The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-04-23 00:00:00

p and unfounded principles which it assumes. It i. sofficient for tr; to remark at present, that the effect which the exigence or . the Oetlers in Council has already had on the manufactures of the country, /las been sufficient to convince every Individual, no nay dependant on Ministers, that they must ulti mately prove our utter ruin, if they are not soon Doctor DUIG£N4N, the tedoutable Champion of bigotry and intolerance, has, once more (as is supposed for his last season), made his appearance 1 on the Parliamentary Boards. The D. actor pro- ! poses, this evening, to edify the House with a variety of extracts, voluminously ransacked from musty old Councils, particularly from those of Constance and Treat. However disgusting 1 the Doctor's long- winded harangue may be to the House and to the public, it will prove highly gm- tifying to Master JACA GIFFORD, and other equally respectable Members of the Corporation of Dublin.— I It is, perhaps, not gene ally known, that the Doc tor is always returned a Member of Parlia ment for Armagh, which is under the sole in- 1 Ounce of the Primate of Ireland. As Judge of •' the Prerogative Court, and Vicar-General of differ ent Dioceses, be enjoys ensoldteents to the amount, at toast, of WOOL per annum. These trifling cix camstances may, in some measure, account for the uncommon earmth the Doctor never fails to display when be is told the Church is in danger. It is rumoured in the City, that the Minister will not make his loan till the latter end of May, or the beginning of June, in consequence of there being near Five Millions of the Five per Cent. Scrip being paid up in full. If that should be the me, there is no doubt of his maki►►g his Loan at Two per Cent. above the present price ; there will be above three millions of stock taken out of the Market. The Elaanor is arrived -at Portsmouth, with the offieial account of the capture of the Amethyst, by the Southampton. The Amethyst had escaped from CURISTOPNE, and was going to join PETION. Our 104 is two Officers and eleven men killed and wounded. , By a recent arrival from the Continent, we learn that seven sail of the line, three frigates, and several brigs of war, are in the Tezel, ready for sea. In consequence of the spriug.tides being over, Admiral FERRILII, with three sail of the line, part of the squadron appointed to blockade the Texel, arrived iu lloscly Bay on Thursday last, but will speedily resume his station. The Scheldt squadron, we have been assured, is in the same state of forwardness. Advices were received yesterday from Mexico, Vera Crua, and Lima, the latter to the date of the Ist of October. The insurgents had been suppressed in those situations, but trade was not re-established, and confidence had 1144 returned, although tranquil. lity was restored. It is said, that two and a half millions of dollars had been forwarded to Old Spain. We have not yet had the satisfaction to hear of their arrival. We bave a few letters and Regal Giraffes from Jamaica to the date of the 14th of February. The Papers contain Resolutions, passed at Meetings of Proprietors of Estates in I:l:mnarara and Tobago. In the third Resolution of the former it is stated, that the settlement lost last year 1,200,0001. The eleventh directs that a Petition be presented to Par liament, to introduce sugar into our Distilleries.— The tenth Resolution at the Tobago Meeting states, " That nothing but the hope of some relief, and the duty they owe to their creditors, could induce the Planters to continue the cultivation of their estates, for any other purpose than the maintenance of them selves, and their negroes, by raising stock and pro visions." A letter from St. Domingo, dated the 28th of Ja nuary, contains the following paragraph :—" A great part of the crew of a frig ate , with 500 men on hoard, in the service of one of the contending chiefs of St. Doniinko, revoked while on her voyage from the Cape to Jereniie, and took her into Miragrana, one of the ports of the department of the South, and delivered her op to the persons commanding there." By the Nimrod letters have been received from Malta to the 14th ult. The last advices received there from Sicily, do not represent the state of that island as yet wholly free from disturbance. We subjoin an extract of a letter from Malta on that subject : " MALTA, MARCHB.