The Statesman. — London, England, 1813-08-18 00:00:00

_. T o rue EDITOR or nisi ST4TES HAM - • ..t..vfoANT L.DA _......... , . 1 v ia ,—This being aiday set epatt for Devout Medi. 'lt is 'astonishing with what nttligentite, net tO•say sation, I was induced to take a view of the document contempt, the Secretary of ct Stare for the Herneasie partment treats the A of Parliantent s passed i.sued by high autho rit y as a " Form of Prayer and for the Relief of Insolvent Debtor,; and . yet this Thanksgiving for the repeated successes obtained Minister has been always reported to be a religious over the French army in Spain by the allied forces, man, and is considered as the leader of those . persons and especially for the signal v i c t or y of the 21st of *hit assume to be the firm supporters of the church. June." I have paid close attention to this precious i . Report has been busy in attributing the delay of . tif e pointing a Commissioner for the discharge of mo rceau, and am not afraid to s a y , that a mere cen. sura ble and unmeaning jargon has not been put forth ~. btors to its being determined *to appoint Mr. steseic ' e to that office ; and that this gentleman be for some time—it almost seems to have arrived at its log a Welsh Jude, the Government must wait his grand climacteric. The ALMIGHTY is in that article return from Circu it. This re p or t is not likely to be devoutly thanked for having induced us (right or correct, for several reasons—ln the first place, al „lst%) to assist the Spaniards and t•Portuguese in , though he is ao M.P., yet he hold s not only the skim-, ition of a' he . Welsh Judge, but eis also Master of the F r ench (as it is termed) , w hen obstinate emanc ipating themselves from the invasion of the facts ' household in the Lord Steward's department ; and, ut . the neat place, Government would not so em stare us in the face, that those nations do i bitter the cup to the unfortunate Debtors, as to up not seem to entertain the sane opinion of the . point Nlr. KEN RICK, who was so inimical to the In benefits to result from our assistance, as we do ; ' rivent Bill in its progress through the House of, for my part, Sir, I am fully.a principle convinced, that the , t.;ommons, to the office of interpreting the law, lib era tion of the Penin sula , of true' w here such a latitude is g iven to.the decisi on of th e . on Commissioner. fis c al], has never yet entered the heads of our wise ln this pretended ag e of philanthropy to what Administration; but tha t, b y kee p in g alive the [ cause can it be . assigned, that this Act of Parliament,. passions of the people, self-interest only has been:the result of three years struggle against priritte in the actuating motive : in what i ns ta n ce can m y as. I terest, after it had passed the House of Lords, should ser tion be disproved ? If I look to the iticonsider- .take four months time to go through the House of Commons eked that during that period the professed able number of the Allies in arms, am su ffi ciently licader , 9 . Pi PIG IllelltUre, Mr. Kersarct, should. pro., borne out in my opinion ; or again,' if I advert , pose to lengthen the confinement on . the Prisoners; to the apathy and indifference of those people dur- , and' *hen defeated in that attempt, should give ing a period of repealed successes, it is more suf. notice that he would in the next Session bring in a , Bto sh te rules ores o Kig's Sciently evinced. How abominable , how disgusting, Bench and Ft h er n Prisons ; and tt now fthe hen n , w the then, to make the ALMIGHTY a party in so scan. B ill has passed . into , a law,. the Prisoners should be dalous a transaction.. Though the Peninsular war is ; d eprive d o f t h e b ene fi t o f it by the non-appointment a tt e nded with great hardships and privations to the of a Commissioner, although a month has elapsed popu l a tion of those devoted countries, I am well 1 since the Royal Assent was given to the Bill ? aware that the destruction of the spiritual and i It surely cannot be because that this measure oil „ , ginated with Lord Morita ;—certainly, if the Parece temporal tyranny, under which the people la l REGENT had