The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-01-02 00:00:00

~ --..~ '~'''~a ~~, .. THE STATESMAN.* On SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 1812, WILL SR rantisarn, Price Sixpence Halfpenny, A NEW SUNDAY PAPER, t.:!..i•riTtED i----- We have extracted the following article from a . Dublin Paper of the 30th ult.—" At a second dinner lately given by the garrison of Portsmouth to his Royal highness, an upstart Field Officer of an Irish ?Militia Regiment, on being called to for a toast, rose from his seat, and with all due Orange solemni ty, proposed the " Glorious and Immortal Me mory," with 46 three tiles three "—the words, however, had scarcely escaped the lips.of the sta-! pid bigot, when the Puke of . CLA,RENCS ad. ' dressed tin , Chair, and with mu* and honest feeling, reprobated._ the ,incendiary that - would dare to cast the torch of .divisian, or English ground ; he powerfully .4eprecated the mistaken . Ipolicy that has encouraged the _perpetnating suck 1 odious " sentiments," even in this oppressed pro vince ; and after bestowing most s alutar y casti g ation iin the shape of lecture on the dismayed coxcomb, his Royal flightless proposed as a substitute, the " British Artillery" which was received with nal ' versal cheering—universal we repeat, for greatly to 1 1 the honour of between seventy and eighty Scotch and English Officers who were present, every man of them joined in execrating thetendency of this Orange " Pater Nester." • TILE CONSTIT UTION.---At the cOmmencement of a new Publication, it is a common practice to make professions which are not only incompatible with the under taking, and imp actieable 10 Pertniataare, but contrary to the irws of thr parties concerned. The CosisviTortoti w ill stand upon a different ground, and, without disgusting the Public with a high-seasoned Bill of Fare, will furnish them with all oic IMriiit :ANT DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE of the preceding rek, together with a concise Summary of Foreign News, by which the Readers of a &MOAT PAPER will be enabled to form au accurate opinion of those Important and Interesting I.:reeds, which are constantly induencing the Political aspect of ancient States and Empires. The Politics of the CONSTITUTION All be fottoded upon the same principles as those of the %foramen, which, sines its establishment, have been uniformly n crissorx? and free/roost Party Faction. Thr Proprietor of the CoNsTrretiori, suffering under Mi nisterial persecution, has been a STATE PRISONER In his Ma rsty's (gaol of Newgate for upwards of TWELVE Momxn ,s and firer another year yet to serve, for two alleged Libels: he. can, therefore, feel for the wrongs and oppressimis of others, and shall continue his exertions in exposing all those Pu sue Da xisoti airs. who. prey upon the industrious part of the Coon b•utiity, and who are the chief promoters of the destructive \Var in which this Country is unfortunately engaged. The CONSTITUTION '0 ill be Printed and Published at an early l•dnir On Sunday morning, at the STATESMAN OFFICE, No. lc, Ft et-sure:, where Orders and Communications are reccivedr and by all the News Dealers in Town and Country. • Arr. Mails. Due. • 1 • • • lading' .. 0 Waterford ' 11 - Cad's ' . a ' 0 (4/storday %. 0 • MR. JOSEPH LANCASTER. We hail with ardour and enthusiasm the Etta. BLISIINENT of this meritorious individual for NA TIONAL EDUCATION. His name ought to be enrolled in letters of gold, for having rendered a greater and more important service to his countrymen, than any individual since Britain existed as a nation. That it will descend with honour and eclat to our remotest posterity, we have no doubt; as we fully believe after ages, as we:l as the present, will have the sa gacity to discover his merit, and the justice to pay that tribute of respect to his memory which he so justly merits. Unlike most men of genius,who have by their discoveries rendered services to mankind, he had not the imputation, or the remotest expectation of ad vancing his private fortune. So far from it, at one period, from his zeal and sacrifices to diffuse gene rally his system, be incurred a private debt of nearly 40001., for which sum he was repeatedly threatened with a gaol. To their honour, let it be recorded, a few public-spirited and liberal men came forward and relieved him from his embarrassed situation. — Since that period public munificence has been com mensurate with his exertions. His motives, how ever rigidly canvassed, appear most honourable to human nature ; and his ardour and devotion to the cause in which he is engaged, chew a degree of patriotism and love of country, which, in this degenerate age, is without a parallel. While IlowAno acquired such a lasting monument of fame, by devoting his life to alleviating and soothing the distresses of the poor, the ignorant, and afflicted —or, to use