The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-09-22 00:00:00

• i ff irriO It or .rrnt- S•PATEDI AN. • •• • s. • • il e nyensi how my soul indignant feel. The p. neglected Tor's appeal*. • 4 As roved the portals of Nirtiitehall, In poverty you tee him crawl ' r Whilst oungsters fill hi! 'tern Pagan, Throughout thi Hem of observation. r)". Shame on the men from whence move g is • The tale of J °hotly Nevreome's woes. Sta,—Considerable interest has been incited by the appearance of a Poem, entitled Johnny Nerecotne in the Nary. The Work is written by a Gent:eman not unknown in the walks of literature, and who, I am told, served with NELSON for many years, and shared in his most important battles, therefore he mast be pretty well qualified to depict the career of a Johnny Newsome. The Plates, descriptive of Naval occurrences and manners, are done from original de sips by the Author of the Poem ; they are charac teristic, and correct in the most minute points. The life of a sailor abounds with adventure ; his path is over the bosom of death, surrounded by every peril fatal to human nature ; yet the sailor laughs at danger and despises death in its most painful form—his nar rowest escapes are attributed to chance, and his most grateful prayer, 4‘ Thank GOD it was no worse." — lip hears himself in battle with the greatest self-pos. Session ; whether the ocean rages over his head, or the It:under of a long-resounding line assails him, his spirit rises with the danger, and his resolution re mains unshaken. Remove this being from an ocean covered with wrecks and purpled with gore —remove him on shore—valour's stern eye beams with tender• nevi, and ho becomes at once the pupil of nature and love. But here the change does not stop. Wild as the wave on which he was reared, he plunges into 210)y -/halt of errors and follies, and the devotee of glory be comes the victim of passion. To mark the contrast be twixt cool and &liberate valour on hoard, and un governable sAlies on shore, is one of the objects of she present work. The hardships endured by the Navy, where " All promotion goes by favour," DTP forcibly pointed out, and the conduct of those presiding at the helm. lashed with a masterly pest. — The circumstance of boys being, from Borough in terest, placed over the heads of veterans, has amused theAutlior's indignation, and his animadversions upon a certain Board will, no doubt, be read with deep in terest. The miseries and neglect of Officers ersntinz interest has been long known. Johnny Nercco*ee lays before the Public scenes at which humanity re volts; the work is worthy every one's attention— as all must feel for the oppressions exercised over the bend of a veteran British sailor. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, AN OLD CORRESPONDENT. Oppo,lie SOUTH AMERICA.—The city of Caraccas, before the earthquake in 1812, contained about 45,000 in habitants. By that calamity and the subsequent and yet desolating war, its population has been reduced to 7000 souls. The population in'many other parts of Venezuela is supposed to have soffered nearly in the same proportion, and from the latter cause. It is said, that Denmark meditates a closer alli ance wish Sweden, and that the King and Prince It yal of the latter country are about to take a jour. they to. Copenhagen. • A matrimonial alliance is, of course, the measure hinted at, but we believe that the present King of DENst &RR has but one daughter, WmitztattNa, MARIA ) and that she is only 10 years oW.. . There are five Dandies in the obituary of last week. The surgeons who examined the holies of two of them, report that their death was occasioned by a constipation of the bowels, caused by eaces%ire tight lacing. The others, it is presumed, died of the same .disorder. REMARKABLE CIRCUIRSTANCE —At the conclusion of the Midrilesex Sessions n.. Thursday, 131 pe r sp os were discharged by proclamation, againk whom no human beingappeared to prosecute. Several had been eight months in custody. About 30,000 firkins of butter Imo already come to market, and but two instances of fraud in, making op Mei yet occurred; in consequence, we presume, of the strictness of the inspection, and the number of fines and forfeitnros in such cases last season.— ( Newry Teleg raph ) Friday the Right Hon. Mr. Secretary GRANT ar rived at Dublin Castle. SURREY TIIRAYRE.