The Statesman. — London, England, 1810-07-11 00:00:00

NAVAL fAITELLMANCE,-;.- roNTSWISTII. JULY 10.-A-Arrived the Wellington (taiety envored trims the cataky) with dispatcher ftlfain to affairs st the C ii-raccas. s a iled the feAeock, for Plymouth. .. Arrived the poile g al, Caps,,. Makolta,:anCipe Idwiefaff gable frignte from at cruise, Caine into harbour the Fiera, from ; Stiehl, tta4 tiii if, rna lately from the Wett-Indlii, -• • I . s a ilso the Tweed, witb a eortvoy for Ibe Downs. PLYSIOVTS, 301.1/ 9.—Sailed the Peacock tloop or war t with a convoy For Perfumed*, amongst them the Agenuris. and .11too transports, ebb French prisoners from Cadiz. arrived bis Majesty's .hip Caled;loin, of 120 guns, lust from Portsmouth; May-dower, Williams, from (lueresey, with spirits; Elk, Edclington, from Halifax, with masts for the dock-yard; and the Bremen brig I)orothea and Econiia, Captain Probst, fropi fdalaga, wiin wipe and fruit, hound to Loudon. • . Lord Cochrane and his brother aro arrived here from the ea,twaid. in tit Lordship's yacht; it is reported that they will proceed in her from hence fur Lisboa. Dora, JULY 10.—Passed by for London, last evening, the following ,hips of the Jamaica fleet, under convoy : Kimpton, --; Thames, Cooper; Prince George, Bayley; Venilia, Donald; Pacific, Beckham; Iste• of Thane', Aitkin London, Goldfinch; Pursuit, Miller; Wm. Lusbington, Selby; Echo, Smart; Elizabeth, Stephenson; Alfred the Great, Wilkinson; Mint, Drysdale; Symmetry, Liddell; Aqunlla, Robertson; Juno, Fisher; Albion, Smith; Lady Johnstone, Foubister ; Friends, --; St. Mary, Aylon; Centurion, Douglas ; Catherine Greei„ Steel; Hun ter, roster, Charleston. There were in the whole upward; of 100 sail, convoyed by hi.; M ijosiy's ship Disdalus. The Knapton run ashore no tic• 801 l Rock, immediately under Shokspeare Cliff,.but WAS pot it pout damage, although with the lo.s of two at.chors a+:d cables. .311LITAitY I.CrOENCE. The 7th Veteran Battalion, .it : , re,ent at Chatham, sltoTtly expect to embark on hoard trar,vorts now collecting in the river Thome!, for Gibraltar. _ httost of the recruittn4 parties. front different regimen% e received ()Hers tu ;heir respective corps. A dcielluient of the IVcst York are on their march fur Flymou'.h. Thi Royal Cumberlaod Militia are likewise on their route from Bull, which place they left on Monday for PlowAdon, endure to be replaced by the Cambridge regi ment of Militia from Chelmsford, who are expected to ; nei n . there d ty and to-morrow, On Thursday hst the Officers of the Blackheath Local Re giment of 51ihtia gave to the Duke of Cambridge, nod a lar . 4r party of Noblemen and Gentlemen of diitiaction, a lumptuuus dinner at the Bull, at Shooter's-hill. CORN,EXCIIANGZ, JULY n. The supplies of What to-dity are consillerahle, mostly 0v0r.6 ai.d inferior quality, and sales therof rather lower. Fr n• c e oily Barley, price almast nominal. Grey Peas like- Nki,r. In 41aIt and White Peas, little variation.. Beans of Cie two kinds also. There are tolerable fresh siippiies of Oats, and, excepting OW, lnili trdde is quoted rather lower. Flour at late prices. CURRENT PRICE. Wheat, - - 824. 91‘. 1106. , Tick Beaus, -- -48 s. Sig. Fine ditto - -- -115 s. 118: , . Oats, gye, - - - 34. 404. Pd. Barley, - - -41 - od. Malt, - - - £56 £6O W. Peas(Roilen) 161. Ns. Fiue Flour- -- - 955. Bkb. Grey Pens, - - - -50 s. 56:-. I Seconds Amu, 0,.61.. THE RIGHT Ilos. H.. B. SITF.EUDAN.