The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-01-21 00:00:00

ii• e■ oilman whew this rich It pro po Noy be Oho of life r res4r!eted leis ; , while lissofectorillo resolotioas @sections, Nether till oder certeiu diminished *cling up to ry bed pro. goal. The ttiot too far ; les, and di I. •••• goy 011 Illy it, we know arge of two. ,Aace on that iy the poor t to a raps. nerd by the we hare heard cation of the are who hold ke It kaolin causidertd Brewers has torment that and that, in est suffer for be a more 'ed about the we hope it well as at the it, this shall sea at which, a ought, when bundance with that has just ed the Brewers alt Duty ? Is iho ate blessed 'ortable price of their rill not much ing them mutt years, it was the House of t of Porter sot which we refer s in. what coune it would take them that .1 1 9 used, taxed the r, from an •p -;o tbeir burdens nother colorist'. their labours at !moment of the onsolable must lekedness of tio tails. This is a an mode. We e a removal of is colemo witk lace also an jo ist published by immediate re• le. King the stste of " His timid I numb better." non and Lord fie Secretary of :olonial Depart of ,WELLINGTOI ASTLEREAGM, at li. Grace after. nu, at seven, in personages of there is not the ,be death of the ►town yesterday, he is meet better. f his speedy re the .13th of No. describe in glow ian Archduchess of Portage' and The debsrkatiof he 6th, when tbA Royal, west in • having received with every mark. • the agate state ed with applaud bapel, where the ed. The Royal 'ale ce, while the pectscles, theatre letions. In, the Duke. of o are asentimied 11, The Spanisl► ir►fautry. of three of cavalry,. five 1 cotnpenies of if' _ • =A ' - , • : arairju,. Milk—. • , .1 r . DaAT., YAM. 20.g mmlo the Tottenham convict op t f o r Sheerness, to repair her redder, which was • i s iored doting the late gales ; also .the whole of the hemewerd.bound for the .River : ; and most of the o otirerd-bound that sailed yesterday, have coati b e et again.—Caree down from the River and remote", . the Marquis of Wellesley, Sherwood, for Greuadra. Five o'CLoci.—The Norfolk, Eclipse, Med i• wa fandSSyS, and several btbers, outward-bound, have sot pet back. PORTSMOUTH, Jaw. 20.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Favourite,. from the Downs. FALMOUTH, JAN. 18.—Sailed the Duke of Marl. . borough sod Lady Arabella packets, with Mails fee, Lisbon ; Mirqnis of Salisbury packet, with Mali. for Gibraltar gad Malta ; Swiftsora packet,. Caddh, w ith Mails for New York ; Lord Hobart packet% James, with Mails for Jamaica • and the Date& ship Java, for Batavia.— Arrived the Latona, Loris,' f ro m Demerara. •MARGATE, JAN. 20.—A brig, said to be the Noe. too, bound to Surinam, got on shore this forenoon on Fairness Rock. If the weather continues fine it i s upected she will be got off out tide'witbost muck damage. KiNo'sTELtess.—Signora CoRRI made her second appearanee last night, in the Opera of Le Noses di Figaro. She was more at ease in the character. 01 the Countess, aitd diaplayell her vocal powers with• a cloidence highly satiafactery to the company, who were numerous and elegant. • CoVENT-OARDEN.--10 consequence of the absolves of Miss Sternum, who has left town to attend !awl Derby Concerts, a Mrs. Gasurcx took the part if Lucy Bertram last night. This Lady has loeg. been known as a singer. On this ocessioaelte met with a very flattering reception. In the song of Oh! hush thee Babe, she was honoured with an encore, and i n deed throughout, file acquitted herself area is the satisfaction of the oe dipus. DRURY-LANE THLATRIL—MISS SMITHSON, an actress from the Dublin stage, made her first appear. ance last night at this Theatre, in the character of Letitia Hardy, in the Belle's Stratagem. This Lady possesses a face and features well adapted to 'her profession. The part selected for her debut is one of considerable hazard : it requires great va riety of talent, feeling, and self-possession. The situation in the last act, where she says to Doricourt, before taking off her mask, " This is the moat awful moment of my life," is one of the most touching and critical in which a woman could possibly be placed. To these trials of power Miss SMITHsON brought considerable ability. Gloat allowances ought to be made for the effects of the fears insepa rable from a first appearance. Under these disad vantages Miss SMITHSON gave a very interning sod delicate representation of the character. .