been o ffi cially applied to by the Secretary boured, will be more than a compensation for the i 1 of State for the Home Department, he never would inconveniences they are compelled at present ' have permitted his Noble Friend's favourite object to endure. Referring to the numerical force of the Ito be so f rustra t e d , or delayed ; nor would his Allies, lam ashamed to find that the British only • Royal Highness have allowed so many wretched ob. are nearly equal to the whole united force of . our jects of pity to have remained in confinement, now .Allies in the field. Surely, then, they cannot with . rendered more distressing by the heat of the weather, and the crowded state of the prisons, when by the propriety address the ALMIGHT Ton their great veer - i exercise of his ' Royal authority he could so readily tions. We are again amused with a decisive victory— i have alleviated their miseries. so was said of the battle of Salamanca—the next i Busy rumour, always assailing the ears of the un battle will be the same in all probability, all are fortunate, now alleges, that the Act was so itnper decisive, and while the best blood of England, as fectly conducted through the House of Commons also its treasure, are wantonly squandered away, we that it did not provide a salary for the Commissioner, land that the Prisoners must wait till the next Session are only to enjoy the great satisfaction of obtaining i for a Bill to be brought in to amend the present Act one decisive victory after another, without end. P. in that respect.• This cannot be a good reason for always deprecate the idea of prayers being put up on ! such a cruel delay, as the Bar can furnish men of a subject of legalized butchery: it has occprred of- sound heads and liberal hearts, who would accept ten that Te Deuin has been ordered in France for a ' this office upon the promise of an adequate salary victory, while, at the same time, their enemy has being provided at a future time; and I with go further issued a Proclamation for solemn prayers and thanks- and say, that there are Barristers of the best talents giving to the GOD of Peace fur success on the same ' who would act in this employment for the relief of ' occasion. I cannot find out what great cause we have their fellow-subjects, even without any remunern of triumph, or how the interposition of the ALMIGHTY ! lion, rather than see the Prisonets! sufferings extended can he alluded to in accomplishing the defeat of sit , till the next Session. , enemy, composed of, perhaps, not more than i It is pretty clear, at all events, that this Act of Par one half the number opposed to them. Is the fitment is no favourite with our religious Secretary of decisive victory made out by taking guns and State, as though it has wrought so great and impor baggage, with a Marshal's Staff? The first are easily, taut a change in the laws of this country; yet it was replaced, the last any French carpenter can sup- I not taken any notice of by the Learned .Speaker of ply ; but possibly souse of the ecclesiastical scribes I the House of Commons in his review of the Acts of the day, waiting for titles and promotions, may ! passed in the Session, in his memorable speech at the be able to explain the matter. Twenty years or ! Bar of the House of Lords ; and the Segazta is a more hare we been .in the habit of putting up our] relation of Lord Sromourn's, and, like him, as his prayers and ejaculations for success ; and twenty 1 speech disclosed, averse to all kind of emancipation. years have we been repeatedly unsuccessful in our l- The Duke of Sussex, in his speech •at the Free stain object, viz. that of bringing the French people masous' Hall, aniongst other matters, congratulated to a proper sense of the duty they owe—to what? F Lord Motna on this measure .being accomplished, Why, to the re-establishment of all their former : and would now, it i 3 presumed, if properly addressed, nuisances under the old Government!! Reilly, interferkwith his, Royal Brother, and not suffer any Sir, 1 do not profess to be a prophet, or tedive longer this refinement of official cruelty. into the inscrutable decrees of Provideuee, as some of our prayer-makers do ; but I am inclined fo think the prayer of our arch enemy the most acceptable iii. the divine regard, if I may judge from, the crash 1 , among the Princes, and from the numerous powers .