The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-12-31 00:00:00

r • f "' ;~ "`~ ak- s.F+F~..: ~-~ sr4' - - I i tt • Lam,`` std I'S on the left side, called vat " Tuesday ;° whiih day was at length find upon. The Ch4Mber then resolved itself into a Secret Committee upon yl. DtructLyr's Project, aelative to Petitions, and some other vubjecta. The apparently interminable 'affair of M. CAM/EL and M. DE SENMEVILLE was again heard before the Tribunal of Correctional Police, and once more post. ported till Wednesday. According to letters of the 15th inst. from Madrid, the greatest tratiqpillity continued to prevail in that capital. The new Con. stitution of ll4norer, has been submitted to the con. aideration of the States of that kin•dom.—The Five per Cents. left. argon Saturday at 63 f. - The late changes in the French Cabinet (though ex traordinary io the opinion of many, yet not unlookrd for by the•ohservant politician) show us the encno. raging prospective of the future establishment of the rights of man, that the human intellect is surprisingly advancing in its progress, and assures us that reason will, ere long, bear aloft the fasces of the moral world. What benevolent mind can contemplate the cheering contents of Mr. RODNEY'S Report to the Congress of America, of the great amelioration in the condition of the South Americans, without feiling the greatest visitation at his heart ? It happily reminds us of one of the strophes in the beautiful Ode of a British Poet now no more,in which tufprophetically say s'— " The Angel Freedom from eelebtial wing O'er every clime new hi FS Bing, Ditnolve the mental frog! that reigns On silent Lapland's dark damailis, Cheer the black native of the burning zone, And bid to all the flights of all be known." According to the latest advises in the American Vapers from the Brazils, great fears ware entertained of an insurrection in the northern districts of that kingdom; in consequence, new levies had been or. tiered by the Government. Letters had been re. ceived from Buenos Ayres, which speak of the de. lection of a fresh conspiracy to seize the person of the Director (PuzlittaznoN),!and to produce a change irs the Government. The Governor of St. Minim !omen's had detained, for the benefit of the owners, a Portuguese vessel sent in by one of the eruizers under the flag of AwrinAs. ' Our Readers will observe by the Report which we give in another page, that a Meeting was held yesterday at the City of London Tavern, to delihe , rate on the course to be pursued by the London Fire Insurers at the Norwich Fir• and Life In surance Office. The formation of a new Society was announced for the Metropolis. The discussion terminated in the appointment of a Provi4ional Com mittee, to consider st hether it would be eligible to es tablish a new Society founded on the basis of the Nor wich Institution. lkb Royal Highness the Duke Of YORK arrived titetnithrjr - o. • *bit to the Patina' REGENT. The D.fke of WELLINGTON is expected to join the Roy it culle at the Pavilion to-morrow. The Duke of WELLINGTON has commenced his du tics at the Ordnance-Office. Th e Sophia sloop of war, Captain Sir 'WILLIAM 'WtsESSAN, is ordered to proceed without delay to • St. li.i.na; with dispatches for Sir HUDSON Cowl:. As tr a destination of this vessel was fixed for Ja maica, it is said the dispatches must be of peat im portance to render any deviation necessary. Letters from Rio Janeiro to Ith October ere in town, but they contain no other than commercial iu. formation. Trade was eatremoly iiit there. The letters from Jamaica, by the Larne, are to the 15th of November from Kingston. The Legislature was opened on the 24th of October, with a speech •from the Governor. The island in general was sickly. it had been in Inuit: places inundated by heavy rains, which had fellers for many (lays. The communication with the interior from Kingston had been so! , ended, and in cot scc'.sence the packet,' `►hich was to have sailed on the 16th of November, evr.s postponed until the 2SI, when it was supposed that the communication would he again opened. 