The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-03-20 00:00:00

rr - ; . ;` • • II . %I • • '• • bonwie. venemenmemenwm...— . 'toe held in his own hands. He always anted and talked • Mkt a reasonable man. He came to witness the eight 'before his death and talked " a 'vast Rule" *beet his sisti•r's illness. Witness went to Mr. H after his death, and before the body where he found two papers, one add 1 . and the other to Messrs. Atkinson and On his erom-examination, witnesa stated that 5a14 1 ,- when Mr. Hassell sometimes bonght cattle too dear, be most have been oat of his mind. He might have said that his master was mad. Recollected his planting essieJ hazes, and lint dipping the ends is soot. .. The two letters wore put in and read, esti from their affecting character they prodassed a coosideralke sensation in Court. The lest, adtirsoood to therillst witness, stated that the unfortunate gentleman felt that his reason was none, and his nerves shaken. His sister's illness preyed so spelt his mind that he was weary of life; and before that letter was received he should be no more. He had written to Mews Atkinsoa and Parkinson to come down : hoped that Heywood would take care of every thing till they ar rived ; and desired that lie would out let the man who called himself his brother come into the house. The other letter to Messrs. Atkinson and Parkinson was of the same character ; stated that he had left them his property; gave some minute directions far the repairs of the house of Cholesbnry ; and added, than( his body was mot found before their arrival, it would he diScovered in the paced facing the home. The I imentable catastrophe was acmstuplielied in this manner. The cue for the defendant. being closed, Mr. Set grant B‘ossirr stated the case for the plaintiff. He contended that the letters last produced were sufficient to establish the insanity of the testate*. They were of the same character as the will ; the hand writing of each ins of Ilse sate tremulous and feeble hied, indi cating the same nervous feelings. He conteeded that abilities were trot inconsistent with madness; and .4' sicced souse examples of the readiness with while% madmen pursue their habitual employments, although under the influence of powerful delusions. in the case of this unfortunate gentleman, the predisposing cause of his malady was the Illness of his sister; he made Lis will under this powerful excitement, and in the same state of mind be destroyed himself. The learned gentleman concluded a very able speech by contending that the will was not properly stiestcd. Mr. Box, a proctor of Doctors Commons, deposed, that Honeyman, one of the witnesses to the will, bad declared to him he had no recollectlen of signing it in the presence of Wen and Bachelor, the other sees, wit- Mr. H. Longlands, Solicitor to the West India Dock Company, knew Mr. Hassell from 1803 to his decease. Witness was Deputy A i .eot-Deoeral of Vo -1 Interns. He considered Mr. Hassell of entirely weak nand, aml freak nerves g he could not venture to pro nonnce him insane, but he has seen him ieconslstent in his conduct, and incoherent in his ideas. The wit ness then related an &termini of Mr. Hassell, on the oc casion of Sir V. Burdett being sent to the Tower, pat tint• on the dress of a Deputy Lieutenant, and riding r•nad London to inspect all the Volunteer corps. An increased responsibility being thrown on the Agent U I in 18 it, Mr. Hassell became frightened, and resigned his office. 1 Mr. Colcinhoon, joint assistant with Ur. Longlands, stated that Mr. Hassell was occasionally subject to fits of ,lejection, and was at other times in high spirits. His recces were very much shattered. Its transacted bu siness with him frequently. . . el r. John 514mrr, w►o lives **sr Berichigesisag, katw air. Hassell 14 or 15 years; thought him weak man, sod at times eighty ; and an such occasions wunhd not hare witnessed his will. . . Ilse Rev. Mr. Owen stated, that Honeyman had de clared to him that he was Dot present when Mr. Owen signed the will ; he was astonished to find his own n ,me there, and had no recollection of it. Mr. Richard Sutton knew Mr. Hassell 14 or 15 years; witness was a stockbroker. Mr. Hassell was subject to great agitations. He would not have wit nessed his will:under those circumst . On his cross examination, witness stated, that he has transacted bo aioeas fur Mr. Hassell in the stocks—not in his low momente. lie never hesitated to execute an order for him. He always transacted business when col- Sir Brent Spencer knew Mr. Hassell in 1815.—Has seen him frequently in a dejected state, and has tried sooth him. Mr. Ilssorll frequently Eased his sister's ill health as being the cause of his low spirits. .;enrge Bachelor was gamekeeper to Mr. Hassell 11 years. Witness thinks he was not right at times.