The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-01-03 00:00:00

• A' ~.: CASSANDRA. ~~J ~~ `~~~ .. • - .11k !ordeal introductory matters of the information, and the case bring closed, The SOLICI TOR-GENERAL proceeded to addresethe Jury on behalf of the defendants. He contended strongly, first, that there was not the slightest evi defies to connect his clients with this publication.— All the evidence was, that the witness had purchased - the paper eta boase in Johnsoa's-court, on • the door of which were the names Arrowsmith and Shaehell ; but son coaster that the persons of those names so • Inscribed on the door, were the defendants Arvin/- smith sod Sbackell. Hut secondly, 'apposing the Jury could come to so extraordinary a cestideniele upon such evidence, that they were the polonaises's( the supposed libel, be insisted that the paper ilia( was not a libel. It was not a libel in any way elect ing Lady Jersey's private character, and could only be considered as a legitimate commentary upends* conduct of a lady who appeared In a public chatenter, associating herself as a partisan upon a subplot which, unhappily for the country, had for a long time agitated the public mind, and produced a division in public opinion. In this point of view the publication was privileged, aid not libellous. Ile-west through the whole of the alleged libel, paragraph by para graph, and contended, that in every point of view the defendants were entitled to an acquittal. The Cutter JUSTICE, in his charge to the Jury, stated, that there were two questions for their consi deration. I. Whether the defendants, Arrowsmith and Sbackell (for as to the other defendant, they were bound at once to acquit him), had published the paper ?—and 2. Whether, supposiog them con scientiously satisfied, as reasonable aid honest men, of that fact, the paper itself was a libel? Upon the first question. he confessed he bad never known a slighter case brought before a Jury, to fit defendants with the publication of a libel. The Jury, however, were the proper judges of the evidence, and. no doubt, they would give the case an important consideration, free of all bias or prejudice one way or the other. As to the second question, supposing they were satis fied as to the tint, they were the judges of the law as well as the fact. and they would say whether this was a libel. The Act of Parliament required that be should pronounce his own opinion upon the law ; and, attending to the solemnity of this requisition, he was of opinion that' the paper in question was a scanda lous and defamatory publication, and therefore a libel for which the defenilatits, if proved to be the pub• Ushers, were criminally liable. They were, however, to pronounce their own opinion notwithstanding what they beard from the Judge. The Jury deliberated about ten minutes, and found the defendants Not Guilty, but *aid they did so on the ground that the evidence of publication by them was nut satisfactorily made out ; but they said they had no doubt that the paper in question was a libel. Verdict—Not Guilty. Mr. Scartigyr begged that his Lordship (the Chief Justice) would certify that the cause had been tried upon probable ground, as such certificate was import. ant in the matter of costs. The Loan Cutter JUSTICE said it was a ease is which he should not hesitate to certify. As an ins'ance of the difficulty of arriving at the troth of any matter in which the Greeks are concerned, the case of Cassandra is deserving notice. According to to article given by a cotemporary, as an extract from the Canso] at Salonira, the Turks succeeded in taking it on the 12th of November, after a feeble re sistance on the part of the Inturgents, who suffered considerably. The number of prisoners taken (says the writer, I have not been able to ascertain; butt it is given out that a vast number of women (some say 10,000) have fallen into the heads of the Turks. True it is, however, that upwards of 4,000 of these poor onfortn nate creatures ha►e already been brought to this town. and are now exhibited fur sale to the highest bidder. The Austriais Observer of the 17th ult. had also an account of the capenre and submission of Cas sandra. A very different account of what is evidently the same affair is given in the French papers of Sunday last, in a letter from %ante of the 30tb of Nov : The Pacha of Salonica, who bad been four times beaten on the frontiers of this Peninsula, re-appeared on the 20th Oct. (Old Style) with new forces which be had recruited. Notwithstanding the defeats lie had sustained, he still summoned the Greeks to sur render, offering them now at the same time the amnesty of the Sultan. The Turks pretended that it was only the passage of the isthmus, called the Cassandrian lices, which prevented them from trying the pretend ed courage of these infidels ; bat