The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-07-10 00:00:00

r 1 il i I • If' . , 0 ,t o ~ : 1 , i , , , tv .. . , t t r! i 1 ~ ,-, ' . , • i , • / 1 .., 0 1.1 i ' t c 4. . , i' firing that be might be accommodated with fifty. the in cash, for the purpose of paying his men I witness informed Dowson of this demand, who WO that he neither would nor could give it; he would I go out until dinner-time. Some time afterwards, be v*ollected the gentlemen from Norwich coming to ; the shop, who were informed by Dowson that he was mot prepared to have his warehouse examined, but if they would come upon the next day, he would per. mit the examination. Next morning, however, Dow eon left the shop before their arrival, saying he would go to the Horse-shoe Tavern, in Newgate-street, whera he would remain until they had completed their examination ; he did this, he said, apprehensive , that altercation might ensue between the gentlemen from Norwich and himself, which might lead to the Un;)leasant issue of an arrest. These persons exa mined the stock, but could not come at the books of accounts, for they were deposited in an iron chest, of which Dowson kept the key. The witness said that ILwson's affairs were frequently in such an em barrassed state that he could nut answer the accept. tutees which came against him ; and he recollected his going down to Norwich for the purpose of endeavour -I lug to lengthen the duration of the Bills for two months longer, payable to his creditors in that part. During his absence, a bill was presented for payment, which was not honoured. He also said, that Dow son had been tn ice arrested for debt, but had procured bail for Ceen both. Pinter was a silk-man, and a friend of Mr. 110usou's, but he never witnessed any contersatien between them upon the subject of the latter's atftirs. Mr. Dawson, during the period that Mr. Littler had called for the fifty pounds of cash, had money iu the Bank, though not in that abun dance to disburse all his bills. From the 20th of October to the period of the Commission of Bank ruptcy, Mr. Dowson continued in his shop, and had transacted his business in the accustomed way. John Finch said, that he was porter to Mr. Dow son, and was ordered by him to come to the Horse shoe public-house, with intelligence once an hour, bow the Nor% ich gentlemen were sathfied With the examination they were making; he did so, and the report happened to be of a pleasant kind, for the gentlemen were well pleased. Mr. Swinfield, one of the Gentlemen who arrived from Norwich, to examine the effects in the ware house of Dowson, said, that they were referred by their creditor to Mr. Prater, to save them the trou ble of investigating his affairs. Dowson, they were aware, was indebted to the amount of 'lO,OOO in the City of Norwich, and Prater informed them that the amount of his own claims was only I'l,loo. Prater recommended them to renew the Bills for two mesh' more, which they held, but he refused either to utulorse or guarantee them. Nest day they called by appointment at Dowson's shop, and they were told he was not at home. They went into the street fur Eve minutes, and stood within sight of Dowson'a door. hut did not see him enter. They directly re turned awl found him in the shop, uncovered, as if he had recently arisen from breakfast. John Todd produced the deposition, made by the Defendant before the Commissioners, of the posture of his affairs with Mr. Dowson, before the Commis- Sion of Bankruptcy was taken out. On the part of the Defendant, - Mr. Serjeant SUEPIIERD maintained, that it was not enough to prove that Dowson had been in embarrassed circum- stances aeout the period that he disposed of the bills to Prater, but an Act if Bankruptcy must be proved to have been committed before that any recovery could take place. Th;behaviour of Dowson to his Norwich creditors, was, by no means, an act of bankruptcy, for it was not sufficient for him to be !nosed as sitting at the tavern, in Newgate-street, when they were investigating his property, for he must have absented himself from his house, pur- • pose!) , to avoid a demand for money, or must hate taken sanctuary, so that a violation of the Statute could be proved against him. lie ordered all facilities to be given towards the examination of his ecoda, and be went out for the sole and laudable purpose of avoiding unpleasant altercations. 