The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-01-16 00:00:00

•••••-- Arc ;be symptom which have appeared within the last dine p; stick as to endauger his &laical) 's life i—ln Inv other ladi. ;4 0 211 think they would; bet I have so repeatealv seen the i n die same state. and have sern them give WILY ifterwsrds, n e m hardly A ay that I con ider his Majesty's life as in dam from thot r g e ferring w rue anmer given to the third question, respea the rune of his Majesty s health, did you meal 10 was to Cotai.tee that bis mental health Is now wore than it was ;Kernel, ,roryim came ov in Jilt, - ?—T think it is. Do von mo.in to confine your answer to that uestion. meetly nsa;som within the last three days?— .o; nothing has a ka piee within the last few dnv; to increase the mental symp. too& Toe mental symptoms have regularly increased since J o h ; t!te v have never diminished. ling shire been no abatement of symptoms. at times, since the , ; „ o , e of Ikcember ?—No abatement of the essential synsp ._ r, 0 „,, Withdrew.] DIPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSF. OF LORDS, JAIL 15. h r .‘gents in the rosiiective A peals in which Petitions had r pr-senied for further time to lay the printed ewes on the attended 3t the bar, and were in each ease examined as to truth of the allegations contained in 'be Petition. Several of them etre disivostal of by granting fur:her time according to tsecircerwanees I); each cis:. ()OPT Petitions were with drawn tile primed cases ont being ready, and the farther consi deration of some Of them was post, , onecl till to-morrow. %teenier .Ippeal iv. 4 withdrawn with the cousent of the pec tic,. The Petition to pi:Pa:nine the bearing till March of one of the rtothingh Appeals, ‘• Ker r. Ker," was ordered to .e taken in ,p o msiderailon to-morrow. 'inners of the enstoms prey-nted several Anneal ‘ re ,,,,tr.„: , directed by Ict of p a rliament. from the Rank of England, the Accounts ,• ink %otc•s. mai r-,I on Thursday last. .Ir. 1.3.,.ach. from the Exchequer, the Accounts of the Con. ordered by the House. 'Jr.. Vitra'J. train the Treasury, Annual Accounts of the ii• tr inr Nortlie-ro &c. tlniered to lie on the table, and the A.ecouats respecting Bank hetes and the Comolidated Fund to be printed. • IIIN AI AJESh'S tiF.ALTW. Earl C kNI DEN presented the Report of the CommitteP *p rinted t 9 r Inc Physicinii,l in attendant . : on the, King, rite of hi , stajesty's health.—Ordered to he on Se 1 9 tn. ptilitt9l. .i.:J.,Lr4ed till to-otorrovr, (this day.) HOUSE OF COMMONS, JAL 13. T:-re being only thirty-thr,p 'Members present at foot. tbe Speaker declared teat the House was adjourned till 11- 111 E Crfrlitors of Mr. WILMF.It MACKET .5. WI LLLTT, late Pi:kett-street, Temple-bar, Pro .:::tor, Printer, and Publisher of Th. , 4 I ire , / NewsPaPecs :.ow a Pri,one: iu the Itytts ce the FLEET, residing at No. Lntigate-h;11. are requesiel to attend a Meeting, at the i.'.7!latrrn, flee:.;trcet. nn Tuesday, the 21st inst. at Twelve : dot( r.nioe .Iron what rocaslres are proper to he ja !Mier to investigate tae affairs of the said W. M. I t :r.iv ; , z required of those who attend the Meeting to enter tato a Soh:mpticia, to defray the expestee of Law proceedings, co •.;.ltienee of the Proper.) , at the ALTRED Ornct, in hipat-smyt, heap; sold under an ExTriv from the Crown, to the exelltion t.f the Creditors at large. TO CORRESPONDENTS. I S." is 1, that the Letters of " PTTnlit," in Yin &rim) of :•!r. LawcasTte, are in the prow, and will be :!tort Mails. nue. Dublin Cadiz Lisboa Malta ........ Gurrusty Jer4l Brazils PRICE Or STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. 1...,it India Bonds Us. 113 s. pr. ie. gent. eons. 621, Exclespier *ifs 5.1.3 5 pr. 3 per eef.t. Reel. tali Ititto 3ld. 5 6 pr. 4 per Luis. VII Omniutn 1 dis. 5 per Cert. Navy 91/1 Consols for Amt. Lo lg. Ir.n. hi} ° Lottery Tickets .0215 LONDON: THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 181'2. An Anholt Mail has just arrived: it brings an ac ount of the St. George and Defence having been 10,t oil the coast of Jutland, on the 21th ult.