The Statesman. — London, England, 1810-01-13 00:00:00

AMERICA. TO FR ANC IS J.%MP.S JACKSON, ESQ. 1111L-ANBAsslDoit Irßir!O NI BRITANNIC M &MT?, TO lIIL FILD 51 A I E.% OF ♦MLRICV. St the first moments of that perturbation, from which the most accomplished diplomatist can. nut at all times be exempt, and into which oven a person of your experience may be excused fur falling, on the sudden occurrence of a crisis so un expected and embarrassing as your late discoinfi. turn, )ou were indiscreet enough to allege the constitutional liberty of the press in this country, as a charge against the Executive Government, which your complaint implies that department might correct. Yon should have recollected, that whcu an Ambass.idur is most disconcerted, he ought to appear the kart disturbed; that, by the law of the land, the Executive cannot interfere with the press, and that, when the First Consul of France, with whose annals you have such special reason for being familiar, laid a.similar grievance before the British Ministry, lie was told that the courts of justice were the only means knowt to the law for punishing such (silences ; that Peltier was convicted by a jou, and sentenced by my Lord Ellenburough, not by Mr. Addington or the King.—These things you should have known ; fur they would have saved you the mortifieation,which every man, particularly the Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary from a mighty kingdom, ought to feel, %hen heso far forgets himself and his station, as to be betrayed into undignified and unavailing querulousness. It is too true that the press 'in this country is deplorably licentious ; and though you were ogre. giously incorrect when you made this circum. stance a ground of official complaint to the Exe cutive, yet all temperate Americans must depre cate the scandalous calumnies that are daily pour. eil forth upon your nation, mission, and person. But it is not the freedoms the press has taken with your name that have made it odious in America.— That you may not return impressed with a belief, iu o hick it is to be lamented you came among us, that party is the only index, to opinion in the United States, or that certain violent newspapers are the organs of the sentiments of the great body of sober and reflecting people, I take the liberty of addressing you in the language that is almost universally held, relative to this controversy, by • those native and genuine Americans, who, with natural and decided preference for nun, aro at the same time alive to the rights of their own, and always and alike indignant at all foreign aggressions whatever. It may, perhaps, notwithstanding your patriotic zeal, somewhat assuage your disappointment, to know, that, by this respectable class, your instructions are more blamed than your conduct ;• and it is highly pro per that you should bo apprised of the Mcleod'. dent and honuurable motives which govern them in this juncture. Your nomination created some suselicion and much clamour. Peremptorily refusing to ratify the terms proposed by one Minister, after they had been accepted and effectuated on our part, recalling and disgracing that Minister, and ap. pointing another, who had been accustomed to treat with fleets at his heels, were nut indicative of a very friendly disposition on the part of Eng land. Notwithstanding these omens, the mass of the American nation prepared to accredit you as one of the most distinguished members of that corps, which, in the States of Europe, is as re gularly trained, formed, and distributed, as ar mies and navies—aware that you were yet reeking from the discharge of a must detestable duty at Copenhagen, but hoping that your employ. silent, on several such exigencies, was rather in the course' of your vocation than optional, and that the fame of such achievinents pre ceding you here, would have the effect rather to soften than aggravate your tone, and, with an bonest trusting that you were selected fur your superior talents and veteran skill, and coming to tiegoclate, if not to conclude, an accum. niodation. The Americans are a simple, peace. loving people, little versed in diplomatic suphis. try. Peace and plain dealing are emphatically their policy, inasmuch as one is the source, the other the only safeguard of their prosperity ; whatever, therefore, was declared by a few unim portant individuals, of the insolence and bad faith j upon which your embassy was grounded, the Go. vernment, with a large majonty of the country, were disposed to receive you with hospitality, and anxiously desirous that your terms might be tole.; rably amicable, and your tune tolerably