flushing. Sailed Ms Majesty's ship Christian Vit. for off ditto. TO 4,(8.. STOCK•BRONEri, 8, CORNHILL.. Smters'Anon, May3o. sm,—flaring purchased a Whole Ticket at yoti,. Odtre, In Ilse Lotteiv to be Drawn no Thursday nest. I am not • .withour Amapa hurt I shall obtain n X 20,000 Prize, which will. of course. caulk sue to she whole, or the treater past of those goioets which 'on display in your Windows this beiag the ma**, I frit interested in their safety, and wuald fa comu.rnd to sou that you should drpasit tbeut is the Bank of , England anal call for Ihrm (.n Friday. i :tin, Sir, your humble servant. • JOIAN RIC/141140111s kittsDOM ELECTioi. ~11 opportunity. of judging ; and, having uitmessed what I Imre etplai;:eit, ~1 demand. credit for the truth of What state.---My Learned and Reverend Fries& iis the Chair...spoil- s - former oc casion, spoke harshly el Lord Grey, but this night he has spokeeilifforently, , l will not say- entirely in a re deeming spirit. t contend, that Lord Grey, though, like other great men, he may he a mixed character, and 6apalde. of involuntary error, is a man of the strictest probity of ineeitiou, highly .gifted, of ex tensive information, and powerful-and commanding talents. It is to be hoped by' every friend to his country., that such a man may quickly feel'his own importanee, and assume his own station. The mo trent he feelsisitnself, his country again finds in him : her most powerful and enchanting advocate. His habitual connection with Lord Grenville is lament ' able—it is monstrous ! He has not enriched himself or his family with the public spoil,- and this conside ration alone should continue to endear him to as. In my soul, I believe that he neither has, nor ever wished, to enrich. himself at the expense of his coon try, and. that cffi.te cost him more than hederived from it. ['agree with Or. Crompton, whose worth, respectability, - aid independence we have all a plea. sure in acknowledgiug, that the system of borough mongering, bribery, listineoce, and corruption, de serves all the hostility which he hai directed against it in all his public efforts. When this system of in. Ithence is openly and safely eindiceted,when the authority. of usage or prescription is urged in vindi cation of the outraged laws,the insulted feelings, and vacant pockets of your country—when acts of pro fusion and gross injustice ate held Inabas maims of comniou prudence—when an avowed patriot and a vigorous statesman / aye,. Lord .Grenville himself, is upheld and cherished in the odious fact of having a great personal interest in•property which belongs to the country—when, in the cant of modern language, a nmu's morals may be all purity, - whilst his politics are all pollution—when, I say, these facts are before ) ou, and you are not fired e ith rage and indignation at the guilty Ministers who uphold violation instead of law, you may talk, you may prate or •gabble about your liberties, but you hare clothing real but your miserye• nothing strong bet your chains, and the constitution is a fiction! Where now are the splendid illustrations of your strength and your free' dom ? Where is the practical assertion of the doc trines of Chatham, Junius, Tooke, Fox, Erskine, Romilly-L-these the modern evangelists of your con stitution—the bold, the undaunted assertors of your rightsthe enlightened promulgators of the laws, the wisdom, the fixed purposes'of your noble, your ad.. likable institutions? Ireland, my country, in asking for the constitution, only asked of you something to bleed for! To attack Ireland is rudely, wantonly, madly, to attack your own most powerful outwork ; but (exclaimed Mr: Ca sey) give the Constitution to Ire land,- and you give a garrison to your Empire. Of your whole Empire— toyour whole Empire—to every man in your Empire, I would say, give arms and freedom to the people—place the coestrcultioe in Use hand, and a musette in the other, your Govern ment is a sinecure, and• your people a bulwark. In the course of the evening, Mr. Casey said, some re spectable Citizens of America have honbured this as sembly with their presence. I shalt have heartfelt pleasure in drinking totheirlsealtir,anti. I will add, prosperity to their nation. Upon this interesting subject I claim of yots'a very short indulgence.