The Statesman. — London, England, 1810-07-04 00:00:00

SONG. - TC N E--" Ruts Kritennia." As NELsors lives in scalistar'd lathe, For meriting his country's praise, Bo to our dauntless Statesman's name, Immortal piles shall Britain raise. See most Godlike 1131;RIIICTT stand), Restorer of a stoking land. ye Cities, bring his statue forth, That riarages, unbought, may lead, I•'nr e'en the portrait of true worth Will look each Borough-monger dead. See most Godlike, &c. ?lust sheep-fac'd wolves our flocks destroy, And not trite shepherds see the guile?' No. brave Sir FRANCIS :inn nou'd die, 'Ere Privilege deceptions vile. See most Godlike, &c. 0 ! Twins°lc. well by thee was scann'd, That Britons could not long" he staves,' Xs there's a " charter of the land," Blest Liberty, when droopin;, save 4. See most 60.1 like, drc. ,es iall Ty—ts seize nor Rights by storm, When Magna Charta we cao boast Sound, sound, yestentors, sound Reform, Arise, or be for ever lost ! See most Godlike, Sse. Bra OEM nor polar star, shall shine, (No „Ion -worm B cs will light these isles) Till the refulgent orb divine, Tru: Liberty, like Plirebus, smiles. See most Godlike, &c. IV.IVAL INTELLIGENCE. Prxmourti, JULY 4.—Vice-Adrairal Sir Ro. but Calder hoisted his flag yesterday, on board the Salvador, in Ilimoaze, as Cummander-in- Chief at this port. Sailed the Seine frigate on a cruize. Arrived the Woolwich store.ship, from Malta and Gibraltar ; left the latter place 13th ult. The Marquis of Bute came passcngcr • in her; also the Captain of an Algcrifie frigate, taken on board at Gibraltar. Sailed th• Peacock and Goldfinch bligs on a cruize. Arrived the Mir:cern frigate froth the West,. ward ; and Druid, from Portsmouth; about twelve transports with French prisoners on board, un der rinvoy of the Spitfire brig of war from Cu. diz ; the Juliana, from the Eastward bound to Orleans ; the Dilig,:nce, Kitto ; and Lark, ,re ; from London. The Woolwich spoke three days . since, about 250 miles west of Scilly, all well, his Majesty's ship cyane, with nine sail of vessels under con. see for the coast of Africa. Thu Woolwich beings,. s*. account, that fh. Spartan frigate has hail a severe action in the Me diterranean (supposed in tie bay of Naples) with a frigate, a corvette, some brigs, and several gim.boats, wherein the Captain was, severely wounded. Her loss is said to be bet weer, 20 and 30 men killed and wounded. The enemy posed to have suffered most severely. A brig was captured, and another sunk. Rais Cadour Angelier, the Captain of an Al. gcrine frigate, who landed out of the Wool. * wick store-ship, has dispatches front the . Dey 'of Al is for our Government, said to relate to a Thertuguese brig captured by the Algcrines, and carried into Gibraltar. Two days since the WoolWch fell in with a corvette and two brigs err Ushaid, which bore down on her ; but finding her to be a vessel of force they made oIT, when the iVeolwich pursued them four hours, but could not come up with them. They are supposed to have been enemy's • 1 cruizcrs. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 3.--Arrired the bean, Charrocil, aul Caledon sloops, from the Cape of Good Hope. They left the Cape Ist of April, and St. Helena Ist May ; the Caledo nia, 120 guns, Capt. Bedford, from Cadiz: The Raisonable, 61 gons, Capt. Rowley, with a convoy from the Cape; and the Dromedary, from Nev South Wales, are gone by for the Downs. Arrived the eirav, from Cork; and the Sprightly, from a cruize. PRINCESS ELIEAIIETH'S SCIIO 0 L.—On Saturday last, her Royal Highness the Princess MAT.% BETH N A a visit to thelltlititil . . of Industry, at Old Windsor, of whictridie is the Patroness. It is 'with heartfelt Satisfaction we observe the efforts of her .'