decent. IVith such terms and such a tune there was a tern ' per to be satisfied ; and it is notorious that the be lief was very general of your having entered ippon discussions which promised an arrangement. Af. ter indulging a few weeks iu these flattering ex pectations, it was uniteraTOod• With• amasement, regret, and indignation, that you came three thou. sand miles, with a magnificent appointment, with out authority to adjust any point in dispute, and • with orders to couch your communications in the most imperious • and otieusive style of the new phraseology of diplomatic correspondence. You came, as you have yourself declared to eur Go. vernment, expressly to du nothing ; and in doing that nothing, you assumed a tone of contempt and defiance. Under such circumstances, you should not be surprised that it is the sense of nine-tenths • of the American people, that as your mission was meant to be futile, and your language unbecom ing, the Government consulted their dignity, and the dignity of a 'whin, too lung patient of out - rage, when it deranged you from your functions, Jend discarded you its presence. _e But while such is the sense, and the decidedand enthusiastic sense, of nearly all the people of this country, it is 'natter of the must painful regret with many of them, that the Representative of a great and glorious empire, himself a man of ta.• tents and a tine gentleman, should have been obliged to incur the predicament, into w hicit you have rather marched than fallen; which, not withstand. jug' the challenge of • your letters, and the fair warning you received of its imminence; seems to have been as unexpected by you, as it certainly *omit be iueuspicious to the future reladeus of the two countries. Yon find Americau mops may be tried too far. Unthinking men, who condemn in the mask and calumniate wherever they condemn, do eat distinguish betwecn your constituents and their instrument. They attach an odium to your name, which the more discerning know you do not de. serve. When Mr. Jefferson retired, it was said the main obstacle to an accommodation was re. moved. But they who conceived such hopes, did not know Mr. Canning. Doubtless you were ordered to hold the front you did. Those rbeto. ricel flourishes and polished invectives, with which your letters abound, are perfect imitations of Mr. Canning's school, which has substituted such balderdash fur the stately and respectable garb, in which, till his day, diplomacy, however hos. tile, was invariably clothed. When, besides the utter success of their enemies, the unfortunate people of England, in a short lapse of disaster, were deprived of Pitt, Fox, Nelsen, Cornwallis, and Thurlow, fate seemed to have declaredagainst them—and almost ever since, distraction, igno. ranee, and malversation, have possessed a cabi. net, theretofore filled with talents, integrity, mid public spirit. One of the last struggles of the last of these administrations was to dispatch you to this country, with instructions, which, it cannot bequestioned, you hare rigidly conformed to. The result is what must have been desired, though it perhaps was scarcely expected by the King, your master, and his late Ministers. And you are too high.spirited a man to blame the Americans, if, by every thimg short of insult to your person, they shew their detestation of such insidious and dastardly measures. Your predecessor, Mr. Merry, an atrabilious and maladroit old man, to whom it was said Mr. Jefferson had been ungracious (at leastMrs.Merry said so), was received ht Philadelphia with a hospi. tality, intended to compensate fur the rudeness he complained of at Washington. Mr. Liston was a great favourite; and Mr. Erskine was always wel comed with a kiudiress much more than merely polite. You are the first British Minister from whom 414 hospitalities of Philadelphia have been withheld, and you are personally the best entitled to them. You must, therefore, ascribe the corn. parative isolation from society, in which you are suffered to live in this metropolis, notwithstanding the elegance of your retinue and manners, to tha: feeling of unanimous indignation against your cm. players, which the disclosure of your correspon. deuce has aroused. Tkough you came fortified with letters of intro duction, and all the, attractions calculated to make your company fitsirahle, yet you cannot but ap plaud this repulsive nationatity, however disagree able you may find its effects. We know how to separate Mr. Jackson from his instructions ; bet his representative has cast so . deep a shade over his private character, that Americans of 10 parties, not caring to draw the