The Statesman. — London, England, 1810-12-29 00:00:00

-.:.: -: ••••••••• ...... G ElitLIN PAPE iIANIBUAGRO;Iisc. 3. • • • ConSicit,uttacrCii. AIS CREE 07 till iga ' aCT. 1810. t 4 The public isittiirniattiat, by a ( ii : Pchat de. c i,i o n, sugar, coffee, wood for dying, and Cotton, arising from seizure, Confiscation, &c. ;which IwOre paid the duties, &c. may be conducted,to Cologn. 66 *There exists depots of these article's hi the maritime towns Of Mecklenburg, Hatnburgb, Bre. 'nett, wad Lubeck, and some other hatetniediatv Thiconicyatitio of these goods shall be given to e l ose who will undertake it at the lowest rate. Tie packages shall be deliiered in good condition. tie Cuotraetur shall be obliged to take them from t h e ‘varshouse, to tee them neighed and loaded, ,„ Ike good any damage they my itistain on the 11: at bls charge. " Inc Bbill Ile detetniined in such a mintier A l t thu colonial products, ih ~ 1 %0 warehouses Si. w aled *between the WSW Ind Wog:4 shall arrive iu this town within.* month from tlits day or adju. dication. The term s h all be two menthe tot suoh as are betieen the *uses and the Elbe, tad direc tor those found between the Elbe and the Baltic. 44 The Contractor is responsible.for the quantity and finality, as well as the good condition of ;Ite goods. He will furniSh a security, who shall be come boned with him for performing all the coedi. hues of the undertakers. The pariicutar clauses Mill hereafter be decreed. 44 Thereihill be two copies of the obligati oh, one for the Special Council, the other for the direction of the .Cuitom.honse Officers ; they will be re. ccived till the 15th of December, •t noon, pre: ci4ely. " The definitiie . ailjutlication will take place the I.6th December. (Signed) - 11 COUNT DON COMOIRNIN Generiti of Division; Otter of else attend theli, .7. .rtesitleht of she Speclot•Coosteil. "Ilualbitrgh, Ray. 2g; NM" . (Supplesient to the 4beille do c Nord,of the 7th Detember, 1810.) '• • AilogiUßG, Nov. 20.--In virtue of a ne* 'Arian Ordinance, the sequestration placed upein colonial and English products has been raised' ' throughout all the kingdom of Bavaria, arid the free dispel: Of them granted to their proprietors,: an ciinditibti v however, that there shall be put in circulation lie . more than the exAct quantity of those goods which have paid On imposts. Such as arc in the depots and the CustomAouseS shall be given to their owners on their paying the dutieS.. Only one-third of the merchandise so do: ported, shall, however, be given up. All the co. l o nii productions which shall not be withdranri More the loth' of nest June, will be sold by.pub. he Jt.t.tion. The duties will be deducted from the ruducc of the sales, with five per cent, for *are. house room, and the remainder paid td the pro. pricturs. Letters From Sirkierland State, that all coltinial• proluce, ai welt as cotton from the Levant, 4111 be able again to enter that country., but only by cet& tin routes, where ofiltes for eiaminetkin Rill bo etablislied, mild the duties paid....(Sriiii i e Paper.) • S PO RTI NG. Mr. tilititois iron Isis match hi Stamford, on Titurtilay, %ith considerable ease, in thirty-Po minutes under the given tittie (5 !illis). At the end of the first hour he had. Sono over 23 miles. ..When about 40 miles from theiplace of starting, he *midis.; appointed in not finding a horde, and was obliged to condone fot some miles' on that *hick he rode, Ho rode thirteen, different horses, only One of which,, the thitd, was indifferent. The equestrian suited - . in London in a post.chaise at one u'cluCk yestcr: day, none thew otos for hig exploit s which stands itariialkdo—Before Mr. MILTON set out to ac'com... IDA Me •reles.•• •srsOnairi.aa he offered td a Rind, -who expressed goine.dosibta of his illefeff t, to bet 1000 guinegis tali 500 that he.'woild,gn miles father than the atipalatad diatatica' • its eonsepiatusis of dm Tod COse l l tied - seGitild.