The Statesman. — London, England, 1810-04-25 00:00:00

NAV4iL INTELLIGENCE. PcsitOrni t *Pip. 23. —ltos• off the harbonr, detained by very light skinctii . th e . ship , F avour i te. ltr , bert FeeetkaKhlaster, trans' Stem Leone and G weep botind 't 4 o Lawton, SAO. • Cargo estimated • ..) at 40,0001 . the product% of• Africa, Captain • Thos. Dongliss t of the Armylassded.issrof her this morning, Charged with &pal Cheat but ender stood not to cont4in. any listqligcnee onetime- Saner, nothing po . .rtiFtliar havirg occurred in those colonies. This vessel spoke off Scilly a brig of w ar, by which wns learnt, thafon Thursday last a large French schooner privateer bid captured- rear to that Island eleven sail of merchant vessel., tweet which only had been re-captnr 11 . ; the rt.: mainder, together with the privateer, it was fear_ d, had succeeded its getting into a French port. Arrived the.4.yr, Wearne, from Newport ; the Unity, Ellis, from Bristol ; the 41furos •brig of war, of 14 guns, Captain Sneyd, from Guernsey ; and Patiourile sloop of war p of 18 guns, Capt. Clement, from a cruise. • Sailed iita Mariner and Encounter gon.brigs t . on a cruise; the Sdpion, of 74 anns,:.beaiing th e t'g of Rear. Admiral Stopford ; and Chris. lion VII.; of 110 guns ) Captain Yorke, both for . ' Bogue Roads.' Since writing the above, the Favourite ) from Af, ica, has anchored in the Sound. PunTsmourtr, Arun. Rt.—Arrived the Fla slq,,p of war with a convoy from the Eastward. The St. Geor,ze, 98 guns, Rear. Admiral Rey noltlq, is expected to tail fur the Baltic to.mor. row ; the Victoss, 98 ping, Capt. Demaregq, will Fi lat t h e same time, to take on board Sir,,isatcs Sautuarez at New Yarmouth. . wzmartWir. DEAL, APRIL 24.—Ssiled the Ronal% Bad St. Vincent, Harriet, and Reid George. for the I:,st Intlies l withthe whole of the out ward.houndt under convoy or his Majesty's ship l'rincate, for Portsmouth. SPOitTING INTELLIGENCE. • • VEIVIIARKEr GR4VF./1 SEETINCI, 1810. TOZ•liAlr, ANIIIL q 4.• Mr. F: Crnven's ch. t...lapsnette; Illy King Matting, nit of the dam of !tithed., twat Mr: TionrshBl'a o. f. by tunian, nut of (ialstea, it. 21b. eacb. Ab. M. Fps: h: —5 to 4 on .I.useet , e. Mr. Dottglasa Alm:snack, Sst. heat Mr.. Llo%d's Pack, Ott. 51b. R. M. laics. h. ft.-6 TIO 4 agst Alnumacic. • D. of ntafton's Morel. Bit. lib. hest str. Shakespeare's Nonein. 7.t. 71h. D. I. 100ga.-‘7 to 4on Morel. The Second Class Ai Outlands Stakes of 50gs. each, h. ft. • ' D. 1. IA Ostartr‘ Vietrsel'l;` 5 yes .rid. Bst. 91h. . . • 1 Mr. Lake's fumblec, 4 yrs oil, Bst. 91h. . °• 1,4 C. Smneriet's Scorpion, 4 yrs ol•:, • it. 01b. P. of Orafton's Pope. 3 yrs Sit. Ldb. • •4' Dlr. Croft's Hipp...neon. aged. 9st. 41b. . . Xr. Sadler', Rumba, aged. Si , . 61b. - • ' And 6 others. paid. V) to 1 agst Victoria; 7 to 1 apt fumbler; 4 to l agit Scor 100n ; 6 to 5 ow P'upe ; 6 to 1 no Itumbo. Ld Losetner's 14 ,Ins, flat. 71h. rec. fahcs. from Mr. Boa verie's Nymploloa, Bst. 41b. D. I.l&g'. - •. - COSIISIT-GARDrN TIICATRRe:— Last night the Tragedy of Macbeth was represented at this Tee. atre. It gave us extreme satistictiol to hack! the British stage, on this occasion, restored to its true dignity, for Mr. , . Steno's was the heroine of the evening ! 'Whoever ar.lent in the admiration of our immortal Poet, Sitaktsetaac, must best). licitous forthe health of Mrs. SIDDONS, Who cer_ tautly illustrates his het female characters with more force and truth than any other Lady who now exists, or who has existed, since we had any capacity to understand his text. The table at the Prince of WALES'S grand die. tier, given to the Knights of tht,Order of the Gar. ter, on St. George's Day, was covered with Irish linen. A superb service of cut-glass was like wise used for the first time upon this splendid oc casion, which hail been presented to his Royal If , :hoess by the Corporation of Liverpool. The Report of the Lords Committee of Secrecy, to enquire into the