The Statesman. — London, England, 1810-12-26 00:00:00

I .....mierwro•-•-r•ergampreiggramimmumpa ULME NEE. • ;. FLY MOL Ilk, ,Di. 23. -. , ~ , 1 T,„ s !iiii *LIM Co:hr,ane, it again . pet back c ,„,, 0 13 ty, by contrary gales. .. • .c : ,„ Jmgltsyst letter of in-Argue, which sailed ~, iii.tiei• a row days since, is put into Famoy, ;,:,,,,trary winds. c .oic in yesterday, the American ship Charles, fro , 13.:11a0, t•ound to Lisbon, with loss of bow. •, • •• this morning the p r :ices: *ii zabcth t,cipt.Kidcl, from bisbon,its 12 days passage ; over Lord ‘VELLINGroN's SeeretarY ) oith dispatches. She does nut appear to J oy pal ticular news. , 21.--Arrired ths! Stephen, from London Mirtiaiwn., put 'as by contrary winds. A „, c ,•J Saplitne, frum North Amt.- romoany with the Globe, of Sear. „,.„ 1; 1 4 ; Rakes, of i,olittots ; Zephgr, of nol, 3 34 iteW ship, built at Canada, but parted its a 0 f wilid on the '2lst ufslusemlser last; 3 the lob of Novembfr, its the Gulpft of St. .tvro:rr, the Elora, of Lynn, wit 16 weeks from c a me in this morning 14 light transports from . . nuckr ecnvoy of the ltoniutus, for the vri pse of carryilF ont Dragoon*to Portugal. Tug Elizabeth, of ;inns, is passed up Chan. I ,li4ith the remainder of the fleet. :riled the Medii,safriga:t to the Westward. Cowin this evening, the Perope sloop of war, ft ,„ T to mai, lias !tiideil a Mail at Falmouth, the Pri icess .Itigastc packet heiu7g, wrecked that.% Arr,ved the .11.1r.ii, fru.n . Qn.ebee, Captain Stan to Luntlun. Fri E N(11 P IS' C.) .% 1:: It . • ite following 1. 14144 ',:trettlar has been trannmit lot to the Jail% Ma6istr.ttes of ;he county of Mid Coat— " Sessions House fit Middlesex, • • December, 18,1810. Slft,—Tt linving been iliscoyered that French prionicri of warare in the huhit of absconding . from their places of abode, ri;'l a view of et[ cting their escape toad for their protection the enquiry, make use of the usual parole onibo hich they are fu' nished by the Cointnission fT3t4t. Lie yinasport Service, Wien first extracted , by a j•henti al process the names and . descriptiuns. of places and persms trii,in illy inserted in writing in the blanks of such errtiticates, all afterwards filled np the said blanks in their own band s I as to suit their paiticulue parpWes ; 1 ant directed his Grace the Duke of isOhil.4• 0, Lord Lieutenant nod tWitus Ronalomit of the t'imuty of Mldille&..x, ta notify to you , eet all passports tilled. up in a ['re side band, whether they bear tie seal of the tratuipart-O , Bee or not, are to he considered as IL - ger•cf, under which the pActieit shaking use Of them cast (lain so pio:ection. t Sir •• have tse Itimmu• to bes Skry " Your must obedient humble fiergant ) . •,s " fl EN It Y cc)t.CiNcwdot) sticitt, -, Clerk of the Peace for the Codnty • • • of ttiddlesiks." • L, ke. sc.. ;6170.14 .0 le SV,4TE.F 314 N Sia,—Permit me; tlimiotgb the medium of your ?Apr, to lay before yOurastaseigus Raders,. a do.. Sp I have in eont,:iniilat!tkis..l* preient this osier. taus and increasing eiiseiey to douSb Anintials in tiffs metropolis, Which daily 'taint opr dyes, and 4tgrace ea as a Peaty. Aa it is any van, be his situation. h. may,`' to carry .singly into effect en niatiert4liiit: of this ratietitide; lave, therefore, iorited; Stitirel aseau.i .