--We are much depressed here from the still undetermined state of the afitsimi of Si cily. It appears that matters are there but external. ly settled : the force of the hostile party is alive and active. In the opinion of informed persons, nothing less thee the entire removal of the Queers, and her advisers and confederates, can insure security and peace to our possession of that island. The rumoured, paciftcation between Turkey and R uss i a . has not yet' taken place." Mr. Gnarr.ts's motion on the Catholic Claims comes on shis day; in the House of Commons. Hsi interest has been not a little increased by the formi (Mk minority in the House of Lords on tie same vjoestion ou Tuesday. The Defaulters on the call of the House of Com mons yesterday, were ordered to attend the House this days The House of Lords did not meet yesterday, ha,. ing, after the debate on the Catholic Question, ad journed to:this day. • Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when Captai n R. lI AY , of th e Afurchioness of E ly; Captain W. P. D'EsTraar, of the _Addle ; and Captain G. Hoopen, of the Earl Hozze j took leave, previous to departing for Ben gal. Such is the quantity of American timber now in Plymouth Dock-yard, that a transport laden with it has been sent round to Portsmouth. When the last convoy left Quebec, for Plymouth, there were trees eucueh ly ing on the ground to lade 30 vents. THE STATESMAN, TO THE LUDDITES OF NOTTINGIL4M. THE BLACK EMPEROR'S NAVY. C rxnutz,t,—l am unacquainted with the form of your Government under King Leon, whether it be j absolute er mixed; but am rather Inclined to suppose it the latter, and if so, you have a Parliament some thing similitr to our own—equally under Ministerial influence and venerating precedent unboundedly, ex• cept when clashing with wholesome Ministerial inno vations. If this is the case, it certainly was a great over sight in your King—no; I beg pardon, I. I mean in his Ministers, to suffer any of you to come under punishment of the law, when they might have secured them most completely from all harm, Iby passing a Bill of Indemnity in favour of all Frame-breakers. Respect for precedent would have prevented their trial; and the necessity of oicasionally recurring to that measure ourselves, would prevent all discussion on its merits and validity. It m a y not I.be too late at present to be introduced, either by a I motion to that effect, prefaced by a most gracious message; or King Leo, by the advice of his Minis ' ters, may make it a leading feature in his next speech to his Parliament. It will give many much satisfac tion to find your King thus taking the field in a con ' stitutional manner, and pitting Indemnity Bill against Indemnity Bill, quoting precedent, making t tine promises of future peerteamtaese, overiotoltiour present distress and rain, to view in a far distant and clouded prospect, success and glory, applauding Mi nisters, reprobating advisers, and, to crown the whole, acting upon the principle, avowed in times not very dissimiliar, of a rigour beyond the Laws. Thiscer -1 tainly is the era for the production of great mos.