The Statesman. — London, England, 1810-06-22 00:00:00

• .. .. ~~_... .. w ... .-c tore that no potability of skotald be given by Mai. - penal, it might have been said', with some shoo , of reason, that he might have prevented it, lied the blood would have beep east upon him by the public voice. He acted too in pity to an iu. RoCent populace that might, without fault of theirs, be maimed, or hewn to pieces. Hu there. fore resolved on the course he took. He would have been glad to have communicated his intention to the Public, but that would have wholly defeated the object. Had it been known, Tower Wharf, and the River would have bees lined with persons, who, from zeal, would have car. rigid him by force to the procession. He had intimaf. ed his wish to retire from the Tower privately ; and the result of that intimation had sbewn him that I he could not accomplish his intention but through a profound silence and secrecy. The design, therefore, was known to no person breathing. Its success depended upon its being locked up in Sir FRANCIS BURDETT'S own breast ; and there it did remain till its completion. —Does this tale require comment, or its motives defence? No! it has a tongue to speak eloquently for itself I—and it will breathe into every humane breast a eonso. lation which no arts of the People's enemies can I hereafter rob it of—fur the humane will now know that Sir FRA RCM Be ItDETT is no disturber of the public peace, no inn bilious demagogue, willing to purchase popularity at the Country's cspeaco ; but that ho is one ready to sacrifice himself, the dearest part of himself, for the PUBLIC [OOD! —We challenge history to produce a brighter example of LOVE of the COUNTRY AT a late hour this day we received French and Dutch Papers, the former to the 14th,and the latter to the 17th instant, upon which we have neither lime nor space for comment. The following arc the principal Extracts, which will be found highly ill.] (cresting : '• CON%TANTI'MPLZ. APRIL 24.—The whole of thiscapital was thrown iota the g reatest consternation on the 31st of this month. A fire was nearly reducing to ashes the whole suburbs of rera. A third part has been contained by the tint-;. The hotel of the French was menaced with the mine fate. but saved by the care and actisity of the Kai macro'. The alarm was the greater, because new scenes of disorder were expected on the part of the Janissaries. This c o r p.; h a il a kw days before been guilty of such excesses. that the inhabitants were obliged to take up arms against theta. ill save their own liver. I'he Turkish government has taken part in this affair. lire Janissaries have been disarmed by the inhabitants; many of them have been strangled; and a Proclamation authorises the immediate killing of such as are guilty ofsimilar excesses. This measure has re-establish ed tranquillity. and although the fire, of which meutiun has , just hers made. may be attritsuted to the venseance of the JanisAtries. this corps tins, nesertheless, committed no fresh seditious inavearient whilst measures were taking for stop pi 9 c the pro g ress of the lire.-7-(Moniteatr, June b.) ROSSI:, Ma If 29.—The g reatest tranipollity isaitinties to raga in this tine town. The decrees for the suppression of the convents are carried iota execution. • The mark are ca tered with moalts returning mime. Only the canons of St, Ouvre de !tome and St. Jean de %taus are preserved. Fur some days past u crowd of curious people have repaired to the Basks of the Tiber. The radium mg is the cause:-- A wart from Africa has brought into these eland:Jed as lenseasemonber of locusts.-- —These insects, after 1 . 4 . (!