The Statesman. — London, England, 1810-05-03 00:00:00

PTrw'!Pri`! l •:' - . FRIINCII dap 1.) . 11=11 PAP.SII*. rafts, APatr. t5.-srsThe Senate held' its sitting entraordiaary yesteedayi under the presidency -of the Arch Chancellor.,..A. Senatas Consultant was adopted relatiaaloitusticurporation of a part of Hollawsl i witli:4,lsorseech empire. . Maishidliasseua,Duke of 11404 and Prince of £sling, is going,. it is said,. to take the chief cominassd . d.the Army of •Portegal, consisting of the coros,of the peke of Elchingen, the Duke of A brantiss,....aud Genera . % 11.04nier. - The 111inister of Marine set off yesterday . for Antwerp... It. appears certain that their Majes. tics intend to visit that. .city, and that they will cnotmence their journey from .Compeigne on Fri. day morning. They vi .be accompanied by their Excdtencies the Duke of Bassets°, Secretary of State, Count Montativet, Minister of the Interior; and th.! Doke of Cad Orr,, Minister fur Foreign Affairs. They will return to Paris on or before the 15th of May. Their Imperial Highnesses the Viceroy and Vice-queen of Italy have been, these several days past, in Paris. According to the latest advises from Spain, Ge neral Sebastiatii was at Malaga - on the Ist inst. to gether with his head quarters. The greatest trail. prevailed there. Letters from Ancona state, that a great number of French Officers of distinction had passed throo4ll that place, who were proceeding with .all expedition, for Naples. The American corvette the Jobs Adams sailed from Havre on the 21st. The 6000 marriages of soldiers ordered to take place here in commemoration of that of his jesty the Emperor and King, were celebeated yes. terday in the various parish churches and chapels. Aram 20.—Her Imperial Highness the Prin. cess Borghese has returned from Compeigne . ta Paris. , Their Majesties the. King and Queen of West. phalia are making preparations for their cairn to their states. . . • . His Royal flightless 401Tereditary Grand Duke of Baden passed through Strasburgh oa.tho 20th, ou his way to Paris. . Their Imperial Majesties, on their Way s to An. twerp, will take a view_ of thi Canal . .of St. Qviens tin. The Doke of ltovigo left Ctustoeigninnilip !2`2(1, for Antwerp, to make prepatatiena l , in etan tort with the Prefect, for their isicenithadatiOn. The most splendid fetes. are to take place, 'in it style suited to the maritime Situetion of thncity, and the object of the Entoress's"visit. - An article from. Baps . ine.of the folls it itaut, says:—" The Madrid Gdzatc of the 13th oon. bins advises from Grenetla; dated .the• 28th' of March. The greatest tranquillity now prevails in that kingdom, which was so recently a prey fa disturbances, and torn by, different faction*. The' inhabitants, undeceived, think only of-henceforth living peaceably under the paternal goveransont of the King. His Catholic Majesty still reniained Grenada - on the 24!h ofs March,: where 'he issued a decree, abolishing, in Confirmity to the Con. stitutiun, the exclusive privileges and personal rights established by the. ancient Kings' . of Spain." The marriage of the Princess of Leven, niece to the Grand Duke of Frankfurt, with M. Timelier de la Paget* created a Duke by the Emperor, is shortly expected to take place, according to the Frankfort journals. It was further rumoured, that M. Tischer had been actually appointed Go ! enter of Frankfort. M. Dubois Thainville, French Charge d'Af faires at Algiers, has arrived at Marseilles in an Ismerican flag of truce, which left Algiers on the Ist instant. . The importation of German leather into e States pf the Church is prohibited ; and aniithat of France and Italy will for the future be admit. ted. A splendid monument of marble is to be erect ed on the spot where the EMpress•took leave of her Austrian escort, and was consigned to the hands of Frenchmen. An inscription, in letters of gold, will transmit to posterity th) epoch of that memorable event. An article from 'Allele mentions that the Dutch merchants are making great purchases of cotton there, in consequeuce of a rumour that it will be subjected to an impost in Holland after the Ist of nest, month. Gen. Grenier left Bologna on the 13th.inst. to take a command in the army of Naples. • • An artiste from Munkeh of the Mb says, that - Gen. II • nay d'Hilliers had been recalled frJm his commend in the Tyrol, , having received another destination of great importance. It was supposed that he wasgoing to . Napies. A tenor front Plosays, that a broad and hind. some road is forthwith to be opened across the Py renees, to "estdblistt 6 c'emnsanication between the department of the Lower Pyrenees and Navarre. Oiders.haveteen received at- Orleans to pro. pare-accommodations and rations for a diaitlims of light cavalry and' three divisions of infantry. • AGRAM ) MARCH 