-- Four yeses ago ordered witness to pump a pond oat to mike a re., rvoir : be said " he'd make the frogs stare; old Joiner never made them Mare so." His name was " tiad Hassell" all over the nelghbonrhood. Benjamin Puddi ford worked as under-bailiff for Mr. Hassell. lle aged eery comical expressions at times. He once ordered witness to sow some barley amongst some clover that hrd been sown with the barley of the year before. Hicbartl Cox deposed to the root of the frogs, and recollected making hay at midnight. William Osborne, hairdresser, of Ailathery, de posed that Mr. Hassell has frequently come to his shop, and that having, gone up stairs to sharer himself, lie has come down with the lather on his face, saying if he remained longer he should cut his throat. .Mr. W. Hassell, brother of the plaintiff and the de ceased. ttated that no quarrel existed between the two brothers. He never v ' d at Choleibery, but be lie►etl his eldsr brother did. Mr. F. Hassell, son of the plaintiff, visite' the de ceased al times and Chulesbury, and was treated rev vectfully and kindly. Air. SCAaLETT replied, in a speech of the greatest ingenuity. He contended that the will was legally published and subscribed ; its validity rested, not upon the frail memory of the witnesses, but upon their hand. writing, which they were compelled to acknowledge. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to comment upon all the evidence for the Plaintiff with great force and bowear, and concluded by imploring t►e jury to deal justly with the dead. Toe LORD CHM , BARON summed op ; and the jury, after consulting a short time, returned a verdict fur the Defendant,. His Majesty's ship Iphigenis. Captain Sir Robert Mends. arrived at st. Mary's. Africa, on the 2J ult. from Portomatb, and caked intaterliately for Sierra Leine. -. 1 ... Tl* 1.11PK11141. P41A1.1.4111AT. ROL'RE OF LORDS, 'Fatima, Msacs 10. r T Mr. UIIOCIDEx sad dithers brought ap from tars Co*- liaison the Lama Tax Commissioners Nubia BAIL-11514 • first time., • MB MA DORS. Lora KING wished to obtain some information, in conselosece of his motion respectiog the Civil List. while stood for next Tuesday. He should thereon• mo►e fora Return of the names of the British Ambassa dors appointed in 1791, and of their salaries, and for a similar return of the names and salaries of those filling that situation at the present p.riod —Ordered. The &el of LAUDERDALE morel for returns of the amount of the Five per Cent►. and Four per Cents. unredeemed on the Ist of February of the present year, and of the total amount of the hive per Cents. converted into Fear per Cents. in consequence of the Bill passed 'in the course of the present Session.—Ordered. His Lordship then moved for Returns of the Redac tions made, and Indemnities granted, under the Arts passed in 1917 for the abolishing of Sinecures, and fur indemnifying their holders.—Ordeerd. The Aliens and Denizens', the Annual Indemnity, and the Army and Marine Mutin► Bills, neat respectively through Committees, sod nem reported.—Ailjounied. HOUSE OF COMMONS. At tone o'clock the &Liana vaunted the Members, when there being but twenty.sixpreseat,lie declared the House to be adjourned till to morrow. FURTHER ESTIMAr g c . ►OR XIIICELLAINS9F I I EIRVIellt FOR VIII *JAR 182.2. - Repairs of Henry the Seventh's Chapel for the year 1822, 1,14471. Expenses of printing Dills, Reports, and other Papery. by Order of the Honourable House of Commons, during the present Srssion of Parliament, 20,0011/. Salaries and incidental Expenses of the Commission ers appointed on the part of his Majesty, under the Treaty with Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands, for I preyenting the illegal Traffic in Slaves. 18,700/. Ilia Majesty's Foreign and other Secret Services, for the year Int, 40,0001. Contingent Expenses and Messengers' fills, in the Departments of the Treasury, Three Secretaries of State, Privy Council, and Lord Chamberlain, for the year 1822, 78.7941. Civil Establishment of Sierra forolll., from the Ist Day of January to the 31st My of December, 18= 22,1761. 12s. 1114 d. Civil Establishment of New South Wales, from the Ist Day ofJanatry to the 31st Day of December, 1822, 13,3471. h. 641. Civil Establ;shment of the Island of Newfoundland, from the Ist Day of January to the 31st Day of Decem ber. 1622, 6,4581. 10s. Civil Establishment of Prince Edward Islam(, in Ame rica, from the Ist Day of January to the 31st Day of December, 1822, 3,1'201. 15s. Civil Establishment of the Province gf New Bruns wick, is America. from the Ist Day of January to the 31st Day of December, 1822, 6,757/. 10s. Civil Establishment of the Province of Nova Scotia, in America, from the Ist Day of January to the 31st Day of December, 1822, 14,0961. 