• hall, on Saturday, the 13th of VlM:ember, a - (;06. respondent rcijeests the faroarit * I F , Gentleman, conversant with the Rules of the Turf, will her.: the goodness to • give bis-opinitro on- the following' pert:-- " Bets to`' a very considerable amount having. !ken made p. p. Plaintiff's colt did not *ln ; a iiislified horse running, and coming in first,, and horse beating his opponent, being quail. - Who is the winner of the bets?". COVENT : G4RDgN THEATRE. Yesteeilay eirening the Comedy of Every one hart its Paull, was performed at this Theatre. Mr. Niuzsoem, after a very severe illness, made his reappearance in the Comedy, and was welcomed by the audience in the mot flattering way. the Pantomime of harlequin and Amadeus followed, and it is now a spectacle of some interest. The mac!iinery is worked with an .incrcased facility ul wanner, and several of the heavier menet have bout properly shortened ; and they might lop did, !I've more, without injuring the fruit. Notwith 4"iling some tediousness !Ai _occessaillly gnaw" in . "bit;itiuns of this tendency,' : in order to allow time for the preparative arrangement of tricks and e ' 4l lgi . s, yet, in our opinion, there is more of that cnd of chilling vacancy of interest la this piece, !km the necessity of the case calls for. Brevity is ^"t *lily the soul of wit, but it often coustilates soul of a spectacle. Iu this species of drasnatic tzerion, no beholder should be led to fed that he is fatigutd with what be behettg." • • - r • - . . . • TUB ItEGSNCY. .-......- TO THE aoltrog OF THE STATE4MAIst. Sze., , :—Tiereis bit One way of viewing lII' e ciliation, *bleb Mr. P - iacirvar. has thought proper to perplex with difficulties, for the double porpoise of protracting his stray in office, and of renderlig the Executive Government at 'ante inefficient and ludi crous, whenever it shall ba wrested from those who have usurped it. Mr. PeaCival. has told the House of eummops t that 66 they are assembled not to create a King, bite to preserve undiminished the rights of:one!" Ho would have been much nearer the truth, had he frankly declared they were called together by his special Mandate, and that of his C 0 1 ... leagues, to create a Regent with all the exterior of MAJZSTy, without any of his attributes—a mere Pageant, decorated with all the symbols of Royal. ty, but clipped and curtailed Of its Powers and Prerogatives —a King in masquerade, fur those to spurn who made him, and for those to laugh at who should obey him. Mr. Peaceva L. asks, with an air of triumph, 44 !flat is a Regent ?" The question, in its technical sense, is certainly as embarrassing as the Right Honourable Gentleman could wish it . ; but, if our Statutes are silent on the subject,—if our laws, have not yet defined and ascertained the precise duties of a kvgent,—Common Sense, which Is antecedent to all Municipal Law, might have in. formed him that a Regent, in the correct and original sense of the word, is a person who governs, and in the present instance a substitute for an ABSENT KING. A Regent under such circumstances should possess all the authority and prerogatives, tiering his Regency, of the person he represents, or the re. presentation will be imperfect, and his means inef. ficie s nt for all the wholesome purposes of Govern. mcnt.—lt would be a mere mockery of the Execu. tive Power, less mischievous indeed than those whom we suffer to insult our u nderstanding, and trifle with the honour and interests of the Empire., but to the full as contemptible. Is Mr. PERCETAL, with all his professional knowledge, to be told, that one of the great objects proposed by appointing a Regent, is to preserve undiminished the rights of the Crown ; but how are these rights to be preserved in all their integrity, if the Executive Authority is not fall in all its parts, with ample powers to select and dismiss, to reward and punish, and to com. !deftly 611 0 in the word's best sense, the MA. JESTY 'OP THE THRONE ? The matt who Would" seriously contend that any other dif ference exists between a Regent and a King than that the former is a King tie facto, and the latter a King de jure, may have, a Went IPor quib. ding, but Out for legislating; and if the correct ed' of his principles is to be measured by the cur. reckless of his conceptions,' the Statutes will be a much better sectirity for his honesty than his bond. 11.11a.ve maintained, Sir, in one of my former letters, that insanity is virtually, for the time it lasts, a de.. Mite—in point of effect, it is precisely the same ; and though it way riot be strictly legal, in the present very imperfect kit° of our legislation, in the immediate Heir-id the Crowe to ascend the Throne, or even to exercise the Regal Functions, uninvited by the State" of the Realm, during the natural life of the .Soiereign, yet the danger of trusting to the wisdom and integrity of any description of men to. rule the Country, in the name of a Monarch turned of 70, at once blind and insane, is