- itt aiy power, the assistance of those Who 'art cOufttieed of . the necessity of the in:Amite ; not W..; paciwiary , way, as I am of opinion it mill ho accomplished vlthout raising a:iy folds whxtever.. *mild be , kro g atory to suppose that the must enlightened eity Europe eau be void of the means, to check that torrent of ferocious cruelty which at present degrade us as a Nation, and may, .for what we know, be the cause of !jai present calamities. have hinted, in 77te Messing Advertiser, it is toy itotioo to call a meeting of the friends of this undertaking early in January, should I .he fa lourcd with Correspondents, seffielisit in number and import, to render . lei arduous my exer tions, and to repeat it. every Sunday evening, at Six u'Clock, until such . airangismesata arc made as will admit of longer. adjournments. It tsar the custom of the Ancients to begin ' the New Year with sacrifices to the pity, l:ig his protection and gnidince through It—can .we, as Ciiristiaos, do better than sacrifice thee lase it•prxsitiLs of the mind, which render us Owe. OIIS in the sight of all good men, and displeaiing to the Supreme—su4h improvements *ill have a tendency to bring us peace at Ih4 last ; and raise oir hopes to. be nuMbered with Mosel that are Ll:sscd, because they had shelf' mercy.--All cur. t:.pondence 011 this business may be addressed to rue, nt N,r. 63, llountls:tiitch, free of expeace, aGiLli will be duly attended to by their Obedient burnble Servant. iOIIN JOHNSON. A cause was tried last week, at Bodfprd, before a Special Jory,• between the Commissioners fur building a new .brittge over the Ouse, and Mr. 4. Langley, a respectable tailor, to ascerta l " the value of a house belonging' to the latter, which it wig necessary the Commissioners shou l d p urchase and rul: down, but which they conceived to be partly-, rn encroachment upon the old bridge ; when, after a l ung hearing, the Jury gave a verdict for the pro. Pr'''ior of 4501. more than he could have obtained, hum the Conimissioners. The verdict was-received by !wig and loud shouts of approbation. .• • ••• • • OS JAW SUPS ILLNESS. • - . . TO THE EDLTGR OF THE STATESMANi• . SIR, .December 44, 1810 The affliction which.has visited his MAJzirc, gages the consideration of every reflecting mind. I hare just perused the long and interesting examina lion of the PhySkians, as printed by the Rotise of Commons, and offer to your notice a few senti. m6its,witiels have been•suggested by the subject. 1. The derangement of the Royal mind is_ filed nt a half-way point between delirium and insanity. The alienation of mind is complete in both, but when the consequence of the former is occasionally transient, ashen of the latter more hopeless. 2. Jr. R. WILLIS thinks the indisposition of the hotly sufficient to account fur that of the mind ; but tht,fother Physicians think differently, and with justice, inasmuch as the derariketnent has continued . (lining his present illness, when be was nut I.lhour. ing under 44 fever, or any bodily indisposition." A medical deduction from this necessarily folloas ; as the . derangement:cannot be considered as the consequence of fever or bodily indisposition, there is, assuredly, less hope of its being remand ; and the danger is . proportionately increased, that the present may become the habitual. cud %Limiters- We state of hit mind. Where the derangement is accutnpanied, by fever, or the consequence of fever, rmnove the fever and you remove the derange ment ; w here it is caused by iittemperaside, or any other exciting cause within the power of manage. ! , . ment, crust' tollitar fjfeclay. In this point of view, even his Alai asva's habitual tempt:ranee I and regularity dimiuish hope of the recovery of his mental sanity. In proportion as the danger toiife is lessened, the danger to'mental energy is increased 7 3. The loss of sight in the KING appeors to have funned a very in;eresting part of the domination, but there is one {mint of view in which this militia. tune may be considered, which does nut seem to have entered into the examination, but which I take the liberty of suggesting; as a most joteresting con. sideration. The loss of sight, particularly that species of bliuddess under which the }ciao labours (gotta wren . a), is very frequently occasioned by diseases of thd brain, which are in their nature incurable ; slch as scrofut.us tumors,. scrofulous abeesses in the brain, and other well-known productions or morbid anatomy. flow , far may . the KING'S blind ness be ()sting to any of these causes ? How Far the derangement of • mind and the loss, of eight may de. pond on one and the sank cause, ind that cause,. from its nature; immoveable? Are qiiestions of the first importance, on which the opinions of the.. Physicians nould have been desirable, and that of BAILOR in particular. 