the tireeks thought otherwise of this passage; and without answering the propositions of the Pacha, they withdrew into the in terior of the country, leaving the Isthmus free. The Turks, who perceived this retreat, sent I detachments to reconnoitre indifferent times, and they did not determine to attempt slibpassage till the 22d Oct. Several thousand Turks acing arrived before the town of Cassandra, which gives it■ name to the Peninsula, found it teil by the inhabitants. A small part of these troops occupied this town, and the rest encamped before it ; the Pacha, who suspected some, stratagem on the part of thetireeks,did not per sonally attempt the passage ; he contented himself with occupying the Isthmus at the head of 350 men. The Turks then resolved to attack the Cassandrians in their positions, on the 26th Oct., on St. Demetrins'- day, the patron of the country. when it was concluded they would give themselves up to the customary plea sures of that day. The Greek Chiefs, on their part, bad announced on the eve of that festival, that next day they were to at tack the enemy under the auspices of Generalissimo Saint Demetrius. In fact, at break of day, 500 Greeks, of whom 300 were Antedate. and 200 Made nmehorites, rushed down impettuntsly from tie heights on the Isthmus, and dispersed the troop of the Pacha which guarded it. At the same time the other troops attacked wit► intrepidity the enemy who occupied the town aid its environs on several points. The combat was most obstinate and most murderous; but at length the Turks were beat, and threw themselves in the direction of the Isthmus, which they found re taken by the Wake. Placed byline* two fires, they were all isetroral or made primers. to the amber I L of nearly 7000. A part 'burnt in ibis afrair. such was the inus of thi more fatal to the Turks •" preceded it. The Paella, army by a prisoner to whom di" Greeks gave ithdret fur that purpose, returned in UN sight to Smotrw•' followed by nearly 200 soldiers. • MON WATER • 1 Monduk 17 M. aminerii-satnes TO•11101111110W, Pr 10.—Evenins 56 at. after 10. PRICE OF STOCKS TIIIR DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3351 India Stock.... , per Cent. Red 76ii Ditto Ronds ..s ..s 70s. po 3 per Cent. C0n........ South Sea per Cent 874144 South ties Old Ann 4 per Cents o6i{ Ex. Rol id. 10002. Is 3s. pa I per Ceate.Nevy....... .----0001. Is IP- Ps -3 per Cent.. ...... ----Small 21.34. pin Lsmil Ann • • ...°4llw 10 5-16 1 India for ditto Imp. 9 pecf d io: I ('on. for Acet...774 R 7f 84 Irish 5 eepr e ent Lott. Tickets.......OL Os.. LONDON: • THURSDAY EVENING, f INUARY 3, 1822. STOCK EXCHANGE', TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Funds hareopened better this morning, in con sequence of a belief that the differenm Irtween Rea sia and the Porte are.on an ere of settjejpent. Consent. begun at 78, and buyers are transacting at 771 for the Account. Should the point in dispute be finally set tled, the Funds, it is expected, will make a consider able rise. Files of American papers have arrived to the 9th of December, hut their report. of the debates in the Senate do not contain the least degree of public inter. est. The following are extracts of articles of a differ ent hind : [PROM TRE COMMERCIAL AIIVERTTSZR OF TUE 7 nil Rio J♦NOlRo.—The corvette, General Brown, has arrived yesterday from Rio, and we are informed by a passenger, that every thing was tranquil at that place, but from two Proclamations which had been issued on the 3d Oct. which exhorts the iuhabitanin to continue their allegiance to the King and Constitution, and tint to listen to &et...affected persons who wish to dis solve their connection with the mother country, it may be inferred that attempts were appreireuritd to make a separation. [1:01131/ERCIIL, REC. 4.) FLOCR.—The intelligence of the close of the Ilud son river has caused some demand for flour.—New York superfine has been sold this day at 6 dollars. 12: 1: 2: cash, and 6: 2.5: at credit of 60 days. PORT OP QUEBCC.—IIIie schooner, Sword-fish, re- 1 turned, having sprung her fora-mast and bow-prit.— Total number of vessels arrived this season, 420 ; settlers, 8,050. [EXTRACT Of ♦ LETTER FROM RATATIA, AVGI.7sT 12 The great and astonishing . mortality which has, until these few days, attended the inhabitants of this island, natives as well as foreigners, an I which raged more violently at the eastern pans than at Batavia, is calculated to have carried off 400,1100 persons, and in such numbers daily that they were obliged to tumble the bodies, by cart loads, into large holes and cover them indiscriminately, but it has now entirely sub sided. A report is in circulation here that a merchant in whose hands was a considerable sum of money be longing to the ships Glide and Hercules, had ab sconded, but it is since found that the 15 thousand