The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-04-20 00:00:00

TO Taff EDITOIt OF TILE STATES7I477. - r -- Stn,--Your Paper of Monday last has been this even ing put into my hands, and as I do not imagine it was rm. i n tention to insert any thing respecting'me, not justified by fact, 1 beg to correct the mis-statement which has, I presume, inadvertently crept into your Paper. On Sunday evening I made no remark what ever relative to Mr. llottste Toone, as I have np knowledge of his ammeter, further than as it is of-• hibited in the Public Papers. lam not accustomed to senteuce any man, nor to judge at all of any cha. ratter upon such uncertain grounds. My statement re.pected the language adopted by the Journals of the time, relative to theprinciples of salvatibu, and Ito establish nay position adverted to the expressions employed in one of them on the occasion of 'Mr.. Tootte's death (whom, however, 1` did not name),' and the censure was directed against the language employed, irrespective of Mr. Tooxt's chkaeter.—, T;ie sentence alluded to is, so uear as I can recol,.; feet it, " to take leave of our subject in charity, ! let us hope that some secret recollections of good. counterbalanced the ill's which we knew of hina." As I quote hone memory, I have new no_ means of referring to the paper in question, I cannot be an swerable for the precise form-of the-sentence ; but I beg to observe, that thelnesation was dccuvntely made in the pulpit (as it .SVlCOltitiell down), and that I merely remarked, what -1,-now intent, that 11 secret recollectioes of good" , :can constitute not counterbalance to positive evil ; whether traly af firmed of Mr. T. or not, I am no judge-, tier di& L intend at all to involve his merits, or the contrary, in the remark : the statement itself appears tome nnscitiptural, and . such as one should snot have ea r ected in the nineteenth century of Christianity , -4 Neither in making - this remark did I wander from mt subject, the intention of which was, to peint - out the state of ignorance in which mankind remain re lative to the great truths of relegion, on the text St. John xvii. Y 5, " o,righteous Father, the world bath not known thee." I am, &c. Blacktteath Bill, Kent, April 16. W. B. COLLYER. EREAD.—About lilb. of wheaten flour, of the best quality, are required by the baker to ,make tfilb. of bread ; but in the summer of 1.810, when the quartern-loathad advanced to Is. &l. some expe riments were proposed, and made, which seemed to prove, that Mb. of flour are sufficient, with the id 'mixture of only 10 oz. of rice ground and boiled o .to produce an excellent loaf of bread, equal in weight, and equal or better in all other respects, to the quartern loaf. In the country, and wherever fami lies make their own bread, this experiment and prac tice, for the sale of some economy in the expendi ture of wheaten flour, may be useful. It is doubted, whether the nutrition of wheaten flour is exhibited in its best form and greatest extent its the present mode of bread-making ; and it •has been ,suggested as an improvement, to boil some part of the flour in the , 1 Mater with Which the bread is mixed and made. . In the Court of Exchequer, on Saturday, Mr. HAIN E moved for a Rule to shew cause why there Should not be a new trial in the action Haslam v. Bourne, Esq. for critn con. on the ground of exces sive damages. This action was tried at the late as sizes for Lancaster, and the defence was the profli gacy of the Plaintiff's wife. The Jury, however, gave 'their verdict for the Plaintiff, with 5001. da mages. The Court granted the Role. l'immtsx.—Yesterday Dutch Sam receivxl a for mal challenge from John Furd, a British candidate for pugilistic fame, to fight him for 100 guineas.— Sam has accepted the challenge, tune and place sub ject to future consideration. .ItRABI AN HORSES.