The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-10-13 00:00:00

. TIIE The following curious production appeared in the Monies' Chronicle of this morning : weave OF A LETTER FROM A GENTLEMAN AT NIGINGATE TO HIS FRIEND AT TORE. g‘ MT DEAR Faraxee—Alarmed, as every good subject must yet continue to be, at the invasion of our beloved country, I hasten to give you, I hope, the first account of a death's blew to the hopes of our malignant and disappointed enemy. 44 In hopes of obtaining possession of our proud, and, I trust, immortal capital, he collected his whole force near Battle Abbey, where the fate of England was once decided ; adversely then, but now, thank Heaven, redeemed by the brightest day that ever shone upon this island. Our army, in which all our troops not upon foreign seerice were engaged, posted itself between the French and London, to oppose their progress. To attempt to describe the bravery and skill of every Officer end soldier would be sufficient to set up a wholesale Bookseller, as it would contain the biography of a hundred thousand people. The battle was obstinate and sanguinary, but termi nated happily, by the highest stroke of military skill ever accomplished iu the face of an invader. —General ----- filed of to the right and left, with his whole army, so as to rejoin at St. Alban's, leaving London set as a kind of a trap for pre samption to fall into. By this grand manceuvrte which was instantly made known in town by tele graphic signals, the inhabitants of London had an opportunity of what may rather be considered as a triumphant procession with their wives, children, and property, than as an ignominious or perilous re treat. The Bank took the lead, the Bullion still re maining in it, was carried off with ease in the first hackney-coach in the Poultry, and to prevent any attempts of evil-minded persons to pursue so rich a spoil over the river, the Bank-notes, of which there were enormous piles cbllected, were burned upon the three bridges of London, Westminster, and Black friars, which not only obstructed the multitude, but were hailed by the populace with shoots of No Taxes—No Excisemen—No Custom-house Officers —No Taxes • and when, at last, the books of the , Funds were t hrown in, a shout of universal joy was UNJUSTIFIABLE HIGH PRICE OF BREAD set up, which was heard as distinctly here at High- I AND PROVISIONS. gate, and, as they say, at Barnet, as in any part of the metropolis. TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE STATESMAN. 46 This glorious example of national security was SlR,—The price of the quarteen loaf, which, from soon followed by the different great corporations, rich traders, and persons of rank and property of , the abundant harvest and large importations, ought every description, so that, as quickly as the contents long since to have come down to a shilling, still con of the warehouses were emptied and carried off, they ; tinues enormously high, to the great injury and priva. were instantly set fire to, so that, though the night ; 800 of the people, and to the disgrace of the Go was dark, there being no moon, and a tempest of . ver nment of this country, which ought to put down rain falling for hours together, every road near Lon- don was as light as day, and I have not heard of any the iniquitous practice of speculations, monopolies, accident having attended the departure of so vast a and forestalling of the necessaries of life ; for the population, etcept those changes of property which ' laws provided to remedy such evils, if not put in could not but happen %hen such a crowd of vaga. force against such a nest of villains, become a dead bonds were let loose by the destruction of the Psi-; letter, and are of no use. There has been one so. sons. The thieves being let out by order of gov ern. litany fall iu the price of bread, which ought to have mete, to obstruct the French, the only mist ake, ; , and at present ought fairly to be times pet haps, which was committed. The River, by the fallen seve ral reflection from the universal conflagration, was bril- sold at a shilling. I would wish to know who those liant beyond description, mid those Jacobins who talismen, the meal-weighers,are—under what autho used .0 say, with derision, that our glorious Minis- rity do they act—and who is to look after them, to tens would never set the Thames on fire, were bit- I see that no knavery or imposition is practised against terly disappointed. I the public. My Loan MATOR has lately declared " rids scene of satisfaction, amidst its confessedly ; attendant evils and privations, was ) however, not a; (I believe I am correct), when putting himself for llttle damped by the reflection, that as the French ' ward for a parliament man, that he bee no authority' were fast approaching, they would most probably ;in this most vital and important business, and which extinguish the lames, bet thank GOD, we have concerns the people much more than electioneering been here again still more