distinction, are reluctant to dispense those civilities, which, but for the part it has been his cue to act, they would have bean proud and forward to shew. After lingering here a little longer, in a sites lion unworthy your rank and accomplishments, you will return to England with the sorry satis faction of haling performed an odious service in the letter of your command. Unless you go to Algiers, Ispahan, or Tin:maim, there is now no friendly Power left in whose capitals conspicuous residence may snatch you from comparative insig. nificance in the environs of London. But at all events, you will have the satisfaction to 'find Mr. Canning, who with no stronger claims than a pretty genies,and the consistency of faction, attempted to hold the reins which Pitt could hardly manage ; you will find him once more in his proper place, not at the Privy Council Board, but at the desk of 7'he Anti-Jacobin, writing perhaps an additional canto to The Loves of the Triangles. Yon may assure him that his mission is fulfilled : and that though his artillery failed of its effect OIL his ens. mks, it answered, under your direction, at least the purpose of driving off his few remaining friends. While Mr. Smith's share of the transaction was managed with calmness and perspicuity, you, in the full spirit of your instructions, were superb, c mtemptuous, confuse:l, insulting, and belligerent. The blunder you committed with respect to the oral communications, and the petulance you gave in to, when you complained of the newspapers, and demanded your passports, were, to be sure, departures from the lefty line of your orders.— But they may be pardoned in consideration of your excellence upon the whole. Yon certainly effected your rejection in a• shorter time than al most any other diplomat could have attained that primary object. But you meat tell that sopho more in politics, to whom you owe the honours of your embassy, that dictation, however it may be come his haughty pen, is not adapted to conciliate a free and intelligent people, who had the hardi. hood to send you home in disgrace for faithfully executing your commission. GA NGANELLI. (Philadelphia Gazelle, Dec. 9.) OLD BAILEY. -+-- THURSDAY, JAN. liannah Watkins, and another werearied, and acquitted, on a charge of felony. henry Charles Large, alias Lawrence, was convicted of rubbing John Long of a variety of articles of wearing apparel to the amount of 3t Elizabeth Falbrook, otherwise Ellett Price, stood charged with stealing from Amelia Stratton, a great number of articles of wearing apparel, to the amount of upwards of 501. Mrs. Stratton stated, that she was the wife of a Gentleman of that name now serving in his Ma. jesty's ship the Monarch, but that she hid parted from him these two years • that she had taken lodgings in the house of a IVles. Price, No. 19, Norfolk.strect, St. Mary.le.bone ; that on the evening of the '2Bth of November she went out at eight o'clock, and returned about twelve the same night. On the morning Colton lug she was in formed by the owner of the house that she had. l been rubbed of a . quantity of cluaths which she had given to her to wash, and upon searching her • TB! stAr • '•i4 - '.~ - ~"'RAI,1l~1 drawers she missed a vast deal • inure. That she saw nu more of the articles for the space of five weeks,- till they were shewn to her at the Police. Office, where the Prisoner was in custody. Aiwa Maria Price, the sister of the unfortunate Prisoner, depoied that several articles named in the indictment were left out by the prusecutrix, Mrs. Priestly (that being the name - in which she took the lodgings), with her mother, to wash, on the 28th of November. That about nine o'clock that night, her sister, the Prisoner, decamped, and the several articles were missed. In five weeks after, she returned to the house unexpect edly, and was taken into custody, when she con. hissed what she did with the property. Mary Brent stated,. that on the night of the 28th of November the Prisoner came to her in the Piazza, Covent Garden, having a bundle in her apron, and employed her to.procure a lodging for her, which she did for that night with herself, in the purlieus of Drury.lane; and in the morning pawned the* whole contents of the bundle with different Pawnbrokers, and afterwards sold the du plicates to a Mrs. Beaumont for 13s. Mrs. Beaumont corroborated this; and added, that she went and took the articles out of pawn, sold some, and gave up the rest, when the Officer, and a mart of the name of Lumley, came from the Magistrates for them. Lunacy was called, and said he is a clerk in the employ of a person of the name of Scatchard, an