— ; Whether King Lynn will eclipse BONAPARTE time must 'hew ; but that he is already great, is sufficient. ly proved by our Ministers having sent their military and legal forces against him. If he foils both record I and bayonet united, adieu our liberties ! I --mu— Very little has yet transpired concerning the 1 cause and capture of Christophe's frigate the Ames. I Myst,, by his Majesty's ship Southampton, but much I very much has been already felt by the Europeans settled in Hayti. It may not be amiss, therefore, to state how the Black Navy originated and ended, for so it certainly hat by this capture. At the corn. mencement of this year, 1812 ,. Christophe's Navy istood thus, and in the order as purchased : Guns Men How procured. thwerelceable. 1 ;maresaerde di Nord ; 4 4 3 5 2 A____emejea__. Loot. Yining Rosettes 16 400 Kr: Goodall. Lord Molgrave 80 -900 Do. Takeo. Sattelite 10 60 , Do. Lord Wellesley 18 150 Greases & Ca. Jasaron 10 10.) America. Gen. Maoist 14 110 Greases & Co. Ambuscade 14 80 a Prize. Lady H. Stanhope 42 800 Goodall. Artimese R. Ad. 40 900 Do.loAmerica. Parse, Ct. PAngliii i Amethyst, R. Ad. Rastia,Ct. Lemur, 44 450Dowrink &Co. Capt. Pr. Bernadine. Total 192 2149 The violent and tyrannical seizure of Goodall in the Haytian corvette (in 1808) Lord hfulgrave, Is fresh in the memory, together with the distress ingconsequence that occurred to his fortune thereby, lief/left hereafter will fully appear. Goodall, on his arrival at Jamaica, wrote aa official letter to Admiral ltowley, strongly urging, " that as considerable quantities of British manufactures were in Hayti, the trying situation to which both person and property were subject to, should be considered, if the ship was not restored." It had its weight with the Admiral, and she was sent back to the Cape. Goodall was sent to England, a state prisoner, ' and returned to Hayti, rehoisted his flag, and during his cruize was boarded on the coast by the Garland frigate. A dispute took plate, and hence arose or ders, the compliance'of which occasioned tke cap ture of the Amethyst, and which, together with aping the British system of blockade, caused Good 'all's resignation, that on no aceonnt,from any Power whatever, the smallest insult to the Haytias Plat, on pain of death, should be passed over, for a trilling inattention or inadvertency to the orders of no boat leaving theshore after eight o'clock,p.ns.his Majesty's i ; ship gyperion's boat was fired at eighteen months , I since, and four men killed. Christophe repri-1 mended, at the same time, Goodall, for not having ! thrown Capt. Charlton and Air boat's crew overboard. The Southampton fired a shot, the Amethyst return-1 ed the fire, by so doing Admiral Hestia was shot ; had he done otherwise he would, on his return, have ! lost his head or been hung by the heels, of two evils, he i therefore chose the !east. What the consequences are to the residents in Hayti is very easy to imagine, I governed as they are, by the most cruel and unjust i tyrant on earA, without edutation, common honesty,. , or generosity ; who reaping all the advantages of good opinion in this country, has not, to this moment, repaid his agent the suns advanced in charitable done- tions, nor paid him, the Admiral, or Officers who were the means of placing the crown on his head, for the sufferings he has undergone, the expences he has paid, nor a sous for four years hard and zealous _ services. I NINCOtdPOOP, MEMBER BY PURCHASE. COMMON COUAVCIL. The following is a List of the Members of the Common Council of the City of London, who, on Thursday last, voted against the Address to the PRI NICk: RTOENT to dismiss his present Ministers.— From documents in our possession we may probably give, on a future day, a statement of the places, pensions, contracts, and other means of Government influence which induced these very loyal and palrio. gentlemen, to declare themselves in favour of the present corrupt system : ALDERS! ATE WARD. Sir J. W. Anderson. Alderman. ALDGATE.—None. BASSISHAW. The Lord Mayor E. E. Frisby. BILLINGSGATE. - A. Brawn J. Unroforl J. Sud low. 