The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-04-20 00:00:00

pl n itom must vanish befo►e the light of reason, and. tie itelnsion will become universally evide►►t, when, perhaps, too late fer the application of a 'remedy.— ji Ministers, in fact, were under the influence and controul of BONAPARTE himself, hew could they wo re ehrtnally aid his destructive designs against us than by sowing the seeds of discontent throughout Fn;land, and by completely disuniting the affections o f all Ireland; for let it be remembered, that Catho. iic Emancipation is a measure as anxiously looked for by the generality of the Protestants of Ireland, as by the Catholics themselves. A Heligoland Mail has just arrived, which brings the following:-.- " HELIGOLAND, APRIL 15. " We have not for iconsiderable time been so long without any intelligence from the Continent. Some boats, which left this Island about a fortnight ago, are not returned, and it is supposed must have been captured. The increased vigilan ce, which has been the cause of so rigorous a prohibition of the in.. tercourse with this place, proceeds from the wish of the French Government to conceal the movements made by those troops to the North. We are without any lo al news." American Papers have reached us to the 4th March, one day later than those brought by the Armala to Liverpool, but they do not add much to the Weill , genre which we received by that conveyance. We have given some extracts in our preceding columns. ALARMING STATE OF THE COUNTRY. MORE RIOTS: CARLISLE, Aram 18. We are sorry to state, that the perturbation of the popular mind, excited by forestallers, &c. buying up provisions, has not subsided. During the whole week, carts have been conveing grain, and other articles of provisions, to be shipped; but such was the dread of popular feeling, that they were com pelled to make a circuit by Rockliff, and to cross the river. On Monday evening, the premises of Den ton-mill, near this city, were assailed, in consequence of a suspicion that the miller had been buying grain for exportation. Several windows were brokrti.— In the mean time, the indignation of the mob, which had been prevented from openly exhibiting itself, nas been indicated by more wary operations; the effects of which were apparent on Thursday night. On that night, persons assembled from several parts of Carlisle ) to the appointed place of rendezvous, armed with various offensive weapons. They proceeded thence to a place where a vessel was lying some dis tance below Port Carlisle, loaded with bacon, cheese, and flour,—we understand, on the account of Messrs. Powrzes, of this city.' The vessel was instantly boarded, and, in a very short space of time, the mob &wed the eatgo, tild t 46 dividing the spoil," car ried off the whole. BARNSLEY. April 16. On Wednesday (the market day) at Barnsley, a disposition to riot manifested itself; the cause of complaint alleged, was the high price of provisions, particulirly pittatoes. In consequence of an express sent to G. W. WENTWORTH, Esq. the Magistrate, ho, knowing that the Wakefield Royal Volunteers were that day on duty, sent orders to them and the Wakefield troop of Yeomanry Cavalry to prepare Limediately to set out for Barnsley. The latter commenced their march with all expedition, but were :net on the road by a messenger, informing them that the civil power alone had succeded in allaying the tu mult. They immediately returned, and stopped the infantry, just ready to commence their march. The Dublin Patriot of Tuesday last contains the following extract of a letter from Lanesborough, in the county of Longford, announcing a recent riot in that town : " I am sure you will be happy to heir that the Threshers got a good dressing, on Friday night, iu Lanesborough : tbey came into the town and were breaking open the houses and stores. Mr. Baum, that commands the Hertford Militia quartered here, asked them what they wanted ? on which they fired at him. He then called up the men, and returned the fire with great effect. Therewere four killed and a vast number wounded. When the account came off yesterday, Capt. Wx. Davras cad a party of the Laneshorough corps were after them, and bad taken a number of prisoners." WATERFORD, Aran, 15. The price of potatoes in oar market yesterday ves Is. 6 d. per stone. In the coarse of the day, a number of people went down to l'amage and took possession of two sloops laden with that no reivary article, which had pot into this harbour on their voya,„,..e liars Clonakilty to a market. While we were prelMring fur press one of them passed our windows in possession of the peo ple, who were cheered by numbers on shore. The other soon followed her in equal triumph. With the exception of this com pulsory change of market, no symptom of outrage has appeared. We understoad that Joue Dim, Esq. our active and ex emplary Chief Magistrate armed 25 guineas premium to the Captain