-_ ingsievastated the country, and as (Mint Roll will is i t meat, devour each other. The weaker part ta ke re s anti throwing th e mselves into the Tiber, are ofees r the rantyaeal. The day before yesterday tido Aver was covered them. These inserts are black. Disr.tictizs were yesterday received from Sir JOUR STUART, in Sicily. They are sold to Rll. .1101111 Ce the complete success of the small force, that was seat ender the command of Brigadier.,Geoend OswALn, against the island of St. Manta, in the Adriatic. The principal fortress surrendered after' a vigorous bombardment and cannonade of nine days. The garrison, consisting of 714, were made prisoners of war. Our loss amounted to one fold °Seer (Major OLARKT, of the 35th regiment) kid. led, together with a subaltern, and 2e rank and file. There were two fiord-officers, seven captains, two subalterns, and about 120 rank and file wound. ed. The Paris papers of the loth of May men. dotted the surrender of St. hlaura, but qualified it by stating that it was a post of III) consequence ; and that Corfu was in perfect safety. We have received Dutch papers to the 17st inst. An article from Lyons contains some vary interest. ing information respecting the state of the war in Catalonia. Notwithstanding the numerous and sanguinary victories the French have obtained in that province, their opponents appear as active and unsubthsed as ever. AURLREAU, • who was to have overrun Catalonia in a month, is recalled from the command of the army in that quarter, and is' to be succeeded. by BiACtsoat.e, from whom, of course, great things are expected. Bar. cetuna is said to have lately received considerable sopplics of provisions by sea, during the' absence of the British squadron, in consequence of some damages sustained in a gale of wind. It is ac. i knewledged that it was in very great distress at I one period. A Mitt, from Cadiz and Gibraltar arrived yet.. tcrday. Tho Spaiish papers ) which are to the Ist inst. announce the establishment of the Regency of Cadiz ; and repeat the rumour of the total defeat of SERASTIANI, and his subs e q uent retreat to Granada with 2060'mee, where he wei obliged to , surrender to the Spanish General rating. This favourable intelligence had reached Cadiz io form so vague and unautisesatieehat we are fear. ful of plating mach confaleasit It Is t how, 'ever, corroborated in some *goes; by a Tapes* te. the same elect received' some days ap froa the French coast. , particulars . 'pectins the reported defeat Of SaaAsTialu. It appears from theta that General Fauna,. being apprised of the numbers and Polititith of the French atmy, embarked at Carthagcna about 8;066 men, the remnant of Ilcane's eraty, who :re're iinded not far from Malaga, and soon after appeared in the rear of the enemy. A strong irregular force, during this operation, attracted the attention of the latter, who being thus taken between two fires, were defeated in the manner described. These circumstances, if correctly stated, are suf. ficicut to account for the total destruction of SMASTIA Nes corps, which, we believe, never ex. coaled 10,000 men. Two prison.ships had been lately drivers on shore on that side of the bay of Cadiz occupied by the French. The prisoners on board one of these; amounting to several hundreds, escaped on Aare. The other prison.ship, being in imminent danger, as a heavy sea watt breaking over her, assistance was sent to her from the British squadron. In. stead, however, of gratefully acknowledging and accepting these offices of humanity, the French. men, who bed by this time obtalaed complete; pos. session of the vessel, fired upon the English boats, kilted ninettxtit of the crews, mod wounded several. heavy fire was, in consequence, opened on the prison.ship, by which nearly 900 of the refrac. tory were killed end wounded. Spanish ship of the line, with a considerable quantity of dollars oei board, also ran . ashore about the same time. This disaster, however, is Ascribed rather to treachery than accident or neg ligence. The vessel was fortunately got off by the exertions of the Bridals *MUM The Spanish Captain had (Aka under strong suspicion, and was to be tried by a Court.martial. We beg leave to call theattention of our !Leaders to the apirited Piticcedings of the Meeting of the Staffordshire Potters, which will be found in a sub. ocquent column. A letter from the Head.quarters of the British army in Portugal, written by ass ()thee, of rank, and dated the 30th ult.. mentions, that there had been no movement of any consequence, either by the allies or the enemy ; and, contrary- to what has been stated; that no battle was immediately expected. It has been represented, and perhaps correctly, that on an extended plain, where the French are capable of bringing a large army at once into action, their titmice give theta a snipe. riority or which almost the whole of the Cunt.n uti has experieoced the petnicious connetinences.