The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-06-25 00:00:00

!mom.. . THE COUNTESS of °Lanark - Ws 6klL TO-MOMOW will he published.. • OSOFEAVO To nis ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE REGENT; !UT MEMBERS OP NOVI HOMES OF PARLIAMENT ; TILE BRITISH NAVY ; THE COMMERCI.II, JNTERE&TS; ASO THE EMPIRE AT LARGE; A REPRESENTATION of the SEVERITY, r ik INJUSTICE, and IMPOLICY, directed to a Case VI netioard by the high authority of the late Lord NELSON, as c .,,lnected with the dearest interests of the Country, and ex the Defoliation of that Illustrious Character, by the late IZ,g.:at lion. SPENCER PERCF.VAL : in which Publication „in he found Letters to the REGENT, the Marquis of HERT FORD, the Earl of LIVERPOOL, &c. &c. By the COUNTESS OF GLENCAIRN'. • . Printed for M. Jones, llookbeller, Neisgate-street, London; rnl may be had of all the Booksellers in the United Kingdom. A r. Mails. Due. 1 2 0 1 o 'MICE oF STOCKS THIS Bank 5 per Cent. Cons. S per Cent. Kea. 561 j 6 4 per Cent 4. 71ii b per Ce...t. Nato , Long. Inn. 14 b 46 DAT AT ON' O'CLOCK. India Bonds 7 9 dis. Feehenner lii'ls 31d. 3 5d Ditto 30. 1 '2 pr. Otnniurn (10141015 for Acct. 3701 Lottery Tickets - • THE STATESMAN. LONDON: TUURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1812. An Heligoland Mail reached town this morning; the following is the only article of importance which it brings : HFLIGOL4NI), Tors 19. We still continue completely excluded from all intercourse with the opposite coast. We were in hopes . that the jouraey of IlonApAwrs to the North, where it stas to be supposed his 'alien- I thus would be engrossed by the magnitude of the object of his ambition in that quarter; would hive offered a facility to a communication, equally desired by those on the neighbouring shores as our selves. The system, however, Continues to be followed up with the same unrelenting strictness, and for up wards of a month we have had no arrival from the coast worth mentioning. Baron KERIILM who was scat back to the island in a flag of trace from Den mark, about six weeks ago, and kept in confine ment here ever since, sailed on the 17th inst. with the convoy for the Baltic, and is, it is understood, to be landed, by his own desire, in Russia. Intelligence has been, received from an official quarter, that there is no truth in the story► respect ing BZI.LINGIIUR4T at Buenos Ayres, or of the in terposition of Lord STIIANGIORD in his thvonr. Through the same channel it is understood, that. whatever may be the exertions of the parent state, there is not the smallest prospect of impeding the Revolution in South America. These accounts are further confirmed by private letters received from Vera Cruz, in one of which, dated 11th April, it is stated, that the Patriots in that country " are about 100,000 strong, and the KING'S army, to meet this multitude, consists only of 25,000 men, ill pre pared, and badly prnsidod. The Revolutionists, to the number of 40,000, obstruct the road between this city and Mexico, and their principal station is about twenty leagues from the latter."-. In wishing success to the exertions of this people, we do no more than express our attachment to the cause of civil and religious liberty. When any new or extraordinary phenomena ap. pear in the natural world, the eager and inquisitive efforts of science are immediately directed to investi gate the causes by which these appearances are pro- , sluced, the substantial changes which they indicate, 'and the consequences which may most probably at tend them. It would be to the benefit of mankind, if the changes which, from time to time, are exhi bited in the political world, excited the same spirit of liberal curiosity, and the same energies of active and enlightened research. The state of parties in our own country may not unfrequentls, become one of those interesting problems, which well deserve the attention of the pl.ilosop' ic politician ; and althinigh we have not the presumption to pretend to that cha racter, ) et, if the prcblem which we now submit to public attention, and the feeble attempts which we shall make to solve , it, serve but to instigate the ex ertions of more able enquirers, we shall have the happiness to reflect, that our humble efforts have not been altogether useless. Let us imagine ourselves presented with the novel spectacle of an Adminis tration, whose leading Members had repeatedly ex pressed, in the strongest possible terms, their full con viction of the truth of certain political maxims, and of the propriety and policy of a certain course of political conduct—departing from that course, and abandoning those maxims, in order to adopt the maxims and the con d act recommended by its Parliamentary opponents. I.At us imagine this change to take place, under circum stances which positively and decidedly exclude every pretension to the candour and liberality of acknow. lodged conviction—which invest it with the unequi vocal ct6racter of a sacrifice to temporary cone, n:enct , . WI at are the baneful causes which couisi, her.: voduced a state of things so monstrous and map a. ural ? Au inordinate Wee of power s et as lasso - TjIi ' gtATESfSIAN. = .