—She was most successful in the third act, where she pats on the country rustic,—so much se, that we suspect she would appear to more advantage in that line ; her song, though not very happily elicited, was marked by a happy naivete •of wanner, that almost repaid us foe the deficiency. 'The majority seemed to be highly gratified; she was honoured with several rounds of applause when curtain fell, sod much satisfaction was es when she was announced to repeat the character on Tuesday neat. DOWTON played Hardy with infinite whim; HARLEY was amusing in Flutter; STANLEY did not do so much as we impeded from him in Bori• court. The other parts were well filled up, and the Flay for the most part went off very well. Ssua SiTUATIOIUL—It is not generally known, that a Commission, ender the sign-manual of the PRINCE REGENT, fer enquiring into the duties, fees and emoluments ~ f all the Officers of the several Courts of Justille in Scotland, was issued nearly three years ago.—The Commissioners are, Sir Itair CAMPIELL,_ late President of the Court of Session ; Sir LAMM MONTGOMERY, Baronet, M. P. ; and three other loyal and learned Advocates ; all of whom have salaries from the Public Purse, with an esta blishmeut of Clerks, &c.—This Board have been more than usually active. They have actually made two Reports of their proceedings, and in the last they state, that they have already discovered that a 'saving may be made in the establishment of the Court of Session of 14041. per annum, immediately avail- able! This sum will, however, go but a little way towards the expence of the Board, which cannot be espected to finish its labours in less than tea tem. The Commissioners are all young men, with the ex ception of Sir hair who is Chairman of the Board, and which he considers as an appointment for life. — (Scotsman.) Mr. PETER Gina; who died last week,- has long been well known in the counties of Suffolk and Nor folk, as the Proprietor of The Bury and Norwich Post, a Paper distinguished by its firm and consistent avowal bf the principles of Civil and Religious Li. betty, in a place noted for aristocratical ignorance and pride. Perhaps there is not a county in the kingdom In which the rights of the People to chose their Representatives is so little esereised as in Suf folk. The People hear of elections, but they knee nothing of them. Every thing is snugly and quietly atanagetfai them, and there is no need for them to take any trouble about the matter. The representa tion of Suffolk is a compound of family intrigue, Ministerial influence, individual patronage, and cor porate corruption. The Corporation of Bory is no. furiously venal. " Loaves and fishes" should be its motto. Yet, to the honour of M r.G.none of these things Moved him. In a close borough town his voice was seised for Reform—in the atmosphere of Toryism, be breathed forth the refreshing air of coedits. floral Geodesy. He neither temporized nor trimmed : He neither cooled the . smiles, nor feared the frowns df the great, but kept on the steady and even course of a consistent Patriot. By his family, the loss of as affectionate relative will be keenly felt; by his friends, that of a wartn-heerted and generous comps- Dion : end by the Public, that of an Impartial and upright Joornalist. The death of such a man wookl at all times be widely and severely deplored, bet at Nee present period, while such efforts are made to corrupt, intimidate, and enslave the press, his toes will not easily be supplied, Miss KELLY'S attraction at the Dublin ?heat' maid to equal, if not farms, that of Mr. litaa t tsbai s , last is that city. 1.:.~,.. L _._.. . - THE ST, 44 - 7 -7-- r• - • r The Duke of Pitsjamos, says a letter from i is the great grandson of the Doke of Berwick, whr;al die nageral son of the Doke of- York (afterglow* James IL) sue Arabella Churchill. Ile emigrated at the coonsescemant of the Revolution, and joined the army ofithe Preach [Maces is Germany. Af l . tee that army was disbanded he went to Engles& *here be married Miss de la Foeche, the maternal inter of Madame Bertrand, Woo was a Miss Dillon. 