—There are revorts that Peace between the Russians and proclaimed at Petersburgh, on the 26th uitirno. r. , 14 gratified in finding that our exertions ~.;eneral safety, by urging the neces ' i':+. ;114 Military Patroles under the di _ .•2 Civil I n.ner, to a.:.siA in the ailprel.n•u !'. j.ll,Citk 13 banditti , Mho pron lin our • ' , :Cr..; :::410, and threaten the •extinction of and inoffensive part of the com . Ilkely to prove effectual. The eyes of 5,v...1 at last to be opened to the dangcr . ..f the Nletropalis, and the inefficiency of i'e:;re f.kistein to check the growing evil. enneiction, or,i'vrs have been issued r t'tt. Gorse Gaards to the Generals commanding, enjoin all military guarls • a•;rtra;tvi, not only to be alert in the of the ckities immediately belonging to to he mady on all occasions " to furnish I) , ,th of cara:ry and infantry, on the requi on f,f en:lstahles, cr other Peace Officers, or even Wil•chm:n," when these Constables, &c. shall -1 :::tr the . ..• assistance necessary. The following 4 ":.;‘i of t:te Orders to which we allude : " Hone Guards. 10th Jan. 1812. , _ his( rccsivtd the Commander in Chiets commands mit you will require all guards n itlin the district tin : r ,^l7 coml.—ll, to be extremely alert and vigilant in the per .: rr of their night ditties, and to be ready on all occasion s pliroLy, sots of cavalry and infantry, on the resmisi ,ist. 'e•, or .rltter peace officers, or euen of sea tamps, 01 teat they hove reason to believe that there ore "r fc4isdis the commission of burglarks, or other nightly promism, the trickily of their pods. " I have, Ac. - " lIA RRY C %EVERT, A. G." That 'ill the canting, hypocritical Courier, and its relrni,, satellites, say to this ? We seldom find • to approve of the eondoct of Mi n i s ters, and 'ln in the present instawie they merit censure, for ; , 'vt. - Ig to adopt* measure so pregßant with beneb. ''! cne.sequences, of ' 'viola! they now see the pee 'tY ; and which, had it been resorted to sooner, mi;! very probably have laved the lives of some of .• infoortneste beings *tto base letely-fallwatllmini - . THE STATESMAN. the knife of the midnight robber and assassin.--. *hi - Me' feet grateful for the boon INA, though late, has been 'at list granted us, and there fore we shall not withhold our tribute of praise to Government, for this proof they have given, that they do not altogether consider the per med safely of the people unworthy their no tice. • Bet there yet remains a great deal more to be done before security and tranquillity can be restored to the Metropolis. The Police system mast be com pletely investigated, as it is rotten to the very core, and will be found to be the real source from whence all those evils have sprung, 4ha't have occasioned universal consternation and dismay. In a subsequent I column we have inserted a Second Letter upon ithis I subject to Mr. Secretary RYDER, which, we trust, he I will take Into his serious consideration; and, agree ably to the wish expressed by the writer, show that he is a man of sense and of honour, by introducing a system of Police that will encourage morality, discountenance vice, and Mend our property against j both thieves and thief-takers." ' The Report of the Committee of the House of Commmons, appointed to examine the Physicians attendant on his MAJESTY, respecting the state of his health, will be found at fall length in our pre ceding columns. There is a slight variation in the I evidence of the Physicinus, but they, all agree in the improbability of the KING'S recosery.: Early, In July last, the disorder had talc to an aggravated tarn, and his MAJESTY'S mind had continued ever since in the same disordered state. As to the expectation of ' recovery, Dr. BAILLIE states that he thinks it " high ly improbable." Dr. II EBERDEN says, that "it is highly improbable, but not in an extreme degree." Dr. MUNRO considers it as " very improbable." Dr. SiststoNs regards it as "improbable," butthinks "it difficult, perhaps impossible, to say in what degree." It is Dr. IlAt.ro RD'S opinion that it is " very impro bable." Dr. im.: Wm.'s expresses himself in the same way; and Dr. R. D. WILLis regards it as "ex tremely improbable." With respect to his MAJ Ea- TY'S bodily health, Drs. BAILLIE, BERERDEN, M N.