successful, from the wis- cabals, or forregn ; victories • • if, therefore, his Lord dom of our Councils, than oven by our exertions in the field. chip have no power but to sit like a Pagod in a 64 A Cabinet Council was Instantly held, to whir '. ) I nicks, of what use is he, or why does he at all ex were summoned all the Governors! and Officers of amine the returns of those upright gentry, the meal the different fireeoffices, and orderi were given that weighers; for, in my opinion, they want some one to they should leave town instantly, and proceed with:. keeps a strid eye on them. Au argument is adduced out halting to Salisbury Plaits. Not a moment was ' tin defence of cornedeelers, provision-dealers ; &c. lost by these patriotic bodies. lam told, that no. thing could be more sublime pr interesting th an t h e namely, that they must sell, otherwise their articles procession. All the horses of pleasure that remained, . would spoil ; this is a most futile argument, and it is a and all the brewers' horses were put in requisition ;I" . welleascertained fact, that they have and do still keep Indeed, they were of no further use to the proprlee i back their stock until half of it is destroyed, and tors after the brew-houses had been burned down, after starving the public, make them pay as much the previous plunder of which contributed greatly for the half, as would have fairly purchased the to the success of the undertaking, as thousands upon - thousands, who had got drunk in the different ale- • whole.—Sir, the people ought to be fed in the land houses sallied out and set fire to the houses in every of their nativity; provisions, and articles of food, quarter. h are the property of the public, and ought to be had " When the procession of the engines began, it at a reasonable and fair price, and such as the crops was received as the joyful signal of the last defeated an d seas ons justify them to expect. If, Sir, the hope of the enemy to occupy London. The scene . was, I am told, most animating, but, at the same public press did its duty, it would have taken op time, dashed a little by that cast of disappointment, this subject seriously, and long since; but not s which could not but attach to it from the regrets of Paper of them, errty: your own, have ever deigned a few weak, interested , or short-sighted people. 'to say a word, or give us a single line on the sub -44 It was beautiful (they tell me) to see the strug- jest, but preserve the most profound silence, though gle for precedency, between the Governors of the living on that public they so much neglect. These different companies, at the head of their engines.— The Royal Exchange and F.quitable Assurance Com- Papers indeed give us very pompous accounts of the panies, the Globe, the Pelican, and all the others, abundance of the harvest, and of all productions of without exception, covered themselves with horror, the earth ; but not a line against the Gentry who are if not with glory, and while I am now writing are starving the people in the midst of plenty. safe upon Bagshot Heath, or at Hounslow. The PUILICOLA. French are this moment entering Westminster, hav ing passed the river by the way of Battersea, the other bridges having fallen in. Thank God, they cannot occupy a yard of ground in London or West. minster. Gold (if there were any left in the noun. try) would melt in every street, so that we have only to remain at our posts to insure the deliverance of our country. Be of good heart and thankful.— Order the bells of the Cathedral to be rung, and kill every bullock you can lay hands on, and roast them for the good people of your city. 64 P. S. lie sure to stick hand-hills up every where, to say, that the French are caught at last in the trap of Loudon. Yours, &c." Saturday. Oct. 10. AN ENGLISHMAN. Advices have been reeeived from the Mediterra nean, by which it appears, that the Dey of AL emu Intends to undertake a spirited war with the American FLepublic. To fulfil this design, he is pro vided with six frigates of 44 guns, two of which are perfectly new and he and his vessels are equipping a swarm of smaller vessels, which are to be engaged in depredations on the floating property of this new enemy. Orders have been given in Loudon for stores to equip the Alguide navy to the amount of upwards of 441,0001. A Swedish Paparhas the following paragraph :- 44 13aroo Dean and Baron PVTAPM, from England, have been arrested at Hamburgb." Mr. BSI?? commences his engagement at Covent garden Theatre neat month. Great aq is . the present beetle throughout king. dom, among Parliamentary Candidates, it does not appear to lessee the bustle for the Votes and Inte rest of the Wealth-giving Dome, to confer on her Suitors, nest Tuesday, the 10 th Instant, Prizes of 420,000, and ether great Capitals, to the small, leery small Lottery Sawa* of only fropbers., z.t . •-• The Author of Thinks-1-to-Myself still finds it ne cessary to caution the Public against being deceived by the Novel, entitled " I Says ' Says I," repeatedly advertiied, as b e i ng f rom th e Pen of Thinks-140- Myself." An account at large of the strange attempt.' made to mislead the public upon this hod, is to be found in the Bth Edition of 77sinks.fto-Mycdf, now selling by SHERWOOD, NELLY, and Jorsta t Pater noster-row ;J. ileacusan, Piccadilly; antri As rum; Cornhill.