The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-11-03 00:00:00

-- ipsia: The Kltit) eontiinse4 RII wallas at any time since h e l a st Report, enjoying .roptlar sleep, mid fre.. lquentle ordering kis own dinner.—(Winder* susel :le, II g r P rel4. • 11'e are concerned to state, that her MAJSSTY Is monied to her room, by a slight indisposition. y,...terdey was the Duke of KENT'S birth-day, slot his Royal Highness completed his 45th year. The report of the death of the Countess of KING. ~e , was fabricated by some of. the Ministerisl 1,1 .h , lgs in London, and by them circulated, in or , , tc. detach her Ladyship's tenants, 200 in number, tl. county of Tipperary, from Mr. PRITTIE, and . .e . . ;,t the county of Cork (800), from the Hon. A,- -ins Postsoesv. The ruse de guerre has, how filed. \ I. tier na, yesterday received, transmitted by ~, , •eeei4. , . from Comilla, dated the 25th ult.— Re •nis e'en nunication we are much concerned to ... '....a up to the 21st or 22d of that month the Castle of ii trgos still resisted with success the efforts l o t the Allio. DAvies, the painter, has been created a Baron of France. A letter from the Downs, dated the 24th ult. says —" Admiral GEORGE Hort (one of the Lords of the Admiralty) has this moment sailed for the Baltic, in the Egmont, 74, Captain BINGHAM, with 16 extra pilots, and some spare anchors and cables ; it is said, with the intention of conveying the Russian fleet to England. We understand, that the batch of Baronets which lis expected to make its appearance in the Gazette forthwith, has been termed the Medical Batch, as it Includes several Gentlemen of that profession : amongst others, Dr. BLASE, Mr. Home, Me, Dun Dies, of Richmond, &c. 6:c. It is also stated, that the Reverend Proprietor of a Morning Print will likewise receive the honour of the bloody hand on this occasion. Sir FELTS AGAR petitions against the return of 1 Capt. WYArr, for Sudbury. The friends of Gen. MATTHEW and Mr. Parrvie complain much of the conduct of the deputies ap pointed to take the poll at the Tipperary. Election. Three of those deputies are Mr. BAGWELL'S sons, one his ton -in-law, another his Lieutenant-Colonel, and two others his particular friends. Mr. STUART WORTLET paid a visit last Tuesday to Leeds, for the purpose of thanking the Manufac turers for the support they afforded him at the late Election for this County, and was very favourably received. In passing through the Coloured Cloth hall, he took au opportunity of expressiog his sen. thnents in a quarter whn.e his observations were , likely to be felt, on the extraordinary treatment he had experienced from the Lescelles party. The Russian circumnavigator, Kaysstesune, in the relation of his voyage round the world (recently published in Russ and German) gives a faithful ac count of the failure of the principal object of his ex-1 pedition, which was to establish commercial relations between Japan and -Russia. " The Emperor of JAVAN (he says) caused it to be notified to the Com missioners whom I carried, that his subjects traded only with the Dutch and Chinese. As to the Rus sians, he begged them to return to their own coun try, and, if they valued their lives; never to come back." The two vessels in which Captain Rause:4- mm" performed his voyage were called the Neva and the Nadessa ( Hope): they were English built, and all the equipments of his sailors were purchased in this country. A great quantity of condemned English mer rlian,-.ize which had been seized in attempting to be smuggled, taken in prizes, or found on board vessels that had been driven on the French coast, were pub licly burnt on the 14th, 15th, and 17th September, at Dunkirk. Among the goods were 176,941 pieces of nankeens and muslins, and 6278 silk shawls, handkerchiefs, &c. A part of this merchandize had been seized in June 1811, on board the Nancy, an English smuggler, Captain Tuotess PATRIDGE, and confiscated by the French tribunals on the 10th of the same month. The Captain was imprisoned some days, and is to be under the cognizance of the po lice three years. Bitivists NAVAL Fonce.—The following state ment is abstracted from the official returns, up to Yesterday :—At Sea, 95 of the line, 13 fifties, 119 frigates, 120 sloops, 8 bombs, 129 brigs, 33 cutters, 52 schooners ; total 569.