17s. 6d. Civil Establishment of the Province or Upper Canada, in America, from the let Day of January to the 31st Day of December, 1822, 11,992!. 10s. Civil Establishment of the Island of Dominica, from the Ist Day of January to the 31st Day of December, 18V.. 6001. Establishment of the Balsam,. Islands in addition tol the Salaries now paid to the Public ,Officers oat of the Duty Fund, and the incidental Charges attending the same • from the Ist Day of January to the 31st Day of Doeflober, 192?, 3,1011* Te.llt. •••• '" • "*.' 1 PRICE OF STOCKS, AT ONE O'CLOCK, TIIIS DAY. Raok Stock _ e ladle Stott. S per Cent. Iled. Shut Ditto 80nd5...355. Ids. 34s 3 per Ct. Coen .looin South ties Stock - 31 per Cent t South Sea Otd l Aon 4 per Cent 5....... Shut Ks•Billitd Si. is. ts. 3. pm 3 per I'll. Nen .....1011;111 WOOL 3 per Cent. MOIL 0.. 41.4'. pm Long Ann. Shot t Small.. lis. 7s. pun Imp. 8 per ('ent 130 i Con. for Acet l3oi; til; Irish 5 eer Cent Lott. Tickets ..tt4 it; MR. CORBETT AND THE STATESMAN. Mr. Coster has made an arrangement with Tar Srirssmsw Evening \cn•rpaprr, instead of his bringing out The Evening Post, or The Gridiron. Ilis Commentary on the Parliamentary Debates appears Deily.—Orders rewired for Tits STATEV) AN bg all News renders. Statesman Oilier. Strand. 11. D. Tms Comartrwesow Sunday Paper is connected with the Tms SrsIT.SWIN. Prier 7d. LORD LIVERPOOL. The THIRD Letter of Mit. Coottarr to this Noble Premier will appear in oar paper to-morrore. alit btattiSinatt. "TES ERITIS2 STATESMAN" IS MORSE STATESMAN." LONDON: WEDNVIDAT ITENING, 11•RCII 20, 1922. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. At the opening tattle Market ibis:morning Consul. were done at 80i, and much tattiness was transacted ; since which time the 31arket has not been so brisk, and at present Consols are 801 to fur the Account, and fur Money 1100. The general opinion still pre vails, that there will be a further rise in the Consols. Navy 5 per Cents. are 1040, but have b-en' done as high as 1041. FOREIGN r:.:ND3. A great bustle still prevails on 'Change in the foreign Market, particularly in the Spanish Stock, which was done yesterday as high as 67; to 68 ; but this morning only 67 to can be obtained, owing to the New Columbian Loan at Paris of 6 per Cent., the price of which on 'Change to-day, is 84 to 85. A great deal of business has been done within these two days in Columbian Bonds, the dividend of which is payable on Friday peat, sad new obtains The particulars of this new Loss, it is expected, wil I appear is the course of the day. Pranks Bonds . 9$ lisyirrs. Mesh. MS Beyer". Neapolitan .. 71 to • 'Spools/3 (new) MI. WITS - TIP TA TERM A :§1: PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT. There were only 26 of the Honourable persons who compose the House of . COMMONS that thought proper to go to that place last night ; so that nothiag appears to have been done Mere. In the Lords, Lord KING moved (pteparato-y to his intended motion on else Civil List) for an account of Ambassadors and other Ministers to foreign Courts in 1791. and for a similar account as applicable to the present time. We suppose his Lordship will include an account of pensions to retired Minister. for the same periods. And, if we get all this information, we shall, we suspect, see, that oa► country has been as prolific in Ambassadors as in any of the other of the depart ments of Government. We suspect that we have, at this time, not much short of a hundred persons upon the active and the retired lists put together; and we venture to say, that this department costa as mare than the whole of the civil government of the United States coats the people of that country. Mr. Caw- NINO had more money per annum as Ambassador to I Lisbon than all the ministers to foreign courts cost the United States I and yet, they employ their very greatest and most able men as Ambassadors and Envoys; sod they manage negotiations and treaties better, a vast deal, than those of any other country are maned. Why, then, is this country to be so burdened with expenses of this sort? Here we Lave one of the reasons why a cotton wearer in America has from 8 to 9 dullest, a week while an English cot• ton treater has not 2 dollars; while, observe, the calico can be made, and is made, cheaper in America than here, and while provisions are cheaper there than here! And yet the impudent varlets would persuade as, that taxes have no effect on the la bourer.---lf they bare none on the labourer, they have, at last, thank Ono, some on the land. /ord, who is now beginning to feel what he never felt before.