The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-07-23 00:00:00

7.'t a- , . Ary TO THE EDITOR. STATESMAN. 51R,.... -When NAPOLEON adopted the resolution of and of throwing himself uposa' coming to P , og land, tie protection of the English People, unquestionably h e e ntertained the most elevated idea of their justice and generosity. Still, he supposed, they inherited the enlarged political views which had distinguished a long line of ancestors ; but his detention on board, and subsequent exile, unveiled the delusion. Although a few official documents have been laid be fore the Public, still little appears to be known of the deprivations and insults daily suffered by that Illustrious Prisoner. Cut off from all communica• lion with his wife, his son, and his mother and Eu• repeals friends, he is ignorant of the most endearing domestic concerns. Severed from the inhabitants of St. Helena, and even some of his suite, he is left to pine Mane; even in his illness not able to avail himself of the advice of his Physician, who is kept under arrest; Doctor O'ME.III t having, it appears, on all occasions evinced the characteristic attributes of a British Officer. ln being anxious, to do his duty, he has incurred the displeasure of the insolent Governor, and has subjected himself to some of those gross personal indignities which have 101 l been silently inflicted upon the unpitied captive. What the Gods did to the King of PAPITLIGONIA . the Jailers of NAPOLEON are now acting. They sp. point him a physician, compel him to sign Bulletins ;ithout seeing his patient, and while he is under ar rest, profess to allow him to take exercise on horse back, but under restrictions which it would compro mise his honour to embrace ; they profess to allow him fall liberty within certain limitations, yet subject it to to many qualifications till he is actually confined. They rave promised to build him a house fit for his resi dence in a tropical climate, yet lodge him in a dila pidated barn : bad water, unwholesome provisions, Ind very sparing in quantity, swell up his sumptuous fare. The indpendent spirit of Mr. 0 1 MEan a for ten months resisted the tyrannical restrictions of the Go. vernor, but what could not be accomplished by in timidation has been effected by force. In fact, Mr. EAUA is not a man after the Jailer's own heart; 'le has too much humanity to be the tool of a petty lespot, whose object is oppression; and too much in dependence to ba subservient In a capricious Jailer. From the 12th Article of NAPOLEON't Note, I beg leave to dissent, when he says, " I bequeath the opprobrium of my death to the Reigning, noose of England." I am most anxious to exonerate the Reigning Wiese" of the opprobrium, because I em convinced the Dynasty of BituNswick has not forgot the princ.dlea which seated them ova the Throne; and even had they beets the inheritors of the CrOkill of JAME% 11. they are too magnanimous to join in the exile and oppression of NAPOLEON. They do, it is true, divide the responsibility; and had NAPOLEON in this case shown his ordinary share •f sagacity. and discrimination, he would have most cordially exonerated the " Reigning House," - and attributed his oppression, and the base object of his confinement, to the Borouglimongers. If NAPO LEON had studied the Constitution in the vagaries of DE Lomita, he might readily fall into this error ; but NAPOLEON was a Reformer, and altheuei he erred he practised still too much equality for the Oligarchs. The People of England are not to be identified in this persecution—St. Helena is not their Bastile, oor NAPOLEON their Prisoner.—Public spirit com pelled Swoon - ill to unlock the doors of his agonized victims, and the same spirit will oblige the con temptible creature of the Foreign Department to berate NAPOLEON,—Your's ) &c. July 20 s 1010: lAVAL INTELLIGENCE. St Pi' hi It+ al at to of as to th P' wi ba fee so he de al fa y. ti hi d it a 1 U] • • t CADMUS MAL, JPLY V.—Arrived last night, after post, the 11r4iIsford, Mineors, and Regulus transports, with the 31st Regiment of Foot, 'nil detachments of the 10th, 111 h, and 3Gth Regiments, from Milts, last from l i t) mouth, the whole have this day dis. embarked, and will proceed to-morrow to Dover Barracks.