-•-•-.Mr. ZIDAN had been loudly greeted with applaose Qn entering the Theatre at Oxford, Oahu Concert on Wednesday evening, and on Thursday morning a very vehement cheering and calling out of his name, took Llace when he left it. A new meeting of the Delegates was to take place on Thursday evening, when Lord ISEOaGE GRESIVILLEI whose name had also been withdrawn, agreed to be nominated ; but Mr. SOERIOAN persevered in declining. When the paper appeared that even. big, announcing the naites of the proposed Candidates, a vehement dissatisfaction perveded all ranks and ages through the University, and nothing could persuade them that it wes his oen act. in the morning the usual ceremonies of presentation were gone through, with the usual accompaniments of applause and disapprobation. On the whole, however, great k ood order prevailed, until it was announced that the presentations were closed, and the s p eeches were to cornmt nee. Then from every part of that thronged and illustrious assembly sprang up an universal call fur Mr. SHE. RIDAs. "Degree, a degree for Mr. SH.PRI - DA v!" rent the air. Mr. SHERIDAN, %110 was in a l ebseure seat at the bottom of the room, with Ink lovely elle, immediately retired and left the Theatre. The restoration of order, however, ap. Feared to become impossible, unless the general - wish was complied with; the impossibility of that, without the necessary preliminaries, appeared to .be in discussion with the leaders of the clamour, who, so far from being young men desirous of a row, had among their ranks g age and renowned Divines, such as Doctors M —n, P— n, &C. 4,c. T°le result was, that ?Jr. Sifelt/DA 5/, though he eauld net he regularly installed, should be request ed to %Lim' and assume his place on the Doctor's Balch ; ac/ o Jingly Mr. Siteernan, after some 'rause, walked through the area, ecroducted by two of the Velldwa of Christ Church, and in his . blue frock and round hat took his gnat atnueg the tull.dressod and icarlet-robtul Doctors, amidst ex nlting peals of universal applause. Such a recep. hen, by ouch an assemblage s combining in it so eat prOpqrliO9 Or the honours, pride, wealth, earning, end loveliness of the nation, must have mlunetl meet fiatteriag sensations in the mind of toy man kho ever valued popular opinion. It is ncialless to add, that Mr. Snettreart took his seat In the Procession, leaving the Theatre with the. Mlle expression of enngratulating applause with pinch he entered it. Among the gay visitants at Oxford, on Friday, to view the Balloon, the celebrated Clown, Haan lazy, was recognized in his tasty equipage; but on the moderate demand of five guineas for a lied in a garret, and 10 for the accommodation of his horses, he declared his intention of sleeping in bin carriage oat a common, three miles distant, and had actually proceeded with this intention, when a messenger, with a polite invitation to dianer, and an assurance of a perfect view of the ascen inc morrow, causcsi his setura, SPAM:MAN. .1 . ' TUE itliZnglfr ar THE LATE SESSION Pilla i llifENT ‘ • . ' • • . • • cta!‘issiwidfrottlatsr Pegg% Dily , l es[vitag.l , : Were the * ritolo . jot 2 that oceupier, in this Pa, riot), the attention of the • Hotta° 'of Commons, islapkireil to es:stain the atanthined Week, ;and ill egritf of: the tmpire,s submitted tom in ::di,vid? 1 of ordissry abilities Ind tliieielion whose • views - Were ttot wsrped . by prejudice or • party , waut4 fi ud,. • appreliend l but little difficulty ileaditig a question', which gave birth to- suck an incongruous -multiplicity of arguments, diitinc.' tions;'exceptions, &c. and to such an imMeasiiii. .ble length of windy declamation. The. wealth and resources of the greatest isaral PowerAn the world were placed at the absolute disposal of its Ministers, who concentrated the whole energy of both in an armament the most fOrmidable that had ever sailed upon any expedition. The object it was sent to attain was comparatively trifling; and yet it completely failed, and the navy returned covered with disgrace, and the army with ruin, although neither Might have been said to have he. held the face of an enemy. That such could have bet the result, without error in the plan or melt. lion, was scarcely possible; and, at all events, nothing but inquiry could ascertain the fact.