—We are often asked, what do all these salaries and pensions and sinecures and grants amount to, cotnpared with the amount of Me whole of Me tares;"—This, if pertineut, would be cold cam fort t for, then, aR that yon have to do, to justify enormous expenses in salaries and pensions, is to make a great man of taxes. But, what is it all together, but salary, allowance, pension, sinecure or grant ? In what other way, is this sum of 23, out of 35 (they say it is) millions ; in what other way, is this sum expended? The Navy? Oh, 01 Jost such a nary (as to number of men) as we hays now, cost two millions in 1790, and our present navy cosh as six millions. But, we hue, perhaps. about six times as many Admirals, Captains, and Li. utenants as we hail .hen. The army (as to prirales) is about three times the strength that it was in 1790 ; but it casts about eight times u much as it did then . —And, what does this difference arise from ? why from a staff, from barracks, from military academies, and other things. which did not exist in 1790. And what are these but se way occasions for salaries, allowances, pestles% siateesres and grants ? What, therefore, is the thing altogether, other than a mass of these very things which the tax-eating var- Lets would persuade ■s makes but a mere trifle, com• pared with the whole amount of the tares ? However (and we wish not to disguise the fact) to put as cud to these things, nay, to reduce these expenses in any degree, proportioned to the exigency of the case. does imply the causing of a total cleange of this present s ‘ yetcnt of carrying ox Government. Whether the landlords have the courage to face this we know not ; but we know, that this is what they must do, or lose their last inch of land :.nd last hedge-stake. There seems, just at this moment, a pause in their minds. They begin, we think, to discover the cajolery of sr perabeindult crops; and, if they really should see their true prospects, they will run restive, even this present Session. A ORICVLTVRAL Co3rstiTTga.---The Morning Chia nick observes, that this celebrated budy are all out at sea. This emendation of the old eying of all at sea destroys the figure. All out at sea means, clear front the dangers of the land ; but, all-at-sea, means borne about by the winds and waves, without rudder, com pass, log, or land-mark ; and this, we take it, is what our cotemporary looks upon as descrip;ive of the men tal state of this renowned Committee, which is com posed of the same men as before, and from which we mast naturally expect, not such another production, perhaps, as the last Report (for it would be difficult indeed to match that) but certainly something of a character which we (considering Six acts) shall not attempt to characterize. " 51.111FE5....--00f great Lexicographer calls a pea siuuer " a sieve of state, hired by a stipend to obey • his master." No one can dissent from this autho rity; for, in Dr. Jomxsos, loyalty and religion aboanded in the extreme, Nay, his was the first statue pmt into St. Parts, and this aas done in order to 'Lew the royal approbation of his principles. Very well, then, if a pensioner be a slave of the government, what must that man be whose place in society above that of the common beggar; whose bare head ; nay, whose very elothiag, depends noon the breath of the g 00000 mut ? When we consider the depth of this dependence, are we to wonder s that those who are placed in it should, in obedience to their masters, fall, opus-mouthed, on him who attacks those masters, eves though his endeavours be to make the '• Stares" free? 0. - nceas Winows.— It seems that, aeterilinr, to sew regulations. these ladies are to raj their ami no.", whether theg marry again or Cot. We rather wonder at this. Surely Messrs. Malthus aaJ Scarlet, Kill see. in thit ease, a nioastrous outrage on the prin ciples of the cheek population school. Or. is it soar bat those who work, the breed of wheal is to he checked ? What a nation of gentlemen anti Lilies we shall become at last CHEATS AND FORGERS. At oarless times Cheats sad Forgers hire pig forth things seder my name is order to defraed te e public of their mosey. There are now two things pet forth in this way, called " CORBETT'S GRIDIRON" —1 beg my readers to beware of them thests ; fo r , to Linthem mosey is et chanty, and i s only to take from the industrious t o feed these idk Tagebondt, sig w o ho that oug you scot is nor httobes sw e . e p i e n g the streets. A ey stray worthy of a hit of bread. Wm. essinee. - - -• The altered Use in some agile Ministerial Jurseh. which has bees observed of late. is, at all creels, matter of congratulation with the Friends of Free i l eis. If these Journals have, at length, opened their close or half-shut eyes, It is well ; for we are glad to see th e rays of reason descend and visit even the low est and bushiest of