—Arrived and sailed for the River the ...John Bushman, Derailing, from the West Indies; and the Perseverance, —, from the South til. a ;. Ponrsatourit, JULY 22.--Arrived the Vittoria, Carlile, from the Flavannah; sailed the 7th Of June, which is not so late as the arrival yesterday by a week. FALMOUTII. Jucr 20.—N0 a rrivels but the Thistle, Wallace, from Cephalonia, in seven weeks.—Sailed the Blucher packet, with a Mail, for the West Indies. IlAnwicit, JULY 22.—Sailed the l'rince of Mange packet, with a Mail, for Holland ; and the Henry Freeling packet, with ditto, for Corf' sett. Cowes, JULY 22.—Came in the ship Jemima, nattily, from London for Bombay ; she has been down Channel as far as Scilly, and obliged to put back, being leaky. The Lords of the Treasury have refused a Petition Grim Newcastle.opon-Tyne, to he allowed to impo►t goods from India, on the ground of the unfitness o' the harbour for mooring ships with ofety to the re venue. SUDDEN DEATlL—Yesterday morning, Mrs. Mary Cuthbert, of Stepney-green, who was speaking to ler husband, while in bed, in excellent health and irita, without a single struggle breathed her last. — A surgeon attended, but she was quite dead. "THT • . . Iffglett BA NOES A r 11i4NCIIESTER. • • [PROM 11.04ctitiTrit PAPERS.) t ANCIIESTER, JULY 21.-We are extremely sorry that we are not able to state that the effects of corn.. bination have subsided. The spinnete, who have putt licly dihavoilied a most intlamtriatory placard, tending to excite not merely discontent , II • d ..isorder iiid violence, hive certainly behaved very peaceably ; 'but evidently under a regular training, in Order that their formidable proCett(ions might induce the few spinners who remain industriously at work, to leave lit, and to overawe their employees into compliance }with their demands. We are sorry for their conduct,: 'because we cannot but think it injurious to themselves and their fan.:lies. The same spirit, we are concern ed to add, has broken out in other trades. Yesterday morning, soots after midnight, a fire was discovered in the cotton-factory of Messrs. Orin rod and flardcastle, of 13olton, which in a Ptitirt time consumed the mill and all its valuable machinery, amounting in the whole, we understand, to upwards of 40,0001. Report states the fire to have com menced close to the door, so that all ingress to assist in putting it out was at once prohibited. Sttong sus picious from this and other circumstances are enter- Joined that the conflagration was not the effect of accident, hut design. If this he correct, we trust that the vile incendiaries will very soon he discover ed, and he brought to the condign punishment they so justly merit. ANOTHER, ACCOUNT. The extensive and valuable spierting establish. ment, carried on by Messrs. Ormroil and Hsid castle, in Moor.lane, Bolton, was totally consumed by fire, between one and three o'clock yesterday (Monday) morning; and ste_regret to learn that the property is but verj•psrtially ensured. Under what circumstances th,V serious event originated has not been yet asceFfitined, but we a►e info( toed that there is some.reSson for surmi.itig that it has been the ne farious perpetration of iocentlisriev. About nine o'clock one of the main walls came unexpectedly down amongst a numerous body of spectators, many of whim were dreadfully hurt, and some, it is feared, will not r.cover. The following is an extract of a letter received this morning from Bolton-le-Moors, dated July 20 : " Orunrod and iiirrtesstle's large mills at Bolton (ill but one) were destroyed lust night by a fire that broke out at 12 o'clock, after the works had been nearly 30 begirt at rest. Lis supposed to be done by some iaeendiary." iIA - ViEr i r eid — P - 137 01. --- 114 R. In consequence of the briskniss of tritde, iivid the high prices lately obtained for Wool, this fair was more numerously attended than usual. Upwards of 120 persons sat down to the dinner, at which 'F. W. Coke, F..sq. presided, supported by the Duke of Norfolk. the Karl'of Albemarle, General Fitzroy, Admiral Lakin, J. Merest, Esq. M.P. Messrs. Styles man, Moseley, &e. &e. Theprincipal IVool-bolters, were Messrs. Waller, !Invokes, Fisens, Gairdener, Vavaseur, and several Gentlemen from Yorkshire and other parts. After the cloth was removed, the