—.. It formed, therefore, 'strong presumptive evidence of guilt in the party who strove to stifle inquiry at its birth, and who, when that could not be effected, used every endeavour to impede it in its progress. This was precisely the conduct o! Mi. nisters, who 'rendered thomselves liable to the same suspicion that is party does in forensic litiga. tion, who voluntarily suppresses, or withholds evidence, which it is in his power to produce.— Every attempt to give the point at issue between the People and the Government an * air of intri. airy and difficulty, which required superior in., telligence to decide it, was as completely nosuc. eessful, as the measure about which the investiga., (ion was instituted ; and the exclusion of strangers from the House during the deliberation which every tiee knew not to be the mere act of an indi. vidual, but one of the little subterfuges of office, brought conviction of the guilt of Ministers home to the bosom of the very few, who had not al. ready made up their minds upon the subject. Many sage observations were made upon the gross impropriety of condemning without a trial, and that by the very party who were at the time throwing every obstacle they could devise in the way of trial. Audi alteram partem, said they to the people, but allow es to tell you nothing at all about the matter. Well, then l trial has taken' place, the minutes of the evidence hare lsettpu . b. lisped, and upon an accurate revisal of she thole, no man out of doors" will have the hirdlhoOd . to fly, or tho'ittipiday-lilgaiii47lWifl-iien pie of the United Empire have the a urslte‘t calve to alter their previous opinion it 'he subject. Every additional ray of light, .iisaa d during the prosecution of the Inquiry, e4ve new proof of the solidity of the reasons *hick induced sthe framers of the expediti , ,ti rq ,oiginse . it. Igno.. :Artie and presumption seem to, hive accompanied' each other hand in hand througn every stage of the enterprize, mail they conducted it to that fatal catastrophe, filch has indicted etyma' dis. grace upon the countr . The policy and conduct of the expedition were the two points which tact Committee of the whole House was appointed to investigate. The one re. (erred exclusively, to the Ministers; the other chiefly to the naval aqd military of fi ceri engaged in it. The first was a matter of argument—the latter of fact. The framers of the expedition had, therefore, more room to expatiate in, than those who were employed in the actual conduct of the enterprize, and they. profited by this sditantsge to the fullest extant. They talked of the situation of Great with respect to her allies ; but it should have beim remerqbered that et the period they alludedto, the time of the 'Jailing of the ar. mament, we had no ;Ilia but the insurgents iu the Peninsula, and the question reduced itself to this plain query, when official intelligence of the ar. mistice on the Danube was received, and when, consequently, Austria could derive no benefit from any diversion in her favour, 'why was the coast of Zealand preferred 'to Spain itself, for the purpose of relieving those mote usefol and merito rious allies ? We repeat it—Great-Hi - UAW at this period had no allies but the Spaniards soil Perla. geese ; and it would be difficult to prose that the best mode of relieving them was by sending the almost concentrated force of England, nut to the Peninsula, where their triumph must have been 'aerial% bait to perish in the pestilential marshes of Walcheren. • • • There ip another thiogovilielt if4rlginiStrY (for it ii,ricii,culous to make any one of the body, rim his peculiar office, solely responsible) _ will find it very difficult to account for t consistently with a proper regard for their duty to the public ; We mean the appointment of the Commander in Chief of this expedition. We make no• d.oubt of the private virtues and amialki qualities of Lord Chat. ham' but great talents 'were the essential re vi. to the station he