—The Melo.drima of The In risible Witness; or, The Chapel in the Woqd, pro. diced last night at this house, is not only one of the 'most interesting and strikingly effective ever brought out at the Surrey, but is an instance of expedition on the part of Author, Performers, and Artists, quite unparalleled in the history of theatrical,. Mr. Dte• DIN received the French copy too late on last Tues day night to peruse it till Wednesday ; translated, altered, and adapted it by two o'clock on Thursday, when the parts were copied, and a reading took place with the performers; it was rehearsed twice on Friday,. three times on Saturday, and produced on Monday; with two most singularly effective new sceoe', and with a correctness throughout equal to What many weeks of preparation hare scarcely ic- Complisheil in other iostances. It was announced for repetition with the loudest tokens of approval. DIiSOLUTION Of ARK r.tuE .111AUE Easi;--Dean when residing on a living in the country, had occasion one day to unite a rustic couple in the hely bands of matrimony. The ceremony being over, 11l husband began to pull in resolution, and falling (,is some husbands will) into a fit of repentance ( he said, " Your Reverence has tied this knot tightly I &tiny but, under favour, may I ask your It.verence ifs to be you could untie it again ?" " Why, no," replied the Dean, " we never' do that at this end of the church ' • but tell you how you may mar. ige it." " How?" cried the man eagerly. "By inot stepping to the other end of the church," said the D-an, point ing to the belfry, "there you'll liar' a rope r . and may do it yourself." CO, We are sorry to find that some disturbances have taken place at Buttsley, Ithich have led to a breach of the peace. Oft' Tuesday 'he belltnati of that town was enipl,lPd by the weavers to proclaim a Public Meeting, and the Civil Authority committed him to prison. An assemblage of persons followed, the prison was forced, and the hellnian liberated. Fur ther irregularities ensued on Wednesday, and military aid was required. The Manchester and Ssiford Yeo manry marched hence in consequence on Thursday about noon, and their presence hasmaterislly tended to restore tranquillity. A number of the turbulent had assembled round the Bull Inn on that day, but soon dispersed on the approach of the Yisumaiiry, without having committed any violence. - The Yeomanry were afterwards employed in as sisting the Civil Power to escort prisoners, some of whom, after esamina t.on, were put into po4t.ehai.es, to places of proper security. Some other persons under detention were in the discharged ; and on seven o'clock on Thursday night tranquillity was completely restored. All who hid assemhted had retired. Yesterday afternoon, about four o'clock, one of Itlek pritiates arrived at the Police Office on his' wey to Colonel Doherty at the bar racks, with dispatches from Captain flindley, and with the satisfactory intelligence that all was quiet at Burnley. The Yeomanry had escorted several prisoners to Padiham ; and it is expected that the cams may arrive in Manchester this day, as there was every probability ;oat the necessity had ceased for and further continuance on this painful duty.— ( Manchester Chronicle, Sept. 19.) When Mr. KEAN left Paris, he proceeded to Ge neva, and thence to Mont Blanc, and to that Con. vent of St. Bernard, where he and his fellow-ira yellers were entertained in the most hospitable man ner by the Prior and Moults fora day and night.— Mr. KEAN) osservlng an old grinner in one of the apartments of the convent, opened it, and played some _little airs, which he also sung. 'F'iis highly delighted the Prior and Fathers, who pressed him much to lengthora his visit. Thence Ito returned to Paris, wheats TALM 1 again paid him every attention in his power, and performed his prin-ipal characters, which Mr. KEAN tlas so desirous to see. Ctiai•i's floserrAr..