.Loyal Highness in thp promotion of this In. stitntiOti crowned with success. It is established on t plan which.we hope to see adopt more ge nerally hi the cpwatry i in the education of fe m ales as under servants. This Charity took its rise in commemorttion •or 14 MAJESTY'S entering the' *)oth year of his Reign, and is similar to the In. titutiott at Cheltenham, in regard to the occupa. ons of the children, in sewing, knittiug, brew. baking, a• n l other household affairs. The •oduce of the School affords a seasonahle relief t` - ,e poor in the neighbourhood, as the clothes i linen are sold to them one-fourth under their "he Duchess of Brorono onw sits up to m e visits from her female friends ; her Grace's nt daughter cannot but he rearing up with y hopeful prospect, since sho receives her chief ition from that parental source which Provi: e has so wisely ordained, and custom so tin. ally withholds. TH STATE6MAN. THE 111:STA L L .4TIQ ;\r. OXFORD, nr.•DAY AFTtftYOON. Respectable persons of every description have been flocking for two or three days past to this City, which is now 14 full as it can hold ; and not I a lied or a stable is j 'to be procured, except at the .most exorbitant rates. The number attracted by the grand Ceremonial of the INSTALLATION of the new Cuasccr.t.ou, and its accominying festivi ties, is beyond precedent. This Ceremonial, which has colleited such an assemblage of distinguished persons, not merely from the vicinity, or from the metropolis, but also from far distant counties, must have in it `some claims to general attention and public notice. What Is pubticty done by so important a body as the UNIVERSITY of Oaionn, (whether right or wrong) must .fie.tho regards of all who consider from what source it springs, and what an iniluence it must necessarily have on a very large portion of the community. . It is the most venerable of the countless established seats of British knowledge, coeval with all the interesting and the great, of British story ; the proudest, amid all those anti. plated and glorious Institutions,• made sacred by our forefathers to learning, to virtue, and .to piety ; where Princes, and Scholars, and Divines, where Philosophers and Patriots hare • studied ; and which, nearly to the We► l. of mortal at. chievements, they have embellished and eternized ; where they hare, in a learned zeal, and with a pious providence, erected and endowed Halls, Colleges, and Churches, dedicated to all that in' human society is honourable and august. It is here, that a great and a free people, through many a revolving century, from the earliest dawn and" infancy of their science up to the brightest blaze of their illumined maturity, have told Learn.. ing to place herself in a state of miresl and pond. cal exaltation ; and have bid her to assume, with an acknowledged freedom, the air and port of Me. narchy ; to dwell in palaces unsurpassed by Ori. ental maenitieence ; and to crown herself with the 1 sincere Coinage, and with the willing reverence, of a nation. . . Ladies and Gentlemen began to collect about the entrances to the Theatre, as early as,half.past ( seven in the morning. The doors wore opened at 1 nine. The La.lies were admitted to their seats in Ithe Lower Gallery first ; but many of them went away, front smut of room. The Procession of the Chancellor did not appear till nearly eleven ; previous to which, the Proctors, Messrs. BRICK END-EN, of Worcester College, and E•ERETT; of New College ; dnd• the Pro-Proctors, Messrs. HA RivARD and WILLIAMS, of Worcesier, SHE. RER, of New, and RaaltaoNE, of . New Col. lege, were received with strong testimonials of ap. probation. Swale time afterwards the appearance of Sir S. SHITH;in his naval unifooin, excited a general 'lnd loud exprilssiOn of applause. The Procession cnteredby the great south demi ' the Esquire Betiels 'of the University, Messrs. 