the emphatic language of BURKE ) C 4 by the circumnavigation of charity," it is the fame of LAN• c.terre, by having devoted his life to enlightening the minds of the lower class, to prevent, in a great degree, the recurrence of the same vices and dis tresses. We cannot but think this system will be the commencement of a new Ism in our nati tional character. It will unquestionably produce a greater change in the manners and habits of the mass of the people, than all the laws which have ever been passed in favour of the Liberty of the Subject. It will make the subject worthy of what Is the pride of every Briton—OF BEING TREE. This general dif fusion of education may be considered as a most ef fectual safeguard for the preservation of our liberty. Every man will be rendered more capable of appre ciating its value, and of discovering any attempts to subvert it. It will also have a powerful tendency to prevent the formation of those blind and ungoverna ble assemblages, which, in peaceful times, es well as in times of civil dissentious, spread terror and dismay throughout the country. When the lower class of people is enlightened, they cannot be led to those acts of violence which they now are, when, from their ignorance and prejudices, they are set iu motion by any one who will take the trouble to agitate them. NV hen enlightened, they will have understanding enough to see oppression in its embryo, and will in time take measures to defeat it. But among the most important consequences, will be the general EXALTATION OF NATIONAL COARAMII. If we have reason to pride ourselves opoo bone tnirch greater reeson then there will exist in tie lower classes the same proud superiority over tbe neighbourini nations Of . the Continent, which we so often boast of hi the middle classes of society. There is, nofortunately, in this country, a party eoespesedt or narrow and bigoted souls who view this, as well; is every ether measure calculated for the am Nora- 1 The following letter reached us this m ornin g :— lion of the lower classes, with jealousy and dread. DOVER,JAIL. 1. Theirjautsdiced imagination, fisucies rebellion end re volution in every approxnem , "At half-past ten last evening we w e re much ties of their fellow countrymen to the same liberty and information which surprised at a very heavy firing, apparently close to tie harbour, the report of the guns shaking the win- they possess. Let us hope those feelings will bej dews of the houses ; and this morning we understand soon dissipated. They are more worthy of •tb¢ . that it was a very smart engagement between the hired dark ages than the present enlightened One. Let those Gentlemen also reflect, that it is only armed schooner Charles, and a French p r i vateer of %cry large class, full uf men armed with small arms, owing to the equality in Britain, little as it • wile kept up a regular platoon firing upon the Charles, 'ls: and the remains of the liberty we have pre which returned the compliment with her great gun s served, that this Empire, like the rest of Europe, in high style. The action commeuced in Ilaycliff fis not at tfie foot-stool of Bosaeante. The people B%y, to the westward of the harbour, and continued in this country possess some share iu the Govern- I a running fight for upwards of three hours, when the meat , and therefore have fought ter it; whereas it p.ivatete• from her superior sailing, succeeded i n g et. makes little dif erence to a -Prussian. or an Winn, i tiug into , from Creek, close to Calais, but not before Q ui , under whose dostsittatiote he la, while be remains the Charles had shot away her mainmast. schooner's running rigging was much cut, and the 0 1: 0 Preinc* : • 141 country aims have any charm for mats of hes wounded in the hand." hint at bit% es he tar me Apet. Tq ejoi • pettgiCor 'ROOKS MIS DAV AT 'ONK O'CLOCK. neodr 1.3 16 per 3 pee q.t. ' Cop. • Ezdkiiper ltills SS. I Sr. purr . :1 perilher. ea. (In 4 - jor t` r` Me Ditto Sid. 1. b pc. Minium 5 per Vast. Nary Cowls for Acct. 64_4 1 #4ag. A.A. 14; 3-11 Lottery Tickets .6tlS THE SI,4TESMAN. LONDON: THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1812. EXTENSIVE FAILURE IN THE CITY. We are extremely concerned to hear, that the old and respectable Banking- - house of Messrs. BoLima°, I.VIIIINGTON, and Co. stopped payment this morn. ing. This is said to have arisen partly from an old sore. the House having beeo s advised not to claim on the estate of J— and Co. witeie there was 60,0001. owing, and it was thought prudent not to insist, fearful that something like usury should be charged. They settled every thing yesterday, but having to pay a large sum into the Exchequer, on account of a Northern Bank, they thought it adviseable this day to stop. They were Treasurers to several Charities and Public Institutions, and are said to have a very large sum owing, fur which they have West India