- The Piled Mayor has issued - the following very *Lich have succumbed under..his fora, although' proper notice:— the Sovereign Pontiff, CuktsfaNice-gerent ii,iecartii, 1 " MeesionMouse, Aug. 10..1843. was at ile it head. At length, to s um u p th e w h o l e ,' "4 in consequence of the want of corr ectness in these votaries of MA its invoke the C rea t o r, in di e the Returns manner of making the of Meal or Flour tame avtl through the mediation of • the Lamb of bought within the - City of London, : and the weekly Con! Ater millions up o n milli e ens have sacri- 'Bills .f Mortality t and within ten .miles of the Royal frill, these men are determined to .pe rs i s t in the : Exchange, aelsing priocipally fromthe non-ohservance same strain, I may almost say impious strain, o f a d. .of the Bth section, of the Act, passed in the 37th year dress to that power, who cannot •withsitisfaction • of his present Majitty'S reign, whiCh directs, that behold man en d o wi ng hi one ir ..w i i h. ,t he'indfi c ii ns i. the price Wall be absolutely fixed a,t the time of sale, nate slaughter of ,his fellow-cieaturer,: lo satisfy And before the deliviry,'•and 'shall not depend upon the inurdinate ambition of "a few -d e ,oith ite hidi. , any future market price dr otter Contingency, under Quids. I have been told that the French Emperor, the penalty of twenty pounds on both buyer and the monster on th e B an k s o f th e Elb e ( now on th ose seller, the Lord Mayor is unable to fix the Assize of of the Oder), is an instrument in the bands of the' Bread with justice to the public. ALMIGHTY to punish the nations of Europe! What :a ! " The Lord Mayor, therefore, gives this Notice melancholy conclusion is there' to be drawn. Am I' to the Trade, that he feels himself most imperatively to suppose that the most pure and civiliited part of called upon to put the penal clauses of the Act in the world, breathing the tree, principles ofibligion : force to the full extent ; and particularly 'against all Chislianily, are most vicious, and selectedlia the • persons who shall sell and deliver or receive any principle object of 'Divine' indignation ?-L-If I Meal or Flout without a regular Bill of Parcels, set agree to suds an' opinion, I must then attribute: ting forth the true price actually agreed upon, ac the conquests of any aintiltious leader over an : cording to the directions of the said Act. Inoffensive people, more virtuous than their invaders By Order of his Lordship, (South Americans, Indians, &e. for instance, though • )f BANCIS AMBLER, Civic. at the expellee of the extermination of millions Of . .„....- the aboriginal i n h a bit an t s ) ) as accepta bl ° 1700 on. A Cir;ren of London hey to" t . theerre, that there are about e to G Baker., tu.stly wider the onSeence of the Alliter, who In Never, Sir, while I breathe, will I sanction so abo. i now also boron F..ctor and merchant, and that 'lathing short of minable a doctrine. Self-defence is the grand law of . e tn , ying the trade open 1.) competition can redttly the eluting il.—Yot s from a Corresponefant. nature; but if I lied a nation quietly s u b m itti ng to the invader, on receiving as the purchase a total ex emption flora the numerous grievances they laboured %elder duritig the dominion of an old dyn asty , do no t lit me be told that out of a populatiou of 13,000,000 of souls, 50,000 only can be found to take up arms ) and those actually paid by another power, whose in terest it is to keep up the flame of war; that this is to be called patriotism, and' therikestionTY appealed 10, to give effect to their mercenary endeavours. Such magnanimous instances of lore of liberty may du with thed •pp ers and sycophants of a Court, but will never make any impression oa the rational part of flue community . . Bl4ansan-!ireet, liorsougle, Aug. 11. S. P. t CORN LAWS. At the Chelmsford Assizes, Thomas Neva, a mariner, for wilfully aiding and assisting Ales.. Frederick Augustus de Massey and Felix Andre de Breton, two French prisoners of war at large on their parole of honour, to quit his . Majesty's dominions, was ordered to be transported for life: . The ship Volante, of Boston, hits been captured by . a British cruizer : the vessel and cargo are valued at 700,000 dollars. • • The 6:rumpus lately captured and carriefi into Bar 4 bidoes the American ship Sterling, laden ,vdtit oil; &c. from the South Seas. She is , cioni e ptit#l worth 30,0001. sterling. ' ' -• • - slit Jot& E. - • COUIIT IitARTIAL ~riLil • POETRY. • -.446.