The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-10-29 00:00:00

'll E STA T ERMA Isl. MR. CURRAN. Dr THE ROLLS. AND INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OP NEWRY. V a co.'s-Liftable depreciation. Nett a dollar of the ;punish loan hu )et been receivedd " f must conclude the- present crude epistle, es I am this instant summonekto attend the meltneholy 4 ceremonial of committing the mangled reteeins of several of my brave Companions to the parent earth. I 44 My neat, If' I forgive, will, I trust, give you an account of the Anal reduction of this place, as we hate already driven the enemy within their inte rior lines. l4 Mr. CURRAN'S speech to the Electors of Newry will he found in oar Paper of to-day. Mr. Cult- AAR is a man, whose powers of mind are not to be estimated by the standard of human perfections. if. appears in our hemisphere like a COKE; destined by nature to range without controul beyond the general limitation by which Providence has marked the boundaries of the mental spheres. His genius is one of those rare gifts of nature which, in any age, enlightens and astonishes mankitxl; and though the appearance of such luminaries may be seldom and uncertain, yet they are distin guishable from all others by their splendid diffusion of intellectual light, which, while it exhibits to our view, by its piercing rays, the latent deformity of tyranny, brightens also with its radiance the beautiful mantle of tnacn. - rx ; and whether the fancifhl flights of this Tutelar Genius display their lucid nudus in the URSA MAJOR of the North, or in the Ptqcts Atisra..i.Lts of the South, he is still, in. Ireland, the patron rafitirtsie and the punisher of ries. • Government have received further ucounts from Lord C tTIICART this morning, but they have not been made public. If any thini of importance should transpire in time for a Second Edition, we shall publish it. We particularly call the attention of our Readers to a Letter inserted this day, signed MAGNUS Arot.Lo. The very intelligent writer appears to be well ao. quainted with the secret political springs that set in motion the complicated interests'of nations. When such enlightened minds employ those abilities in ex posing the machinations and corruptions of a de pealed policy, they may be truly said to be the real benefactors and promoters of 44 peace on earth, and good-will towards men.'' NIPAL INTE, 'NOIS. .4,144142... • * Drat, Ocr. 48.—The brie Moab, : thane, from. , London to Senegal ; and the Walker, Socne w frtfrn Sunderland for Guernsey, with coals, drote els) shore last night daring the gals, and bilged ; the for.' mer, cargo unloading. The Favourite, Mzwie, froes' London for Malta, proceeded to get into Broad stairs harbour, with seven feet water in her hold, having been athwart of Ramsgate Pier Head. A brig lost her foremast and bowsprit, gone to Rams gate, particulars not known. Came down from the .river, the Serapis, store ship for Malta. Arrived l the Tigress gnu-brig from a cruise. Ilia Majesty't chips, and the rest of the outward-bound, are all 'well, except the loss of a few anchors and cables. YAIRMOUTIi, Ocr. 28.—Since last evening we base , had a very severe gale of wind—the following ships have been driven on shore : the Endeavour, of Ipc wich, near the Pier; the Edward, of and from Sej• 117, bound to London, on Yarmouth bea c h, wilt I foremast and bowsprit cut away; the riggeet; SiC `and from Shields, on Caller beach, where it is j feared she will be a wreck ; the Providence, is lost ! en the sand, crew saved by a fishing-boat from hence; the Derlin:ton and Hewitt* of Sunderland, bare lost anchors and cables ; two vessels, tames um. known, are totally lost on Yarmouth Said, and $1 I on board perished. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. INL—Arrived bis Maiwees ship.Tenzer, from a quite. Sailed the IVio 6t lor . Cherburgh, and Earacin, i cruise. His Majel, ty's ship Coquette gives instructions to the West 14... J dies. The Recovery Is appointed convoy for the Brazils, and the Rover for the Downs. PLYMOUTH, 27.--Arrived the Andromache frigate, from off the coast of France. Sailed the Dotterel and Foxhound sloops of war, on separate. cruises. r • ' On Saturday morning last, being the sixth day of the Poll, Mr. Comas rose, dud addressed the Court on in substance nearly as follows t---lie satoi he had been i d. indeeed by some of the most respectable Electors of told the Borough to offer himself a Candidate. As to himself, he could have no wish to add to tbe weight l ' ."