The Statesman. — London, England, 1810-07-19 00:00:00

SOUT II A gERIcd, The following extracts arc from letters recently receiver) fr nn the 1•414ntl of 'eriaidati, and from the most respectal)le persons :-- " TPttltoan, bl ot Si.—The Jain& of Conlanahave pub li-lied a declaration, in which they proclaim a la fru del notouto (in the face of the world) the solid reasons that lo duced them to depose the old Government and establish the present. It aim narrates all the circumstances which occurred dating. ail short revolution, takes a retrospect vie! of the conduct of Don Eusehlo Escudero during Ms short feign, whence it appears. that he was one of the most brutal ty rant, that ever disgraced his sitnation, describes the rage of the people against him and the Assessor, whom they were obliged to shut op in the Castle of St. Antonin, to prevent his being tern to pieces ; and in fine, their embarkation at their own requests, Don Escudero for Carib:igen* de Indias, (of which he isa native) the Assessor for Canal-ins. It then goes an to mention, in the liveliest terms, the attachment of the inhabitants for Don Juan Manuel Cagigat, to whom the Presidency of the ‘ lan ta was od'ered, but he declined itj at th e Niterated prayer of the Junta, however, he has accepted the chief command of the force Armee, with the rat* of Mo risco! de Campo, and application has beeu made to the bead ;touters of the British army for arms, ammunition, and *el.! piecos. In the mean time, two battalions of lafantry and one regiment of cavalry are embodying. " The Proclamation bas been seat here to he Kin*, in the three lattguages; is nod in the press, and you will receive by the next occa,ion an exemplaire. " The prices of salt and tobacco have beep reduced to a very moderate rate. The Directors de Estranged* (foreign duties) are to be reduced also, and the out-ports habititados (open poets) even to those of Gallia and Punta a Piedra, within this gulph. " The revolution at Caracas! happened oa the 19th of April. Guyana has followed the example, and there can be no doaht of all the dominions of Spain, in America, And Asia, dniog so likewise. . . ' " " By this you will. perceive that the independence of your country has been solemnly dechired ; being an event of so much interest to your hopes and wiz-he% I could not deprive myself of the pleasure of congratulating you will all my heart, per-uaded at the same time of the important benefits teat ZIISt necessarily result to Great Britain." 7'llE COUR 71, The K ING came to town yesterday, about 12. o'clock, from Windsor, escurtud by a party of Light Horse. His blaie.avy was received by the Dukes of YORPi, KENT, and CAMBRIDGE. About WIC o'clock, the Duke of CUMAERLA No visited his 111A,EsTy. llis Royal Highness appears' to be fast recovering from his wounds. At three o'clock the Duke set off for Kew in his cArriagc, drawn by four beautiful greys. At two O'clock the KING held a Levee, which vas attended by The Lord Chancellor, the Lord President of the Conseil, the Cord Privy Seal, the lira Lord of the Treabary and Chancellor of the Exchequer, the IVIIWter General of the Ordnance, the Three Secretaries of State ' the Commander in Chief, the Judge Advocate, the Lord ClinntberLsin, the Reco r der of London; Lord. Wentworth (in waiting), Heath held (gold •tick), and Lewisham t Sirs O. Oshorn (groom ita waiting), E. &dine, General Neetlhain Colonel Burton, Majors Born Montalemhert, Alwastrong. tile. Favketter. The following had the honour of being pre. smiled Irk his MAJESTY : Major Baron Motaleinhert, on reeeiviNg the Royal L. four to assume arid use his title in his Majesty's dominions. Lieutenant -general Needham, on being appointed Co fond of the 86th regiment. Major-General Sir Ewen Bernie, late Protriatial Com 'nattier-in-Chief of the Army in *mid, go his return from n.lia. Major Armstrong, of the 50th Regiment t on his arrival from Cadiz with dispatches. . Colonel Parton, on his tirorantion and return from the Command of the Royal Artillery, in the Windward itual Lee ward Islandi. Lord Lewisham, en his return from abroad. His MAJESTY held a Privy Council, at which the Recorder of London attended, and made his Report of eleven convicts capitally convicted in the June Sessions, when, we understand, his Ma. i miTy was graciously pleased to respite them all during his Royal pleasure. His MAJESTY gave audiences to Mr. PEnCE. vat, and the rest or the Cabinet Ministers present. LANDED PitOPERTY. These few successions shcw very strikingly how landed property may be managed in these times of doss and speculation., The estate of Allerton Manlevcrer, io Yorkskire, tiu called to distinguish it from North Allertoty consiats of 4h25 acres, and continned in the Man. leverer family till 