was about to fill for the Ant . , • ,~ ,time, and these. are unfortunately not hereditary; There are or,rtsiolytvett„ with 4 sort of in tuitive glance, can discover tile abilities'4 4 otiar!i, and scarcely require the suppleMentai ;id qt o.lie rience to guide them. kiov4pZitra is pickio i;alN frequently acted from this secret impulse, and to. hate chosen men for high command, and most im. pOriint trusts, who were or not at all, knowo . io the political Of military world. But .I(ithout cleaning aoy disrespect to Lord Viscount C*vrt.EnsAou t we shay► be permitted to. doubt Tihether lie is possessed of that happy discerntioint,, that intellectual acumen, which, from.* sect ot sxmpatliy or congeniality of niind, can discover latent talent, and know exactly the sphere. that is • calculated to exhibit it in all its native lustre.' Yet it must bo from some secret admonithin Of 'oi. kind, that the Noble Lord Fos latticed • to.placa tha•Eari of Chatham at.the heaths!' the expedition, an officer against whom there was presumptive evi. deuce of Insufficiency; Whether a long course of experience is indispensably necessary to form the character of a consummate General, we shall not take upon ourselves to determine ; • the man w Ito at thirty is not fit for supreme command, MON .. TESQUIEV thinks, will never become.so ; and Ct. cents assures us that lucor.t.us, having arrived in his province, totally unacquainted with the bus's. ness of war, in a very short time, legend. and percunclando ) rty readlng and inquiring, had . .nb; taind an intimate knowledge Of the profession at arms. This, however, is the opinion rnd the account of mere Gownsmen ; but whether the one, is founded in reason, and the other in truth, we belieie that havinrattairted the age of maturity. was the only essential quality of a General that the Commander in Chief of the ExpeditiOn to Walehe. ren was certainly known to possess ; and had he. even been ever No probe *tie percunctando of Loctr.r.ns, it would lie difficult to know whom he. could have found to satisfy his latidable curiosity. As far as we can trust the minutes of•the evidence, published by order of the lipase, the most deplor. able ignorance prevailed., in every quarter, of -dve, ry thing connected w.ith the expedition. ...Whene.. ver an appeal Was made to the knowledge and ex. perience of the party under examination, the re f ply was for the most part in the negative ; although we cannot ascertain what imPression avowal made upon the lion. Wuse (the fintiOnr. able House having taken care that there should be no prying eyes to.tabserve their emotions), we will venters to say that it occasioned no little astonish. Mtlt; among the, Oninitiated " out of doors," to hear that the Ceinmander in Cbief•of his Htitannie Majesty's Forces, " to whom sour armies _are cit. ! trusted, and upon ihoin such a weight of siffiiiti depends," had never seen a plan or the foytifica. ttuus of IttllVlCrp! We know, by the observations which have fallen from the French Press upon this exquisite mor ceau of evidence, that it eaeitel a good deal of . jocularity.upon the Continent, and that the enemy laughed heartily at a Commander in Chief confess, ing his total ignorance of what the Veriest Tyro in the military school would have blushed to be un. acquainted with. " What!" says a pert French. man, " the English Commander in Chief never to have seen a plan of the fortifications bf a city, which his countrymen were going to set about taking by a eon's de main ! Why thia is most ea. celleat—and this a naval fortress too I ah--they settle these matters much better in France, and if Monsieur r.E CIIEVALIea DUNDAS could get a peep into the bureau of our Topographical Board, he would really be astonished at the beautiful and ac. curate plans he would find there of all the har. bows, ports, and fo,,rtressea along tile coast of England." Although the exclusion of Strangers, that