dollars of the Hercules and the 14 thousand of the Glide were left safe in the counting-room of the mer. chant ; but he is still absent, and it is feared he is murdered. Government has claimed his effects, but in all probability will give up the money. It is remarkable that immediately after a Minis terial paper of last night bad assumed a tone which would hare made us believe that war was now inevitable, an impression very generally prevails on 'Change that the differences which bad been in dispute are at length in the way of ailjast ment. If this expectation should be confirmed, the public will well know how to estimate the intelligent.e and representations of Tbe Courier. Front the com mencement of the existing dispute, and up to a recent date, while other people had been led from the pro tracted state of the negociation, „Awl from va rious symptoms, to infer the 'probability of war, this oracle had pronounced a war im possible ; and, while every friend of humanity was shocked at the barbarities of the Turks, this advocate of their peaceful disposition was throwing a veil over the enormities of his friends, and publishing incredi ble atrocities alleged to have been committed by the Greeks. It was not till last night, when his represent ations assumed a complexion indicative of war, that he was induced to lift up the veil, and expose what he had so long been inclined to con ceal. Whence this change arose, or what pur pose it was designed to effect, tan are not pre pared to say ; bat it is evident that the men who influence the money market, place no reliance on his representations or opinions. From the report brought as from the Stock Exchange to day, we are taught to believe, that the differences between Russia and the Porte are on the eve of settlement. A paper of this morning states, on the authority of a private letter from Constantinople, that there is only onefpoint which re mains to be adjusted. We have anxiously waited the arri►al of the Paris journals to-day, is the hope of obtaining light on'the question at issue, but oone had reached as when our paper went to press. The Irish -... • dee WilltalliirditiralVirtie in Prance Issitiilonlied to nies4 ries!, ;! principal is •nroot probably that orapecolatleas &moors tka Jests and Gentiles, some of Rhein look to forego affairs. while others keep a steady eye epee Uwe. no doubt taking into account the fwkward situatido in which Ministers must be placed at vbesneeting of Parliament. They naturally supposi; that the profligacy of the sys tem tenstallength haveopeued the eyes and the mind of the land miners, and that a partial secession from the Ministerial ranks must take place, if a reduction of the interest of the pabiie debt should net be given as a peace offering to the landholders. This on the one hand will prove a dangerous experiment fur Ministers to make, while on the other, landed property is so over loaded with taratiom, tythes, and pauperism. that under any circumstance the farmer is unable to pay rent, and cultivation. As the Ministerial majorities against the Press and the liberties of the people hare been swelled by the virtuous exertions of these said gentle men, the country members, there must be something done for them, or a GUititAL RA r will be proclaimed Commander•in•Chief. The landed gentry begin to say. 4liose rich men who bold millions in the FUNDS—tome of them living in Chambers without any other servant than a charwoman, and not spending 3001. a-year- 1 should contribute their portion of profits, to assist) the other cl of Society in providing the 1 means of paying the interest, instead of amassing at i compound in t without any benefit to trade.' commerce, or public safety. This we must acknow ledge forms a rallying poiet for the landed interest to hold in terrorent over the Chancellor of the Exche quer, who appears placed between two stools, and from the first stir off will in all likelihood fall to the ground ; however, it cannot be said, that the Right lion. Gentleman and . Lin colleagues were not most in dustrious and effective in promoting the crisis which we have for so many years anticipated.