7ls !gm tin crawl to believe that any act of Bank ruptcy had been committed by Dowson before the' 20th of December, a circumstance which completely screened the present Defendant from the obligation of returning bills, which had been deposited as sureties for debt in his hands, more than two months prior to the Commission being sued for. The Lotto CIfIEF JUSTICE narrated the evidence of the case to the Jury, who returned a verdict fa vourable to the Defendant. from the foilowirig avera,ce prices of bread, for the lay* 2 y IN, it ..ppears that the price of labour has by is means kept o .he advance in that necessary article of sustenance. '. :L. r •ge earning of a labourer. in 1756, was 3s. .per day, 'i,•'ll would hay.- purchased six quarisra lOWAN t at t►is pet io • II.; average pricesof labour, taking it at the highest, does mat ..5...c.1 to. per day, w►ich will not now patellae jour quar t. i.—Labour, therefore. has not advanced In an equal proportion with that important article of a poor man's eon. 'VI. loon— &cad. The average of the quarter& ha was, in l'ear 11. 1:46 6 17411 61 17 . 49 7* Yet;r d. 1 rear d. Year d. 1799 7 VW... lie 1 1807... I% 1194....74 1801... 10/ 11106... 15/ 1793...1.3 1802... 10 1809... 16/ 1796....86 1803— 10 1810... 151 17 0 0—.5, 1741 1!704... 14 1811 — 11' 15.1 .. 17911... 154... 12i 1812... 20 1791 7 1 1799...13 Isos...ise Ou the (oth ult. a serious outrage happened in the neighbour hood of Killetre, about 12 unites ream Strabane. A party of 12 mess of the Korth Hampshire regiment, quartered at Stranorlar, accompanied by Wm. Mann, Esq. Surveyor of Excise, and two gagger., proceeded to the neighbourhood of the above place, on revenue duty, and for the purpose of being more saccessfut in their exertions, they sacred the party to di vide,and according ly Mr. Nl' Neill, Officer of Excise, with a serjeant and four pri vates. made a detection of it still at wnrk, which they were pro ceeding to destroy,a hen aDa bre of the country pede , who ge- Derail) collect on such occasions, intentionally mix ed themselves with the soldiers; and thinking they bad but a small party to (mowed who, intniediately seized the 'oldies", and d isar med Aerjeant, nut willing to surrender, is 61s attemtlag to es.riente lt,inuell, was severely wounded in two dilferek p1ae.....; by ,tabs of twyouct ; and as the remainder of the original Forty came up, they shared the same by their instantly demand. biz their arum, and obliging them to goveihem up after waist' they ctpreored themselvesus basing no intention of irdisring_las i 'oldie.., but were very . violent in thc;r i nvec ti ve s solid - Mr 111 Neil, and beat him an unmerciful manner. They le* bin; la inch a state as precludes any hope of recovery. lie • from bi. former exertions in suppessing private distillatmr: have been partirtik:ry obnoxious Di the conntry people. 11•87 mg tt.ti: defeated the party's obje c t, gave Weil thew ante. , and .ee party returned to Siranarlar. OA Friday se'rml,:ht, as Win, Sirens, of the D er by,hir e atin„ i li• wto l-aring a public.bouse at the pier at Dover, to Merl ce.yl to hi, barracks at the height, either through the darkness of r.izts! or inebriation, be unfortunately walked over the quay and a as dr A boy on board a collier heard his plunge, 34:.; uumadiateh las:ached 'a boat tolls assittaocet but it wastes lair to tore tin tete. • ADDRESSED TO THOSE WHO GAN (ny. DERS7\IND IT. THE STATESMAN. THE CONSTITUTION, SUNDAY PAPER, • eimusuari shwa. 87, VLSLI‘STRENT, PM& 60. lIE proprietor of the above Paper begs kart t o . e xpress his acknowledgments to his Friends as lbe Public, fur the liberal encouragement which the Conemmreton ha met with since its commencement, and la order to give the most esteasive selection of Foreign, Domestic, and Political i n t e mgeoce, be has considerably enlarged the She of the Pas per. The Polities of the CovErercrion, heiag Independent and Free from party Faction, will be found particularly