The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-12-19 00:00:00

an unfavourable view to the French.— Loud cries of Hear! from the Ministerial Benches. —lle really believed this was the case in the present instance, nor could he credit the story of the burning of Mowcow from patriotic motives, until he had better proofs on that subject. The grant, however, called for under that pretence, would be severely felt in this country by a people already unable to bear the existing taxes, and this consideration alone would have determined him to oppose the grant, however inclined to relieve the wsnts of the Mustang. Ile did not understand the principle of that generosity, which sympathized only with the distresses of other countries, but had no feelings for those ofour own. Last year the suf ferings of the manofacturers in the northern and mid land counties had been laid before Parliament with a view to some pecuniary relief being afforded. Those sufferings were of a nature to make every feeling lima bleed. But the answer to the application was, that no relief could be given, consistently with the precsnre of the times, and with public economy. We paid dear for the prevalence of this sort of foreign sympathy; we had to maintain French, Dutch, and American loyalists ; but when he bad come to the House with a proposal of some better provision for the worn-out servants of the public, veteran officers, who were pining in poverty, and obscurity, or the dis ab ed %atm we daily saw begging about our at. eets, he had received the same cold answer, that the necessary expenses of the Government were so great as to admit of no addition. Mr. 'WILBERFORCE said, he thought the ar gument, that the sum of t21)0,0001. now asked for, would not materially benefit or relieve the Russian people, was extremely futile. lie had heard the same argument urged on former occasions, in all of which they had been proved wrong; because the grants then made had nit only operated to the extent of their respective . amounts, but had been productive of this further advantage, that they had stimulated and called filth the charitable exertions of many societies in dif ferent places, and had been productive of the most be neficial effects. In passing this vote, the House would •; show that it entered feelingly into the sufferings of the Russian people, and it was on that account he support ed it; and he thought the feelings of sympathy in their I distresses, thus forcibly evinced, wont(' make this sum appear to the Russians of much greater value ; than would a much larger sum granted under different circumstances; and would give an advantage to the industry of this country, to a much greater extent than the amount of the sum voted. For his own part, ' 1n could not conceive why nations should not he ge teroes as well as iedividuals ; and if it had pleased the Almighty to spare this country front the suffer iegs and ravages of war, he was at a loss to conceive why we should not relieve, as far as we were able, there people in other countries with whom we- were in allianse, and whose situation, in being made the 1 seat of war and devastation, rendered them so much more unfortunate than ourselves. Under all these circumstances he felt great pleasure iu giving his vote in favour of the :irant. Lord COCHRANE said, that as the sum required was only equal to ten days expense of the war in the Peninsula, and as the exertion of the Russians were, in his opinion, likely to accelerate the termination of that war, lie felt it his duty to vote for the motion. The Resolution was then agreed to, and the Re ort ordered to be received to-morrow.—Adjourned. TO THE PUBLIC. The Alfred Newspaper hiving been discontinued yesterday, we are requested by several of the .News Venders to notify the sane, and to assign that us a reason for their substituting the STATES• .n.sr: in lieu of it. Statesman Oftee, Dee. 15, • • Arr. Mails. Due 0 O O . Cadiz O 4 llrazils O II O ... ..... ~.. 0 • Guernsey 1 2 PRICE. OF Fromm tills Rank 3 per Cent. Red. 60f 1 S per Cent. Cons. 4 per Cents. 