23.4—The following is said to be the occasion of the hoktilities that have taken place on the frontiers of Croatia. Pursuant to ancient treaties, the Porte, ought to -have ceded to Austria some fortresses, castles,- and districts bn the frontiers of Croatia ; but this stipulation had not been carried into execution. This part of Croatia having been ceded to-France by the Treaty of Vienna, the French Government enfoceed :its rights to the places in . q uestion, and 'demanded 'the cession of them onthrpa,rt of the Porte. The French end allied troops stationed. at Cux haven, and the moelli‘a haft been'ret-' inforeed. • . VIENNA, APRIL 12..7".4.general regulation is talkeil.Of, in consequence .of. vslah soffee,*ill be entirely prohibited in the Austrian States. it . can only be imported, in that ease,- ,by spcciallli cencos, in the same manner as other.commoditim brought from foreign countries. „As to sugar, Ito new regulation has been adopted, because that article is indispensably imposery in pharmacyt V‘NICE,' 40. 77 -rreparations arc soak. ing to our grand marine arsenal 'for the construc tion of a certain number of ships of the lino and frigates. An immense quantity of ship timber has I L lad& _ ":"'""7"10^ arrived here lately .- by . sea s front Dalmatia,..and more Cargoes arerxpected,..the'English having to tally withdrawn from this pert of the Adriatic. The Russian brigs and cutters here, that were lately ceded to France, are fitting out with the at most activity. • NAPLFS, 114-•••• A deem has j u st beett: issued by his Mijesey,onlering that svgat, coffee, cocoa, and other articles, supposed to be English merchandize, and being prize goods, in future be. entered for home consumption in his dominions, on paying a duty of 40 per cent. ad valorem. • Cotton cloth and muslins arc excepted from this regulation, unless proved to be of French or Ita lian manufacture. TIEIthIA.NSTADT, ALsncu 26.—1 t is asserted, .that Mr. Adair, the gnglish Ambassador to the , Sublime Porte, applied for permission to attend all the political deliberations of the Diva n ; but thattlic Grand Seigyior garc him a positive re 'cal. fusel. in the various skirmishes the Turks have had with the combined Russian and Servian army, they gain patter to the few Russian soldiers who fell into their hands, hut had no mercy on the Servians. They regard the latter as their former subjects, and consequently treat them as rebels. Tney impale or behead them, accompanying this barbarous operation with the most flitter irony. MI that has been heretofore related of the milita. ry ferocity of thegurks is nothing in comparison to the , raanur In which they treated.a detach ment of the scrviaas which they had cut off from their main body. - Those of the Servians who chance to be made prisoners, seem astonished that they are suffered to live, and much more that any at. -ode should be paid to their wounds. tention._ _ The military organization of the Ottoman army seems to be as bad as ever. It was rumoured that the Grand Seignior intended to take the command of his grand army in person ; but, a few days Slime, he had not yet set of from Constantinople. ge',4tas but a' poor opinion of his troops, and seems little inclined to expose his person to the hazard of a battle. The army is almost totally destitute of field artillery, ball, and a number of the most necessary articles. Letters from Malta state, that a numbetnlFt4 'fish Officers bad gone to Constantinople to obtain the Grand Seiga,inespertnission to serve with the Turkish troops.. r . Itaxorca..,,AVast. 12.—The Gazette-. of tail city has appeared this day, for the first time, With the arms of Westphalia. The extraordinary war contribution has been continued for the months of April, May, and June. There are still in the Hanoverian territory six regiments of French cavalry. As the act of cession to the Crown of Westplia. lia of this country, reserves'eely at the disposal of France a tract coutai . ning a population of 15,000 souls, and as the duchy of Lauenburgli contains 40,000, it is alleged that a part of the revenues proportioned to this dilfereuce will be paid into the Treasury at Cassel. Beitx.ts, APRIL 10.—The relations betweeo our Court and that of the Thuillcries are still of the most amicable complexion. Time, it is said, has been granted for discharging the arrears of the contributions ' but our Court is taking measur es for their immediate payment. According to the last accounts from Breslau, there have been frequent disturbances in the rie. atre there. They were occasioned by young Offi. cers who, perhaps conceiving themselves to be living in the year 1806, thought that they might indulge in rioting with impunity. They have been put under arrest, and will be severely punished. There has been apprehended here a M. P. As.. cher, a literary Jew, and author of some well. known productions, who has taken the liberty of writing some severe strictures against the Superior Authorities of the State. Their Majesties set off this morning for Pots dam, to remain there during the reviews, which will continue six weeks. Their Majesties will not proceed to Silesia until the reviews are com. pletely over. They .will pass the summer alter.. nattily at Charlottenburgb and Perez. lIAMBIAGiI, APRIL 17.