The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-03-28 00:00:00

4- ~i 'r,~i 11 U es cLL I • THE STATESMAN. BOOKS PUBLISHED THIS DAY. Arr. M 1 ails. • . P.S. 3 • ' Dublin w .04.• • 5 . ................ Waterford ', • • • • I* 0 ' Malta* . . ..... t... : 1 : .. : ............ Omernsey I . . Jersey . --....... Plaintiff, and drawn by Defendant. Mr. CASLON, by y !f t: h. ) the ,sff,eni andir being examined, said, that th e cons id erat i on o f the lle i oo o f n was s d h ir e ec h pt a lia d fnessm from froaniae L h rr i x m bill i n d lu e i ti r ne ect estein played as a middle person between the Plaintiff and the Defendant. The latter gave him a copy of a [French assignat, which was produced in Court, and that assignat he delivered to the former to direct him in making his plates. The Plaintiff at first refused to execute the work ; but LUKYN said it was for the Duke of YORK'S army, and that it was with the knowledge and approbation of the Secretary of State. This was confirmed by Colonel S agent to the Duke of Yonst. Witness believed the plates were very well done.' LUKYN had immense quantities of these forged assignals printed otf, and went abroad 1 to sell them. Oa cross-extipination, he said the Plaintiff certainly refuses to make these plates until he was told the Government of this country thought it a good measure. Lord Kenxox remarked, if Plaintiff had forged these plates fOr the purpose of fraud, he was of opinion it ought not to have been made the foundation of an action ; but Mr. CASLON sworeto the contrary. If the Plaintiff, in obedience to the higher powers, had made these plates for the Duke of Yona's army, that circumstance alter ed the case. There were certain laws not to be transgressed by one nation, even when at War with another, such as abstaining from poisoned arms, giv ing quarter, &c. But his Lordship mid he did not know it was contrary to 'the law of nations, for a country to distress its enemy iii its finances--Ver dict for the Plaintiff. Comparing the abo've ' facts with what we have already stated respecting the Licence Trade now carrying on in this country, under the immediate sanctiowor Ministers, we shall be enabled to form a pretty &meet estimate of the morals of the pious Mr. PERCEYAL, and be able to contrast the conduct and principles of, those who were in power in the year 1795. with those of 1812. It is an incon trovertible maxim, that, in the same proportion as the principles of a Government become corrupt, the peo ,pte lose all respect for Inca ulity. The Defendant, LOAYN, in the above case was emi,loy ed by the 44 higher powers" to commit io immoral act. This led him to employ atiot r to effect the forgery. He was thus not only debased by the transaction himself, bat he was guilty in being the cause of implicating others. He did not, however, stop here; he attempted to defraud the Plaintiff of the stipulated consideration for the part which he `induced hint to take ,in the business. BENJAMIN . 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Con3table and Co. klin burgh. 777 r THE STATESMAN, GREEK GRAMMAR AND LEXICON. In royal Bvo. price Mo. hoards, the Second Edition, greatly enlarged, A GREEK GRAMMAR, and GREEK and ENGLISH SCRI PTIiRE LEX ICON,containing all the Wards -a-bich oceurin the Septuagint and Apocrypha, as well as iu the New Testament. By GREVILLE EWING, Minister of the Gospel, Glasgow. Printed fur Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brawn. Pater noster tow ; A. (unstable and Co.; and Oliphant, Waugh, and Innes, Edinburgh. • LONDON: • inuito.ty, w.►RCR 28, 11311 »- Letters from Liverpool, this morning, mention, that all American vessels there are stopped sailing until further erriVOS from America. Five Dublin ita five IcaterfOrd Mails arrived this morning. 'The Irish rapers are filled with details of the proceedings of the Catholic Meetings throughout the kingdom, lamest every. .county is which has passed Resolution's similar. to those entered into at Dublin. "The Minister of the PRINCE REGENT," says the Djblbs Evening Post," will soon be convinced, that the five ukitnis of Irish catholic; are not en tranced in a stets of slavish apathy, but that they Identify their feelings with the conduct of the Catho lic Board. 