- of his public duties; and as to serving the country Rams- essentially, he thought 'err moderately indeed of his from the own powers ; but under circumstances like the pre_ Arrived sent, under such Rulers, and in such a state of popu. Majelity'S far Representation, or, rather, Unrepresentation, he nd, are all was perfectly convinced, that no force of any iudivi , id cables. dual, or even of many joined together, could do mach to serve us, or to save us. In addition to thin ening we have , personal disinclination, he was ignorant of the exact' following ships state of the Borough, and, of course, of the likeli ,eavour, of Ilse- hood of his success • but yet, though without per ofl and w et set. assail wish or pro bable hope, he thought himself south beach with bound, as a public man, to obey—because, though , the victory was doubtful, the value of the contest Y; the rigilent, of was incalculable, inasmuch as it must bring before beach, where it Is themselves, and before the rest of Ireland, not only e Provitence, is lost an exact picture of their situation, and of the public fishing-boat from hence; ' malady under which they were sinking, but must la, of slenderised have also make an infallible experiment; it must decide, s to the commonest observer, the principle of the dis t," " Mi l D a m " Im' ease—the weakness and misery of public distraction Al 1 anulith Saud, sad all —the certain success, if the sufferers could be corn. blued, by the sense of common.danger, in a common 'l. --. -t. o d Ms Bleiod fen wort, to throw off the odious 'smithies that sits ripelyl '''..h for eir4.tbe public heart, locking up the !holt:tome circulni', • filionnf its blood, and paralythig its action. The ex • periment has now been made, and has failed of im mediate success: it was an effort nobly supported by . every generous and honest man within the limits of the Borough—but its triumph has been delayed by the want of union—by the apostacy of the perfidious --by the vile defection of others, whom opulence could not reconcile to duty and in& pet elence. "Yes," he, " notwithstanding this sad coalition of arable men against themselves and their children, I 'do not hesitate to announce to the generous and i ,honest Electors that hear me, that, though their triumph is deferred, their Borough from this inomentrl i is free, and that terror has ceased to reign over it.--I in We are informed, that it is the intention of Go- I You have polled a greater number of honest and foe s"eminent, as soon as Parliament meets, to bring in dependent Voters than ever appeared heretofore for a Bill to confiscate all the estates in the West India your most successful Candidate. Look now, for a , Islands, of those persons who are resident in France, moment, against what a torrent of adverse circum- Denmark, and Holland. This Legislative rieasure I stances you had to act; the object of your support, ! will include the extensive properties of Madame I personally a stranger, giving public notice that he BoNarmere in Martinique, and of Count SCHER. I wou l d not solicit a single individual. The moment a *MACAU in Santa Croix, as well as various others to contest was apprehended, Corruption took the alarm a great amount. It is said to be intended to appro. co ' — and appointed ublic so ea Otlicer, in myearly a day fo opinionr the m Election, estates, ostluttlioben; I priate the sums, that may arise from the sale of these estates, towards the reimbursement of those indivi-, a . s to make all preparation whatsoever on my part ' duals who have had property confiscated in Fiance I, "np•ossible. If you remember the indignant laugh Denmark, and Hojland. ' that was excited in the course of the Poll, when the ' Returning Officer demanded of the Poll-taker how We understand that yesterday Ministers received dispatches from Sir JANES SAUDAREZ, with accounts how many mane had vow! for the Master of the Rolls, and from the Greed Armies in the neighbourhood of , 'for us i' you must, I think, be citified that there must be something base in this busines s .