The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-12-12 00:00:00

, . r t i , i • .. . a . 1 i 1 . .", 11 - i 1 I 1 S ' i • H i I i ! 1! • i H 1 : i 1 1 I i 1 , 1 i I . gr 1) I .•-• ) k . 1 1 5 ! i 1 : i ‘ ' 11 . f p } ) 1 4 . I 11 1 i r t I " 1 i i . - ! 14 ' . . 1 b I I Nkk A STOCK PRIZE OF ,C3n 000. IN ADDITION TO THE FIRST-DRAWN PRIZE • NEXT TUESDAY. THE Postponement of the Drawing. wbieh has kept the Tickets and Shares for the pretest Lotterreerb %neer upon Sole than was at first expected. added to the in ducement in make early perchoutes. in ronsenuence of the Fara drawn Prire on the First Day (NEXT TUESDAY). being entitled to an additional Prize of ,ElO.OOO Consols, makes it stecestary that T. BIM. the Cnn'rwtor. shoeld call upon his I'fielldi to lot* no time in selecting their Numbers. at they may -'tact. if they delay, hare as opportunity of choosing from a The First-drawn Prix.. Nest Tuesday. may obtain £60.000 Concol-, ited if it thould, by wham can the sale of each a Capital It , • expected with more confidence than by MD ? who has told in lose Lotteries more Copitab sham all the other o:Bee keeper% combined. 4. Corolla]. and 9, Charing-Cross. '.--- TEAS MUCH CHEAPER AND BETTER AT THE PRICE. L ONDON GENUINE TEA WAREHOUSE, No. 6. Ludgate-hill. 'Established for the Sale of TEAS. PURE and UNADUL. TERATED. as they arrive from China. The Rant India Composer's Quarterly Tea Sale being just traded. FREDERICK SPARROW avid Co. beg to iof..ren .Iteir F. irnAs and the Public. that they haeeseketed an ester. slokasoortsor at of the strongest and hest full•Savemred Teas that • have ham imported for some ‘etire. whirls they arerletrratined in sell upon the lowest Wholesale Terms. for Ready Moneys awaiting them Ayes of the present opportunity to recommend the following as the most useful and best at their price, viz.:— s. d. Good genuine Callow and Green (for - ensues purposes) 6 0 to 6 6 per lb. Fine strong Conroe. Breakfast Sou cbong, and fresh Glee* riot full armoured Souchoug and bright.leaf fresh Green . 0 0 8 0 Fine Hs-on lth. to 10s. 6d., superfine ditto every eurioisl Supertioe &whims. See Pekoe. Cape, and Padrae, the hitter in Chinese packages. sever opened, about pth each (same as another home charges 14s. per lb.) They request their Paned, to be particular in the direction. 'which is Na. 6. near the bottom of (Mote-hill. a few door. from Bridge.areet t as a party of Lottery People. who ran know bet little of the rent qualities and properties of Tea, have open ed a Shop in the same Street, in opposition. and are daily en glamouring (after the manner of Lottery Schemes, Palk and mamma vres) to deceive and mislead the unwary s the quality of their trash is saliciently known to those who have made a trial of it ; and, in reply to their repeated mailers attacks and vile insinuations Wage against as, we again pledge mar. selves to coatis's@ selling cheaper and better articles at the price than they do. Our knowledge and experience of the pro per qualities of Teas is far superior, our expeaers less in pro. ',onion, and we do not require 'tech earortaran mess as 100 PER CENT. AND UPWARDS! This day was published. la foolscap I2mo. price bs. Roan Twit, THE LITERARY POCKET-BOOK ; or, Com panion for the Lover of Nature and Art; for 1819. To Ise continued Annually. It is she object of this Publication, which is the first and only thing of the kind, furnish a Pocket and Memorandum book, fir intellectual observers and pmwle if tame. It con tains, among other matters of awful reference, Lists of the Living Writers, Artists, and Musicians of England, France, Italy, and Germany ; a newly-wrltten Calendar of Nature ; a 'Catalogue of Kinitient Persons. from the earliest times to the present; Trarbers of Languages, Teachers of biotic, Perform ers nt the Th. aim, Original Poetry, he. dte. Printed for C. and J. Oilier, Vere-street, Bood-street. AMERICA. • rrITE latest and most condensed ACCOUNT of AMERICA ; comprehending the Geography, Climate, Aineral`, Vegetables, Autmab, Re. of both Henti.phem ; its Political and Moral State and Divltions, and more particularly the Physical Capacity, Projects, Roads, Canals, Navy, Com ;nem*, Agriculture, leitautce. Government. nod Literature of the UNITED STATES, and the SPANISH sad BRITISH PROVINCES t together whit s simumarY View of the Un conquered Regions .mud Native Tribe.. sill be /mind in the Fourth Part of the ENCYCLOPAIMA M ETILOPOLI TAN A, just Isublishrd, price Ow Guinea in boards. Primed for Rest Fenner, Louden. FRENCH P4PERS. —.goo-- PARIS, Dicc. S. ROYAL ORDONNANCES. " LOUTS, tic.-:—The Sims.. Roy, Member of the Chamber of Deputie., is appointed Minister Secre tary of State for the Department of Finance. (Hy the King) " Dated Dee. 7, 1818. (Signed) " LOUIS. " The Minister of Foreign Affairs, (Signed) " RICHELIEU." " Louts, Rm.