The Statesman. — London, England, 1810-12-13 00:00:00

; - 7.;T 4-: THE S.l 1 1 ' DEC. 2.—YestofdayAystaiwAt of con." o f his ajesty'senito -a klissa . il ~. t...- -." . • I Theatres wqrs.trt•C: - . .1 • ' thd city of Pori, OStl , pGttbn otsll3o - • poor maideolt:4lol kiif to $ ginhfiln lo It soldiers. t ,rnpress, acconspinied by a.Lady, ristie .c otk i k in her riding-habit, and was receivedmith lo os which her Majesty very. grasiotbely • Decree of the 29th of govembei, issued Pslacc of the Thuilleries, his Majesty has the pejo& indeterminately in which the language is to beefed in writings in the de. Is of the fititichts.dnathin, and of • the de l'Eseitt. ,nther Decree, homed the Saine ' day, his Ma. lered that the German language, utast' with ich, may be used in the departments of Lentil, In Courts of Justice, Acts of Admi. de. 'WAN, DEC. 4.... This day, in pretence of .c, Member of tho Chamber of Accounts, M. Rocbussdn, Member of the COundl of Ir e, of Messrs. Marquissae, Colonels of ions, and rainy, Captain-Adjutant oo the Staf f , and Franek, Aid-the:camp of Gene. itte, with the Superior Officers of the Cns. 53 bales of English goods were brought to le, near the laden Brug, and buret. ,!rocess Verbal was drawn np be(orgigit* p 4110 1 19.. )NNE, Nov. 23.—A strong American yes. len with insurgents from Gallicia, to *ell provisions, was &item by a heavy West do the Bey of St. One, and then taken and into St. Andes*. The lading consisted of tons of tour, and 2000 tons of. Turkish which came very opportunely for the provi. of our army. is, Dec. Majesties the Emperor ,mpress *Mit yesterday eveninglosibe Gar.et 41Iceset wisiirerformidi. and in the second the Opera a Cantata was applauded, which ! plicable to the happy pregusacy of her M. the Empress, whom the general Wish , itte sec ly delivered. !lie entrance into the Opera norctimemsst had uet of myrtle and other flostersiss-Sheir bands. Emperor and Easiness appeared Is their box, spectators in the Hall rose up and repeatedly out, Vice l'Empereor 1 Piss P Emperesse I wet took place at the beginning of the Caa. The (soling was universal, asid their Maki. imitated till be highly gratified by the appear ,of nstiunal paths** Their biniestlas redialo. derieg the Bell*. 4Waktisiffllak•efaith fig" Alkestss. - • • ' - - a letter !f to ElObenr, *e learn, that the Ad. 1 Court confiscated the following vessels and t lading s—Cekst, Hiorth .Foriuna, Pehrsou ; Olive Brooch,. Howland ; eurtients Adolphus, Dsbbia; Cathcirisse Elizabeth, Lehman; Nap. Amu, J. C. Zelda; Dietetic ilettrnsisse,inger; Christina Withelasissa, Steiner* 3 .Diaatste Hoff. Rubarth ; gitsawssai Causes 4 4 ' Sitrortys, )otcker ; and Wilhelmitia, ahlb., AllitliDAM, DEC. 3.--Os ,the 2J, the I r ma' pirsteer Le Passroayear, Cipt. 3. M. Batt,- Pe l .b . tamed from a eruize. She captured the SVrediell' Speculation, from Stockholm to Plymouth, with iron and timber. The ship Jurgher, from Tottabaganweititlcilken the French privateer L'.efelioht4;nigilli* - ST,O Netereber. On the 23d of Novehrber si vented Steenhuzeerhiel to Tenni:lea, was 'captutiml soother French privateer. Decree repectiog the general Suppeomitin of &Witted • "-"tents in the Kiogddis of Pi ." • We, Frederick ViiUinta, by the Grace of God, King of ?Tanis, are. considering that the designs frar• with* I:lsthmian. and Convents leave hitherto been !°stowed are consonant with tbe objdcll and oesessities of She present it Considering that these deosenidirita Mrt baliduer ae t3‘2llliatted by different means • ,•' • * • • Tthst aU asighbadriat Seaterilffita;4l,lll4.o 4llllllll /es • That the punctual diadem* of the costfe. lo 4 lllll4* only be effected hY IMil eiVedi e W Aud that, by these wags, tre may dinsinlial Off lrarY 813 imareue the private property of oar sobjeelbmOift 'llo 41 as follows s-•• Art. 1. All COUftflti, and other Etch-Wallace! fatetitd / Baifliwisa, and Conantendatiee, whether of the Protested! • Catholic religion, shall front this day be considered al tlad Enerty of the State. An. IT. AS convents, &e. shall, by degree 2, be abolished ; cant Tali be taken of the eonspensation of all persons who inbAhd thee, or have claims uponthem. Art. lit. From the day of the date of the present Deem. Realties shall be allowed, no novices !ball be admitted, teats Perin Instituted to any °rhos belonging to them. Without ' contest, nothing of property Shall be made, no Capitals betel/yr:4,on debts contracted, and no inventories trans i• Ail cnotracts made in opposition to these directions 't 14 and void. Art IV. We shall prodWe for thesu(hcient vecompence of Chief teelesiastical .