The Statesman. — London, England, 1810-09-20 00:00:00

petition and remonstrate, In rain. That tun will be 1116 LllaUK OF TUE STAT'ESM4N. LETTER IV. b c . K ing to be 'latest all nor n 0.... to be knave.' 5 , e o ur food aslori" . g • Wilk truth . Worm, *I*1 061 !. aryn im 7 l7 %Alto% sacred no* hut vitality. le your readers will have the 504-1 flatter myself lo bear with me, while I am proceeding to go Int . . - - to them the me ans b y which that party in derclui* ll t h em s e lves the King's friends, .111.. • I uo Ca to imPow up on the public. Perhain it e .pttive appear a little singular that, papers as we have two , r ay printed at this place, I oceilest weekly r The S ta t esm an as the vehicle if my. shou ld pre.er . It is by no means from any dis. c oneuuic etions. act to their publishers, who are both men of " t ie and talents; but as thescletters will, I hope, be b a nd not merely to 11065e53 a local character, but a I was willing to make t h e m wog general inte rest, known than the narrow range of more universally kno a provinc i a l pa per would admit. T 7 h ,h e high charms. ter sa d „ wa i ve eirculatsuu of e Statesman pointed it out as t he most eligible medium for this friends, the Editors of The purpose; and my good nt them for the Iris and Th e Nicene, caw rape ~, of ibis Towwn and County, ahouhi they think . 0 o o with the Quacks. ripe r. I so. .a l e m y fi r st Wier, I informed you that the names r severa l pa ha, had been signed to the Sheffield Coanter.address, without their knowledge; bet at t h a t time I was no t aware of the extent to which th i s infamous pra ctice had been carried. Subse. quest informed oa enables me to stets, that pitifully wa g u was the number of signatures collected by ▪ of In* indefatigable exertion, y et a m any • - ' ay considerable proportion of these were abso. lutely forged, in order to swell the amount. — several Gentlemen have since declared, that they tota lly ignorant of their name s bein g affixed .4er , o t e he Address until they saw them in the paldie papers; and others can be proved to have been out' of town during the whole time this very delicate business was tra nsactin g . Nay, have ben" told,: u p o n authority almost unquestionable,. that ,:a cer.‘ till Reverend Geutleman, conceiving that the Went which went up to the HunoarableiHeuse pare contained some forged names, which it might be ex. tremely inconvenient to permit the owners to tee published, actually bustled down to the printing-of. ice one evening, and struck them out of the Whin, tended for the public eye, by which gentlemanly scheme he contrived to lengthen the columns of signs. tures, without running the risk of being taken by the uose.—Vi r hat think you of this noble transac. tion, Ur. EDITOR/. But one of that most novel and impudent attempts at tropagltioma 4 an spiemptimi of the characters and dignity of Suttleird Bodies and incorporated Societies, by a parcel of absent*, Clubs and petty Trustees, I have before mesa fumed, that some property Wt several Ceutniitti . ago to the town of Sheffield, is managed by a few individuals in treat for the public benefit. Now, these people have bad the unparalleled assurance to Impose themselves upon tits Honourable House as a grand Corporate Body. They call themselves " Toga's Regents," and have practleedAisilly mockery of affixing their seal, as they this precious Address. But I beg NNW* Wl' usi these wonderful Town's Regents, IhOldief,J l l* no Corporate Body at all—that they:W W public seal, and I shall be thankful, It any of their wise brethren, will condescend SO Inform me how they obtained this flue title of theirs, with which our ualucky ears are so continually stunned. I can find nothing of all this in the history of the Trust, but I find something else, which, for the life of me, I can't help just mentioning. I find that formerly the bell.man went round every year to all a meeting of the inhabitants, for the purpose of electing these Trustees, and that they were enjoined to make their accounts every week before Whitsuntide. I wonder bow long it is since these little trilling ceremonies were performed ! I find also, that by a Decree made in the reign of Cua.ness IL, this property was to be applied to special pnrposes, and particular iiistructioris were given fur the management of it. These Gentlemen will excuse me, but I confess I shrewdly suspect this said properly has been managed some other coq, and that the unfortunate Decree hoe labs for patsy years undisturbed amidst dust sod cobwebs, very