- ti* itEibjllo Til E .IfA MOUS. OR /TrOilrilli ON TH it .11,124.0 E REGENTtILETTII9.: TO 'LORD WELIANCL TON: • *hen Eaglailiti Reuel. int be on, The great Lord's pride to flitter • • bar lordlini Ctitlei to a Mita, Ills Essay strait bespatter. they, at his Wallows; to‘diy And sheer at his 'Etranwit • l'bot he sendi oat Mt Etiglaad's Stalf; For BONAPARTE'S destruction. • And most religiously I bore, To hear of its arriving, lit time with Marna' SOVIT to eoplj Nita and !Wanly driving. kings have the privilege to *rite, . . Withdut graininatic qualms t 'Twits tbas King DAVID did eadite, When he compered his Psalms. • Shall then our itic,mer,•- 4 Divta's self. In month, and in prosing, Endure the squibs each Critic elf; Thrdws oat at his comilosing. following It a' of the Sentence of the doert-Martial, held It e qh Y ltehill, •on the 21st and 22d of June, 1813, for the:trial of Sir John Earner; of the Royal East Lyndon; Millais, on charges pre. (erred against him by Captain T. B. V; Symes, of the said regiment :.;-•; The Court having duly weighed and'ronsidered. the evidence adduced on the prosecution,- as well as what has been offered in defence, are of opinion, that Colonel Sir John Earner is—Nei Guilts of be having in a scandalotts, infamous manner, such as.is unbecoming the character of di) Officer and a Gentle- - man, in, any one•ef the articles of the charge as pre ferred • against him by Captain T. B. V. Symes, and do therefore acquit him thereof. " With respect to the first article, the Court are of opinion, that Colonel Sir John Earner did duly lanyard the letter alluded tO, in the regular official *an nor. • ' • -." With respect to the thltd, fourth, fifth, and sixth articles, the Court are of opinion, , that although the acts as detailed have beers proved, yet that the con duct of Colonel Sir John Earner does not appear able to the imputations therein ascribed to it, though, at the same time, with reference to the sixth article / the Court cannot hut express their regret, that Col, Sir.J. Earner should have been led to use altrun- , warded expressions. • ." With respect to the seventh article, the Court 'ere of opinion, that no proof has been adduced of Si . r:Jolnirraniees having ordered the attendwo; of Capt . Symes , with the view of rendering him (Capt..Symes) amenable to military law, from the an, • suers he should then give ; or of his (Col. Sir John Eamer's)•then and there using exulting exclamations, expressive that he had so committed him. " The Court, however, cannot conclude their „finding without remarking, that the conduct of Capt. Symes, as far as it has been brought before the Court, doewnot seem to have been dictated by motives of good for the service." I am to acquaint you, that his Royal Iligness was pleased, in the name and on the behalf of his-Ma jesty, to approve and confirm the finding and Sew; tence of the Court. I lam further to acquaint you, under all the cir- I cumstances of the case, as they appear upon , the fare jof the proceedings, and which hav, apparently led to the observation of. the Court, 6 . That the conduct of the Prosecutor .dnes not seem to have been dictated by motives for the h ood of the Service,' the lYnce Regent was pleased to command, that it sllould be intimated to-Captain Symes, that, as he appears in 41re charge he ventured to prefer against his Colonel, to have been actuated by a spirit of insubordination, -at variance with every principle of discipline find duty from a subordinate officer, his Royal Highness has no farther occasion for his services in the Royal East London Regiment of Militia. . (Signed) " : FREDERICK, 46 Lieut.