— The ground now occupied by the hostile armies on the shores of the Cos and Armin, partaking of the most lofty mountainous character known in 'Europe, does not afferdto the-teensy 1114••• &dean. tageous opportunities of which he is supposed to be sotepablo of availing himself, and it is not ita. probable that he will defer. advancing until he have sash a considerable excess of numbers as to leave so doubt of the result of a conflict. The prohibition of the export of corn from' France Is (tither confirmed by letters received from thence yesterday. This is not, as we had at first reason to believe, a measure adopted from a spirit of hostility to this country, but one arising, out of absolute necessity- France, it appears, is not so plentifully 'applied with train as to be able to afford the immense exportation of that article she has lately been in the habit of making. Her stuck is said to be barely sufficient for her own consumption. The prohibitiuir is not solely re. ',tided to exports to this country, but extends to Holland, and all places north of the Rhine and Meese. A remarkable circumstance occurred yesterday in the Hoene of Leeds. The Marquis .%Vet.LcS. LET sat as one of his Mijewty's COmmissioners for notifying the Royal Assam' to the remaining Bills, but his Lordship's name was not meistiotsed in the Commission. The Noble Marquis was, however, named in the second Commission fur proroguing the Parliament. There was a report yesterday that a vessel had Rained from Ostend, confirming the rumours brought from Dieppe, of a battle having been fought between the British and French, iw_which the latter wero defested.--The latter adds, that the battle was fought on the 3(1.—N0 such Intel.' ligen ce,bow ever, has been received byGovervieeent. Yesterday afternoon, the Queen's Royal Vat. !sateen tooMesol M. Slosee.settere, the Hari of Backiugharashire at their bead, from whence they 'prOcreded to the Queen's House, where they re• grained all night with a detachment of the 16th regiment of Light Dragoons. Amongst the various Modem which the people have adopted of testifying their approbation cl ef him whom they justly reiprd as the champion of their coastitutional rights, is that . et giving his ,aame to their children. The" Sunday after Mr 'Faancts war natio the Tower, by a tome( the now of Commons, a child was christened by tW alias Of Faa acts Ba tten', is GOO of the churches ,of Dinfermline. The wardrobe of the chikt i honoured by su Bioetrioes a Wage, be" since k o ok increased by piolollll hem tetmst *arts of the country. - ' on the 11th lastest, dtelionteriet &Omega players so anted the stage at From egbittst ell Ragland. After as interval of an boar s a Wilt. shire sae ascended, and woo a head ; •foormem , mph afterwards awarded oe the side of SomaeMit,, :iionhaving bees gained by playlet& sad the 's.. maislag seven being mouppesed..Tuesdar the p r ho r ens avranied to the Semenet ems, without ~colitetteiw.--A pone of ten guises was after. wards waked for sties of Wilts to est minttof gust; bet no Wiltshire nag appeals& the St gemestem &poi lOW !wort tatiwashamf • . , . I slit witi.ticis.iugoart. • ea 7. (StatrOrd.4V " re).7 :me it. AT a Mafia/ the neigtibOuntOod at iargo' • ; I help parsltant to Pub s. iStOtiee,:i:t too erg. sideiatictit " the itr7tir l ietY :or io „:, • 1 . FItASCIS llonnETT, part." " • --- • • . 