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

~ s'-' ' 7 7 75 °. v r Jurist tNTRLLIGENCE. Av0.,9,11i. Majesty's ship Bulwark at. rived yesterday, instead of the Northemberlastdi and gaited this morning for Chatham, which was Mated by mistake.—Arrived and sailed the Orient, Galli, 'Pe, from Newcastle for Gibraltar. The Defences Rey noldson, from 'Calcium, is now coming into the Deeits• Poevsmouvu, AUG. 9.—Yesterday arrived his m i ,j„, y o s s hips RAchfort, Venaeur, Ramillies, sad Prometheus. from a cruise.— Sailed the Royal George yacht, fur Brighton.—Arrived today the schoorket Arabella. Holbrow, from St. Michael's, out 34 days, pet in for provisions and water ; spoke on the 2(14 August, in let. 47. 3. N. long. 8. 51. W. the galliot • Z. T hyr, of Stockholm, from Teneriffe, out eight weeks, all well; was hoarded by en Insergeot pri. Vatter schooner two days before, who plundered ha , 'Of 20 casks of wine.—Arrived also the Anna trans. port, from Halifax with troops, last from Cowes ; spoke the Quinton from London for India. PLYMOUTU, AUGUST 7.—The Prince Edward, Baena of this port, that sailed front hence on Wed. godly last for P r i n ce Edward's Island, was run dowit ;he same night, off the Lizard, and sunk, by the z ep h yr , ..--, of and from Liverpool ; crew saved. FALSOUTU, AUG. 7.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Shamrock, from a cruise.—Sailed the Duke of Katt packet, with a 51iil, for Lisbon. HULL; AUG. 6.—Arrived the Cherub and le Aurora, from Greenland, the former with 33 Ss , boo .butts; sod the latter latter 7 ash, •240, botti ; pod on the Bth the Lord Barham, Parker, from ditto, with 11 bib, 280 butts. The Anna transport, from Hanks, on her passage boarded the Henry, of North Shieido, water-logged and abandoned : site Mar tim ber laden. The Margaret, Key, has arrived in the River, from Greenland. L.AMENTAIBLE CASE OF SUIPWRECK. [PROM A iMitAiCA PAPEa•] We regret to state the loss Of the schooner Jane, from this port (Kingston) to New OrWens. The followlog particulars are derived from a letter from Copt. Livingston, dated the Ilavannah, May '2O t . ••• 66 'lt is wit!' great regret I communicate an account of the loss of the schooner Jane, which upset in a white squad half an hour before mid-day, oss the 211 of March, about two leagues to the southward of the Isle of Fines. Nothing could possibly be saved belonging to the vessel or cargo. Mrs. Shaw, the actress, sod Madame Ireton, being both in the cabin, were instantly drowned, as no assistance whatever could be rendered them. The schooner did not immediately go down, but our boat being lashed to leeward we could not get at ber ; we there fore formed a raft, and all the mess, and Messrs. Carney, Nilan, end myself, got oil it. Patrick Flanigan was washed Off and drowned; every one else got ashore on the south coast of the Isle of Pines about four o'clock on the morning of the 2-Ith, after hating been upward! of 16 hours in the water, 12 of whoa we were up to Ilse arm-pits. '• On the following day we lost Mr. Carney, end notwithstanding the most diligent search we could not sa►d him. Ile was, however, miraculously preserved, !dwell, as well as Thomas Burke, who, from weakness, remained behind, basing been con ducted by a do•g to a house, not far distant from where 1,00 ashore; but 11 hich, io our anxious state, we never discovered. Thus what appeared a misfor tune proved a benefit, es they nervr could, in their weak slate, have undergr n ►e the fatigue the rest did f or lisp days afterwards, without any susteto:nce ; when, at Irv!), we met a fisherman►, who relieved our wants as much as lay in his power. We were sent from the Isle of Pines by the Commandant of the island, on the suspicion that we belonged to an Insurgent vessel, and were kept in custody at this :place some days before we were released. Nilan, I regret to say, was lost in the woods, aud, no doubt, perished of hunger." A respectable Meeting of Freeholders took place at the Black Seals, at Winchester, on Monday last, in consequence of adreltisemet►t, for the purpose of promoting the Freedom and Purity of Election, when several Resolutions were entered into espressive of the sense of the Meeting. There can be no doubt that the espences attendant upon a contested election for a county leave the Representation of it, where Ikon saneness are to be borne