'flanks to die sagacity of the Law Of ficers of the 6cm% .and to the Imperioul intempe rance of the LORD LIEUTENANT'S Secretary (which prevented a delegated body from acting, in a diguified, though unostentatioits manner,on behalf of the People), at last a mode has been adopted, which shows that the 'F4niversal' Irish Nation it animattd with one feeling on the subject. No creature of the Minister's— no bigoted—no corrupt placeman or pensioner, will dare to say, that the Petition of the Catholics (supported as they are try the Protestants, who are interested by their property in the peace of the country) is only tbe.voice of a faction, and not the awful claim of a whole population for a matter of strict right. The time approaches—a general Elec tion is at hand—and the opportunity is favourable of giving one decisive proof, out of the many which they could give, of the Gigantic Power of the geo ple !!!" In royal Svo. illuitrated with many Engravings oo Wood,drawn by M. W. Craig, and executed by J. Berryman, price Ws. 6d. boards. AN FSSAY on the VRESEILVATION of SHIP WRECKED PERSONS; with a descriptive Account of the,Apparatus, and the Manner of applying k, as adopted successfully. By G. W. MANBY, Fuq. Hemel:try Member of the Ftoywt ttaialtbilettety. Printed tomgman. Hurst, Rres, Urme. aad Brawn, Irav teranster-roil ; at the British Gallery, bi, New Baud-street; and John Murray. Fleet-street. In thick Bva. with Sixteen Engravings., I,rke 18s. boards, AN ACCOUNT of the SYSTEMS of lIUSBAN- Dlt Y adopted in the more improved ()Writ's of Scot land; with some Observations on the Improvemests of which they are rawceptihle. Drawn op for the Consideratioh of the Board of Agriculture, with a View of expluiniog how fur those Systems are applicable to the km cultivated parts in England and Scotland. By the Right Ron. Sir JOHN SINCLAIR, Bart. President of the Board of Agriculture. . 4 Knowledge is power."—Bacon. Printed for Longman, Horst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Pa ternoster-row ;G. nod W. Nicol, Pall-Mall; Archibald Coo stable and Co. Edinburgh; and J. Cumming, Dublin. DANIELL'S ORIENTAL SCENERY. ?art T. containing 24 Views. en imperial 4to. price SI. S. hoards. of THE ARCIUTECTURE, ANTIQUITIES, and LANDSCAPE SCENERY of IIIINDOO4TAN• By Mesqv. THOMAS amd WILLIAM DANIELL. Seduced from 9! . ir the same Work, and care- • fully copied under their direction.. Published by William 14atilell. N 0.9, Cleveland-street, Fitz roy-square; Longman, Hurst. Rees, Onne, and Brown, Pa ternobter-rovr ; nod at the British Gallery, 54, New Bond street. ••• The Views, it is intended, shall follaw in the same order as they appeared io the Folio Edition. and when com pleted will he comprised in Three Volumes, containing in the whole BO Prints. In reflecting on the torrent that threatens to e'er whetm the world in its progress, the mind is naturally filled with astonishment at the small portiop of prac tical wisdom which the Princes and Statesmen of Europe seem to have derived from the awful etents of the French Revolution. Corrupt Ministers, and a bad Government, laid all the ancient honours of , the French Monarchy prostrate in the dust ; yet the A convoy is appointed to sail from Leith Roads surrounding States, with a blind infatuation, disehile- for Wingo Sound, at the end of this month. .. ing any attention to the changes taking place around The French ships front L'Orient have effected their them in the human mind and in the political world, escape into Cherburgh in perfect safety.. Sir. SIDNEY SMITH iS very much indisposed, at his ~ have fallen, successively, one by one, the victims house in Albemarle-street. of their own confidence, their corruption, and • The Bulletin of the health of the finchess of Gob their folly. What a field for the historian ! noN yesterday stated, that her Grace, having had a' The fate of Louis the Sixteenth alone presents a good night, was somewhat better. mine of instruction to the Rulers of the