far greater than any in. jury that could flank to the Liberties* of the Pea ple, front the precedent of the Prince of,' WALES as suming, in the name of his father, .and during his mental derangement, the reins of Government. I "will pass ovor the . affront offered to .the 'personal thiracter of •thb Polack:, by the offensive measure proposed of limiting the powers of the Regent, and of giving him, even under such proposed restrictions, a divided authority with these who, in the course of 24 hours, may become his subjects. :, The Minister attempts ,to disguise•the ;mak by pretending to legislate for futurity ! but en tape. client that legal craft and chicanery can devise, chit give a Legislative stamp to any measure or results. lief) of T wo Estates.of the Realm in the absence of the Third*; • andlMr. PERCETAL should not only be told, but compelled, to respect theinformatiott, that. the annexing of any other conditions to the office of -Regent, except that of surrendering it, when. ever the person he represents is in a situation to exercise it, is an assumption of poster more likely to subvert than to fortify the Constitutieui and that to impese testrietions, and give the Regent 'sloe'. ates in the Government, is to weaketi the Executive Power and reader it inefficient. The Pritiee of WALES has decidedly the best and strongest pretea. along to the Regency ; but independent of the as,, askance: we derive of a faithful discharge of its idu portant functions from the well-known virtues. of his Royal Highness, ho is citified to possess in • ,all their plenitude the rights and prerogatives of the Crown, unincumbcred by associates, and without • Lord Gwent ELLE liaS revived a doctrine more applies'= hle to the dins of EDWARD the Tiitari, than to those of nzottoc the numb, by declaring that the Clergy constitute .One of the Three Estates of the Realm. If his Lordship was of a convivial and social disposition, I should suppose that he was eat entirely recovered from t he delitioni of au Installatim The University which elected hie) Chaoceitor,ou the "peculation of Isis becoming ti,trti First Lord of the Treasury: will, no doubt, be pleased 4 the croft of restoring the Chu relit to that power which they lost by abusing it, and which cont rition setv.e tells us tney nioghl newer to have ptosessed ; but the .great hulk of the nation are better acquainted with the cha. rat ter of 411 c Priesthood, and of is to wish to see! J either of thew in power again. 1 t . • s , ll .• 'RE . - IttitESNAN . . --+~►- abtrs. • - - . being dishonoured by restrictions. To fetter him with either on his assuming the Regency, is to de. grade him tot level with his subjects, to cripple his Government, and throw the country into the hands of an Oligarchy. it is for the two houses of Parliament to correct the errors of those who' would mislead them ; and if Ministers, counting ots support from the Commons, should persevere in the criminal design of rendering the Representative Of Majesty, as they have done Majesty itself, a Royal Cypher in the Kingdom ; the Peers, it . is to be hoped, will feel their consequence in the Slate, "mad convince Mr. PEIICEVAL that they are neither his Clerks nor Pensioners. Dec. 2J, 1810. • AMICUS JUSTITIX. sillmesime s3m2mmt • • NAVAL INTELLIGENCE . PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 28. rived the //wear, Capt. Dixon, from a ernite. Sailed the Galatea at:d Malacca frigatts for the Cape of Good Hope; the Saturn of 74 guns, Capt. Cumberland ; and the Ganges, of 74 guns, Capt. Dundas,. for Plymouth ; the Wolvcrene, Capt. Kerr, with :dispatches for Oporto and Lis. bon ; 4extcrous, Lieut. Tomlinson, on a cruize ; also from St. Helen's, the Cherburgh squadron, to resume their station, from which they were blown by the rate violent gales, viz. Donegal, Revenge, Vengettr, and Diana frigate ; also the Sand wich lugger from Guernsey.' Went out of hairbouithe Hawk, Cipt. ticiichicr. DEM., Dec. 28. Wind N. W. came down from the River the Cum berland, E. Indiaman, and sailed to :he westward. &Hied the Zephyr sloop of war with the outward. bound under convoy. Arrived the Fisguard frigate from the Baltic, and his MajestyN ship Aboukir, from Sheerness. FALMOUTH. Dec. 26. Sailed yesterday *his Majesty's ship Merope t • hkr Plymouth. •. . TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN. STR,—llaving observed in your liberal and useful Paper, of the 20th of lasts month, 'fiery, simple and geometrical