'SLATE. R. Knight A. - Winds& ' .EET. J. Bate J..lohnson M. T. Gibson. , irktr her NAVAL INTELLIGENGS. POItTSMOUTII, APRIL 4/. Arrived the Dolphin store-ship, Capt. !Hack, him the Cape of Good Hope, and South America, Came up from Bt. Helen's, the Afontarte, 74 rant Captain Dixon. Arrived the Elisabeth, 74 guns, Captain Leveson Gower and Comet sloop, from looking after the French squadron ; and the Minerva frigate, -Captain Hawking, &dm Plymouth, to take convoy to North America. Went out of harbour the Hyperion frigate, Captain Cemby. Sailed the Acteon, 18, Captain Cator, with a convey ftir the Downs. Tbe.Thais is appointed convoy for Portugal. PLYMOUTH, Amer 22. Arrived the American ship Manchester, Captain °Joon, from Wiladegton, with tar, doer, thc, to this port, for orders : the Americas ship Verne, Captahi %decibel!, from Savannah, with timber for the dock-yard; the Robert and Sarah, H.dph Wood, Master, from Gibraltar, with wine and brandy, 2 t days paimge ; has brought some bags of letters, but no news—is a roaming. A convoy was daily expected to arrive there from Malta, bound to ihistfoontry. • Arrived the &Used. Nicholls ; Eleanor and Grace, Brown ; Mary, litmus ; Heathers, Walker; laulton, Saunders; and Bee, Roes, all from Wales; Pomona, Swallow, from Exeter ; Vanoard, Gilley, Master, nom Sunderland-; Christian, Cooke, from Meath; the Danish brig Friendship, Bull, from Pensaoce, for Norway ; the Fishottad brig of war Leas a 'cruise ; the Swan, Evans, from Waterford; Eltza, Clark, and nape, Davis, from Dundalk; and Lively, Jackson, &oils - Waterford. Sailed the Elizabeth, 74 gum ; Minerva frigate; and Comet 'sloop of war to Portsmouth; and , the American ship Nerd , snack, Cook, for Portsmouth. ?he Whislarroehoosser is expected tonsil tasmatakirtalikamasi yoy to Jersey and Guernsey. • A fleet passed down Channel this morning fromlbaltuttaitl. DEAL, Aran. if. • Arrived his Majesty's ships Victory, Vice-Admiral Sir ins. Saemarez, from the ; Impregnable, Admiral Tilting $ • land the Warrior, Captain Byng, to augment the fleet of Hush ing; and his Majesty's ship Marlborough front off ditto. Came down from the River the Indefatigable, Cross, for New South Wales and China, and several others. Yesterday, soon after• two o'clock, his Royal Highness the Palsies heaxxv held a Leree at Carl ton House. A troop of the second Life Guards marched into Pall-mall, about one o'clock f .and a detachment of the First Guards, into the Court. yard, with colours flying, and the band in their state uniforms. Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of KENT, CAMBRIDGE, and GLOUCESTER. arrived early ; the fanner was accompanied by the Dukes of CLARENCE and Bittniswica. There were present, the Lord Chancellor, the President of the Board of Tjade, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Master General.of the Ordnance, the Secretaries of State for the • Home and War Department, the President of the Board of Controul, the Lord Steward of the Household, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, the Bi shop of Eater, the Neapoltan t Sieilian, and Tur kish Arnim: ;adore; the Lord Mayor, Recorder, and Remembrancer of London. with the Sheriffs ; and the Dukes of PORTLAND and MONTROSE. After the Levee, the PIUNCE gave audiences to the Earl of Livrneoot.; and Mr. Sheriff ittacskand the City Remembraucer; when his Royal Highness was .pleated.to appoint nest Tuesday, at three o'clock, to receive the City Address. The harbour of liamoaze is now nearly as full of frigates, &c. in ordinary, as in the midst of peace. Notwithstanding which, the list of ships in commission is great beyond all example. CIIINNERY, the Treasury defaulter, has not soil ed for America, es has been said. He is now at Altona, the Danish town on the Elbe, near Rant burgh, where he resides in the House of an ac quaintance. Thursday night, between 11 and 12 o'clock, Syd ' ney College, Cambridge, was discovered to he 0.1 fire in two distinct places, ,and no do" h t ed but it was set on fire by some incendiary. . TUE REGENT'S CANAL.