Chairman gave the following toasts -, Con.titotion and King"—" Prosperity in the Wool Fair. and n fair p ire het a e.;11 Bus er and Seller"—'• Prosperity to the Clltillitra or Norfolk end Sutfulk"—" The Woollen Nana tacture: of litent Britain." The CHAIRMAN, in calling the attention of the Meeting to the business of the day, said, he never felt grestee pleasure than on the present Occasion, in which he witnessed the largest and most respectable Wool Fair etrer held in Thetford. lle rejoiced to be able to stele to them, that the Woollen Manufacteries were never in a more prosperous condition than at the present moment. As he had established the Fair, so he wished to promote those beneficial results whidh were to flow from it, by offering his wool at a fair atitl liberal price. lie knew what was ex pected at the Lewes Fair, and doubted not but the Meeting would give him credit for endenvourieg to obtain such information as mould enable.him to lit' a price equally beneficial to buyer and seller. Ile wished the sales might be publicly effected in the room. as the growers would then know who had the best decks, and who the worst ; at present, it was hest known at Leeds. Mr. Coke concluded by of fering his *OOl to Mr. Waller (as the last year's purchaser) at 84s. per tod, at the same time assuring him and the Meeting, that if It were not sold in the room, it should not be offered at so low a price out of it. The offer was accepted by Mr. %Yeller, who complimented Mr. Coke on the superior quality and cleanliness of his wool, and recommended his example to other growers, particularly in reference to the bleaching the fleece. The DAts of Norfolk offered his wool at 83s. which was accepted. On " the health of the Earl of Albemarle" being drank, his Lordship observed, that he was never so happy as when he could he useful to his friends and neighbours ; he often regretted so little business had been done in the room, and was glad that Mr Waller broken the ice. It app enred to bin', that the wool bu)ers i.ati bound themselves by a vow not to buy in that room ; bur rash sows were better broken than kept, hi proof of Isl.:eh, he, rdated an anecdote of a foreigner, who, in a quarrel, vowed he would never comb his h.ir until he had obtained revenge. This vow, said his Lordship, was only inconvenient to himself and his friends. Ile concluded by offering his wool to Mr. Fison. at 84s. but which was re. fused ; however, his Lordship shortly after rose and stated, that wishing Mr. Fison to have his wool as usual, he had agreed to take S3s. and that Mr. F. had laccepted it, requesting his Lordship to state to the com pany, most distinctly that he was not prepared to give the same price to others (however, we believe, that before the business of the day concluded, the Messrs. Fistula were compelled to give 845.). Lord Albemarle, in the course of his speech, having passed some very high encomiums on Mr. Fison, gave occa sion to the Chairman to remark, that be fully agreed in the sentiments of his Noble Friend respecting the `Gentlemen just named, but regretted that Mr. Fison had only nibbled at his wool, hut never yet took it. 11: , fore he sat down he would inform the Meeting, that since the establishment of the Fair, the quantity of wool grown in Norfolk and Suffolk had increased to double or treble. Ile concluded by proposing for tee: a toast— " The Bishop of Norwich, the brit Shepherd in Christen- The Rev. Mr. Er.wlst, though little inclined to. interrupt the important business of the Meeting, could not, as a Clergyman, refrain from offering his thanks to the Chairman for proposing this toast, and to this very respectable company, for the handsome mariner in which they had received it. lie observed. that the Chairman was in the habit of paying this tribute of respect to that excellent man at almost every Public Meeting, end he did not wonder at it; " Sindlis srrniii gaudel:"—or, to use an Poiglish proverb, " Birds of a feather flock together." The same liberal spirit—the same zeal for civil and re. ligious liberty—the same charity for the failioes o f others—and (as far as ability goes) the same princely hospitality distinguished them both ; and he would venture to say that if his brethren of the cloth, io- Ist ea d o f adopting the prejudices, anti echoing the misrepresentations of those who think it their intr.