—! Moscow, three or four days later than those from , Sad indeed is the detail of this odious and ludicrous Lord C4THCART. They state that no battle had . transaction, but it is too instructive to be passed over' taken place, but that the respec i tiz t g e r; d zes were ma- . iusdesmos. Iv . ' tr ,„ Ek ,, ti ... p . d , iiko i s w, e mi o . stasiug each other, ancl-thet the l In P eri.rgi k l 'mal rOCP and proposed my gallant Opponent, as be ef the Russians bad been greatly augmented. It is also said that the periodical snows had begun ; Rad : ing a Ge; ' itlem in of 'great influence in the Borough,' and had served it for three Parliaments—that is, it was assumed that the comparative. incompetency ! of the French to encounter the difSculthn of the iin other a ords, a Gentleman who had the dregs of its population under his feet, anti who had for three Par• climate, would place them in the most critical sites- ! liamere s been the faithful adherent of every M inister, ' lion. In the same official accounts we are told, that . and upon every vital question, the steady and re the full details are given of the Battle of Borodino ;1 , morseless ' enemy, so far as a dumb vote could go, of and the loss on both sides is computed, is killed d I s land. i n deed, wh a t could you and wounded, at 100,000 men. this slevoteA n d , y expect from a Gentleman of another country, w ho: Capt. SHERRIFF was yesterday appointed to the could have neither interest in you, nor sympathy for &masa, a new ship of 74 guns, now fitting for i you, but was perfectly free to sell you, or to bestow sea at Deptford, where she was lately launched. I you, at his pleasure? This Motion was seconded, I Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the' blush to think of it, I burn at being obliged to state East India-house, when Captain E. Bit A raw was , it, by a Merchant of Newry, himself a Catholic, him sworn into the command of thesbip Princess Amelia, I self the uniform witness, as he, together with his Ca consigned to Prince of Wales Island and China. theft Brethren, had been the uniform victim of the Lord /limos; has been upon an Antiquarian tour I principles of a Gentleman whom he thought proper in the midland counties, in part of which he was ac- to support. Never shall I forget the figure which the companied by Sir Isaac HEARD. unhappy man made, hesitating, stammering, making The Dowager Countess of MEATH died at her a poor endeavour to look angry, as if anger could , house in St. Stephen's Green, Dublin, on the 23d cast any veil over consciousguilt, ortonscious shame, ' inst. in the 84th year of her age. or conscious fear t and to what extent must he have Military dispatches were yesterday delivered at felt ail those sensations, if lie looked forward, not the Horse-Guards from Lieut.-General Sir Joy, merely to the sentiment of indignation and contempt SHERBROOK, commandiug.the farces In Neva Scotia. otitis he was exciting in the minds of those that he The Cathedral at Barges, in Spain, i s one o f t h e betrayed, but the internal horror that he must feel, -oblest •of Gothic - - and its' when thrust forward to the bar of his own conscience, ' i raid SurenxEss, OCT. 2.B.—The Dictator, Capiain Stewart, has sailed for Chatham, Where it is expect ed she will be paid off. The following letter from New Orleans, r'ated ' August ?4, contains a repetition of the report of the loss of the Southampton frigate, at the mouth of the Mississippi. We still trust that it will turn out to be unfounded :—" All is bustle here in the military way. Since the morning a report has reached town that the British have taken possession of our block house at Fort St. Phillip, near the month of this Biter. The Southampton frigate was cut away at the Balite, and the Brazen sloop of war weathered the the storm on the 18th instant ; and it is believed with their boats they have taken t he above-mentioned pt.' sitions, which were rendered entirely defai the hurricane. It would be impossible to give yes a just description of the dreadful bavock and melan choly aspect of this ill-fated city. The hurricane far surpassed any thing of the kind ever witnessed here tofore, for violence, and consequent destruction of iroperty. Every house in the city is more or less njured--many were dashed to atoms; hundreds of lives were lost on the river, and out of 60 vessels, Scarcely six are worth repairing." It is very generally believed that the Parliament *kith has just been elected, will sit beta very few months before another dissolution takes place. The damage sustained by the shipping on the river and in the Pool, during the dreadful gale of Tues day evening, is estimated at more than 100,0001. Three West Indianien lost their bowsprits and re ceived considerable damage in their rigging and car goes, in Gravesend Reach. The Butaths, Captain MAYNE, is safe in dock. Two foreign ships went on shore below Greenwich. His Grace the Duke of RICHMOND has been ho noured with a 4etter from the PRINCE RE.