earth. No 1 The Gentleman who spoke on Thursday at the h I monarch of ancient or modern times loved his people I Common ill, and who was by mistake in our paper ' more, had a higher sense of justice, or possessed a I called BERRY , w as MF.TERRING. yinstance Where a public delinquent is found more exalted humanity than the ill-fated !.nits . I In an • guilty of peculation, the people expect and have a Adorned with every virtue as a Sovereigu, he had, obscured all his great however, one failing, if Melt `right to demand the most severe punishment that the law can inflict on such culprits. On all occasions we qualities, rendering his virtues, as a Prince, useless find, that in proprtion to the magrittude of their to his country, and ultimately led to his own frauds, their friends are numerous, because the money . untimely end, mid to all the disasters of Europe.— of which the public is plundered enables them to live like Princes, and the attraction of a splendid table The facility of his disposition laid him open to the ensures them numerous guests, many of whom- pro arts of designing ambitious men ; - and he was too bably are of the first distinction. easily and too frequently induced to change his A pressing request having been lately made, in a most settled purposes.—Even men whom he certain quarter, fors card to the Civic Dinner on knew . to be neither attached to his person, Monday, the suppliant received for answer, that the nor to his gloky, and whose sole Abject was the tables wers halreadg quite veil; and that the Lord aggmtidizement . of • their families, o f ten atta i ned Mayor Unler could not hintcyte so many of is hould their ends by addresses, intrigue, and persevArance. friends, Aar he hexpectect Lord Harden, and the Mai quilt and Marchioess o Ad,d a / of Fatal and top general error of crowned heads ! other vashionuble n f volk from rtfor the e vent hend mortat of et the Mt MAt.sts!gnEs, the friend and advocate of town. •41:7 .: ' Louis XVI.; in his notes epee, the dei4h .of the Gonnowv. Lovect.4—Au4erien having been corn- King, has titilkillOWing very imnarkalele passage : menred by the said Wekei-Gnidori, in consequence " M. Tonctor and myself were very honest .:, 'men, of the lusters and paragraphs which.appeared in the' 2 StxtEsit,tv a few months since , respecting him,. the well informed, and passionately denotedU virtue.-1' ' ,' - ••• - following persons, who were therein ment ioned, ate, W hp would pot,ha re thought , .tlint :we Wire chosen. w 2 1 ma t er ial ant.!..eas in thkionttse ; and as Mr. LovELL Yet we were bad Ministers. We bad studied men does not know their plitetWof residence, be reqnest in books only ; enaccustomed to besiness, We left they will have the goodness io send . him their ad the JEN' in 'the sole directini . itflEllll.tv Risco, j•dtv'eenti. tirereeety I teOPoswa br 4 w4" " ned • who-added all his own imbecility to the irresolption i ed for the them to attend The trial; which is appoint Sittings before next Term viz.— of w ; 'pupil ;., tio4,..without intending or foreseeing • 1. • The Widow who resided at 1 3 faetney about 12 years ago. it, we have contributed to the Revolutioe:+ , -4vbat 1 The Widow who resided atTaitt, near Maidstone, ditto. a lesson for Ministers end for Kings! Bad Cnant.Es . The Butcher's Wife in Nesigale-market, ditto. IV. opened his eyes to the causes of the French Re- 1 ditto. The Lady that fell hi kortviiidiGerdan in the King's B, 2 Cr - volution—dismissed The Irish Hair-d the infamous Gooow from his 1 - , t . r: a. Hair-dresser,` IA Gordon, as Valet, councils for ever ; and, yielding to the times, usTai- i to Devonshire, in puck off the s nighgeiress, and followed her ED TO THE VOICIS OF Ins PEOPLE, claiming an =ell- le .Bath. , Gordon, is the year 1797, , ' oration of their condition, he would still hate been The Gentleman who let !be chmkirs, in Fornival's Inn, to • .• . . Monarch of Spain and of the Indies : In his merited Mr. Charles Hughes, who accompanies Gordon to Maidstone, i captivity he has not even our pity. Similar causes AUK open a matrimonial expedition. l 'ever. produce Similar effects. Spain too,we fear, Monte HATTON..GARDEN.