of each vessel to induce them to befog their potatoes quietly to our market. The first vessel is now moored at the It.rket-home, and is in possession of the peace officers. The Mayor, instantly on her arrival, went on board, an d no danger is to apprehended to the property. The Magistrates, we under. stand, have hargained for the whole, which will this day be sold nut to the people. The Captains, in addition to the purchase money, are to be paid a bounty of 255. per ton, of which 20s. are Snowed by the Committee of Merchants, and Si. by the C a rr' ration. A spirit of turbulence unfortunately continues at Stm:kport :—A letter, dated on Thursday evening, says, they had been tolerably quiet all day, but had received alarming acoounts from the country. The weavers still assembled in great numbers, and pro ceeded iu bodies to the houses of gentlemen and fanners, from Whom they extorted money and victuals. Many mirried arms openly. Dr. Mticlim.'s TIIE STATESMAN. house was attacked On Wednesday night, and several bullets fired at Mm without any et: fect. Letters of the same date represent the meeting of the Luddites, the day before, on Cheadale-heath, to have been held, not merely with a ♦iew to the outrages which immediately ensued, but also for the purpose of arranging fu ture operations on a larger scale. They were as sembled by a party of weavers, the majority of whom had been discarded for misconduct. Seve ral harangued the mob, and induced theta, it is said, to elect a body of delegates to hold " a Second Congress." They spoke of sending deputations to other manufacturing districts ; and in the mean time, until the strength of their friends could be ascertain ed, they counselled their auditors to avoid contests with the military, and to confine themselves to noc turnal depredations. It is stated, that at this meet ing, which they denominated their 44 First Con gress," they determined upon an immediate attack of the manufactory of Messrs. BURT and Co. but were prevented in consequence of its being guarded by soldiers. TRURO, Aram 17. We are happy to he able to state that tranquillity bas been completely restored amongst the miners. /They have all return ed to th.:ir work,under an amutanee that every possible exertion would be made to procure for them a supply of barley. HUDDERSFIELD, APRIL 15. A Special Sessions was hoiden here on Monday last, and se veral persons underwent examinations before the Magistrates re speetiqg the late desperate attack at Mr. Curry/moat's mill, but nothing material could be discovered. The Magistrates came to the resol tion of enforcing the Watch and Ward Act in this town. Boat, who died of his wounds, was interred here at six o'cl.• k on Thursday morning, great numbers of people poured in from all quarters during the morning in expectation of seeing the funeral which was over before the majority of them arrived; all is now quiet. Hartley was interred at Halifax the preceding day with considerable parade; a number of the person, who follow, . 1 . him to his grave were dressed in mourning, and wore round their arm a bandage of white crape. MANCHESTER, Arm. 16. Alt is quiet at present in this towp ; but yesterday night, eight or niuc persons w ere taken up for breaking into a baker's shop, and taking therefrom a quantity of bread, and committed to the New Bailey. The cavalry have nightly patroled the streets siuce the disturbances on the Bth inst. Since receiving the above; we have learnt that the rioters at Manchester, OR Saturday last, seized all the potatoes they could find in the market, and car ried them off without payment. Similar proceedings also took place at Stockport on the last market-dayil The term " Adventurer," applied by Mr. WHIT- I BREAD to Mr. PERCEVAL, reminds us of the follow-1 ing apt remarks of Mr. MILES, in his celebrated let ter to the PaINCE REGENT:—" When men press forward to the first offices in the State, without the necessary talents and information for employment, it proves their effro :tery to be on a par with their want of principle, and it behoves the Legislature to prescribe bounds to the pretensions of those who consider the patronage of the Crown, and the funds destined by gratitude and munificence to reward meritorious public services, as fair objects of game. Whenever a State has the misfortune to tolerate such maxims, it accelerates its own destruction.