• ao, and StritmoNs, state it to be tolerably good. Dr. J. WILLts says, that on the morning of his examina tion (Monday last), his MAJESTY was " in an ex tremely agitated and nervous state, which has been increased for some time past ;" while Sir HEAT HAEroan, and D. R. WILLIs pronounce his M AJES TY'S bodily health to be by no meadtgood. It is said that the provision to be made for the new arrangement of the KING'S Household, respecting which a motion is to be brought forward this evening in the House of Cominons, will, perhaps, somewhat exceed the sum at which it had originally been estimat ed ; but that the Household is to be limited to it:Officers in the appointment of her MAJESTY : viz.—Four Lords of the Bedchamber ; four Grooms of thee, l Stole; a Master of the itobes, and a Keeper of the ' Privy Purse: over these a new Officer of superior rank is to be placed, to superintend and controul the whole; that Officer, 1, , •e understand, will be the . Earl of VV INCIIELSEA.—The PRINCE REGENT, when unrestricted, w ill of course have a separate household. Bet, it is added, that his Royal Highness has so settled the point of etiquette in this respect, that the head of the KING'S household is on all occasions o take precedence of the Officers of the REGENT'S household. Yesterday his Royal Highness held a Court at Carlton-house. At half-past two o'clock, the PRINCE held a Privy Council; which was attended by the Cabinet Ministers, the Duke of MONTROSE, the Earls Of WINCHELSEA and ATLESFORD. HIS Royal Highness gave audiences to Earl CAMDEN, the F.arl of WESTMORLAND, Marquis WRILLISLRY, Mr. PERCEVAL, and Mr. RYDER. Yesterday FArl Motaa bad an audience of the PRINCE REGENT. LORI CLORGE CATEMDISH, and not Lord TAM SOCK, •will make the motion relative to Irelaud on Monday se'nnight. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when Captain Cowsvaaxa, of the ship Chapman, took leave of the Court previous to departing for Bombay and Bengal. • Captain D'FATERISE was sworn into the command of .the ship Fairlie, consigned to Bengal direct. In consequence of the death of Sir SADIEs Ca ties, the 78th Regiment Is become vacant. It is under stcod that Sir SAMUEL AUCTIMUTT is tQ have it, and that the Hou. Major-General COLE is to have Sir SAMUEL'S present Regiment, the 103 d. - The Catholic Aggregate Meetings are in progress through all the Counties of Ireland. We have already noticed those of Cork and Limerick. Clare w a s t o meet on the 11th, and Kerry is lied for the 18th at Tralee. _ A General Fast has been ordered on the sth of next month. A General Feast, in consequence of a peace, we belie'', would be at least as satisfactory to the public. After all the various attempts to prove the san guinary suicide Williams to have been an Irishman, a Scotehman, and a Wekhmam, he proves after all, unfortunately, to have been an Englishman, being a dative of the town of Coggeshall, in Essex. A vessel arrived yesterday from Alicant, but brought no news, the latest letters being doted on the sth of December. Thera is a report in circula tion of the defeat of BLAKE, and the surrender of Valencia.. _ _ The Pantheon Directors have bad a carious cor respondence with the Vice-Chansberhiin, in respect I t v o s i t id h i e t i y r li and ee ; est D er o la b y te ht i ve w bel a r a started as f a as o to its i ` the persons concerned in the Establishment, to take • Into consideration the etohitrossing Prediciment in 1 which they .stand, and to.determine on the comae they shall pursue: no iinni detiregagitkon• areve r o took piste. • . • ALAAMING STATE of the .11IETR01'OLIS. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE B. RYDRR. Pia,—lnanmerable robberies, and two with at lempts to murder, have been committed since Friday last. Both town and country are overwhelmed with the most determined villains, vomited forth from these dens of infamy and seminaries of vice s known by the name of thieves' houses. How long shall such sinks of villany be permitted to exist? How long shall thieves'and thief-takers be permitted to consort and assemble together? How long shall our weak and indolent Police Magistrates be ruled and guided by the mere ipse dixit of those vermin, -whose evi dence will go to acquit or condemn according as they are paid? How long shall public morals be out raged with the notice that Boa this, and Blot. that, headed their gangs upon particular occasions? — How long shall it be said that notorious cha racters, whose lives hare been twenty times . forfeited to the laws, are brought to the bar of the Old Bailey for the twentieth, tlltieth, attd fortieth time, and still permitted to prowl upon soci. ty ? What s s ' tern can it be that permits such enormities? I tell you, it it a system most contpletely calculated to promote rice and encourage villany! To be a revenue to Magistrates and thief-takers, at the expence of the lives and properties of the lieges ! !! 'fo be a source I of wealth and emolument to the scum of the earth, linol of lops, trouble, and vexation to the honest and Industrious ! When a crimina/. is'af4sy. time brongOtt to punishment, it is not for the purpose of example, or flr satisfaction to the offended laws of the coun try, but because the poor wretch treiyhß his weight ! ! Away with such reproachful doing ! it DF.R, act like a man of sense and honour ; introduce a sys tem or Police that will encourage ntwaiity , discoun tenance vice, and defend our property against both thieves and thief-takers ; and let the present demo niac system, with all its appendages, be consigned to etetval oblivion and contempt. I St. JSrues's-square, Tuesday Morning. IIUMANITAS. Thetships of the line at Spitheld are to lw put kto an inulediate state o f equipment, for some sudden service} The report is, they are to take a reinforce ment d troops to Portugal. 'rhe .41-cniure, JACK3ON, from Liverpool to St. Mitt's, was taken on the 914 Nov. by tu o French frigate, bound from the East I to Brest. The Amsterdam packet, ,arrivc..i at (lull, on Thursday last ; left Mal wyck on the 11th of No vember, with about 40 sail of tessel, under convoy of, the hirtator Knd Ardent men of war, two frigates, two sloops of war, and three brigs, being the last fleet for this season. Ou passing Elsinore, the Castle kept up a tremendous fire, but without doing the Feast injury to any of the convoy. Coffee and Sugar have experienced an advance of price, in consequence of a general anticipation that the Russian - ports will be opened, in the spring, to British commerce. . • • The French General &mom has broken Ms parole, and absconded from Odiham. SIMON is styled a Baron and Chevalier of the French Empire. The Transport Board have offered a reward of 1001. for his apprehension, and `.tUl. for the conviction of any British subject who shall have aided SIMON in his escape. A reward of 10 guineas is also offered for thu recapture of PHILIP Boittox, a French surgeon, Ivisoner of war, who accompanied SIMON in his _ _ It has always been the error of England to rush into %.-nr, as though we wer.s impatient to exercise our §trongth in destruction as a Ladino passion, rather than reserving it for such an application as a last and fatal resource. Glory. is with us a Mild of hallucinated idea: it is one chord of the national mind on which we may be said to be mad. France, formerly, had a passion only for fop pery: she was a polite nation. Germany at least fought only her own battles. The Russian Court slept through the long winters of the north, or bask ed in the faint sunshine of their glimmering summer. Holland smoked to keep her warm in the short days, and to beguile the tadium of long ones. Spain li v ed only to adjust her plumes, and flatter her pride: and Portugal had no higher ambition than the stately dis play of the mitre and the cowl; her monks and her mutes ; her long and ceremonious rites, and holy pro cestions. But England had always apassion