--.OUr city has been compelled to abandon the idea of giving an enter tainment during the three Easter holidays, be,. cause, upon M. Rainville * s plan, it would have cost at least 100,000 marks, a sum considered ex orbitant ender existing circumstances. What the festivities will be that are to take place in honour of the marriage of his Majesty the Emperor of France, is not yet known. It is rumoured, that all the French troops now in Holland, are to be marched here to attend the solemnity. - We learn that orders have been received at Got. tenburgh from Stockholm, to erect batteries along the cotist, and particularly to put that port in the best state of defesice. Similar orders have been seat to Carlscrona. It is alledged that the English, *who mere hourly expected at Gotten. biirgh and in the Baltic, have received instructions io obtain pneaseian of one .or other of the above ports, and also of the' Swedish fleet. They are Nether expected to make an attempt to occupy one Of the larger Danish Wands ; as s naval sta . don for, the. protection of their trade to the Baltic. Information his beeu receitedletbat notwithstand ' tog the rigid proicriPtion of ,commerce along the -coast of lkat sea; 'the. English still flatter them. selves that they shall be Ole to carry on some de gree of traffic,„ and that a great 'number of mer. chantrnitiwre actually. equipping for that desti -SUOMI. • The most rigid regulations are enforced at the gates of this city, to prevent the clandestine im portation of colonial merchandise (rein Altona. A. part of the French troops destined, accord. ing to the late treaty, to in Holland, will occupy the coasts of the department of East Friczeland and the mouth Of the Ems. The French cordon will thence extend along the coast of the, former circle of Westphalia, as 'far as the mouth of the,Weser., Ait these triopS will he under the comifiend of Marshal Quditiot, the 'Duke of Reggio. t• ROTTERPAA) A,PIUL 28.—From Hiortine, un der date of the llth inst. we leirri, ihat four 1:lan. ish gun-boats, under the cominatild of Lieutenant Schibstecr, bad captured the Eue,lish. gun-boat • . . f: - .; •_ itatinat;dist slitholt, andirbie l atii already tab_ siihOressels. From 'the polic we are farther in: forttufB; that stoutish brig of war hid varriedinto. Norwitytivo 'English vessels, laden with spits aud• wheat. C..4' •On the 19th, there *as semi fighting t it . 4 Inslar:Rig, between an English frigate and some it s w fader vessels on the one side, and* detac hment d ! the 9th Dutch regiment on the other , in . co ne' quence of the enemy's attempting to bring off the. Cuckoo, which went on shore there. On this oc- elision, Lieut. Boma, and a grenadier of the 9th regiment, were wounded. The Lieutenant died et' his wound a few hours after. The ship was set rots fire. The Dutch privateer the Snell Jager, captured . on the 21st, and has brought into the Vlie, the Vrow Anna, 3. H. Lange, Master, from Moga. lure for Groningen. The brow - Margaretha, from Eahrsunil, fur Harlingen, has been cap tured by tie same privateer, and carried into Ters chelling. The French privateer St. J. Baptiste, carried into the Vlie, on the 21st, the Vrow Catharine, I. A. • Biship, Master, from London for Gronin gen, in ballast. She was captured six miles S.W. of Terschelling. Carried into Dunkirk, by the Ohservateur French privateer, an Ainericais vessel, laden with cotton; tobacco, &c. ; and by the Vigilant French privateer two brigs from England for Sweden, with salt, ' - t...---.., The ship Favourite, Captain FREEMAN, from Sierra Leone, bound to Loudon, which arrived last week in the Channel, is laden With a valuable cargo of ivory, gum, canewood, &c. She sailed Word Sierra Leone six weeks since, and brings no particular news. Mr. DOUGLAS, charged with dispatches for Governmeet, came passenger in her. Ile brought home two enormous snakes ; they are so gentle and harmless that a child may handle them without the" least danger ; they are. daily fed with rite ; one of them is about seven feet in length, and the thickness of a utait's kg, the other not enite so large. Last Sunday night Hampton House, the scat of Vice-Adniiial 'Sir E. Pellew, Bart. was broken open, an robbed of about 3001.'1 worth of plate, among-whicb, there was an elegant silver salver, value 100 guineas, Presented to him by the Pa. triotic Fund at Lloyd's, in compliment to his ta. king La Cleopatre, in