intellects. Dot if the Rats w e in t. :ing off from the ship because their instinct sa p A s is actually sinking, that is also well ; for there asset be much better evidence of vt.e deeperate statue of th e cause of corruption, which they have heretef eee zealously advocated. The Courier. has, of late, h e i some very sensible remarks on the present sate era, fairs in France. The Editor has seen the folly of th e Ultra Revell:le in marching so straight forward as they have recently done, towards their psal m of restoring all that was corrupt in the Chard sad State. lie has, accordingly, been chastised very me e k within these few weeks by the New Times, that** supporter of Ultra Royalism every where. The e n . vier. however, is obstinate in his coarse, as far u France is concerned ; and that is the same thief as if be were to write directly against the uk,,, of this land, the LONDONDIDDYS, and others of that desperate class. lie is, to be sere, bun. sistent—he is (as the New Timre has it) as nn.,. nen' o f Huse here, Ind a f r i en d of IIeNJ %nix ov. STANT in Fra,see. But we leave him to aroma r this curious mixture. It is enough f.,r ns that be Ins betrayed his fears, that all is not vite right with L's favourite scheme of Ul:ra Royalism. Month ? Pest has gone a peg further than 'A' Currier: he arraigns the conduct of Ministers, in some iestmes lately, and skews a right spirit in some others, all of which would be Inexplicable on any other gloved thn the conclusion we hare formed that he is 'dully pre. paring to desert kis OLD FKIENDs. Thew Jewish, we think, are now acting wisely, whether we consider their own interests or the merits of the ewe. The causer of the Ultras is declining every where; sad, in no part so rapidly. and irrreorerably, as here. Minis ters have found this out; and hence that desperado% of conduct, which dictated the late letter of hie. etrresior. That speaks volumes against thecae's of the masters of Mr. AIIDUTIMOT, and of the leaned Editor of The New Timer. New York papers arrived this morning to the !A and Virginia to the 19th of February. They do ant contain any intelligence of importance. By doeweems transmitted by the President to Congress, it appears. that the Americana's(' British Coremissinnersappeired under the :rtli article of the Treaty of Ghent, to neer fain the boundary line, having, in Octoher iast, dii fered on the principal points, adjourned is !metes do first Monday of April next. Dublin papers of Saturday evening and Meatier morning have arrived today. Thougs outrages rue tinge in the four southern Counties, end especially is the county of Limerick, yet the De.! fin erciting Aat, is that those counties are returning to their ordinary rural occupations, and adds "we daub: not, that. In a few months, the face of the country will exhibit a more tranquil appearance-- The Specr:l Commissions of Cork, Kerry, and Lime risk are going on merle in the same mealier as we have previously stated, and the General Assiut hare commenced. At Ennis Assizes six men were iseirted for a midense under the Whitebuy Act. and is!' a riot at Cratloe. The prosecutor was mailed st groat length on the part of the Crown, and, on his testimony, the indictusent sander the Illi•ebuy Ad Mt abandoned, and the ease on the riot went to the Joy, who returned a verdict of guilty. Six other wee wire were taken up at Crusbeen some time bark, were twits capitally indicted under the %chi teboy Act, and meat common law, fur a riot. The Crown, In prorating. gave np the capital charge at an early stages( the proceedings as untenable, and they were wiltilled upon the third indictment. The Judge expressed bh strung displeasure at the " erroneous conclusita to which the Jury came upon the third char, sad dc sired another Joey to be called. la the Cour,ty cot Kilkenny there was held on Tueadar a Alertog elite Alagistrates under the Icsnrirction Act. Os 01 . occasion two Counsel. Mess's. Jan.ra and laced', " I ''' had hee led to believe Iron the A !sweliewerot 154 t the Extraordinary Smaimes directed kr the Act woad be held there that day, enquired if it was thee 1. 4 ' ittg. la teply. the Chairman (the Eari of Carrick.) and several ether Slagisirees deviated, that the r• trio was only a private Alerting of Magistrates. aroi that they had the advice of one of the Crown Lawyers that they were rot obliged to hear County!. is Jesse. contended that the Meeting harieg bees outs wasted by the Clerk of the Peace, under the leserro• tins Act, ho could not saummon any other titan as El. treordisary Sessions of the Peace. As it now spraw l that the Meeting was held under tlit• iussto.otion he felt himself warraatetl to api ee! to theta as a t . " of Justice, and , apprise the !knelt that he Weed .ag....ak.. •-•- _~