77f 6 per Cent. Navy Left. Ann. 14 11.16 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Bonds par 7 13 Exchequer Hills Sid. 1 2 pr I)itto Sid. 1 5 p Omniunt Ifte pr. Conwl► for Acct. 62eii Lottery Tickets £2t 9s. THE STATESMAN. . LONDON:- ,ATUStuAY, nsoutsta 12, 1812. On the proposed grant of 200,0001. to Russia, we again repeat, that if that sum could be taken om the Droits of Admiralty, or some such fund, wo could not }rive the least objection to it ; or, as we observed in yesterday's Paper, could the application of it, from whatever source it might be derived, have the salutary effect of contributing to bring about a peace, the privations it might leave behind, would be endured Kith patlenceand even satisfaction, althobgh, as wai feelingly expressed by the patriotic Member for Westminster, that the faithful picture of the dis treeses of_ our Manufacturers in the Midland Conn tics, could not fail to make the sympathetic bee t rt bleed. There certainly is no occasion to go far froß home, in order wholesomely or piously to es oruite our sympathy. But the grant of itself, whe ther considering the amount or, the purpose of it, would have met with less opposition by those few paricamentary friends of the people, if Ministers shewfd less disinclination to enter into the merits and clairitt of their suffering countrymen. - Lord CAME.. azxcit did, indeed, in some measure gild - the pill, by alluding, in the latter part of his speech on 'rhursday, , , to the, flattering and probable prospects of peace which the sudden turn of affairs - in Russia might introduce. • • Mint i sters unquestionably take a great responsibility vpol ihemseives in thus advising . their Sovereign to ask fox grants of this nature, while so many of the est bsuils in the kingdom are palsied for want of T mplorfient and food ;but who, except, tbernselvat, fan` *now how far tit a generous interpoffition of , _ ;: ~ ~ N.. ~,, A 1 4 , • , I 11, ` q i . ) t . lii Oi I . . 11 t` ( 1 ( % ; r 1 I i ' 1 1 I k ' )1 ' if . , '`. t ~~ ;, t ,~.• , i , . tiP , .1 ' ' t, • ~ ~II ii 4 , t f, ,I. TI 1E STATESMAN. Great Britain to relieve the distresses of its Allies, may give its Government a just ground of pretence to influence the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh to join in the laudable and so anxiously wished-for attempt to procure an honourable and safe peace. — In this point of view, we confess, 1k a are not so satisfied with the arguments, or rather observations, of Lord lloLt.aen on this topic, as we generally are with the reasonlog of that Noble Lord on other subjects ; for we cannot see how tho proposition for the Grant can be impolitic, and at the same time unwise and unsafe to reject it. If the Grant be calculated to produce a lasting good effect, then is it safe and wise to agree to it, and of this circum stance, Ministers are, undoubtedly, best able to judge, who have frequent correspondence with Russia, and have daily communication with its Am bassador. Let them, however, be made to answer for the consequence of their profusion and liberality to suffering Allies, while they have abundance of in dustrious, but suffering Fellow-subjects, on the point of being' driven from agonising want, to the most desperate and dreadful resolves I: he had taken was much greater than he had at first supposed them to be. A platy of the Cossacks are said to hare pursued BONAPARTE from the field of battle for several wersts, but were unable to come up with him. LOSS OF.TRE ALAN, KINGS CUTTER, AND ALL HER CREW, EXCEPT ONE MAN. EXTRACT OF A LETTER, DATED ALBOROURR, DEC. 16 :—"" I have to comrnuuicate the melanche ! ly loss of his Majesty's cutter Alban, commanded by Lieut. KEY; she was driven from her station on the Dutch coast by the present very heavy gale, and forced on shore here this morning, and is a complete wreck. lam extremely sorry to say, that out of a crew, consisting of 56 men, three women, and two children, only one woman, servant to Mrs. Ker, and a young seaman of the name of JAMES NEWTON, arc soya. The surgeon, Mr. J4stEs 'Flummox, came on shore with some life in him, but he died Immediately afterwards." The Speech of Sir FRANCII BURDETY, at the Din ner given by the Electors of Westminster, on Mon. day last, at the Crown and Anchor, a correct report of which was inserted in the STATESMAN, is highly i deserving of the public attention ; and it has, as might be expected, provoked the rancour of the Mi. " nisterial Journals. The worthy Baronet has, is his usual feeling manner, exposed many of the abuses and corruptions of the State ; and we consider the subject of too much importance to be passed over iu silence. When the Government of a nation is en trusted to men, who have not only proved themselves incompetent to the task, but have been declared to be so by a vote ofthe House of Commons, it cannot sur prise any rational being that our situation should he daily groning worse; and as the late Elections + . have excluded several of the most patriotic and en lightened Members, to make room for others of a I very different description, and the mere tools of the Administration, it is not difficult to foresee the base ful consequences likely to ensue.