few of its injunctions having been ramplied with. So tench for the Town Collector and the Town's Regents of Sheffield, and their assistants, &c. &c. drc. with their famous Seel of Office, &e. &C. ize.;!!.. By such contemptible quirks, such wretched artifices as those, Mr. EDITOR, are the House of Comment and the Country imposed upon. By sack meillsd4 c are led to believe that a few obscurui , Ittite t rati Li). dividuals, as destitute of talents as et-throne ; setup who posses neither respectability ncir influence be. yond the circle of their foot.liching dependants ; who fill theirfrieuds with grief anti their enemies with laughter; and whose conduct moll Wpm defeat sod, disgrace to the best cause in the world—the4sse sully led to believe, Sir, that such people express the . sense of great incorporated bodies, consisting of men of cou'iderable property, respectable OW** and extensive influence. Thus Governmesilif`hte . in profound ignorance of the real sense of plc . ; and hence it is that they meet and MOWS. Gad ~_" ._ - tloiwg !treat service to his King and Country, who, even in tlae smallest village, the obscurest corner of the land, will tear the mask from the faces of these political impostors, and exhibit.them in all their na tive impotence and deformity. Oue of the tricks for bringing the cause of Reform into disgrace, is so truly ludicrous, that it is hardly poiisible to tell, or hear it, with any thing like A graveface. I ideal almost pity your insensibility, Mr. Eovreit; .itlou can read the following anecdote, without some little discomposure of your muscles. Not content with heaping loads of abuse upon poor Sir Fa 424C15, these wretched quacks, who, a few months since, joined in , sending up a De. lineation to compliment Colonel 'WARDLE upon his integrity and patriotism, found out all of a sudden, that he was a desperate villain and a bloody mur derer. They. had the good luck to meet with that mosf wonderful of all wonderful stories .about the Colonel's sawing off a man's head in Ireitimit!.! and actually got the Tale printed in hand.bills, with appropriate embellishments, which they Circa. lated in immense quantities in this town and neigh. bourhood. Notwithstanding the incredulity which I fancy I now see gathering upon your countenance, at the perusal of this account, I do assure you I am not joking, for this elegant sweats is positive. ly in my possession. I shall conclude my fourth Letter with another anecdote. In January last we had a News Room established in Sheffield, where the inhabitants were to be ac commodated with the perusal of the Papers at the very moderate upence of a guinea a.year. • Per. suns are admitted by a majority of two.thirds of the Members present at the ballot. Four Gentle. men were proposed by some Members who were publicly known to be active friends to political Reform. A party of Quacks, with some Parsons their head, privately skulked down to the News Rooms for the express purpose of black-balling these Gentlemen, who were accordingly denied the privilege of reading the Newspapers in a public room, on account of the political principles of the Proposers. Thus ends, for the present, my history of the tricks of the Qu4ck.Loyalists. It is pretty evident they ire no coajurers. We shall probably see in my nett what sort of a figure they cut as Juthors. Shettlete, Sept. 10,1810. CARLOS. A very glaring robbery took place yesterday morning, in Fleet-street, nearly opposite Fetter lane, between the hours of 11 and 12 o'clock. Two villains knocked down a little girl about 12 years of age, and took a bundle she had under her arm• from her, with which they made their escape. it appeared by the little girl's. account, the Nina*" ' contained a new coat, which her father had jot emnpleted, which she was taking home. arly yesterday morning, as a respectable meis ilistit of the name of Walker s was coming out of Norwood, in the narrow lane, he was stopped by two fellows, who took from him his gold watch, chain, and seals, and upwards of 301. in notes and cash; with this they gut elear off. At Liverpool, last week, two men killed them. salves with excessive drinking; a man was scalded to death lit the Blubber-house ; a chairwoman cat ,Isat pitalap„ tro gentlemen were knocked' down, ; and a tarter was killed by a atjakealliVit* over him.