-Gen. Sir 11. Barran), &e. Commander iu I ioasOrt TILE Guinovs RETREAT. , Zsulting I Mount on Pegasus's back, For Parnassus I'm off in a burry; • . Impatient I spur the poetical hack, 0, verse ismj whip, which with vigour To the fame of the liiight 81r J-11 M—T. • from Alicant hastened this hero so With full twenty thousand brave fellows; •":"'. "Mach number our fathers often' havitold, Would have beet thrice as many gay Frenehmenli ' Which tales would with vanity swell mi. ,Now onward they sailed, 'twas a glorioet sight, The voyage accomplished with Speed : They leaded and toot Col de Wirt guei's height, Besieged Tairagona, ne'er doubting they might, In the ultimate project succeed. But Marshal Svelter, 0 ! disheartening name, For title was all he could boast: With six or eigth thousand French soldieis be dune — On the hills he lit tires—the spread of his fame, The reports of his numbers, and sight of his flame, Scared the brave British Chief from the coast. Our soldiers and tailors first thought 'twas in fun, Or some scheme the bold foe to defeat Our hero already such laurels had won, Said " the Spaniards can't move, so they'd much better run, For ' tis folly to stay to be brat. • " So get you on board, boys, as fast as you can, " (hank you year ardour to slide ;" And the' none have discover'd the depth of his plan, Brace Sir J—e got them off without losing a man, Though he 10't all his gulls—a mere trifle ! Du', strange to relate, Admirakli 7 ---u. steorei " For such conduct he ought to be broke;" And this honest tar's heart it was riv'd to the core, For that Englishmen running away is a bore, And losing their cannon no joke!! l Coventry-street. J. B. B ON THE GRAND ILLUMINATION. ASS MRS. —Nom- LEWES. M. 16. To GOD, first be praise, then to Man be assigned, The glory to Victory due; And may Englishmen henceforth unite, in one mind, To their KING and their Country be true. But, just vengeance on those who our treasure and blood Dave wasted, and hacer'd our Rights; And insultingly tell us they rule for our good, Whilst they feed a starv'd People with Lights. A DETESTER OF FALSE LIGHTS. CROWN SUM. Hannah Knight was indicted for secreting a letter, I put into the office at Mayfield, for the purpose to be forwarded by the post. Mr. Stevens, a shopkeeper. at Mayfield, Sussex, said he put four half bank-notes into a letter, for the purpose of sending them to Londop. He carried the letter himself to the Royal Oak, which was the receiving-house, and laid .it down upon the table, together with a peony. Tbe' Prisoner, who was a servant maid, Wai.in the 'kitchen, together with her mistress and two .children. The letter did not reach its destination, and, in fact, was missed that day. By the evidence of the lad who carried the letters to Uckfield, and of the mistress of the Royal Oak, it appears that they had but three letters to 'Send, and therefore when they went to make up the bag, .the one was missed immediate'y. The Prisoner was asked whether she had seen the-letter, or had re moved it from the dresser ? She said she had put it and the penny into the drawer. - The penny • was found,- but the letter was not. The loss of the letter caused some enquiry, and a few days afterwards the Prisatiei told the ostler that he would find some money in his box. lie said, how could• it get there, far it was locked, and he had the key ? She replied that she had put it - there, under the lid. He did not, however, find it. Again, in a day or two. after wards, she desired him to get some one to let her r down the well in the yard, for that there was money at the bottom. At last, after some_ delay, it was thought proper to send a person down the well, and a man of the name of Broker went down in the j j bucket, and at the bottom he found the letter torn, I and the halves of the notes which it had inclosed. These being produced to Mr. Stevens, he identified the letter and the half notes. • EYTON AND WELLINGTON. BRITANNIA and FORTUNE assembled one day, Their performances each to procbslus p The former would WELLINGTON'S talents display, While FORTUNE extoll'd EYTON'S fame. The dispute running high—Dame JUSTICE