1 throw out these suggeition; for yonr considera tion, and with your leave mar ) in a future letter, resume the subject, which Is far from being ea. haunted. The Political consequences and conclu. plool arising from the report, I beg leave to pro. Pore as of the . must vital ituportanee to the atten tion of Time STATESMAN, amid am, Sir; squr Con. strut reader, • • mEpicus 114 RIME. ro the EDIVP qt 2146 sr4Titiri • ltst,4 The& titraordinary Speech (Agit' Yotix EA. SU,. in the goon of 'COMO, Council, on Thurs. dip last; hait*eited the ireli Utmost astoniskowrit itai the "hub: City of. London: As tke debate on (his impottant swirled is *aloft-nal td a future day; and es the sirrrthjAnWht. has ie rho most stn. died maunet, eurieavoere4 tq diiguise the real caeses of ettaiplaint, perhaps You would permit .me to troobto yOu with a •plaiu.statement of the case, Which, to avoid occipytog too much of your . xaluable Paiwrsl shall limit to es short a compass as possible. it appeirs that, by the constitution of ttieCity Regiments of the ,sum of 101. is . attested to be levied from the Wards for each re: ertilt, Sod th e money thus raised is distinguished hhr the ispliellation of the Drephy Tax. This sum of ten pounds being. notoriously More than Was necessary, and infinitely beyond what was given to the met', Sir JOHN EAllig4 agreed to recruit his Regiment at seven guineas a man ; it being under stood, drat if 1w Was enabled to raise them at a cheaper rate, tbo surplus should be appropriated to the internal tine of the corps, and should cum pose what is tilled the Regimental Stock-purse.-- Now comes the cause of •compleint against the wor thy eekinci sum in the hand§ of this salient Officer amounts, es it is supposed, to upwards of three thousand pounds—of course it was expeseed that - the usual extraordinary ex pellees of the Regiment would be defrayed out of the Fund—ikstead of zahich the very Subalterns are obliged to contribute one guinea each, to en able Colonel Sir Jogs to entertain, at dinner,. the General Offerers who occasionally review the Regiment!!! This is but a solitary instance". of the liberality of the Knight. Ile boasts that he gives, out of the Stocks-purse, the enormous sum of 1001. per annum to the Master of the Band, In order, as he says, to.keep up the splendour of Olt most glorious establishment —this is the whole of hii avowed expenditure: what then becomes of the remainder Ile positively refuses to account for it, wader the flimsy pretence, that 44 . as he de. rives his authority from his MAJESI'Iri Court of L icateuaney, to• that Court stoat will he be 11C. t ountabler. 4 Conti comps?, of persons nom. lerested in the welfare urftle Chy, kitirets only . - of its members heitig freemen tbareut, and npt even all those inhabitant heuseliolders;•and consequently not liable to the operation of the Trophy Tat. — How this grocer Colonel can have the assurance tot stand forth and, w ith unblushin n gfront, set the opinions Of his kllow,citizens at defiance,bas eakeitished even ' his friends I Bathos, muckmnre was their %vender ex.. cited at his bold throat of iodicting the whole Come mince who formed the Report, now the subject of investigation, fora conspiracy agaieskAtikfairfame. " I hare a great mind," says the Knight, " to set " the ArrostSßy-GemEnAL upon. them; t will . l l " consult him ; I 'trill make hie; ptuy the 'very " dickens witkihm, ift *are as ma name 'is Sir Jou% EAmta !t!" These were his erecito words, Oh, most eloquent Knight! 