—(Chester Courant.) Wean 04i;earned to state that a most unfortunate affray took place in Monaghan about the beginning of Lad week, It appears from the most oorreat re. ports we could procure, that one of those unfortu nate females who walk the streets, had purloined some money from a man in whose Company she had been, and that in order to recover it he told the circumstance to some young men, whose assistance he requested. On their applying to the female, she ran fir protection to the soldiers who had been on guard at the gaol (a party of the Ist Dragoon Guards). A scuffle having ensued nearly opposite the guard-house at the end of the gaol, the soldiers in the inside insisted on coming out, which the *cor poral commanding them would nut allow. Qne of the men, however, rushed out, and was immediately knocked down with a stone, and by some meant lost his life in the scuffle, some alarm by having his throat cut with a penknife, while others supposed by the stah of the corporal's bayonet, in prevent. iug his going out. Two of the young men are • committed for the murder, one of them we under stand is severely wounded, as is also another of the dragoons who came to the assistance of the former. --(Erne Packet.) The Grand Falconer, Margate packet, lost her main-mast about three o'clock on Sunday morning last, off Herne Bay, about two miles below the Keculvers, In consequence of a sudden squall of wind, when carrying too great a press of sail. Pro. . videntially the passengers, about 40 in numbed', were all below deck at the time; if they had net,' the consequences might have been dreadful. The accident happening during the night occasioned" much 4istress on board. The anchor was diately waft; and as soon as the dawn of day ap. pea red, the joily.boat was hoisted overboard; not, 10011004ln the swelling surf, the whole of the pailiengerl were safely lauded. A difficulty here aresf,.. to the possibility of procuring conveyances to ?larval. (distant 12 miles), this barren and in. hoppitable spot affording only the uncomfortable accommodation of carts; three were` procured, and in them many delicate females and children were' conveyed, over an extremely rugged road to Margate. At the Public Office, Hatton-Garden, yesterday, Eliolteth Murrell, being charged with rolthing her master, Mr. Moor, in eursitor-street, Citancery. Ow l of a quantity of linen, &c. was fully commit. tot to Nongato fur trial. y .• 4 4 41 0. • 'm.mrsiiiilio NdVAL INTRLLIGENCE. PLYMOVTII, SEPT. 18.—Sailed the Plover sloop of War, and Sabine brig of war ; on a cruise to the westward. Arrived the Encountergua.brig, from the West.' ward ; the John and .Sisters, Hobson ; tine, Hardy ; Robert and Mary, Smith ; sad Prosper, Jones, from Suuderlaud ; and prince of Wales, Boyles, from Wales. DEAL, SEri. 19.—Carne down from the Rae! ) I ' the Parsuit, Jubilee, Hunter, and Barbadoes. Sailed his Majesty's ship Kangaroo, and Cretan, the former to the Westward, and the latter for off Flushing. Arrived, Zephyr and lieover from Purtbmou'►. LORD ULLINNS DAUGHTER. Ergot Kg. cAmrsu.L's raugs.l A Cidettahsto the Highland's Weeds Cries, " Hagman, do not tarry k Aiul rughe tbee a silver poled * To row as o'er the ferry."— " New who be ye, wouW cram Loaf:lke This dark alai stormy water ?" " 011,1'm the Chief of Vora's isle, • And this Lord Coats's disoghter." . s. And fast Isefore her father's asen Three days we've fled together, For should he end us in the glen, My blood would stain the heathet.' " His horsemen hard behind as ride I Should they our steps discover, Then who will cheer my bonny bride, When they bare Asia tier lover r' Outspoke the hardy Highland wight, , • " I'll go. lay Chief--I'm ready t It is not for year Weer height. But for yar wigwam lady " Aed by my word Vibe bony bird In danger shall not tarry; So. though the wives are raging white, I'll row you o'er the ferry."— By this the storm grew food apace, The water-wraith was shrieking s And in the scowl of Heav'n each face, • Grew dark as they here speaking. But still as wilder blew the wind, And as the night drew drawer, Adosio the glen rode armed sea,. Their trampling sounded aearer.-0 Oh haste tke,'hoste I (the lady cries) Though tempests round• as gather g I'll meet the raging of the skies Elut not an angry father." — The boat has left the stormy land, A stormy sea before her— When oh I too strong for human haw!, The tempest gather'd o'er her.