•ENT, ex pressive of his approbation of the whole of his con duct in Ireland. It is said he has also received an offer of the Viceroyship of Ireland, if he should in cline to continue at the head of the Irish Govern ment.—(Lish Paper.) . . _ Yesterday a man named Hart, employed in the ! n°l specimens , architecture, Orderly-room where the valUables belonging to the . form and structure exactly correspond with York, and the dreadful sentence of expiatory torture which i i Minster : no two buildings were ever greater resem- that Indignant conscience innst pronounce upon him ? eoldstream Guards were deposited, underwent exa- . However, he was hold enough to second the motion urination at Queen-square, on suspicion of having blances of each other. and I think the General is altogether indebted to the heen concerned itt the late robbery, when the silver' IllottWieu.—Theunfortunatermmplighter,blown collars, wrist bracelets, goreets, &c, were stolen.; over Blackfriars'• Bridge on Tuesday eight, was virtue of this independent Catholic, and of two other equally virtuous Catholics of Newry, for his final sue- He wit: remanded for farther examination. I named Burke. He was a servant in the employ of 1 ,if success it can be called." Simeker.ss, Oct. 28.—1 t has blown a dreadful . Mr. Patrick, of Newgate.street. The body was Mr. Curran passed on to the circumstances of the gale of wind from the S. W. during lust night. A dragged for yesterday morning, but could not be! boast was upset at Garrison Point, when a found. lie lie left a wife and a family to lament his ° Teit proposed—the most moderate that he hail ever t witnessed—it was merely that he would not obsti. man and a w oman , with a child in her arms, were • loss. He was blown over in the presence of his son, 1 irately drowned.—A fire broke out is+ the premises of a a child ten years old, mul, before assistance could i persevere in betraying the trust reposed in ! him. And what was his answer? Certainly it was farmer, near Gillingham, whets several houses and , be procured, sunk to rise no more! i fair and candid, and giving you all the fullest notice hay-stacks were totally consumed.—A boat with two ; Daring the storm, part of the roof of the elegant ;, of what you had to expect. He said, that he was of the men belonging to the Osprey sleep of war, ; villa at Putney, inhabited by Madame Cherry, was . not an Orator; that his principles were those of a sunk alongside of the vessel where they were hulked, ! unroofed by the wind. Several persons wereenveloped . Soldier; and that whatever question came forward, by which one of them eas drowned; the other kept' in the ruins, and one person was not dug out until ' he would vote as he should think hest ; that is, in hold of the boat and was saved. l this morning. We are happy to state that no lives i , other words , that if you returned him, you would A French Officer of the rank of Colonel, who hadwere lost.—ln town several buildings sustained ma- send him a mute to Parliament, with a parchment lo broken his parole, was yesterday apprehended in : terial damage ; the neighbourhood of Downing. one hand, under the name of a Return, containing Five Bell-alley, by the °Twee!, MILLAR and Fan. I street was greatly alarmed from its influence on the • the terms of your capitulation, and show-string in max, of the Whitechapel P I Police, by whom be was 1 ensnated and uninhabited remains of a house on the the other • that is, that during the debate he would conveyed to the Alien o:Tice to be identified. I right band, the bricks and tiles of which were forced ring the dumb-bell; but that, on the division, Tuesday merniter a Court-martial assembled on into the street to the terror of the passengers and the , When it became a passim! bell, board the MenetuttA (dag-ship), in the Downs, for I dread of the dwellings contiguous to the desolated ! 