causes which prOduced the Or der of Council of the 9,6 th February, •1797, re specting the Bank of England, . has been pub lished by order of the !Iroise of Commons, made in the present Session of Parliament. Sir PRILIP FRANCIS, speaking of the fatal in. dill, renc.; of people in general to government af fairs, says, 64 I do not mean to deny that indivi thiak in great numbers thrive by the prodigality of •Gov..roment, and fatten on the public spoil. The fact is sufficiently known, though Rifle felt ; be cause a very symptomatic insensibility to this and every tither national concern prevails more or less over the whole Empire. The evil of the day is tsTitficietit to occupy a degraded population, who, thinking of nothing but how to exist on any temp:, how to pay taxes, or how to evade them, gradually sink into indifference about every thing but the enjoyment or distress of the moment; as ii we had converted our whole inheritance into an annuity, and had nothing but a life interest in the siltation of the country. Even that base calcu. lotion rntiN fail under theyselfish being Who trusts to it. .Vo man, mho is not !uperanwcatedalready, ran he sure that the thing he calls England, and by mhich he nieunsi nothing but Me Stas:kß, Well .t'arz:ive even himskr. Sects apathy, wherever it prevails, is a true forerunner of national baseness first, and then of ruin." • The follossing accident, which happened . at Cl.•gnw on the 17th instant, suggests an useful' warning :—A boy, of about three years of age,. was left sleeping in a folding bud; when a ser— sant coming its to arrange the furniture and clean the room, negligently folded the bed without tak iug notice of the child. About a wiener of •an hour after, the mother came in, and eshielerher child, turn: d down the bed, and found it eons. prcs,ed and smothered by the betl.clothes. Every means of resuscitation was instantly tried, but. without success. .• I .. - .• To the EDITOR - ot : TIIS STATESMAN. Stw—Tbough the saiiject of the following verses is.rathcr slab, it never can be forgotten ;• and a, they never have appeared ilt , print, "perhaps you may 'think Them, worth iasertlng in Tug STATms. Your humblie Servant, Slit FRANCIS AND REFORM. IN IMIFATION OF NORACC Pastor ewn traheret, i!fe. When gallant WA RD LE took his nedutnts way Wi►h Mrs. CLARKS, the Helen of the day, Determin'd on his hold nod perilous course, To trace Corruption to its lofty source, OlctSnitaltDA IV arose, and spoke to a aro The daring Colonel—" Obloquy and scorn " Unmerited," quoth he,' " and slanderous wrongs " Must thou endure, and galling strife of tongues. " Against thee, now, what nut:::!rous butts combine, • " All interested to quell thy great design I " 1 see them ready mariball'd fot the war, " The ravenous Ministry, the aspiring Bar, "' The army, led against their better sense, " And the hot mass of Irish insolence: " There PERCE,V A L, amidst his poesy crowd, " Stands to resist thee, petulant mid proud, " At whose command, to interrupt or cheer, " They roar nut, Order, order hear, hear, hear! .4! There Gimps, long practis'd in the wiles of law, " , To twist an.evidence, or find a flaw, 4 ., Prepares to combat Truth and Common Sense, ' " With his. Old Bailey weapons of defence. - • " The fretful spleen of Ybait e, with these shall join, " To rail and threat, and call thee Jacobin. " If..st thou the formidable strength e splor'd, " Of hoisterons•Fut.t.*a. desperate Bca *WORD ? • 4 ' Lomas:, who strikes at random iii.abe dark, " And Ca ow CR, near a Match for Mrs. C RNA I • W . And see beside thee, sever'd from the groups ' • Wbere Ain* sits, the Nano* of the trooe; ".In Whom the senaior and a iinemblend, .410 MR, the nukes disinterested friend, ".Whocouniils, testifies; harangues. and Totes " A U fratis-b rare miracle of Seats re-ofved a confidence *bon feet • " In thine niwilliehesty and patient zeal, "'The House, cornj?ell'd thy .ebarges to disease, " Shall roundl*Ae them false and Ft andalnus, Thyself shallsink heneatts resistless power. •" And deem it great good Luck to 'scope Lie Tower." • T oto tfirilitoi.r)come season of Blismax, Still s kfiltdelaid, till one wide.yeasting storm Shall desolate this gonty land, and sweep temples, titles, Inimlets to the deep Ntvi►lfgti or nreetneo shall evade the blow, ','....llokispswick then may be as Bourbon now. • N. '! 