security. Several respectable Brokers and Jobbers, in the stock Exchange, had large balances in their hand , . They balanced their accounts at Christmas last, at which time the balances were, as usual, much larger. This failure has. created the utmost consternation in the City. LOSS OF :+T. calorulc. A letter of yesterday's date, which we received this morning from our Correspondent at rortsntouth, contains the following particulars respecting his Ma jest v's ship St. George, of Teti guns, as to the safety of which great fears are entertained:—" This morn ing arrived his Majesty's ship Cressy, Capt. PATErt, from the Baltic ; by this ship we are sorry to leant that some fears are entertained for the safety of his ',Majesty's ship St. George, of OS guns, Rear-Admi ral IttAxoLus, Captain GttoN. The Vigo, Vic tory, Dreadnought, and Orion, which arrived here last week, reported that the St. George would not come in on account of contrary winds, she being under jury -masts, occasioned by her being on shore in NVin.go sound. The wind having become fair, the St. George. towed by the Cressy, and in company with the Defrisce, Batelle, Pyramus, and Rose, put to sea, and when about one hundred and fifty miles south of the Scheldt, they experienced a dread ful storm, std the Cressy was obliged to leave the St. George, ho was in tow, and veer to weather a point of !and, end at this place, it seems, the greatest apprehensions arc entertained for the St. George, who had been supplied with a new rudder by the Crex sy, and who returned two days after the storm to look out for thy St. George, .but could learn no. thing of her whatever. The Sr. Georg:: reportedl to be a strong, well-built ship, and it is to be hoped she has made port some where off the cake. other ships were seen to brae up welt lipetnet. the . gale. The hero was left -art "attettlitiiils with her cassvoy." Siam receiving the above, we understood that a:counts havo reached town, which mention the total loss of the St. George, oil Jutland. No Fad . eolars have transpired.. • . • ,••^, 4 0 " 4 1 1, 4 ,emilerr • BM of these Gentlemen, in some measure, we cannot but mention, that in no part of the British Empire is education so generally diffused as in Scotland.— Surely there is no part of Great Britain more loyal, or better disposed towards Government. In formation there, has not produced any consequences Ibut those which have been highly valuable and im portant to the nation. STATE, OF TILE KING. [FROM A MORNING PAPER.) 44 His MAJESTY'S mental condition is stated to be that of continued delirium, without any mixture of violence, or any access of phrenzy. The hopes of ultimate recovery are very faint; but it will be some consolation to a people, whose affectionate attach ment to this much-loved Monarch extends its tenderest regards even to his present retired, afflicted, and hope -1 less state, to be infamed, that his MAJESTY'S dela -1 sions are of the happiest kind. Ile imagines that he 1 1 holds converse with a superior order of beings ; and i his imaginary condition is altogether that of a sort of ' heavenly situation. In point of bodily health, his MAJESTY is as well as could be wished. Ile eats, drinks, and sleeps, as well as the most healthy per son of his age could be expected to do : takes such exercise as his situation admits ; and is, in every re spect, likely to live several years in his present state." A great bustle prevailed the whole of yesterday at one of the first departments under Government. — Mr. GRAHAM, the Magistrate, was closeted near the whole of the day with the Heads of the Office, and Police Officers were in attendance. Some warrants were issued. It is supposed that some fraud to a great amount has been detected. The Cabinet Council which sat on Wednesday last, was principally engaged, it is said, with arrang ing the outline of the PRINCE REGENT'S Speech, to be delivered on the opening of the Parliamentary Session. Several Members of the House of Commons have arrived in town, and many others are daily ex pected. The Meeting the first day of the Session will, no doubt, be extremely full, though Parliament will assemble earlier than usual after the Christmas holidays. Mr. WHITBREAD arrived in town last night, from his seat in Bedfordshire. It is expected that the leading Members of Oppo sition will meet on the evening of Monday next, to arrange the order of their proceeding with respect to the usual Address to be moved on Tuesday. Government, we are happy to find, are at length seriously employed in the *mulch-desired work of forming for the Metropolis an efficient Police, in order to provide for the safety of the lives and pro perty of its ritatthle inhabitants. An inga4us mechanic has invented a species of machine, by which the alarm of thieves being occu pied in breaking into a house may be speedily com municated to the most distant parts of it. The rebuilding of Drury-lane Theatre, which was delayed two days by the severity of the frost, Was continued yesterday with increased activity. A meeting of the Bristol Corporation took place on tuesday sennight, when a respectful Petition was ordered to be prepared and presented to his Royal Highness the PRINCE Reeve; praying a sus pension of corn distillation. A fast-sailing vessel is arrived from Lisbon, which sailed three days subsequently to the Sun Fiorenzo; but she brings no additional information. The death of Brig.