011,.most brave Col. ! spare the poor committee ! The very name of Sir Vt... can't appals oven the hardiest of theta ; and did fiat the shelter. of Mr. Tneitsio's silk goon efford theta a hope of protection, they woOld all run to the Knight's sugar,shop, and beg of hirn'to envelope his uev manufactured. loaf in their Report,...ratlier than . ince! . 'the vengeance of Sir V►cAßt ging. The Regiment itself affords a striking. prOof of the absurdity of. the whole system. , Every body, at all conversant in, the routine of Ganeral Officers' half yearly Inspection ofa Militia Regiment, is aworts that the boolas are looked at, merely pro , forma, without even a single item being investigated, or a single remark made! Yet the It has must int. pudently dared to cite enc . of these inspections, and to adduce Lord Hantiteterotes respected name as• a proof of 'the accuracy • of his accounts, when, in fact, if the 'investigation ordered to take 1 4ed by his Majesty's repletion, oo these oc-, casians, was even followed to, the very letter, it .could wily apply to, the accounts of the Captains with, the meta of their respective companies, and could It'aee had no sort of reference whatever, di rectly or . indirectly, to Sir Joust EAMEt. and Stock-purse, theprOtlects 4. the Trophy Tax ; a tax levied on the labour and industry 'of the Citi iens of London. The gallant Knight referring to that pat; of the Report, which rectinunentis the extension-of the ser. vices of the finite troolis,,iii the true spirit of Quito tic asnterprite, declared his wish for the removal of histiegiment to the coast, that he might have an dp portuhity of exercising thten in the hatiaidous operations of - embarking and debarking! ! Most sapient Colonel ! Did he imagine that his friend the ATTORNEY.GrENtIiii. would coattail to his"charge another expedition to Walcheren ? or did lie sympathize with a still braver Baronet, bend. ing under the weight of civic and heraldic honours., who lefts, in the full force of his aspiring luveof naval glory, all the comforts of the shop in Lombard; 'street, to go nut in his well.equipped yatch id the coast of !lon i ans] ? 'lt is only in this expectationi th a t Sir joipt Count tool forward to the glory he should derive from the expertness of Ids Corps in the new °petitions of war, which he lan-, guishes to practise It . in. What an inVileable ad. ilitiod to the army in the Peninsula would this redoubtable hero, and his far.famed troops, make I —llovi sirettld Lord Wet,t,„;Nratert swell With conscious pride; on the accession se such a force I We should no longer hear of M AIWA, with infe. dor, numbers, aoopitig up tki Lord - elf Dotiart, perfutinint in his very teeth the most drdefetts of ail possible military operations, a flank movement of kicat e*tent; which the Nabob Viscount mis, took for a retreat, until, by the Frenchmen's; retorni and his owl re.twtrograde,. ho dis. cerered that it was It mere change of poiltiou for an important purpose l Wd should no longer lament the diitressei of the wretched Portuguese,. who, driven within; the very walls of . Lisbon, are' dying daily by hundreds, of famine and disease !No! . the. Royal London Regiment of Militia, headed by Sir .1. EdOdEat Cititen, Knight, Cofonel t Alder man, and Grocer, with the StockLpurse hi his hand, would strike terror into the whole. French army ! The Peninsula would be' immediately ciacuated Kin g Feantstainto would be forthwith restored to his throne, and things would be settled to the entire wish' of Messrs. PERCEVAL, CROKER, and all the rest of the crew . , which General MATHEW so em. phatically art alatly calls, a set of'. second-hand Lawyers 1. , • , • 