4 . . • • I. ' • ^. „ akfß. b.titKEtt Mika to the Cwatit. • Mr. J. H. Su Litt nig ruse to proisdio yhip • 1 Addreits to 4tit FttANcis ne s intri. ThoditisiVoi his argument we consider unnecessary to erptain•—.• :Ace it to say, the luminUiti 4avi: the prOpriety of the Addresi; and necessity of a Reform in P:arliarnent, edly cheered by the Meeting. Mr. JACiso* ruse and seconded the Adareeee of meeting his must hearty cotteurreite. No oppositioi ippearin to the measure, it watt Resolved taimousty; That the 4,d(tren. signe-1 tk . gentlemen of the Meeting. be trinunittril to W Ito r; and respectfully . In request that he will rem i t it to sir • Fit asetsßottsitor. • • • That the Thank o f tie Meeting be even to Mr. 1141 mm; 6i his cenwisten't Cuoduct II the Chair. EirAiCS. , , . : • ADDRESS . •,. .. .. TO Slit FRANCIS BURDETT. Saar: . . • ~., Ste —The present Adept. I fic . co ,i i ii r .i. o se m ik e owl*, have sekau ist dakurcaf .the rights and listerties of .the sub. jert, and the positive neeeAity or a REFORM*. IN, esti. *LI A:11 ENT. are subjects too aroogly impressed Awe our ntiod to surer us to retoldn any leapt silent. We therefore beg leave most respectfully to address yem_(poi_. " a oo_4l Corporatos-to such title we have at prima so emus). bog • under what, we mat; will not be km acceptable, Inanselxi that of a May of nterchions. tommfacturers froeludders , and inhabitants, of a populous and iecteralag neighbourhood; We sympathise mast blacently in the privations end Simi. venienrees you may isavabeeu subjected to, by the etlidminat to the Tower, and feel a lively same of the iedialty offered you, fur year manly :and meritorious condnetTits nessial .. the illegality of the commitment of Mr. MIA J °gas. commit but congratulate you oa the progress twat is mak it iz throughout the Country, towards a recurrence of the or principles. of the Counituti sssss fur the attnindeut of w ice you have•borne so distinguished a part ; and we entreat yod to pert:o,w iu the samelummureble coaise. einalldent• as we are. that by such perseverance, greater nsischiets to Ilse Cow try may be moiled. From the Ifoose - of Commons we have little to expert, at present, in the furtherance or your endesivotrn, and the Ks. tend wishes of the people, nuclei the Maumee of the pt:rieut Ministry. We therefore concur With you in (he necessity of • loudly, bat legally 'awl cts6tilatioually, expressing ihir redti merits. in common with our countrymen, which,. WWI do ens premed, we f....t1 must have its salutary errs: ou the admit/iv . tration of the affairs of o.llw:totem lu future. . . The population of our neighbourhood coatis% of ainfdt td thousand inhabitants, hitherto unaccustomed to midcle in the politics of the conotry:; but uatli•r .She pre eut ciretvostauect of the limes, we cannot refrain from this mark of our duty . and regard to you. Actuated with these sesoiesents, we nu: treat you to persevere by all laudable add constitutional e;.... dmvuars, 'firmly convinced they cannot foil of uhimatsl, restoriag to Englistunca the full eljoyntent of the Anti* GuaStitution. . ll e hag respectfully to subjoin our names, With every mark of gratitude and esteem, Your obliged, humble Servants; Richard Barker Richard Walla:do , John Hewitt Sam. Hughes Fro. Evans Chas. Harvey ~ J. H. Sheridan • Tang. *We, J. H. IValltlate . John Dawson Geo. Watson - William Radar, Jus. Booth Thomas Rowley Times Dresser —v.. -. .John aster . • Nath. Jackson • . Joseph Myatt • Thos. Hood . John Bridgesrosa • Richard Woolley Titus. alia* • Richard Carr Win. Austin. Lane-End (Staffordshire) Potteries, Jape 12,11110, , ANSWER OF SIR FRANCIS BURDEN', Tear!, issue Ili MO. GINTLININ 8.