11V4, STATE. MAN ~-~-- _ Sift MAW GIBBS.. " It is proper that the aviary should be Informed of 'he rink they ritnif mischief bad ensued, cad there should have been loss of life, . eiterystne. however innocent his in-. tendon might be, who wilqcoontesinocing the mob by his would hate been indictable fur murder. An as: tack:oral . misdolm ,JsitNasitiqn-houle with stones, and othEr substances--sorry due ifienWeltirg on might he said to be aidink•and a6etting 'that uttatk, aiirwas amenable toi the list for allits consequences, One would suppu.e nu onicoithi-lierfound to engage in so onequ.l a contest, for, in cases of riot, every,nsitin may be called no fur hisassiA anie itiquellisig it,* if life should be taken, the act is held innocent, whilst every or* rioting is subject to the ' severesilstmlsbinent of the law, and very few cases occur, ' that some feel not its weight."—[ Ererad from Sir VI- C4RY Gisaii Charge to the Chau! jary ; Saito( 'daises, 1010.] TU TIIE EDITOR OE THE STATESMAN. SIR,—In controverting the above dictum of the ATToittiElt-GcNERAL, I shall eudeavour to use brevity as much as possible:- It is not my inten. tion to enter into an elaborate legal argument, for that is oat of my power; I oily, as a Briton and a Freeman, who has read something of the Laws and Cotistktotion of his country, wish that your Readers may not be misled by the high authority of the above quotation. The political ability of Sir VICARY I hold is the, most sovereign coo tempt—as a statesman he is a mere baby ; but when I hear all parties express respect for his 'legal knowledge, lam compelled to acquiesce. A professional friend, the other day, toll me the Arreawax.Gxwitaat, was the first I-wyer in the , country,-" he k the first unconstitutional law. firer," was my reply; and that opinion is further confirmed by the above sentiments as contained• its• his Charge. When I read them, as detailed in' the Newspapers, I naturally concluded there might be a mistake; but on consulting some friends who were present in the Court when they were ut. tiled, I was assured the reporter had been cor. reet—l then turned .to BLACESTONC, and. other constitutional law authorities, where I found thit the obscurity of Sir VICARTIS epi ndon arose.from his omission of a very important circumstance, which he, seems purposely to have kept out of sight, fur I then found that the con. seqtiences so solemnly fqretold by the ATTORNEY GINERAt, could only' take place provided the perions tumultuously meeting together do not within one hour after the Chief Magistrate's Pro clamation) quittly disperse. This totally alters the face of the business : we' see nothing men. tioned of a Proclamation in Sir VICART's speech, we heard nothing of a Proclamation from the Milian on the night in question, consequently I can only consider the Charge to the Grand Jury as eaten) ated.te. deceive: • Further,:f , fiodthat the assembling of more than :twelve persenflogethery cannot be construed tutu rrot t .whilst they remain quiet, and do not by ; 7 4levd, or deed, create any disturbance. Now, S hould ask Sir VIC/ST — GSM, w h y,on the b • nightio.llowing diet on which the pretended riot took pliceland when, in .consequence of the se vere measures employed by the Magistrates, every Jhing was In a state of comparative quietness, the Constables, at the recommendation, I should Ant), pose, of Sir VICART, patroled the streets, au where three or more persons were convened to. : gether, ordered them to depart, end on a tempe. rate refusal, used force to compel thorn All nay researches.into legal authorities do net enable me to acknowledge this conduct as constitutional. I now catmint", respeetriillb.'