-- A band of political adventurers, for the purposes of plunder and personal aggrandizement, will sneak into the higher departments of the State, to the ex clusion of men of property, character, and abilities, whose state in the empire would be a pledge for their fidelity, Men of this description, and we have too many of them, will seek to secure their insidious usurpations, by the creating of unnecessary places, and looking only to their own immediate benefit, will care little the the consequences of a prodigality, which leads, by a direct road, to national bankrupt cy. The dreadful example of France has no terrors for these gentlemen ; on the contrary, the catas trophe of the Court of Versailles appears to have sharpened their appetites for the very abuses which accomplished its destruction, with that of the Royal Family. When men sin against expe rience they can have very little claim to compas sion. The public discontents in France, in 1789, did not exceed those which may be heard at this moment in every parish in England, Scotland,l and Ireland—a revolution was at that time asl little in the contemplation of its infatuated and be-1 sotted Government, as a descent of the moon from her orbit, when the explosion on the 14th of July annihilated the authority of Louis the XVlth, and subverted a Throne, the oldest, and supposed to be the best established in Europe." On Frith? the Committee for managing the affairs at Lloyd's represented to the Admiralty Board, the probability, that from the prevalence of contrary winds, a timber of- homeward-boußdAnerchantmen mey be detained in the Chops of the Channel, in a distressed situation for water and previsions. A letter in reply was received from Mr. CROICER, stating " that Admirals Lord KEITH and Sir ROBERT CALDER have been directed to use their best exertions to push out any cruizers which may be within their reach, with supplies of water and provisions, for the mer chant vessels that may be beating about the Chops of the Channel, and in want thereof." We rejoice to see that Mr. IlonmEn has given no tice of a motion on the subject of Colonel WMA non's office, for Wednesday, next, in order, that if the PRINCE REGENT, unlike every Sovereign that has sat on the throne, must have a Secretary, the extra ordinary appointment may be paid out of his own privy purse, and not thrown as a burthen on the people. At no time within the memory of man were the exertions of Government more conspicuous, than previous to the late meeting of the Common Council. All the great bodies, the Bank, the India-House, Chartered and Joint Stock Companies, the public Boards, the Bankers, with the whole host of Con tractors, Commissioners, and dependants of every description were upon the alert,and a canvass at every door was made to bring up the known partizans, to convert the hostile, or at least to keep them and the doubtful away. Poor old Sir JOHN ANDLasore, Mr. KEISSLE, and other invalids, who had in fact retired from attendance, were prevailed on to attend; and yet all would not avail. The City Address, praying for the removal of what is called the six-and-eight ' peony Administration, was carried ; and this Address they cannot keep from the ears of the PRINCE, be cause it must be presented to him sitting on the Tlrone. The example thus set will, - no doubt, be followed by every considerable body of independent ; men throughout the kingdom. The City of Roches , ter meets this day for the purpose, and the sense of the nation will be unequivocally pronounced on their merits. There is a report to which we could not give cre dit, but that in these days there seems to be a dispo sition,to transgress all the rules of decency and de corum which used to be held sacred. We hear that an intention has been signified from a high character, of a grand Dinner to be Oven on the 11th of May , vest, to the Commander-in-Chief, by the General Officers of the British Arm!, !—So that by this sort d meeting, ender the pretence of a dinner, they I are to convey to the Army their sense of his Royal ('Highness's merits, and their approbationof hit return to office!!! Mr. PoLE, it is said, returns no more as State Secretary to Ireland. He will be succeeded iu that office by Mr. ARBUTIINOT. On Friday night a new writ was moved by Mr. WELLESLEY POLE, for the county of Antrim, in the room of Colonel O'NEIL, who has forfeited his seat by voting without having taken the oaths. At the, same time a Bill was brought in and read a third time to indemnify him against the other penalties. The Colonel lately accepted a place under Government, wlvich vacated his seat. He was re-elected—and for getting to take the oaths anew, he has incurred the penalties of the Act, which are the forfeiture of his seat, and a'Sne of 5001. foieach vote. Yet the Ho nourable Gentleman will no doubt •be re-elected, i through the influence of the House of Hertford. THE LATE HORRID MURDER IN CIIESIIIRE.