Attorney. lie produced the articles delivered, to him, and Mrs. Stratton identified them. Among them was a lace cloak which cost her 181. utilise. veral pairs of new silk stockings, of the finest description. When called upon for her defence, she acknow ledged the offence, but charged the Prosecutrix , with being the cause of it, by intoxicating her frequently, and enticing her to wear fine clothes, as she meant to introduce her to Gentlemen of her acquaintance. . On her behalf another sister, Martha Price, ,wai called as to her character, who deposed that she was an innocent girl till the Prosecutrix came to her mother's house, and first corrupted her, by promising to introduce her to the Duke of tioeensberry, who would give her five guineas ~every visit, out of which the Prosecutrix was to have two. The Jury, after a most excellent charge from Mr. Justice Le BLAND, found the Prisoner guilty, but recommended her to the merciful con sideratiou of the Court. FRIDAY, JAN. 12. . Sugannah Geraine, an old woman, aged 78, was capitally indicted for feloniously uttering as true, knowing them to have been forged, several notes for 11. purporting to be notes of the Bank of England. . The Prisoner, who is the wife of a watchman, in the parish of St. James, Clerkenwell, resided in the house, No. 2, New.court, Cow-cross. On the 2d of December last she purchased some arti cles at the shop of Mrs. Mary Clarke, in St.Juhu. street, and gave a 11. Banknote in payment. The shopman had some scruples at first about taking it ; but the Prisoner gave her own address, and said she would bring him another, •r the . . ney for it if he did not like it. On the Thursday following she came to take up the note again, and put down Ns. promising to call the next day with the 21. but the shopmsu kept the money, protuis ing to give her thu note when she brought the re. minder. As she did not come according to pro mise, he was induced to inquire at the Bank whe ther the note was genuine; but it was there pro. pounced to be a forgery. He was advised by the Bank Officers to act rantiously, and to inquire of the woman from whom she obtained it, its order to discover whether it led to any train of accomplice. ship. Ile went accordingly and asked her ; and she answered, that it was given her by a man whose name or residence she did not then know, but promised to find out both, and inform him next day. She failed in the performance of this promise also. Information respecting the circum. stance being given at Marlborough-etreet Office, some of the Police-Officers were sent to her lodg ings in the morning of the 16th of • December, where they found the old woman and her husbaml in bed. They interrogated her how she came bl the note; and she said then that she bad found this note and several others. The husband then came forward, and told the Officers his wife was an old fool, and telling them lies, for it was he who found the notes, in a tin case, when going the rounds upon his beat in St. James's Church-yard. The Officer now took them both in custody, and seached the apartment, where they found elevate one pound and four two pound notes, wrapt in an oil cloth, and concealed up the chimney; all of , them, upon examination, proved to be forged. The Prisoner had nothing more to urge in her defence than that her husband found the notes.— • Death. he usbanli, ;=-= - Gerretne; was immediately.; afterwards tried upon an indictment for having in his posseision the aforesaid Bank-notes, and fou,nd I Guilty. THEFT, DELUSION, AND CREDULITY. Margaret Conner: and Richard Gunner: were Charged with a capital felony, in stealing in the, dwelling.house of Joseph [redid!, iu King.street, Soho.square, three gowns, two pair of sheets, and a variety of articles, to the value of more than 40s. the property of Mary Anderson. The Prosecutrix, a simple-looking young man, stated that she kept a mangle; in the month of May last the female Prisoner, who was then 'married, came to lodge with her, and continuedi with her for some time. • She afterwards assistedl her to remove to a different house in the same street, where the Prisoner again came to live with the Prosecutrix. Shortly after she came to live with her the second time, the Prisoner told her that she‘wished to try some experiments. She ac. cordivly began by laying the poker and shovel tinder the bed curing the night ;. then, cut wit rings of cloth, which she elaced in sand with sothera. wow!, and figures cut out in paper, which she placed on the chimney-piece. After this she made a cake, prepared in • a particular manner, and broth, into which she put certain powders ) and , 42 - • . amobairr!!!