The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-10-08 00:00:00

_ Ts, rem EUITORibr res STATEsMAN. •a • • Sis,—,llaciolt invariably found the columns of your independent Paper open for the insertion of any occurrence that is interesting to the naval ser vice, I aim induced to solicit your favourable atten tion to the melancholy circumstance of a Petty Officer, of the name of ANTHONY lIENRY WILSON,• w h o was found,suffocated, or burnt to death, on the sop of a brick-kiln in Spa-fields, on Saturday, the 26th ult.—From the papers, shoat twenty in num ber, which were found in the pockets of the deceased, and were read to the Inquest, b y Mr. STIRLING, the coroner. it appeared, " That the unfortunate Wile WN had been for many years during the first part of his siovices, a Schoul-master in several of his Ma jesty's ships; and a number of those Officers who are now, or have been, an ornament to their pro fession. received their education n the branches o f as t ro nomy and navigation f h i m, arid that he had served with tho late Admiral Sir R__,ORERT Cacnse, sit secrclary, and as 11ir1shipman with the present Lord raentioE, then a Captain (Lord ALGERNON PER CY); and finally, that he had been twenty years in the service." Some other papers explained, that the last office the deceased had filled was ichnol.master in a King's ship, and, that he had been paid off, after a period of 20 years' service, without a pension ; and that lie bad applied to the Admiralty to be made a Purser, but had not succeeded. • Now, Mr. Enema, what suhjvct of his Majesty in the British empire can read the above accoont without deeply deploring the fate of the said unhappy man, or execrating the policy of a Government, 6b 'tuned mith their judicious prunisig•knif.. of economy," who can dismiips a public ser want •fter a faithful discharge of 20 years' service, without promotion, pension, m oney, Of friends, to become a wanderer in the wide world— to seek protection against the midnight storm amidst the pestiferous exhalations of a brick•kilio ! The case of WILcON should be clearly (Mold by those whose duty it is so to do:—it is a national disgrace as it now stands upon record. If there exists a regulation excluding a Petty Officer of the quarterdeck from receiving a pension, however extended his services, slid to which he con tributes whilst in commission, the sooner it was abrogated the better ; and if the deceased was foiled in his exertions for promotion as a Purser by the Order of Council of the 233 of July, 1814, in re spect to those Officers of his Majesty's Fleet, it would be well if that Order shared the VI Me fate ; but it is strongly suspected, that poor Wilson's numerous letters of t ecommendstion, and certificates of ability Pad talent, were laid " prostrate" when brought in competition with the snore magical note of a Parlia mentary A u tomaton—a disgusting Borouglimonger. Lnudito, 6. 1618. 11. S. W. . A Correspeedeat hove Southampton informs us, That hlr. Aldermaw Sures, of that town, has been elected Mayor of Christcherch, and adds, that this I Mr. Same was the indefatigable agent, canvasser, end counsellor, for the discomfited lordly Candidate at our late election. It was never doubted that hle ilaorriship's prospect of success in this town was tw a n g !, .the Ross. , interest!—Alas ! the season of Ross; is boar with us, we prefer flawers 14 better stamina; but the Rose-tree appears to have been deeper .planted at Christchurch, and although withered here, has blossomed and produced a Major. bud there in Abe person, of our townsman. 'Fhb phenomenon has engaged our notice and enquiry, mid we learn that for the space of twenty-eight years last past, no resi dent Buree‘s has been chosen Mayor of that 80. inufkb, all this time under the controul of the late Right lion. Rosa. This is a specimen of the lioroughmongering system, infamous and hateful as .unconstitutional. It is a specimen of Scotch policy and English servility ; and we think there is scarcely another instance in the kingdom where a patron or •is precarious interest would dare to domineer in this way, and we hope and trust that the Public spirit, • 'which blighted the Roag-buds at Southampton, will ere long extend its influence to the hard-ridden Bo rough of Christchurch. Extract of a private letter from St. Helena, dated August 17.