—M. Cluateauhriand, in his Travels in Greece, gives the following account of the manner in which the Arabian Horses are trained to hardihood :---They are never put under shelter, but left exposed to the most intense heat of the sun, tied by all four legs to stakes driven in the ground, so that they cannot stir. The saddle i; taken from their backs : they frequently drink but once, and have only one feed of barley in 24 hours. This rigid treatment, so far from wearing them out, gives them sohriety, patience, and speed. I have often ad mired an Arabian steed thus tied down to the burn ing sand, his hair loosely flowing, his head bowed between his legs to find a little shade ; and stealing with his wild eye a look at his master: release his legs from the shackles, spring upon his back, and he will 'paw in the valley, he will rejoice in his strength, he will swallow the ground in the fierceness of his rage ' • and you recognise the original picture deli neated by Job.. Eighty or a hundred piastres .are given for an ordinary hqrse, which is in general less valued than an ass or mule ; but a horse of a well-1 known Arabiatt.breed will fetch any price. Abdal lah, Podia of Damascus, had jest given. 3,000 ; piastres for one. The history 'of a horse is fr - quently the topic of general conversation. NVhen I I was at Jerusalem, the feats of one of these wonder ful steeds made a great noise. The Bedouin to whom the animal, a mare, belonged, being pursued 1.1 the Goveruorts guards, rushed with her from the tops of the mountains Which overlooked Jericho. The mare sectored at full gallop down an almost - perpendicqlar declivity without stumbling, and left the soldiers lost! in admiration and astonishment. The poor creature, I however, dropped down dead on entering Jericho,l and the Bedouin;• who would not quit her, was i taken, weeping over the body of his compaeion.— This mare has 4"brother„ in the desert, Whit'is. so • famous, that the Arabs always know where he has been, where he is, what he is doing, and how he does. AU Aga religiously- shewed me in the moult- tains near Jericho, the footsteps of the. mare that 'died in the attempt to save her master. A Macedo- Wan could net have beheld tllose of Bucephalus with greiter respect. • , A gentleman of the name of Fingard, of Berke ley-street, undertook on Tuesday, for a wager of 100 guineas, to go on foot 30 roiies.in four hours, which he completed in seven minutes within the given' time.—Betting was tiro to one against the perform :nice. The eedestrian did 10 miles in two hours and live minutes. Committed to Winchester Goal, Thomas _Ye:cher- 1 alias Dennis Collins, charged with sacrilege, in Awing stolen from the Chapel, at- Gosport, the Nliuister's surplice, two bottles of tent wine and two pounds of candles , the property of the elope! Warilea. AO 11! !~~ THE RTATESMAN, REGENT'S sP:4IIX. This ornamental inclosure is proceeding with ra pidity. The plantations, considering the shortness of the time since the work commenced, are in consi derable forwardness. The ground extends from Portland-place nearly to the foot of Primrose-hill, and is of a proportionate breadth, spreading west wards nearly to Lisson-green. The grand approach ' is from Portland-place, which is now extending to. wards the south, on the site of the recently demolish. eel Foley-house : but the new buildings here do not appear to be constructing with any suitable regard to the elegant uniformity. of Portland-place. At the north-end of Portland-place a circus is forming, sur rounded by trees, across the centre of which runs the New !toad. On the north ,of this circle, directly opposite Portland-place, a good road, planted on each side, is formed to enter the Park ; the whole of which is nearly fenced iu, and bordered with 'planta tions ; and a coach-drive made round the whole ex. lent. In the inclosed central part of the Palk, and exactly fronting the entrance road, a tolerably spa cious avenue is preparing, to be shaded by four roes of forest-trees. This passes over the highest ground in the Park, commanding the view of Hampstead and Highgate, and will certainly form a very pleasant promenade for the inhabitants of Mary-le-bone and that vicinity. In the south-western part of the Park, a large circus is laid out, and partly plant ed, around which a number of houses are intended to be erected. To the north of this, ou the more level ground, the new barracks for the Life Guards are to be placed,which, we understand,are to be finished in a style of rather more elegance than most buildings. of that. description in the'neighbourhood of the metro polis. •Advantage will be taken of the means the ground effords