—Sept. 25 1 13111 ,msmArt ELEGMONS. 7V.tins EDITOR or TILE STITESALitY. Sta,-At appears a matter of surprise, that little . Cat or Lomnos.--NAt the final dose of the Poll the numbers were 7-• or no opposition has occurred throughout the king- yesterdays Alderman Combe elle Alderman Atkins 3643 dom at the present General Election --t h e route i s Sir Was. Curtis 4577 Mr. Waithman perhaps not generally considered, but which I earl+ Sir 7stanw Shaw 41352 Alderman Wand '2373 bate to the increasing weakness of his MAJESTY, Mn Aiderman Comes returned thanks to the Li and consequent probable near approach of his de.: very for the highly flattering situation i n which they cease, at which period (and may the ALitIOUTT long • had placed him on the poll, assuring them that his exertions in their favour should be redoubled. avert it !) another dissolution of Parliament Rust i• SirW. watts, Sir AMES ItAw, and Mr. C J S Alder take place. It has been rumoured that en Act will man ATKINS severally presented themselves, amid, be proposed in the first Session of the new Perna..., after ineffectual struggles to gain a hearing, said each seat to disfranchise his Meaner of his ki ng ly p r e-: a few words, which were completely d r owned amidst the rogative, on account of his present illness and Inca- assailed by the immense concourse collected in shouts of disapprobation with which they were Debility : such a proceeding would at once render front. the Parliament SUPERIOR TO THE KING. But I have I Mr. WATTRMAN observed, that though his oppo too much confidence in the KING's eldest son to sup- Dents seemed to think the state of the poll a matter pose for a moment he would give his sanction to such of triumph to them, he conceived that it afforded matter of triumph to the cause of independence at an unjust and unconstitutional measure.—No, Sir ; all events the struggle hi which they had now been bad as our present situation is, I conceive, it that I engaged, if it had not in every respect terminated as proposition were carried into effect, we should soon I they y could have wished, was one which must have the feel the vast and oppressive difference. In my i effect of appalling corruption, the resulthaving been humble opinion, there remains still an opportunity i far more flattering to the cause of independence thau of extricating our country from the dreadful state had been known in the City of London for the last SO slie at present labours under. The first and p r in- years. Was it nothing to see the name of Mr. cipal mode is " a Reform in the House of Com- Alderman Combe so pre-eminently situated on the poll ? There was not a single vote of Mr. Alderman mons ;" the nest in order is " the re-I'in of Combos in the • House of Commons, of which he specie;" and the last, " the withdrawing our troops (Mr. Waithman) did not approve: and, on the from the Peninsula." other hand, there was net a single motion of his in the Cenemon Council for peace, or for enquiry into These steps being once adopted, confidence would abuses, for the last ten years, which had not experi be restored, both in the political and commercial enced the support of Mr. Alderman Combe. As to world—the prospect of peace would be less dreary— the situation in which he himself (Mr. Waithman) the lives of our valiant brothers in arms preserved— stood on the Poll, though, as he said before, it was and the immense expenses att en di ng a continental not such as to accomplish the wishes which had been warfare prevented. By giving these reflections a entertained on the subject, still it was highly gratify. ss. place in your independent Journal, you will oblige, ing, and gave him full assurance of ultimate success. Sir, In other contests persons in opposition to Ministers might have made as formidable a stand, but then they were supported by other powerful interests. Ile, on the contrary, had stood as one of them selves, without a single interest to back him, trust. ing only to the free suffrages of his fellow-citizens; ' and though thus 'tending in opposition to all the great bodies, he had polled a greater number than had been known, on former occasions, to secure an election. If to this was added, that, of the persons who must have polled for him front principle, up wards of 1000 had been obliged also to vote for Mr. Alderman Atkins from influence, this would clearly shew that the voice of time Livery was with him, and with the cause of independence. He should be at his post on any future occasion, to give the Livery an opportunity of asserting their rights, and had no doubt whatever that their nest exertion would be a successful one. Mc. Alderman Woos also returned thanks. He , had stood a Candidate in consequence of the call made on him, and he should be at his post at the command of the Livery, whenever they should again. express a wish, through his means, to assert their in., dependence. The Election was then adjourned till Wednesday, at one o'clock, %then the Sheriffs will make their re turn. MIDDLESEX Ectcrios.