—" The Governor and Council, in a .Meeting with the inhabitants last Thursday, proposed the gradual abolition of the Sieve Trade, and for the honour of St. Helena it has been warmly followed up; a Committee was instantly formed, whose Re solutions have gone to Council, and go home in the General !fortis to the Court,of Directors. The most important feature of their proceedings is, that none are to he horn slaves after Chriiimaa.tlay next; that the proprietors of such female slaves who may bear Children after that date shall be at the espence of rearing them in their childhood, and to be reimbursed by their being bound or considered apprentices to them until the age of eighteen for boys and sixteen for gifts. This is striking the sae at.the root of the evil, and I am heartily glad that ithes been adopted. Proposals hate also been Made this day for letters of condolence to the Pitlncc It mirttsT'• and Prince Leoeotn, and unanimously carried, and a subscrip tion for the iutentled.rhurch also entered into." The Duke of DEVONSHIRE left town, yesterday morning, for his seat, Chatsworth, Derbyshire, where his Grace expects a large party of fashionables. The Duchess of Devoeseinr. is expected to leave town shortly, for the Continent. The M AToitEss lies issued cards for a graml ball end supper to be given to the Members of the Corporation of London, and their familie., at the Mansion.lletrae, on the 2,2,d of this month.—The X4oßo MAYOR will entertain his Royal Highness the Duke of YoitiL t with a select party, 'to dinner on the same day. AsYLEY's.—Last night this Theatre closed for the season, when the following Farewell Address was delivered by Mr. GomensAt : " LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.-1 am deputed by the Proprie tors of this Theatre to return, in their names. those thanks which naturally result from a grateful sense of the liberal Pa tronage they have received during a long season of nine-and twenty weeks, in is hick their exertions to please have not only been hononed with e appobation of a generoos and isce •ing Poblic, r hut also th of th e n first Personages in this coudntryrn- Flattering themselves that they have completed the promise they made last sewn!) of improvement, both bet% 're and behind the curtain, the Proprietors empower me to say. that during the recess no es pence or evertions will he spared to render the en suing summer seasou *MI more deserving of that favour which it will ever he their pride and stud. to deserve. —They. as well as the Performers in general, most respectfully bid you farewell fot the pre,seut scam." ... NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. DEAL, OCT. 7.—Arrived and sailed for the Riter the Queen, from Teneriffe ; Thetis, Yarrow, from : St. Thomas; Harmony, Jones, from Dublin ; from Petershurgh for Ancona, and sailed.—Came down from the River the Medina, Kennedy, for Ja maica ; Findlay, Harris, for Sierra Leone; Fortuna, Boyd, for Trinidad ; William, Pollock, and Patrick, Crosby, for Belfa,t ; Perseverance, Luke,and Emily, Outwit, for the South Seas; Ceres, Beckner, .for Africa ; and sailed with the whole of the crewel& bound for their different destinations, except the Dolphin Dutch man of war, which remains. DOVER, OCT. 7..—The Isabella, Date, foundered, after having been..dismastecl in a hurricane in lat. 26. 30. long. 62. 50. W. on a passage from Grenada to London, with sugar, rum, and wine; two passen gers and three of the crew drowned ; the Captain and remaining part of the passengers and crew were pick 'ed up by a Danish ship, sit days after, and were landed here this morning. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 7—Sailed. the Restitution, for Gibraltar and Salem; and Spectator, for Deanatkra. FALatormt, OCT. s.—Arrived the Blucher packet, Kith a Mail, from the Leeeard Islands, last from St. Thomas, in 2.8 days. PADSTOW, the Speedwell, —, from Limerick to London, with her 511119 split, how. sprit gone, and much si rained in her upper works ; and Mary, Kemprhorne, from Neath to St. Ices, leaky, and top-mast carried away. LIVERPO3L, ltuby, Whitey, from hence to Newry, is totally Inst in Dondrum Bay.— Arrived the James Munroe, Watkinson, from Nee York : sailed 10:h September. Coweg, Ocr. thin morning from Jack in•the.Ba 'let a transport, name unknown, with consicts, for New South Wales. Sir HENRY 11 ALrono, says the gossip of the Kew Correspondent, had a narrow eseepis from serious in. jury, after his return from NVindsor, on Tuesday afternoon, whilst riding on horseback in the neigh bourhood of Kew. The animal was young and spi. riled, and by a sudden plunge threw Sir HENRY with considerable violence upon the " pummel of the sail. die." The pain occasioned by the concussion was so great, that " for several hours some serious injury was apprehended." CovENT-GAanesr.—After the comedy of The Clan. destine Marriage, in which Mr. Fa nit EN played Lord Oglebg, i'h his usual success, the farce of Lore, Law, and Physic, was performed, and Nlr. J. ItussEr.i. played the part of Flexible. This Gentleman Conti. noes to prove himself an able successor to M A THE WS ; he gave his imirationa last eight with his . 111134 force, and was greeted with repeated rounds of eppleuse by the audience. His fame as an imitator is now established ; to which, also, he adds a claim to approbation, es an actor of no mean talent. The industry of Miss O'Ncit. is astonishing.— Preparatory to her joining the Covent-garden COM. piny, she Flays at Liverpool, this week, five ark ous characters its surceasion. This Acwas has net ted some thousands, it is said, during her country excursion. INCLEDON is engaged by M'CREADY to perform his principal characters 10 Car iisle.—M iss BOOTII is performing at Chester with great eclat; as is also DENNING, late of Covent.garden Theatre. MARGATE, OcT. 6.—The English are pouring over in shoals from the Gallic shore. The stage coaches now arrive regularly between the boors of seven to eight in the morning, heavily laden, within and without, with passengers and luggage for the steam-boats ; the consequence is, a notification that the Victory yacht will run through the wind and water for a month longer. The Earl of Trtas ET on Monday last gave a grand dinner to Mr. Buoucnam and the Committee of the East and %Vest Wards. One hundred and twenty sat down in the great Hall. The Noble Host did the honours of the table with that affability and distin guished elegance of manner for which he is so eminentl y conspicuous. Many excellent and convivial songsand appropriate toasts enlivened the day till a late hour. The Noble Earl, in avoss leg his sincere good wishes to the cause of indepPtidence, in which he said, that in our late struggle " Defeat was no disgrace, and success would have been a real triumph," spoke most justly the sentiments of the whole popular interest in the county, and a toast which he again gave, " Good fortune to ourselves and better humour to our adver. series," will he universally admitted to contain nor admirable and most dignified reproof to those who, notwithstanding their late success, have disgraced their cause and themselves by every sort of unprovoked and coarse scurrility. Whether the Lord Lieutenant instructed his Imo Representatives, or encouraged this unjustifiable line of conduct in them now, as well as in his furious partisans (we don't mean the (Bludgeon-men) during the contest, will be shown hereafter.