for tzar : she is a fiesiing nation. hew England a squabble, and she will soon be iu it. She appears to be the Don Quixote of the whole world ; and fancies that she is interested in every fray. If she be oety fighting in three quarters of the kobe at one time, she looks with such jealousy to wartif the other quarter, and is so un comfortable under suspicion, that she prefers cer: taro war to doubtful peace. This is precisely her case at the prelent moment • and though her red flag already streams amid the snows of the 'Korth, and along the burning splendour of the two continents of the east, it is now menacing the peaceful commerce and quiet homes Of the new world. On every continent, and almost every isle; on every sea, and every shore, does this 44 little nation with a mighty heart," either wage or threaten war !—But *e do not require to be reminded of the ascendancy of our military character. We may travel the globe roond, and hear it told.us in every nation, and every tongue. We had rather hear something more about peaceful affairs et home. We mayoppear, " covered with glory" to the world; but under this impaling mask—all is not well. The lietients personified the Deity, who presided' over the fortunate destinies of mankind as a Female. It is a siogsayr circumstance that distinguishes the Lottery to be drawn next Tuesday—that a Female distributes Tickets, and Shares of Ticked, to those who wish, by the uaparalleled beneficial Scheme of the present Lottery, to acquire wealth and indepen deoce.—Lady Dasiacossa, No. 1, Bolbotu-had, the career of Middle-row ; and34l4 St. Margaret's- WI, &rough ;k the. person to Islam we ilinde, sad we acknowledge bather nasii - atoee is suffi cient to procure the patronage of um who wish to Awe is the• .fift POecnit Lottery, • . - 1. ,~. : ~ NAVAL INTEI,LIGENGI!:. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 15. Sailed the Wo' , serene sloop of war on a- cruise. Arrived the Cadmus sloop of war from the Downs. PLYMt/U JAN. 11. Sailed the Loire frigate, to the eastward ; and Fantcrme fri gate for Cork. FALMOUTH, SAL 13. Arrived the Earl Spencer cutter from a cruise. YARMOUTH, JAW. 15. _ _ Arrived this morning the Briseis and Vixen, from a cruise of the. Doggr Bank. Salted the Diligence and Urgent fur the Downs. DEAL, Jaw. 15. Sailed the Caffnells, Woo Monk, from Portsmouth; his Ma jesty's ship Aquilon, on a cruise of the Texel; his Majesty's ships Mars and Figard, fur Portsmouth. Arrived the Inconstant from Portsmouth. GR,AVESENI), JAN. 13. Sailed the Mary Ann, Richio, for Liihraltar ; and Margaret, Crean, for Oporto. LEITH, JAN. The Clio .loop of war, which arrived inv Saturday, has made the lignal fur a cimv ay. to the sott tiiwa rd. The.gallant run-brig went out of the harbour on Saturday, after being repaired. Saturday theCherukoe, and yesterday morning the Nightingale iduap of war arrived in the Roads Nun :t entim-. The ship Charlotte, Dry wile, from St. Andrew's, America, with timber, passed yesterday, for Allow, A ship, under Swedish colours, arrived in the Roads, from Cottenhurgh, yesterday morning; and in the foirrovm the Lady Forbes ani Sir Simon Clark bailed from the Roads fur Jamaica.' They are going north-tbuut. • Some more Frei.elt risooers landed fro:n the Zealous yester day. The Providence, Abrams, from Oporto to this port, with a carps of %Lir., put ink, i'u•boro gb sin the bib Instant, paring sprung beebewsprit near St. Ablis Mid, and uut beiug able to male Ty nen/oath liar. GLASGOW, JAN. 13. Considerable damage was dose at the groomielaw en the might betwixt Thursday and Friday, by the unexpected coming dom nof tie ice. One small sloop was sunk, vernal ethers st ere carried down the river without as; person on board, nad have since been fotiad a-ground oa the banks, and a amber of small boats were smashed to pieces. Two passengers, who arrived at Greenock on Monday morning, the Oth inst. in the sloop Marsr, Johnston, from Liverpool, have been apprehended, on a charge of forgery, and lodged iu Bridewell. ---- - TUE LATE MURDERS. A most important discovery - has been made within the,,e Iwo days, which completely removes every sha dom of doubt respecting the guilt of th 3 late suicide, W It was proved before the Magistrates of Shadwell Office, that three weeks before the murder of Mr. Williamson and his family, Williams had been seen to have a long French knife, with an ivory handle.