180 refereed to France under Bonaparte, who, on ascending the Throne offered him the place of Chem. beelaio, which the Dike of Fitsjames refused, under the protest of having too small a fortune. After the Restoration be was created a Peer of France by the King, oo the 14(1 of. Jane, 1814. In 1815 he fol lowed to the King to Ghent. Since then he has been intimately connected with M. De Chateasibriand, with whom he has always voted in the Rousso( Peers. A Paris hotter of the 16th inst. says,' seeersi tom athlete of Peers have assembled within these few days. Their deliberations turned on the means of pre ventlog the Ministers from striking that lightly noble Peers, as they have done three in 18 months, in the cases of him De Telleyrand, Chateatibriand, and Fitsjames. They attempt, from this circumstance, to create an esprit de dope, and flatter themselves, with drawing over to their coalition Peers who ary koows for the moderation of their principles, but whose self-love is rather touchy. Many plans U, talked of on the supposition that the King will fed j himself obliged to dissolve the Chamber of Depot*. j The Chancellor M. D'Ambray, it is said, is pre paring, with this view, a work on the grand Political toad Judiciary Bodies, of a nature to enable Govern . meat to supersede the Chamber wkhoet concussion, -at the decisive moment. We are informed, likewise, that Count Ferraud is occupied wil'. work of the same kind, in which will be collected, all that refers to the ancient project of the organization of tours Me ssier,. In fine, it is said that the Parliamenutrions are joining, to form, with the same object, projects for the organization of provincial Assemblies. The distressing circumstance in this case is, that a very great number of Deputies are aware that these plans, or if you will, these reveries, are in agitation; and finding themselves thus threatened in their political esistence, their disquietude and discontent must be calculated epon. The discussion en the Law of Recruiting opened yesterday in the Chamber of Deputies. Three Deputies spoke against and two in favour of the Project.— : Their speeches were very moderate; one of them only eacited attention by an attack on the Ministry, I mean M. Josse-Beauvoir, hut his diatribe was lis tened to with dissatisfaction by the majority of the Chamber. : _ .••• Sesiona-Haeir, Old Bailey, Undue. lan. a Till TPA *OM 11016 WV LOBO II 41/00. AND /MEN HD mattnir's JDOTTICUI, PRESIDING AT 11115 COOItt QT 5/PITONS MOW HOLM/ AT THE OLD SAUCY. We, 'the Grand Jury of the City of London, bat leg_reportad the several Bills . of Indictment presented to es in die form, and being informed by the proper olicor,thm no other ' s are forthcoming, do wait upon the Court for the purpose of receiting our discharge; at the same time, we wish to observe the great plea sant we have derived, in perceiving thee no bill has bon found by us for murder, nor any one of a crime OA peculiar atrocious nature circumstance very gratifying to the Jury. In the progress of one duty we visited the prison of 'gewgaw, and especially directed our attention to the state of that prison ; and we lament to record, that from the great hides of Prisoners, it is hardly possible to keep them in a state of wholesome demon nest, a circumstance we deeply deplore, as potting together all description of offenders, en evil easily obviated in the opinion of the Jury (and in which opinion they are borne out by Mr. Brown, the Keeper of the prison), if more space could be allotted, whereby it classification of the Prisoners might be , effected to the evident improvement of their health,i alleged, and morals. The vast number of juvenile depredators in con. l inernent, and the melancholy circumstance of four being seder sentence a death in the condemned and in irons, the youngest only nine years of ago I and the oldest twelve, connected with the circum stances of very many of them previous to trial asso. ciating with the profligate, burdened, and abandoned, presents to us the Idea of the improbability of a reform, which a more judicious and attentive confinement might produce. The deplorable situation of the male prisoners, with respect to clothing, particularly the juvenile part, made a melancholy impression on our minds. Many were without shoes and stockings, others without shirts, and one almost in • state of naked. nets—circumstaoces we eurnestly recommend !o the consideration of those who arrange antdmanage the general business of the prison ; and we are of opinion bat the general health of the prisoners of both sezes would be materially improved, if an allowance of soap was granted for that purpose. I In visiting the infirmary, the Grand Jury feel great pleasure in anitistmeing that every necessary attention appears to be paid to the sick, and those in a convelescent state, and to the general health of the prisoners. We farther beg leave to state to the Court the petifying pleasure we received in witnessing the es. l eftions of Mrs. Fry and the ladies who so kindly as. list her in attending to and instructing the female prisoners, whose reformed deportment, and cheerful acquiescence to their wishes, demonstrated with . * force no language can doses ibe the a ff ection these on. fortunate women entertain for these humane, intelli gent, and active females. JOHN GANN. Furman of the .;rand Jury. EXTRACTS TROU TUC HON. MR. REM NETT I 4 P tIICPIILET ON THE STATE ON NEWOATE, ADDIRSSED TO TUE CDIORDN4:24scu. AND LIVERY OF LONDON. 