Interesting to the bulk of Readers, as it will enable them to form an accts. rate opinion of Ow Important Events that agitate the Political World, and champ the aspect of the affairs el socket States and Empires. The CONSTITUTION is the largest Bnnday Paper publhbed at Sixpence Halfpenny, and admits of a limited number of Adver tisements. • Orders are received at the Office, No. 87, Fleet-Mak I and by all the News Venders in town and country. r I. Arr. Maio. fte 0 1 • Cadiz 1 Csernsey 1 0 PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONB O'CLOCK. Bank India Bonds 4 die. 9 per Cent. Cnm. 571 Exchequer Bills 30.2 die. 9 per Cent. Iced. 5.5 ii Ditto 90. 4 pr. , 4 per Cent... 71H - Onuliuni Ili pr. 5 per Cent. Nxv) ti.sl/ Consols far Acct. 57 6& . Leag. Ann. 14i _ • Lottery Tickets THE STATESMAN. LONfOi?: . JOLT 10, In; , . Nothing can place in a more odious point of view the intolerant, sanguinary, and persecuting-spirit of the present Ministers, than the rancour which they evinced towards that undaunted patriot, Mr. Con arrr, after he had suffered a rigorous punishment, under an authority noway recognized iu our judicial cede, and which all good men cordially join in con. demning. It was not enough that he suffered two years' imprisonment, and paid to the King, " the• Father of his People," aline of one thousand pounds, for declaring that the Flogging of Soldiers was a violation of the natural rights of Britons, and a gross outrage against humanity ; bet they meanly, cowardly, and, we may add, savagely followed him from the prison door into his private walks, and there endeavoured to complete their hellish revenge, , by an unfounded attack on his honour and integrity. Nay, as if nothing would satisfy them but the entire ruin of the nitric nho had so manfully and succms , fully exposed their cruelty and injustice, these minis ' ten; of iniquity—these monsters in human form, -at tempted to deprive him of the internal pleasure and satisfaction which his restoration to the society of his friends was calculated to excite in his breast. Assas sin like, they air* the deadly blow when they con ceived he ,would by most off his guard, and in a state the most,unfitio struggle with his adversary; and to accomplish this, they employed the very same press which hod, under tee sanction of Government, advocated the doctrine of assassination. By these mom they eikagated on aceompli:ching the de structios a a sae, whom they had already so greatly wroth; but in this they were com pletely defeated. The attempt only served to place their oppression and injustice in a more conspicuous I light, and to increase the general Boding of detesta lion of their wanton and lawless measures, which already pervaded all ranks, whip the character of the worthy object of the base and unprincipled at tempt, instead of being injured by it, was, if possi ble, more exalted. This subject presents an ample 1 1 field for reflection ; hut our limits prevent us going j farther into it at present. We cannot, however, dismiss it without stating the following interesting particulars connected with the liberation of Mr. Conaerr, which we received from a most respectable quarter : _ _ at Santa Martha. On Tuesday, Mr. Alderman Woon attended at Norgate, to take the recognizances of Mr. Coeutxr. The Clerk of the Crown-office was present to receive the 10001. fine due to the King. The securities were TIMOTHY BROWN and PETER WALKER, Esquires, for Mr. Conuerr to keep the peace for sera; gears, himself In 30001. and the Gentlemen in 10001. each. When Mr. Cowart was paying the mousy, he ad. . ' ati:lressed his son and daughter in the following' terms :—" My dear children : Mark this: I am now paying a thousand pounds to the King. Tell your brothers, and heed it-to your future children, that your father, after two years' imprisonment s was obliged to pay a thousand pounds to the King, for publishing his sentiments upon the subject of military I dogging, in the presence of foreign mercenaries !" Yesterday we stopped the press to announce the arrival of Paris Papers to the sth inst. containing French Official Documents, sufficient to justify an apprehension that BONAPARTE