by the Candidates them. selves, in very few hands, operating to exclude even men of property and of consideration in the Cout►ty from venturing to impair their fortunes by becoming Candidates for the honour of representing it, though they may be ofall others most equal to the task, and from character and talent, fully entitled to aspire to that honour. When the Electors, therefore, feel that they have a duty to perform in the, Election of their Representatives, and that it hi a part of that duty to attend the pullet their own ezpetsce, they lay the best foundation for an honest discharge of the duties on the part of their Representatives. The Resolutions ere framed with Ibis object in view, at►d to promote, by a proper application of the Elective Franchise, such a Reform hi Parliament as shall tend to shorten its duration, and 'Mend the right of Suffrage, with. out departing from those landmarks which the Con stitution and experience have wisely establed.— (Hampshire Teleeraph.) Last Monday, Vickery, attended by another Po lice•officer, arrived here (Leeds) from London, in search of a young men, nobly connected, who has, fur the fourth time, absconded from his friends, and has found his way to Leeds. Ever since their arrival the most diligent search has been made in the town end neighbourhood, but hitherto without success. The young fugitive, who is described to be six feet two inches high, and dressed in a blue coat, nankeen trowsers, end white stockings, called, it seems, at the • Post-office, on Saturday afternoon, where he received two letters, but since that time, he has not been heard of. Motives of delicacy towards his distressed con. .nections ittdece us to withhold his name for the pre 'seat. A reward of 20 guineas is offered for his ap prehension.—( Leeds Mercury.) . The Grand Jury of the county of Cornwall have found true lulls of indioment quit st 31 of the Elec tors of Grampouoil s fur bribery ; at the last olectiou. . a • ' - -.- ~'i~ ~. ~: Ms MANCHESTER - SPINNAII46I6I.- The Spinners still continue their state of polvAlaty unemployment, and we are sorry to say,,k is fiset likely that the difference between them and their em ployers will be speedily determined. We have had to notice the shameful means which are used to create a breach of the peace among them, end which, pa rent in the solitary case of Hasbro' and seven others, who' were convicted of the riot at Ancoats, have for. turiately failed. The abuse which is daily poured upon them by the Courier and the nines can gratify those only to whom human misery under oppression is a feast—and there are such persons. Almost all the writers who have had the humanity to advocate the cause of these ill-treated men, base usually taken the question in a philosophical view. They consider it as but reasonable and equitable that the labourer Should have a due share ip the produce of his labour. The opponents of the workmen out of employment say otherwise; but no one has yet stated their grievances. At a time when, from the depression of trade, goods were rotting in the warehouses, the masters were compelled to reduce the wages of their workmen about four-pence in the shilling, to which the men cheerfully assented. A promise was given by the masters, that as soonws there should be a demo(' in the markets, they would restore the molar. *mount of the wog's.. Every one li.sqpvisikstibere has been an increasing demand for, awe twelve• months, attd the workmen, making !,every allowance for the masters, instead of claiming the complete fulfilment of the promise, asked only for air increase of two-pence is the shilling, which is, no: honourably or heseanely, refused. There are some who affect to Consider their claims as exorbitant, and think that at present they are abundantly paid for their labour. The gross amount of the earnings of an adult cotton-spinner, Istria ac cording to the machinery on which he is employed ; out of this several deductions are made. Some of them, for instance, earn twenty-five shillings prr week, from which they have each to pay an assistant, called a pieccr, seven shillings and sixpence per week, and another, called a scavenger, two shillings per week ; thus for the mintenance of himself, cud, pehaps, a wife sod family, this overpaid workman would receive the enormous sum of sixteen shillings per week, were there not other