--‘rbirsday afternoon several or later, will be swallowed up in the vortex' of titt shopkeepers were summoned, at the instance of the Seciety for the Suppression of Vice, to answer co m- French Ruler's insatiable niabititio, and Europii wilt Continue to be desolated, until that rare -plaints laid against them for serving in their respec union is tire shops oo the Sabbath-day, during Divine Service s produced in some leading Cabinet, of a wise Prince, 'contrary to Act et parliament ; when the chuffs 1 and an enlightened disinterested Minister---a HENRY being established against them, they were severally IV. and a Stmt7. . . .. convicted, in the peni.lty, with costs, " Pid- which they 'in a few Live will be oubli,hed, handsomely printed in 6vn. --.Nallin. , : the Seennti f,ditinn, revised and corrected, The enormities connected with the Liceneeilitent,' L • A man was brought up, being charged with hawk pORTI;GAL ": a Poem, iu Two Parts.- have brought to our recollection the_case of errsou.eg itt the several shops, ,articles of. hardware for sly Lord GreRGE GRENVILLE. 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HE PLANTF.It'S KALENDAR ; or, The Nurser3snati and rdrester's Cuide; By the late W A LTEIt' N ICOL. Edited and completed by Edward Ikutif, Nurseryman. Ptitted for Longman, Hum, Nees. Orme. and Brown. Pa. ternissierornw ; and .1. Murray, London; And Archibald Con. stable and Co. Edinhur i ;h. • • This work contains an extended view of the methods of jrnisilg trees from jdfilllCy to maturity; their management hi the usrsery, in the forest. and the grove f as hedge-row, and de ttietted nnonneutal trees in the park aid in the I Lartt. It shows thelnethnds for raising and managing simple anu mixed copses; with the rpratities of soils best adapted to the various kind.. of forest trees, and in which they have attained In the greatest per tertian in many places, both of Scotland and England. The whole is intended to enahte the landed proprietor, rogaged in the cultivation of timber upon hi, e,tate. to adopt the speediest. cheapest. and mast effectual methods of &retain-gat the prop os ed end. .As above may he had, by the same Author, The VILLA GARDEN DIRECTORY, ar, Monthly Tn dex of Work to be dune in Town and Villa Gardens, Sfirub beries. and Parterres; with flints tin the Tr,alnient of Shrubs and Flowers usually kept in the Green-room. the Lobby, rod th e Dtawinc.t num. The Second Edit ion, mach insproved, prime 7s. 6d. hamar. r ::~,;., TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE STATES:►IIN Stn,—However averse to publicity, nli;sl. sion is aggswated in the present instance, I am pelted by imperious considerations, which tiality itself must confess of weight, thus to I R , before you, and in so doing before the public, . 1 , statement of facts, wherein I unfortunate:y bon prominent and a most unpleaiant part. Basis. already appeared in a respectable Provincill Pap er, the Liverpool Mercury, of the cl.Gth of July last, I did net ypagioe that a recurrence of so painful (task vnalikke imposed on a subject, where sertions and observations were permitted without reply, having io that letter confined myself as much u possible to my individual case ; considering, in al.l probability, that with that letter the subject wocd be considered at rest ; in furtherand'of which I ab. stained from the most distant incentives to its con. •. tinnance, reserving only individual defence. With this conclusion, to nai tri:c a h ttach tbe i l end engt sitioe h uace, o d f eba t kact ime t, elapsed added confirmation v jadogef the my uititmktrr'h, ownhepererulsifnogutnlideml7 name ndon Papers, surpnze on that odious punishment at which,,humanity shut. dens. This should have been pas* I not found my conduct again milrepeeseedad, an a that asserted as truth, which ad antecedently proved to be false in the aforemenflooed paper, the Liverpool Mercury. In that Paper I inserted a quotation from the STATESMAN, the 19th June last, being part of a speech delivered by the Judge. Advocate, Mr. MaxNEtts SerroN, in the