- • That knife could never be found in Williams's trunk, or amongst any of the clothes ite left behind him at the Pear-tree public-house. The subsequent search to find that deadly instrument, has been crowned with success. On Tuesday, Harrison, one of' th 3 lodgers at the Pear-tree public-house, in searching amongst some old clothes found a blue jacket,. which he immediately recognized as part of Williams's ap pai*l.; Be prociskiedtp examine ii ciosoly, and upon looking at the inside pocket he found it quite stiff with coagulated blood, as if a blood-stained hand had been thrust into it. lie brought it down to Mrs. Vermilloe, who immediately sent for Hope, sad an other of the Shadwell Police Officers, to make fur ther search in the house. Every apartment then un derwent the most rigid examination, and after a search of about an hour and a half, the officers came at last to a small clo , ot, the nee in which they discovered the object of thrii-pursait. In one corder of it there was a heap of dirty stockings and other clothes, which being removed, they observed a bit of wood protruding from a mouse-hole in the wall, which they immediately drew ont, and at the same instant they discolored the handle of a clasp knife s apparently dyed with blood, which upon beity , brought forth proved to be the identical French knife seen in Williams's possession before the murders.— The handle and blade of it were smeared all over with blood. This important fact completes the chain of strang circumstantial evidence already adduced against the suicide. The bloody jacket is also a new and no less powerful circumstance to confirm the guilt, and it is pretty clear, that that part of his ap parel must have been stained with the blood of the unfortunate Williamsons, when the suicide was returning the knife with his bloody hand to his pocket. • It was yesterday reported that a clue had been ob tained to the discovery of two of Williams's mar , derous associates. Most happy shall we be%te find this statement correct. His Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT has been graciously pleased, itrthe name and on. behalf of his -MAJESTY, to grant unto PENDOCIL NEALE, of Tot. lei ton Hall, in the county of Nottingham, his M JESTY . B Royal Licence and Authority, to take and use the surname of BARK v, of 'Fullerton, only.— (London Gazette, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 1812.) From the extreme.density of the Atmosphere oa Friday last, which involved the Metropolis in almost total darkness, many fortunate !►stakes arose in the course of the Day,—from the Clerk►, in the Lot. tc:v Offices delivering Quarters and Eights, instead of. Sixteenths, iwtbe present State Lottery, of two Prizes of 20,0001. Izc. Sc. &c. all of v.ohicb begin Drawing at Nine o'Clock ou Tuesday Morn. ing, and finish iu 12 hours. Only 12,000 Tickets, and Two Prizes of 200001 • is so strong an inducement to adventurers in the Lot tery, that Huensav and Co. cannot refrain from advising their friends to participate in the chance of obtainining such Capital Prizes. In Lotteries of old, those rxre chances alone would bare formed sub. scribers sufficient to have purchased the few remain. ing Ti9liets at three times the price they are now to be bblight at Iloaissay sad Co.'s old established Of. lice, No . 116, Cornhill, where the very .first Prize ot, 20)001. was seld.—The Drawing bogies at Nl** o'Cloalc 011 Tuesday niorn,lsg. Si: Frenchmen, confined on board Ihe &own vem-shis at . .)Orteebenthll eostrived to 'mak4 their nicepecessLimesfay evening hit, taking with tlimiks, ilikribbst, feu award two arch. i f '~~ 1 , 1 f?' ,• • • v , i f i . . i ~ i I ' : 1 * t . 1 1 . 1 c i 1, , . i 4 A k I r I. - . i s 4 ~.iii,--, • . ~~~ THE STATESMAN. l' "1.