- ! rests to defame and misrepresent them, were to imi tate their liberality and follow the good old adage of , 4 Live and let live," they would add greatly to the security of their possessions, their respectability, their independence, end consequently their happiness. . On 66 The health of Mr. Coke" being drank, he remarked, that previous to the establishment of this I Fair, the Wool-buyers had divided the County of 1 Norfolk into districts, and the prices were in a great degree left to them. To overturn a coalition of this kind, he, as Member for the County, conceived he should be serving the landed interest by establishing a Meeting like the present, the beneficial results of which had been that day more than ever experienced. lie lied fixed on Thetford, as being on the confines of the two counties. At one of the early Meetings it was whispered in his ear, that by the establishment of this Fair lie should lose many votes ; but he re solved to do his duty to the Agricultural interest, however prejudicial to himself individually.—ln the course of the afternoon, the healths of " The Doke oT Norfolk"—." Admiral Lukiir"--. 44 Sir John Se bright," and other distinguished Agriculturists, were drank; and more business was done in the purchase and sale of wool than at any Meetidg since the establishment of the Fair. The current prices of the Southdown socks were from 80s. to 84s. per tod; and a flock of pure Merino was sold at 105 a. We did did not hear of any wool being sold of the Norfolk breed, a marked preference being given to the Southdown. A Int of half-bred wool was of fered at 735. 6d. to Mr. Hawke', of Norwich, but refund. Letail wiiitmi THE KING or PRUSSIA's A.VOURS. Our Readers remember his Prussian Majesty's visit to Paris last suo.n►er, but th..y probably never lipoid the following .-entitnental n►ot►re ascribed to it. We eutrac► the anecdote from a 'tour in Germany, just puhlished, replete with pictu►es of Germany society, and of the %) stems terthe duodecimo Courts with which we are now so eagerly courting alliance: — r• A general subject of consersation in the gay circles is, the subjugation ut the, bs,..ible heart of his Majesty of Prussia, by a fair damsel; whose inequality o. years and of birth renders it doubly romantic ... This fortunate fair is the daughter of the French Ambassador at Dresden, and of charms well de serving Royal admiration. Love, which recognizes no distinctions, exact , d from its elevate►! votary as arduous proofs of devotion as it could have require•• from a humbler swain, and the King has been as assiduous in following the steps of this favourite nymph at Dresden, at Toeplitz, and at Berlin, as he could have beets to secure a dowried daughter of the oldest house in Christendom. 1V hen the Lady repaired to Paris in the summer, his Ma jesty, as you know, lest no time in putting on his romantic incognito, and surprising her at the Thuil. leries as Count Ruppin ; and while the politicians of Europe were drawn% ominous iuferences from this friendly meeting of the Sovereigns, the saloons in Germany were only admiring the constancy of the Monarch, and envying the honours of its fair object. The Prussians, however, who would have done the same if the Lady had been a German, could not conceal their soreness, that a daughter of the nation they hate should hold their Monarch in such tri umphant chains ; and when a report spread that a left-handed marriage either existed or was on the lapis, they were indignant beyond measure." LEITRIM.—State of the Leitrim gross Poll at the clOaa— ____ Mr. Latouthe 2975 Mr. %s kite Major Clenien , 6 A Proclamation has been put forth by the Duke of MANCIIEsTEK, announcing that the Lords of his Majesty's Treasury had given orders for issuing a small copper coinage for the use of the military in the West Indies, sod by mains of which the pay of the soldiers would be issued daily instead of monthly, as had hitherto been the practice. The Proclamation further states, that with a " view of giving a 6aed and permanent value to ouch copper coins, and to in duce the inhabitants to take them from the soldiers, the Deputy Commissary-General has been instructed to receive the said coins either in exchange for bill upon the Lords Coinmissinuers of his Majesty's Treasury, or in exchange ler dollars, at the rate of fifty-siz penny-pieces, or one bombed and twelve halfpeotty- pieces, for the Spanish dollar, which is now issued to the soldier at the flied rate of four shillings and eight-pence." It was therefore recommended to the inhabitants of Jamaica to receive this copper coinage as currency, which would prove no less cim vellietst to the Public, than salutary to his Majesty's troops. 