means to force ALEX. ANDES into a compliance with his Anti-commercial Edicts, if that Monarch delays any longer to accsfilie I I to his terms. But, as hostilities hare not yet eons. , menced, and no Declaration of War hot actually I been issued by France against Russia, we are still inclined to think that ALEXANDER, who has so much at stake by goi it' to war,will be drawn into a new treaty l of amity with NAPO/A.ON. If, however, it should tura out otherwise, we entertain little doubt that the struggle will terminate fatally to the interests of the Russia's Crown. ,Ansple extracts from the Paris Papers will be hand fn our preceding columns. I - t In oar Second Edition of yesterday, we gave the following Government Bulletin, containing therm!. I 'Wan of the advance of Earl WejutNoios to Ur ~.. ••A: . • lantana, which we republish, for the information of those Readers who might not see our additional Pa per : WAR DEPARTMENT, Jusir 9. 1 Circumstances which have created great surpriro. Dispatches have been received from the Earl of would not surprise if the reasons for them we t . WELLINGTON, dated Salamanca, 18th June: I known. Public men should be unspotted ; but till " Thb Allied Army crossed the Agueda on the i have sometimes proved otherwise. Wealth is ofte n 13th June, and arrived near Salamanca on the 16th. ! obtained by injustice, and power sometimes b j , The enemy showed some troops in front of the town, i means not defensible. When power is so obtaine i t i but upon the advancing of our cavalry they retreated , those who possess it, tremble, though in power, sot across the Tormes, and evacuated Salamanca, having . are always fearful, lest the evidences of their cot. about 800 men in some forts, constructed upon the duct should become public. There are who love ruin-of somecolleges and convents. The Mlles entered so obtaiued power ; they fear, and have reason ty the city, but Lord WELLINGTON had found it neces- I be fearful; fur every particular is lc:. :wri, and ti,t,e nary to break ground against the fortified posts stilt 'is evidence which cannot be controveited. Tit s era. Id by the enemy. The 6th Division, under Major- i deuce cannot be destroyed, its importance is k:ctro ; General CLINTON, was charged with the reduction ! arid in spite of every attempt it will be p r e. e; ve i _ .of these posts, and the batteries were expected to opea For the means of its destruction, force and sti4. • against them on the 19th . MADMON ti T'S army was re- gem have been anticipated and p ro vided aga i lLst ; , tiring to the Douro, and it was imagined he meant i who possesses it may drop, but auotNer . will su c;o l o take up a position behind that river, between Za- to his trust. Force and stratagem will Le alike :4. mora an d Toro. su ffi cient to destroy it, and can only revert Witt., " In Estremadura, Major-General SLAnt's htl• ; creased power on their author. gade of cavalry (3d Dragoon Guards, and Royal 1 Ect r a e t from Orator Renee's speer 4 on the 4: Dragoons) having fallen in with two French regi- • of February, 1715: General meats of Dragoons, under General L'Ar.t.Enssreo l le i " Alm the ltotAer , of the People 0:01 exa'.‘ themelvr, near Glera, charged and broke the enemy's line, bu e i : t ? . l t i i te ll y the w l . lo isii i l i n n t l e ti r ' ed c Y s t h4 h l e a p fu e l o r p '— le pa b l ; ' h ' ea " v i y , •. t. :: f, - having pursued without su ffi cient Caution or ordee, ti•. .. exalt themselves _ snail mat to great places ; to establish t; body kept by the enemy in reserve fell upon the Bri. l V tish before they could form, and retook nearly all the ision the chimerical scheme of Gocerilment. HL;,;, they entered into, and shall fall 7 -shall be defeArd. prisoners Gen. SLADE had made, killing aud wound , " The Vision 'means Bulls and Veers, Noll o: ...,1 'log 20 or 30 of his dragoons, and taking prisoners two Lieutenants and above 100 men. Cash, Imaginary Credit , besides all that wasps " P. S. The dispatches received at the Foreign I mired to the people, and never performed % by th e Godfather of the State. The rision was Cotivelelos Office from Mr. STEWART, contain intelligence front Estremadura