—The Coroner's inquest, in the case of Mrs. Murray and ' her servant for the murder of her husband, have re turned a verdict of Wilful Murder. The servant is committed to Chester goal; but Mrs. Murray is not sufficiently recovered from the wound, inflicted in the attempt which she made on Sher own life, for re- THE FLAG OF TRUCE. grArgSll4N OPPICE, TWO ()Tures. We have made particular enquiry at all the Public Mar, where the dispatches, said to have been brought to Dover by a flag of truce, should have ar rived, before this hour, and find that nothing of the kind has been received there. Notwithstanding this, the arrival was announced at LLOYD'S this fore noon, and Stocks rose one per cent. in consequence; but now that it is believed on 'Change the rumour is unfounded, they are' again on the decline. It is thought that the comniveication is from the celebrated Baron GERAMB. • The Address to the REGENT has met with a very poor reception at Manchester. It has now been ly ing at the Exchange-room, Police-office, and other public places, for about a week ; it has likewise been hawked about at public taverns, and from door to door, and has obtained 300 signatomps up to this time. This plainly proves that it is not the sense of I the town. A mail, meanly dressed, attracted much potice on Saturday near Temple-bar, where he stood foe many hours with a label in front of his hat with the following inscription—" I am starving,' I want work, and have a good character." Saturday, the Loan MAYOR went, attended by the Governors of Bethlem and Bridewell 'Hospitals, the Sheriffs, &c. acrd laid, at three o'clock, tbe'first stone of the new Bethlem Hospital, on the site of the pub: lk-house, formerly the Dog and liuck, in- St.. George's-fields. The procession passed over Black. friars-bridge, and returned over Westminster-bridge; and through the Strand to the City. Thursday being St. George's day, it will be cele brated by the PRINCE RESENT giving a splendid en= tertainnaent to the Knights of the Garter. The new Equestrian piece, at Coventikarden Theatre, is, we understand, the joint production of Messrs. FAWCETT and Dianix. The Haymarket Theatro will open on the 15th of May, with a most excellent company, for the season. Miss SMITH IS engaged for five years to perform in Drury-lane Theatre. POPE and C. KEMI3I.It, it is said, are also in treaty with the Committee of Ma nagement. Mr. BANNISTER, the public will hear with great pleasure, u ill again head the comic ranks at the re opening of Old Drury. Mrs. Mot; vratx, we have much pleasure in stat ing, is in so faira way of recovery, that she will short. ly resume her place in the English Opera. Friday morning, a private in the 55th ftegi. ment of Foot, who was under sentence at Car lisle by a Court Martial, for desertion, in a fit of desperation cut his throat in a most desperate man ner, in the guard-house there, where he was con fined. Faint hopes are entertained of his recovery.. Wm. Ware, a seaman of the Naiad, on Friday last, about to receive the punishment of • being flog ged round the fleet, agreeably to the sentence of a Court-Martial, for an attempt to commit. an unna tural crime, eat his throat, but sarical assistatny• being immediately administered, .it is supposed he will recover. Two other seamen were punished the same day, by being flogged round the fleet. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 18. . - Sailed last evening the Ocean, 913 gins, Captain Plampin, far the Mediterranean—she took with her the trade that was at this port; the Hannibal, 74 runs, Captain Pym ; Vengettr, 74 guns, Captain Duntlas ; and Fawn sloop of war, 20 guns, Capt.. Fellowes, for the station off Cherburgh ; the CroccOil.., 92, guns, Captain Lumley, on a cruise; the Cutnls7rlnnd, 74 guns, • Captain Baker; Plantagenet, 74 guns, Captain Lloyd; Vene rable, 74 guns, He.tr-Admiral Durham, for Portsmouth ; the Pnietiers, 74 guns, for I'ortsmotith ; and Q men, 98 guns, fur Basque Brads. The Decoy ebtter, Lieutenant Pearce, sailed on Thursday for the Eastward. moral. The falling in of the Highgate Archway, had been anticipated by the workmen for n”arly a fortnight previous to the catastrophe. It is considered to hie originated in too economical a regard to the quantity of bricks used in the arch, and the quality of the cement for uniting them. This accident, though a partial evil, will be evidently a pusiic advantage, since it is now wisely determined, by the proprietors, to reduce their tenebrious tunnel to an a! ell of about 30 feet in length, which will be under and will sup port Hornsey-lane: An accident of a serious nature took place on Fri day night last, throuzh the intoxication of the coach man of the Worcester mail (who, notwithstanding his being in that situation, was not prevented by tl:,a pro prietor at Oxford from proceeding), in consequence of which, the coach in passing over Uorchester-bridge was overturned, having a gentleman and lady from Kidderminster, and a gentleman from Bourton-on the-nater, inside passengers. who escaped without much injury I • but an outside passenger was most se riously bruised. A gentleman named Sparks, who was going from Dublin, to join the present Theatrical Company in Cork, unfortunately fell from off the coach on Sunday se'nnight, near Johnstown, and was killed. Some private letters are said to have been received I A few days ag o, as a person ,near Fulwood, in from Lisbon, of the Ist inst. concerning the earlier 1 the neighbourhood of Prestos - 1, was making a hole in stages of the siege of Badajos, and which speak of the floor of a house, he discovered a quantity of Nil- Lord WELLINGTON'S having begun to batter in breach. ver coins, of various sizes, of the reigns of Edward TILE MA RI ‘ EIN. Communications, it is said, had taken place between -.2.