—Yesterhy being St. Mat thew's Day, or Oration D,:y of this School, the Loan MAYOR and Sheri!ls in their State roriages, ac..o,n. ponied by severs! Aldermen in their carriages, at. tended by the City Marshals on horseback, ...tars:sal. men, &c. on foot, proceeded in gaud st .te from the Mensien.house In Christ Church, N. , *g.: where they were met by the Governors of the several Royal Hospitals. •A most excellent Sermon was preached on the occasion by. the Rev. Jona Motets PlT`•t AN, A. M. who took hi, teat from the Bnok of Ecclesiastes. The church was crowded with respect. able persons. They, after Divine Service, repaired to thegreat hall of the If“spitel. The Litin Oration was delivered by Mr. FlturnateK IZ.IFF, senior Scholar of the lAtiu Grammar Schots', a nd that in English, by Mr. GEORGE BROOKE'S the subjects of both Orations bin{ the same, viz. on the benefits of Public Institutions. After the Orations, the audi eucc conttihuted their unite to the youthful Orators, and departed highly satisfied. TIIE DISAPPOINTED OFFICER. -ThP melancholy event of the sodden and utilooked for death of a late gallant Admiral, WV; followed the ensuing morning with a scene somewhat ludicrous. A brother Officer having engaged to call on him at an appointed boor to walk out. well aware of the scrupulous punctuality of his friend, being a little late, when the servant presented himself at the door, hurriedly t,ttitl to him, " Well, is the Admiral off i"—" Yea, Sir." said the poor man, " he'i gone!"—" That's odd," with an aspirllion, answered the Officer, "for he pro. mised to trait for me F" The Grand Doke IMlcitAtr, and his suite were not received every where with the same graciousness. On application to an eminent manufactory in this county, for permission to see the w.. r ka, one of th e partners that he was very , willing to admit the Prince himself. but did nor choose to extend his permission to his followers.—( Liverpool Courier.) Comm . OF ltrianc.rs. LiNcor,NsitinE. —CAsit ExTitaonntx.attir —On Monday last, Mr. Pittston, surgeon awl man-midwife, of Holbeach, seed John Addy •••(1 Mary his wife, for a debt of one guinea. The Plaintiff said the woman hail be spoke Ms attendance at her approaching accouche. meal; three months had etipseri, and receiving no notice of the lady's misconception, •he thought fit to apply ter his fee, which wts refused. The Defend ant, a pretty nand-it-looking woman, acknowledged site did bespeak the Plaintiff to attend her at the time spoken, but being (Peeked a Wile, and not wanting his assistance, thought she had no right to pay.— The Commissioners were puzzled by this knotty ques tion ; but, on referring to an eminent accoucheur, who stated that he should nut have made a charge in this case; in opinion concurring with' that of the Commissioners, the Plaintiff's cause was at length adjudged. to hate miscarried, and he was nonsuited. —(County i Paper.). ' A most Angular circumstance took place la* st Knightsbridge Barracks :—Orie of the first troop of 'Life Guards observed, ih cleaning his horse, that the ' animal seemed particularly food of having his face and head continually rubbed, in doing which the sot. dier discovered something namable a; he pressed the cheek of the horse. lie accordingly communicated the same to Mr. Blozam, the Veterinary Surgeon to the troop, who took considerable pains to examine it, and !milt made every necessary preparation, lanced it, in the hope of discovering the cause, when, to his surprise, he extracted a grape-shot, weighing nine ounces, from the horsei4 Lipid, which be,receiied at the battik o r . Waterloo, wher thewound :was im mediately aressed in the osaal ; manner, after Of en. gagement„.94. w”,considerec; olly . as a sword cut. On Tuesdayintorning, wyriengski, whq was em ployed at one of the cotton, mills, at Qlstrgow, while walking on the south bank of the Clyde, accom panied by her sister, ran into the River a little above the Wrirfinlen Bridge, and &named hersegcher body has not yet been found. The rash aci,Akis said, was occasioned by a diaereses she had, w 400; . . • v ,a): irtn .!IM -STATESMAN Ti rez EDITOR or THE W - • — . --...M0....