°Hirers. and with their advice for the 111 4141 tieroiociingof the Priests of the Schools t and al"' for 7 Convents that are employed . for the education Of youth, the cure of the sick, which suffer irr their revenue by the measure, or which may appear to require new funds. (Signed) " FREDERICK WILLIAM. (Ceuatenigued) " DARDENBURG'" Balk, N0v.16." • • e. t • , . Hie . • : - - , 1 - :LAW INTELLIGENCE; et ,bsellr R - 'n -; r :•:..m ." ••• ` ' `' '''' .. . ~ :\ • „,.. 4 4. C. . • • .. 4 4. 0 ....g . - ' • . 4 bila ' 41%6 . T • VW Matto' vda laireeitisseea, !gm Si • . - COURT OF CRANCERY, Dcc. It 71 ' ~ .inielxroclauitatt •. on of Nth •President must relieve ' &Orel the liLisrstA of the ROLLS. •- • • . .4 • • tiletrlbiie mind from much of the solicitude which X. Y. z. ..!7 It bits for some time past felt It• announces the • Mr. SRA DWeEL applied to his Honour on the pttt Intrlortast feet •o l 'officially ascertained that " this of the Pre t wiistors of Covent-garden Theatre, to adiellia in f France, violating the neutral eemerce of suspend an injunction which had been yesterday the UMW States, have fieee revoked, as to reuse t o obtained , from the Chaicellor by Mr. Morris of havoetfecit,i , and in virtile.of the unittalified ditec. the Haymarket Theatre, for preventing the acting of aions of an Act of Congress,, declares all -existing the New Farce of X. Y. Z. which • Sir Sa iN restrictions on the commerce and vessels of Frinee,The • facts upon i11..el Hominy obtained the injunction toted into partnership with 2 hd C . and her dependencies, removed. As, however , nu were , ' that in the year 1805- Mr. Morris had en. ! restriatioe exists with regerd to France except ther. Colman, in the I eiCifisiciii of . her armed vessels from our , pear, the concern of. the Haymarket Theatre ; and ' that 1 principal effect produced will be in our favour, by there was an engagement betiveen them, that Mr. the revocation of her Decrees, by which we shall be Colman should write duly for the " .Ilaymarket permitted to carry on our trade, without any other Theatre." After this piece had been given in, annoyance front her than Is authorised by the esta. notice was sent by Mr. Morris, to the Proprietors blished laws and usages of nations. of Covent.garden Theatre, that he intended to ap. i It Is scarcely necessary to *mark, that the Prat. ply for an injunction to itep the representation of dent in this Proclamation has strictly and literally it. They proceeded notwithateoding, and therefore pursued the track marked out by Congress, having it was necessary to make the application. • The merely discharged a ministerial trust. A feeble stand Chancellor considering the injury tett might result' has indeed been made by a few warm partisans, who to the Covent-garden Proprietors, from disappoint have contended, that so lung as the Frendh Go. ing the expectations of the 'Public, allowed the verement retained the sequestered property of our Farce to be acted last night; but granted the injutie. merchants,she evinced an indisposition "to cease to Lion to stop any further representation till he had violate the neutral commerce of the United States." heard the parties. But admitting the fact, and concurring fully Mr. gIiADWCEL *toted; that the Cotent-garden in the sentiment, that while she .does retain Proprietors had announced the piece for repeti that property she continues to ceermit a fia. lion this evening, in the hope that the Lord grant lujusice, does it prove in the very face Chancellor, upon a statement of the circumstances, of a solemn ; official deelaration, that she will nut would dilisolve the injunction ; Cud they bad done hereafter change her course, when she explicitly this, bailees; unites the representation was coati. says that she will ? The seizure and sequestration nued night