-- the Fourth, Elizabeth, James the First, and Charles the Allied Army and the Garrison by flags of truce, the First. Those of Edward were nearly defaced, , CORN-EXCHANGE, Aran.9o. the particulars of which were not publicly known. but the others, including a crown-piece of Philip Zliis i ta , i the fresh f argils of i W re h a tr d , s ni co it t l , : t h l e qu k ao e ti a Lit oo German Papers have been rec4ived, but they throw su ‘ piny, which eni ca ly ases "ln a re/Leticia in price of abont 45.. and .r.. the Fourth, of Spain, and two sixpences,• were in a "`"": no additional light upon the politics of the North. good state of preservation. per quarter. Barley and Malt, dull sale, nearly at last-quo.O. r t .tc o es. not Peas and Beaus An approaching interview between Boxs.emtvs and arrivals Or OTts ci " ati r :i ' vari ation . a ttis lit a tl rt `s iie aio rya . •r; his father-in-law, the Emperor FRANCIS, is still There is now grewing in the gard•nt of Mr. Dod, of Bolt, Denbighshire, two sweet blowing Almond filly at the last quotation. Flour, in full supplyovithartalt,,. ' spoken of. It dues not appear that any military Trees of large size, which produce fruit in as high radar!. . preparations are making by Austria, of an extensive state of perfection, as in the most warm climates. , ‘ybrat . 96 5 1164 19fis , Tick do. (new) .. 53 t'Al Fine ditto l3l b 8 Do. (Vine Old) .. 65 6 • nature. In St. Ann's Parish, Soho, the wooden. posts at Rye Letters have been received from the Coast of Rol- the corner of the streets are removing, and there are Barley rl 73 1 Poland do. ...... 50 Si. Q 6 ix 'olatued 59 land, and from Dunkirk, to the 17th instant, but 1 substituting en their place cast iron in the shape of i Matt Q 6 P (boilers ) • ' - 1). )8288 I Rape Seed .ef.o XV! nothing is said respecting the departure of BONA- cannon, which are not only ornamental, but will ul- , tlriy do . '" rs 60 66 Fine Flour PARTE from Paris. Nearly all the troops which were , , timately, it is said, be a saving to the Parish. 1 Beaus ,„ . 62 68 Seconds lately distributed over Holland have been marched , A farmer of Muggiagton was lately convicted in 1 MTH/ I MA hIARK F.T.--A PR IL SO. to Prussia. The Duke of Pr.scarris, it is said, was the mitigated penalty of 701. and costs, for making : To sink . the Offal, per stone of 81h. about to leave Amsterdam, for Paris, where, it is candles for Isis own private use... - I Deer ....ss. 2,1. in 6:. 41. I Head of Cattle this day : . 6. fit I Beast. . 1790 supposed, be would remain, to superintend the dif- I A. Gentleman who had a small claim on Counsel. ! Mennene ..6s. 44. to . ' V ...7d. tot to 8 , .. 04. Sheev) ferent departments of the Government during the ab- ler R-----, met him the other day on his poney. and :Rork ...6s. • , to 71. 64. Calker Bence of BonaraavE. • observing that he was not the same colour he was a , s lualb —*As. 611. ro 9s. 0,1. Ple4 . 30J The Call of the House of Commons stands for . .14, 1 year ago: the Counsellor promptly remarked, that i : HAY-MARKET. 04 ' :'...- 51. . od. to 6t. or. 04. • Wednesday, and Is to be strictly enforced ; the motion he did not know what colour the poney was at that . . .... 91. 104. od. to Si. S. 041. • °tube Catholic Quastioa CetneS-On the neat day. ilium ) but $t present he was very near a Dan. • - c ..... el. Ss. od. to 71. Os. Od. Arrived the Wealands, HntlNon ; Ann, Cassop ; Venn, Ciesman ; Ranger, Whitehead, from Sunderland ; Active, Pi ;eon, from Newcastle; Lark, Harris. from London; Trih lry, Tyreart, from Sunderland ; and Havock, Wood, from North Yarmouth. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 19. Sailed his Majesty's ship Porcupine with a convoy for Spain and Gibraltar, &c. 4flcc.; and his Majesty's ships Rose and Hope, for Guernse j . FALMOUTH, Aran. 177 Arrived his Majesty's ship Elizabeth, from a cruise; and Ike Mind cutter from ditto. . Sailed yesterday the Walsinghasa packet, with the Mail for Lisbon; and to-day thr Lord Hobart packet for the Brazils; also the Primes, Amelia packet, %hit the Muni for Italia, k c. The Elizabeth packet has gone Into the rnads, and will sail fir Lisbon to-morrow with another Mail should the wind be fair. DEAL, AP RIG 19. Arrived the Elizabeth, Eliott, from . Lisbon. Sidled 'lds Majesty's ships blus, Orion, Cottragenx, and Ariel, for the The HiJena sloep of war has arrived at Scilly, from Ja maica; we may therefore expert in a day or two the official ac count of the maim between the Southampton and the Amethyst frigates. r - . .. • !ti . P I 1 1 11 •' • • ~~ •~ • ,~ t' ~~ 6i ,~}. V `'~#.~ <<