— Previous to his fall, we should recommend him to apply to his old friends in the CITY, who no doubt will at once subscribe liberally, to A LOVA LTV LOAN WITHOUT IN , and theeelly sheer. that their opinions were grounded on principle and sot interest ; that they are the panegyrists of PITT, from a love alone of that great Statesman's measures, and not for base lucre ; this will at once prove the to tech:tone of loyalty. Then the lulls and Gram the disinterested per secatorsof LORD COCHRANE ; the Loan contractors ; the Bankers; the Aldermen, and Manchester Yemen, and the Bridge-street Gang, will loosen their purse_ !triage. end s►ow the RADICAL,, ILO Jacobins.aad the PAUPERS, that none but subscribers to' this L Gov( WITHOUT INTERIM I', can is future be looked upon as good subjects. Then will the land flow with milk and honey, and the twenty millions mines in the next budget be amply made np, without any additional incumbrance to the nation ; theft will the Right Hon. Gentleman crow and clap his wings at the Whigs and Radicals ; then will the Noble Marquess prose over a speech without pause or repetition ; then will the Orange Peel boast of his SOVEREIGN REMEDY to cure all our disorders ; then will the hangers on, and ander *trappers talk as loud and make as much noise as if they knew what they were about; io fact, INS LOTA LTT LAN WITHOUT INTEREST, would prove uf great Na tional consequence. If it should harm to he a few millions short, that could be remedied 4 thecoetri butions of the SINECURISTS and the CLERGY. whose Loyal anxiety to support the PITT system and the Gang will be the strongest proof of their genuine disinterestedness. When this loan, this LOYALTY &lAN 11 ITHOSIT INTEREST is perfected, we will then put forth our claims as the sole inventors of the national blessing, and as a matter of cour►e, expect our reward accordingly. 1 We understand. (without surprise certainly) that notwithstanding the notoriety which Mr. IliThroN, of Holton, has sworn himself into, he has with his own peculiar modesty, ventured to offer himself as a can didate for the honours of a Fellowship in the Royal Society. We suppose that Squire IIVLTON, of Halton, has considered this a necessary step previous to his ,offering himself .as Representative of the County of Lancaster, which we know he has hinted his inten tions of ddrng, ever since he became so deservedly popular, by his accurate and actouishilg evidence at York, on the trials of Td . Hurnv, Joussom, BA*. vono, &c. Ike. That Squire Lynx, of Holton, is pre-eminently qnalified to represent the liberality, hu manity, justice, and intellect, of the slave drivers of Lancashire, few, who know any thing of ilat County, can doubt; and his qualifications for a Fellowship will be still less doubted by those who know that, be has displayed such brilliant literary taste, as to quote Oreek at a Lancashire Pitt Club, the leading members of which could not spell the most common English word. Squire Holton, of tinhorn. has also been celebrated for his Aunsaisity, ever since the " glorious 16th of August," as he has it ; and his judgment and prudence were evinced by his vigorous Aidvice to the Dore-like Magistrates of Manchester, to apprehend Mr. Huv r, and have him publicly dogged, and passed to bis pa rish as a vagabond having no visible mesas of subsistence. Squire HULTON, of Ilulton, has also a most accurate and mathematical eye, he having 'work that he was 200 yards from the hustiags on St. Peter's-field r when others, who pretended to measure . 1 A • ha. eolenl•ird it to lse sixty yards, making ou t y trifliwg difference of offs hasdriod sod forty yank quire IIcLTON,of Helton, ale° SWIM to seeing stick% stones, and staves, and many other such wooderf i d thin4s on the 16th of August, that honest Jos NADI V, Whip was to bays supported his evidence, beca me nervous and frightened. u fiatly to refuse going bit e the witiess-box, and instantly left York, a „ fast as a pair of horses could take him ... The Fellows of the Royal Society may learn wh o Squire 111:LTON, of Holton, is, and what are his furth er qualifications, by as application to Mr. Justice 11 4 T. LIT, who expressed his setosignsent at the Spire's splendid display of talons, 'modesty, wad morality, at the celebrated York Trials. Yesterday afternoon as express reached town from Paris, which brag's& the prices of the French 5 p ee emits. at the close of the Market on Mooday, e e 83f. 30e. The di►idepds, it is expected, will be paid to the public os Tuesday next. The letters brought by the Turkey mail confirm the intelligence of great excesses having been committed at Constantinople. A Turkish fleet arrived Ns the Archipelago with thirty small Greek vessel* as prim, and the sailors hang each to the yard-arm three miser Greeks, as trophies of victory; the crews were afte r . wards allowed to go on shore, where they were guilty of the greatest cruelties. But by way of omusolatios. The Conrier gives us a quotation from one of the letter., in which it is stated, that "his Eneelisney Lord Strangford has remonstrated strongly with the Porte; and we trust his influence will be as sumessfel neon this as upon former oecasieos"!! The same paper which bad previously and tenaci ously maintained that pram would not he broken, quotes a letter from Constantinople, of a very warlike com. plexion, and predicting the entire overthrow of the Turkish Government. It adds,in a letter from Pair, that " the 'Arial intelligence of the passing of the Prods, by the Russian army, is every moment