— Gentlemen, upon the „empty, the impracticable thrl'ats of the enemy, you have declared* open war against the commerce and the freedom of America; and if there be truth in seine reports which have re cently reached us, you availed yourselves• of this miseralsle fiction to promote dieision and war in a peaceful and extensirecommenity—in a word, to ex ejte REBELLION in a frieudly state! I say that the Charge of partiality against America is false. Against r the people of America, it must be false; and equally false, I hold it, against a Government acted upon, as that of America must be, by the ha/crests, the wishes, the honour, the good sense, and the power of a free people. America, like all other actire, in. genious, or commercial states, will, most surely, pour her industry into the most convenient or pro fitable channels; and if English cluinoels be not the best, it is English policy which has made them what they are. Nattire still not ley down the immutabili ty of her character to sustain your greatness, to chide year presuaipticm, or even to chastise your profli gacy. The course of nature will not be changed, precipitated,-or inteemitted to meet your views—to Inset the views Or w,llthes of the Britiits people—no— not.eyen•to meet the views of the 'King, Lords, and Commons' in, Parlktavent assembled! And I hope . in God that the free, and happy, and simple institutions of America may stand against all the shocks of war, come from, what quarter of the world they may.- 11e must' bed monster whose first and most heartfelt wish is - not - for the happiness and independence of hit iatlia Peed, .14y . next is„lhat America and Ame rican liberty may bopreserved, in undiminished ful ness, in unshaken security, in %Wading. glory es the last bbj>¢ mu .tefitge . of the curtailed liscluktrk; • • and the 'persecuted virtue of than:,, [From the Liverpool Mercury of Friday last, we are enabled I '• to present our Readvri.wi hit pretty full Report of Mr. CAACY'S Speech, at thepnblic Meeting of the 6th of May, held. by Ad vertisement al the Liverpool .gins. Short as it is, we racy of it as Lawyers say of -brief—,t coniabs the cu,..) Gerret.mot.-..Your nation is ettgaied in a contest, is which victory or defeat must alike issue, in the waste end devastation of •your resources. Hitherto, itis clear, that def e at a n d• victory have terminated in the desolation or abridgment of•those peaceful occu pations, in which, u :tier a wise policy, the capital, the labour and ingenuity of your people would now be happily and cheerfully engaged, It is quite im material to what -direction you Usti four attention. What do you find but vexation in the.collectiony and folly, profusion, and madness in the application of the public treasure? Whilst war is nesting yoorsre. sources, your policy, your folly, is other respects, is undermining the foundations, is destroying and absorbing the fountains whence these resources are derived. Even the privilege or permission of sub- . Witting to the sovere'gn a report of the national griev. l vices has beetirleitiod to a great and most respectable part, of the people of England ! Th u s ha ve y our Mi. nisters audaciously placed themselves between the court and the country. What! was the Minister afraid that the prayers and admonitions of a suffering people would reach the royal ear? Was he afraid that • power and office would'be lost to him and his miser able coadjutors, the moment that TRUTH broke in upon the royal mind? To ma the present •Ministers appear to stand before their royal master like so ekny shutteria--to keep out the light. Nothing can , save you hut the prompt and constitutional interpo sition of the nation. It is idle to look to any thing else, and it would be an idle waste of your time to recommend any other menus of national safety.—' Look at home, to Ireland, or America, the same Reacting, dreary, and cheerless view presents itself. In former wars, the extent of the evil was, in some measure, ascertained, because the evil itself was limited to the power of the enemy; but, by this War—" this terrible and 'nnavoided danger" —you are cut of, not only from all fair trade or commerce ! with your enemies, but from all beneficial or free in- tercourse•with your friends: :In stating this, I have : no desire to defend those who are called the Oppo:i- tion. I have no ditposition to place myself between Certain Whigs and the powerful battery which my Friend in the Chair has this night opened upon them. ; It is very clear, that they have had some share in the Mgenuity by which all this misery and mischief has been effected ; and when practices the most illegal, and traffickings of the most odious and corrupt na ture, were to he sanctioned or palliated, many of i them, instead of seconding and supporting the call for investigation, basely lent themselves to the Minister. What means have you of inflicting punishment i upon such delinquents ? How diticrently cireum. 