—The Election of two Re presentatites in the ensuing Parliament, for the county of Middlesex, came on yesterday at Brent. ford. The Sheriffs appeared on the hustings exaetly at ten o'clock. The usual proccediugs having been gone through, Mr. Joiix BACON said, he appeared there for the sixth time on occasions similar to the present, and he could not but feel an anticipation of thirsame suc cess, when he considered the unanimity he had found wherever he had been. The Gentleman whom he was about to propose was well known to all of them as a "teatly, upright, and independent Representative in Parliament. He had never been guilty of any de reliction of public principle, connected as they were, with a due regard for the rights of his Constituents and the Constitution under which they lived. Ile should conclude by proposing to them Mr. George Byng as a fit person to represent this • opulent, lode. pendent, and free county.--LAfflause.] Mr. PLAISTOW TRAPAUD seconded thenomlnation. Sir WILLIAM Ginnons came forward to propose to them their tried servant, William Mellish, Esq.— [llisses aped approbation, interspersed with cries of Threadneedle-street.] —They had already conferred on Mr. Mellish the highest honour which it was pos sible to confer, that of being their Representative in Parliament; and he confidently trusted, that during the period he had served them, he had not been found deficient in that great trust confided to him.— He bad supported every measure which had a ten. dency to exalt this country to the highest pitch of glory ; he had supported those measures which en abled the Marquis of Wellington to resist and over come the Corsican Despot, who had vainly boasted that he would drive the English into the sea, and who, instead of fulfilling this insolent threat, had been successively driven by us from Salamanca, Ma drid, Seville, and Cadiz. Such were the measures supported by Mr. Mellish ; and he therefore pro posed him as a Candidate every way deserving of their suet' —[Shouts of applause itslernsingkd with hisses.] • Mr. Lavine, theafem be? for Bramber, seconded the nomination. The Iron. Gent. who had proposed Mr. Mellish for a third time to them had eapressel himself in so eloquent a manner, that very little in deed was left for him to say. He was happy, how ever, to have this opportunity of bearing his testi mony to the vigilance with which Mr. Mellish had always attended to the interests of the county of Middlesex. Indeed_ he felt confident that no per son ever applied to Mr. Mellish who had not met with a ready attendance from that Gentleman. If there were any among them disappointed with his public condfict, he would take upon hint to assure them, that no man could possibly be mere independent in his principles, and more superior to the influence of corruption.—( Who voted for the Duke of York ?) Mr. Mellish had every claim to their affectionate re gard—far he lived among them, and was always' most attentive to their coucerus ;Land therefore to their enlightened judgment and favourite would coo. --(4aut0000 taad hiii.-i, There was at this time a cry frorit the crowd of " Bob Newman ;" but no other person haring come forward, the names of Mr. Byog and Mr. Mellish were accordingly proposed, and on a chew of hands being taken, they were declared by the Sheriffs ens,- nimously elected. Mr. Hyna then addressed the Meetings He tp. peered before them to return his heartfelt thanks for their having returned him as their Representative in Parliament the sixth time. During the .five Patna* ments in which he had had the honour of representing them, if he had not manifested as much ability as others, in the zeal and fidelity with which he had acted he would yield to no man whomsoever. He felt conscious, that in this period of 2 years, he had never, in one single instance, deviated from those principles and professions which had first recom. meuded Mm to their support. He had always look ed on the duty of a Member of Parliament as a sacred trust delegated to him for the good of the people, and not for his own private advantage; and he con sidered the man who accepted of a trust only to be. tray the rights of those who confides' in him, as more a •criminal than any of the malefactors who daily suffer in the metropolis. If during the latter part of his political life, it had been his fate to be in opposi. tion to his Majesty's Ministers, that opposition, he would say, had not proceeded from factious motivet or private feelings of hostility, but from an abhor. I Terme of that wasteful and disgraceful system which had now been pursued for so many years.