of a later date. Parliaments, Addresses, Treaties, and• the like. "Whey shall fall—not only their Stocks shill " On the 13th of June, there was a skirmish of full—one, two, three per cent. —..to nothing do ne , cavalry near Llerena, ht which Lieut. SMENUWITZ full—one, nothing done—mercy on us—but themsetars chili made prisoners 25 dragoons and one officer. • " fall—be cut off their hopes, and disappointed." llt appears that the forces under Marshal SOULT I and General DROVE? having collected, had moved forward to Llerena and Santa 01lalla. Iu conse- quence of which, Sir Row!, otn BILL had called in his detached troops, and had assembled the whole of his army at Alhuern, where he was joined upon the 18th, by four Portuguese regiments from Badajos, and by the Spanish troops under the Conde Ds PEINA Vtt.t.siwa. General HILL'S advanced posts were ,Private letters state, that the French, in their re treat, laid the whole country waste, by destroying the harvest, and every thing like provisions they *ll hi with. le is reported that King JosErn had retired from Madrid towards France, and Earl Wawuc- TON was expected to march to the capital of Spain. General HILL is also said to be at Album with 19,000 troops. SOULT and Ditourr had united their forces, which now amount to 41,000 ; and as they had marched to attack liim,a battle was everyday expected. Such are the rumours contained in our private let tes s, much of which, we are persuaded, will be found to be exaggerated. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. DOVER, JVLY 9. PORTSMOUTH, JvLi 9. Some very heavy firing was heard on the French coast, during the whole of yesterday, at intervals.— Three French Officers, supposed to be Lieut.-Col. .TILES HUBERT, Captain P. L. PRETosT, and Lieut. HUG. GAUTHIER, %hp broke their parole of honour, by leaving Thame on the 4th instant, were last night !Nought here, under an escort from Folkestone, where they were foetid iu a hay -loft belonging to the George. Arrived eight sail of transports, being part its tha Wawa Unvoy, from Lisbon. The remainder, with the 14i0/114 are now oil the Wight. The brig Charles, from the (Xpe for IM. don, and three or four others from Lisbon, are with tho Com. modore ; his Majesty's ships Attack and Tortoise, with a con. voy from, the Downs ; and his Majany's ship i'Pique, from seeing the Mettitensaaus convoy foamed" latitude. Sailed the Poictiers for the Downs; Nytapb on a cruise; Rol the hl isle toe, with a convoy fur Plymotttb. Arrived the Euphrates East Indianian, frees the Downs I dm Northampton Last latliaansa is in sight, from ditto, with Maul Miter ships. I)EA 14, Jorc 9. Naas thaws from the River, the Northampton, Bake, far la• dia, several more. Arrived his NI ajesty's ships ftlealtio sad Spopalator, from * mho, and remain. DOVER, Jim/ 9. tad evening three Frisch prisonets were bast& bare tabs trusteed at the Alien Mice; they re supposed to be Hobert I Lietteaset-Cfalimel Paths. a Castabt I sad Gambier, 4 iettcrrost, who made their esti*. hoe These on the 4th intl. in viol-irks of their peak of hapset. 'They were discovered by some .ilrieves of the Cuotoothase. in a ha).l,,fr, at the Geste Inn, Forkestone r from which phew ao doubt, they letendpl &Sallee a boat to cross the Channel. PLYMOUTH, Jett B. The Victorious, of 74 toes, 'dehisce prise, the Rhcli, &AO liguno, are just ;advert in Cowicind Bay, teem die hleettywastaa. Tbe convoy are expected to active this . fiVesieg, but they ars not yet in aftht. EAI.3IO;;TM. Just f. Arrive,: the Townsend packet, from Madeira, her s desduation was the 1:r oils, but colter arrival at Madeira the Duke of Montrose packet was just roes to sail tsr Rio Jeanie, and the Governor ordr red the rownseed Sled to be put un board her. and the Townsend t., re: ,tro to Itingland. [Mill CATHOLIC BoAIa.—CAPTAIN Bit VAS in the Chair.