1 stanced are men out of Parliament ! Mr. Finnerty, Mr. Cdbhett, Mr. Lovell, Mr. Dialstird, for their • political spirit, or, if you please, for their political sins,kaie been visited in no very light way. They have had a Prosecutor; but the authors of •the vilest , traliekings and corruptions—theseithe crimes against j the libertist of the State, where—where, I ask, have 1 they a Prosecutor? Some of -your most distinguished 1 writers are, at this moment, to he found in the com mon jails of your country. In a free state, Ido May, without any particular reference, the act of driving 1 the public spirit into a dungeon appears to me to be es odious and loathsome—as revolting to the best and &wit feeling of our nature, as it would be to chase virtue into a brothel !! I ahall now refer to a subject which cannot be too often repeated, or too powerfully denounced. When a foul and anconsti. 1 tutional attempt was made to metamorphose-a writer-1 ship into a Member of Parliament, the effort to pu. nish that attempt, instead of being upheld by the re- i presentatives of the people, was cried down by many of them, and by none more than Mr. Ponsoithy, the avowed leader of the Opposition !—lle invoked them to rally round the Government, or; in other words, round the guilty Minister—to support the Throne—there was virtue in the Crown. Well ! well ! (said Mr. Casey) a hatever virtue there may be in the Crown, it is pretty clear that there is not mach about it. But, if a great proportion of the House of Commons, any more, or only a little mere, than the House of Lords, can be said to have a constitu ency, I desire to know upon what basis that part of your Constitution rests ? The question is idle and nugatory. Even your language—the sure symptom of your degradation —your very language, I say, is rapidly sinking into the language of base servility. Every day we hear of the Manager of the House of Commons. The Manager of the Representatives of the Nation ! But what would a Manager be with. out his Company t Without them, not so much as a farce could he get up for the edification of the country, or the amusement of the country gentlemen. I do not intend to follow my worthy Friend in the Chair on his trip to Java and thence to Ireland. I acquiesce in the strong and accurate.piistisno• he has drawn of misery and mitananagement its eildiroc-. Lions. • The Ministers themselves appear to .be on a 1 . ._ „ voyage of discovery to find out all the aolutoala ills : as .. ~- 1 LI. Or ? ! 4[E LATE Mn. PeRCivAL.— i ne.Will by which what remains 'to us of spirit ar comfort was a kitten, about four years ago, en a half-Sheet of may be -farther abridged, or wholly destroyed,, In reply to what has fallen from a Lgarned Friend (Dr. paper, in Mr. Putccexis own hand-writing. IVithout much. preamble, Mr. Pi.acivar. bequeaths Crompton), whose sincerity no man, wilt discredit, I to Mrs. Ps must be permitted to offer a remark or two ; and I i:ecru., '" all his freeholds, qopyholds, and other estates, in reversion, expectancy, or re- . am sure, from the candour and honour of my friend, maiuder." Mrs. PLIIC.EVAA is left sole Elecutrix e no man will be, and indeed no man ought to be, and the only stipulation respecting his lady h, that more gratified than himself in the correction of an in case siic marries aga i n , Lord Aetna-is appointed error, or the assertion of that which is unfavourable Joint Guarding. Os the' back of the Will it writ. to others. His indiscriminate attack on the Whig ten, " delivered a Copy of this to JAPE, Ist April; Club, of which I anti a member, is unjust—and 1 iste2.., JANk is the Christian name of Mrs. Pea k + state this from the demonstration of feeling and prin. CIA and AL. c iple which I witnessed myself. I do not think it i ~i e New York Vaiers contain letters of a recent fair to' decide upon the character of that or any other l club by the principles which are avow ('! 1 date, respectieg the eartirojnake in South America.— u s acted be their. CaptaintaiCaptainLit rrs ' of the schooner independence, who wealth w i brought these letters, states, that, on the 4th of miby or titles, but by the general and *sea few members, whatever may ; feeling of the Club; and where the cause art " - : A pril, limitary Reform, the steady virtue of the Electors and La Guyra, 66 there was another very hard shock, which made the of Westminster , and the name of Burdett, are i vessels tremble as if they had been hailed and cheered by a decided majority, I cannot a ree f of rocks in a heavy sea; and from on board on consent to think or streak lightly of such an assem - t he . . . lndependence they could see the mountains move ' bly, nor can I discover any good that can arise • f rom , like a ship in a heavy sea, antliarge . pieces scaling ! oil' them. At half past Mist; Alio Independence disgusting such men, sir holding them up to public , sailed, scorn or suspicion. The Learned Doctor, or auk so that she could not tell, whit damage had • • ma who is net a momberb. can have uo actual beam done." - ~• 14 i I1: 4 ,I1 C I I. • . • ka • \"Ss, ( ' II ; I , ~. 1 [ 1 II . , . 1 1 Ii i 1 t i - , 1 , , , _V mif ll' i 7; • s