approximations fur the circumference and area of the circle ; I think it may be of considerable public benefit to communl. sate, through the same channel, the following, wilich I received from the same Gentleman, with his permission to make then) known ; as they come much nearer, and, when thrown into numbers, dif.. fer but little from the truth, even . in the seventh place of decimals therefore are correct enough for all the purposes of (agronomy, di u of .com moo. life. The perimeter Of asTmiciibed polygon of twenty. four sides, together with a fourth proportional•to the perimeter of an inscribed dodecagon, the excess of four of its sides above the diameter, and six sides of the polygon of 24 sides; together also with a fourth proportional to the perimeter of the in. scribed dodecagon, half its excess above thrice the diameter, and a fourth proportional to this perime. , ter, its excess above thrice the diameter, and nine. tenths of one side of the inscribed polygon of oven. ty.four sides is, very nearly indeed, equal to the circumference of the circle. And the rectangle ea.! der the geometrical line equal to these, and a fourth', part of the diameter, or half the radius, is, very , nearly indeed, equal to the area. Thus, if P denote the perimeter of an inscribe .polygon of twenty.four sides, p that of a dodecagon, PF-3d 111 , 7,--(f l • and d the diameter, p , very nearly indeed, equal to the circumference. 41 P•e— 3d 3P • And 4 - x (13 12 • 1- 5.34' • i s very nearly indeed, equal to the area. Hence are immediately derived Vet* near geotne. trical expressions for the surfaces and solitlities splreres t paraboloids, cones, spherical segments, am • • 1 am,. sir, • Your most obedient humble servant, • Landon; Dec. S. A FRIEND TO SCIENCE. = . • • • • RAT!!. • ' _-. ~_ This City has not been so thin of company at this season of the year as at present . fur a great length of time. Outr places of asnusement, of course, arc slenderly attended. .The Concerts at the Upper Rooms, under the direction of Mr. Ante, the suc cessor of tire celebrated 1-txuzziNt, have however prospered well, and the audiences have even been more 'numerous than usual so early , .the season. On Christmas Eve Mr. Asne gave The Messiah, for his bend), which was opened by Mr. Jlaattisort,: with that chaste simplicity and correct expression' for which he has been so long celebrated, and with more _than usual energy and power. The other . vocal performers from town were, Messrs. BELLA. MY, Goss, and Miss Litman ; and the residents, Mrs. NVirrnson and Mr. LACY, who were much applauded by an elegant audience thet completely occupied the Great Ro4m.—Between the acts Mr.-, XANIEWICZ played a Concerto ‘oi the vv folio, lit which he displayed great fancy and brilliant WIC.' Atc. ' . ' 7 LUCIEN BeNAVARTE pined through Worcester on Thursday, on . his way •to • Muirtgumeryihire. While changing hoarse', an.iruniense crowd assem bled to see him. tie seemed pleastd with the people fur the notice they took of him. Yesterday a .Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when th, nudes mentionedthficers were sworn into the tontinand of their respective ships, vit. Captain J. Loco, ~f the Charles Grant, for China direct. Captains, J. Alamo tr, of the Devonshire; Cu tss. qi the Lord sielvi'le ; and CAlLNiele t of the iiarliag ) tut Madra, and Ben gal. 4. , a ; . . • • 2.. - _ FOR THE STADESMiI.V. kiEFLEbTIOiis AT TRB CLOSBOF TikE REAR 140. Time—hoary sire of ages t strides O'er that wide (teens which divides The shores of heaven and -earth; His voice aloud, in accents dire, Bids the Old• Year in wrath expire; Another calls to birth. Down to the wrecks of ages past, Peird by the midnight's bowling blast, Sinks the laps'd year away; Still threat'iting, still the dark storms fly, Such as surcharg'd the frowning sky On that year's int-burn day. • • Sane then what ghosts forlorn have fled From crowded beristombs . of dead, By unavailing right On Lusitania's mountains slain, Or in the blood-dreaded heart of Spain, Daring tyrannic might? What countless hordes, by Russ, and Turk, Slangliter'd lamed ambition's work, Have pased life's Opal hour ? Faint ItS they bled on fields of death. All.asonnor'd with. expiring breath, . 