*. Mr. EDITOR, yours, A Kingsdowne, Bristol, April 21, IdiU. • • e ON THE UNEQUAL. PUN'S/114E1ff OF OFFENCES. When the Almighty anelently condescended .to legiilate ter a particular watiuni strict,- impart t ialA justice was sublimely enjoiliet . I ; neitner the rich ituatt's wealth, nor the poormlit t e poverty, *sew ititlnence the judge, but the wit kedriesi • orthe. wicked was to be visited upon him, etc. - Wine to. the Divine Commandwents. Depraeed nut spirits ere, and-prone to be governed by-au bias, still there is something in et which revolts at the sight of glaring itiequalities.4ol , the punii6.l ment of offences. Humanity;:slegenerated as it undoubtedly is, feels itself outraged vied cunfound. ed when the poor man's crime is scourged with the utmost extreme of severity, while the rich man is seen either escaping with complete impu.. er subjected to a few ihcontinieucies, which it is possible, may soon be surmounted and forgotten—We 'allude to what appeared in , all the Newspapers of last week. The same day's Papers recorded a debate in the House of Commune respecting a public defaulter -to the amount, it is said, of near 100,0001. and who, it was inti mated, would be expelled the House of Coin. mons; while, at the • same time, an account was given to the public of the execution of a labour. lug man, on Peatiendon Heath, near Maidstone, for breaking into an uninhabited house, and steal. lug to the amount of five shi!:inp Lately a sentence of transportation fur fourteen years was , passed on a clerk, for embezzling 1171.sandwhe plore.l mercy, having a wife and eight. children depending upon him for support.; Sir S. horn-illy is employed in endeavours to amend the Criminal Laws, and it is to bo hoped he will succeed; bet why is not embezzlement to be puaished.le the rich as as well as in the poor, and especially 'why( the a-noutit is of such magnitude ? The consideration tills the mind with griefoold vetations and makes men wish that they could teke their departure•to sonic world " wherein dwelieth righteousness!" :t ' • ..'ON BONAPARTE'S MARRIAGE. ' ' Peru. it Coptdo.- Snipe ardente. amens sagitta . s. - Cote trwatil.:+-i-RostAtr,4 • IMITATED. ' • Pierce Cupid burning diary to Ruitrin send., Tinged with the blood of relatives and friends. - i'PInRAMMATICAL. • 1..- x , • • A itarrlage made ialoy repent bottottli. " 34 , c Win speedily be followasi brat/weir whittlhe whole se; detriti his loatbid•embrirr i Ayerm to multiply his odious race. .. ••• • Another to another Will sneered, : " - Condemned Mike to worry and to bleed.% . Ttie wo' 11l no eons! consort can bestow, By Skies only matched in shades below, Frnm whence might spring tiller thel.ather:s plan Something bet wen a monster and a Min: • A &VS . !). • I have seen a pretty picture of Fierce Cupid whettin4 Ms . arr. , ws on a bloody whetstone at Chantilly, the PRINCE or CON.OII4S. A Scotch Paper, received yesterday, states that J a m e s Argot, weaver, Cairneyhill, had a son baptised in the Auld 'Light congregation itt fermline, on Sunday last, the 15t1► of April, by thr name of Francis Burdett. The father Waist ed on- the Minister to name the 'child Sir Frauci• Burdett, but this was refused ..by the Clergyman, . as illegal. There are more matches and sweepstakes to he decided this week, at Newmarket, than have oc. curred in any one meeting for several years. The turf is regaining some,of the attention, which) war and politics had deprived it of. Yesterday noon an Irishman, a wheelwright at a Factory at Lambeth, by some neglect let the wheel slip, he fell, and in a moment it went over his breast, and bruised him so dreadfully as to leave little chance of his getting the better of it ; he was taken to the hospital with life, but that . could scarcely bo hoped to continue. The remains of the unfortunate