deductions still. But he has not unfrequently to pay for oil, for banding, for twine, for candles, or where gas is boron, he has to pay for that weekly. The 'ability of the masters to grant the spinners their demanded increase of wages, has not been disputed"; and when we con sider the newtons privations and hardships which distinguish At spinners from other labourers, we cannot but condemn, in the strongest terms, that griping, unfeeling avarice, which would increase and entail them. But what shall we say of those who, instead of trying to effect an accommodation hetween.the masters and their workmen, are using every means of provoking the latter to tumult, and openly regret that their peaceable demeanour far nishes no pretest for employiug the military machines, which they seem to hope will, ere long, be ordered to force them to labour at the point of the bayonet ! In the absence of real disorder, as are weekly pre sented with serious tales of irprricodoing factories,. of prireitting others by force frOm working, &c. all hich'we can give the most unequivocal contraalc lion. The inventors of these fabrications seem ashamed of them ; for, whenever the Police Officers have arrived at the scene of outrage, " all annoy- ante has ceased, and the offending parties vanished," like the baseless fabric of a vision I These People too, are very ready to produce Acts of Parliament, of which they know nothing. In this case they quote a passage from Burn's Justice against Combinations of Journeymen, but they say nothiog of the Act ohich makes a combination of the masters against the journeymen illegal.—( .Manchester Observer.) Sir THOMAS UTAH MARTIN (Comptroller of the Navy), Co.nmisaioner FRASER, and Mr. Surveyor SIT PINGS, arrived at Portsmouth on Monday, to makep general inspection of the Dock-yard, the ships ire ordinary,-acrd of the artificers and workrneu em ployed in the yard, &c. They are espected to close their proceedings on Monday, when they make a si milar visit to the Dock-yard at Plymouth. It is said that many of the ships (first-rates) which were sup posed.to be in the most sound state, are found, upon being ripped open, to be estensively affected with the dry rot. Captain WlLsox is appointed to the Salisbury. SR, to be fisted for the flag of Rear Admiral DONALD CAMPBELL, at the Leeward Islands.— Captain Ilu-Kissoz is appointed to the Euryalus, .36, fur the same station. The Magicienne, Captain Purvis, which was driven ashore at Port Louis, Mauritius, in a hurri cane, received only trifling damage in her copper.— Sbe was quite ready for sea again in April last. The Acorn and Sophia are to be fitted for foreign service. The Opossum, Lord Jowl Hay, war; paid of on Tuesday, at Portsmouth. The Dispatch store- 1 ship has been paid off at Deptford. In the report of the case of Dos and CHADWICK v. BROWN, given in our Paper of the 27th alt., it was erroneously stated, that the Attorney WAINWRIGHT had been tried for forgery, as well as the Attorney BLACKBURN. The harvest room) these parts has proved the most productive known for many years; the corn, in quality, never better, nor a finer time for romping. Such intense heat of weather has not been known these 30 , years. We had very severe lightning on Thursday night, but unaccompanied by rain, and but little thou der. The barometrical obserrstion yesterday morn ing, from night before, nine degrees colder.—(Ports month Paper.) On Thursday night, or early on Friday morning, the church of Tottenham Iligh-cross was robbed of the communion-plate. True Bills were found by the Grand Jury at Surrey Assizes, on Saturday, against George Chennell and arns. Chalcraft, for the murders at Godalmin, and their trials are espected to take place on Wednesday Deal. Mr. GURNEY is retained to prosecute. A violent shock of an earthquake was felt at In. struck, on the 22t1 ult. at 10 at night, which lasted for some seconds, and was accompanied by an es. plosion similar to thunder. The (13tiliatiOn was from west to out. r • ~f!P 7••• , 71 TZW . "^ - •:' ' MURDER' AT ItPSOM. •`• * _......,,,„_. Ely +cot, the unfortunate gamekeeper of Mr. Tessier..eho was murdered on Sunday week, is re: presentee: as having been of a particularly mild dis: position, much belbred by his fellow-‘ervanis, and respected by his master. He was well knowte ai a most determined enemy to poachers, and ail being