---On the 4th of July, M'r. Kuoau moved, and it was unanimously resolved, "that the paragraphs inserted in the London ministerial newspaper called the Courier, of the 30th of June and Ist of July, respecting a difference of opinion in the Catholic Body as to the Resolutions of the late Aggregate Meeting of the Catholics of Ireland, are totally false, and destitute of the slightest foundation in fact, tad arc calculated for the worst purposes." T. Iltsu, Contractor with Government for the Small Lottery of 10,000 Tickets, to be all drawn on the Bth of September, in grateful acknowledgment to his Friends and the Public in general for the very liberal support he has always experienced, begs Isave44 present them (in addition to the toasted* The KING is now considered in the same state he ,- eapitais the Scheme contains) with Eightibaa Ile• was in previous to his violent attack on Monday 1 like of Packets of Tickets, which (it is a carious evening. 1 fact) tTt so arranged, that a Blank can gain 50,0001. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the"rtakeisiatid Shares are• selling at Buu's Offices, 4, East India Rouse, when Lieutenant General IlosLoe Combat, nud 44clusii 1 liross, London, and by his was sworn in as Commander of the Company's For. • Ants l' LI the . coutifiy, where Schemes may be had ces, and Member of Couneil at Bombay. The Ge- ' gratis, with the Numbers of the 'fic a lutts to be sealed ueral afterwards dined with the Directors, at the City up in the packets, and lodged at the Bask of Eng. of London Tavern. . land. 1 A Deputation of American Merchants waited yes terday on the CuAisceu.on of the ExCilEaUra, tol enquire whether his Majesty's Government was, or 1 was not, informed of the result of the deliberations I of the Amer i can Legislature? The CIIINCELLOR of %puke utin in the Excueer En declined g i v i n g anyanswer to that ap •avy I plication, and the construction from this silence is ex- ~ Ise tremely unfavourable. ' • Per tw tit Yesaday morning Capt. Joan ANDREWS, late of , Mrs the Custom-house cutler, arose apparently 'alio in ltb,and walked to the Cross wall; where, p r i l t •• • • setting If down on the bench as was customary, instantly expired. iWednesday ten persons received sentence of death at the Old Bailey, among whom was Thomas Boa. ter, for maliciously shooting at William Burrowes. Five oat of the ten persons are females. I - ' PROTEST as IMIR amsacTinst or LOW) rrsoniores vol.. IR TIE lIDITSE OW LORDS. ON PRIDIT 3. 1 Demme the toleratioa hitherto crate JULY d to Dissenters by Law is inewapleWt. ansonating to nothing wore than a partial acid ewst_titoal exemption frail penalties Rod P r erreuliww, whereas the MOM" etletted, by rcco g nizim the rtiht of private Judg and Ii matters of romcieltee would bare placed relig.ons li berty oa tts me) , tree ;tad legitimate basis. • VASSAL HOLLAND. ' STANHOPE. 1.„ • • NOR FOIRS. LANSVDWNPo The barque Amnesia spoke, on her passage from America to Liverpool, June 1, the American ship Citizen, from Lisbon, bound to New York. In lat. 40. N. long. 53, W. fell in o ith the Marengo French pritateer, who informed, that they had captured fire sail of English West lndiamen ; after four touti' detention, they permitted the Citizen to proceed. In lat. 52, long. 41, spoke the English ship Fame, 40 days from Demerara, bound to Liverpool; all well. THE MARKETS. -~- CORN EXCRANOF., JULY 10. The Market to-day has sawn farther arrivals e wheat, sat the remaining quantities fully adequate to the dessiand—the trade heavy in We, anti last prices hardly maintained. The same u:a, he noticed in Harley and Malt. tine were about Wit. and 105 s, per qaarter. White and orc 7 ?cut hut little 'actua tion. The two sorts of Beans keep their prices. Oats Sit Spin in talstrahle-apply. and sales d this artirle are also named at little variation. Fluor at late quoted prices. Wheat Fineditsu..„ 156 HZ) Do. (Ilse Old) Rye it6 ; Oats 5 56 58 Barley 64 _74 Poland ea. • •6p 61 Malt VS lOU, Potatoe do. White Pens (boilers) 78 841 Rape Seed (trey do. Beam - 75 SO . *roods —......... smiTtIFIELD %Makl:T..4am? 10. To ,ink r0...s 8181, per sto.e of Mb. Beef ....sa. 4d. so Gs. 441. Iles O lend ot Cattle h die : 5111 no .. 5 .. 44. Iv 64. 411. I Rena.... .F . ,..1 V ea l ....7,:. od. Id 64. ot. 9111wep P.uk ....ft.. 0.1. 1.. 74. 01. i Cobra Losssb ....7s. OIL in tit 04. 1 Vic 4 .........., Yto 114 Y. M4Rli*T. 11 , 01 Meer Straw LONDON : Primed and Publiuhrd Air 11. ITCMWiN Witter.. 8; neetKertet f lid Ape I ! ' ! i