11110 DES, M. A. Ilit.t., LL.B., and Cox, M.A. Dewing suds sneer bum:s, WILA the. Yaolvien Be. dels, Messrs. Wise, Tamale, and DICES, the Verger, &c. leading the way. Then came my Lord GRENVILLE, in a dark brown Court suit, and over it, his official black robe, richly embroi. dcred with gold, and wearing his Academic cap and gold tassel. Though happy at his Lordship's returning health, we were very sorry to see such strong marks of his -recent indisposition. He looked very pale; and from the heat of the day, dispensed with wearing the usual wig. He was followed by the Vice-Chancellor, Dr. JOHN PAR. sows, !Waiter of Betio!, and a long train of No. blemen, Doctors, and Masters, who have taken out their regency, all in their respective habits ; among whom were Earl SPBNCER, the Bishop of ST. Aunt, Sir IVATIUN. WILLIAMS WYNNE, Sit lIEHRY DAIHWOOD, Baronet, the Right Honourable THOMAS GRENTI tax, Sir WILLIAM SCOTT, and Mr. ABBOTT, Speaker of the House of Commons, (the two Members for the Univer. sity), Sir Jolts CoxE IltertsLET, Bart. Mr. M. A. TAxLoR, and several young Noblemen of the University. The CHANCELLOR seated himself' in the great chair, in the centre of the seniicircle ; the Vite. Chancellor standing on his left hand. The chair to the left was occupied by Dr. Wm. HowLEY, Canon of Christ.church, and Regius Professor of Divinity ; that on the right hand was empty, Lurd ELnoN, the High Steward, not being present. Before the Chancellor, on each side, sat the Proctors. At the ends of the semi. circle, the two Curators of the Theatre, Dr. MARLOX, President of St. John's, and Dr. LAN. -DON, Provost of Worcester, took their chairs. When the Cita Ncer.Lcie. and all the members had taken their places, the spectacle .was thu graiidest and most impressive that can,,be imagined. A vast and noble semi-circular theatre, containing two deep galleries, tho upper one entirely - filled with the under-graduates in their black gowns and caps; the lower one crowded with near 800 ladies, all of them cit./Andy dressed, many of them of the first distinction, and arrayed in the most splendid taste, in all the varieties of colour and plumage; beneath, in the centre, the CHANCELLOR, and on either side, the Nobility, and Members of the University, in their costames ; the area filled with Academicians and other Gentlemen, and. the , opposite end, to the CHANcELLotee chair, ecenJ. pied by the Orchestra, and the vocal Performers, presented, altogether, a picture of the inest brit. tient and august kind, which it Is impossible to describe, but which gave the highest opinion of the greatness of the nation of any exhibition we 'have witnessed. The Criarecetton opened the Convocation in the usual form, and then proceeded to read from the Chair the proposition for conferring the hono. rary Degree of Doctor of Civil Law, upun the following Noblemen :Ind Gentlemen: — Ms C;rtive the Poke of So etnitsre. • The Nrost Noble the Mnr•pois of HucluvrniA M, K. G. .—:—.------ , --------of DOWASHIaIis Tbe Right 110.1. the End of Essex. of A in NGHON. of J rabEY. rout r esti; c. • - of C areireirt. ICwttca. The Right Ma. Lord itifeount tt.str. , • CA RIATON• The- Right Hon. Lord BRA Y eansic. CA trook. C•RIIINLI'011• The Right Hoe. WILLIAM WIC:KHAN. GEORGE TIKK KY• WILLIAM ELLIOT. Sir JOHR Ncw PO KT. BAN. Sir JOHN ANiTRUTWCK, Bart. • Mr. FAG BL, late Gretfier of the United PrOVNYCZA. • These were all proposed separately from the chair, and unanimously admitted ; upon e hick they were individually introduced in their scarlet gowns, addressed by Dr. Joseru PRILLIIIORE, of Christ Church, Regius Prof, •sor of Civil Law, and their admission declared to them, in the usual words, by the Chancellor. The admission of the Marquis of Bucstrieuam was rendered interest ing by the Chancellor, who manifested a strong sensibility on the occasion of addressing his elder brother, whom he called " ctsrissinte paler," which produced a very general feeling. The lie. gius Professor of Divinity addressed M. N. an illustrious foreigner, at some tenth. Thu audience chewed great approbation of several of the newly atimitteti Honorary Doctors. The Public Orator, Mr. Caovvr, of New Col. lege, then ascended the" Eastern Rostrum, and delivered his Commemoration speech, which was a very elegant Latin oration, losing nothing of its earnestness by the