—1 n port and fitting, 29 of the line, 9 fifties, 28 frigates, 36 sloops, 2 bombs, 21 brigs, 7 cutters, 14 schooners ; total 144. Guardships, 6 of the line, 1 fifty, 4 frigates, 5 sloops ; total 16.—Hospital ships, &c. 30 of the lines, 2 fifties, 1 frigate; total 33.—11 n Commission, 159 of the line, 25 fifties, 152 frigates, 160 sloops, 10 bombs, 150 brigs, 40 cutters, 66 schooners ; total 672.—1 n Ordinary, 71 of the line, 10 fifties, 66 frigates, 38 sloops,' 5 bombs, 9 brigs, 1 cutter, 2 schooners ; total 108.—Building, 31 of the line, 3 fifties, 17 frigates, 5 sloops, 1 bomb, 2 brigs ; total 50, making a grand total of 1024 vessels -261 of the line, 38 fifties, 225 frigates, 20 k sloops, 16 bombs, 161 brigs, 41 cutters, and 69 schooners. • —Of these there are employed off Spain, &c. 34 ▪ vessels, 35 of the lice '• in the Mediterranean 103 , ; 27 of the li ne ;i n th e Channel 86, 13 of the line; iu the North Sea and Baltic 96, 10 of the line. It is said in the French journals, that the Theatre Francois, at Moscow, escaped the ravages of the flame, ; but the female performers having been car ried oil by the Russians,. a company was raising from the metropolitan and provincial theatres in France, which would, when completed, be trans ported to Moscow. A fen day; since a Meeting of the Freeholders of Oxfordshire took place at the Town Hall, when, after the High Sheriff had opened th-. 2 business of the diy, it nes determined to present Petitions to both ▪ Houses of Parliament AGAINST the Catholic claims. We understand Petitions are intended to be presented from various other places, namely, Leeds, New castle, Bristol, &c. Wednesday morning, Samuel Poole, a mason, of Taunton, having quarrelled with his wife, who had not then risen from her lied, proceeded to strike her, and on the second blow deprived her of life. A Coroner's Inques has been held upon the body, when the verdict of the Jury was, that the deceased died in consequence of blows given her by her husband, but not fi um malice prepense. He has since been committed to Ilchester gaol, to take kis trial at the next assizes for this county. • , ~y .I Tilt STATESMAN. '' , POLICE INVESTIGATION. It has been generally the misfortune of the Irish Government to identify itself with the humblest, the meanest of its Officers—to degrade itself by a coali tion with the most wicked of its supernumeraries— to unite with them against the public—and regard complaints, applied. to vulgar .bist important delin quencies, as an assault against the authority of the executive, and the dignity df the Viceroy. Ihe meanest dependant, through the departments of the Government, when detected in abuses, and threaten ed with exposure, is accustomed to exclaim-1 stand by the Government, and the• Government shall stand by me—the.Dake is my friend —I shall protect him, protect me. When the and, 4 c by God," he shall Aid-de-Camp of Major Sirr, the convicted murderer O'Brien, failed to procure a pardon from Lord Corniiallis, for one of the basest and most unpro: yoked homicides that ever disgraced humanity in a civilised country, we recollect how loud the friends of that murderer were in reprobating the Viceroy, for refusing the pardon, so confidently expected.— The 't villain Corney (said they) has betrayed O'Brien and treacherously surrenders him to the gibbet, fora Papist." To the honour of Mr. Pole, be it remembered, he was the first to serer this base connection---it is the best point in his character, that he was actuated by a horror of official abuse—he disunited himself from the degrading fellowship of vulgar wickedness, and surrendered off►cial malpractice, or imputed mal- _ . practice, to open, free, and unreserved investigation, conducted equally and indifferently, according to the formsof Courts of Justice. Mr. Pole knows full well, that The Evening Post has not been his flatterer, but we hope we are able to be just to the praise-worthy part of on opponent's character—on this subject we give him full credit, and beg leave to point it out to his successor, as a trait most deserving of his careful imitation. What has the dignity of the Duke of Richmond to do with the ill conduct imputed to the hired Ma gistracy of Dublin ?