—Sic Futecis said, he would not enter upon the foreign relations of the I country--a subject on which he might possibly be mistaken, but confine himself to the internal state of the Nation, upon which there could be no dif. ference of opinion. It used formerly to be denied that the House of Commons was in that corrupt state so generally believed; but that which was formerly denied, was now most unblushingly ' avowed Ind defended. It was now notorious ly known to be corrupt in its constitution and no longer any ' safety for the liberties of the' subject ; for there could be no redress to the people slum the House of Commons itself was the great grievance which was complained of.— The attacks which had now so long been systemati ally carrying on against the liberties of the coon. try, were calculated to excite the most lively alarm.) in the minds of all persons capable of reflection.— The Court of King's Bench had become of late years little inferior to the Court of Star Chamber; and he had no doubt, if the same system of severity conti nued much longer, it would become as odious in the eyes of Englishmen, as ever the Court of Star Charn. her was.. He did not merely allude to the case of a few individuals who had been fined and imprisoned, it was the press of England which loudly called for something to be done, to put a step to the most fatal mischief which could threaten a country. — To have a licenser, certainly was destructive to li berty ; but destructive as suclea system was, it was far less cruel and unjust, than that which at present prevailed. A sham trial, and oppression exercised according to the forms of law, were all acts of in. , juitice the most severe. By the arbitrary and un restricted exercise of ex-officio informavions, it was in the power of the Officer of the Crown to put any man in peril when he pleased. He could withdraw a I prosecution when he pleased, or keep it suspended over the head of the victim, and wait tell such a Jury could be obtained as might be depended on. The worthy Baronet made many other observa tions upon the present practice of the Courts on the Law of Libel, as it is called by the ignorant and prejudiced part of the community, and pointed oat the great dangers to which all per sons engaged in the Press are exposed. It must, however, be admitted, that the evils are greatly increased by the apathy of those Journalists who I have the good fortune to escape the vengeance of the law, and to this shameful neglect of Public Writers may, in a great degree, be attributed the severity of Ex-officio Prosecutions. The late Attoeney-General, Sir VICARY Grum, sec uld not have had the courage to carry his vindictive proceedings the length he did, had the Public Press done its duty. The Ressian Ambassador in London, has received Dispatches from St. Petersburgh of a somewhat later date than that of the . Marshal KUTIISOW'S Reports, published in the Extraordinary Gazette. The Bus- Alan Messenger left thatcity after DAVIELII, and over. took him on the read to. Stockholm. He reports, that just before he left Petersburgh a Feidt-yagor had ar rived with the account of the death of Nair, and the surrender of the remains. of Bkr.auLtnaots's army, he baying epees! made prisoner himself.