—Having accepted the resienatioo of the Count Corvette, whose state of health com• pelted him to tender it, and wishing to recompence the importart services which he has rendered to the State in the administration of the Finances, and to confer upon him a mark of our satisfaction, and of our particular esteem, 66 We havp ordered, and do order, as follows : " The Count Corvetto is appointed a Minister of State, and a Member of our Privy Council. " Dated Dec. 7, 1818." (Signed as above.) The King received, yesterday, several Military Officers. To-morrow, the eve of the opening of the Session .of the Chambers, the King, accompanied by the Princes and Princesses of the Royal Douse, will proceed to Notre Dame, to hear the Mass of the Moly Ghost. The Peers and Deputies will be pre sent. The Mass will be celebrated pontifically, by one of the Prelates of the Chamber of Peers. The Duchess de Bird, who dined on Saturday with the King, and afterwards went to the Opera Comic's., discovered. on arriving at the Theatre, that she had lost a bracelet of fine pearls, valued at 30,000 francs. Notice was immediately given to the principal jewellers of Paris. The first business which will occupy the Chamber of Deputies on the two days following the Royal Sitting will be, Ist, the verification of the powers of the newly-elected fifth. iltd, The foretieg by scrutiny s triple list, out of which his Majesty is to choose the President for the season. 3d, The nomination of four Vice-Presidents, and four Secretaries. Monday or Tuesday neat they will probably be occupied in preparing the Address to the King, in reply to the Speech from the Throne. Monsieur, and the Duke de Berri, hooted yester day, with the Dake of Wellington, km the environs of Versailles. Yesterday, before Mass, the King pre a private audience to Sir Charles Stuart, the English Ambas sador. M. Prim, Captain in the service of the Nether lands, has discovered beds containing very fine pearls in the little river Ouille, near Civet, on the frontiers of the two kingdoms of Prance and the Ne therlands. According to some papers which have been found en the sea-shore, it is understood that the ship which perished, with the crew and freight, on the 15th of November last, on the west of the Bay of Etapies, was MO English brig Betsy ; of London, Captain - • 'HE STATESMAN; Jobu Richards, of .186 tons. She bad idled from Yonghell, in Ireland, with a cogs Of oats, and was bound for London. The Adelleistration Of the Ma rine has saved whatever part of the wreck bar ease on shore. French Funds. Dec. 7.—Five per Cents. 68f. 20c. ; Bank Stock, 1,567 f. 80e. Munrcw, Nov. 29.—The Emperor aid - Empress of Austria will set oat from Amos to-morrow for Vienna. FRANETORT. DEC. 3.—The Prussian Minister, Baron de Humboldt, is expected here on the 6th inst. Lord Ciencarty will also arrive in a few days. Im mediately on the arrival of these Diplomatists, the conferences will commence, for the regulation of the details of various objects which have been discussed at the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle. The States of the Kingdom of Hanover were to open their Session on the Ist inst. Important changes will take place in the Hanoverian army. The crea tion of some new regiments of infantry and cavalry is spoken of. It is asserted, that the Provincial States of the Kingdom of Hanover will be henceforth convoked every three years. There is a rumour of delibera tions being on foot relative to a new Constitution. — The country of Spiegelberg (of which Coppenbregg is the capital) will be immediately given op to Hanover. FLORENCE, Nov. 25.—The Archduke latine of Hungary, arrived here yestetcla, pedal Highness proceeds immediately to Na pies. The General of Cavalry, Osman Aga, vice of the Viceroy of Egypt, has caused sorted in tee Journals the estrect of a ' from Alexandria, the 21st Oct. which intelligence of the captors by assault of Dervich, the capital of the Wechabites, by the troops ender the command of Ibrahim Pacha, son of the Viceroy of Egypt. This event, which was followed by the total defeat of the army of the Wechabites, and which en sures the tranquillity of Egypt, has caused the greatest joy at Cairo, where it bas been celebrated by a gee octal illumination. PRICE OF STOCKS TH Rank Stock 3 per Cent. Rol. 77iii 3 per Cent. JCntoals 91 per Cent. 8711 t.onsol• for Acc. 79jf 781 79 4 per Cent. 9141 IS I/AY AT ONE O'CLOCK • 5 per Cent. Navy India Ronde 80 S 2 SI Long Ann. 20k Exchequer Bills 17 20 16 p Omnium THE STATESMAN. LONDON: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1? 