—What has the well-educated son of the upright and moral-minded Sir Robert I Peele to do with a depraved system of Police, which is accused as oar rolice has been ? There can be no " common cause" between them. 1 Major Sirr said, at the end of the late Enquiry— I it I knew it. would end in this way;" that is, he ; knew it would end without a beginning—his expres sion was in tome degree prophetic, although by no .means complimentary to Serjeant Moore. But Ma- 1 i jor Sirr did not see far enough into the business—he did not see, that although it was suppressed in a manner in which no investigation ever was suppressed before—that it was possible it might be revived, un der better and more favourable circumstances. It i will be revived, backed by a crowd of most respect able sig natures. The disclosures at the late stifled investigation con siderably strengthen the necessity for an enquiry.— No honest man can deny that the allegations ought to be investigated. If they are not in Ireland, they will be in England. Indeed, in any case it must come before Parliament. A Memorial to his Grace of Richmond is at this moment in the progress of receiving signatures—it will be presented without deloy. It would be, no answer to say, that the last . Enquiry received no evidence—they refused to re ceive any in the usual way of Courts of Justice— 1 1 examining the accusers, and no others, was absolute nonsense—many of them did not pretend to be the witnesses—they were citizens witb property re- 1 quiring security, and they prayed the Govern ' ment to institute Enquiry--but they were not I perperly the witnesses. The chief witness did 'mot sign the Memorial at all, and does not sign I it, under the good old law notion that prosecutors 1 and witnesses ought, as much as possible, to be 1 distinct ; yet the Learned Serjeant conceived that the Prosecutors were more particularly the i witnesses. Many Gentlemen, who now sign the Memorial, have, and could have no knowledge of the truth of the allegations, but they have grounds of strong belief, that the Police are in.. efficient, because they hear criminal acts imputed , to their face, on parole, by men offering to swear it ; —and they hare the Oath of one who belonged to Itheir Establishment, and which stands unanswered. The Memorialists 'think that there ought to be an i 1 Enquiry—and they pray it, because they are deeply interested—because the question directly affects their lives and properties, as Citizens of Oublin.—They, therefore, consider Enquiry necessary—and so should the Police and the Magistracy—so should Major Sirr —Major Sirr should sign the Mintiorial, or present a concurrent one, praying investigatiou in the usual legal form—he owes it to his character. Nothing can so effectually restore him to the estimation of the Government. It was a most unfortunate thing for the Police, that the late Enquiry terminated as it did —it has multiplied and strengthened the sitspiciens of the country, and nothing but a fair and legal En quiry can remove these heavy imputations, if they I can be removed. The Jury that was summoned at Portsmouth to de cide on the death of Lieutenant Bagnell, re-assem bled on Wednesday, and heard the examination of Mr. Madden, the surgeon who extracted the ball. — His evidence went only to identify the fatal instru ment of Lieut. B.'s death ; and it proved that Lieut. O'Hanlon was present in the room when he per formed the operation. The Jury, upon the evidence that had been brought before them, returned a ver dict of Wilful Murder against Lieutenant W. Stuart, and against Lieutenant John O'llanlon, who was Second to Lieutenant B. for aiding and abetting the same. No part of the evidence involved, or legally ascertained, the Second of Lieutenant Stuart. The parties concerned were bound over to appear against Lieutenants Stuart and O'Hanlon at the next assizes for Hampshire. Itteuesx.