—(Kendal Paper.) A short time since a district running across the little island of Stronsay, Orkneys, was visited by a violent thunder storm, accompanied by a fall of twit, or r ather solid masses of ice, which utterly destroyed the crops and pasturage of a whole farm, whereby Mr. Fowlis, the tenant, and 13 families (sub-tenants end cotters), comprehending 87 persons dependent on him, are reduced to misery sad want. LINCOLN'S INN H ALL.—The Weskit of this old building is nearly repaired and beautified to corre. spud with the Vice-Chancellor's Court. It is cased with Bath stone. The old dirty tiling has also been removed, to give piece to large handsome slates. and with the rohlition of the new cupola, or dome, it has a neat and elegant appearance, worthy of a su perior Court of Judicature. The Pagoda Bridge over the Canal in St. James's Park, is in a state of rapid decay. It is, we under. stand, to be succeeded by a cut-iron bridge, now preparing at WOOl4 la. THE STATESMAN PARLIASIENTARY PAPER. . • 41 .... 4 46 An Account Of the charge open the Consolidated Fund, in the Year ended the sth Jaiestary, 1818 t eactuvlve Of the intere•l of the Public Debt, and_of IV pottiest§ upon Exchequer /I Ils i dist ingui.hing theamine under - the several kends of Civil List, Conn. of Justice,acc. Mint, other Salaries and Allowances, and Bounties. ' CIVIL LIST. For the support of his Majesty's Household, per • Act 17 Gra. 111. . • . 898,000 0 0 Ditto, 44 Geo. 111. cap 80. • . 60310.1 0 0 Ditto, 52 Geo. M. • . . .. 70,000 110 COURTS OF JUSTICE. Judges of Engiaad and Wales . 13,053 0 0 Debc:encirs its the ealariet of English Judges, tier Act 4' Geo. III: • .:. • • • „ 12,959 2 8 Additional ..Juries to the Welch Judges 3,20 U 0 0 John Baldwin, Esq. Receiver of the seveh Police Offices' . 21,642'18 fi . . . Patrick Colquhoun, Esq. ditto, Thames Police • . 7,666 14 8 °flier • . . Henry John Ilinchliffr, L.q.Chief Justice of the Adini•alty Court at Jamaica '. • . . 9.000 0 0 The - Sheriff. of England and %Nate* . • . 4,00 J 0 0 ~( ;14.r:: of the Ilanuper in the Court of Chancery MINT. The Master of his Majesty's Mint in England Thou:sic Morri-on, E.q.. Receiver of the Fees • sold Emiil.ll.-Ais in the Other of the Mita in the r..w..r ..f 1....1 , per Act 39 (ieo. 111. _ . • Tbe Muster of his 7thie•ty'v liltat in Scotland 1,200 0 0 SAI.Altt Ls AND ALLOII ANCES. The Right lion. Charles Abbot, hie Speaker of the I timer of Common., to complete his salary ' • of 6.00)1 per The Right lino. Chutes Manners "Sutton. - Speaker of d' ,to complete his salary of 6.0001. P., notions . . . 1,575 1 9 Eduard If ober . s. I sq on the )earl) sum of 631 t. ' formerly paid ICI die A minor of the'Lschett net 650 00 ,• George Prpler, li. q. Inspector of . tons toe Leng th:in-F. auto IWI . . . 761 0 0 Cntrf Cashier of the Bank, fur fees at toothy, • Public Oakes . . • . . IMO 0 0 Ditto South Sea Company. (indium auditto . -275 16 0 For she encintraxeineist of the grooth of hemp J . and Flax in Scotland . . . 9,95 S Isl. W no. %I . Prae.1,1 2 ..q. Chairman of the Commis:Amur, '• ' fur :sodium , the Ptinlic Accounts . . . 1,400 0 a Sir C. it. Boughton, Bart. use of the Conuni.- sio n ets for ditto . .• 1,200 0 0 F. P. Eliot, Lq. . ditto 1,200 0 0 It. Dan lilli. I.q. . ditto . 1,200 0 0 John WhrMan • L.q. . ditto 1,20 J 1) U John Sargrot. E- q. . liilltli • I.WO 0I) JOllll iillotCV. I:1. • dill „ • 1,200 'll 0 Satanic. and Contingencies in the Office f r au diting the Public Accatini. ditto . 35,781 7 John Ilalket. E-q. Chairman of the Commis •• ers far anditiog she West India Accounts James I baton:its, Esq• one of the Litantit•sioners of Pinto . . . . John Vi i 14.111, Ecq. . ditto Solari?. and Contingencies in the Office of the *rid Coininissioaert. • • Earl (does,Re .. P p i. e :N r . Ik A l e ( t )N ! i ti j S. Lieo. 111. 1.11f41 Lady Dorchester „ . 2 6 John Prim. lEitq. . SO • Richard Penn, Lsq. . Ili. It. 11. •he Doke of Claren. e 31 Ilis it. 11. ihe Dime of York 52 tier R. H. the Iltirliess of York Ili. It. 11. the Pri!:re of %% ales 35 Earl St. Vincent . 