4 letter of the latest date from Kingston mentions, that 'on the St. Andrew's mountains. the rain hat , fallen In the greatest quantities, and that the People there tiled suffered mnre tin* in any other situation. The Sybil frigate was to sail from Kingston on the 20th of November.for Vera Cies, and was to take specie on board. Private letters from Calcutta, to the 2.9!h of July, tave bees] received in the City, and by them 'relearn that several ships had been taken up there (or the purpose of forwarding reinforcements to Ceylon.— .Although th 6 military there was getting the better of the valises frill furthersupplies were considered Lie- Cease rt. Yesterday a ballot was held at the East India louse, for the election of a Director, in the room of Jour/ luiesosiv, Esq. deceased. At sit o'clock the glasses were closed, and delivered to the scrutineers, who reported the election to have fallen on 'WILLIAM TAYLOR MONEY, Esq. The numbers were, for Mr. MONEY 627; Mr. PREICOT 554; and Mr. RA. TEN•HAW 524. The under.mentioned ships are arrived in Bengal, via. the Dunira, on the 13th of July ; the Castle Huntley, on the 14th ; and the Marchioness of Ely, on the 97th ditto. The LORD CHANCELLOR is rather thinned by his late severe indisposition, and has not yet recovered from his lameness. He has declared his intention to tit in the Court of Chancery on Friday, the Bth of Jan., to hear Bankrupt Petitions. Sir JOHN LEACH, the Vice• Chancellor, sill not sit till Saturday, the 16th of Jan. that being the first Seal before Mary Term. The mate►ials left by the late Sir S. RostILLY, fer his intended work on the Criminal Law, embrace the subject in every point of view. The Papers are very voluminous, and ate now arranging under the friendly inspectiuu of Mr. BUOUGUAN aid Mr. W.UISUAW. >` •: t / I .4 . ..~. .. ~. 7 To THE SUITOR or TOR STATESMAN. • — l l ' am glad to see that my letter to you of the slat November has produced in my angry neighbour some signs of grace ; for, in his letter to you of the 2d instant, which has just been shown to me, and which purports to he an answer to mine, be has not made even the slightest attempt to controvert, or deny, the facts I therein stated; but, behind the flimsy veil of a blundering attempt at verbal criti cism, he slinks to hide himself from the jest indig nation of an insulted people, and the inevitable derision of his fellow-pa eishioners, to whose view I have exposed his attack of one of the most whole. some Statutes that the wisdom of the Legislature ever enacted. My angry neigbbour wishes I could be compelled to parse a Latin sentence of three words. I heartily wish he could be compelled to repeat the real arti cles of his political creed at our nest Vestry. Such an esposo would effectually open the eyes of his de. lulled supporters, and would more effectually tend to calm the feuds which so unhappily distract and disgrace the parish than► arty other circumstance that could possibly beppen. My angry neighbour, in Lis attempt at criticism, has beets ■s unfortunate as be was its his insidious attack on the " aia.vnted resident servant of the Sorry institution," as he now wittily calls this ob- ject of his malignity ; for he asserts it is a gramme licit error to use the adjective "present" without a . substantive, as I have dune in the first paragraph of my former letter. On asking the opinion of my little girl, who is just come home from school, as to the justness of this criticism, she begs me to refer the GENTLEPdAY to MURRAY'S Grammar, the 24th edition, page 58, tied he will find this rule— " An adjective put without a substantive, with the definite article before it, becomes a substantive in . sense and meaning —as, riov!deuce re►rards the good and punishes the bad!!!" What ! put down by a SCHOOL GIRL! ! 0 fie fie! Mr. ClitTic, of Cuntsr CHURCH, SORRY. In short, Sir, this Letter of my angry neighbour is a fair specimen of the norpensical harangues de livered by his party in our Vestry Meetings. nut as it is not my practice to press too hard upon a fallen foe, and es he has given notice that he in tends shortly to attack our respectable, and truly respected VESTRY CLERK, I presume it kill not be unpleasant to him that hostilities BETWEEN US Should henceforth cease. 