'rite increase in the various branches of the Reve nue proves incontestibly the flourishing state of our commerce; while the peculiar improvement in the Customs evinces the high opinion foreigners enter tain of our public spirit, by their avidity to consign the finest flavoured Wines to England, on reading, in the Continental Papers, ?Ir. CARROLL'S invitation to adventurers to select the choicest Port, Claret, and Madeira, as a zPst to the Prizes of Saver Ague in the Lottery, in addition to the Two Prizes of , e 30,000 sod the 16 other Capitals, which ,nay be drawn Neat Tuesday week, as there are no hied Prizes, and only 8,000 Tickets. There was It.) business of public interest either at Cit.cabrisde yr LitiatiOVlOo -'carter Seigooll. •/•. •••••••• • P-It OJECT OF ti (EIIOM THE itunix ivi Though we should not go to th Parliaments and Universal SulTragi which we woutti co—and which ' should have indicated. We si. avoiding all declamation oft pm which we have had more tbs, . tective ogaittit the Corruption ok mon• • w hich is the staleit and fiat titled common:places : I. We should retreat theletilr pel the Crown to go to attElecit 'this would bring the Colistitui sentation into mere immediate and though we hold the iloctilqif being the mere agent and echo:ol refit from the principles of :herd we look upon Parliament not etti basiadors from hostile or jealous l S; bound to consult the peculiar their respe;:tire Courts, but a Di which must be influenced in 0 and reasonings, still it would Conslitbtionot importance, that public mind should have its flu, Heence in the Legislature. No merits would go a great way Men would tint so frequently job. They would not.be so , selling their Votes for viluable would necessarily regard their regard it—as a place of lionow short, gross and flap tot selfish rule of conduct to the major whose venality had bocome moor , calculate on continuing his Par vond the term of three years ; a common ambition, and of high Seat in Parliament Would he tumble than any gift the Mini political services, more indepei troduced into the House. Tlit Oyes should and ought to go woul.l be less chanr.e that they wk conduct by sordid motive:. Thi generally to the great cities counties. 2 Bor, after all, Trieutiial themselves, be little more th. were riot a Reform in the Bot Th. abuses in the system mut Iteadera. Theft.. BorOusrliS ar pert) of imlivirloals ;—even gri merick anti Galway, have ht then, must have been the 4 places? But it is totally jui this statement; suffice it to sa fourths of the House of Cori the House of Lords, and that minder are the Nominees 01 though the Lords must necessa , possessions, have influence though in many the brothers iv the Peers are the Representatit object to this ititiaetica—it is and, indeed, inevitable. It link between the Peerage and conservative principle In our ml ment. It is not against this its salutary operation in the that we should object ; it is agi out any reference whatever to without any consultation with regard for their opinions, send! House, their own Instrument automata—Members for their port is sold, not for money it tronage to the Minister; and and Dr. Faustus, while they really. his masters. If the Pen plain of thi. Borough System, the Minister must complain 1 more,—it is his master—his h and be is its stave. But the formation in the syrem, whi more liberty—and, though art the thing has before been asserb the Executive potter. Now, are convinced, might be accor As thus, 3. Let the law of Election in Scotland. Put this ancien. the elective franchise, on an eel of Cornwall, as they are alrea , number of Representatives. of a certain annual incorhe, thus deliver four.fiftlis of the r, t 00l of those who have not lho soil. There never was such an time, such a