-- SlR,—ltsPems that some people view the workin 4 class merely as beasts of burdeu,to which nourialtment may be given, or reeled, according to the whim and caprice of certain characters. ''Chis is evident from the treatment given to the jou•noymen Manchester and other places, for their present a ttempi to advance their wage.; in order to ameliorate the cruel sufferings they esperience from heavy rasa tam% and a decay of trade. By thus endeavouring to 'relieve themselves, and their starving wives and chit. dten, they have incurred the implacable hatred of those who fatten on the taxes ; consequently they are loaded with every vile epithet, which the vermin are able to rave up in the filthy channels of their ac customed haunts. But the Public will easily discover the motives of those miscreants. The masters having taken advantage of thedepression of trade to reduce the wages of their journeymen, to such a miserable pittance as was insliflient to suppor• nature, for the purpose of eking out an existence, which was a curse rather than a•hlessing, application was made .o the parishes for relief. Something cer tainly was granted, but only what was barely enough to prevent the vital spark from becoming wholly ex. tinguished ; in this wretched state it was necessary to, continue fur a considerable period. At length trade begins to assume rather a pleasing aspect s of course the journeymen were aware that an opportunity was °ire' ing itself to ask for an advance, that they might get rid of the galling dependence on the parishes, and provide for themselves and families. This was no more than their duty ; it was praiseworthy in on eminent degree : nature su dictated : a father wishes to see his children delivered from the horrors of starvation ; hut the masters resist their reasonable demands, and are supported be the whole of the corrupt tribe. Nothing i 4 more evident than the manufacturing class being the most valualle in .society. Thi• cißs: take, the raw article, and by indus'ry nod ingenuity brings it to a slate of perfection, whereby not slily the People of this country sic furnisned with every necessary of apparel, but also a great part of Ito.' world ; consequeltly an immense revenue it created for. the exigent:ie. at GI versiment. fly this industry a.“l ingenuity the misters ate enabled to lice in alliJence, horderi• g on eatravagancp, treating those whom they consider to be ,their inferiors with the greatest insolence. Many of those masters are mere upstarts; for they have risen, lint hay any intrinsic talent of their own, hut by foituitoaa circumstances arising in their favour, and lifting them abase that sphere in which Nature intended them to move— men perfectly destitute of education, ft is this i n . demi) , and ingenuity which fill the bellies of the tat• eaters, provide them with the means of intosication, and furnishes them wills every species of dainties, to satisfy their gormatirlizi3g appetites. On this in. dostry and ingenoity depends principally the wealth of the nation. Are these journeymen, then, no to enjoy what is steceisary to render life comfortable, or ars% they to betniskad on as the very sink of society, deserving the scoff and scorn of the Courier and other Newspapers?venal Now, let us, ust take a glance et the properties of the alasters and the tax-esters. As for the masters they certainly purchase the raw article, and defray the expence of manufacturing it, but in every other re spect they are little better than lookers on : they in general do no labour, nor esercise any ingenuity to bring the manufacture to a state of perfection; it is the journeymen, as I have before said, who perform this task. The masters are ever attentive to serve their own selfish purpases, sod this is the principal merit they possess, therefore their merit consists in serving themselves rather than in serving the coot nrunity. But when 1 turn•my eyes towards the las. esters, I behold a lazy lurking crew, pilfering all the other classes, without rendering, at any period, one solitary essential service. Tliis is not all, they are ever plotting against the People, by whose bounty they are fed, and involving them in embarrassment and misery ; never at rest, hut continually brooding over mischief. It may be truly said, that the journey men .are the bees; the masters rather of a molly breed ; and the tax-eaters the drones. . The argument made use of against the advance of wages, is the necessary advance of the price of the manufacture ; consequently, besides a decrease of the home consumption, en inability to maintain a corn petition in the foreign market. Granting this to he the case, it will not occur rightist an advance of wares; for they should not have been reduced at all, as they were no more than sufficient to procure the journeymen a decent livelihood. Even supposing those three classes to be on an equality, with le. spect to the requisites for the enjoyment of life, ought the comforts of that class. which is the most valuable in society, to be sacrificed, when it is neces sary to lower the price of our manufactures, in order to maintain the energies of commerce, while those the most worthless classes remain untouched ? Surely not. But the comforts of the journeymen are far from being equal to those of the masters, or the tea. eaters. The journeymen are deeply sunk in po. 