— 'Mete is, we undentitat, a longer ankmore (leaned report from Marshal Kurusow, written at his. lei- sun ; it V* he !tatoo that the ttembi: of prisoo". of • , ~... - , . - , .. • Yesterday, at three o'clock, the PRINCE REGRNT held a Court at Carlton-house. The Count DE LIEwEN, Lieutenant-General and Aid-de-camp to the Ear Elton of all the RAJ/SIAS, and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to his Britannic MAJESTY, was introduced to his Royal Highness by Viscount CASTLEREAGH, as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Mr. CHESTER, Assistant Master of the Ceremonies; when his Excellency delivered his credentials, and was most graciously received. His Royal Highness was at tended by the Lord S eward of the Household, the Vice-Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, the Comptroller of the Household, the Treasurer of the Household, the Marquis of IIEADFORT as Lord in Waiting. A Privy Council was afterwards held, which was numerously attended. The RECORDER of I.oNnos made a Report to his Royal Highness of the persons capitally convicted at the October Sessions, in the Old Bailey ; when Thomas Gley, for forgery, was ordered for execution on .Wednesday eext. • The PRINCE afterwards gave audience to several of the Cabinet Ministers. By the Zephyr, from Santander, dispatches have been received, addressed to the REGENT'S Govern ment by Sir HOME PoEllAsi ; and if we are correctly Wormed, their contents are peculiarly interesting. If is said that General C.IFFAREELI, who succeeded MARMONT in the command of the Army of Portu gal, has withdrawn with the forces under his orders into France. Connecting this movement with the events that are occurring at the distance of 2500 miles, it will afford Matter of curious and important speculation. A vessel has arrived from i Halifax with the intern. gence, that the number of voters for the Presidency of the American Republic is known, and that it is ascertained a majority of one only appears in favour of Mr. MADISON, in the competition with Mr. CLINTON. This one vote is itself of douhtful vali dity, because it originates in one of the Members of the Elective Body for the State of Massachusetts, and it is a matter not yet settled, whether this Pro vince has, or has not, an improper excess of one vote, according to the Code of the Constitution. The speculators in the city are determined to kill BONAPARTE twenty times over. They now say, that two Officers had reached Paris with dispatches for the Ministry, and that they accompanied their ver bal communications with a message, which they pub licly delivered, that BONAEAItTE was dead. The im mediate consequence of this parole decisration, we are told, was, that the Officers were put under arrest, and consigned to prison. Lord tistutowny has been the fortunate competi tor for the rich Deanery of Wells. He has got it fur his brother, Mr. HENRY RYDER, a young Gen tleman who had previously obtained from that pa tronage; which should be exercised for the benefit of the public, one of the valuable Canonries of Wind sor. As Ministers persist in this mode of distribut ing the preferments of the church, dividing its loaves and fishes among their own connexions and Parlia mentary supporterss without any regard to theclaims of professional merit, it is to be hoped, if they value the appearances of a decent consistency, that the argu ments drawn from the perils, which are said to sur round the establishment, will no longer be used against the efforts of those friends of Religious Li berty, who, to unite the nation in a bond of cordial • union, would sweep from our statute .book the re ago states, that the dreadful situation of Box. A Gentleman who left Hamburgh fourteen days mains of a dark and bigoted intolerance. i ' • Lotd OssuesToN, ,last night, presented a Petition •-/ rolic.e was so severe, that several persons who oily in the House of Comte - 0,4,1er leave to bring- i raurE's army in Russia was known there ; b ut tLe Bill for erecting a Third Theatre in the Metropolis. He asserts that the North of b uyGerma is ripe ANOTHER BnEvEr.--This measure we understand o f general i nsurrection against the French. dared to hint at it, were arrested geos-tratitnef; once more to be in progress ; and, for the purpose benefiting two or three personal favOurites, about A fewer than 11'2 Meetings of Creditors, under di : , r• eighty new names are to. be added to the already ; eat commisaiOns, this day at Guildhall. enormous and disproportionate list of Generals. Inof tt.e Correspondent informs uc, that there are 76 looking into the Army List, our Readers will fi nd, r erkv, at the Salisbury Theatre, on M that the number of Genera' Officers to the British - Che most brilliant Bpd crowded audience. Years' y Mrs. JORDAN performed the part army already amounts to within a very few of six hundred; of which about two thirds are living arm or A NEW PROvERE- 46 lie is a wise retirement, and unemployed. The pretended grounds knows his own` Ilogi."