after night, the benefit of the Farce of our property, although it is highly reprehensible, would be almost entirely lost to the Proprietors, and will ' unquestionably preseet a solemn point of notwithstanding the Sum they bad paid for it to discussion on our part, were long anterior to the de. Mr. Colman ; and the. expence they had been claration revoking her Edicts, and these very acts, put to in bringing it forward. He Stated, that so flagrantly in violation of our neutral commerce, ho had an affidavit of Mr. Harris, that they had are those among others, which by her declaration, received no notice of the engagement between , she pledges herself to cease committing. If -after Mr. Morris and Mr. Column, till they had ad. her declaration, she had continued to seize and AO- lanced two hundred pounds upon account to the quester our property, a correct suspicion would latter, and made preparations for acting the Farce ; have been excited, and it might well have carried and he therefore submitted that the Proprietors of her promise into effect. But she Is not charged Covent-garden Theatre stood in . the' situation of with any such conduct. It has moreover been seen purchasers for ealuable consideration without no. that the terms of the Act of Congress are broad lice; and that the engagement between Morris and cud imperative, looking entirely to the future, ana Colman ought not, in this instance, to affect thcm. not clogging any arrangements calculated to secure Theapplication had been made this day at the Lord a respect fur our rights hereafter, by any past con. Chancellor's house, but his Lordship was out of duct, however atrocious. On this head, therefore, town; land not expected to return till late in the the President being vested with no discretion, could evening. They were, therefore, ender the neces. exercise none. city of applying to his Honour to interfere so far There is another question, one perfectly distinct, as to permit the acting of the piece this night, till' which it may remain hereafter to- settle with the they could a pp l y to his L ordship. French Government. By her rescinding her Edicts, The Marna of the Rotes asked; whether he and our withdrawing our restriedens, the question , had any power to suspend the Lord Chancellor's in. . , of sequestered property is not put to rest . It will junction r • .till remain in its full force, and our claims on our Sir SAMUEL ROMILLIr s on the part of Mt. Mor. justice and honour will be unabated. May they vis, agreed with the Master of the Rolls, that his not, indeed, be strengthened? ..: • Honour had no authority in this case. The Pro.. The Circular of the Seal/hey 0( .Rite: Treasury •prietors of Covent-garden Theatre,, he apple. i discloses the next step tabois liallitiotatatotiog i o n. heeded, bad acted very rashly in announcing the cern. It declares the state - of Bangs whic* will piece for repetition, after 'vice last night of the *three months hence exist with regard to Great Bei. Chancellor's in unction. He had not heard soy . tale, in case " she shall not have revoked or modi. proposal from Mr, Shadwell to account for hie' fied, in like manner, hi.r Edicts violating the ate, 'bate of the profits to Mr: Morris, in case be ulti teal commerce of the United States," according to mately succeeded, provided Mr. Mimi* Humid be the same Act of Coup y,. • - prohibits " both ditiposed to coo sea t upon these tetatif 11111.‘1114140 1 the entrenee- of i llirilh - , emery 'ffeaription should he perforaied to-night: • ._.:. into the harbenrs d waters of . the United States, Mr. SeADIVELL said, that they hadato' 'objection . and the importation into the United States of any to these• terms. articles the growth, produce,or manufacture of the Sir S. Ropittot then consented to wave !the in: dominions, colonies, and .dependenaes of Great junction for one -tight, upon the conditiou stated, Britain, end of any articles whatever brought from observing, howdetna - that it would be no easy the said dominions, colonies, and depenlencits," :matter to settle what tumid be Mr. Murris's share; This was a result too important to be passed over sell would be neossittry. to decide how can y cause in silence by a Government