0 I 'kat, he'd ring it mon* weft. the trial of Lieu:. Richard Stewart Gweege, belong- ; fabric. About seven o'clock the large iron pipe af- : tt Indeed (continued - this Master of the Rolls), to ins to the Geiffor: sloop of war, for stabbing a ser- 1 Seed nn the chimney of Colonel Calvert's apart- touch but pasingly upon the subsequent transactions j'snt of marines be:oneing to that ship, which caused meat in the Horse-Guards, war blown downinto the .f the Election, they are fresh in your minds. You his death (as mentioned a few clays ago); Admiral , front of the building in Whitehalli fortunately doing jaw those.that voted for their country; you saw FOLEY, President. During the 'afternoon a gale of no injury. A woman and child were killed in (Macke , those that voted against their country, and against Mitid came on, which caused the Praddlatassi Mao- friar-road; several persons "landed in the Ho- ilhemseine. Every honoureble, every respectable hers of the Court to remain cm bouttleaarteealaesesi , rough, and many other dreadful accidents of the pen, within your Borough, except the unfortunate and so violent was the hurricane, th a t a n- esesaai. same sort happened throughout the metropolis. Ws ,Mr. Caulfield, end his tiro associates, were in the cation with the shoro was for a thee sag o s ied.-- enticipate melancholy accounts among the shipping .. l o nger clue; but Why -do I -except them? They do The Court ass em bl e d ag ai n yeste r day. ' __ * I . ' ROIXAW made his debut on the American boards, mot Wet* tottbot, ChM of public spirit or honour— , A very h u t press aga i n t oo k place al Me • abir on the 28th of Soptensber, Itt tile New York Viet% leviagAloodgestowlipik Am 'unfortun,te rnee yesterday, w ith ou t res p ec t t o protasis. s-, - • lln iloroki. , • t lompoctiv, Wig* -' elm a - tuacossiots of' poor , ... • ' . ' .'. e! es • - : ..... - . . . • . . • , k ~ --__ -..-..i.m•l=Mil • :.:. . .. creatures, without clothes upon their reeks—n4ted f as if they hid been stript for etecodon--neked, al 'if they halYbeen Wide(' from their mothets, con 'dielted to the Nobtc Genera! at the nelonett of thei.• 'bi;th—no part of there coterezi but their Chins, ;, if natarilsed stuck a be rd upon them in &retire) ci their destiny. Such (said he) has been the cotecet such the adverse forces--sacs tun, tiles far 64 re-. suit--but (said he) i told you that the contest was more value than the victory, that if it did not A iy.. you trininph o it would give you wisdom. And to Iteep this promise, I must carry back your reflectiou "to times that hate pissed us. And I must do that to chew you that ill our miseries and degradation info sprung from a - disunion, cruelly ettid *Welly fehri , Cited by a foreign country, for the base puttroSe of driving as to suicide, .and tasking ue the trtstruthent of our destruction" Mr. Curren here gave a rapid sketch of the first dawn of dissension in Ireland— the conqueror and conquered—a conquest toe, ob tained, like all the victories over Ireland, by the triumph of guilt over innocence. Thor 'di‘eeetiou, followed up by the natural hatred of the spoiler aed the despoiled—this dissension followed up f.frthc'r by tho absurd antipathies of the religious teat dis. sensiou still followed farther by the rivalries of trade , . The creel tyrants of Ireland dreading * that, if Irish industry had not her hands tied behind her hack, see might become impatient of servitude, and these halide might stork her deliverance. Vaster this sad court. lion of confederating diseensione, muted and fo. ' merited by the poky of Itttgdold, this' devoted Couto• try has continued to languish, with small &mita• tione of national destiny, from the invasion of the lieeend Beery, to the preseut thee.—" And here," Wie r " iitxaebe jest, while I oat indispient ; let - me candidly own, to the noble examples of 'British virtue, to theeplendid exertions of British courage, to their splendid sacrifices, rim I probably indebted for my feelings as an Iris h man , and !try devotion to . my country. They thought it madness to trust them. selves to the influence of any foreign country ; they thought the circulation of the political blood conid be carried on only by the action of the heart within the body, and field not be inflicted from without; events have shewn you that what they thought was just—and that what they did was indispensable—they thoterlit , they ought to govern themselves—they thought that at 'every hazard they ought to nathe the effort—thee thought it more eligible to perish than to fail—and to the GOD of Heaven, I pray, that the