—A few days sine a f . for this new Brevet are, the alleged mortalities in . i n whole of the pit was laid into the boxes . this rank in the course of, the current year; but considerably trespassed upon (as he thougi . these are known not to have exceeded ten or twelve neighbour's sow, resolved upon impolitic at the utmost, and, under pretext'of replacing those in this neighbourhood gilding his turnip-fieldh, adi ten or twelve, about eighty new ones are to be ap- which be did ; but the fo llowin g day, in e • pointed. In truth we cannot see why a subject of rounds, be discovered th e offender in this nature is not as much a question of Parliamen- fie ld, u p on which he devised an expedien • tart' animadversion, as the once-intended conimu- reel or animal : when, upon investigation, y it nity of rank with our own O ffi cers to those of the 1 3 ° German LegiOn : for if there is to be no limitation, that the sow, which had been trespassing likely te ore effectual, and actually sh or rule of authority, on the object of Brevets, and that she has left 12 pigs behind her too young morning, Highness the PRINCE REGENT might some and her fuss (Bar;/ Post.) morning, in the effusion of his bounty, extend the his want, in both instances, was no other than h is ° s' ° ' rank of General, by one comprehensive grant, to all the Colonels and Lieutenant-Colonels of the British army. Meanwhile,_ should this whispered Brevet be really forced upon the army, we are to hope that some of the -double commissions of the as well as some of the sinecure Staff situations, with all their. beneficial allowances, held by favourites, will be given up, as provisions to some few at least of the many meri torious officers who will otherwise be thrown out e( ;read by their uucoveted prothotion. SM ill( S. Salk A rriced. 11 90 Dee. —9 P. ''" 11 94, —S,A. M. 14 - il, ,P. M. .14 , 20, e, P. M -111(311 WATER AT C0N1141 1 .4 8111PGE TIIIS 1) 411 . Morning, 9 twinntro after S„ f g yen i ng . QG minute; after S. .....6 , . 1.024140 p 1e115.04 ncd, Pithliotted hv I) 111.0.11. 111 I " 1/11"""N Offrei. 67 neet.Wlft. XCO Tel MiLteve's Wharf. rilSa.(hfurshalt), Leith Trusty (13a14atv11). do. LEIII an Iltam tt Wharf. Swallow tighite), Leith !4014unet Davidaoal,kiersvtat __ NAVAL INTELLIGENC E. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. ]9.--Sailed his Majeoy% ships Reven ge an d P artri d ge, With the convoy for Spain and Portugal. The Countese of El g i n cu t ter, with her convoy for the Downs, remains at Spith ea d. FAmwourtr, DEC. I g.—The Ven us schooner, fiopkins, from Lisbon, for London, parted f rom one anchor this morning, brought up with a second, and rode out the gale until assistance WAS g;Vef f h er from the shore, when she hove up, and run f t , r th er into the harbour. YA.RMOUTII, DEC. is.-4E has blown a gale f ; , several days past, but we do not hear of any d, haring been done on the coast. Hmtvirctv, Dix. LB.—Arrived the Ma War, f ron Sheerness, with the loss of her rudder, two auchorb) and one cable, with other damage. SESSIONS, Dec. Is. C. F. Palm, S. Telling, with --- Wright (n ot lady), were indicted for the murder of ; venture, on the high seas. p •of the A:. Maddii, Apprentice to Capt. Keith, &Posed rot :he. vessel was from (guidon and sailed as a .Saute Sca crew consisted a 14. in the middle of A , bettvix J ` l . the evening and four in the morning, P.l , w h o 4 ,,, e e -", Mate, was on the watch. Witness was on 7. — "D" eppnw it the cabin, and the weather being warm, a sk)tivi, t , communicat,ll with the deck, was left opca, and !Mei:a hoy, who was steering the vessel, called through the thor n' to the Captain that something i mpro p er was t-..n;ac'a.' upon deck. The Captain iraantls went on deck i n I l i: shirt, and returted below. imintstiately calling up the Mate, observing, liastil), " Turn out, t.irr. oat!" Smith, the Mate; neat tin deck immediately after ; and witness, who V. 3% gill below in the cabin, shortly after heard him ran out " 0 len!, 0 Lord ! ' Whims got upon deck, where the tree hail as. sembled, exceptini two hlark men and a boy. Shards. after, witness observed Capt. Keith in the main chains. and Paha net canting him over the.ship's side. The Captain did nut mem tu struggle, nor did Palm say any thing at the time. In a mown or two afterwards. witness heard Smith's voimr from the %AN calling out, " boat, boat No efforts were made use hf to sue the Mute, and the vmel might have been at that time 50ket see from land. The Captain and First Mate having here thus le. posed or, all hand! , w ere called below, excepting the Any tits ! helm ; and Paint, who was then Commander of the reset, NI. ministered an nth upon the Bible to each of them—that nit hoped never to seethe light 11 hefte,to if they ever divula,.4 es Secret by vs hie!, the two persons came by their demi). 