instituted for the pro. to see Gustavus irefel, sad how many to see x. r. Z. tection of its citizens in all their lawful puisiiits. _ AL • As so large a portion of our trade is cart led on COU R T OF IEIIIIBI3 oßlklefli, UUIIOIIIALL, Dec. 14; with Great Britain and her dept. ,:cocks, it was &Wheat Itialtiktius before bord El.LENllonotittir. proper that ohatevor went to suseod it should be '' • SeARLS V. cote. ' I dearly stated, that every d. -the on this head , This ism an 'teflon to recover 231: Mid. money. ; might be reinovad. Prompt . as Oiht notice is, it lent, and 61. is. 11d. for the rent of a piece al will barely' afford time for the merchants to give potatoe-gronad. requisite instructions to their agents in Eng. Mr. TOPPING stated the case, and said the per. land, and to the merchants in England to avoid ties 'wet* both natives of Bandon, in Ireland, and the penalty attached to an inked* iti of our laws, in L they.were also relations, the Plaintiff being nephew., case she shall not' revoke her orders. This official of the Defendant;. they had given a joint Oremissery notification Wag further important, as It announced -note to a third permits for 1001. which the Plaintiff, to Great Britain and Frahce the determination of the discharged : the Plaintiff's signing was merely to Executive to - carry the Act of Congresi, with sere- aecomodate the Defendant: 'his he would prove by ;miens good faith, into effect. To the former it -a witness who heard the Defendant :acknowledge tarries a serious appeal, claiming the same respect that he was indebted to the Plaintiff in tie sum men.. for our neutral rights as we had' experienced from tioned in the declaration; and that he %Cattails° in.' 'MITI:n=Iy, while to the latter it is a proof of our debted to the Plaintiff in the sum of - 51, 21. ltd. for: rigid impartiality and purpose to act-towards her as a plece.of potatoe-ground which le hid rented:•.;— we did to . her enemy undec circumstances in some The transaction took plate in Ireland,' iii' 1806, measure analogous. , from, which time the Defendant -had resided in this Thus has the present Chief Magistrate, in the country. Ile would prove the Defendaht's acknow. meat of the debt, Which short period of eighteen months, had an oppOrtu., lodg wouldcatitio•the Plain. ~. ._ . nity, by - the most-emphatic and strikimailioplays of tiff to a verdict. ' • impartiality, to show his unbiassed'and leflexible re. I John Scott deposed- 1 . that he was the proprteter geed to justice towards the two Colima ewit's, of a public.bouse at Baader', in. Ireland, in the whose deadly feuds so deeply disturb the r e p ose u e year 1808 t the • Plaintiff and Ithe • Defindaiet 'came the world. Its the arrangement w ith Mr. &Aw e , tato his house to settle-their accounts, and the De, this disposition was shown towards Great Britain ; fendaut acknowledged that Ite was indebted to the it is now similarly exhibited towards Frilled. .:The Plaintiff in the sum set forth in the declaration.- same measure that was dealt Out to one is new . els. ' Mr. PA SKR iddresse. d the Jail, is .Cottesel for tended to the other. Meta-who are Pat the voryest the Defendant. staves of piety must approve in this lest h u mp h Lord Etextriteisotrou•sumined tip the evidence, what the/ at Wilily applapded in the former. nod observed, It was ••veyy singular that this Winn Will FAgland • follow the example thus happily should be brought iri this country ; parthsolarefse, net by Prance ?If 'halm a regard to her character, l4ll the tent for the potatos.grOund could have peen teller word, or foe her interest, she meet, Her recovered by a very simple process in Ireland. It Alls_ratter calls upon her to defend, instead of op. appeared strange that a transaction which took Mall,.floutrial rights ; her word has been-repeat. place in 1806, in Ireland, should be brought in the hilly pledged to rescind or revoke her edicts win. ,Court of King's Bench In London, in 1810, and biting our neutral rights, as soon. as Franca revoked supported by a witness - who has nothing but his • s; and her interest requires her to inaintein a memory to assist him, • without any memor andum. plo uuderstatiding with her best custobiers.