1 will, therefore, close my short correspondence with you, Sir, with the request, that you will do me the further favour to insert the present in your nett impression, and accept my sincere thanks for your urbaue and manly impartiality. 1 am, Sir, your obedient servant, A PARISHIONER OF CHRIST CHURCH, SUItRY. December 30,1818. BRIGHTON, DEC. 29. ---...-- Stillness continues to mark the Royal Reeklento; the dinner parties are totally confined to the Palace suite, nor, as yet, have the company been augment ed by visitants at the later part of the evening. His Royal highness retires and rises early ; his spirits have much improved of late, and his health con tinue.; remarkably good. His Royal Highness, after a walk on the enclosed grounds, almost invariably tram exercise on horseback in the riding school be fore dinner. The Duke of York arrived at the Pavilion this evening at half-pest five o'clock. Dinner, as usual, was served up soon after sit. Lord and Lady R. Seymour are also among the Palace arrivals of this evening. The Marquis of Anglesea snd his brother, the lion. Captain Paget, came in last night in time to 'join the Palace dinner party. The weather both to-day and yesterday has been remarkably bright, and, we may add, mild for the season. The harriers yesterday were attended by a 'splendid field, the inspirititig cry of the dogs, at in tervals, denoting them to be briskly employed al most close to the skirts of the town. The Steyne r o .d a y h as derived i!iterest, es well from the rank as the number of its promenaders. The Cliff parades have also exhibited a picture quite as brilliant and animated. The Earl of Chichester, from Stenmer, the Earl of Warwick, Lord John Townshentl, the Marquis of Ileadford, Sir J. Graham, Sir Richard Strachan, and other equestrians, enlivened the rides I to-day. Carriages with. a pair, and four horses, were in brisk employ from mid-day till nearly four o'clock. A match at pigeon shooting yesterday attracted many persons from the town to Blackrock bottotn.— An unpleasant accident marked the diversion. The fowling-piece of a person, of the name of tryn i son, burst, and shattered his left-band in a dreadful mari ner. Two fingers were entirely blown off, and part of the thumb. Amputation of the hand it is feared must precede his recovery. The Sitting Magistrates, constituting the Bench at the Town-hall yesterday, were Mr. Serjeant Ben nington, and Donovan, F.:q. Much business of a parochial nature was gone through. The Bench derives additional importance and the town acknow. ledged advantages from the attendance end profound legal talents of the worthy Serjeant. An assault crisp yesterday excited some interest; but the respectabi. lily of the parties, who are near relations, induces us to withhold the particulars. By the late Etection of a Director in the affnirs of the East India Company, it is shown what infloence Money has had in forwarding the candidatical view of the new Member on the list. A pan is ascribed to M. TALLETRAND, which we will not vouch for, but is fanciful enough, and, perhaps, as prophetic too. It is ssid, that on being asked what was all the present confusion in the French C4binet—he answered, c'est la commence ment du fin—ia plain English—the beginning of the end, ~: • • • • "MI ' ol °T' 7 * t the Actin}, the River, the George Canning, —, for Cayenne; &c. ; Bri tannia, Roslyn, for Grenada ; Promise, Brown, for the Mediterranean ; Niger, Jefferson, for Birbadoes ; Proleus, James, for Malta; Ellergill, Porton, from Roll for Gibraltar and Calcutta ; Richard, Thomas, from Yarmouth for Belfast ; Francis, Brooks, for Sicily ; William and Mary, Sadler, for Leghorn. Five o'Clock.—The 'outward bound are getting ender-weigh. RAmsa are, DEC. 30.—A rudder has been landed here supposed to belong to the Jenge Eheardius, Molder, from Antwerp to London, which was lust the 27th inst, on the Kentish Knock. BRIDLINGTON, .—On Saturday last, a ketch stoop, from Dundee to Hull, was run down a little to the northward of Flamborough Head, and sunk, by a light brie, who, left them without offering any assistance.