-Gen. CoLestan, in Portugal, which occurred on the lith ult. is said to have been the consequence of fever and debility, brought on by exertions in his profession too great for his con stitution. Ile was buried at Lisbon, on the 14th, with military honours. A private letter from I.ishon states, that three Portuguese noblemen, the Marquis VALENCIA, the' Marquis PONTE LIMA, and Senor Mucti.t.As, had lately arrived there, having made their escape from the enemy. The brims and Mermaid frigates appeared off Plymouth on Monday evening, with a fleet consist ing of between 30 and 40 sail, supposed to be from Lisbon. , A cast of importance was determined by the Court rof Session at Edinburgh last November,_ relative to the application of the principle of the Cessio Bono rum, between a man named Schiniman and his cre ditors. The question was, " whether an individual,. convicted of gross and culpable extravagance, who for a number of years lived in a manner totally un suitable to his station iu life, without the prospect of being able to discharge his debts, is entitled to the bene fi t of the Cessio ?" The creditors opposed it, because a man who hait i. by " vein of seventy. , wit out been reduced to indigence is not entitled to the benefit of it.' The Petitioner con traded, the mere extravagance of living, with his family, in the degree alluded to, never had been in any instance eonsilered as a bar to the Cessio; and that if he should be refused that benefit, it would in **duce a rule into the process of Cessio, different ; Brew what bad been acted upon in all former practices of Court. The Court (29.(1 of June, 1811) " refined to the pursuer, the benefit of the process of. Cessio Bonorum, in hoc stabs." The Pursuer gave in a petition to the Coeet.against this judgment ; and, the Court (18th of November, 1811) " adhered to their former judgment." Some of the Judges ex-1 orelai d— au opinion, that it appeared to be a new , morality to say, that a man is justifiable for *to every sort of extravagance, provided he im his wife and children sharers in that extra *One. Gentleman reading the names of the parties con cerned in a trial; as given in the papers, in the coursel of last week to Keorh v. Newman," called to ano ther, " Here's soneething out of the common v.ay , ; Jack Ketch halt brooght an action against Mr. New-. man, the GoperAter of !gawk." it is coders to ..olsbeave, how nearly in cireum stanee the ittes of tbe t ilter and, worst of men often , L PPI ( * (111 :' Tiitipnres*.re ileath of the greatest of "Lama. characters Was, 'pert* never more gene t-wily lamented ! thaLer . exee,geble In-0010bathAtitill" • • .• . . . i I I I" i 1 " I 2 P t k ~.~ , 1 c L! . That very fine regiment tho' Vaurtii, or Queen's Own Dragoons, that has Min three )ears in the Pc-ninsulat, and that distiitguished itself parti. cularly at Alhnera and Usagre against the Polish Lancers, expect, on their return, to be made Hussars. They have been acting for some time past as light troops. Mr. POPP, late of Covent Garden Theatre, is performing at the &Hub:ugh Theatre. He is an nounced for Lord Townty, Macbeth, Ovhtllo, 45(t. Miss NORTON is the heroine; Mr. and Mcs• EYRE, usefdt and respectable performers, have jaimsa the c4:24Pa Lerd nY W . ems ere loves jobs, and he is fend of re. wardiug hisavourites at the public expecte. Ain pointmeou.tnot tenant Comeare is a very good Officer, and he has ci at oniee iv str l nt a o r ft t e i t n ihi i ni q ts u si e se , ita fi dc r e l ;s l . l , S s ga rnd l t l t a ht n ioi t en a gse c h hi ni kil im e o m gay ei h s ia t ot been well recompensed by a very good sisecernap adtifitihcculct on a foolish, impracticable errant lo South America, iu order to put some thousands a year in his pocket at the expence of the nation, is as far from honesty, as the mission is from wisdom, on which the English Nabob has thought proper to send him. A letter which has been received at Plymouth from one of the Officers on board the Bloodhound sloop of war, which lately got on shore at Padstow Point, states, that that ship has received but very little damage, and that in a week or ten days she May be expected at Plymouth. Monday night a child, • five years of age, belong.. ing to Mrs. Arundel, satin-stitcher, No. 3, City 'road, being left alone during the absence of its parent, was so deplorably burnt ; by