1! '• have trilOnsied beyond the limits I had given to-myself—ln a day or two,. with your permission, I resume thii important subject, and point out the coipplete job, which these tiro Regiments form, paying , propel' attentionAo the merits of the .0.11.13Wr..C1LM0N5(... J VI.10; 'nay thillwe of one of the western waggons, on hie rosd.to,-the metropolis, was qn Tuesday made the dupe of his- humanity, Hearing, near Fenny. Striptford, the cries.of a female in distress, he has. tested to the spot, and, as he approached, perceived ouln, • who had been bating her with a stick, run *way. The woman had her hands tied, appeared extremely ill, and was nearly naked. She related.. a plausible tole, and requested to be put in the road to Litchfield : her deliverer, after complying with - this desire, thre'w his frock over her, and pressed hilf.a.crown upon her acceptance. lie diet) pur. sued his road, but found, shortly after, on search ing his oUtiiets, that the damsel lidtl -lightened then% of ten guincat„ some notes, and Ms witch. . - EAR :IN lola. tENERAL ORQERs. . • litad-gwvterA t gliouilto -"lir, April 4,,180. GEN-;11AL OIMERS, BY MAJ.-6311. GOWDI E. • . Further extracts (ruin the confirmed prorve ling, of the General Court- M irtial, which a.setehled at Bangalore, on the Ist of Neve Tiber, Ilia% and of which Major:General Weide isTresident ) are Pub fished to the army.. . . Major David Courtney Kenny, late*commaniling . gel battalion 191 h regiment native iwf antry, nrdered in arrest by the officer commanding the army, charged with the following . • . .. CRINCS.--For nuttiny and sedi•ini, is haring joined in is imost dangerous and alarming mini, mid sedition, „With oink plate io the fart and garrison of serinviostim, on mitt be twixt the 1..,t1i day of Julis last % andild of Aogust follosi Mg. during a hitch fterilet the Kari i•A:ni §:ed on the troops ,if ..I'.< Ma jesty and thus'e of the I:mown:is , said their ally the Itaj lb. of al rsare ; mid seitli un the public treasury. Isy order of ,Major-Uesaal Gowdie. Cosaninadg the army, Fort St. Geroge (Signed) T. 11. S. CONWA Y. Cd Oct. ISM .Adjotant-tiewtral of the Army. S.;:yre •tek..--..1r he quart are of opinion tii.it the Pris o ner, Majoe,tienny lit guilty of the' charge prePrred against hint. which being in bleach of the Artirlessof War. nod Sub% er.ive of good order and military discipline, they do sentence bias. the said alajtir .gelll4, to tie cashiered. • (Signed) il,katilt.Y W A 11711.4 illaj.-Gen. nod Pres. Cur.- i timed. ' (Sighed) .F. GO WD t 1.".„.Maj.-Oen. Commanding the army in Chief. • • The General Court-Martial of which M ,jOr. General Warde is President is dissolved ; the inc.o. "Jeri and evidences will return to their respective stations and corps forthwith. Ix dissolving the General Coort . .lll4rtill,,of*liich Major-General Warde is President, Major-Gen. Gowtlie published to the army the following copy •uf a letter, ntlilreivd to him by. the Chief Secretary • , to Governnient, with the expression of his fullest , concurrence in. the sentiments of his Loritsiiip in council, as they. relate. Jo 'Alajor-General Mardis • And the 'Officers composing the General Court. Martial of which lie was 'President. littt.lTART REPAR.TIIFST. . - . iTO MAJOR-OhNERAL Guitots, COMBAS/111Na 111110 AttMlf IN CHIEF. • i am directed by the Right Tlonnural.le the Goveritor-General in Council, to'acknow ledge the receipt of:your letter of the td instant, and to convey to yon the thanks of his Lordship in Conn.. cil, for the commhnication of the proceetli i ngs on 'the several trials therein referred to, and for the information, that it is your• intention todissolva the General Court-Martial,at Bangalore. 