the year 1794. The - thieves left the erhpty plate-chest in the garden, and all the articles that were plated on the grass plot. Sir E. Pellew has offered 100 guineas reward. Last week, at liblyhead, as one of the Express boats - was preparing for sea, in weighing the an chor, the handspike broke, by which a seaman who was using it was struck in the temple, and knocked overboard. lie was instantly taken up, but his life was gone. OnThursday last, Robert Dykes was dro w ned in the river Dee, below Abergeldie, in attempting to bring from Ballochbuie a raft of timber down the river, in company with one Shaw,. a • floater from the river Spey. The raft was broken upon the rocks in the river, and carded down in single trees by the stream. Shaw was saved with great difficulty. The body of the unfortunate Dykes was afterwards fourid nearly four miles below the place where the fatil accident happened, earl was decently interred in the church-yard of Glen. muick. It having been stated in several of the Papers of the 26th ult. that Joseph, the porter at the Sara. een's-head Inn, was concerned in stealing some goods, it is but justice to that person to say, that the statement is utterly void of foundation. On Tuesday, as a man belonging to Justice Hall, in the 'Old Bailey, was passing through the Temple, he observed a woman whom he knew to' be shad character, With a child about three of . four years of age.. She appeared to be enticing 1 the child away with her, which induced him to„ watch her.. He heard her promisethe child a drum and a fiddle ; she took it into a pastry.cook's shop in the Strand, and gave it a tart. He fol. lowed her till she went into Johnson's a.la.mode beef.shop, in Clare.court, and then went and gave informition at the Poblic.office, How-street. Mr. Nimes, the sitting Magistrate, sent Rivett, the officer, who brought the woman and child before the Magistrate. The child was too young to give an account of itself. From the tale of the wo ' man, and inquiries made by the officers, it was as certained that the child was at nurse with a wo. man who is a laundress in the Temple, and who, while she was 'alt aling to her chambers, had in. trusted the child to a woman, who had left it in care of the prisoner. The laundress who had the child under' her care, was in very great distress when she was traced out. The prisoner was dis. Charged. Some ancient Roman silver medals were, a few days since, found in the peat earth cast out of the bottom of a deep moss ditch, at Crosswood.hill, the . property of Annan* Sorsicel Esq. W. g. in the parish of West Calder, and county of Edinburgh. They arc in great preservation. It is probable, as there was a Roman camp in the neighbourhood, that these coins had belonged to some one of the Roman officers stationed there, perhaps in the time of the Emperor MARCUS. Anituaus ANTONINUS, as one of the medals bears his narne,"and others have the names of the Empress PAUSTINA, his wife, and of his predecessors DOUITI AN, TRAJAN,II.% D RI AN, and Pius. From the circumstances in which these coins were found, it is probable they weredrupt on the surface of the ground, upwards of 1600 years ago. That the ground was then covered with a growing wood is obvious, from the branches of birch trees (that have• still their form and bark entire) in which the coins were enveloped. Even the peat bog into which this wood is now convorted (the Romans, sihile in possession 9f this country, having commonly burnt down, or otherwise de stroyed the woods) still bears the general name of Counshaw, f. 'e. the Iller6' Wood. The medals . were lying . five feet beneath the present malice, rind aka solid peatwarth funned above the remains Of theivrood, and composed of half-decayed spar. ,gum, iind other moss plants, and must have taken all the above-mentionO• number of years to in crease five fect.in thickness. k " Te sniTirr: C st s s t r a ! tto.Fllll4""..— .g ' ' lS PA 4ll2.ll:ll : ll ;t i lae li• lini ) ' d a l t a. , t h l e fe laioc i ct e lioo l net.. • le.v.it.isk . wittelllero ll, 0 1 11 40.-1 , -.l l 2.lrattine *sew, sum lAD oferpo,' . I) , • - a Q ee f T p esa lt a ili :rle i : e se t ai to o li rsZt t kil in hu g blij u u n i d . : 4l sh e i r r h o t t f l j i -44 e hi a s t . it p h s h e msek o a P rilt a ,. y i i o ti t f a ir iri a tj n .e : tyc t : n s, w h o .which enabled' the pruprietors of the honsea whirls are built itt,Pieetastreet 3 Temple-bar, and in sc.-. ner.streec I§niniv-hiWto dispose of them by lottery, against the Defenthrives ? 