its clothes comment. cating with the tire, as to cause. its death in a few • hours. In consequencence of a recent decision. in the Court of Teinds (or Tithes), in FAinburgh, none of the Established Clergy of Scotland will have a smal ler stipend than 1501. sterling, and C. es. se. for communion elements, besides a manse and glebe in the country parishes. A shocking circumstance took place en the night of the Pid ult. in Aungier-street, Dublin ; a person of the name of Hall, of the Rotunda division of yeoman. ry, had been out with his musket, and was return ing home, somewhat intoxicated, alma nine o'clock; two fellows, seemingly drunk, came up with him, and pushed him from the Gags, giving him at the saute time some insulting language, and calling him . 4 . 4 a blind gunner ;" this irritated him, and be exclaimed, in a passion, " To show you that I am not, I shall shoot the first man that comes near me;" Almost at that moment he observed a young man, of the name of Byrne (servant of Mr. Beckley, street), coming coming up behind him, " Who are you ?" said he, " what have you got to do here, are you following me ?" Byrne said he was going about his own business, and was troubling no person; this did not content Hall , who / heated by irritation and the effects of liquor, instantly levelled his piece, and shot. him dead on the spot. On Thursday seannight_a daring robbery was at-, tempted in Boston. A little after eight o'clock, as a • youth, was carrying a box, containing account: bookie a few cash-notes, &c. from the office to his master's house, a man who was lying in wait for him, forcibly seized the box from him, and ran with it down Beadmates-lane jute Spain.lane, where he was joined by an accomplice. The robbers endea voured to escape thence with their booty into the fields ; but being closely pursued into a small plan tation, they there dropped the box, which was reco vered by the pursuers ; and the robbers unfurtunately escaped. OUTRAGES AT Scootune.—Last winter some vil- Jaius committed various offences on the premises of Mr. Samuel Taylor, of Sloothby in the Marsh. — 'They cymmenced their base designs by misplacing his articles of husbandry ; and, next, had the bold . nos to enter his boast-shed, and let loose his cattle, which they drove out. Mr. Taylor being grcatlf astonished at such treatment, and not knowing what the conseoutnice might be, did, for the safety of his person and property, set a watch on his premises for several succeeding nights; but there being then no dis turbance, lie was in hopes the villains had declined coming any longer. To his great surprfze, however, he was shortly after alarmed, in the dead of the night, by some villains, wholdestroyed nearly the whole of the windows about his house with large stones, &c. Mr. Taylor and his family then thought their lives were in danger, and were determined, if possible, to discover the offenders. They accordingly on the following night had their house and premiseiWell-gearded, and conti nued this precaution for several nights ;but no person coming to disturb the house, Mr. Taylor again ven tured himself with his family, to protest them. remained undisturbed the Wholieof ebelesrluzalnee but, ales, to the horror of all the faMity, dirk barn was broken open on Tuesday night, the 17th ult.. and on the Saturday following, about half-pest hie at night, their house was asap beset by a gang of villains, who attempted to break in through a chases' bur-window, by mesas of a laddet, which they reared' against the wall; bat in this they were disappointed , for the Almighty forewarned the familyof their danger, by Mr. Taylor's eldest son (18 years of age) dream ling that some villain had broken into the house, and , was going to.murder him. The perturbation of mind ! occasioned by the dream awoke hen : and, to his great astonishment, the first thing he saw, was a man• at rise top of the ladder, endeavouring to take o ut,the ebamber-windyw. The young man, Ivithout ghing. the least alarm, got out of b ed, too k his gun (which. he had by his bed - side r ead y loaded), and shot. her off. Instantly the man upon the ladder dropped down ; and the report of the gun alarming the father, the whole flintily were soon np ; but no one dare 'open the door, as the son saw two men about the house, and was afraid,.if the villai ns g ot ad m ittance, the whole family would be murdered. With great im patience they waited for day-break; and . the fir* thing they saw wasa quantity of blood on the *Mori, and several plates,in tha via leading froni . #e 1$ of the botietieto i tbly.rd stained with trace of the wou nded could be found, se as SO ljad to any discovery tt ,. lkir.Ttyloeis perfect • w satisfied that thevillaht irtat severely wounded, a believe that he was ciaNted away by hie wont. , . Oita". P 7 , r •! 14' , ' i~ ~ i•~~ SI und 1 cowl inflei semi rate rit >aerj setlC .41