-x. tiable desire Of wealthin those individaali, who thus offer up their principles and their projects as a vo luntary sacrifice en the sordid altar of cupidity or intbition! This is a cause which would exist, how - ever, in theininds only of those miserable men, and !which, depending not on the state of our public insti tutions, would not, of itself, therefore, indicate the necessity of any radical change in those institutions. It is, moreover, a cause which woald very imper fectly account for the phenomena; because, it is ob vious to' remark, that men of so Lase and sordid a disposition, as we have supposed these to be, in whose j grovelling minds interest is the standard of opinion, land individual welfare the standard of patriotic feel ing, would be the last to engage in any enterprise of danger, even if it afforded an adequate inducement of personal advantage. Whenever men are found so to act—so to renounce opinions which, however erro neous, must have been sincere—so to involve ;them selves in the responsibility of public measure*, which are contrary to the deliberate decision of their un derstandings —we must go farther than the personal characters of such men ; we mast be .convinced that something is " rotten ip the State ;" that some main springs of the political machine have lost their elasti city ; that.some of the constitutional checks have been divested of their coutrouling and regulating force ; we niust,in fine, be convinced, that such men repose with tranquil indifference in the full assurance of impualty; thatresponibilitris become an idle word, which, with all the forms of extesual respect, public men have long learned to deride ; and that public de liuquency has surrounded Itself with some artificial, but powerful bulwark, behind which it may securely defy the indignation of an injured people. la , dr culostances like these (which we, hoverer, true are far distant), we should be led to enquire, what I the proper chelt to the conduct of Ministers—what tie se curity which the Constitution has provided, on behtlfa thrpeople,for the of aud substantial responsibility of its servants ? To this question there can, in the sslusie range of thought, be found only one answer, A ' 1 FAIIL RLPItESENTATION OF Tne PEOPLE IN PRICLIA+, SIENT ! This is the only, the sufficient security against all such evils as those which our problem supposes. The existence of those evils would then at once prove-Ist, That the people no longer enjoyed a flag Representation in Parliament; and 2dly, Theabso: lute necessity that the people should possess that va luable privilege. To these ultimate conclusions the circumstances which we have supposed could not fail to lead every rational and reflecting mind, and the firm and universal expression of the public %ill, could not long be resisted by any Government in this country. It is reported that Governm'nt have determined oa taking possession of the island of Groa, off L'Orient, as a very desirable station for our vessels, and admi rably situated for the annoyance of the enemy. By a Telegraphic communication, the transports which have been collecting at ,Plymouth, have been ordered round to Portsmouth, and it is supposed, that from thence, after receiving troops board, they will take their departure for the Peninsula. A letter was received in town yesterday from the Island of St. Vincent, dated May 2, the day after that on w hick the eruption was reported to have broken ont, which was described as having been at tended with dreadful effects; but this letter is en tirely sileet on the subject : from which we are happy to infer, that the consequences have, at least, not been so fatal as they aro represented, or it was hardly possible that the writer could have refrained ftom noticing them. • A letter from Barbadoes, dated the sth of May, states (after giving the particulars of the phenomenon on the 30th of April and the Ist of May,)—" We learn by arrivals, that the explosion has not taken place at Dominica, St. Lucia, or Martinique. The Neptune arrived this morning from Bristol. Captain Poai - Eas says, he met with the volcanic matter five hundred miles to windward of this island. In that case it is likely to be from the Western Islands." A most excellent arrangement has taken place,and I will be notified officially from the War Office, for granting Pensions .to Officers wounded severely, ott' l who have lost an eye, or limb, in the service. The scale of pensions will be from 4001. per annum, the 1 highest to a General, and 501. the lowest to an En sign, and intermediately according to regimental rank. The appointment of Mr. BArnuast to the place of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, is one