1786, when Lord GaLwaT sold it to his Royal Highness the Duke of Yon for 100,0001. , The Duke, iia 1789, sold it to Colonel TnoRNTo fur 110,0001. The Colonel christened it Thornuillc Rave, betanse two Royal guests (the Prince of WA Els and the Duke of Tolle) had set foot upon the premises. February, 1805, the superb mansion, pleasure. grounds, park, &c. together with the estate parti. cularly annexed to them,' were sold at Garrawars, to Lord lirottatom, for 163,8001. Twenty eight other !Ws of the Nlanleverer estate were sold for 62,50 Jr. making a total of 226,3001.; more than double, within the short space of 10 years. The Colonel, too, according to report, had put down timber to the amount of 30,0001. and still kept land of the value of 40,0001. The whole amooit, therefore, may be taken at 496,3001. " If this sum," adds Mr. Burrow, to whom the public are indebted fur the above information ) does not shew us the value of land, it shoes for what price land will SURREY THEATRE.--This Theatre having, by the 'prompt and decisive measures of the Proprietor, twit perfectly restored to the decorum and ;ran. qoillity so essential to public conyeuience, is new on joyipg the highest patronage ; and we witnessed with pleasure the astonishing overflow of Monday and Tuesday evenings. It is the sure mead of industry and talent, and worthily bestowed on such pieces as are at present exhibited, where good sense is happily blended with mirth, and the audience re tire perfectly satisfied isitit the consistency of their enjoyment. New Ratielagh, Mill Bank, had to boast of lar4e assemblage of beauty and fashion on Tues. day evening ; the Fire-works exceeded our expec tations ; and the Gardens being illuminated with seve r al th.oisand lamps, the whole had 4 most beautiful tilt:et. It ,is reported, that several Fas_ oldies of Distinction iutend vieitiug those Gardens this evening. - . Rai'leff OF TUR-_ LATE SE.S.WAN Oir ` PARLIAMENT. —4........ tCoAtinsed Ittile war- Pilfer of gesterday.l In the debate of the 2Gth of January, the tete Lord Chancellor of Itched, Mr. BoosounT, It gentleman of great talents and bloat mo deratiost, is reported to have described the present members of the British Cabinet collectively, as " the daemon of Englandos weak, divided, distracted,. incapable Administration ; an Administration not only distrusted by the People, but by themselves." This is certainly a very strong descriptioo, and, if it owes Rolling to the vivid imagination of the orator, we can be but little surprised that between the daemon of England, and the genius of France, (another daroon, too, we are very willing to al. low, but of a quite different character) the for. iner country is in the condition in which lee find it. The condition is allowed upon all heeds to be pe. riluus ; but if we look closely into 'it, we shall find that the danger arises, not from any deficiency of physical strength, not frogs the want of Talons and discipline in our fleets and armies, not from want of skill or courage in their respective °teen, not, in short, from 4 defect of any of the or. dinary means of national defence, but from a total want of that preSiding spirit of wisdom In the dis. posel of those means, a spirit which often supplies their absence, and which alone cats give them weight, energy, end effect. The chief object, upon which the wisdom of an honest Statesman is (forta Ily the epithet patriotic has become so suspicio , that we do not care to use it) employed, is the pecuniary embarrassments of the Country, occasioned by a public debt of un. paralleled magnitude, rapidly increasing, end by its inevitable consequences threatening the empire with ruin. The augmentation ,of this debt is a thing that cannot be avoided, and it is, therefore, worse than idle to declaim against that circum stance; but while we are reedy to concede this point, it is surely not too much to require in return that the strictest economy be resorted to by every order of the State, for the [mime of alleviating the enormous burden ander which . the people groan, and the pressure of which is enough to discourage industry and paralyse ex, ertion, so es in the end to render them compa ratively indifferent to the fate of their country. We will suppose, what may be likely enough, the impossibility of lightening the present weight of taxes ; but one thing at least Is in the power of the Minister to effect, namely, to convince the people that the burden is fairly distributed throughout every order of the community, and that the product of the imposts is honestly ap. plied to the reel necessities of the State. A knot!. ledge of this kind would reconcile mon even to greater privations than they • now hear, or may be hereafter called (won to suffer ; but, while they leo those, whose hands administer the finan. pee of the country, uniformly opposing, al they have done, during the whole of lest Session, any inquiry into their mode of distribution ; while they see every plan of economy, no; setter' bye'' whom proposed, rejected under the most frivolous{ pretences; while they ,;e this, is it to he Non dered at, by those who are at all acquainted with human nature, if the suspicions of the people are strongly excited as to the.application of the vast sums annually taken from them, and if they um. leer against the Administration that uses no mean' to satisfy and remove those doubts ? From every department of the State, serioqs complaints have been made of gross errors in the Administration, and that upqn the authority of men, whose testimony is very little liable to sus. picion. But the misery is, that every thing of this nature is • considered as a question of party, and treated accordingly, "Party may be an essen. tial feature in our mixed Constitution; but if it be, it is it necessary evil, the operation of which at this period must be injurious, and may be fa. tal. It produces invective instead of advice, and' recrimination instead of debate. In the discussion which took place on the 19th of F e bruary, upon a motion which had for its object the suppression of sinecure places, the Chancellor of the Exche. quer observed, !‘ that - the feeling which seemed to be uppermost in the mind of the Opposition, was, that whatever may be the subject under considera. tjon, a charge was to he brought against Govern. ment. Whether the question was one for reform, mconomy, or upon any subject of general policy, the Gentlemen opposite took occasion to• bring complaints against the conduct of Government." Now it is extremely possible that every syllable of this is true; but then it behoved Mr. Pencprat, to show how this could possibly be avoided. .Is it, indeed, possible to cotsdenta measures emanating from the Government, without brining a chews against that Government 1. -If the question he one of reform, which the Goverment, at far as the term is confined to the administration of the Government, uniformly opposes ; or of aeon°. my, which the same Government affects to eensi. der es owly another n;me for revolution ; or,, lastly, of general policy, which involves, in its discussion, all the errors of omission and commis. gen, of which the Government stands convicted, 1 HE• STATESMAI4. 7F7'; 77 - {_ either by undeniable proof, tarpteading guilty to the accusation ; how, we say again, is it pkiliiible to touch upon anx of these topics, without alarm. ing the morbid sensibility of. the Administration ? In the mean time, while this Bight Honourable Gentleman was thus complaining of the introduc. (ion of irrelative matter into the debate, might he not have found it difficult to point out the relevan cy of his own observations to the subject then un der the consideration of the House, which was the inexpediency of retaining such places at the dispo.. sal of the Minister of theday, to which no duties are annexed, and which generagy are known by the name of sinecuves. As little bad recrimination to do with the point.at issue : -the Gentlemen opposite might know very ' well, and even the whole country might know very well, that they and their party s Posseseed a much larger proper. tiou of the offices, to which the motion applied, than the Gentlemen upon his side ;" hut this, surely, had nothing to do with the acne or dente. rit of sinecure places ; and if these were found a burden to the country, without being of any real use to the State, considered distinct from both parties, it was, certainly, " fair, just,. and ho ttest" in the country to require their abolition. Besides, even • in the point of view in -which Mr. Pcncevay. considered the matter, !apposing the • Opposition sincere in their wish to have those places abolished, they must thereby have given a considerghle proof of self.denial, the fundamental virtue of the Patriot, because, according to the representation of the Minister, they would them. selree be the principal losers by the success of the motion, as, in his own words, " they . and their party possess a much larger proportion of those lucrative offices, than the Gentlemen on his side." iks to the merit of the questiqn itself, we do not venture to decide ; according to the sage maxim of Sir Rinse tog CoycaLay, much may he said upon both sides ; and, indeed, were those places toed, as it is said they ere reserved, for there. ward of eminent services to the country, we ihould not have the least besitatip,‘ in considering them as one of the most net:every resources, if not an integral part, of the constitution. One this was a point upon which the