—On Thursday an Inquest was held at the sign of the Freemason's Arms, St. Anne's, Lime house, On the body of R. A. Farmer, the American, who shot himself at his lodging, near Whitechapel, on Tuesday last. Verdict—Lunacy. The Court-Martial held at Brighton on Martin Higgins, a private of the 211 batt. 14th foot, for counterfeiting blindness, have, after an examination of several days, declared tlair opinion that he is Not Gallo/. MR. COOI►E, THE ACTOR• IRELAND. -.. NAVAL INTgLLIGiIaCg. --maw— It is.llol/ very unhappily ascertained;that the rare, the meritorious, the eccentric Mr. GEOltnE FREISE• aim COOKE, path paid the debt which Nature will, sooner or later, demand of us all, and that his func. tions, as a man and an actor, have been abrogated by death. It is said that Mr. COOKE died, at New-York, in the United States of America, on the day that he had attained his 57th year ; and that his remains were followed to the sepulchre; not only by his theatrical brethren, but by many of the most respectable inha bitants of that city ; which was a compliment to his memory, that his great merits might, naturally, ex cite, in a ruder society, than that. which constitutes the population of that place. The biography of Mr. Comte liath been so fre quently and so falsely presented to the general eye, that we shall be somewhat brief on that head. It has been recorded that M r. COOKE: was born in Dab lin, and that his father was a subaltern in the army ; which is not true, as he was born at Berwick-upon- Tweed, and (like the renowned Dr. Fatettum) educated as a printer; and would, agreeably to pro babiiity, have been a second BASKERVILLE, if he had not been induced to play Horatio, in Hamlet, when the approbation that he received, so intoxicated his young brain, that he forsook the important art of typographic composition, to learn the art of acting, and recite the composition of others. His first appearance, upon a regular stage, was successfully made at the Theatre Royal in the Hay market, in the character of Castaiio, for the benefit of Mrs. M AMY, the wife of Mr. MASSEY, who was one of the famous club of that period. called " Choice Spirits," in association with GEORGE Amex- DER SM. ass, NED SDUTER, HARRY 'towage, Mr. Roos: n, &c. From this time, Mr. COORS resolved to make act ing his profession, and joined, eventually, many pro vincial companies, in which his superiority was so uniformly acknowledged, that in 1791, he was en gaged by Mr. DALY, then the Manager of the Dub lin Theatre, to lead the business of the Theatre at a very considerable salary. In 1797, he was re-en gaged by Mr. JONES, the succeeding Manager, for a term of three years, at an advanced salary ; on the termination of this treaty, he was invited to Covent. garden Theatre, by Mr. Haws, sen. where he , made his first appearance, on October 31, 1800, in ! i the part of Ric/14rd the Third; and his reception STnEt lIU T STLERS.—The assurance of this class of ex _ depredators is arrived at an unprecedented height. A by a London audience, was so enthusiastically G pressed, that Mr. HARRIS not only ,increased his G en tleman was on Friday attacked by a gang of five arranged salary, but gave him a benefit free of all of them, in Fleet-street, who robbed him of his p attendant expellees; nor was this generosity upon pocket-book, containing Bank-notes to a consider. knowledge of all would COOKE, as it was his habitude to fill a bumper to ask, the they are not apprehended and prosecuted the health and felicity of that respectable Gentle as vagrants, and the streets thus, in great measure, man, in those moments of intemperance, .when the cleared of the gangs of thieves and pickpockets that cunning of the heart bath no influence over the lan guage of the tongue. • . now infest them ? To the curious reader, the following facts, blea k would be unnecessary, if not superfluous , to i milted to us, may be interesting:--That vegetables follow Mr. Cooxt, in this trifling Memoir , o rer those w paths of weakness and folly, in which, perhaps , he will grow in woollen cloth, moss, or any other in s delighted but too much to tread ; yet let it n o t be soluble media, besides soils, provided they be sop . forgotten, that he was never betrayed into onedeed. plied with water, has been repeatedly shown since that indicated the possession of a mean mind , and the days of Van Belmont and Boyle; bat the cape that his benevolence was of a marked and exemplary riments of a modern author, from their apparent correctness, seem more highly interesting end con. sort, for— . —" He had a hand , open as day, ! elusive. $. 0 46 of various plants were sovecin pare '"Fo melcag charity." ! river sand, in litharge, in flour of sulphur,' and even Considered as an actor, he was so unrivalled in a among metal, or common leaden shot ; and in every very material department of the drama, that we instance nothing employed for their nourishment but have no professor left who could equal him!