old Wykehainist pronunciation. After an appropriate exordium, and expatiating upon the uses and benefits or this. University, lie proceeded to call to the recollection of his atten. rive audience, several of _those great persons whO had justly distinguished their names by their muni. licence towards this great institution. In this view, he did ample justice to time memory of the famous Archbishop Town, who was so great a benefactor. lie pictnred, in glowing colours, the great benefit, the University had received from HIDE, Earl of CLARENDOV ) to the produce of one work of whom they owed a magnificent estab. lishment (the Printing House). The memory of Archbishop &moos particularly claimed their gratitude and veneration ; since to ha princely libe. rality they owed that magnificent edifice in which they were then assembled. The institutions . and w other services of the Earl of LITCHEIELD, hew their Chancellor, were also highly worthy Of re. counting. This led him to the subject of the Chancellor's prizes, on which he embraced the op. portunity to pay the due tribute of approbation to the transcetulaut •merits of many of the scholare who had earned them. After various other topics, he came to his peroration, in which he addressed himself to Lord GRENVILLE in the most elegant delicate, and masterly. manner. Complimenting him on the return of his health, he would forbear to say much of his character; and hoped that the day was far distant, when it could fall to his lOt to speak of hiel as be thought, without incurring the imputation ()flattery. This oratiott'was followed by load and reiterated plaudits. ' Mr. CeLtetnee, of CUrpus Christi (nephew, we understand, to Mr. CoLtitibise the Poet), from the Western Rostrum' s recited his Latin verses, (subject "Pyritmides Eggpliacte,") fOr which no nartgatnen one or rue prebent Ch44cellor's prizet. Mr. WHATELEY, of Oriel, followed, and deli. vered his English Essay, which won another of these prizes; ,the subject, "What aro the arts, in the cultivation of which (ha Moderns have been less successful than th►s Ancients ?" This Essay showed a considerable degree of research, and good habits of analyzation and comparison. We are sorry we have not room to say more upon it at present. Mr. MILLER, of Worcester College, then read his Essay in Latin prose, which won the present Chancellor's third priac ; . the subject, 46 In Phi.* losophia quer de vita et moribus est, illustranda, quesnam pracipue sermons' Socratiorum fait excellentia," This was highly and deservedly applauded. Ch urc h, Last came Mr. CIIINNERY) o f unrest who recited his English poem of 50 verses, 'which paned him Sir Roger Newiligete's'Aenual . Prize : 'the subject, " The Dying Gladiator." This pro. duction has a very considerable share of youthful poetical genies and Ire, and was also most de. lervedly applauded. This was the last recitation of this day. ,Music had varied the exhibition at each interval ; and at the close, the band performed, and Mr. BARTLE. MAN, Mr. BRAMAN, and Madame BIANcuI dish played their vocal talents. TheCHANentok then ItrOnounced the dismissal of the convocation, and the Procession returned in the same order as it entered. The youths of the University here exercised their old privilegegy by chewing some slight marks ,of disapprobation to such as they did not wills to honour; and very decided marks of approbation to their favourites., Sir SIDNEY SMITH. came ins second time for . theti I tribute, and their shouts .almost rout the theatre! in his praise. Lord GRENVILiZ is it the Vice-Chancellor's at This evening the first Concert will be perform. ed at the Theatre, and a Ball given at the Town Hall. The drought, it appears, has not been so ge.: neral as it has been represented. The following ate extracts from the\Prosioeist Papers : 46 Yesterday we expirienced a fall of Ma— mie of those partial, but copious showers, which we have heard have fallen in other places, and which have been so devout ly desired for the advance ment of the. harvest."