— • And still they roved amidst the roar Of waters fast Kevailing: Joad Vi44s reach's( that fital shore, /Hi Wraii * Win. clanged to wailing. For sore dismay'ti, throitgh storm and sbade a His child' he did discover ; One lovely hand she stretched for aid, And one' was round her lover, 4' Come back I come back ! (he erled k In grief) Across tbii stormy water :, And I'll forgive ye& Highland Chief, My daughter t—oh Imy daughter V' 'Twas vain: the load waves Jai t'd the s h ore, Return or aid preveuting; The waters wild went o'er hie child And he was left lamenting THE EXILES. • ' h ~• ti' ~.: •-. yeir~r ~atfartviam'abrother. and late queen, May s both in,esile go ; The French may not have ,To ecru tes, • The Spaniards wont have Joa t• The Old Manchester ? Captain Ijallin, that sailed from Hull the 29th or August, for Quebec, re turned to that port on Tuesday last, leaky. The provisions of the Militia Act pow in force, and under which the ballots are at present drawing,. stand in much need of revision. The penalties, instead of being appropriated as before to previd. ing . substitutes, are now paid into the &sebequer, and since the present billoapg has commenced the some which have beep thus paid are immense; while the consequencesto parishes and societies are, most distressing. The enormous 'bounties required , by substitutes, put it altogether out of the power Of individuals 'to provide them v and the eggnogs of Societies to procure substitutes, has raised the pre- mium to such a height, that on. tati Average, listy,. One Pounds, and in several cases On liundred Pounds have been paid to persons eligible to eerie as such. These high bounties, we are assured, are not only contrary to, but are expressly prohibited by the Militia Act, under a penalty of Twenty Pounds. Why, therefore, parishes or Societies should thus fly itt the face of an Act of Parliament, in holding out such inducements to substitutes, we are at a loss to understand; the evil Consequenc s of a coen.ir 'tiptsance of such a practice being so obvious, ar 'scarcely to need elucidation. We may, hoW. res., just remark, • that in the lira/ instance, these extravagant bounties put a complete stop to the recruiting for • the regular • army; 'tts no man would •in any case accept of the bounty offered by Government for recruits into the] regular service, while the odds ate so much in dial favour by entering into the militia ; and in fist; , , second place, the Parish or Society are likely soon to lose the service of their recruit, fur whom thy paid the sum of One llundted Pounds, by his volunteering into the regulars for a new bounty of Eighteen Pounds, and the Wintry may thetube soon deprived of his services altogether, by his paying 501. for his discharge; thus, in the course of a few months, realising, with. very little tronble, a considerable sum to himself, audauhjecting the Parish or Society to the pay.ueut of: an vll4l sum for a man to supply Itts piaci& . MILITARY INTRLLI6IENCE. -. •••• 1 1.1 1 M.... TO THE FIELD OPPICERS N'llo TOUOUT IN TON nirrettksyr BATTLEi IN SPAIN AND, TOR FUGAL. The design of these 'Medal% is happy .1,0 appr.). riate and the elocution excellent. Ti e folio% tiig - a - .ii corterkdeserlpOol.,t — OnvEßsa.—lieilainia sitting in tliatirtisiof theV3he cal.e4 Spain and Salop), reposior, after a vieocioos battle lit Left hand she holds is paint branch, us an emblem of Vict,ci, and in the right, sae preeems a crown of I•turel to the ueriPF riOus Officer, as a reward for hi% great stall aid Woor by which he has &spool well of his cosotrv. Rev sitsa.—W ithin a wreath of laurel are' engraved the „ Chlker's rank and, mune also toe on.oei af t places worm the several actions were fought, witistac date of the sear, fire. fire, it..rte-Guads, A. 14, 1810, The Commander in Chief directs it .to to the Army, that by an arraugeinent whirls ter , lc • effect front the 25th of June last, the mode or pus lag for bread and forage supplica to the tr0.).4 has been altered ; and the parnent is now ;bade . wholly by the Commissary in Chief, and out .! • by that °Meer And partly by the PA)masteis of Regiments, as was the case previous to the 25th ut • line last. By command of the Right lionourable the Com. sander is Chief ; FIAROCCALYERT, 4d1.-Gcn , GENERAL (ADAM. • , • .tione tindrels, Ana- 13,1810. At a General CourtraarioJ. held at Uaida l ?"o".. an the 26th of June, 11140,. s.o4 . lautttbskuuti ,4y 4t urumenis to the 25th of July totkntintg, vt44 • - sbert Ckilman, of the Sensed - .•• • gitnent of local Militia, etas Arraiita'hecon the M. lowing charges, rig.— . •• lii. For disobedience of orders, having, oo Owlet of June, 410 % refined to obey thourders of Lint.