ridiculous systei the world as that of Scotland , was never such a set of subserr will of the Minister—or tab garchy, whose agent and orgai to lie. 4. Disfranchise till the which will havt-i the same efreci rations to all substantial free ferent place would the city of the Common Council and• tr were chosen, for the last this from the householders of Di as it is, the lees and reticiu4 contemptible fact i.m. • 5. lit rease the number large towns end counties, mall ones. Thus London, nark, insfrad of ei4ht, shon't Representatives; and Cortiwa four, should be reduced to Dublin shoeld 'have four at II Grantham none. The coot have sis, and the county of way should have three, while Leitrim shoeld be content ' Mr. Luke IVhiie alone. ' • 6. ItLPEA 1. TOE UNION TAIN AND IRELAND. ! `TMs is Itoform in a tangil I hope, in some such shape ai • will embody, not in Resole' general points' upon which hi a Bill of particuicr-s. . % ..,.. . t REFORM; . . . . . rtiri !Ws Posi.i .. the length of Anginal rage; there isds leargtli , is ithir„ Fran'th,B i urdett .p tilpit'intale tt isrielly, i t ..rostaLzipwq II i ~eisvi h. Find i a (Its• ,e 4,1 i .1,-,1 rn. k .- it •, • ... , 417 : -t: stunt TO gar o At _De. . . •• .. II . E Ai " toes tenicisl'Ait, and spy?. . ilittl eltiritltiePdeifit! 1,1 .t, . 1 ni uesscy end the eprg- a add closer gotsittit'; f I . gt o ef t l a tetireibritaVegt .' : . of the Elecioi shltpt. ' donatituTitsn.:.thoogli - t , ! 4 is au asseriil)ll hf Am.; i , v slS: r v'ereigns, who ire i t, views or iisteresisesi Deliberative COu a clip' . their decision by facts i A be mistier of great °.e t the Aggregate a the . ,• ue and wholesome ifl- . 1 :' 'ow, Tri.onial Parlia: to scroMplish this.— go into the House to; , much in the habit oi . 1 ,0 ,e consideration—they il l seat, es they should ~ t Ir, not of profit. In . loess would not be the , rity, fur the liembei: I I , i oriotis, could not well. irliamentary traffic be. ittitl, as to any min of ! R h station in society, a !intrinsically more vs. i . -1 doer could confer fur i i endence would he in. ~ • . i sough the Represents. 0 in free agents, there ( !, t 1 wereinfluenced its their s 'these rellectioos apply , • ; and the Independent • rarliiinerits would, il i inn nugatory, if titers, trough Representation. tat be familiar to our , re generally the pro: ~ rent towns, stich as Li. ie7n usurped : What, .• condition of inferior aperfloous to Condone say, that nearly three: I nmima aril returned bi : t ti moiety of the re.s of the Crown. Now, " isarily, from their great in the coanties=and and other Connexinneet l ivel, yet we should stet . i necessary ind natural, \ forMs the Connecting I the People. It is the mixed form of Covens. legitimate influence, or e House of Commons, pinta that which, with. i o the popislar feelings... , th the People, or any -1 ends into' the People's its—their agents—their . ! r Boroughs, whose sup. it is true, but for pa. d who, like the Devil. seem to obey him, are tople have justly to com. t, we are convinced that • -,. of it, if he dare. Still. task-master—hiss driver, . I s People wish . fur a ie. hich would leave them e. We are not aware, that . erted, which would leave c, this reformation, we . , amplistied very easily..-. a be altogether change . ot kingdom, its point of equality with the county . ! lady nearly equal in the Let every freeholder, 1 vote for his man, and 4 e counties front the con- se slightest interest in the r it unjust, and, at the same 'm of Representation in t tl—and of course, there tervient Members to the . ... Cher to that of the Oli. 4 ;an the Minister is forced. . . rotten Boroughs—or; b . 'eat, open all the Corpo. .1 reeholders. What a da- d Dublin he this day, iC . . 'he Board of Aldermen . . irty years, indifferently, )üblin, instead of being, • . sum of a worn out and .. . of Representatives for I end diminish there for Westminster, and South. ..s. ild hay* sixteen or twenty It wall, instead of her forty. , f . eight. Instead of two, least, and Old Saturn and .., arty of York ought to t ._ Rutland bat one. Gal. 5 i iile on the same principle wit!, Col. Latoache, or . it t RETWEEY GREAT Bar! s .i . i ihle shape—and it is, we . . 5 this, that Sir F. Burdett itions—upon abstract and the world is agreed—bee / • , 5