55 V i•cnitni D r inean . His a. 11. the Doke of Kent 39 Ili It. 11. the Doke of Cumberland Doke of Rica d . - Lord Et.kine . . Sir Arch. Macdonald Sir. James Nlan,lield Sir Alan Chanyhre Sir Sidney Smith liaranrss _Abercrombie Alexander •:reke His R. H. the Doke of Sussex His It. 11. the Dike of Cambridge Lora Iltoraii.i.iiii . Sir .Ja n ie.S.IIIIII4 CZ • 43 Lord Bortingdon, et al' fur Lord Amite-Pa . . Duke of /1 , 1911 . Ilenry NI. Iher, F q. .soh . Sewell. F.'.. , Joan W. C 0..., ton, Esq. W. 'ferret!, E..q. Lade Nelson Sir R. Straclum laity Collings% ood Wm. Sarah do. Don. Mary P. do Sir J. T. Dackworth . His Royal flightless the Doke of Clarence Di tto ditto Kent Di •t o ditto . Citinherland— Di t t o ditto . Sus-ex Ditto ditto Combo iilge Ili! highness the Duke of Giiiocester Der Highness the PfIIICCIS Sophia of du. Earl Nelson . • Lord Ito,lney . Viscount hike . 413 Vi s count IV ellington , . • fal Earl of Wellingloto . 52 lion. Jane Perceval (now Carr) !ler It. 11. the Princess Augusta Sophia— Ditto Elizabeth • Dit to Niary(nott Duchess of Gloicester)— Ditto Sophia • ...... _ Sir Archibald : Macdonald 53 Sir James Mau-field . -- Sir Alan Chanshre filer It. 11 the Princess of Wales 54 Doke of Wellington • Lord Beresford . - Lord Comber:acre • Lord Exmouth . l.urd Hill . Lord Lyndoch . Lord %sal.teighnat his. It. It. the Duke of York," a l' ) in trip,' for the Pi ince.. Charlotte 56 and the. Prince of i °burg His It. H. the Duke of It ark -- Ditto ditto Clarence Her 11.11 the Princess A sigu.ta sophin Ditto Elizabeth . DittoNlary(now Duchess of Gloucester) Ditto .-iiiihia Lord Colchester X. s. d. 33,800 0 0 1,500 0 0 1,000 0 0 1,000 0 0 6,318 17 S 4,(0 00 1.0.10 0 0 •.•• La 0 0 1 ,001 0a . 3.0 a) 0 0 . 12,00 00 . H.niY u 0 . 4,000 0 0 . 65,000 0 0 . 1,0)n 0 0 . 2.000 0 0 . 11.01.10 0 0 . 14,060 . .6,333 6 6 _ _ 400 00 .. V.OOO 0 0 . 4.500 0 0 . 'AO 0 0 . 1.000 0 0 . 2.0A1 .0 u . 1.000 0 0 14.U0J 0 0 . It.ooo 0 0 . 4.,000 0 0 . 0 0 9.000 0 0 t0.,!t60 12 5* 1.000 0 0 1,000 U 0 1 Dui 0 0 10. X) 0 ?..tvi 0 0 1,00.) n 0 . 1.003 0 1) 500 o 51 , 0 0 0 500 o • 6,000 0 0 . 6.(x)0 0 0 • 6010 0 0 . 6.000 .0 0 . 601) 0 0 . 14,000 0 0 . ,uOO 0 0 . 5,00 i) 0 0 . 915 1 6 . 9,0,41 0 0 • 2,000 0 0 Y:033 0 0 . 2.00(1 0 0 • . 11,0J0 0 0 . 9.0.10 0 0 . 9.000 0 0 . &MO 0 0 • 80J 0 0 . t3OU 0 0 1.. 600 u 0 • 35.000 0 0 . 1J,u06 0 0 . tt,uoJ 0 0 ▪ 2,01) 0 . V.OlO u 0 . Y,OOJ 0 U . YAM u u . 2,OaJ 0 0 . 53,620 13 91 . 14,000 0 0 . YAK) 0 0 . 4,00 J u 0 . 4,000 0-0 . 4,000 0 0 . 4.0J0 u . S,OOO 0 0 57 M MELIA N MOUS. loterest, &c. nn a moiety of 50.00(3,000 of florins raised by the house of Hope and Co. for the service of ltts,•sia, per Art 55 (iro. 111 c. 115 130,641 7 Chief Ca-hivr of the South SPA Company. being deticienc v of the profits. &c. of thesaid Com pany, per Act 55 Lieu. 111. cap. 57. sec. i. BOU sr! ES. Liem. B. Vine, for the seizure of slaves no hoard La l'arisienne, and condemned ot the 4.648 14 4 s' . 3,615 0 0 Mauritius Sir Ralph Woodford, fur seizure and condemna tion of stn.. es imported into the %%est Indies Augustus Pechell, Lsq. fur the like service ditto 78. 0 0 7S 0 1,755,211 1 7 The forthcoming reduction which has been an. nounced, will leave nearly the same number of Stand ing Corps as in the years 1764 and 1792, but it is not so pleasing to reflect that by lavish allowances within the last foar years to Geneil Officers, and their consequent retirement to enjoy ihe otium cum dignitote," and to give scope to profuse promotion, the country has to pay shout huff a million sterling for Retired Pay and Half-pay more than in 1792, besides haying to regret the acquisition by Govern ment of a vast deal of unconstitutional patronage and influence. Rayner his failed in his task, of going forty miles in five hoots, which he undertook, on Nlonday last, on the Canterbury.road, near Ashford. He went the first ten miles in 65 minutes, but gave op the at tempt, before he bad completed the second ten. . DR. HALLORAN'S CASE. .