of the conditions in thebargain for the service of the Doctbr and his party. We are assured that there was a re gular traffic for places of all sizes, down even to Agee- des for the sons of Brother lIILEY. There was a rumour a day or two ago that Lord Viscount SIDMOUTit had met with a fatal accidentil but it was soon ascertained to be untrue. The report lasted long enough, however, to prove the advantage that the nation possesses in having a Mi nistr y likethel present ; namely, that any of them may die without being missed. • What Mr. bIARRTATT said, in the debate on Mon day night, in reference to the Orders in Council and the Catholic Question, having been inaccurately re ported, we insert the following, which we under stand is, in substance, a correct account of what the Hon. Gentleman stated on that occasion : He trusted, that as Moisten bad nut made a stand when, as It appeared to him, the best inter ests of the coaotry were coace rs t - ed, to su pporting the Orders to Conacil, they would sat sew make nomad, when the best interests of the colotry required eoncesstoo. The first clause of the Mutiny Act for 1812 states, that the number of forces should consist of tau hun dred and forty-five thousand fine hundred and ninety-six officers and men, including kis Majesty's forces serving in the East Indies. The number spe cified in the Act for 1811, was eighty-four thousand sight hundred and one effective men. Mr. CANNING and Mr. BaOllOnAM are expected to efrer themselves as Candidates for the Borough of Licerpoel l on the 'vested dissolution. The, finest flint, and the most common green glass pay one and the same duty. And if it is intended thetoincrease a duty mul t t n itu th d i e of s ra t a i d o, ic t i h e e s ta w x h w ils il t l a ac a tasa prohibition-on those f of the greatest value, and which can best support an increase, it will be scarcely felt. This surely never can be intended by the Legislature. Several Grand Crosses of the Legion of Honour 1 in France have been lately handed about in our Fa shionable circles ; the gold medallion in the centre is a striking resemblance of BDNAPAHTE, but the work tranship altogether is badtetikecuted. Yesterday a Quarterly Loud was held at the East India House, when the Dividend for the last half year, was declared . to be 51 per Cent. The Pro prietors forming the Committee, of Bye-Laws were I re-elected. The Chairman, Sit ; H UGH INGLIS, re presenting the sufferings Captaid HAY, of the Astell, , experienced in consequence of the wounds he had re ceived in the memorable action with the squadron of •, French frigates, moved that the pension of 4001. 1 formerly granted to him, while out of employ, be ; continued to that gallant and meritorious Officer dur- l ing life; which motion, having been seconded by I , I Mr. M. Roca 9 passed unanimously. A circumstance, honourable tothe feelings of those wbo planned it, and affording gratification to a nu merous and respectable congregation, took place on Wednesday (being Midsummer day), at the Fleet, where a Masonic Lodge was held, at which the Most Noble the Marquis DE CHAMPAGNE presided as Grand Master. A most .excellent and appropriate Sermon was delivered on the occasion by the Rev. W. G. EowArtns, B. D. (Vicar of Appledore, Kent, and for many years Chaplain to the Venerable and Learned Dr. PERCY, Bishop of Dromore) who en- i forced, with great energy, thepractice of the Chris tian virtues of benevolence and charity. The text was taken from St. JOHN, I Epist. chap. vi. verse 11. An excellent dinner was given on the occasion, and every thing conducted with the greatest propriety. Valentine Jones, who was committed to Newgate for three years, ie June, 1809, for peculation, has had a detainer lodged against him by Government for 121,3311. 10s. lid. • On Wednesday se'nnight, there was an awful storms , of thunder, lightning, &c. in and near Lorton, whichl I continued with great darkness, fa i g a considerable time. When the rain subsided and lauds vanished, one of the mountains in the neighbourhood was ob. I served to be completely clothed in white, as if it had. I been winter, while the others appeared in their summer colours. The extraordinary will of Mr. AlrrtaiNinw, the I late wealthy Ironmaster, in South. Wales, is now un der the adjudicature of the Judges, iii Serjeants'-ion, in which case many difficulties arise respeotiag the residuary Legatees ; for, after specially bequeathing between three and . four hundred thousand pounds to two persons, he directs that the remainder of his : property, nearly as much more, shall go to his Wee. timatc offpring, without mentioning either their l names or their numerical amount; to whom, there - 1 fore, and in what portions, this vast sum shall be de creed, is the question now pressing for determination, I the CHANCELLOR having declared himself incompe tent to decide it. It is natural enough, in such al case, that curry-berotten claimants iu plenty should have sprung up to prove their illegitimate affinity to so wealthy a testator. DUEL.