for increasing the picturesque beauties I of the spot, as well as for general convenience, by the formation of two or three sheets of water in the level situations. Besides the houses round the circus, many other spots are to be left for the erection of detached villas, near the edges of the park, and in other good situations : but exclusive of the different roads for the amusement of those who go in car riages, there will be a considerable portion of the whole reserved for the recreation and pleasure of the promenaders. The proposed intersection of the southern part of the park by the projected public canal from Paddington to Blackwell, would certain ly add nothing to the att7uctions of the place; but, it should seem, would b.:, in several respects, in convenient. When the roads are all completed, and ,tiee, trees, shrubberies, and walks finished, this Park , will unquestionably be a very agreeable place of resi deuce : but not a few will regret the loss of those open and verdant fields which formed one of the mqst airy and pleasant resorts for the pedestrians of the metropolis. . BURNING MOUNTAIN IN A MERTCA.-On the morning of the 16th December last, a great smoke was seen to issue from the top of " Spear's Moun tain," which is detached from the range that extends from the Blue Ridge to Swannoe River, and ends some miles below its junction with French Broad.—. The great noise that was heard through the day, and continued smoke, left tio doubt but that it WAS a vol. : cano that mad burst forth during the earthquake.— The mountain is conical and insulated—its base is washed on the west side by French Broad*River, on the east side it is separated by a narrow valley (over hung in some places by large rocks) from that ridge called French, Broad Mountains—their bare rocks, stunted vegetation, and arid surface, shew that they long have felt that subterranean fire which probably gave heat to the warm springs, and has at last burst out with such dreadful fury. It still continues to burn with great violence, and throws up lava, scoria, ashes, calcined stones, and vitrified matter, in great , qaantities, and with the most tremeudous noise.— ' The quantity of lava discharged at the beginning of ; the eruption was immense ; it ran doivn the moan: , tain in a stream of liquid fire for more than a mile, • and has formed a dam across French Broad River, .so high as to overflow about two hundred acres of i prime bottom land, to the great injury of the owners.l In the night time, the ignited stones, cinders, &c. 1 which are thrown two or three hundred feet in the air, present a grand appearance, and have a great resemblance to artificial tire-works, such as rockets, &c. buring the day a columnial whitish smoke . issues from the crater : at night it has a flame-like . appearance, and where it has been driven by the wind, has withered the small dwarf pines which had taken root in the barretrsoil of this and the neigh bouring mountains . ; their bark and leaves are in- : crusted with a yellowish powder, which has an acrid i taste and strong sulphuric smell. No person has had"' i courage sufficient to approach the crater; but those 1 who were acquainted with the top of the mountain i before the eruption, say that it was uneven and. very I rocky. The crater appears (judging by the smoke) to be • twenty yards in diameter, and is growing larger. Yesterday a large mass fell in, with a greater noise than the loudest artillery; it shook the country round, and was echoed from the mountains and valleys. • The lava, where cold, has the appear : mice of vitrified basalt. The stone on the mountain , is hard and coarse grained, with.an uneven conchoi dal fracture—but no appearance of basalt. The scoria are sonorous, have a ferruginous appearance, and slew strong magnetic attraction. The credulous people,who inhabit the mountain view it with as much . awe and terror as the children of Israel did Mount Sinai. Some say the end of time is arrived, and think the. crater ig. the mouth of the " bottom ' less pit,"—the fantastic appearances of the electric fluid, which is seen darting in various shapes through the smoke after night, by thehelp of fancy they trans ' form into spirits, devils, &c. These wild ideas have been increased by the declaraiions of an itinerant preacher, who calls upon them to repent, hot in the language of Jonah,. " Yet forty days," &c. but say ing,. " Behold the plage of punishment for the wicked!" The Corporation of London assembled on Tuesday to support. and maintain their liberties. The. poor devils of Dublin got together on Friday, to oppose the ,Emancipation •of .their Catholic countrymen •, they bawled and brawled away till they persuaded themselves they were the old. Protestants of Ireland capable of forming a- jest estimate of Catholic merits! 