authority of se splendid an example may not be lost uport Ireland." He continued; in adverting to the state of Ireland, from the Revolution to the year 1782—" A sad continuing spectacle of Ireland, disgraced and op.. pressed, and plundered by two emeses—ilest, she was too enfeeble] by dissension to • resist--tare se cond!y, she continued the abject victim of the Ser i did,' insatiable, and implacable tyranny of a foreieta country—at length, in 1782, a noble effort ens ' made, and deathless ought to be t e name of nix that made it, and deathless ought to brittle gratitude ' of the country for which it wal made—the indeirm. dunce of Ireland was acknowlodged. Linder • this System of asserted independence, our progrese in prosperity was much more rapid than could have ' been expected. When we remember the conduct of a very leading noble person upon that occasion : • never was s more generous mind, or a purer heart ; tose his mind hrt.4.more pertty Thaeretteegth; he had all that belonged to taste, and courtesy, and Fertile ment ; hut the graudyni the sublitne of national re ! form, were compose of colours too strong for his eye, and comprised a horizon too outstretched for his vision. The Catholics of Ireland were i:t fact excleded from the asserted independence of their • country.—Thus far the result comes to thii, that wherever perfect union is net found, complete re• dress must be sought in vain." Mr. Curran proceeded to the fatal measure o" fez Union, " the last and mortal blow to the exi:terce ;of Ireland as a Nation ; and that a eeasimmatio. , f our destruction achieved, by that perpetual instru ment of our ruin, our own disseaaions. • The while history of ma , ikittti records no !Attester of any IP,. tile Cabinet, perhaps of any even internal Ciltinet, actuated by the principles of honour, or of shame =• The Irish Cathel:c errs therefore tretget . to belicie, that if he surrendered nis country. he cease t.) he a slave. The Irish Prreestaitt ..vas cajoled into the belief, that if be concurred in the nntkretuter;• Ite would be placed. upon the ne,et of a hoe tile factiorte-e wretched dupe. You might as Wel!' perisalie 'the gaoler, that he Is less a prisoner thin the teptitee he locks tip, merely, because he etaißes the key 4f` the prison in his pocket.—By that reciprocal - animosity, however, Ireland was surrendered—the guilt of the surrender was most atrocious—the consequences tlf the crime most tremendous and exemplary. We p i er ourselves into a condition of the most untemlifikl servitude—we sold our country, and we levied upon ourselves the price of the purchase—we gave up the right of diiposing of our property—we yielded to a foreign legislature to decide, whether the funds no. cessary to their projects, or their profligacy, should be extracted from us, or be furnished by themselves —the consequence has been, our scanty means hare I been squandered in hor internal corruption, as pro.. fusely as our best blood has been wasted in the mad.. ness of her aggressions, or the feeble folly of her resistance— our debt has, accordingly, been increlsed more than ten-fold—t:-.e common comforts of life have been vanishing—we are sinking into beggary-- our poor People have been worried by cruel and une principled prosecutions—and the instruments' of our Government hare alurbst been simplified into the tax-gatherer and the l'angmau. At length, after this long eight of suffering, the morning star of our re. demption casts its light upon us—the mist was d;t... solved, and all men perceived that those weom they had been blindly attacking In the dark, were, in reality, their fellow-sufferers and their friends ; WO have made a discovery of the grand principle its poll. .tics, that the tyrant is hi every instance the creature of the slave—that he is a cowardly and a competing animal--and tit*, in every instance, he caleulates between the tetpenditure to he made, and tee ade vantage to be acquired. And i , therefore, do not hesitate to say, that if the wretched Island of Man, that refughtus paireSorum, heti sense end spirit to Fee the force of this troth, sha could not be enslaved by the whole power of Bnglrusd; the oppressor would see that the nemmaill eripeadlture, In %ships, and chains, and gibbetsl weeld iuti9itoly countervail the ulti. mate valve if the acquisition; and It is owing to the .~.,~~ • # °~ r w i~ t N ep• 0• ~Y• 11•••.-. --•••1 ~ !t..._ r It r, k