Ebrall, who was shot by the military in the shop of Mr. Gotten. ) in Fentherch.street, will be in. terred Pith evening, at five o'clock, at St. Butolphi A Idgate., Tim Altzeri—The case of Capt. Fosket involve" quesliiA in which the army are most deeply in tee rested."' irtio subject of his complaint is, that the Cummatitiellin Chief has refused to'comply with his request, most fosmally made, and repeatedly to investigate hit complaints, and to tenon to his ;Majesty thereupon. This request is founded on the. :Artiitp of War respecting the redress of grierancev, 6y lthich the Commander in Chief is expressly regafred to investigate the complaints 'of any Officer who thinks himself wronged by hi s Colonel, 'anti to report to the King thereupon, in order to receive his Majesty's 'public directions. (*Apt. eontends that this article is imperative on the Commander in Chief, and that it is rendered so, as it affords the wily means of . redress to an • 'otfiter who has been injured by his Colonel. it has been said, that the artiest) is understood at th . Horse Guards not to be .imperativ.e, but to leave an option with the Commander nether or not he wilt report to his ik/ajesty on the'coni. plaint of an Officer. It is further said, that the article is understand to refer only to pecuniary matters. Surely, it is.high time that this question should be•settled, and Mhatevet may be the merits of Capt. F.'s case, the army are certainly obliged to him for briuging item an issue. :131P1t;ISONMSAY BY-IWIC Wait - 36 We LIONS. - • • We entreat thetttention of vitt.rtaciers to the opinions of eot the ablest' pfti'le,l...iitters„ •who has ant icii•ated the ideatscauct 119* at issue, although • in strongly eujivineed of • its illegality as to. think that it would ne'rer hap. pen. 110 says, 46 If it •be tie - pooled' in rase a subject• be• committed by either Itisise for a mat.. ter manifestly ont'of , their , jurisdiction,' ee het re. medy can he have ? answer, that is cannot will be imagined that the law, is hOstfivrOurs T riothing more than ibo:liberty of the sot ject, stawild give _ us a• remedy againev•.commilments by the King himself, appealing to be iht g 4, anti yet give us n:,manner, of redress against a cirtinit unlit by our fellow subjects, equally appearing to- be unwar ranted, lint, as this is aea a Which I Ito, ver.. suaded Will never happen, 'it kerns steeliest over nicely to exainiti&it."--ilazukites,4.. 110. The case, which in. thef . upietion of this able Lawyer would never happen, has. homes,, unit unfortunately happened; And it became,' the du y of every man who is teaily to die in defence of his Country and Coni , titurion to examine tt, not over nicely, but with plain sense, and isideal.ic whether the law of the land is le be swallowed up by the law of Parliament t' We again uk;if the Como:oils really possess the right of imprisonment, as They have recrulty claimed it, how comes it that they are ite..ittnte of legal and adequate power to eefereC the .44 , 11 The Speaker, the Sarjeant at Arms, the Sect apary of State, the Privy Council, th e Poli ce M ag i s . trades, were all puzzled, bewilfered, and con. founded, buth as to the means' end .results. This point cannot be more ably illustrated than by guying a few passages of the 44th 'letter of Ju nius, .writien the 2t2d of April, 1771,•and apply. ing Et the commitineolof thus , Cathay Ir; .howev'e r , it could .be proved, froin con. siderations of necessity or convenience, that an unlimited 'power of commitment ought to he en. trusted to the Haase of CiaMinons, and. that, in' fact, they have Xercised it without. opposition, s ill, in contemplatten of law, the presemption is strongly against them. It is a leading maxim of the laws o f E og i 4o( i( an d wii Foot it all laws are nog*. s tory), that theft: ts . roi right wists.ot alesiody, nor any legal rower witbuul A kga I ionCee catry to effect. Jet the power now in question be tried by this rule. The Speaker issues his a arrant of attar's. uncut. The party atioclied either resists foree with force, or appeals to a Magistia:i , who declares the warrant illegal, and di , eharges toe prisoner. Does the law provide no legal means for enforcing a legal warrant ? 