--m....-- Dr. Halloran was, for some yeirts i ter velident in the county of Devon, and his sentence May induce, if any thing can effect it. the trint.intiovation mete, the faithful disciples of 1)r. Pastgloss who beliete • that our laws are the best of .allpossible laws, to see the eon folly, and wanton cruelty, of tome part of our Criminal Code; a code more black and blood,' than eve? stained tho pages of the history of any ether nation. To prevent crime, and to pettish it ' when committed, are necessary duties; but to in. flict barbarous-punishments, for trivial offences, is an enormous sin! The dreadful ferocity which stamps itself on the course of our Legislators, in for pro mulgation of penal laws, wearies and disgusi , the humane, the honourable, and the wise. l'hilosn. pliers disdain its unjust infliction., end good men ab hor its thirst for blood. But a short period hart elapsed, since the mere entry in pursuit of game, five minutes before seven in the morning of one of the winter months, into the grounds of another, without his consent, Rasa FELONY! It was sitting( beyond the bounds of reason to have presumed, that Ito most worthless, the most savage, the must it) -i.ke of human beluga, would have converted a trifling tres pass into a capital crime: It was almost beyond the tsnundsef reason to have presumed, that any rational creature', suit ilenionilcal s hive 'pieced Mem br and eaile-hrtieath the valve Qf partridge! I I 1.1 II • deeds II f iiistuoceimight be adduced, in which human Wood is vainly sod .wanitiely wiiked to the pro. ierien of property, and property; perhaps, of little estimation Hundreds of instances might be adJi:ced, in which the ignorant and the miserable are imniolzi. ed for /WO offences, fir plat the wicked vengeance of the law.. Too often ire the ties of nature turn asun der, for some KOe breaCh of moral obligations : men, women, and children, iire . Vnistcherl linen their friends and their holies, commi+ted to dismal dungeons, ',retied with irons, fell on bread sod water, trans• ported' to distant clinics, or suspended oft the gal lows—as if "it were delightful to muck human faults' with the etereise of unthinking power, and to ruin a lid destroy the captives, however slender their traes• gressioos. hlen iibu can make such laws, or who can basely execute them, for revenge or gall, must have hearts haeder 'biro stone, and beads duller than the fat weed on Leihe's wharf. Their crime admits of no defence; they most have passed beyond the ;ale of_ humanity, and ceased to feel as men.— Their pretended !nee of society, their desire for justice, their wish to repress crime rather than In punish it, and their mercy, are all fictions : they are hypocrite. deathly veiled, who direct their vengeance againit their fellows, tinder the pretence of rendering set vice to mankind. Cattlt Eis INJURY. The Legis lators that enact punishments dispropor tionate to of. fosicea, are the highest criminals. They are cool and deliberate evil-duets. To rub man of life, that pre. cious gift of ['Pilsen, for imitating a t wetity.shlllieg (SOUP, is an act far more deserving punishmeet, than the guilt of the forget ! balance life against a. feu: pence-'—to hurry a wretched being into eternity, for robbing the Batik of a millionth part of its nor brtent gains—to guard its fatal paper system, which will terininete in incalculable mischief, with a mound of human *cunt:, and to surround it with ditches filled with human blood, may be politic for the mo ment, yet it is unwise as well as cruel : the days of the Ogres are fast failing away. Again 4 this part of the Penal Code, public opinion begins to cry aloud; but, if public opinion steps there—if it does not rouse into active abhorrenCe against the whole sys. tern of iiiiii!equele and grievous punishmeres, it will prove, that public opinion is only directed against that pelt of these wrongs, in which the mass is jute rested. It will show, that it feels not yet for the wretched beings, who, foal comparatively trivial offences, ere the victims of miscalculating policy and ferocious laws. To defraud the Post-office or Yric.eruct. according to the present sy.ient, is a hit rid and diabolical outrage, and aerie rile fur SEV Texas. To plunder the Public of lhoasaads uud lens of U if , nib of pirunits annually, fur no services, or fur the basest con - potion, is meritorious, mod deserve. applause.