appear'd, With a pleasing and complacent mite, And declar'd as their talents alike she rever'd, Iler scales should hang pendant between. But EYTON, not thinking this measure the best, 'Twits agreed 'without further delay, That the point of contention at present should rest, • -And he prov'd by the NRXT DRAWING DAY •. * The LOTTERY will DRAW 17th of SEPTEMBER, 1813. Tickets nod Shares are selling by EYTON, Stock Broker, at his Lucky Offices,,2, Cornhill; and IS, Coventry-street. Mahradir, an Indian story, of the beginning of the nineteenth century, was published this day, with some Observations on the present State of the Bri tish Empire, and chiefly of its Finance ; by S. GounL i tsc, 40, Suffolk-street, Charing-cross; sold also. by Chapple, 66, Pall Mall. BARON DE CRtstu AND DIDEROT.—The Me. moires, Llistcriques Litternires, et Anecdotiques, dss Baron de Gns.vm et Drumlin., are at length pub lished, and will be read with great pleasure. M. de Guistm, who was a German by birth, owed his in troduction into good society at Paris to the capacity in which he traveled, of Governer to the children of 'Count Seeromoetra. His esti Hest intimacy among the wits and philosophers of the day, was with JEAN JAQUES ROUSSE.KU ; and through him he became ac quainted with DIDEROT, Baron HOLNACII I and the principal Authors of the Encyclopedie. These con nections, aided by what his biographer calls " la souplesse de son esprit," were not long in opening to him " tine carriere brillante." During several years, he was employed as Secretary to the late Duke of OR LE USS, and was applied to by several of .the Ger. man Princes to transmit to them, in the way of free and lively correspondence, all the literary and phi losophic gossip of Paris. From the mass of infor. mation and amusement which this miscellaneous cur. respondence contained, the present Work has been drawn, at the express recommendation of the Quar terly Reviewers. It forms, as these distinguished critics justly predicted, " a magazine of good sense, lively anecdote, spirited criticism, and laughable whim, such as no collection of ana, or table-talk, that we are acquainted with, exceeds, or even rivals. On Wednesday last, a singular and melancholy catastrophe occurred on the Point, Portsmouth. A I young , lad named Barker, with another about his Ford has left his training place in Herts, for the own age, was employed io hoisting into a loft a bun neighbourhood of the seat of combat in Kent. die of swords; Barker stood below; the swords Hamner is also on the move towards the spot, from , were hauled up, and his companion not being strong •IYettirifham. Much money was yesterday betted at enough to take them in at the door, let them fall, evincel. this event. The battle will be fought on and one of the swords (impelled by the weight of . fiandby text. -the bundle) entered a little in front of the shoulder -Vox se, the Miter of the Aurora, has been ap- bone, penetrated the lungs, and struck int his pointed a Brigadier-General in the American sersiee. heart. The blood gushed from the wound as hum a The illipointment *as cousrmed by the Senate by a fountain : be spoke but twice, merely majority of 10 to 15. 1 sister, and expired in three minutes. The Prisoner was found Guilty. James Newcombe and .Michael M'Gellick were in dicted for a robbery on the highway, and forcibly taking from Edward Chapman, a watch, frock ) waistcoat, hat, and trowsers. ' The Prosecutor stated, that on the 16th of June he was going over the South Downs, near Lewes, when he met the two Prisoners, who were•soldiers, but they had no plates in their caps. They stopped him, and, drawing their bayonets, threatened to run him through if he did not• stop. They then made him strip off his clothes, and took them from him—one of them giving his trowsers in exchange. The next morning he went. to the barracks, and love up the clothes they hnd left with him. It was dis. covered that the two Prisoners had deserted, an da iterjeant was sent in pursuit of them. They were laWnedittely apprehended. ° The Jury found them Guilty. •••=- 1 t.: • 4046- .__ - -""•)1101-1 11.14.- - - :4-181"* ".4friegt " • ..,,~;.. calling tar his '1