-Col. the Bon. J. W. traarroao; • nod having resisted, its Coe streets of hkanimtoise, going to the Barracks, where he ea ordered to he c,.l.thted. far von irregularity of conduct. "9,d. For haviog on the seam day wade, use •f unktinour t threaten/mg, and disrespectful laqiunge to the bald Lieute;Cui. the Han. J. W. STR ATFORD. " 34, For IRUDOORS Aud improper behavtour, haring on Ole sane dit,- kicked J•gus, co ITS en DOA, turn. Serje.Vit to top ilearsted *ad Melling Regiment of Local %hill, t. pile sa the ezecotioo of his duty (escorting him a pribot.er to the HArrarkb), and baring struck other permsw who aosi.ted in sresiria4 hint * such toodoct being contrary lathe ndev and articles o f V;ikr." The Court found the Prisoner Gains. 0$ this crimes laid to his charge, and sentenced b 1 n L., r e . ache 800 140111$ upon his bate back watt& tlke eel , 'nine tails- 0 . . ,• His Majesty has hems *leased to soprove and confirm the sentence of thp oint thu. minder in Chief directs this thc.furet,i,l4 eh.ir4e, x together with the sentence of tbet Cour% and his Majesty's confirmation thereof, shall i t .• rvivi 4t head of wryly regiinest of Local Militia,. By conunautt of lilts Right Rai4.440 Corpumas, in Chief s CAI 4 YEATI Ad 3 -Geng Horse-Guards, 10th Sept. Ina), (t has been represented to the Commander in Chief, that, nuiwithstaeding the farmer Order* whicbhave been issued on this subject, the Com. esissioners of the Royal Hospitals :of Chelsea and Liimainham are much embarrassed in the perform— • ance of their duty l , by the very loose and vague planner, in which, in many instances, the Services 'of Soldiers, who are presented to them, sire asccre Mined. The Order of the lath of May, 1608, has been • revised with the most scrupulous attention, and has been found perfectly adequate •to its object, It should therefore be unnecessary to rePeat what has been so recently and clearly explaioed ; hut the in, attention of Office:sin command Regiments to this essential part of their duty, renders it Wis.. pensable on the part of the Commander in Chief,. to repeat his injections, that the must exact ohedi. wide be paid to this Otder, and in point out the fol• lowing irregularities,..as those which hare generally occasioned the difficulties complained of, vii. Ist. Stating gene'rany the camber of years and days which mee have served, withotit specifying the period or periods from to id. N o t specifying service In the jlast and Weit Indies, iq conformity to the Itcgslatious id. Neglecting to state the 'manner la which ma have been disabled. 4th. loattentloq tells Steesorsedipe op the hack of the Dist charge. 4th. 011111 tot i u Certificate in the case Via, whcr have a Wes, orserved foithfully, 6th. In wipes tottpeties % the obsokte forms of Discharie have been seed, Theis various points hue been so clearly ex. plained in the Regulations, and their object must, it is re sumed, be so itt unison with the feelings 44 every (Merl that the Commander in Chief cannot but lie much surprised at the want of attention to thorn s which his called for these oninotdversions. If it was necessary, or proper,' to suggest cny additional incentive to a sense of duty, the Officers to whom this Order Is •addressedf *solid find it in the present instance, in the interest they cannot but take in the welfare of those, who having served their hest days ander their command, are seat home to avail themselves of the bounty and provision, Which the gratitudeof their sountry, and the gra. awes care of their Sovereign, have prepared fur them, but which is frequently withheld, from their not being furnished with the documents, which are necessary to ascertain their claims, It is most distressing to the Commander in Chief, to state the evils to which Soldiers at the closcuf thcir se rvices are exposed by such omission but he feels it so imperiously his duty to redress them, that he has judged it eapedient thus publicly to decline, that, she v uld any similar instances hereafter occur, lie nil( consider any Commanding ()dicer who gives his Sig nature to a Discharge, which is nut m rde ail in formity to the late Regulations, as ru nt sible for a Disobedience of Orders,.and for ihe sequences, with which,. his tiegteca may be o t tieud. (1 4 as of the inter est of the Soldier. By e.onlmanti of the Right llan. the Commander itt BARR. V CA Acti,ituo-cierrol. p ul tworimiewlerane= On Monday last, a snare belonging to (.;optain FRAXEM, 'or Brackla, trotted agiemst time !rem le, runes' to Fort George, a distastco of 14 tnilc, which she performed with Ate in 49 ininut..4, within•ll minutes of the Ouse all Owed. Several Locks were deoe4ling. . • • • • • • • • ..:t • ;I! : ,-4 —. a.:r .....,,, ' v + '. - , . • in krf-k A : - :I r .