'terry and wretchedness ; therefore, ought net the enormous profits of the masters, in ease of • de pression of commerce, to be diminished; and their selfish passion for leer. •to receive those salutary checks which may confine them within the bounds .f moderation • However, the pilfritingad the iro racioos drones of tax-eaters ought to be abated, if apt entirely suspended, as they are not merely use. less . , but the greatest bane with which , the Public has to grapple. It is well known rho a great manyoftbelower class are reduced to suck*• wretched stateiilm'tb he unable to procure any species- bf frrott, ezeripi petetoes sea. lona with a little salt ; 'Der any specilit'Of beieisge elckpt water. Notwithstanding,' while., these . mi serable creatures ask rot whet' Wbeislitteeignstobio, and *Mt •no maw ;Of harashaleetiets l %twig wise tW deny, them, viz. an bieriAlse of ears; theiiie sibUiett and bullied by the Courier add bthMi baseltiotollike4, l as if they were the - arery - ovitents - of society. How did Ibis Fero of af f , ritiolgt relic! . hie !mild pi id cbeesti dinnees . w ben ikapgikaittirtg pa . itttiakgp.-bwd wielding that :m9si alihri94lPrltf VIM* 1411 044 Pte r speed le ? . f 4e,d4 apt ppackerskiatt breerA Criffillie k . 4o* 411#4114. ?etatoes.and salt ; with a . •-; i little motor for. beverot; ogres with his NI flpe•l Dovs not this despicable - A postatv :)e: fortnPr rinses? Cane*, he •Pt. how rior those joocueymen are to Lim ? Upon &great measure, depends the weeth of bat what depeods open ?-4 should idwoceting,..rtb e cause of Corruption and Fortuustriy, however, .he being well IL do but little harm. Sept. 19. :"4.. 1, . • ARCTIC EXPEVITOA .t o!il vet) lo • 1 - A letter, of which the followintivaimiliabilAtea 'seen received free au Officer employed ihlthwebN• service, dated-..• e• i e:tt otoi ‘l' Hill Maies•y•• 41.10 Vle, h„ ,,,,, jbet, 71 . L.., a l • .., litli,liklyjafi 1 :" ag vArti A tioc .:, •N- !.. qki‘l ;;01'.1 ta•lt Ss , I1:1 Ship's Iv.fol V. U. F., ablal 6.. ppials.. ..I.:ail 10 ii?oliiiilioo oiii4 W. 64 lacrea%lng and ttPcikkalat regdo dill ."1-1. ..ritn Ilidi ft 41d46 point 4devitativa tr. tit Su L: • .ii lia., il” 8,4b. , 1 • 66 We had a favourable pump . teleblpll 4 .4.llll‘l4l the entrance to Datra'a Streit', maititrefirghaet Nis Ist of June, and by the 16tii of the sirmellbeestt s v. were near Disco, 4 Datisk settlement Oil lltelireik coast of Greenland, 'inlet. 69. cad N..ind hint. about 49 W. . Tee .whole of this tr.irst, afterentei ing the Straits, is•laid down in the charts 3'Wr4 de. grees to the eastward of eha it nught to he :ibis emit error will reduce toe size of listfin s s 04 pry eon sidergilly, should we fiod the longitude to the west ward laid down correctly, t ,All i the a views of B.f. fin, as far as we bare yet explored, are scrrprisingly cot rect. It is wonderful to God it so at such an early period, when iris , rumenrs. were iniperrect4 iliOt ileitis getion hut superficially understood : how fir-We Owl( continue to find him so is yet to he prated. •ii'emit4 have wished we had found .zonsethitiOapvit: Yes will perceive that very little progress hal'beFtl solute duritiz the last month ; ettitn'ugh every exer tion has ti•ieit used.----One shin Wringing to lioll has been lost in the co stready : she had taken sit large olialet. Toe' mem were saved, but the vessel went down. The greateat danger it from the large fields Of lee approaching and joining nnetetinther, or by the ici..herga gotHdz a 10.iti be t wilt them ; if that be the case escape-is impossible.