—Portornouth 7elegraple, July Y. " Several very. refreshing showers have fallen during the week, which kave greatly benefited vegetation. Yesterday, ire particular, the rain : uas very heavy.''—Carlisle Journal, June 30. " Duriii4,. the present week we have experienced 'hi this neighbourhood some very plentiful show ers, which cannot fail to have the most beneficial elect on the approaching hay-harvest, the atlvanc. log grop4 of rum, and on vegetation in general." Liverpool Advertiser, June 30. The storm of Sunday night s we are sorry to find, occasioned many serious accidents, and, as .apnrars from the Provincial Papers, extended to It considerable Jistance. 1141IIIARKE7' 711P.ATItE. List night a new P:ay wits produced at -els Thavre, under the n:e of The DouWed So. - ; or, Me Secreis of a Palace. The ptinaiing chaiacters were : The Marquis of Lerida . . . Mr. C. Kinirt.C. Mallet)le, • Lean, • Faioulettn, Mornichio, . . . . The Matrhioness of . Lerida, Rosaviva H VELLY. Flarth-lia Mrs. Gillis. This Drama, which is from the pen of . Mr. Dr. MON!), has fur its grouod-work a plot of IcOnsi. derable interest, but our limits do not permit os to follow it with that minuteness which would 'be necessary 'to shew how that interest is produced. ;Ye can only state the principal points of the story : , The Marquis of Lerida had married, erne early period of life, the heiress of an ancietzt wealthy Spanish (intimer. and a few months after his marriage being appointed tii-vt..rhor'oe Mexico, proce:ted to South Americo, trashy; the Atarchinh ess pregnant. This Lady, it al pews in the sequel, had been • previously and secretly married In a depeadent of her fattii.r, who was killed in as battle with toe ftlo , .rt. .The birth of a . son discloies In her father the secret of her tnivrtnies He takes I hechild from her,tutd by exciting her apereitensinin for itasafety s compels bee to marry the Marquis yf Leridd, aud to conceal from him the story of her foroser marriage. On the departure of the Marquis to South Anterica, she ,eis out to visit her son, who was nursed in a but in Sue Pyrenees.--• The &Noe of her journey brings on a premature labour, which the infant does not survive.. filer attend :ut florabella then sag eststhe idea of substituting Lem, her child by der firmer husba (1., for that of the ;Marquis of Lerida, Mil she addpts that plats, 'travel. until time had mastered toe differ ence of age in Leon iinperreptiole, and he is presented to the Marquis ne his return from Ain mica, as his sou.. Between Itosaviva (who gasses for the Ward of the Marquis, hat who Is really his daughter by a itteX knit Lady) and Leon ' a strong enactment has taken place. At the period when tne piece. comm. ores, the i ' Alareis has hem to entertain sespicum. of his wife's sorter, which are heightened by the suocesstiti villainy of his Porto- • gkese Secretary, Malvollo, who, sprung Prom 14. e to west sin , lien to life, nut po•sewiii• uncommon subtlety, to maskilig every had palsitio, worms liiiiiself into tale emaidelice.of Ilk protector, the Marquis, mid even obtains sufficient Influence ever the Marchioness to learn front her the secret of her for- • veer marriage, mil the birth of Lents. Milvolio takes tare to intimate to lova that ansaviva is his sister, and, try the influence lie ha• over the /Marquis, prevails no him to consent 'to his marriage with his daughter, Contracts are signed, by which the castle of Lerida, soul all the estates of toe Mar quis, are esitive,ed to Mait.dio, and Leon is disinherited. In toe mean time, however, it stranger appears, whit exercises u usipteriou• authos sty over Alaivot us. ale find beets Ills moo hiale in fanner guilt, :and by a train of eirenitistatwes his vii- . laioy is tmmaitited, his mart - hue with nosaviva prevented, I the March ' seas, afar a disclosure, restored [ethic confidence 1 of her husband, and Leon made h ppy. • It will be perceived from this sketch, that the plot of the Drama is more tumattlic 040 Pr4ba- We. 