1818. The trials for Forgery are not yet, it seems, at en end. A dreadful series remain for juridical lens. ligation. Twelve more are announced to take place net week. These are the prisoners who hare been allowed, in the present Old Bailey Sessions, to plead guilty to the minor offence of having Forged Notes in their possession. We learn that a Memorial was yesterday presented to the Coed from twetve of these persons, now in prison, having been convicted, on their own pleading, of what has been called the minor offence (viz. that of having Forged Notes in their possession), requesting that they might be al. lowed to withdraw their several pleas, and to take their trial for the capital offence of uttering. They were told, it is said, that they would not be allowed to revoke their former plea, which subjects them to transportation, bat if they pleased they might take their trial for the capital offence, the indictment for which was abandoned on the part of the Bank. The prisoners, it is also said, are determined, on Monday neat, to pot themselves on their trial for the capital charge, notwithstanding the plea of guilty to the minor offence, which now stands recorded against them. The subject of these prosecution., and the evidence upon which Juries are called to sanction the sacrifice of human beings, to preserve the credit of the Bank, is one of such weighty and peculiar interest, that we doubt not we shalt yet be enured for dwelling upon it, and noticing the remarks which the come mon feeling lute produced. ID our Piper of nersdey, controvertible principles of - _ Odium, of Jams, as even over. Our Readers have seen have made, that even that Iv bubble, has at length seen the negated the system that has bs Oe Monday last all that bad prosecutions for Forgery, was erroneous in the opinion of the Courier: then our disapprobation oil the horrid system was said by this wise-acre to pro.l teed from principles subversive of all social order.-- On Thursday this same defender of the blood-ce mented paper fabric, chimes in with public opinion, and " condemns the misconduct of the Bank ! ! !" We said en Thursday,—" If a prisoner is foend :pilty, the judgment of the Jury must be right ; or they decide to find the accused guilty on a wrong judgment;"—end we explained these two species of judgments or verdicts thus:-" A right judgment implies, that the Jury know all the characteristic marks or evidences of a genuine Note of the Bank of England ; a wrong judgment implies, that without being acpalated with the mystic marks of a genuine ; fed the prisoner guilty of passing a Forged Now, the Courier says, " Whatever may private marks by which an Inspector aster. authenticity of a Note, still as the is confined to his own breast, and not communicated to the Jury, the 4 fea t convict upon supposition, not apes evideeee."-i—This is bat nybril - z.. we have said, in other words :—A judgment" is nojedgawat at all ; a " Verd supposition, and out •pon evidence,' / is without the proof of testimony, without the evidence of the senses ; mod implies either that the Jury were not at the trouble to satisfy their Weds as to the es tore and degrees of evidence, sero4lNrey decided by " an oracle instead of a Oits says the Courier.—" Au Inspector looks at the Note, and delivers an oracle hlstead of a fact ; and upon that oracle a human life is forfeited 1 . ! !" This is literally the troth, and speaks volumes, con sidering who the speakers are,—the hired Arals of the Government, the tools of the Bank, the apostles of corruption. But the " Devils believe and tram. ble"—aed the Courier, seeing hew Juries are now resolved to act, unsays all that it hitherto said, and holds up the Bank Inspector in the glimmering twi light of a Pagan Priest issuing 66 an oracle"—an equivocal speech, that may be, or that may not be, just as the parties interested in the event may he disposed to apply its mystic enigma. Yet it new turns out that " an oracle" from Threadneedle. street hitherto guided Juries, for so unquestionably Is the corollary which all men will draw from the reasoning of the Courier. We congratulate the Courier on its conversion to our opinions. The Bank will learn& useful lasso* from this sincerity on the part of its former supporter. It shows what re. Hance the system has to place on its hired retainers. We shall not presume to insult the common sense of the country by further pointing out what are the duties of Jurors; but we shall make some observa tions that necessarily result from the principles we have laid down. Let any one of our Readers suppose he is now one of a Jury in a case of prosecution for passing a Forged Note. He carefully attends to the indictment—he hears the evidence of witnesses, that the prisoner at the bar did pass off the note in goes tion, and he bears the Bank Inspector declare that the Note is a Forgery. Now the question be most pot to himself is very simple, and at the same time very appalling to an honest man. " Have I the firmest belief that this Note is a Forgery ?"