—The crew with difficulty got into their bnit, entl were picked op by a smack. PORT , SIOUTII, DEC. 30.—Sailed his Majesty's ship Tagus to► the eastward to he paid off; Brilliant, Aurora, and Crown transports, for Cork ; Ss!folk, for Cayenne ; Samuel sod Jane, —, ■ n d Hope, Lore, for London; Mayflower, Ellison, for New castle ; and William, Lawson, for Falmouth. Ps.vatotrru, DEC. 29.—Cn Inn in the Fountain, Milk, from Oporto for Loot,. ; Maria, BwuGeld, from Limerick for Poole. PENZ 4NCE, DEC 23.—Arrived off thiq port, the Clyde, Smith, from the Cape of Good Hope, in 70 da s. Three P.M.—Also arrived off this port, the 03- borne paLker, from the Brazils, and landed passes.- ger. here. FALMOUTII, DEC. 2S.—Arrived the Salads, Gow. jog, from Oporto, in 16 days; John end William, Deuch, from ditto, in 14 days, both for London.— Sailed the Sho , lcomb, Kocher, for the Cape of Good 'Wpm ;and a few others outward.bound..—The cargo of the Clio, Clemency (not Vincent, as stated ye.. terday), is to he discharged.—v:ince writing thi4 evening, the of the Osborne packet, from the Brazils, in 57 days, ha, been brought from Penzance, where she arrived this morning. AGRICULTURAL RE PORT FOR DE CEMBER. The dry frosts, the latter part of the month. have been bene firial to the plants of Wheat, partleislarly these which became too luxuriant from early stowing. the reports of them from the principal corn di-iricts are promising, stating them Its he free from the is ire. worm and slug, so often injarions at this sensor. The winter, indeed, has hitherto pass:tit very favourable to agriculture in all its branches, particularly in that of tillage.-- 'I he tattooed lands, 'early laid up, are found io line conditiim fur the early getting in of Oats nod Barley and the eildi.lies intended for Berms appear in a slate equally well fertilized.-- Pedaloes have pre ed a watery and unproductive crop. The Turnips are 'at geberally gone off by the rot. especially the Sorties, as to have left hilt little feed throteghinit Norfolk and Suffolk. Cole Seed hh• dime a ell through iiie wiuter, and so Ante nye anti Tai,•%. ('lover Seed better than seas expect'''. goo laqol not burnt op in slimmer. The large im -1 ports ffr n (leafy. ostrOcularly Wheat, has depressed d market so muck, ns to weigh heavily upon the landed interma, by eon/metier the nere.,aSy opelatinni sit agriculture, and driving a large ibereas. , of onemploved Wytt-ere to the nerev sky of nopl,,ing for parochial relief. Coii.iderable quantities of foreign and of our inferior Wheats hate her!) steeped by the nallistee. a. a saticiii far birEarleyv bat they hate not been f to work kindly. Fine Hear •limplew of Harley are -carte, and likely shoo, to command higher terms, The Grass countries still afford considerable feed, which keeps flay from reaching the high pric.e . generally looked for. The Meat Markets hns teen brisk through the month, at as advance upon prime Beef and Mouton. Wool is rather lower in value, except for fine Sniths down and Merino fleeces, which are much in demand. Lean Stuck of most kinds hold np their prices, both in Beasts and Sheep, especially Ike former; the la., fairs have been but thin)) , supplied either with Scotch nr Welch cattle. Monday nest ittbe day appointed for the sale of the horses and carriages of the late QUEEN. It will take place at TillN.3oA L'S. CAPITAL CONVICTIONS.-.-FrOm 1749 to 1772, the capital convictions in I..ondon and Middlesex amount. ed to 1121, of whom were esecuted 678, hearing the same proportion to each other as those of the sixteen preceding years ; from 1771 to 1783, the average of executions was thirty-nine each year; but in 1783 to 1790, they were as high as fifty-four. 1810 to Isll, the average of executions was tint quite eleven in each year ; from 1811, when the PRINCE REGENT be a con the esercise of his authority, they have increased to the average of seventeen. The herring fishery goes on with mach spirit off the Hampshire coast. Upwards of a thousand fisher. men and labourers are now employed in this im. portant business, anti appearances indicate that the present will prove the most valuable season ever known at Portsmouth. The latest enumeration that has been made of the population of Sweden. counting from the year 1813 to the year 1818, offers a result that would appear almost incredible, if it were not drawn from so. theistic docements peblished on this subject. Accord. ing to them, the population of Sweden has diminished in the space of five years, by 53,504 souls, vit. 38,527 males, and 19,977 females. AlEt.xectiotir A CCIDENT.