remarkably *spirited its detecting their practices, and performing his duty. His hat was found at a con siderable distance . from the bo dy; and it is evident from the broken appearance of the bushes, and the marks of footsteps, that there must base been a pur suit over a great space of ground; that his hat was knocked of by the overhanging branches - of the trees, and that in the ardour of pursuit he *oold not stop to recover it. It is reasonably ceojectured-that he came upon some poachers by surprise, and after disturbing them in their illegal practices, followed with the determination of taking some of them into' custody, and imprudently ventured into the Weed nsiti et Crockenham-corner after them, where find g their further retreat Impracticable, they turned' upon their pursuer, and harbarosisly murdered hiei In the olahner alieady made known to. the Public.— May and Halt, the officers, are isislefatigah is id thiiri exertifms to detect the perpetrates, of the hosrid i dime. They have ascertained thet , 6,gang of poachers, have been ioihe habit of holding %trefoil meeting's ell - Epsom-common,. liessatisati-diiwni; _Ube), the neishboorhood of Kingsthst, and there iiiraUghtg their icliemes of plunder and depredation. One of the gang iod .his two sons we're 'obleraed ass the stilts of Wooricot Park on the 6101 before tllsso murder, and have slime disappeared from that p ri of the country, but base been seen by some oft Iv e country people, who report that the father appeared' as if much hurt in the back. " Cob's pistol was dis charged when foga, and it is probable that some of the contents may lave lodged in the back of the man of whom the officers are in pursuit. From the in formation they have obtained, and their unceasing vigilance, a reasonable hope may be indulged thkt the murderers will shortly he brought to justice.-- Mr. Trotter, the Magistrate for Surrey, and General Howarth, have distinguished themselves by their ex ertions and activity for the discovery and apprehen. sioo of the offenders. ANOTUER ACCOUNT. During the last week the town and neighbourhood of Epsom has been in the greatest agitation and alarm, in consequence of the diabolical murder of Ely Cos, Mr. Tessier's gamekeeper, on Sunday week. By information which we have received from a corre spondent, we can venture to slate, that very sanguine hopes are entertained that the tourderer will he soon brought to justice, circumstances having transpired which have furnished the officers (May and Hall, of (Jnion-hall Police-office) with a clue to his person. It was ascertained by the officers, that a man of an. Ibrious character, who travels with a caravan drawn by a Junky, and who is generally accompanied by his two sons, was within a quarter ore mile of Ceoch. enhain-corner an the night preceding the rooming the . murder was committed. The man lives the life of a gypsy, and supports himself and family by the same inlawful means. On the morning of the day r Cos was (Dead murdered, this man was seen by some coutirrg Kepi* in a very weak slate; he complained of en injury of his back, and said that it lead bled any much + and he wis afraid lir should bleed to deMh.— His enquiries were after his wife, who, it appeared. I according to his account, was " gone a foraging," or seeking for food. Ile said he had received the injury in an all ay. It is believed that he was wounded in the back by the contents of Cues pistol, which had been dis charged when it was found on the ground some dis tance from the body. The sock of a shoe was found also near the body ; and it is a singular cis-- COMIItaIICP, that the man so strongly suspected (not merely from what we have related ? but .in.,ctinse quence of his having decamped from that part of the country) was observed, a few days prior to the mur der being committed, putting socks into his shoes, as be was sitting by bis baggage on she road side near Woodcot Park. The vigilance and activity of Mr. Trotter and the other Magistrates, who have formed th e mselves into a Committee to investigate the mur der, and in use means to bring the perpetrators to justice, has been very greatly manifested by their un ceasing esertions to discover and apprehend the I murderer. PIITLOCOPHICA L DISCOVER, Es.