—Yesterday morning, a duel took place on Romford Common, between Mr. C. a gentleman farmer residing in that neighbourhood, and Mr. J. a Lieutenant in the Navy ; the meeting originated in a dispute which took place between the parties at a billiard-table. After two brace of pistols had been discharged, the Lieutenant being slightly wounded in the shoulder by the second fire of his antagonist, the seconds interfered, arid the dispute was adjusted. The Duke of Gnarron's horse Web is matched against Mr. SHAKESPEAR'S Scrub, at the first Octo ber Newmarket Meeting. for '2OO guineas. At the second October Meeting, the Duke of RUTLAND'S Grill/Dil a / 1 is matched against Mr. SH A MESITA E'S Tumbler, for 200 guineas. De Actors and Actresses, wbo are retained to form the Dramatis Persona , of , the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, have receives! a notification not to form any summer engagement which may preclude their joining their new standard by, the middle of Sep: tember. - , CURIOUS Durz.—Thursday, late in the afternoon, two French Officers, prisoners of war, on parole, in the tam of Reading, fought a duel, in a field, not far from the Kew Inn, Oxford-road, when one of them received a ball, which passed through the back part of his neck. Their mode of Combating was • singular. Not Ding 'abte to procure pistols, they agreed to decide t fi a affair with a 'fowling piece, I the only , weapon they possessed, at the distarice• lot about fifty paces, by firinik idltenatelly; The first discharge was conclusive. Tbit Officer ss'hts fired, immediately rendered every aaliisigitce, in'hif power to his wounded antagonist. fie ficcortip4 him back in a post-Chaise to his lodgings, stfiecel 'surgeon instantly attedded, and dressed his iv/dead ? , which, we are happy to state, is net darigekol .: „ lii h s Lady MARY WORTLEE.McINTAGUE, in. ttf all opposition, introduced Inoculation from pr •y. i Dr. JENNER, by his indefatigable industry; his' I moved the necessity of it to such an extent; Heat It lis understood, a part of the Small-pox Hospital bto jbe forme d into an Infirmary for Sea-water • Etithing I for the relief of the Poor. . Soarrream, JUNE 23.—Yesterday, the Griuders, at the Park Steam Wheel, roasted two sheep, in honour of the abrogation of the Orders in' Council. — Other sheep, we are informed were intended to have been roasted, in different parts of the town on the same occasion, but no official notice having appeared in the Saturday's Gazette, to confirm the gorid•naws, the parties concerned deferred their rejoicing till a future day. It has been slanderously insinuated that it is necessary to keep the labboring poor on meagre diet,—such as oatmeal and water—lest tfiey Should grow fat and disaffected. All our observations and experience of human nature have been delusion, rif the reverse of this be sot the soundest policy ; keep them in full employment, lest they grow idle and disaffected; let them have the means of procuring food and raiment, and they will be industrious and contented. It is the lazy and profligate who will not w ork, or the hungry and desperate who cannot get R ork, that destroy machinery and burn cora stacks. KING CRACK AND HIS IDOLS. 'KITIG CRACK was the beet of all powible Kings, (At least so his Courtiers would swear to you gladly,) But CRACK now and then would du het'rodoz things, And, at last; took to morshipping images sadly. Some broken-down lowa, that long had been plac'd In his Father's old Cabinet, pleas'd him so much, That he knelt down and worshipp'd, tho'--such was his gate!-. They were monstrous to look at and rotten to touch Hollow, wooden, and rude, as if cary'd in the dark, They had, some of them, heads—but 'twas curious to we In what places they wore them ; for, Heav'n save the 'mark Their noses were stuck where their tails ought to he. Yet thole were the beautiful Gods of Kino Clams ! Till his People, disdaining to worship such things. Cried aloud, one and all, " Come, your Godships must pack-o " You will not de for us, tho' you may do for Kings." Then trampling the gross Itsciss under their feet, They sent CRACK a petition, beginning " Great Ctesar t • " We are willing to worship ; but only entreat " That you'll find us some decenter God-heads that! these ate." 