—MI3S PARR Brown, a young lady, not 20 years of age, and entitled to a considerable fortune when she came of age, niece to Mr. Ashman, sileersmith and pawnbroker, in the Strand, but who resided with her grandmother, Mrs. Ashman, 30, Featherstone-buildings, Somers-town, met with a melancholy, though at the time spits. rently trifling accident, yesterday se'nnight, whilst washing a small slip of flannel, in which there hap. pened to be a rusty needle ; it entered her th u mb. in which it broke. It was thought not to be of any serious consequence at the time, but nest day a mor tification took place. Medical resource was uttaveil ing, and she expired on Friday, much lamented by a numerous circle of friends. Yesterday morning some villains contrived to enter the dwelling-house of Mr. Brown, No. 10 Heath. street, Commercial-road, by means of false keys, during the absence of the family : they robbed the pica of plate and articles of wearing apparel, con sisting of silk dresses, shawls, handkerchiefs, ire. to a great amount ? and a Bank of England note for W6l. STATESMAN 'ATES MA N. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Ref to you of tbQ thrAt, DEC. MX—Arrived, and realliti, tin angry neighbour Moser, from Jamaica.—Came down, from di , • . • . 7 THE STATE sr OUR FINANCE. It is doubtless the most comfortable thing in the world to read, from time to Base, in the Ministerial Papers, of the improvement of the lienenzre. then*. Towable comparative receipt and to on ; hot some. how or other, arithmetic, however it may accommo da:e in the intermediate dam, is racist unbending in she result; and in spite of Sinking Funds sink not, and surptitsaes one estimate, %hick are defioienciee in fad, it is felt that there most be a (ping up of garters in the finance way, and probably something like a solemn appeal to the oat riotism of the country ; —purse and•pattiotism, as all the world knows, be ing, in these cases, synonyOus toms. Moreover, there is the Bank Restriction- Art, and that most disordered state of the currency, of which thetreaty facility of forgery, and consequent terlptation to commit it, form only a part of the evil It is no parades to say, that at present the ebb and flow of what is termed the money market, is disnrdering re lative value generally, and connecting at sorts of transaction with the money jobbing system. We hear now, that a Petition Is en foot prsyilig Partin went to keep the Restriction Act alive ; and such it the nicety of the case, Ministers Will requite .greas assistance, whether they reject or support it. jecting it, a very visible diminution of currency wilt take place ; and much commercial incnnirenience-- may we not add—stint of eisployment necessarily !MOP. Keep it on, and behold the poor ChvhceHue• of the Es. hequer and Co:s mothered, not only with the truisms of opp.iition,but with a power-fill conviction ' on their own par!, that the longer the evil continutt, the wider will tie the mischief, and the more diilicalt its removal. In the present paecity of employment in reference to the number of candilites for it, we cannot contemplate tito diminution of mien factitious funds without terror. Brit , •h Arts of Parliament stet stated to be ninnipotent ; and ea a proof of it, that famous Bill iu 1797, which made a promissory phial of Bank paper equal to a medium of univertni value, ha. been often quoted. But earthly omnipotence it but a ti i ;ure of speech after all ; it may pull down is mound and let in the ocean, but only the great Be leg who formed the deep, can regather the dispersed waters in the hollow of his hand. Its the mean time, we learn from all quarters{ that Governtnent is proceeditl Kith extreme nacity in regulating the. A‘senseil Taxes; in other words, raising them to the highest possible pitch that letter of the vacio..s Acts will admit. We need not point out to our Readers that, in reality, this is ad. ditinnal taxation, and that it affords a pleasant speci. men of what the locome Tax would gradually have become, when its acceutat:t•e, as a peaceable tes t had properly prepared the way fur the screw. Wei know that the comparative lenity towards tradesmen{ and the complacency with which certain not very exact statements were received, smoothed down. Axe objections of many well•meaning individuals.