-1.4. plause.l—For himself they would find him always • a steady opponent of that system, and an anxious and sincere advocate for that great and important national benefit, Parliamentary Reform.--[Load and continued applause.] Mr. Mamma appeared on the front of the hos • tinge, but for a considerable time he could not he heard.—" Gentlemen, if you will hear me I will speak."—[liesr kin I hear hies !]—lle returned them his sincere thanks for the honour which had , been done him in having been now returned for the third time as their Representative ia Parliament.— ' They might rest assured that it was an honour which would never be erased from the tablet of his memory. lie hoped for their continued approbation, which he should ever consider is the seal of his public con duct ; and he hoped they felt fully convinced that I he had fulfilled the promises which he bed made them at his last election. Whether he voted with the Mi. 'sister, or against him, he could truly my he hak . fulfilled his duty to his own conscience —{ Ye ern applause.] —and that he had never had any other Imo. tire but the interest of this county and the Empire at large. With respect to the private business of the House of Commons, he would appeal to every man that heard him, whether he had not paid the utmost attention to their applications, and fulfilled Ms duty faithfully and honestly. On your electing me for the third time, I should only degrade and disgrace myself if I were to say that my future conduct would not be founded on the same principles as my past.— He would, therefore, only promise them that fie should tread in the very same path, and proceed dit ligently and honestly, as he had dope hitherto. ' Thauks were then voted to the Sheriffs, after which the Meeting broke up. The new Members were afterwards chaired, and we understand that Mr. Mellish, in his progress ) was occasionally pelted with mud. SOUTHWARK Ehn-riox.—The contest for the 110. rough continues, and the hope of Mr: Burdett's friends appear to rest on the possibility of making the Christ Church and Clink Liberty votes valid.— With the latter, it is supposed, they may have a ma jority over Mr. 'Thornton. Last night at the close of the Poll the numbers were declared Calvert - • 2177 Thornton 1601 J. Burdett • i4l SURKEY.—Yesterday being the day fixed for the Election of two Members, to represent the County of Surrey in Parliament, the County Hall of Guild.% ford wu crowded by ten o'clock. The writ having been read, Mr. H. Sumner was proposed by Mr. Trotter, and the proposition was seconded by Mr. Molineux; Sir S. Sutton was proposed and seconded by Lord Cranley and Sir John Frederick ' • and Sir T. Turton was nominated and seconded by Sir John Mawbey and Sir Mark Wood. The several Candi. dates then addressed the Electors assembled ; and after some observations from Mr. Hare Townsend, who expressed his determination to support Mr. Sumner against Sir Thomas Turton.—The Sheriff proceeded to take the sense of the assemblage of Electors present respecting the Candidates. The show of hands was announced to be greatly in favour of Mr. Sumner and Sir S. Sutton, when Sir Thomas Turton demanded a poll. We are really glad to find that our late Member, Mr. FuLaza, has yielded to the dictates of common sense, and become sensible of his inability to con. duct the bushiest of his constituents in Parliament, even as himself could wish. Were it not for the ex traordinary merit he has thus unexpectedly displayed in renouncieg, with so good a reason, a situation which every body, long since, must have been per. waded of his incompetency to lA, we should deem it ear duty to teaks a serious appeal to the sober un derstanding of the freeholders of Sussex ; but, as it it, we beg leave to dismiss the subject, heartily thanking ma FuLaxa" for his wise determina tion, and •sincerely hoping that he will be more for taws in his astronomical, than he has been in his political, pursuits:--(Brighton Herald.) A melancholy accident Happened to lad of the name of Garbutt, an inhabitant of Brighton, on the Beach, on Saturday. He was standing by the side of one boat, observing another dragged from the Water's edge,• on slides, beyond the reach of the tide. As the latter came en a parrallelline with the one he wail leaning against, it suddenly lurched over, caught the head of the youth between the sides of the two, and crashed it in the most dreadful manner.—. He still survives, but the skull is so serenely frac. tend, that no hopes are entertained of his recovery. Two workmen, who were lately empleyedin mak ing a sewer to a boatels' thereburbs of Montmartre, In Paris, discovered last mouth, at the depth of ifo feet, a small trunk coutainiug 3000 lonia, 153 X) pevials, and a quantity of Sellifeati. They are sap. polled to bass been secreted at the period of the Rev !volution. .. r . i.l a , . 1' 1 : . 1 i iv . i 1..\, . 1 ilf.ll' ill i . I. i ! I 1 II I, , i t 1. I. I I II 1 . 1 I ' I I 1 : 1 I . ! 1 i i 1 1'1 1 ! ' t ; i s . . t; 1 i . 1 / /, A I 1