is, of their Constituents, from the gallery of the /louse of Commons, during this must important inquiry and discussion, succeeded in a . great measure in pre. venting them from obtaining a strict knowledge of the conduct of their representatives, yet' enough has transpired to qualify the eversion of all those, who, from principle, were hostile to parliamen tary Reform. But it will be said that the REPORT. sae arc the strangers to whom.the Standing Qrder applies, and that it is an abase of terms to eon found the people of the empire with them. It is no abuse of terms. The Reporters are the ,agents of the Press, and the Press to the'medium throi;sh .which the great body of the . People obtain any acquaintance with public affairs, and whic . ii becomes the organ of their sentiments in its , turn. Let the Press bo once, annihilated, or, what is worse, degraded, and the People will sink into a sort of indifference, of apathy, trona which the transition to the most abject state of slavery is easy and natural. 14 Give to the MitliSter," said Me. SlRrapall ) dpoo a late occasibn, " the command of the army end the treasury, gave him a venal .blouse of COM eloas, and a pliant House of Pests-- , giVC him; in short, every thing necessary to erect a sys tem a absolute power, and give pc only a free and independent Press, and with •tltst mighty , eugiee I will batter' down the fabric of despo tisms and erect upon its ruins the edifice of the : ~--- .'~-= ,~ -,~,~, freedom of the peopk.v.- This patisage t a MO gist., . . us so just au idea of the manner of Ike, Athenian, (hatOro Weer its pripripal bo.uty and ciotkucyce to, ' the trtttli of the principle vihic4 I.t inculcate., Ain!, that, Oncel established., the' infecolau . ill trOinius ‘ ' that l i biseuenty . of the Wese l and 'did enemy of pub. lie liberty ace ong„, ,IX,llir„ .that 'a ii,earpt spirit of hostility Co ibe.: emit bal.:leg Ingil kl!or4i ,turt: with (hit Walk of the Homo!, of _Commons, and. has •recently shown itself in a incr., matureditate, is certain ; and equally certain (bat this malignant ipirit has not been-fusrere4 by Minfsters only, b s iik , has met support, encouragement, atid. counle, .nance from men of every party. Ailltbat.is ;se, cessary to give a colour to their hostility, is le! • nick-name the object of their aversion, atid• under the appellation of " licentiousness of the. Pre‘s„". 'tome of our high-flying Patriots will join,beariily, in the insect:ores which the men in power, no . matter of what party, arc always ilisp.ised to pot(c forth against the object of their hatred and terror. This is a subject, upon which, in. reality, the pith ; lic and they are at issue.• While the parties. con. 1 .... One themselves .to their natural 'weapons, 'castors • .and argument, the contest . is extremely uneqiio ; the topics of _invective against the treat organ of • :public opinion are SOti,ll wasted, M I by repetititi.n 4 become trite and threadbare; whereas .the con. duCt of its vpponcnts, like,the character of Ant thony to labli•preeeptor in rhetoric, affordi diet Press a ritli variety of Matter, - wh;.eh,• in titu 140 1 .. . . . .; • gunge of a 'celebrated writer . , • " leiros"Arapin• .. room fur speculation when panegyric . 1. ‘. pi l bass • t ____ En be &enthused.) SPORTING INDALLIGENCE. NEWMARKET JULY MEETING, 1810. • TUESDAY, JULY to. The, July Stakes . of 10.1 gs. each, n. ft. for 3-yr old colts Bst.7lb l • atidalliesll4. 31b. Across the nat. Mr. Welleriian's gr. f. The Wiich of Endor, by Sorcerer Stawell's brother to Sir I).s.vid And 3 ?titers; paid.—i to 4 agst The Witch. of ' • Sweepstakes of s,ig . rach. vr old Course. Mr. Shakespear's Knave of Oohs, Mr. W itson's Estee, oat of Tim's dam, 70.•1016. Mr. Perren's Wary till:, _7st. 10 to kst Knave .of Clubs ; 3 to 2 ag-t ter. Wiliotyst , c, 7 to 4 on Wsisy,filly. • sir J. Shelley s Maranon. heat IA .0. IL toyclidislett, Bramble, 8. t. 91h. each. Ab. 111,"1Quar.