'Alderman Combe, the Recorder of Loudoe, the j in e g ant uln a d n er il o ti t ia lie t r A G e e t ' C I' u m s m te o e l s i S ac er t was nominally only against these Defendants, th e real Defendants being the proprietors of the houses in these two places ; and the object of the action was to procure a compensation to these survey ors for the labour and attenttun they had bestowed u t 's the examination of these different buildings, sidering of their condition, granting certificates of their fitness, &c. for the purposes for which they were designed, &c. on which their sales, or rattier t h e i n d ucem ent which the public had to buy th e tickets in this lottery, depended. After a full hearing of, the statement of the case, Lord Ellenborough held, that as th ere no no specific provision in the Act of Parliament for [granting a compensation to these Gentlemen, they you'd not claim any thing for 'what they did, in a Celia of Law, whatever they might do in a Court of Equity ; and perhaps they would .have nu re . niedy without applying to Parliament. His Lord. Ship declared he was sorry for it, since he ;tad eve!) , reason to be satisfied that t h ese Gentlemen's services had been useful to the concern of which they formed so material a part ; but still they could not enforce their claim for compensation in a Court of Law, without a specific provision to that etfect in the Act of Parliament, for which reasons the Plaintiffs were non.suited.. ORS[ V. BRUCE AND OTHERS. The ATTORNEY Gestetiat• stated, that the Plaintiff was a merchant, and that the Defendants wore Underwriters ; that the Plaintiff had some very considerable transactions with the house of Platanow, in Archangel, in Russia; that in con. sequence of these transactfuits he &stemmed several sums of money to that house, and they in return consigned to him e, quantity of hemp, towards the discharge of that money so advanced ; that the hemp was shipped at St. Pete rsborgh on board a Diitish vessel there, in the month of October, 1807, but ihat 'in a few days after it was SO Shipped, and, before the vessel had . time to quit the harbour;' . war having been declared betweee Russia and this. country, the vessel find her cargo were seized, and this action was brought against the Defendants, as Underwriters, who had insured the cargo against all risk and loss. The necessary evidence was given as to the ship. ping of the goods, and the. orificletnnation of the ship by orders irons the Russian Government; Ou behalf of the Defendants, Mr. iirjeant Bast addressed the Jury find the Court: he stated / that the case which he had to submit was siseply this, namely, that Mr. Pistanow being a Russ . sian subject, shipped the hemp (as the invoice would chew) as his own property ; that when tie vessel' was seized, together it the cargo he claimed the cargo as his property, end duck it was returned to him by the captors, bat the ship, being British property, was condemned. This appearing from the,evidelice adduced, the Jury found fur the Defendants. 4 The other cases were unimportant ) except theee.iminediately concerned. COIIRT 04F. cOM . IION PLEAS, * May I. . , Wangs bf e for ' e Sir .1 Amrs MANSII%LO, r ' !' • • , ; - .1 DALTON V. GILLISPIE. Mt. Serjeant SLIENIEND stated, that this action was brought to recover 24001. on a Policy of Insur. twee on the shipkaura,froinLondon to Shields, and back: The ship sailed,„ and on her return she sprung a leak, in conseysence of which she was lost. Hating hoisted a signal' of 'distress neat ,Croinar, several boats came from Wintertou, and she was enabled to proceed towards Yarmouth. The'Captain was advised to tun the ship on a sand-bank; he did not, however 4 follow the ada vice, but endeavoured to . curl. her into port. Unfortunately the water increased on the pumps, and before they could get into Yarmouth, she went down, the crew having had but a short warm• ing to save their lives. Under all the einem. stances, it was described to be a fair transaction; and with respect to the ship being sea-worthy, the Learned Serjeant said he would prove that part of the case by . evidence. Mr. Serjeant Best contended, in support* of the defence, that a fraud had been practised.- - The Captain did not run the ship on tile VA agreeable to the advice he had received lid it was contended, that his motive for keeping the ship in deep water till she sunk, was to avoid any inspection of the hull after the crew abandoned her. It did not appear • that there was any solid ground for suspecting fraud, and the Jury foand . a verdict for the Plaintiff. At Rockford, Devonshire, on Saturday last, the 1A 144 S. R. Horgan, Eq. of a daughter. • __~. r4*. MARItILI). • At York, Michael Anne, Esq. of Rargw allis, Yorkshire, to Miss Tasburgh, of Bodney, Norfolk. Yesterday, at Camberwell, Charles Chitty , E s q . of Go street, to Miss S. E. J otirdan, daughter of .1 oho Join dan, EA. of Peckham Rye. On Monday, at Ilompton Church, Colon el Hawker, of the 14th Light Dragoons, to Misp,,lordan, of the Prior'', Sy" denham, Kest. ' AcAlatit Taun ts. , 1)1 'l)4 , . • • • niersetshire. 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