14 aged abet the saDsoatory sy ales it alone that 'which might to be permed; end the first step to be taken in it is, In the earliest Cher of guilt, so to separate and to class as to wake the objects of legal detention, or criminal punishment, better for the moral discipline to which they have been sub jected. It is for these resume that I tall upon you to admit of no delay, to hear of no excuse ; but to insist open your Magistrates tad Representatives adopting some officinal plats to give to their prisons that reformatory &tweeter, which the well-being of society demands from their hands. 64 Io respect to the women prisoners, e great and important change for the better in the mode of con fining them bas taken place. They are not now the tried, and untried, mixed together ' • those under sentence of death are placed by themselves : but even here the convicts and fines are not separated. Girls of the tenderest years are associated with the most profligate characters. On the 20th of December last, there were 97 female prisoners in Newgate, 17 only of whom ware for trial. The greatest proportion of the tried were convicts; one of them was only 11 years of age ; and of the «hole number 18 were under 21. The humane and excellent management' of Mrs. Fry, and the Society of Friends, has placed this part of the prison iii a state of comparative ea cellence. The disgusting scenes that formerly oc coned there have ceased. But the system, even as it iv, cannot be persevered in, and the benefits of this meagre and limited classification preserved, if more room be not given ; for the numbers now are nearly equal to filling the space allotted to them, and 170 women have been confined thereat the same time. No praise of mine can add weight to the tri bute of general applause which Mrs. Fry end her Committee of Friends have received from all who have witnessed their efforts. 64 Those who visit Newgate mast be satisfied, that mach good has been done ; not indeed, by rules anti m6016 11 4) 0 5 emanating from the Prison Committee of Aldermen, bat by the exertions of individuals, who have devoted their time to the reformation of At vi cious and the relief the of distressed. The necessity for their labour, and the praise bestowed on their benevolence, is not flattering to the regular legitimate managers of this prison. It the regulations were as they ought to be, and places of separate confide meet provided for the different classes of offenders, sc. cording to the plans new universally approved of,M rs. F. would ha we found half her task performed. She sight have stimulated the idle to industry, instructed the ignorant, reformed the profligate by precept and ex ample, and consoled the 00forIODSle ; and she cud her friends would not have to lament that their la boors are rendered comparatively of little rise, from the absence of those means of classification which are essential to the success of any plan of rational re. form. The want of these means was strikingly il lustrated during my visit to Newgate on the 20th of Decetnber. I found two convicts among the untried female prisoners; and, span enquiry why they were placed them was told they were too bad and aban doned to be kept Talk their coreposions so that the *punishment inflicted epos these profligate and coo. Tictod f.h!s woo to place lbw, out by tbemselvoll CITY BUSINESS. Yesterday the Lord Mayor held a Court of Alder men at Guildhall, which was folly attended. The return' and presentments of the begonia of the several Wards, of ruinous houses, nuisances , oon.freemes. and various other matters, as in on Plow Monday last, were referred to the Alder men of the respective Wards for their directions, and 'tbe Solicitor was ordered to pot the Act of Perlin. mestlito ezecetido, serer as the same related to the 'several presentmeots for ruinous premises. The Court was occupied at very considerable length in bearing and determining numerous appeals from individesls against serving the office of con stable and inquest me*, to which they were elected on St. Thomas's Day last. Several