Muse et! Commons, on the day previous. This gentleman had come prepared to the House with documents re ferring only to my individual case; among these he had a letter from the Surgeon of the Regiment, stat ing, in short, my voluntary confession of the justice of my punishment. This he deemed of importance to go forth, but unwittingly for Idin that statement was false, and duly contradka Bat, sotwith. standing this, a Mr. GOULBURN spoke in the House on the 16th inst. as follows (being the substance of Mr. SUTTON'S speech of last Session) :—" That in the case adduced by the Honourable Baronet, the pu. nishmeut inflicted had been stecchary iu the highcd ckgr/s . , and its justice acknowledged since by him ou,selsom it was indicted, as the Honourable Bane net would have discovered if he bad taken the pairs to inform himself."—This is copied from the Globe, with the substitution of the singular for the plural, Mr. GOULRURN having included in the above another case, that of Ely. In my letter, alluded to before, I asserted my innocence, ,and challenged the Officer' of the regiment to produce the Minutes of the pro- ceedings of the Court Martial, as the only criterion for the public, who had a right to decide in a ques tion transmitted to them. This letter remaining tin , anewared, I may surely claim, without preFtunp• tot; thit innocence before the public, which 10-Usen beast, appealing to Gon i testifies to my self. I refrain from rematking on the bad quality of the bread, not from want of sufficient proof of the case, but from the wish that a subject so ungrateful to the feelings of the Officers, so liable to irritate the feelings of the privates, might be buried iu obli vion; but an expression in your Paper of the 17th inst. ascribed to Sir FRANCIS BeitoraT, I am con strained to notice; the words arc, " who had been flogged for writing some verses against some OP ccrs. . There was a song, composed by some OP unknown to me, in , which some Officers were per sonally and illiberally attacked, and other improper language lesorted to. ° That song has been attributed to mei liejtidging such misrepresentations scarcely worth notice, I should have' said stabile; respecting such a trivial circumstance, bad npt the language of Sir•Fa,titcrs induced me to Wine him of the same oppnibniiioens, the in do assure ost e S t i i r eci F ti ft iv l oca s oar i t a ß n D e rr r : t an ha d t the he song &Hided to is not mine, nor was I privy to the composition of that, or of any other, but that already acknowledged; and no complaint for mi sconductdu rim; a the ri t g r ) ; tt ini t t o ig c h o a in v i p ng la bi in no of I l t e o g o e d r i , not only corporeal, but mental, in thus addin g fake hood to misrepresentation. g i o nl ro ns us t a still pt:tinisnhdmie*n'te, , Fearing that I have already trespassed too muck On the patience and time of you and - y our readers, no a bruptness with,which I subscribe mysel f, y our Oe nology...el, perhaps, be deemet xeou i s ite for the dient and humble servant, Liverpool, Mad+ 23. THOMAS TAYLOR. .* MELMNISiAr OCCURRENCE.-.---.ThUrSday even ing, the launch of his Majesty's ship .Itaiso* able, proceeding to the Nore with supernume raries, by the injudicioul management of the roan at the helm, got athwart the hawse of the Martial gun-brig, and almos t immediately sok, with nearly fifty persons on board :, by the active be tions of the ships lay in g a t the •Little Nore + tb greater part of them .were picked up; but IV e lament to say, _ that a Midshipman (Mr. Weight), soli' men, and a woman, untimely perished. The crew 'of his Majesty's sh i p Diadem, now I,' ing at Chatham, have been se nt round, with etll" s u pernumeraries, to Harwich, to take from thence the Scarborough, of 74 guns , latel y launched there, to Portsmouth, where she is to lay up and season. A grand national library, the collection of we t s .itn 0. 0 by Catharine 11. has been completed am! oo Petersburgh. It comprises 25 printed volumes ; 80,000 of' w hi c h relate to tyre, logy, and 4 0 , 000 duplicate s . There are 191000 111. Amite( ) teeny of them exceedias scarce.