's 11l try," says Ktzo Camw—then they furnishl him models Of better-shap`il Gods, bat he sent them all back; Some were chise)l'd too fine, some had heads 'stead of noddles, In short, they were all muck too godlike for Clues! So he took to his darling old IDOLS again. And, just mending their legs and new bronzing their hum, In open defiance of Gods and of men, Set the monsters up grinning once more in their places! NAVAL INTELLIGENCR. PORTSMOUTH, Jews 24. Arrived the Racoon sloop of war, Captain Black, from Ja. maica, to be paid of; and the Holly schooner, from Guernsey. The Racoon left Port Royal 40 days since. Sailed the Ilarnadryad, for the Cork stades ; Nereus, Capt. Haywood, on a cruise; and the Fawn ; Captain Fellows', with money on board for liortugul. The Minden, 74, is fitting for the East Indies, for the flag of , Sir Samuel Hood. PLYMOUTH, Jima 23 Sailed the Stirling Castle, 7 gum, for Basque Road'. Arrived the Favourite sloop of war from a cruise ; and the Flora, Lavis, from London. DEAL, JUKE 24. Arrived his Majesty's ships Sceptre and Prince of Wales, from of Flushing. A large fleet of merchantmen, coasters, and colliers, remain wind-bo'ind. FALMOUTH, Jos► 22. Arrived oW this harbour, his Maietts's ship Boyne, Sit IL B. Neale; Tigre, Conquestador, and Colossu, bound to Duque Heads.—Tbe• packets still remain. One of the sons of Charles Lawrence, Est. of Plumb-hall, near Liverpool, a fine boy about eight years old, was killed on the 18th instant, by a fall from the driver's box of his father's carriage. Tho child had seated himself on the box in • order to take a ride, and while the coachman went into the house to fetch his coat, the boy took hold of the whip, which startled the horses, and they immediately set. bug off with great speed, he of course soon lost his seat, and was precipitated on the pavement with great i violence. Last week, a private belonging to the rifle com. pany of the 4th East-riding-local militia, now on duty at Beverly, was tried by a Court-martial, on a charge of drunkenness and striking his Officer, and founti . guilty. On account of the character given of the Prisoner by his Officers, as a good soldier, and die consideration of his having a family, he was only sentenced to six months imprisonment. - It is reported, that Lord COCHRANE will receives command in the species of warfare, which he has so often strenuously recommended in Parliament, and of which, while on the coast of Catalonia, he afford ed some successful specimens. We should be extreme. ly glad to learn, that a portion of the British troops in Sicily could be spared for the same objects. We have observed in all the London Papers, and the article has been copied into almost every provin cial -paper we have seen, which has been printed sub sequently to its original appearance, mention made of the apprehension of persons in this neighbourhood for manufacturing pikes and other weapons, and using forges for that purpose. Disorderly as this 'neighbourhood unhappily has been for some months past, we have reason to think that the account al luded to is not only exagprated, but entirely un. founded.—(Manchester Herald.) Some workmen, while digging lately in an old castle in the canton of Argovia (Switzerland), came to a vault, in which was deposited a coffin, contain ing the skeleton of a knight in full armour—in one hand he held a dagger, and iu the other e sword. At his feet was placed a cross and a Turkish sabre. From the inscription, it appears that he had com . mended in the crusade led by Peter the Hermit. Saturday evening, about nine o'clock, a decent looking middle-aged woman was seen to purloin a shoulder of mutton from a butcher's shop in Spital fields, and going of with the saw! was stopped ; a I mob collected round her, and began to handle her very roughly; a gentleman happening to pass at the ,time, interposed, learning the cause took her into a. house, where being informed that the party was a widow, being left with six children, and was in gr, it distress for want, humanely gave her some maney to supply her present wants, and gave her his address where to call upon him, when he would do some thing for her family. Friday a seaman was apprehended in Bath-square, On the Point, Portsmouth, by Riddett, a constable of that,borough, for breaking the windows of a pub lie-house, and otherwise behaving in a disorderly manner. Whilst he was conveying the OEM to the gaol, he was interrupted by several other seamen, till, at length, a crowd of persons surrounded him, and it became necessary for more constables to come to his assistance. Soon after which a number of per sons, prihcipally seamen, made an effort to rescue 'the man, when Ridded struck one of them, named Wes.'Coleinan, belonging to the Paws, with his staff, two blows on the back part of the head, which 'knocked him down. The constables then proceeded to place the offender in gaol. On their return, Cole man was found lying on the pavement in a state of 'apparent insensibility. On being examined, it ap peared he had received a contusion on the skull, 'Which, it is supposed, caused a-depression of the brain. He was taken to Hasler Hospital, and, we regret to state, bellied on Saturday morning. An inquest will be held on the body by Mr. GRIGG, Coroner.. Two seamen have b een committed for 1 violent breach of the peace, in attempting to make a rescue of the offending mar, and Ridded remains in cast ildy until the Coroner's decision is known. ~:, _ - • iiiiiil ii 4 C._ 11: ` l9 r. 1 • ie. 1 1, I V