1 -Poor wretches—may . Heaven .restore them to. their 1 semis.—(cork Ciarens(le s April 14.) . POLICE. BOW-STREET. Saturday Win. Seabr oo k an d J o h n Wyse were brought before M r . G RAHAM, charged with felo. niously stealing a l arge quantity of rum, th e pro. party of the King. It appeared that small ves s els called hnye are en: . ployed to convey s t ores f rom t h e King's Victirdling Office D. ,at ptford, t o th e Ki ng ' s ships. On the 9th day of last Alaith, the Friends Good;:ill h oy the Prisoner Se a b roo l., master, took in half 1,(4„1 heads and other c as k s o f rum, coatai.tin g t wo thou, sand five hundred and seventy gallons, and he, in company with a man of the name of Fowler, it i ik4 with them for the Duncan mati,4 war, lying at the Nore. After they had proceeded a • ort distauce , A skiff', with the Prisoner Wyse and three other mad In it, came along side the boy ; Wre antl all NI other men went on board the boy, takin g Kith theta several nine gallon casks and a half nit , r. n ie I Prisoner_Seabrook gave .them some false keys, er picklock keys, which opened the locks that m•cti e 4 i the rum. Ilavine opened the l oc k s , b y the as .st. like of a pump ° they pumped oat of the hog i h ear !, 1 into ' their Casks a large quantity in a short time, put them into their skiff, and one. of the men rowed' away with .theM. O n hi e way down the.. River, some Custom-house Otters, in a 1 Custom-house boat, observi ng th e cas k s i n the skiff, rand supposing them to contain smuggled liquor, made towards them for the p ur p ose of making a seiza . re. The man who was rowing the skiff, disco. Tering the officers to be making towards kiln; d rop : the heads of the casks in and threw the content overboard. The casks not being the King' s , th e officers of course were not able to make any sei ta , e, there being no liquor in them ; the circumst ance of the man throwing the liquor overboard, convince' the soinething .was wrong, an d an eaqsiry Inuring o aing ffits t c a e liea place, and by.the confession of w a r the parties and other witnesses, the above circuta. stances have been proved, and it has been ascertained that the quantity of rum taken by the Prisow•r ‘:l‘a. brook on the above day, from the time of its leaving the Victualling Office to its arrival at the Dupuis* man of war, was deficient ninety gallons, and that the hog sheads had been 611 ed up with wat er . The Prosecution is carried on by the Commissioners of the Victualling Office. • MARLBOROUGH-STREET. The Prisoners were committed for trial. Thomas Jones, who travels the tov-9 as a duffer, with cambrics, lace, shawls, tte. was charged on Saturday with two separate acts of fraud, in ob.. taining enormous - priceq by false representations that the goods were of a sort different to what they really were. Mr. Milli n, of Coalbait-street, stated, that the Prisoner sold him two pieces of cambric, which he represented to be French, for six times more than their .real value, it having been proved be an infe rior article of home manufacture. Another Charge was made against the Defendant by Mr. Cother, at Ibbotson's Vote!, Vere-street.— The Defendant sold hi m two shawls, which he repre sented to be of foreign manufactory, for Sol. when in) fact the articles were proved to be of the ;glue et 51. only, and of Spitaltields manufacture. The Pri soner was remanded for another examination, to meet other similar charges. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY. Arnit.lB. MORRIS U. COLINAN. A motion was made in this case, on the part •f , Mr'. Morris, to have Mr. Wilson remored from the :fitutition of Stage Manager to. the Little Theatre, • 'Haymarket, of which Mr.. Colman and Mr. Morris - . Ore yoiAt proprietors. The motion was grounded on the deed of agreement, in ISOS, and on certain al leged acts of mismanagement, as Stage Manager, on the part of Mr. 3Vilsott, particularly his halting re moved the former ‘lardrobe-keeper, and appointed in his place a person who had pawned articles be- Tonging to the Theatre. , . Mr. WEATHERALL and Mr. Tetestsort s argued the case on the prt of Mr. NVilson, turd • the alleged acts of mismanagement were fully negatived by af , idayfts. The LORD CHANCELLOR having an engagement at two e'clock, ordered the further hearing to stand 'over till, day. ' - COURT OF lILIRWA DEN CU, Aria Ii T.t.71.0a .re irwiq. Mr. Stonas moved to. set aside the verdict, and enter a non-suit in this case. . The cause was tried at the last Aylesbury Assizes, before Mrs Justice Heath. It was an action on the Statute of ANEW,- for using a greyhound. The facts wore, that the Defendant, a respectable faryner, but not qualified to kill game, ' was in company .with a Mr. Colding, a gentleman abundantly qualified, and to whom the dogs be longed. lie was seen t 6 beat the bushes, and retie taller the hare. He was not the servant of Mr. CAd the qualified man, but admitted he was with hint as a companion, and 'for the purpose of enjoy the.pleasures of the course.. , •, At, the trial, Mr. Justice Heath was inclined to non-Suit the Plaintiff, but on the authority of a case rated by Mr. Justice Ltkwrence,'who held that a pet:. son joining in the chase, though the dogs belortgal to alualified person present, was liable to the pct. ;salty, he directed the Jury to find for the Plaintiff reserving the right to the Counsel for the Defendant to move to enter a non-suit. Lord ELLEisuoaouGn asked if it were agreed, that all the world .must run away from a man coursing , as from ,one infected-with the plague? If it ha d '' been the cue of asservant, he should not have had moment's hesitation ; 'for if the law were otherwise, ithera most be an end to all hunting, until they could get qualified whippers in, &c. Rule granted. Arai'. 18. This being the last day for motions for new trials, the Court was occupied during the whole of their Lordships' sitting, in disposing of motions of this description, but no case of any public interest oc curred. A Noble Marquis has undertaken to travel from London to Holyhead with post-horses. He started from London on Wednesday, at six o'clock in the evenings and engaged to arrive there at six , o'clock on the morning following, for 1000 guineas. He performed his first stage from Mr. Robert Newman',.6, Swallow-street, to the Red Lion, Barnet, which Is 1% miles, in 50 minutes ; his second stage from Bryant's, the Red Lion Inn, in Harriet, to Stasi ban's, which is 10 miles in 31 minutes. Since that, a bet has been offered that the same four horses from Barnet go 11 miles in 30 minutes with a post-chaise.' On Thursday last, an old washerwoman, of the name of Janet Wood,' residing at Coldstream, was unfortunately burnt to death. , No person being in the house at the time, the •:ause of the melancholy accident cannot be easily ascertained. She was found, about nine o'clock at night, lying on the floor of the room, her body much scorched, and life irrecover ably gone. A woman, a pauper in a workhouse, not a mile from the Sessions-house, Clerkenwell, has pre seedetil f or some months past, to be afflicted with a dropsical disorder; she last week had a fainting fit, fell over a bench, and dislocated her shoulder; ova. ing to the extreme pain of which, next morning, she! was safely delivered of a fine, strong, healthy boy. 1 J. Took was executed last week at Ipswich, having been convicted of violating..the person of his own daughter. The Prisoner on his trial pleaded idiotcy, which being investigated, was deemed unfounded, so far as respected right and wrong; but his behaviour to the last exhibited strong symptoms of' extreme ipi Dormice and insensibility. 1 FATAL EMC CS TROII Roaxixo.-;-)il,teccles Sti• i sions, a melancholy circumstance was witnessed.