— It would. be for,, the Jury to consider what cred it These considerations ought to influence , het.— should be given to the witness, and Mr them to give their verdict according to their °pinto We cherish the help° that they will. Bu t t they may / 'of that evi. not. She oily mistake her interests, and In her do cc. - • • -- ' ill-founded hoes and calculations, too little re-. Tbeyhi gave a v erdict for the Walden!. • gard her char acter and word, which may be 'seri- • oettisnrittt e. inlet. • need again on the altar of a False Necessity.. L'ut . MrePanaz—".Sty'Lerti, this cents stn ids only der the uncertainty which hanks on the fikUrei unr four of. •l• have a brief for the - fkiitodatit i.it is course is fortunately . obvious. Let us Nettie her Omer Mr. GlArrows ; -but, owlortitting. Geer it, .1 good sill, and by all proper means cultivete it ;* •think the dehisce is such, that I should meet with ballet ns 'Value justice still.more, and be prepared your Lordship's displeasure if I should attempt' to With ktacrity and vigoer to assert out; rights against defend it. The defence is infancy —andiii . such a all . aggressions ovum them. case must be unwarranted. My Lcarucic Erii,'•ndi - . • 7 . J• _ _ Mr.')ersis, agrees with me 'thet It etigilit to bt: -fcrred to some Gentlemah at thd Bar—in thine and my Learned Friend's opinion, who is Counsel for - the Plaintiff s it ought not to come before the Jury." Lord ELLeasottoueor- 44 Mr. Parke, I cannot take any cogniaince of what you have stated ; any agreement that is made must be b .twee' inirset vv. " PARSE—"" My Attorney has just inforn'ied me, that he had beest.iconsulting his Chen?, the Defendan:, and he will out agree to a raetence ; the only thing then lett for me is to give up n.y brief s fur I will nut be the advocate for such a defence." Mr. Parke accordingly handed his brief to the Attorney. In a •short time after it was stated to his ship, that it bad been agreed between the parties to refet the cause. odrc' p,013, DE tk; of itersary or A il t h e 71 ~r . „fti tit foci to it orriqc to The E rn i' oeterJay in gelamago il lowered. By 3 Dc f r om the Pr Wade d Frenc h lane stu,;les de By ;VOW ;51 Oftleti ;he Freaci Etti.Or leo r diustiou, kutsigl $. Lake, 0 4 of bl• l l retettl }MAWS, Ceara St Derittl Wit 153 Nagle, The eta abofe Mrs BaYeN! 'set, laden stored wit! wind into • brought in :000 ton! neat, wh s oing of hopsi sod p Opera. et of the id NIP iLsty the Uppity d At the t bouque I As the E all the sp cried oul The tacit ▪ UAL 7 4 ties itmil ISCI of 4 1 1thl f. local By t Po of WWII I 1. Sir lad the In DONS I Is Chistin e• mob c. loftier • Asset pinta timed 1 ry ship Sp kg Wes w r 4 The s. la by the l on of Nu, If from St itt by snot berm Hae It W e, NA ?mit, i n et IWO bet Cana ild fi nei 6' " Ceit o p, ooptith, Tha :nes ; Tha ha . V*, "And I Ch esil Mesas "Art 111 ,111 et c a lk en riven : 141 3 SOA K rani kir inh W ha ' al aria ins; Pere D( err eon! jut 114 he I kr fora d e arc akt3 " Ar lot 1 4 Cht 14 n C Itte her aboir e nd bc)* A.ll, His Lordship expressed his approbation of their determination. COURT OF COMNION PLEAS, Dec. te. Sittings ai Nizi Prius before Lord 4144 Justice • .MANSFIELD. , 1111VAINION V. This Waa an action brought to recover a sum of money alleged to hare been expended by thu Pl4m. till s at the purchase of necessaries for the use ut Defendant's wife. Mr. Serjeaut Barr, in stating the case, observed, ,he was extremely sorry that such an action should have been brought into Court. lie thought it *ould have been for they credit of both the parties, as ft A as a matter of a purely domestic nature, if it had beta privately referred to some respectable Gentleman at the Bar, • who . might have disposed of it, with. out producing a disclosure of circumstances of a nature which must be highly disagreeable to the persons concerned, but which he would be obliged to substantiate by his Witnesses. A 4 the Defendant had, however, (honed fit to permit the action to proceed thus far,, it became the bositiete of the Jury to decide upon it. The Plaint.ff aas a Professional Gentleman, and bad, at different times, advanced sums of money to Cue wife of the Defeudant, to prevent her literally from