Minister did npt think it Prtldeat to insist, in deference, we presume, to' the modesty of 64 the geetlemen on his side," who had received such remuneration ; as be might be celled upoq to enumerate the services they bM performed—a subject which, we make no doubt, their delicacy would. have -recoiled from. The great increase of the influence of the'Crown, by which we would be always understoqd to mean the power of eerrePtitte lodged in the hand of the ' 1 Minister, notwithstanding its being supported by, the solemn resoletioq of the !Inns, of Commons, he professed himself " - ready to deny," altho' he judiciously omitted_ any attempt to prove so daring e negative. He very prudently declined descending I to minute particulars, such as the patronage..tern. log from the increase of our colonies, beyond ell example, the division of India with the Di. .rectors, the Droits of the Admiralty, *mooting *to eighteen millions , aqd the dependence of the whole commercial Waco, of the kingdop, 'through the medium of the Bank of England, • which has been literally brought to the foot of the throne, as it would by difficult to find in the progressive irnprOvement of the means and wealth of the population, any 04 like a counterpoise to such accumul tied and consolidated influence.— Such, however, are the topics of argument re. sorted to by the servants of the Crown upon every QCCasiOtt and we may safely affirm that the spirit of recrimination, which during the whole period of last Session marks the debates in Per. liament, has given a hold to the agitators for de crying equally both parties, and representing them as dually adverse to every plan of political improvement.. How far the agitators may have succeeded in this design, we do not take upon ourselves to determine. The uproar they have excited in several part; of the 1 0 0 ,141 1 9 Is, ferT tainly, no proof of success ; but, {ben, it ought to be sufficient to excite tile alarm or both sides, and induce them to lay aside ell motives of private interest, all heart-hu . nsings aqd party-quarrels, for the purpose of retrieving the error into which a neglect of decorum in their mutate! _altercations bras betrayed theql. En' 14, 4 ti LT ttp Poposißl A 14 . .- , —Tosterday a poor blind man, for a wager et sevea.shillinp t under. took to walk si* miles iq ao hour and a half.' He started at eight o'clock, on the Fulham toad, conducted by a faithful dog, geinc one nilia opt and one mile In, and completed his undertaking hi an hour and a quarter, to their* surprise of those who were present, amongst whom a sum of 40s. was readily collected and given to him.', Yesterday, a respectable Lady attended St the. rinblie-gffice, pow.strect, and stated to Mr. tikami, the Sitting Magistrate, that slier hed dis. cerercd that her servant, a girl only 16 years of an, was pregnant by her own father. The iror. thy Magistrate lamented, that under the clrenm. stances, it was not possible far him, of his own accord, to proceed against the offender, but sent for the parish 'officers, it being considered the best means of bringing the !reach to condign pu nishment, '. - • _ INTELLION:vCik . GOVIet cif 4oL t 41415 t: before Lo rd ELLBNIIIIROUO4I weed a . Special Jury, if Westettoster. WI LIAMIS tf CALL111111Ell: • The ATTOILNE V.G6 P 4 ERMA stated this 10 be ad action of damps; brought by the Plaintiff, who practised the business of an attorney, in Mt* s o on or moonshot), against the Defendant, also an ate loroty, iu the same town, for having published, with marked and Persevering industry, a libel bf •,is most infamous and calumnious nature against 'the Plaintiff, calculated and obviously intended to ruin the Plaintiff's character and fair fame, and for the part taken by the D•fendstit, in the pro. negation of which, no other possible motive could be figured, than a desire, through the means Of the publication in question s to blast tho ter of the,Plaintiff, as an attorney, th,it itie De. fendant might rise on i , s ruins. 'lever could any competitor for the favour of the t oddle, in Joy. line of business, have employed greater /mins in the circulation of his cards of address and recom. mendation, than the Dlentlant nail ah 'he disSeininatiuti of the lib; now to .1): , noticed. Libel, it Was to be remarked, was new' the favourite, because it was found to be the) Must effectual mode of injuring any chaiacter, public or private. It was the mode which proved the most palatable and agreeable to the taste of those .to whom such attacks were directed. But of all attacks of the kind, the present, probably, was one of the most' dangerous, from its being built on a judicial proceeding which had actually, taken place, and in the statement of which pro. bably truth had in some respect been blended ..ilk falsehood, thongh the facts were completely per. vetted, and ceused in every respect to militate _against the PlaintitC The libel in question cwt. 