—A young man, named Hubbard, from Debenliam, ha d; been committed to Woodbridge Bridewell, upon sus-1 picion of having stolen a saddle from Mr. Thomas ) Darb - y, of Keaton, which, in fact, had been takell off Mr. I)arby's horse by some other person in a joke,! thrown into a rivulet, and afterwasds take . up and carried home by this young man, who willingly re-'; stored it as soon as he knew . the owner. Upon his commitment, his young wife, who was far advanced in pregnancy, was taken very ill, and remained during his confinement, in a wretched state of mitul, • continually callingout for her husband. Alas ! she ; - never saw him more.—On the night previous to these •Sessions, at which an indictment was to be preferred' against him, she died in a state of distraction, leav big her disconsolate husband in' prison to bewail her loss. As soon as the affair was made known to the Magistrates, they humanely directed the recogiii-1 zauces to prosecute to be withdrawn, and the young Iman to be immediately restored to his disconsolate' friends. , I L The present weather is extremely favourable for i agricultural labour, and it is with satisfaction we hear that the farmers are entirely engaged in availing themselves of the circumstance in all the arable.dis- ' tricts. A late spring generally is succeeded by a lbountiful harvest, •of which there is at present the fairest prospect. Pierre La Roche, the French Prisoner, sea ; tented to death, for forging Bank-notes, at thelate. Assizes for Launceston, Cornwall, and executed on Mondky last, was a young man of interesting ap pearance. The natural powers of his mind had been aided by education. It is to be hoped that this exe ! eution ;ill have a proper effect on the prisoners in l/famce . .ze, who have for three or four ,years been ac 1t tively employed in this nefarious manufatturn. U VION-11 Saturday evening George Phillips, Richard Wal. hell, William Jones, and Ilenu Phillips, well known characters,' were apprehended by Collink bourn, Wortley, and Harris, amongst the crowd .assembled to witneq the. ceremony of Ink ing the Gilt stone4the new Betblem Hospital in St. GTorge's . - fields, were committed till the SesSious as reputed; thitlyea. The nuMber of persons prosecnted for forged notes of the Bank of England, and for uttering, or having them in their possession, knowing them to ha forged, from file year 1797 to 1811 inclusive, have been 471. The number of persons proserutAl for counterfeiting the tokens issued by the Bank of England, or for uttering the same, have been in 1801, eight persons; ISOS, none; 1805, two; 1807. none; 1808, one; 1809, nine, 1810, six; and isil, twenty-th We are concerned to state, that the last account* received frsm the Mediterranean, mention, that Lord henry Lenox, third son of the Duke of Richmond,. had fallow from the top mast of the Blake (of which ship he was Lieutenant), into the sea. Lord Henry `being exceedingly beloved, one. of his shipmates leaped overboard after him, and brought up the body, but it was lifeless. 'Lord Henry was in the 15th year of age) and- -pr mind 4.3whe OteeMelit to his profession. • smTCH 8.11.4 CA'S. Mst.t.rn's Wharf. Leith 01.4.4141, lAtis I (7oniet Spriot (Cutaininp), do. (Sutheilat.d), Jo. 11551 5 AAP; L'Ai p . . : N l'l)ll . : MP. fife . l'acket (Sunney), do. 13 11, - I,A. M. Defiance (Watson), Dundee and Perth Eclipse (Ta,vlor), Leith Eliza (Mardull), do. iiu WATER AT LONDON MI Morning, 17 minutes. after 9. Eveoin 26, 12 Noon. lY Noon. 3May,-6. A. MT IDGE CIIIS DAY. ' 47 rainutos after 9. 0 • BIRTHS. On Thursday last, in Soho-square, Mrs. H. T. Kings of daughter. - (1a Friday, the Lady of . 1 . Heyman, Isq. of 'Montage street, Itessill-square, of a daughter. 111.11f,RIED. On Thursday last, at Clifton, Ilrisfol t .Johis Meade, Esq. t isc.Nurth. On Saturday, at OK Parish Church of St. Swithin, at !kudos Stone Mr. William Sills flathawa of Lloyd's Cotlec-Itouse, to Eliza, the eldest daughter of•Mr y . , ill of Loialou-Inidge Water-works. • IM El). On Friday morning, Mrs. I;anks, of Henrictta-street , .vent-garden. On Sunday se'onight, at Harrow-on-the-Ili% Middleses,Char. Brand, Esq. late of Staple Inn, Ilolhorn. On Friday last, at the Parsonage-house. Hamp stead, Sam"' Spencer, the infa nt pon of the Hes. Samuel 'White; 1). I). S,ioi ster of that Parish. On Friday last, William, the °DIY child of Pete r Itile Y' 14. Barrister at Law. I.UjoNt ?tinted and Published hy D. !orris, at iv ihazsgaux grwice, 87, Fleet-street. 1' :1