persons were sworn, and others admitted Brokers. A large quantity of gold and silver. is bars, was produced, and sworn off for exportation. The Coert)directed precepts to be issued for licen sing the Victuallers and Tavern-keepers throughout the City, on Monday, the 2tl day of March nest. Sundry Ceal-Undertakers were licensed. Mr. Isaac Lindow was admitted one of the twelve Jew Brokers of this City. . The nest Court was appointed for the election of an aged couple into Rogers's Alass-houses. The Commissioners of the Court of Requests for February and March were appointed. Several bills and salaries were ordered for payment. A Resolution was agreed to respecting beggars and vagrants infesting the streets of the City, enjoining the Parish Officers to cause such persons to be appre hended and brought before the Lord Mayor or Sitting Alderman,_ in order to their being pas sed to their parishes, or dealt with according to law. PACKED JURIES. --Turning over the pages of Burtsd's history of his Own Times, the tattooing passage accidentally praesiled itself :—" He (Sin. nye) desired the Sheriff'', that brought the warrant for his execution, w ould consider how guilty they were of his blood, who had not returned efair Jury, bet one packt, and as they were directed by the king's Solicitor: bespoke to them, not for his own sake, but for their sakes." One of the Sheriffs was struck with this and wept. The number of Graduates at the University of Cambridge this year, exceeded by nearly one hundred that of any former period since its foundation. Gold has risen sixpence per ounce, being now at 41. Is. A Paper of last night says, " There is a report in Paris, that not fewer than FIVE British Newspapers, if it be not a profanation of the word British to say so, are 'ldeally in the pay of the French Ministers and others." The Public will be mach at a loss to guess at the Papers alluded to. It has been asked how Sir Joan WMAnon, who always kept a handsome establishment, could have died worth near I ? This is a very imperti nent question to ask of any private Secretary, and deserves nn sower. CORN-EXCHANGE, JAN. 21. —We had a very large, arrival from Suffolk this morning, bet the Wheat trade was heavy at Monday's prices, a considerable qeantity remaining unsold at the close of the Market. —The map* of Barley was very considerable, yet prime Melting samples were taken of at Is. per quarter under Monday's prices; but the inferior sorts were dry and unsaleable, at a decline a is. per qeartati--In Peas, Beans, sad Oats, there is so al. aeration. ~~-: . • With 1 ____ !softened's,* as lasicent. Thus those who were ontriett were penished by being compelled to have, as associates. women who were even outcasts from the satiety of convicted &loos. " Perhaps among these IT melded persotis, who wrote forced to keep Marty with these tilln,Woomfe, there might have been at girl circumstanced as ono was in this part of the "prison lest year. Shas wee crowded into a room with an essemblar,of idle drunken prostitutes hid thieves ; with a Woman rem. Otto, for, end I Wier* afterwards convicted if, childearorder. This poor girl was an on winks 'nitre• tient of a man who seduced her into as attempt to otter a forged note. She pleaded gelity, aod her life was istied; but she was sentenced to be transported. From the kindness of Mr. Capper, who is eter ready to relieve teal distress, and to lessen the severities of ever Penal Laws, operating on indivMeal cases, she . was placed in the Penitentiary at Milbank, where she has so conducted herself as to merit the praise of the managers of that eteellent institution. While this young porton was in Newgete (and she was but 18), her modest appearance and manner attracted the notice of all who visited the prison. Among othets. an American Gentleman, who was told there that I' had interested myself to preserve her from the Wirt with which she was menaced, wrote to me to entreat that I would not relat my endeavours to save bet from thejfell upon Earth, as he called this prison. " Think, the., I entreat you, what must bare been the leelings of a modest girl in such a situation, and then remember, that, while I write this, many may be in a similar condition. A single breach of the law, however trifling, may lend to detention in pri son ; though the person w confined may hare, wile this exception, every moral feeling as pore as those el the best of us. And these miserable beings (misers. ble because they are prisoners, bet more to be pitied because they are confined with