'The story indeed seems suited to the climate. I where the scene is laid. 'lt is truly Ipenisli in the ' singularity of the events, and in the klaggefitiOatf with which the passion of Love is depicted. ; but though the, story, as a whole, deviates from pro. , bability, the incidents are introduced with gr . eat skill, and a -perfect knowledge of stag- edict. I The deeelopement of the plot is itigenious.y pro. tracted, and the attention is putvertolly riveted to ,the termination of the Drama. The character of the Marchioness is involved in mystery until I almost the last scenes The itudivneeore kept ig norant of her first marriage, while Leos is khowis not to be the eon of the itlctrqUnc Tits liter - A.' ing a great deal, for it is nu easy task. to intereit • the feelings in behalf if a person guilty of so gross and base a deception as she .is supposed to have practised. When, howeter, the suspicion of criminal intercourse is removed, it his the effect of ' diminishing the disapprobation which the .less of. fence, the imposition of the child on the Marquif y is in itself calculated to excite. This ameliorat ing effect is also aided, by making the artifices of Muloolio prevent her from disclosing her story to the Marquis, when site is anxious to • thro w .lierself oh his generosity. Upon the w hule, the moral, that every deception is evil, and tbat ' confidence ought never to be withheld in those re lations of life which render it a duty, is well local. cited. There is a scene at the end, in which Malvolio, when his arts are discovered, claims the house and property of his patron, which bears, perhaps ) too close a resemblance to one in the Co. medy of 'lke' Hypocrite—The dialogue is well written. The Performers in general sustained the characters assigned to them with suitable edict.--- Mr. SOlrkftelr, who made his appearance for the . ,t, hrst time on the hondun stage, ouleported the elm.. rather of 3.7a1001i0 very well, but we statist see him in other parts before we can give an ~pinion •of his merits as an sour. He ap peared rather formal •in Isis manner, but that the hypocrisy or the chi. ratter in some measure required. He endeavours rto imitate Mr. Joins Kcesocc. Mr.,G. liExims, ',lid ample justice to the Marquis; and kia,isii..: Tett, in an honest y blunt, talkative servant,•atforll.' cd considerable support to the piece. . i%4 1. . Gr.ov ea and Mrs. Camas also deserve praise; arid Miss lifif.Lit did her little part with ease and pro. per heeling. '. . . . • The performance was witnessed by a numerous 4lidiente ) with great approbation. The curtaitt dropped amidst loud applause. Two or three 'minutes elapsed before any one came on to an. nonnee a second representation. • Mr. C. KEit. II.E at length came forward and stated, that the usual course would have been 'to announce the se. coed representation of the piece, with the pertuis:• anti of the audience, for the next 'night ; but in consequence of some persons. principsilly requisite itt the performance, having to play at Covent *garden Theatre to.morrow evening, the piece would, with the permission of the audience, be repeated on Thurstl.ty evening. This was received with great applause, not a si•!gte dissenting voices being heard. The play, therefore s 'ltrointses to become, as it deserves krbe, a popular favourite. In the storm on Sunday night, a waggnn and horses were precipitated over a bridge Kt Lee, in Buckinghamshire. ,Two of the horses were kid. teit; but the driver, who was riding in the wag.. gon, escaped unhurt. A boat was found floating down the river, keel upwards,, with a sail, early not Monday morning, which belonged to a builder on•the Surrey shore, and in which fire young men had gone out. , It was not ascertained yectertiv what had become of the party who went out i n the boat; but they were strangers, and hopes flit' ill.' davit that they may be safe. They took the I boat on Saturday to go to Statues. • . ;