—for every Juror must have the firmest belief on all parts of the evidence, before be can pronounce the accused guilty—that is to say, before he gives his judgment of guilty. Ile must not only hare the testimony of eye and ear-witnesses that the prisoner did pass the Note reported to be forged, but he must also have the evidence of his own senses also that the Note is actually a Forgery, else his verdict or judgment is unaccompanied (*kb that belief upon which his decision ought to rest. — Now, when 16 an oracle instead of • fact" is the foundation of his verdict, his judgment may be true, or it may be false. But as he has not the evidence of Ms own senses that the " oracle," or Bank In spector, utters an infallibility, the evidence before him is such as to leave room for doubt ; and as one judgment may be contradictory to another, and as it 'is impossible for a man to have, at the Caine lime, two judgments, which he perceives to be contradic tory, it follows, seeing it is impossible for him to judge both to be true at the same time, that he must pronounce the prisoner not guilty. For that there Is an inward tribunal of the mind of the Juror, cannot be doubted; and to this tribunal the whole evidence of a prisoner's guilt is submitted. --The mind, with regard to whatever is true or false, passes sentence, or determines upon the evi- dance before it ; but it can never be made upon the response of " an oracle instead of a fact ;" therefore, till a Jury shall have been put in possession of all the knowledge, of all the infallible marks upon which a right judgment should be grounded, their verdict is the verdict of credulity, mod not of reason. We do not here mean to impugn the verdicts of I former Juries, who doubtless acted conscientiously; but we mean boldly to assert that the Beek has had the law in its own hands too long; and we trust that the feelings of humanity will no longer be trifled witb by that Corporate Body. Note, they i? Joseph '5. P - of • e." N sy. o 11, prig • the I, la ledge ed to it is I letter, letter confirms the $ _ GERMAN PAPERS. SWITZERLAND, Noy. 28.—The collection made In the canton of Berne for the sufferers by the blonde. tion of the valley of Berne, mutants to 22,891 Swiss francs. Esciusive of 4000 francs previously granted by the Government of Berne to the unfortunate in habitants of that •alley, 10,000 francs have been contributed by the canton of Zurich. An Ordinance has been published in the canton of Neufchatel respecting hawkers and Jews, which for bids all hawking from house to house, unless on market days, and in places where a market is held, with the exception of some articles memory for agriculture and domestic use, not to be purchased in the shops. Itinerant tinkers, knik.grinders, basket makers, coblers, and the like, are not considered as hawkers. No Jew is permitted to settle in the city ; and the Jews actually established there must leave the Stale before the Ist May nett. SruroAao. DEC. I.—The Emperor of Russia still here. The day before yesterday his Majesty and the Grand Duke Michael attended Divine Ser vice in the morning, in the Greek Chapel. His Majesty afterwards went to Louisburg, to psf a visit to the Qeeen Dowager. FRANILVORT, Dec 3.—Prince Metternich arrived here to-day ; his Highness will make but • short stay. Count Hugo Philip D'Eltz, Magnet of Hungary, father of his Excellency Count Elta, Ambassador of Austria at the Court of Brazil, died at Coblentz some days ago, at the age of 77. • ••••••r' 37 . p to notice the power of truth and humanity to " d rew iron tears down PLUTO'S cheeks"), admits that e ar laws aught to he " purified from every remnant of those semi-barbarous times in which many of thee were enacted, and carefully assimilated with the M. perior knowledge and consequent civilization of those in which we live." The proceedings of the Com a " Council in reference to this subject, reported is ear Paper of yesterday, must mite a powerful sensation throughout the country The time is at length corm when the public mind is fully prepared to second with its whole impulse, the change so ling sought and now seen to htso urgently necessary. Tbat Perseverance and discussion have realty tended to this effect iv true bet the development of facts has been the principal means of producing so rapidly a conceutrs. lion of sentiment. Amidst the vast variety of arguments that hate bees adduced to prepare and to convince tke Pub.. lic mind upon this point, none have had so forcible an effect epee ourselves as the reflection, that the very sources of justice are stopped or diverted by the tarn of thinking which the severity of oar laws has originated and encouraged. Thus the judgonet to disterbed and relaxed to a degree that contemn& the exercise of mercy ; and this confusion is likely tabs tarried even to a more hoofsl excess, olden the law undergo