—• An ice.herg is a large •piece of ice or• congregated snow, from two to Three hundred feet high, of ditfer• ens I.nigths anti breadth', r you may jutige of their 4ito when 1 tell yee•that they are sewed times as much .under water. , These bergs, taking the ground in 1(k) fathoms inrseri i .preverit the ice breaking up, and whet. broke% op prevent it* dispersing or •drift• inq to the southward, Wit hate at limes, during clear weather, coonteri.a4 many as five bendrod of these huge masses gloating about when in the in. tiuetice of the tides; had .1 not actually seem 1 them I would scarcely have believed tooth melees of ice could have accemolated.W44eund some natives, who are poor sniaerablmmereltheav living entirely on seat and' grel.friwl.q , Theriot& tidy indolent, only providiag food for tibudityi , pree paring, however, •a quantity , of seal i for the •sea. son, when the aria is frozen over, which is only lot two or three: mouths, .as 'het itiQuente •of he tides which at springs rise to eats feet, geueraily "epees it close its shore. .o IN! ;t. . • ..1" " We are now fast in the Ice —is ere/tier to itil'itio‘t around us; but ifiryTOßFOTTrtnif has considerable infleence trail, seibeinrchefew lioura!wo may be again quite out of it—au.-anatch for Arctic Espedi. Lions, flievitig.but.little4itne ox opposiordlyi- Ipa only arld, that we have, merle ,considerable. dint' veries on the nature of varietioe. particularly, the elation of vitiation, wbic wektd to be. fitl.44e, to kw r. degrees." ..' . ~ , 6 ) . 4 i 3 , p ,l. ! . if, eta' -...s—r___L...l„33smr_i_.L w walls? a . . oS 16 It is said that Mr. il4tit':)sveibtil wile Attie , /Ili n in order to witness the pot oreiance 'oc "tr. traeite in Lord Ogleby, s w.t'sd' well' 141tfigid is le r AWN tit augmenttitiodif thee eiceitint'aptWijiiife .. ' 3 ' '''' „ i I • T . I.` , _il'';;'. ' the [AM T 114151011 piellooptLafter iNght 0.c10C11,,, Oftlance C41019b.1 1 1 1,9 s rfsl4lll;l4eferpcsol,yeS peer. turned at tbe, iCef igarl,;A r rma i vr Phi° ,eboue a wile from 11114 Ofc 4 Nriltufstit l o l lP. Pilch, fi!°P • , who is re. presented tg,,lotll be/ft ie../ ,elttlesef 4Pt4,0 111 1 6 0 turning tin Skidesdy towards the inn. . ,14411 0" when the secidenk•bappeuetr, these were tarp wptifide and silt insi(le passengers; ati4 ope elderly .watoen • of the name of Thorp, an iehitlptertt:qo 4 iver,poyil, and the mother of eight children, had one,.of „l ell. legs broken in two places, and the, t booth of hoe. iliat, hand dislocated. A Lady in the coac4a,.*liPl l sllili, we have not heard, wired A,APTufli:cl9. l6 lMllig the head ; and a .Geptireien.from laantloo; of, I t name of Read. had ifs,,arekso much braise!! %its find it neressary to use a sling. The other p 'stingers all providehtially escaped wi bout Any serious injury eacept a foreigner, who was thrown into a state of 1 estreme agitation, butt sulterfd no bodily injyry.-,.- 1 The coachman paid the Venally of his intempetance nod waist of caution on the spilt, the splinter bone of 1.. • , his leg having been broke, by, his leoppie the tr . ,.3 —(Leeds illercury.,A • ; „, 4 „„ t t.f . b.,,,,, ,„„.),,,,,, pusg,loAms Pins...4uteshllat the Isediord of%tki, Crown,. in laul-larie#sateranned one of his cast &meets In the Court of Regulate, at itiuildhall, for the value of two new pots, which be pad he hid delivered to the sereeet of the Defendant with porter' and whist* were not.reterned. The publican said, ttit.lossearita 1 this way mere 'very gem!, and that he was Arius's' to I take this step, in order its ascertain whether thorn was kreasedy in law. The CoraMissiopera dial net think Otos:overtime within !belt xognizsnce,. sod fee (erred the: Cesaplaiustit to the Jestice Reuel , t abe Complainant went, and saw-the Chief 004, who said,.if the Coors of Requests had no toesole.,efvfo- . tecting the publicans treto,the lee s. coonpisiooti : ,of, i the tribuoal to which he,yreamyfersed,waa egsseilif Ore 41.inpepent, as it could oply i ectstmlitue the porV, 0 1 1 ; 4 be.pritverl to slave bees n o tig i ,; 4 o4) them coold'only, commii,the; OW fur brie,. ~,11e,: h oweeer,. worn, alMikani, to 4140114.ibe!brought.agairtst the person ' 4t l ilTsri OVAirt4 eftl;;Wslif4efl Moen intrusted.. This ' WIPPJI II smAl:re444o l solliitellood • Pothata, 0, the ItkollePti a lem Vh,Oopphotjbetwrota. liti4.ttske - en eg.. l awl's" l umber is deliver. ie,riellt..o the, graPoihl*,lol,l.o . fomented - Na i lid, 0 9203 1 4 Om glinitlifi "Allfid4s p . . .., . be bpued to prove Ate FitT, to tbo. owner. i tha {apt were missed • ,; skv: grorson recetung ta.seaulta •••••,:. ' " • • ki 101 I • ==ca lstas is sque.tiist {tat". reMern• much s.,pe- um.them, itl the nation suppose tha I D.potisin, kuneu t cad - . % e a ti-• • 31111..!Mt ,c; only; corn- kr% to the I so. vor. e 4. at Irilitit&