-51ipmeffrep..4..... gave to the witness to eat. One night a knife was thrown at the witness from the opposite side of the room where the Prisoner and she were sitting, which the Prisoner informed her had been done by the spirit of the Matt to whom the Prisoner was now married. This was 011 the evening of the Bth or 9th of August. The Prisoner went to the wiudow, and talked as if she hail beet; conversing with some one, but the witness saw nobody. She cut some bread and cheese, put it ea a plate, and held it out as if some third party had been present to partake of it. She then desired the witness to look on the wall, which she did,, when she saw on it the figure df a man about the size of a large cat. When in bed, the Prisoner again desired the witness to look towards the wall, when she sa t e the figetro of a man faintly upon it. The witness asked the Prisoner what he wanted ? when she in.; formed her that if she would lay sonic of her thins out of her trunk, hu would let her . know. The witness rose out of bed, and being greatly alarmed, laid a number of things out of her boa, all of which were gone in the mornitsg. The Prisoner Made a noise for 'a considerable time while this was going on,as if some person were strangling her. The Witness did not see any of these things again till vino time afterwards, when site saw the Pri. soner wearing them. The articles which she saw the Prisoner wearing . were not disguised or altered in any manner. 'When the witness noticed this circutnstanoe, the Prisoner said the apparition had told her thatt she must wear them, and that the witness must consent to it, fur if she said any thing against it, she was to be turned into some different shape. The Prisoner so completely de. laded the witness, that she believed she had it in her power to do every thing she said. The matt Ptisoner lived in the house, and had been in the witness's room that very night; but she could not -distinguish if he was the apparition. It tip. peared liker to the shadow of a man than to the substance. He told the witness on one occasion that he had carried off some of her property on the 2d of October. The sr. ticks which she had lost were carried off at many various times. She did not see hint in the room, however, at the time alluded to, in the month of August, nor did she know of any thing that he did that night. On her cross.examinatioit by Mr. KN A PP, the witness said, the man prisoner had once paid his addresses to her, and had since married the woman Prisener, but she was not an. gry on that account, nor would have burn sorry at their marriage, if they had let her property alone. The woman Prisoner continued to live with her eleven weeks after the 9th of August. James Bligh; an &heel, stated, that 'when the Prosecutrix. told . him her story, he went to the house of the Prisoners, along with another officer, and carried them and all the property he could find, which the Prosecutrix claimed as hers, before a Magistrate. The wousati• Prisoner pressed sad. ly to have it hushed, and that she would make every thing right ; but the witness told her it wa tt a felony, which he could not eompound. James. Noble, another officer, confirmed this statement. Mr. Justice Coastline did not put the man ow his defence, though he confessed the suspicion was' ' strong against hirn but men were not to•be found., guilty of felony Qll suspicion. The story "was 1 very strange cw t .:bait credulity would lead some people a great way, apd' it was impossible to say what effect it might have on a weak and tteducat. cd woman like Alary Anderson. If by any frau. dulent contrivance, a person was induced to open a box in which his property lay, and to spread it out, and the property was taken away, that was, iu point of law, k Clotty. The Prosecutrix had been credulous in the extreme, but still she was to, he protected by the laws of the country. As to the capital part of the charge, that must be dis. charged from the consideration of the Jury, it not appearing, that on the evening laid in the, indictment, property to the amount of 40s. had been carried off. The Jury would jndge it they gave credit to the story of the Prosecutrix, in which case they would find the woman Prisoner guilty of stealing. The Jury accordingly found the woman Pd. soner Guilty of stealing 395.... and the man, Not Guilty. THE MARKETS. UXBRIDGE. Coni•inspeetor's Return.—Txuaso 4.1 r, J kW. IL Wheat. per load ni. —s. to YSI. —s. Barley, per quartzr 34s. —d. to 455. —4. Oats 24s. —d. to 399. —d. Beans 455. —d. to 645. —d. Peas 34s. —d. to 58s. —4l. 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