— To s teal a hat privately, to curer a ft; dor° head, is so horribe. that human nature shudders at the deed, and demands the se- Verrill punishment for the culprit. • But to rob children of their proteciress—husbands ut their belpinates—to destroy the peace of families. break up their ruuditrts, and cover them wiitt cloud. 0: sorrow and disgrace, is a venial offence—it is gal lantry! Ye bungling lawgivers, your laws meant to guard the rich against the poor, fan toe pass of the former, hat allow not fur the temptations of the latter ; ;moist' error and crime alike; protect the cold- bloaded villain, who sins in wanton - ni ss ; amid stretch on the gibbet the wretch, who errs from ne cessity. 'Fite sum or quantum mischief ye do not calculate ; but, with undistinguishing Teo:enact., inflict your punishments Irmo the same inewone. sin the mirnight anaemia, the hoary plunderer, and starving thief ! But this Cookie code, the fruit of folly, pride, ignorance, and barbarity, must give place to a compitat ttttt more equitable and more just, la •shinent mint bear proportion to crime. Refortnatioo, rather than emistisement, must guide the legislator, and Mercy sit by the side of Jusrice. Were our present penal system browgin time bar of mown; were the motives which called it into action weighted with careand iti consequences dimly appreciated ; were the Pro file to ennsider, dial the Legisiati.re possesses no moral punier to oramtrageously punish, stun code wooll excite horror in everyernine.' If Legislators canstise petty Wieners with tied, h. 'key' are murderers, and trifling crones with exile, they are oppressors; because, the evil which they inflict tot the indi vidual, is far more detrinetnal to him than the injury which hr has Cioniniited agaiiid society. Judges •wito pro ounce suds sentences are erietrairi—nut fur obeying the law., hut for rc mainiug,io o situation, in which that obedience renders it neces sary for them to do injury under the pretence of jostice. The person who prosecutes, the Attorney who conducts, the Gunn sel ho advocates, are all participatios in the misdeed. Let the People view this subject in its true light—let it lie measured by the standard of philosophy, and it would then he infainntiv execute tinjtot laws; and the laws diems Ives. being disgraced. would be abolished. k't hilst they remain, they generate a savag.• insensibility to the miseries, temptations, and errors, • f the un fortunate nod the wicked. A stronger instance ea 1111 l it be selected than the recent• remark of the Recorder of London. who with unfeeling barbarity, wished fur the punishment 551 DE Crli to prevent the picking of pucker ! lie may pride him self on his humanity. in comparison with illettultan whit hanged 'a Vizier tur putt Mg litres grains of pepper into a tart l --.--- FATAL ACCIDENT.— William Belson, grooM to W. Arnold, EN. Soho-square, and the servant of another Gentleman in the neighbourhood, took out their masters' horses to esercige them of, Tuesday evening; the men had been drinking, they were sot.° racing at full speed upon the road; when they arrived opposite the Green Map, on Finchley Common, Bal. sink's foot supped frunv.the stirrup, asid be Was thrown upon the ground with much violence. Dr. Blenheim, who resides in the neighbourhood, was called to his assistance. The back part of his skull was much fractured, and his left side was bruised in a dreadful manner ; the ntifortunste man was quits insensible, and expired almost instantly. • ,1 • %, • , 1 SO • • 4 •