--Th=r•batios of nay poetise sir toy conooryeues, whim by a faithful d Water:a duty to my esonstrs da r s =i Entity* 50 .lny ream& 1 can aware yew, yostrawproatuios, as en is the madras mewled vas x Calmat Wanes% lisattba him um:teak as access! of ilt at= tram a Body Crporate, bin fro. a rnr m of Id . Icaustacho Vr m t - iboicent, and labo et aey- makes weighliser. boa" Weed it is high these des Englisilwesf oilmen dererips ' ties Amid skew that they. sake an bassest is the eritimi sitiatioa of their enualry l , sint join with sae woke la .de• culledos"! reams, Mt lea gagedirl OM IWO iltrl Us srali l lf or temperately,_ bat firmly and senefully, lIIMIt hawse irresistibk, peaceable, awl sate., - Thaelly acceptable mien I axe links yes, Geadasea, *WM bower you bare done m ul ls l e e s =ady • with year snap Duv a l Ore iny r Z l ontry i .led la that /ary l = . y: mu& Representative of the People, ant t. y the ambling& arectioosto cooked et my ow, sip cuts towards sae $ and. saorewser, Oat L never will sis 'my Rodeareers se obtain, by aril eastitatioaal *id .1101 ems., the Resteratios of the wicket Lon and Mat* 14 ini oiwatO. , • i I remold, Geotiewea, :. . Tourer:it obedient Nina& URDS llevkikets FRANCIS BTE. ~ . To the Modality Sleodfeentrers, Freeholders, • aid Inhabitants ot . Liose-Ead, Staffordshire. s • On Friday list a cabin on the road side, Neat Airihrint, Ireland, .took fire, and was coosumed t SON, when, amianchoiy to states a pour rid. alb s nursed Mary Manion, and three children, who liy ill of a violent fever, were barn& to death. --An 'inquest was hull en the - bodies of the dee xesised, before D. M'Nevits, Esq. Verdict—. . iicchlitittai Death. A fourth child,• belonging to . •this unfortunate woman, was the only person of bee family who escaped, to relate the calamitous event-to the Coroner and J ury. . A scene, most shocking to human i ty, eau wit. .nested on Wednesday evening nosaitzroy.sqoue. - A poor woman,- actually in labour, and attended . by her midwife, eau delivered of a ehild et the dour of a Poor-house, to which she in vain re. quested admittance. A crowd was naturally col. • Wad, and the utmost indignation was expressed at the brutal indifference shewn by the officers of • the Poor.hoese ; fur while the poor creature wan • labouring in agony, they remained inexorable. . The infant perished during this Inhuman scen— es length the people broke ,aped the doer of the house, and carried the unhappy ,mottisir lotto one of the wards. Wo trust this the (WNW, wilt feel it to be his dirty to waken rigorism inquire, . . I is this disgraceful proceeding._ . - ',. Coex-EicsAxes, lux* 41.--Wheat this dal • , , Is spin in coosiderable supply, alai foreign ; nosed and inferior sales thereof buoy, bat Finis ' , keeps its price. Barley and Illialt'sary bet little. .Very few Pais toad Bann of the two kinds. New . Ticts 42% to 4$ per tarter. Oats are in short supply, and, being in demand,this trade is win rated rather dearer. Flout *Moot alteratioe. .1 •• ; , . • - ?2,` , A - ' . , - :3 . ‘ . ~ ~.t { • . 1 ;et . , 4 '..a‘ • . ' • • ~ , • . - • •. . . the sheddfas et bitiod, the let s tfri frosi s 'eadii coma to the iNEEDEVO OF -SZ49l4lllbSiil a .f accident had hap lisiant. they cOmmaaieite partiettiars re. J , • . • •• k ' i ' n ADinkEss SIR vititicis We have to apologise to Y. O. fl. so lf/i?e; far ant actoole7 !edging the receipt of his able Letter, dated the 18th olt. relating to Mr. Possomsv's Speech on the Privileges of Parliament : bat it was by home accident mislaid. It shall. however, appear early iu next week 1 and Ids fur ther Communications will be ebtretned.—The Paettgroph relating to the Child being christened Faxsicts Ilustoset, appears io this day's Paper. We have this Day received a Second Letter lions OSCAR, addressed to the Right Hon. S. IPLRcir •1., which shall appear to-morrow. The concluding Letter, No. V, of Dr. Mriatits, will also appear to-morrow. Ara i welt. alllob. Due. 1 0 ... 0 0 Liouni 1 PRICE OF PICKS EMI Bonk Stock 2634 S per Cent. COOS. S per Cent. Reonced, 691 70 4 per Cent. ii 544 5 per Cent. Navy Cows)ls for Act. 7111 AT ONI E O'CLOCK. i o nic. Ana. 184 9.16 In.li.t Stock main Ilona, 181. 