— What is no:c per fortrinir with the Assessed Tam id an earnest of whet, sooner or later, would baled been their fate ea to the Income 'lax; and strongly ev•uces the necessity of resisting that inquisittopary impost, as the foundition of that comp's:est system of financial tyranny that ever was established ;—nue indeed, that in dud (line must have placed every man within the ministo. dal grasp. Independently of the additional vigi lance of ortrveyore, the iteventnt Laws are carrying into the stricte..t execution every way ; end would that the very laudable repression of smuggling sod frau., wua the whole of it; but, alas, a little coil• templation of the London Papers in the Exchequer it!Torta, will show that financial vigour is very broadly, and in porno instances not very liberally i at work. The truth is, that putting the Siokiug Fetid out of the questi.in, Revenue fits expenditure -but scantily. We have hail no weekly comparisons lately,' sod the sth of January is at hand. Four hundred and thirlyetwo packs of foreignl playing raids were seized, last week, on board of at I smuggl;ng vessel off Harwich, and burnt, by order of the Commissio.itars of Stamps. AWFUL bIaTANCE or SUDDEN DEATH. -41. few days ago, a young man was brought to Shadwelt l'olice.ollice, on a charge of bastardy, by the Oriels seers of Poplin', and the charge being proved +phut him, he was set at large on certain conditions— namely, either to merry the unfortunate girl, or to allow so much per week for the maintenance of the child. The latter he preferred, and fur the purpose of evading both the parish and the girl, he entered ow board a ship which was about to sail. Yestorday morning he was proceeding towards the - ship, wills some luggage, and on his arrival opposite the work house, which would be the destined asylum of thd girl, by his absence, he dropped down instantly and expired. His body was taken into the workhouse, quite dead, tor a Coroner's Inquest. On the night of Tuesday siennight, Mr. Itobinson, Midshipman of the Severn, stationed at Broadstairs, for the prevention of smuggling, fell over the clliff at a short distance from that place, and was token op dead. James Stewart, seaman of the same ship, and on the same station, met with a similar accident, but not with the like fatal result ; he h, however, very ill, 'and not expected to sue/iso. The account he gives is, that Mr. Habita t ion tell him near Botany Bay, with the intention of proceeding to Broailstairso shortly afterwards he himself,fell over the clif f , and. being considerably injured, his 'groans attracted the attention of another party sent out to relieve him and his companions : liie night was extremely dark, and after some search, he was frond and conveyed hark to the establishment. The absesice of atir. Ft obittaont now excited suspicion that some accident might have happened to him, search was renewed, and his body found quite lifeless, floating its the water, with his head liteoilly dashed to pieces. Extioutswist of A ConrlSOoTueeday Morning, (29th). about four o'clock, the watchman in Church street, Mile-End New.town, wall alarmed by that fading of some bricks from the watt of the New Chapel. lie bastened to the spot, wheel a man raft off, previously dropping a sick, which *as Nand tot contain the corpse of a female, the wife. Mi. poor 011111 in the neighbourhood. She had ieen,lsoried only last Sunday. The body was taken to the watch.. house, and reinterred by the keeper. The watch. man had a good view of one oh he ruffians, bat did not succeed in apprehending him, although there is li.tle doubt of his being able to identify Mm. , . %~:r?~ • ~•~ A ~~ r