—M r.STEINIIAWER, filelie, has informed the world; that our globe is a **(snow ball, the interior of which perhaps contains a little Solar System. From e long series of observa. lions. on the variations of the magnetic needle, it seems to him to follow incontrovertibly, that at the depth of 170 German, about 765 English miles, a body re volves round the centre or the earth, from West to East, but very slowly, as it take* 440 years to ac complish one revolution. This body is endued with a very strong magnetic power, and is the cause of the variations of the magnetic needle. The calculations M. STEINUAUSER, are stated to be perfectly con lit to experience ; and he foretold, in 1805, that the needle would first becotne stalionary, and then, about the present time, return towards the East, Which has in fact happened. Hitherto, navigators helm merely judged empirically, from the variations •f the needle, whether they have been driven by cur rents ton far to the East or the West ; but in future they will observe the position of the sublerraneous body, called Pluto, and thereby determine their po sition %Ms as much certainty as by the more tare celestial phenomena! On Thursday night, Mr. MONK, the wife of a botcher in Long-alley, Finsbury-square, sat up to have her husband's breakfast ready at the early hoer he intended to go to market. About two o'clock, falling asleep, she dreamed that one of her children had fallen out of the window, which terrified her so much that she suddenly started to *eve him, and en fortonately fell out of the third floor window into the street, by which the was dreadfully cot in various parts of her head and body. She was conveyed into 'the house in a senseless state. Hopes, however, are entertained of her recovery. There remains at this time but one single fragMent of the once famous strong hold of the Earls of Ross, at Dived!, in Scotland, the whole of the site hat ing Dow* stop of oats growing upon it. "..-~..~e~' • - tg ~8 .~ 0 - MI•• - •••••• . t •~~. :S 1 7~ • aIL4W iiVrgctiGENG'it: ' t tit bP 9 • 0 TCillklyChh ; Ave. 11. 111tiUkT1ON.—DRURff-6ANE TltftilltE gir S. Rrisse Lt.! stated, thit thii nag a Minion in Injunction, to reitrivits the Sub Con 'trier of D'ury.laiie Theatre (mom ehiering shy nevi en gagements with performer., and 'loth ie-openirile obi Theatre, till the Resoluti-ha adhpted by the tohjoi-ity of the body of the Proprietors hail been C , iisplieri with. He moved this on a hilt filed by Mi. G. it: Rbbins, Mr. Caltraft; M. P. and the Hon, Mr: Lamb, who filed it on behalf of throndelies Ind the other Proprietors: it steied, that at the tithe ofthe Theatre being deitioyed by fire it neat math knurls bored; and in *.short time as Act Of Parlisetedt Wei passed, vesting the ;miser in trio person. of filature; to raise fhb sum of 300,0001. toy . thsiOc of intl. each; and giving to'each share-biddy.. yopoitionat; num• ber of votes for their Shires. A wood Act If Pattie.. swot was obtained, authOriiirig a Sub.COminittee of Management to be appointed by the (leveret &remit.; tee; the Sub.Coasinittet to be rested *int flie onser of appointiog a mapager; engaging plriformets. etc: bet which engagellsents et Contret's they st ere to lei be: fore the General Meisleg the for t' air • altamobetitill. The Sub•Cornsitittie tit pi s treni LIMN or PAU**. Beg: M.P Lord Y. rni"ulh 'colootlPougleti - I ". Winton. q "iota !beheld ;Wileirw l . l4.. The strairs'ef the Theatili not tiring so prosperous as might have bean esipeCted, she I's co prletere held Peters' melting'; and a Comobtee Mai appointed to enquire ibtb the a of thii, Theatre; and Ibeyi by their It•pbti; reinetdrended a redue.; tioa of the.expenditurei *arid also lof the dtffereni Si: - 'Writs of the performers; but the Out Mitre its pro: mote4he Westin of the Theatre would he, &Wale to keep sufficieut attruiloo brf..rt the Public. They further recoMmemied that the Theatre sh..ufal bd kept open longer than a hat was consideied fie neirly the usual time, and that it should not Illottiroest ensuing arasoll aithuut the content of vhf Pro: pricier., and .that the system of mstingoment gloolll4 be changed. This Report oat appritied rt r G. ,, ttea rill Meeting of the Proptieters on she 8111 of June , who oppointed a Select Comtnittee to enquire fir teeti into the state of the Theatre, grid t.o make their . re.; port. . . The LORD CHARCELLOR•••." Yti. had better fur= nigh me with the two Acts of l'arliament, iss it sill en.: able me the better