—htst 4 art Atarit,toti. Sweepstakes of idgs. each, far 3-ir cid; tilt. Ai. 4- , c • list. 1111. 5-yr old. List. loin. r olds 9M. tags stged T. Al M. i 4. of Uraftoti names La Grolyebites f, Jabilor, 9,1.4 OM: Sir J. Shelley:statues Mr. Ii , wori4's" Ow,al", o ' , Es 0.1 . 'Ld F. G. Osborne's itilbtrt, 3 Yr- old • M. Wilson's c. Eagle. out of ilisu's (boot"! •ott 111 Foley's c. by Dotrgaiseti., out ofJuniit;siJit.... yr#.'4sl , IA Sta well's Ringdotte, J Vrtmld And 1 paid.-4 to 1 ugst Jubilee; sto 3 agst Dwarf c J pi. tags Rabbit ; 3 to 1 ngst Mr. Wilson's c. - - - - In Pre course of yesterday two nsareponsitlerl able failures were announced' In theeity.. A Gentleman has arrived frotn the Ilavannalh who left that settlement -00 the 19th of May, which' is %3 days tater than:the intelligence frenT Cuba through any other channel. At a tneefiti of the Cabildq oeCouncil v ihe Marquis de eattf . 4 .. AU 401, the Goverecir, =proposed to declare ihq independence of th e colony ; when the Mensbira of that Assembly stated their objection to sitch a declaration, on the ground of the prebabdity or possibility of the ultimate triumph of the,Pattioie of Old Spain, itul.their legitimate Sovereign, FutpitlAND VII. over the legions of the Usurper. The consequence was, that this important eettle. ! ment remained still•fattliful to the interests parent state. Yesterday, edifices were received Irons the ship City of Edinburgh, at the Cape, the Captain Of which relates a horrible event respecting the Captain and crew of the Boyd, Titowsole, tit-New Zealand, ie . Oxtober last It appears,: that whilst the Ooyd was at Betany Pay, 'the:Cava/4 . met with one of the two Chiefs Who govern site h i land of ittiew Zealtind, of the indite of I'a/imitate,. and agreed with hiin to purchase •some phi. ; bar, 'to take home to England. Ap•; s o on as the-, voyage would perteit,'• the ship arrived •at. Island ; and the Captain being introdueed to tlle chief, who had got home befuTe was poo 7 milted the timber in two days. the moan tiipu the Captain Was invited, on shore `'hurl 141014 tlie Chief with pert of the "Idyls company in' tlje boat. Nothing particulig transpired en*.thitot i casicin hut. the Chief ihrtirised on hoard *ship % attended by a number' of canoes, full of inch. • They were permitted to meant' the ship, tta matter of curiosity.' Tenrtease, the Chief, wag treated With great respect; and hiiing•cotstieucit on boeirl some flints, he got into 4iit• - boat, f?.c the purpose, as ib was suppoied, of tneeting the - Captain Of- the ship, wile, •he said, tied_ gone . to . see ,the . timber.' Instead; however, of r le+. • lag the ship, he give i yen, which was * signal; . for the massacre of the 7liele ship's company,— . There • were abont 30- In all, 20 of them they tore limb from end regaled themselves upon the flesh of the unfortunate' victims. 4beut 10 of the men d to save their lives, climbed the masts, and two women passengers, and a lad, ran down be. dose ; tho Chief hailed the men, and told theM, that they bad got all they wanted, having plundered . the ship,; ,and that it they would come down their; lives should be spared. The deluded men obeyed, and fell, -like their comrades, a sacrifice to the in. •e'rdinate and brutal appetites of the cannibals.— The two female passengers end the boy were taken On shore, and their lives spared, but ,the ship way burnt. The Captain and mess on shore were tse f ver heard of. , The rival Chief situated at different part of the island, heard , i f the affair, and •eepresaed his sorrow on the occasion fothe pap ? twin-of the City of I , ;(lSnburgh, rho 106! .at the Island for timber,' and prepared to aeponipany hitq with au armed force to release the women and tin boy, in which they fully succeeded, and the latior OTC now safe 9a board the City of Edinburgh,' AS ' the Cape. • .._~. 1 . ' .., * .1 , - ~ .a v ;+ . • . . I ...