—we distilled water. The plants throve, and passed have had many (and some of them of high and de- through all the usual gradations of growth to per. served note) who have attempted to succeed him in feet maturity. * The author then proceeded to gather Kitely, logo, Sir Pertinax Afacsycophant, Shylock, the entire produce, the roots, stems, leaves, pods, Stukely, Sir Giles Overreach, Ste. yet not with seeds,, &c. • These were accurately weighed, dried, equal glory; and the first four act! of Otis Richard, and again weighed, then submitted to distillation, in were even superior to Mr. Kgmera.'s exertions in the ' cineration, lixiviation, and the other ordinary means same part, although in the last Mr. Koine cer.i used in a careful analysis. Thus he obtained front tainly towered above his less lettered rival. Indeed, i these vegetable all the materials peculiar to each In• a more impressive evidence cannot be given, of his dividual species, precisely as if it bad been cultivated wonderful acuteness and merit, in some particular in'a natural soil, viz• the various earths, the alkalis, characters, than that the part of Peregrine, in the acids, metals, carbon, sulphur, phosphorus, nitro. comedy of John Bell, which with him was such a I gen, &c. He concludes this very important paper leading personage, bath, ever since he resigned it, ' nearly in these extraordinary words :—" Oxygen and sunk and dwindled into something little better than ! hydrogen, with the assistance of solar light, appear a mere field preacher, walking to and fro among the • to be the only elementary substances employed in Dramatis Persona.. the constitution of the whole universe; and nature, It may be almost singularly recorded of Mr. in her simple progress, works the most infinitely di. CooKE, that he rather ravished fame than otherwise; l versified of feats v the slightest modifitsatlons itt the as his disposition was of such nn independent cast, i Walls she enyl..ys."---See Re. h.frches sae la force that he would never walk out of his course to court i eusimilatrice darn le ergetaux, par M. Henri Bra.. the immediate ministers of that false and blatant ' connet, Annals dI. Chimie, Fey. et Mars, 1808. — Goddess; and, in some instances, he carried this : Extracted from Mr. i':ll;'s (Ay/nice! Cat. 449. propensity so far, that it occasionally bordered up- 1 nut ROBBERY.—We are hew to find that an on rudeness, which created him enemies, among those occurrence has taken place which is likely to lead to who regaisical his manners with a microscope, and his a discovery of the robbery of the Leeds mail coach. merits with the common organs of vision ; and it was A man who keeps a toll-gate near Kettering, and unnecessary for a nan so gifted as him to make fac- • who was seen in conversation ate public-house with titiouc opponents by the inaccurncies of his . demean- two of the men belonging to the caravan or tilt cart, our and expression, who might naturally-count upon which had been driving about that part of the coon so many as malignantly appertaining to the bright try, has been taken up on suspicion, and undergone career of his ability. • an • examination before four Magistrates for the How the blood mantles! how the cheek's lathed, County of Northampton. In his bed were found To tied the Censor, less than the accas'd ! sewed up two fifty pound Bank-notes of a recent Thus wild Presumption throas his arms iu air. And dares the Olympian Jove, becatt , e--he date I . date, but whether they were abstracted from the With such our poignant JOWDAS/ Was too bold, • mail, has not been ascertained. The officers are in LEWIS too agiIe!