2. In conveying to you, the entire concurrence of the Governor-General in council, in the, propriety and wisdom of every measure you ' have adopted, and in the justice of every opinion you have eaves.' • sed, relative to these proceedings, his Council c.innot but deeply lament, that th'e must essential interests .f the public should have re quired, that both the Officer commanding the army, and the Govertior-General in Commit; Shuuld with. hold their approbation from several parts of Oulu proceedings. 3. fits Lordship in Council is; 'however, tissue., ed, Wit he only anticipates your sentiments:At/hes , he addi, that, in performing this painful and, mi.., gracious duty, he has done the West bideu to, the upright and hoituttrable motives of the femme,. able Officer - a who comprised. the Court, and who, he welt knows, have discharged their deliiate and distressing trust, with a pure and conscientroos re. ,Karl to the dictates of their own Mind trod his Lordship in Council has only the more to regret, that the points on which the judgments of the Conte • have been thought to .be erroneous; were , 4kortagnt and f uudamental to admit of their receiving even the tacit sanction of public quthurity. I have 'the honour tu.be, Sir,. • your most obedient humble servant, ' • (Sigurd) A. FAI.OOI CR, Chief See. toGuwt. • Fort St. Cour4e, 2t April, ISIU. The Crencral Court-Martial, assembled at Walla.. jahhad, on the 2tl instant, and of which Colonel Wilkinson is President, is dissolved ; mid the Pre sident/ Mentbers ' and Evidences, will return to 2 . • their respective stations and Corps forth with. A Orken Ribbon is become vacant by the death 4 - the Doke of fauEEssoustv, for which there welt ready Northern Candidates in abundance. _ The circumstances relatite to the arrival of L W • CIES AraNAPARTE in this.,eutintry," artiaabl'lO he • ' ai follow : iu consequence of the 4epeated dementia • uf.Napot.cox, that he ahOuld 'separafe froM her wife, and suffer hie f owe destiny to littotranged o by the FrenFlt tiller ; and ..the repeated refusal 4 Lucian to conform to breve ilegiends, the lacier be.- 11 1.1 1.t 0 ¢449t rebeinive that forcible ;Denotes would .. be resorted in `by Di'irot.'s6k; and therefore I..ti- • OEN, many moistitakagoi . 'wen* (rum Rome to Mr. -MIX, iris, Mielsreirat Sardinia, -requesting thud .thet cieniiiMtaii wooldobtain from hitt Ci.urt a pass port for !Amino and big family to proceed to Ame rica. Mr. lift,t4 naturally angioirs to facilitate 'the removal of one brother' from another, who Seemed likely to resort to the most desperate trio* lence in order to accompliviitis purpose, ventured to send an answer, encouraging Lucien to proceed to Sardinia, and• then commtinicand *That he had done to our , Government, who immediately ex.. ' pressed their .refusal to grant the passports.. lit. • Wu. then wrote to LUCIEN, to. Inform "din, that ' the permission which he requested could .not,be oh tained. ',Lucius, however, soon availed himself of the favourable letter from Mr. Hut., and proceed ed to Sardinia, .alledging . that the prohibitory letter ncrer reached him. . Wednesday, the 19th instant, an Inquest *art held by J AMEN GRIG . O, Esq. Coroner, tin the h0dy...,. of Th omas Bailey, an a g ed convict, at Lan g stooe,', Harbour. Tins is the only death that Ia occurred . , on board the Portland epnvict.shiP, fur the last . fourteen months, which is the more remarkelater. - when weconsidet theidesciiptiun . of men confitied on board. the hulks, aged from 14 '-to BQ, auti of depraved atol vicious habits, with bf•aken constito. lions before,.they are sent on board. Thu morta lity eight or; ten years ago was dreadful, nearly two hundred having died io.t wo years. 'One day lait wash •wandestroyed, by rtainostir fialgorro, Esti: . In ,Oner'of liis plantations, on ft farm in the occupation of Mr. T. tessoi.e, of Gayton.Thorpe, .Norfolk„ the amaziog nuutber of 441.11, brace of hares. . . a _ . ' 4 , 4