—The Committee on this All finished their arduous task on Wednesday. The Preamble was unanimously agreed to, and thus the groat utility of the measure established, by the opi nion of a very considerable number of most intelli gent Members of Parliament. The various clauses of the Bill were then gone through, and the blanks filled up; after which, nearly 100 clauses were added, liberally adopted to protect the interest of every indi vidual property on the line of the caoal. Only two divisions took place on clauses proposel by dissatis fied parties, both of which were I.: -, g1tived. The Re port was then agreed to with nirrithity equal to the passing of the PI eatable, and this useful 'public work will, in a few days, be submitted to the sanction of the House of Commons. • The following singular Phenomenon took place near Angelica.in the county of Allegheny, America, on the 16th December hut :-,-Early its the morning, about sun rise, as a person was sitting at breakfast, bellied a strange feeling, and supposed at first that be was fainting, but as his sight did not fail, he then concluded that he was going into a fit, and removed big chair back from the table. He then had a seen. tion as though the house was swinging, and observed, that clothes banging on lines in the room were swint big, as also a large kettle hanging over the fire. observed, that his wife and family appeared to be I greatly alarmed, and still supposing that it was in i nonce of his apparently falling into a lit. but en enquiring found that all the felt sane sensation. — This continled, as he supposed, for at least 15 1 , minutes. There was no noise or trembling, nor any vital, but only an appearance of swinging or 1 Milting two feet one way and the other.—.• of his neighbours felt the same, and on the - opposite side of the river, at a farm-house and ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE EXTRAORDINARY. I dwelling -' louse, the same motions a•td sensations ! tivAGa lElmm/tn.—Two Coonsellors, C—atp-11 and M—rt—n, F.r. took their seats felt. A female was in bed, and when she first lately in a stnge-coacit, in coat lenvintvgi t ;! „ an nfe r rio! j ui zm emhe l r l o e f t w ite o i r aw s , ,o f o or tb s e ti tu u rp i ose i of at e rh. motion, and a strange sensation, as.if &tub :ilitting, she jumped out of bed, supposing that the being rather non mows menliqq, arising from e his intense appl gns e. cation to the interests of his clients, huallv dive Fed, as we pre .t was on fire. The motion eves so considerable.; r uze . t , t , :el i w poy erT, over gar i czel hnt . ile. ti *Tl:e . ev: ht ?r d thi, t t :. _ as to set all the bells in the several rooms ringing, - 1 and an inside door Wasybseged to swing open and . coach had arrived at Hounslow-beath, that they Jointly made a shut. The same motions were felt up the river about :l e t a o r , a ntiO l i nG th t st t :r= r iw it •is, n a ad o e l a be tret i e n Varr ee Atn iu y elm agr irt eight Mlles above, at a house near a small brook ; ; pe.tuoits night. The urea, however, &c. ookcted to thr:procZ: the people ran out of the house, and observed the il d —Ve ii ea, that the lam. of the road would notjustify it—nrid wafer to have the same motion. Accounts state, that . ratchlog glr, k 4 4 : B lo ° t f 'a t i l s pl t s!;lV lc p b lar e ta l rr c e l l ' e n d t , ;.a tbt i :It the same motions have been felt at sundry other I law would tolerate ate otlitnnee they wished tb &Lie. Thenv places, thirty miles distant. tion here became very reeriininatiye, and u got:4 de.ti of , sharp practlceeastted. All the force of argoneW available in At.the Sittings yesterday in Guildhall, before Lord the t h erres t .." Part"7"blacmkguilrinin lasi Bz w e '.. bein g ll 2 nA len i t d .,,... m h e 1',. 11141 ,,.." - Ect.EwsonovGil and a Special Jury, the cause of ' — e e i;:iis:t el ic r a e ct%arcaiiOF: - ----7 ----.— --- GoaDorr a. LovELL, was determined. - The damages I - ~ moos qtrry quick and strong conviction, . were laid at 30001. ;. and the Jury returned a verdict in flits of the P? w + g f e c°4l t ZTV.";"; ~ of One Shilling, which ippeared-io give universal toriout ai pites militant, eopported thei 9 rO n piatoosiss e ith as satisfaction.