'Listed of a pamphlet contaiaing what was al:eged to, be a statement of a case in Chancery, and ac. eompanying it was a caricature print, which never could be figured as a necessary app-miege to any fair and impartial detail of such a proceeding. Tho case was one which occurred in the bank,. reptcy of. a person of the name of Junes, whose nnesmission was sopersoded, and part of the costs Ordered to be paid by the present Plaintiff, and 'by others. An Honourable and Learned Friend *lbis (Sir S. Komilly) was in this caricature, re. presented as going in his gown and wig to the but of this poor man and his family, and exhibiting to them a label, stating, .1 hate gained your cause ;" while another label proceeded from his month, " The oppressed will always find a friend in me." ,Such he was convinced, would always be the feel. ring and conduct of his Botiourable and Learned Frield, but such words in hie own praise, be was egged) , aatisfied, would never proceed omit of his month, as descriptive of himself; and, however strong the feelings of injury and aggression felt tit his client on the oublicatien of the libel in goes don might have been, he was confident they cimild not be equalled by the contempt and disgust with which his Honourable and Learned Friend must view co fulsome, but degrading, an attempt to compliment him, which only skewed the inaderpiato notion the author had fornied of the character aqd 'feelings of his Honourable andleWrned In another past of this caricature as seen Mr. Richard Bill, the Solicitor, with his green bag, kicking before him three fellows who are sup. posed to be the Plaintiff' Williams, end two per suns of the names of Powell and Price, before tom, who tine *Op in the back ground supposed to her driven to the halter, and beyond that to he re ceived by the Devil into hill fire. The pamphlet to which this caricature is a -frontispiece; and, which is entitled 6 ' The Far.,er and the Three Atturnies ;" also charged toe Plaintiff in airings instances with perjury, and even with basilic been represented by the Lord chancellei as guilty of perjury, and 600re:dem of perjury: To prove his case the Attorney General adduced Mr. Avery, who keeps the Beaufort Arms Coffee-house, •Montnoeth. The witness proved that the Defendant was present in his bar on the 7th of July, 1809, when the mail, which cornea to the witness's house, arrived. There was a paper parcel for the Defendant, whirl, he 'area iq the witness's presence. It contained pamphlet; and some _large papers besides. The pamphlets • were about a hupdred in unmake. The pni)c.rs were large, with a caricature similar to that in the book. The Defendant showed the alines, one of the caricatures, amid said, " Look here at you townsmen," naming Williams, Price, and Powell, tit and see what a situation they are in." The De. fendant at the same time repsesented to the wit. nets what the" three had dune, as being a very *black act, and that they were three perjured men. The Defendant said nothing farther of the eerie* * . lure, but stated that Sir-S. Bomilly nazi said that the Plaintiff should have his right acm cut of; witness only saw the title.page of the book ant( the caricature. The Defendant offered the witness One of the books, if he would remit the carriage,. amounting to is. ad.; but t.tis the witness declie T ed, observing, that the pricowas marked on the title..page as being ls. rid. on which account he ,thought enough to be givca by him for the book, and .of this sum the Defeadant sainted, and gave the wituess one of the hooks according lngly. A Mr. George was present at the time s ,esd received the book in loan from the witness. • Mr. George corrobosated the cireamstance, gad products) the book, having lent it to *event per , sons, but still believing this to beats book he had sp received from the preceding- softness. Mr. J. 'Gibson purclttrtted one , al these books from the Defends., in contiequence of his hewing: represented the Plaintiff as one of the vilest men. ref lived, which, he understood; this hp (s i would thew. He saw the Defendant almost every ray fqr b fortnight/iv three weeks, and during th e *hole of that tune the Defendant wet constantly tellipg the witness something of Other age inst,ths rialittiff. In particular, 10, on one OCCISIO% told the witness that .the only remedy left for the Plaintiff wes, that be should put a pistol to his had, end Wolf/lout his brains. Mrs. Chaespney firoved that the Defendant ha& left a copy of the pamphlet with her for a Dr. 801160 3 who lodged in her house, who t!li 4 ,an inti. I ..- . ' 1. -..