—HCNDIMISON too cold ! - . pursuit of the guard of the Leeds mail, when for. Hence BRAMAN'S taste, and CATAt VW/ lay, . Provok'd the v rowling Python of the day ! ' merly robbed. This man had been discharged for Bet Time and Trath such abloom stiaftumd, ' negligence on that occasion, and for losing his time- And strike their ill•rais'd struetures lb the ground. Then, who can 'scape this ordeal of Fraud, piece. It is very remarkable that the back, or brass- While p u blic Judgment shie v ts, and Rate's abroad ? plate,. on which was engraven " Lds," and Herculean Coosa was thus by. Envy clagg'di G. P. O. together with the number of the time- Who, dinun'd in error, was-a sum berogr'd ! . Though dark'oing clouds abscised his weak ray, piece,, had been inadvertently nailed to some part of We trac'd his radiance e'en In his decay ! the toll-house, taken off by some person, and for (Thas, when is Baum' but the Thuaderer trod warded to the General Th e tulgar jerkin could not hide the God !) Post-office. It was found, Post-offi And, when the pride of head, and limbs, was past, ' on referring to the books, that this was the back of It e main'd a peerless Torso to the last! . the identical iece which had been lost oti the night Shaw me that being who'll succeed him now! '' of the robbe near Barnet, upwards of two years Who's nerv'd to grasp the (hymen bowl • carded guard has never been , in any re- When he drseenord dowa the Western Wes, And snot. fur ever, from our aching tyes, g ag utr employment since his dismissal from the service The Moses shriek e d ! while Joy, by Fate's eontronl, of the Pilot-office, nor lied any visible means of sub. Narrow'd her charm-frasght circles mod the anal! sistence since. • He half been observed lurking about Extract front tAs Kastsums MS. the ale-houses several weeks, and is supposed to have accompanied the art ! A Gnntleman, Mr. 04--=-, a resident of Portsea , his oebmitted to Government a shell that at the im- The first transport' of Rusvtan prisoners, corapris.. hi g lOW men, T eethed the French frontiers last Immo distance of three miles wilt explode2o . lsalls of coolorstible matter of three Joann diameter, anti up. month. They were edited to be cosfined in the in.... tenor provinces. . ,_ : wards of 1000 attltalit. atmi.fi stet balls: these will be . ...- 1.. , .• scattered on the horison within a circle whose Cos i Count Loottow presented lag month to itpesiiii. meter is 1400 yards.-4119 w4iikt of flitoball elll I amity .of Parma, a collection of 9elo opals ) ntswall be upwards of Si W.', .. : v.ristiiiatbbieft:- at 50,000 livres. . . ' 4 ,t 4 etc, .: A , • . • - ~ • - . .1- ..en:,‘.. , .-..,.. . -"wary DEAL, Nov. 2.—Arris l Q and sailed for the Mir, the Simon litylor, from 'omelets ; Heart of Ottk, and Lord Welling-Ns, front Quebec; the two latter; ander conroy of . his Majesty's ship ProinetUhr. Po RTS MI! Nov. I.—Sailed the Venguer and tincess Caroline, for off Cherborgh. Aldred the brig Tgaemouth, Castle, from Quebec: 01.varocrm, Nov. k.—.4trirea last flight, and an. Awed iniCawsoad Bayj the following ships from 4:imybe4 bele; pert of the Prometheus: Convoy: Hardy, Ley Juliana, 4 0 d- qtyitlntent. bores, vv. 1.;--Passed by for the Ritet the Sietirs • Taylor,. Meek, from Jamaica; and the He art of Oak, Nicholson, from Quebec. The for. mer wat engaged by an American privateer in let. 40. N. long. 30. 20 W. The action lasted two haunt, when the American was beaten off with watch do. mage, notwithstanding she had 12 guns, and was fill l of men. Captain Meek wis wounded in the fore. head. _ • \' HARWICH, Nov. g. ----The homeward-bound Bahia fleet are now passing the harbour. SPOCTING INTELLIGENCE'. , ' ._ i 9 t . , • • ~ t . • , . • .. . ,a ;I ~~. ~' NE%VSI It RKF :I ' THIRD OCTORER MESTIgn. B ' lON IMY AFTER THE HOUGHTON 11E . ETING,„ Note. 11, Sweepstakes of 10gs each, for 1-yr olds. T. Y. C. tilt. 7lb. ea r& Gen. Grosvenor's f. by Potenjay - Mr. Udny's e. by Haphazard • - 't I• Lord Lowther's brother to Rattecup .. 4:...2 Hera he4lll:e Int t iens Ur eiVelier . i f. -Ng. Duke of Ric.l.iii.fs tif:!paikia, tat. Slb. beat Mr. Shokaspiates Ilydrs:,es, 7st. lib. A. F. HX!gs. 2tol on Grimalkin. ' A Subscription Handicap Plate of 501. for 3-ye olds and up. , wards. T. Y. C. ; Mr. Farrall's Lady of the Lake, 3-yrs old, 7..1.51b. - 1 : Lord Foley's ch. c. BOdkin, 3.vri , old,. at. 31b. - 2 8 to I apt Lady of the Lake. A Subscriptioh Plate of 501. for S-yr olds, Tat. 911). 4-y? olds, ' Bsr. 111 b. s.yr olds, 9 st. 31b. &sr olds =Caged, 9st. 51b. A. F. . Lord Lowther's Dimity, 5-yrs old 4 - 1 ! Mr. Lake's Venture, 3-yrs old . - 2 Sto 1 aA st Dimity. 3to 1 asst Venture.. Mr. Goddard's Rrightonia, List. 71b. beat Mr. Fades's Acci dent, Ist. 1111). R. M. 50gs. Even betting on Brighton's. Lord C. 11. Somerset's Scorpion, beat Major Wilson's Judi per, IVst. each. D. I. YOlp h. ft. 2tol on Scorpion. 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