1;' there no regular proceeding planted out in our law books, to user and !indicate the authority of so high a Court as the Holm. of Commons ? The question is ausweral ilirec , ly hy the fact ; their unlawful commands are iesi and they have no remedy. The i .;i:poisiniiiient of their own Memb e rs is revenge inilee.l, but 1• no assertion of the privilege they c intend Cm. 'reit . whole proceed* stops ; and there stand, ashamed to retreat, and "oritaftelii - atraltiatt"' these ignorant inen should be informed; sisal the eau. 'entiou of this laws of England is , not te(t in Oda up. certain difencelesfeunditiou. if the pro. ess o f • the Courts of Westininster Hall be Testaii.d, t .ey base a direct course to enforce submisi.in. T.,. Court of King's Bench co.nmands the Sheriff to . 1 raise the Posse camitaluP ; the Courts of Chan. cerlitid . - Votclaetrier i.sne a writ of t cbcltion ; which Must also be supported, ;if ne , e'ssar ) , by the power of the country. To %%hien will our honest, itekesentatives direct their es sit of re. hellion? The guarda t ,l doubt not, are willing enough to .. be emptoyedi but they know noth:fig Of the deiditite of anti, and May think it (ie. e s_ 'sexy to . litait'for a letter from Lord PA Rai ‘GTUN." • - ThelC b crality, of the clergy at Ipswich and at Bury dues them high honour ;—they are not ad . . voratealor keeping the pour in ignorance, but friends to the universal diffusion of general know.. ledge,.. old therefore friends to their ry, and rank among these who merit its gratiltu•te ; anti the poor pfjutory. geßerations shall rastropp to. cherish their .meipte:y.at4licall, them blessed. A. most atiimatistg ?vette took place in ..tht God.lhalt, .40try.t-'rtohkekriAtuit . kat,olll.As C Lassashis4 Esq.. itk.PO:relitilutie o4 .ficr the eetstgisispir t qf Schaukilp the ltoy .14 Loineas. ql4l, pips, jt istirded il‘urespes.table inhabitants f kia; • ''' p ere power of description to see Tthis tatty British phil4nthrnpist. After sp . ending,lxis l c : with the &Wit 'of an How s n, iu prOinotim u tlie ,smelkuratien and abolition of slavery iqu. hotly & coming fur ward in the •facis.. of, kis, tirntry,to set his hand .and seal ..to the propmatiqt!....9l'• a system., 4:4" Fa,lcpifitstl to emancipate the wind from that ignorance anti ss which has always been-productive of -SLAVERY to VICE -a 9-1 !II • uf salvation, which has enti..areil su nosey thou.. sae& of the present, and is likely to endear tots of thousands onset% (stare gen ratioug, 11l the Monarch and his Family whodogit to be its trtetids and patroes. , • A. uselanch•tly aceident happened me Alotoday, at Temple, tho.vonthrf Owen Williams, • Esq. Two Gentlemen ontr.two Ladies ventured, lor their amusement, into a boat wion the mai-Stream' s at a short distance from the %ices. They•were at first so imensibly drawn towards the they did not perceive their danger. As they ap. prom:heti thou, / the force of the eorront their efforts to direct tire boat, and they we o carried upon them. One of the Gentlemen ,itap d out 'on t h e batik with the chain in his hand, and en., deatoutett to pull the boat' from the opening of rho sluice, bait the torrent was irresistible, and his strength availed nothing : the boat filled, instan. • taneously sunk, and was dashed to pieces. • In few seconds two of the party appeared at some distance struggling in the stream, which soon thr,•er them on a shoal in the middle of the river.• The third, a young Lady, sistcr of Mrs. Williams, rose no more. The Lady and Gentleman sn pro. videntialfy saved have nut sustaiti4any material injury, except in their full share of that deep tivn which °yetis helms the whole family. .. ' ';ot Ts PI P. ' --