'Pieta* black men were not called on to take the oath. Palm's shit was bloody, and he at,erts arils pat on one of tic Captaia's,sel threw his own overboard. Ile afterwards sent witmss Captain's dmk, and he took a SI bum from thence, and icire it to Palm. and he blind the Captain's and ship's papers. Wi,fien heard PAM say, he had knocked the. Captain HI the head, 3 having first struck him. The vessel was very leaky, and sae acs afterwards skuttled; when the crew took to the boats, ad gained land, after having been four days and Bights at set. They landed on an island inhabited y blue s ; and Paha ad Wright got on board the Dart, for Liver , and atelier wee taken up by a Portuguese schooner, hen wins's' arrived it Liverpool, the Prisoners were confined by sickness, in the Hu; pital there, where the boy first saw them. It was agreed tg by that the Captain was dragged overboard, whilst towing a who's, and that Smith, the Mate, died of a contention. Wilms L first told this story; but he subsequently confessed to his meth/ the real facts, as sworn to by him in evidence. ' Mrs. Keith, the whinw of the deceased, know both the Prlsnk its, and had seco them since they lauded, but they gave hq oo iutUrraation respecting her husband. The next evidenc.e, was the voluntary confesvion of Tellirg be tas the Police Magistrates. It stated, that a any, Veurge, lying at at bola, during Palm's wateb, the'Calion awe yrs, &wk, bar his shirt, and asked Palm, • the second Mate, w hit try 1 going forward. struck[ him with hemmer, wit,* de - Dspea r " in said, " You have done me," I hfurmant hemd the fret Slaw call out for assistance when is the water. All the ere! were sworn, vii tit. , exception of the Blatkr. Glasses of rote were h.tuded to each of thein.and they were shot lay two Otiedtt with pistols, when in the act of drinking. On the Prisoners bring called on fdr their detmce, Pala stated, that he knew nothing that was ening on In the schttoior when the Captain Caine to him upon deck; and a seaman, lamed Peter,tnid Imo the cr, w were atitsu t to kill the Captain an,l chni Mate, and also him, Palm The Captaiu called up the Mate, 34 then seized Palm round the waist, and some one of the tux /struck the Captaio at thesaine time with a hammer. whiny the L l:apt:tin afterwards cot'huld of and struck Palm. The Capin called out, and Telling came to the spot, and •leshted Palo fie throwiteg him overboard.—(llere Telling looked at Palm with an air o re Da t ca h t e n n s C tt . i s 0 n ea h rt i ni e l:d a f t :h ti t 'f a i ha i t , , d e w r nd , l t e' m t °s w inr t e digdohibinemg Swedes,en tt t ia gl: l o ; ath n t ki w e n t o v icli tt e b tra r i t t r oa r c ut k et rd w aa , d e si: 4 . 104 k w ?: he }ti! ras to ris l is . rigl l nsa ie hi e t a, vashinecaghtallident(:).autaphtti Captain ic c at il oo m vd ra :or la bno t ardliththe.thv the murders , mers. Elm to in s t o f,ariuf ,: l o tn3h g e., j u u p rl t . b s e ho e t W ild en b c e e, or oble o A o .ed: ri, the Baronwith crrespect r r o t u te . or o t a w i ;1 state a guilty as the man who ennuntlicd th l e .M tn i gric w r:_ u n i e ti o e b td h t . e a h l ti tia7kw . l oath me th: 6l, qedueint question awsecrecydlthesl respect et h is t e h l : a t n b rd e e r i s i a f nd 'Was,aa b saw hiS friendh am! the b inl o ‘ y ll t v bot ui l g i c t et he given his evidence very distinctly, and be was d having joinedfurhis l o n w t a be sa M fe u t t ; ll7 ; but the l% iI h m r o e m s : h t e ing both the Proners Guiley—Deatn. and mit:atm The Jud en passed sentence of Death , non Monday nest. The Jury retired for some time, and returnedC°ariebrQdraictel,elif. hePrwi3halo:lrallrh.e baY admitted for execul 4 • f { '} ri '