19s. pr. C‘ta. Bilk Ss. is. pr. Ditto, Sid. Okinawa 1 pr. I'HE STATESMAN. LONDON: PRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1810. Titi Mends of the People and of Reform ex. pected a triumph yesterday ; and they have found vile, more complete than wit could hare devised, an I wore effective, for the purposes of the triumph, than any deliberate comhinalioa of powers could have produced. This they have derived from the correct and elevated mind of that man, whose liberation from prison they were eager to grace and celebrate with their presence. The great difficulty to the progress of the cause of Reform lay in one narrow point. The movers Ind abettors of corruption and abuses, daily mai such of their oWn friends as did not par. ticipatc in the gain of corruption deserting them, in multitudes. The honest of every rank, and of every political opinion, were be coming weary Of the oppression they en. (lured, and angry at the sufferings of the poorer sort of their felloW-subjcets. 'the orraassous, to put a stop to this evil ) could take but one. course. They bail nu scheme loft but to lira the public incipient impatience under sufferings, into tener of sotnc intaginary mischief of still greater magnitude. • This had been tried with success by a former Minister, and the present Ministers thought it might do again. The truth is, there is such an aversion in the English People to pehlic cone fusion (and this is * feature much to their ho. Dour), that it has Out been difficult fur tolerate ed men to deceive and mislaid the people in the way we have stated. Nothing but the nature of this fact could solve the surprising phenomenon that Sir FRANCIS Bllnbefr should cirer, for one moment, have been suspected of entertaining any designs but those which be professed, and which certainly *ere the only designs consistent with his rank and interests in society. It is well known that public papers, and public speakers were hired to calumniate Sir Fas,Nets l and. it is to be confessed, that with some limiest men the plan was, once more, a little successful. sir F. iltatinrr hat set all this right. No calumny can hereafter touch him ; .no base tongue Wilt Ite.rdaftct be bold or silly enough to utter its wontals but ao* exploded, tales contenting him. 'this Sir FHA NO! owes to himself, and to himself alone. That dear mind, and that elevated temper, *hid 114 well distinguish him, have led him, on the Whet: to mist eminent occasion of his life, into a course which catirtot be rhivunderstood, into cannot be sta 'wended--into a course in which the voice srepree, of truth will proclaim—Sir FRANCIS BUROLTT sacrifices himself fur the rutitac GOOD ; lie puts even all his fame and popularity to the hazard for the poetic ereerer People are nut to be told, that Sir FRANCIS BURDETT did nut only hazard all his popularity, but actually did offend them grievously. It is t►ue, ►hu more they .feel that truth, the more must they revere ftim, when they know the fact, which they do al. ready in part, that his !etre for bia Coltotry, his respect for the Laws, and his revoke not to give a possible opportunity for the SHEDDING ofeLoon, were the reaeuns fur incurring their displeasure.— ', It is true, they 'mill love hint the mote, when they find that, dear as the Peorx,s's lore is to him, he.' will hazard the loss of it , when called upon to do so,. in the discharge of a great day, a n CTY Penn/10M ON TIMM. BIWA LI. Bet Sir FRAN did incur the hazard, and perhaps no man who has drunk s• deeply of the sweets of popularity as he has dunei ever before voluntarily incurred such hazard, merely on public ground, and fur the public wet. fare.... The history of this transaction is must in. teresting, in all the parts that concern Sir FRANCIS &nett!. It was no sudden thought he acted upon, in retiring privately. frum the Tower. The act was the result of a deliberate view of the whole of the subject, and a conviction that it was best for the !PUBLIC cAess, whatever it might be to his personal interests. Ile knew there were persons base enougl► to lay upon him the blood that was abed on his being brought to the Tower; and this had the effect, in some pee, of injuring the public cause, in disgracing his character and attain*. Ile resolved, there. M= • I I