7-- • • " Cured be the lust of Power !" Loped year of blank! ! —no more thy sun Will blush, at deeds by tyrants done, Who till the world with crime 1 Yet lust of power its rage maintain's, And crimes, impriionmetit, and chains, Attend the march of tiote. • • • - Still havoc lifts his iron hand, And vengeance strides o'er sea and land, With terror's dog unfurl'd ; • • Destruction rides his scythed car, Aid drives the crimson storn of war, And desolates the world But slia:l, my GOD ! the orphan's cry, Unheard tumid the war-storm die? Thou art the sire-'reft's sire; ... f -: 1 . . r • :- A ~ .._ l . .1 .'•4/ 0- 411 . 4 ! ! .• And thou wilt heed that widaw's man, 1V ho sitieth sorrowing all alone, Scatted by the tnurd'rer's ire. Thou wilt for sutrering man appear, And his joy-refted bosom cheer, With undescrib'd delight ; Hopeless will then th' oppressor try To shun the lightning of thine eye Thy su ift avenging might. Then shsll fate's black storm pan away ; • Theo bright will shine that halcyon day, • When Ile —arrat ['mimes or Paacz ! To bless the world, whoa He ivill come, And hush the strife-enkindling druns, And bid war's uproar cease. Child, long neglected —now thine eyes }~.. '. • • 4 ti"! • ~i . " View the bright sun of Knowledge tine To smile on all mankind; Thy cause the friend of Youth has pled; • ' • • „ w_ , j. . *. • ‘„ He, from that night by ign'rance Shed, . Shall free thy fetter'd mind. Though dootati'd to daily. drudgery thost*; Care sat on thy . dejecteli brow Thou wert a Child forlorn; Instruction takes thee by the hand, . And hope endears to thee that land Where LA N casrea was born. • Vet, passing year! what giant woes, That pressing on thy gloaniy close, • - Besiege the Stiv'azictm's breast I . • For sad he mouro'd Am SLt A'S down; * Cald as the marble of her tomb, ° Whose lifeless relics •rest Bath, Dec. SI, 1810. S. W. * Set Bell on Editcation (90th page, Sd edition). , • , i ' N.,_ , • I; BRIGHTON, DEC. 2d. Yesterday was the most inclement Christmas Day • which the inhabit tits of this part of the world calf remember to have passed: This day provinifine, al most es ery equipage in this town and neighbourhood have. given bustle to the rides. Mr, ANNESLEY his barouche.horsel a warming to-day ;we have sit - Join seen bloods, after a struggle ford plate or sweep'. stakes, in a less enviable condition. ThisGeutlemin gave an elegant entertainment, consisting of a supper, "&e. at his house in Marlborough-place, on Monday evening, of which tbe greater port of our fashionablcs here partook. In the course of the envening, Mr. CoAres diverted the °company by reciting " Bucks, have at ye 110 Mr. ()OATES gave an Asiati c en . tertaininsnt this e vening, at his residence in Marl. borougli.:row; to which the elegantes, as-they re. turn from the Ball, at the Castle, are, as we un derstand, generally invited, .The display of °den., tal delicacies, sweetmeats, preserves, &c. at thfs novel treat, is expected to be liberally profuse.-- The nett Pic Nic recreation we' have, will be at Mrs. G. F. Salines, on Pavilion Parade. Lady AMcoTrs will liave'is fashionable select dinner.party to-morrow. Tlie.liev. Mr. and Mrs: Paoli' have cards of invitation issued for a rout on Friday. • Counx-M•aTtAc.---The Court, pursuant to ad. journment, re-assembled this day, at the Old Ship, on the trial of Lieut. Thomas Harwood, of •the Flintshire Militia, when the Prisoner entered open his defence; and which, at three o'clock, P. 111..wds again adjourned until to-morrow, at half past 10 in othe morning. .Mrs. fITZIIERBERT, Laity COTTS, and many °they Females and'Gentlemen of the first distinction, attended the Court this morning. . . 2 ' . li 4 There arc a dumber of persons exceedingly appointed, who expected to. be remembered in thW Doke of QUEENSDURT'S Will. From the number 6f codicils and erasures, the Duke seems to have been rather capricious in many of his bequests, et, septing, however . , those relating to charitable loaf. lotions. • The late Doke of QuEENsttoRT. wag third cousin of the former Duke, woo married Lady CATHARIN£ HYDE, daughter of HENRY HYDE, Earl of ltm. CHESTER, SUR of LAWRENCE HYDE, Earl of Ro. CHESTER, and grandson of- EDWARD HYDE, the great Earl of CLARENDON, Lord High Chancellor of England. It is remarkable, that thert.li no liperl mal e sleaesottlant either of the fisist Diake of IatiEERSBORY or the first Earl of Mews, both of which titles consequently become extinct. Last night. Mr. MlLLs,one of his Majesty's Mel.. sett;e is, in liaising along St. Janies's.street, slipped .• down, and unfortunately broke his leg. • . t , , • ' ~j fir: - I Of PIA ter' Mat is. the i ad u 4 to the fur Ji,sk ie. on rith dal AS- 1.41: lig, on.