the necessary alteration. The a y culpable indiffereace with which the Bank girded the prevention of Forgery, has Ter conduced of late to the present situation of the pub. lic miad—nor is the Administration exempt from bum is the prosecutions instituted for Libel with such extreme show of rigour. All these causes conjoined have, it cannot be overlooked, operated a great and sudden change in the decisions of the Courts. The maxim which *e are disposed to isolate as the basis of new enactments, is, that via. dictivo feeling ought to have no place in polish. merits, and that every species of iofli.tion ought to hate (be ref lust of the °Hensler hone for its ultimate object, none perhaps be carried to the extinction of hope or lite. Um: Omnipotent Being, 1 to wholl! we all owe our existence, •' ciesirens not the death of a sinner, but rather that ht. ateoy turn from his wickedness and live." If the attributes of our Creator be those we rake for our example, we bate too longcontradicted our faith tu our practice. 13ut we earnestly hope that the time is coating when the spirit of Tittle IMAGNANIMIII and the true prin.. doe a Christianity will transfuse itself into our Q•ide„ and into the exercise of those functions with Erich the law invests individuals. Our hopes of improvement are not, however, confined to the Penal System. The bulky &litotes of the realm mug soon be re-modelled and sim plified. Professional practice makes theory a thing of nought, and justice is now far oftener sought in the Courts than found there, while parties serkiag redress are often ruined, and the commonest (taus actions of life are poisoned by the perplexities of the law, and the legalised rapine of too wry of its practitioners. Every mati finds it to be so, and every man ought to raise his yoke against the castings.. of such public evils. Paris Papers to the 9th inst. have reached as.— The French Fonds have fallen again. The 5 per Cents. had ntoorrted en Saturday to 40c.; bet on konday they opened at 68f. 75c., fell daring the coarse of the day to 67f., and finally closed at 67f. 20c. Bank Stock has likewise eaperieaced a decline. They had risen very rapidly on Saturday, but on Monday they fell from 15761. to 15651. 50c. A long article is inserted in the 2doniteur, the object of which is to re.assere the public mind with regard to the state of the French &minces.— Whether it will have this effect we know not. hikes not, in our opioioo, very satisfactorily account for the late luctoations. On Wednesday, the eve of the opening of the two Chambers, the King, accompanied by the Princes sad Princesses of his (louse, ass to repair to Notre-Dame, to hear High Mass. The Peers of France and the Members of the Chamber of Depoties were also to be present. The first labour' with which the Chamber of Deputies will be occupied after the Royal sitting, or opening of the Chamber for the present Session, will be verifying the quali fications and returns of the new Members ; the forms. Lion, by scrutiny, of a triple list, out of which his Majesty will choose the President for the Session; and the nomination of four Vice-Presidents, and four Secretaries.--On Monday or Tuesday nest the Chamber will go in a Secret Coommittee to prepare an Address to the King in answer to his Speech from the Throne at the opening of the Session. The Speech from the Throne was looked for with extraordinary interest. The Moniteur, in two Rnyal Ordinances, officially announces the appointment of` the Sieve ROY, Member of the Chamber of Deputies, to be Minister Secretary of State for the Financial Department; and that the King has accepted the re signation of Count Cottyarro from the same office, which the state of his health obliged him to tender. At the same time his Majesty, wishing to confer on bim a mark of his satisfactioo and particular esteem, .%•• -Jhr -ILK:AAA i 7 " A . . '''" , . -Q .31 i . Sinkia% 4 . 0 ---- --- .. , . ---........ 41 we laid down seat 4 griv . n lrhat i . s tit yod ~ 4. .1414 common sense for the tote - ' Itlgetie g earnestly sl th e wish a the Courier comet get aer ' , 1 1 , ,e, a - Criminal ur .rodetie; of England men by the *studs we all • • 1 ~ -0 . 1 be grit 1 , -• . • el and barbarous prodigslity of he. resp ect , !or thy prop of the Bank The be a *la. ' o% I a .ns, I s e ker e beenligh t se of tongtr etb I p a w i c l i d ue d de : r w7t r b c'll a ch n ed irrats ad been said against the (nen blood. en the iron hearted Courier (we loos 0 101161 M. 'PI of his set ere SCCOM Verso' We Orlin Neufc •nd J bibile and d shops, chstel •ny s' to di' it by dons By Septe Were goes iMOII tweli hrs. feast' sessit were then ►hie The year niste the PRE pia war rapt COll men • tber stet any be c was tWC Oc the Pie 'fie g l 1( CI el ;-- ' Bat SE !on no his o'c to PI pin feu VII eh an Ni Bi nil sit Yi rii rii Ei o u