all that Is bad, profli gate, and base) most be corrupted, almost past alt redemption, by the want of that proper classification which I am contending for. What then is wanted here is room for their separation; and till this is ob tained, Mrs. Fry may do mach to relieve present misery ; her charity may be like the benevolence of her heart, boundless; she may remedy magisterial neglect ; she may relieve in.litideal wretchedness ; she may lessen all the evils attendant on this mode of confinement; but the disease is past her cur.. It is, however, in your hands, Common Council and Li. very; you can furnish a remedy ; and that can alone be Nand in the construction of a prison opine a plan embrscing all those reformatory advantages, the usefulness of which are now no longer malign of dims pote." - -• REG4LI4 OF SCO'PLAND. It is stated that a Commission, ander the SiArt Manual, has beees monody issued to his Grace the Hake of Roccleoch and Queensberry, Lord Lieete. $lllll of Mid-Lothian, with the principal Officers of Stele for Scotland, the respective heads of the Courts of Law and Legal Bodies, the Lord Provost of Edin. burgh, and other Gentlemen recommended by official situations of importance, directing them to proceed to the Croarn.room, in the Castle of Edinburgh, and to open the chest in which the Regalia of Scotland are said to have been deposited, to make search for the same, and to report ties issue of theitwoqeiries to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent. It is well known that, by the Act of Union, it is specially pro. vided, that the Crown, Sceptre, and Sword of State, belonging to the Kingdom of Scotland. are appointed to remain and be preserved in that Kingdom, and that these Royal Symbols were carefully deposited in a strong chest, in presence of the Officers of State and other personages of high dignity, as well as the Commissioners of the Earl Mareschal, who claimed. by ancient custom, the custody thereof, and that ihs chest was placed in a chamber in the Castle of Edits• burgh, called the Crown-room, which was formally and strongly secured. Nevertheless ? a strong report went abroad that, doting the troublesome times of 1715 or 1718, or, as some say, so late as 1743, the Regalia of Scotland were transferred to London. and it is certain that, at the Jewel-office in the Tower, a Crown has been exhibited among the other treasures, supposed and alleged to be that of Scotland. Others have traced this report to the artifices of the Jeco. bites, whose aversion at the Union is well known, and who did all they could to excite throoghost Scotland a feeling that the country had been degraded, and her privileges destroyed, by that memorable Treaty. The appointment of the above Commission is in consequence of the doubts and reports circelated on this subject. PAISLEY, JAN. 10. The nose of Liberty and Reform in Scotland has lost a worthy though humble friend in Mr. Archi bald Hestia, who died at this place op the 13th inst. He is mach and deservedly regretted by the nu merous circle of friends and acquaintances. He hats been lone known as the steady friend of Perlis mentsry Reform, and be *as one of those Patriots who, et an early period, advocated that measure. — He had the honour to be chosen a member of the British Convention which met at Edinburgh ; and as a proof of the high respect in which he was held by his fellow-citizens, he was called to preside at the Public Meetings held upon the bth of October,lBl6, and the 20th of January, 1817. for the purpose of petitioning for a more niesi Representation of the People in Parliament. ' Those' naturally of a mild end modest &post. tiott, his eyes sparkled with lodignation when .de. tailing the wrongs indicted open his countrymen by the Borough faction, end both in peMic end -lo pri rate circles he laboured inametutly In the clean of Civil and Religions Liberty. Though he lived lied died a sincere Christian i bigotry or intolerance roused no part of Ms creed; his religion, like his love of mankind, embraced the w bole bunion race. His death, at a time like tie present, when the esertioes of public spirited ci t rte. tees are so necessary, is a great loss and cannot but be deeply lamented by the friends of Reform. He was a kind master, a feed and affectionate besbend, and a most indrigeet parent—the milk of . beree kindness Sowed from his hiart, and hie cieseenance beamed with loteillgence, Widens, as& inedwatere ; and it may be 'telly said of hies, ?tat eves hb !hitless Ifeent to 'hues side' -# ---- --- t