expect ed. All official communications at present, both pub lic and private, coincide on• this print." On the other band, another letter states, that the only rensainitte point of difference between Turkey and Russia relates to the surrender of Prinm Sasso and other persons who took refuge io Russia in the early part of the in surrection in Walachia and Moldavia. The Turkish Government contend, that, having es their part fu:- filled the former treaties, and acqniesced in the new stipulations proposed by Russia, they have a right to demand of Russia herself the observance of former treaties; referring particularly to an article is the treal of liainardgi, by which it is stipulated that of fenders against the Government of either comity shall he given up. On this point the Sultan is said to Le inflexible. Gibraltar papers which have arrived to the I Ith alt. bring some interesting intelligence from Spain. The Cones are adopting severe measures to pre►ent the importation of foreign articles, and to protect the consumption of their own. They ham lately extended to foreign woollens the prohibition decreed on the 14th of November, against foreign silks but they allow a whole year f.r the sale or exportation of the woollen articles which may be in site kingdom at the moment of passing the law. They have also agreed to prohibit the importation of foreign coal, peat, and other fuel•, but the prohibition is not to be put i• forte till the Ist of October of the pr t year ; until that period coal will be admitted into the Peninsula on paying • duty of 311 per cent., whilst the existing duty on the ex portation of Spanish coal is to be reduced to 24 per cent. liy these papers the political state of Spain pre sents a more cheering aspect than it has exhibited for a considerable time past. The Provinces of Leon and Avila have, among others, sent addresses to the King and Corte‘, in which they express their determination to uphold the improved institutions of their country, and to repel with equal firmness the return of orb:- trary power, and the advances of anarchy. These addresses are evidently not the work of the advocates for the ancient Regime, who would wish to revive its despotism and superstitions, hut of men who approve of the great alteration which the monarchy has undergone. By the New York Papers which arrived yester day, we find that the question, who is to fill the President's Chair at the approaching election, is al ready agitated in the United Stares. Mr. Crawford and Mr. Adams are the two candidates who seem to have the best chance, and from the movements observ able in the Southern Provinces, it is expected great stir will be made in favour of the former. Sickness rages with great violence at St. Augustine, in Florida. Although the population of the town had decreased, in consequence of sickness. f r om 3990 to 1200, the deaths ged eight or nine a day. The troops had evacuated the fort, and retired to the barrack.. SLAVII TRAM—How far the shrerity of some of the Southern States belonging to the American Union may be :rusted on this important question, may be seen by the subjoined extract from a Georgie paper. where negruesare wanted for the cotton plantations.— " In the House of Repielentatives of this State, a Bill is under consideration to Repeal an Act which prohibits the introduction of slaves into the State for vile. The supporters and opponents of thin Bill are so nearly equal, that nu opinion can be fortwq of the issue." By letters ander date of the sth December, from Crotaon, Teneriffe, tee learn the arrival at Scrutahare: in that Island, of a small French squadroa, whose it. tended object war said to he the pursuit of the pirate.. crnixing under the losorrectional Flag. against the commerce of Spam. A short time previous to iLit arrival of the French stradron, a similar armament, under the American d lg, had appeared off Teneriffe, ado remixing against the Pirates. At Ctotoau, on the Litls November, they hiat exp-rienced the ravages of a dreadful wa.eris 4.ut, which had ioundatenl the country round the Villa of Croton, and in the port itself had destroyed many it,tuere, end several lives. What renders this circa ostance peculiar is, that the ' whole Archipelago of Islands ace enffering under a dreadful drought, rain having fallen once esde at Teseriffe and canary, and not at all in the were Nor thern mimes of /antenna and Fustaventura, so that the hopes of the Mite of Corn and barilla ate entirely extinguished. THE: ST Vl' ' !.. . • tisa iiir . .. ri4okeve arrived, we Ir 3 ,bag ii i af i t 1. it feAraftie representatio , - - tie ' this lies bat of Casatadta, o f thoiiopii". - Sq" than the four others wkich t, informed of the fiTe of The iacitintiiig"eritTorihrfasftlhoth sere to in _ . this etc btattotnatt. " ITATISMAII" II INCORPO AAAAA 1111T1 " IITATISM101." ~~ .