starvinc. Part of the sums laid in the declaration had been paid to a nude to wait on the utifortunate woman when she was ill ; and part had been expend d in redeeming her furniture, which hail been distraitied for rent. The Drksidant was an actor at one of the Winter Theatres in this metropolis; and his pro. fessiorial exertions brought him itra salary of dio guineas per week. Independent of this, he enjoy. ed the produce of a freehold estate, which he old obtained by his manage With the very M'comatt a tie had been thus consigoed to penury. tie would not detain the Court and Jury by expatiating on the sue, but would proceed to call his witnesses 10 prove the different sums mentioned in the dicta. ration. • Lord Chief Justice MANIITTELD -.- 411 This avitio itannor be sustained-1 never heard of an ac brought to.recover money lent to a married a to II " ' •IYlr.Serjeaut Ehe own.' was so va.vcil io procure_ food for Mrs. Marshall." *i.t Lord Chic( Justice MANiFt EL - 11.!." it *lli ti-t 'ie. If there are any modern decisions in favour of such it proceeding, let me hear them." ' *flew ilare:- 44, I thought T had made thyself 'sufficiently understood...but I vi ill ~l a in state s that part of the money eipended was actually given to the Servant to go out and buy bread fur the I.:Defeedant's wife. • Serjeaut Smxitutaih for the Defendant, ob. served, that Mrs. Marshall had been separated from her husban d these 2 ) years, and that the Plaintiff, Who was s' relation of Mrs. 'Mars hall, knowitiglivs .state of Mr. Marshall's circumst ances, had brought the present action. - ' Lord l hid Justice Mastsitzto-.- 46 see ye ors tides mentioned in the declaration ; it .is ill mother tent and paid—the action cannel be supported ;let. the Plaiutiff be called." —Piaiutiff notruititd. • OLD BAIT,Er Dsc. 12. The .Court proceeded -.to pus sentence on the seycral Ptisoncrs who were under conviction, and who bid not received judgment. The first put to the bsr were" tbe following jeer. ''neymed printers,• viz : Hbwiett, Jiiho Gee, Wm. pada:, Stephen Beckett, George Westray, Stephen Hurleyilleuri Byrne, Williams, Wmol ley, Robert Paquin. i4ward Nail, Wm. Williams, Corllet Latham, Wm.:Coy, James Joh n o Machiutasis, Ili ' cholas Collings, Malcolm Craig, Chrrpman, aad John `Simpsois. As soqu as they were severally celled over, • • The Itscoaose addressed three.--He •observed, 'Abet the offence with which they were charged, eta te which they . were all found guilty, was one - w'hiCh the law visited with the heaviest .kaal ties. The Court therefore ordered` that • Robert licrtaktt and John.Gstrelould he respectively Imprisoned two years. in his Majesty% Gael of Newgate, and be .fined ls. each, and be further itoprisoued till that fine be paid. • .?that WiWam Glifton, Stephen Beckett, and George Wed. ray, be imprisneed its tie same gnu( for the space of ailikteen calead'ar months, salt fined one shilling wit. • • VIA steppea Hurley, Henry. Byrne, an& .Ithos. VlOntay, be impriseued twelve calendar months la,tbe same,gan each, sad pay the liketae. , That Robert Pacquia, Edward Kidd, William* Corbel Latham, William Coy, James !Unwary, s.Mockina holy, Natbantel Collings, Malcolm Craig, John Chnpliattklied Johnlauipcou, should by imprisoned nine calendar atuatlelestch • in tie same gaol, sad pay the like fine. - • . When this fast sentence was pronounced, Ma. cartney htivlug-remerked that they had been reacori. mended by the Jury to the merciful consideratiin ...of the Court, dueittil to know whether the sentence was to bear date from the day of their confinement The Redoaoeft answered, that the Court was dot without taking into its consideration the recommen. dation Of the Jury, and therefore the punishment, weer. gradated accordingly; but nevertheless it was , the determination of the Court, in making such gets. datieri,lte older that the sentence shoild hem - date from thistle'', the day on whichlt was 'pronottnCed, and it was recorded so. • Woolley 'said, he had served the • Prolgeutgrs 'faithfully and conscientiously, and lia,d,;feft. the* istorditig to the general custom of theirliffe.littila had Wren° the ifiltlittal practice, for'. at . Cuntury. ..., 1 • 1 I ti tt • 11 , a. . . . .