—We shall take an early opportunity of , mach as-the po err-acs; heeds, knees, sill feet could exhibit, to the or MO pitosamest, bat sotesional giving a full report of the Trial. . • [Wane of 'a witness, who arilt 41 wi wi ezhi court tho'whole time A rrICTING INSTANCE Or SELY-DISTRUCTION.- 11 —• , eta the °f r olic** Miow, wisely tooslarr. Early on Thursday, the wife of Mr : Maynard, sad. I'' , • • in' dler, of Redcliff-hill, Bristol, was found drewned.br Bathurst Basou. She left her husband ind infant child in bed early in the morning, and precipita t ted herself into the Eason, where her lifeless body was found by her afflicted relatives In a few hours after, The child, which had been previously ill, owing, I is supposed, to the distracted state . of its parsers mind, expired almost the same moment that the corpse of its mother was brought into this house.— She lived on the most affectionate tofu, butted sad sad family. - 041 id. -- ' 1 big, that --- in ' • " lifser MP bitOn illtersll% • • ' .. la, , . " asast ottetipeattlisloadjmose. , tat ' The isfrodimailacreassd la wilt= .1%. sow s a t s ee a ac h t W at ei issoetiat the ape I la riedrivcr; he thou,;ht w t___ .W . " *Ow of ibe ...._ . - - =Odom, looking characters. vas an d soeKedica whet'. 4 . be la the act of breaking er. spew Me cavil. • • 1 „ . both alighted, sad having ' arcertaisedsbe .• - • w .--. to serve neat with an imoac- it dlate rjertatsat, eta &sited. The cense, therefore, do s which war tor ao its widereaded pue, was ennsequently Permitted lost's* =tile tattooing light display/0J on the wa s he lawyee's tair , k oyes, equal In dimensions to the --. patetismo.% 's Olt, mad one orate learned brothers pre- seated a vi.allassa 'Aka were various record... 4 evidences of the attontry's skill Sa chorea; his oppatwats. The whale trial bitted Dearly thirty-014ra! t' 14 411 k Div v~e::.,c~m Sir W.Leigliton,Aldermaa T. Fienrsey E. Hansen RIM° T. nrenueray, Deputy Alex. Ross W. Haller. Deputy S. Ilayward W. Mathie Z. Langton J. Joyner BR!I)11•: WARD. R. Dation. •S MEET. T. Clark N. Acheson J. Patieme. ,EVV ICK. J. Platt J. Ilumpkby. CASTLF. I3.IYNARD. W. Box. CIILA P. R. Bothwell H. Brook. Blto.llP H Maxland, Deputy I J. !learn J. Patterson C:\ \ Dl, J. Welab, Deputy J. Gale G. Foamier S. Hale H. Farr F. Pa) rater J. West COLEMAN-STREET. W. Chapman. CORDWAINER. awls. Smith, Alderman J. Trembey Xemble I H. Ahbey W. How J. Minium _ _ CORN/11EL. Sir C. Flower, Alderman I T. Bloat W. Angell 1.. Birch. J. Jack, CRIPPLEGATE WITHIN. W. Ihrdy I W. Brie. J. Delver C RIP PLEGATE WITHOUT.—None. DO WGATE. G. Scholey, Alderman .1. taanders, Deputy. PARRINGDON WITHIN. Williams Cadwell. FARRINODON WITHOUT. Sir C; Price, Aiderman I W. Murrell. T. Harper LANG BOURN. T. Ayrer - - W. Witkeeby -- R. Diana. •i R. Elliott. LIME-STREET. / G. Bridges, Alderman I J. Itg isas J. Adcock W. • SOREN. I J. Ilea. HITHL E. Itughes J. J. Skilbeck. Sir J. Shaw, Alderman I QUEEN J. W. Gots, Deputy W. Graham J. Cotton Elt. T. &Wes P. Ske ',per R. Smith U. Utast. TRY. S. Griffin. ,ROOK. I W. Ross W. Woodward. TOI Sir W. rtirtig, Alderman S. Dixon M. Lucas C. Stewa►t D. Laing 1. Code J. Galley VIN' WALBI Atkins, Alderman T. Williams W. Pearce Dispatches were received at the Admiralty yester day from Admiral STIRLING, at Jamaica, brought by the Iletenn sloop of war. The American Dispatches were interpreted angry, because brought by the Wasp, the Hornet, itc. it war, perhaps, be considered no favourable omen of the late French Dispatches, that they were received at Dover by the Insolent. Married, on Tuesday last, at Mary-le.bone 'church, by the Bishop of R trams, Col. Reynosa, of Weetton Court, in the County of Kent, to the Right Hon. Lady IsArretta ARM/ BERESPORG, *len the .Marquis of WATIEIVIORDa Take. Ft r i:~+ ~4i