to .ascertain, with •icCurecy; the authority with which the Sub-Cotornit tee are clotlved.'i Sir SAMUEL ROMILLt, io cotitinriatioo, saist, that a General Meeting was held at the Theatie; 64 . tad 28th of July, which was numerously artended,:iinct beforothe Report of the Select Committee was eethti that of the Sub• Committee was, which svf fortli; that the Sub-Committee of Management felt eitirketily anxious to give elfectio the views of the Spechil mittee, appointed by the assembly of PioplietoriOn the Bth of •June ; that they had accordingty givese them access to their documents, end to the emirate and papers of the Theatre, at mock pentane( venience ; they had made every effort to prover! a satibtactory arrangement of the pecunitiek difftioitiet of the Theatre, that they had gained the coontieht of three-fourths of the creditors to a composition, et the rate of 101. in the pound; the retostulug creditort . held out in hopes of gaining better . feral. Tfiougif many persons recommended that the Theatre ihould toot be opened till all olitstacles were cleared 'My, they could not accede to the propriety of that "[deice, end as an eainest of their belief that it might suceriss fully be re-opened at the usual time, the Sub-Commit.: tee were prepared to advance out of their own ;white the sum of money that might for that occasion, an& with that view, be necessary. No decision Was come to on this Report by the Meeting, and they proceeded to read that of the Select Committeeortficit set forth, that by the arrangements to which the ma jor part of the creditors agreed, a saving to the Pro.. prietors of about 12,000'. may be now made; and the Theatre thereby relieved from • pressure, which' its general progressive receipts would be inadequate to discharge, and which pressure, they have great reason to believe, would otherwise be much increased by the addition of law charley'. The Committee also, ass the 16th instant, transmitted to the General and Sub•Commitiees a. statement of their yogurt., end suggested, that for the purpose of providing for the immediate payments *hid) had been promised to creditors, and to defray the nectwary "spumes erre• vions to again opening thia Theatre," if wee delitaill to raise the sum of 17,000Ieas a loan, - hy subserip.. (ion, amongst Gentlemen who feel interested In the prosperity of the Theatre ; and the Select Committed recommended the manner in which it should be re paid, and also the rate of interest ; amid it was theie unanimous opinion, that the sole regulation, eon duct, and contritet of the Theatre ind its espeorii. are, appointment of Stage Manager, engagemetit of per• formers, aril selection of piece% for dramatic repre• sensation, should be confided to George Colman, E-q. and nod they wery ready and *de.birous to co•opea rate with the General and SOli-Committees 'in all matters.whirh might be requisite,,ds well for the per.' pose of investing him with the necessary powers• as for completing any arrangements which might be deemed proper for the security of the Subscribers to • the intended loan, and for effecting all the other ob 4 jects fur which they were appointed. But to this proposal they had received ncianover from the Gene. rat and Stib-Cortrtnittee.. They had been induced to hope, that notice of the resignations of all the mem bers of the Sub-Committee of Management (nevi the Earl of Yarmouth, who had bees' rectally spe pointed, and whose talents, assiduity, and taste, ten. der him highly qualified for that office), would have relieved them frogs the painful necessity of recording their opinion of the disqualifications of the four other Gentlemen of whleb the Sob-Committee of Manage& meld is constituted.' And they must farther ley, this the debts of the Theatre have been greatly increased lit consequence of the *lnt of a proper check to the fie cility of obtaining articles from Irides persons by the different artificers, and others employed in the Theatre, who have been permitted to exercise the power Of ordering Materials of seer prices, quote ties, and quantltiet, as they thought fit. Whilst elm resources have been essentually diminished tor that general ill management and want of attraction, which has been so long a subject of universal end contirioed complaint; and also, as this Cotnatittee Men fir believe, by oho ODIfIDORI saber of • Y i nd rift Not fit' T UM