The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-09-26 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN PAPER AG.IINST GOLD. • • . troche Coserres nkatsfe e. ] By the fast Price Carrent 1 see that the Odd Coht is now 51. Bs. the ounce in 13ank-notes. Of course, a real guinea will sell for about 11. lets. The fol lowing article from the Morning Chronicle, of the 15th instaut, contains very curious matter upon this subject : " The scarcity of money becomes every day taore and more inconvenient. Persons, evidently agents, with great powers of drawing on London Bankers, have opened accounts with Country Bankers, for the purpose of getting their local notes ; and with these they go into shops, fairs, and even farmers' houses, to buy up guineas, as well as silver. They pay for them in these country Banknotes, which they may do lawfully; and thus the specie is collected from every part of the kingdom. It is suspected that these agents, unknown even to themselves, are employed by THE HIGHEST AUTIIORITY.—This is the natural consequence of the system which has been pursued ; and the consequence already is, that every pound sterling which we have to pay, even to our own troops abroad, costs us thirty shillings. Our army, however, must be paid, and we are so far involved that we must go on. As soon as Parliament meets, which ,whether there isa general election or not, must be before Christmas,some strong measure must be adopted for the supply of specie. There is an idea of calling in, and paying in Bank notes for all the plate in the kingdom. But that would obviously afford no relief—since if the price of bullion is the cause of the disappearance of specie now, it would equally disappear then; and the quantity of plate in the island is not great." This cannot be tree ; or,' at least, I think it impossible that any person in. trusted with any power above that of a ticket porter, should entertain the notions here ascribed to the 64 highest authority."—But, as to the state of the finances of the country, there is no etaggeration there. This part of our public concerns is fast draw ing to a cress. When a guinea is worth 30s. men ought to look about them. This, though the na tural consequenca of war, and though the thing must be made more and more desperate by the continuance of war, is one of the grand Imp: diments to peace. It was, indeed, one of tit • real causes of this pre sent war. The paper is in such a state that it cannot support itself against the effects of a free intercourse nth France. I do not sae any reason to suppose, that the depreciation will not proceed as rapidly as it has done for two years last past. It began to be sensibly felt and clearly understood very soon after I was shut shut up in Nowgate. The matter was then made so very plain, that those began to see who had been blind all the days of their lives. So that, there was, at any rate, one good that resulted from my suffering. I made clowns able financiers; or, at least, as able as Pitt and his set, if not a little more so. To return to the matter before us ; the buying up of the plate would be nonsense.—lt would disappear the moment it got into circu lation. Real gold and silver will not keep company with our paper, unless one is to be bought and sold with the other, and then each will fetch its real va lue. The Local Token Bill must be repealed before it goes into operation, or there must he a great issue of tokens somewhere to supply the place of those now in circulation ; for, otherwise no trade can pos sibly be carried on. Were it not. for the national debt all would be easily settled ; but, indeed, it is that debt which has made all the paper. They began together, and together they will live as long as they can. What will be done about the pay of the Judges, &c. &c. who have fixed annual, or daily, sums, I hardly know ; for, if the gold should get to about 71.145. an ounce, a one-pound note will be worth only half as much as it used to be; and yet, times will not be very favourable to the ratting of the pay of any of the people in public employment. When people talk of dearness, they forget how the paper has fallen in value. If a guinea be worth 30s. a load of wheat, which sells for 301. does, in fact, sell for only about TOL and so on as to other things. Hume foretold exactly what is now taking place • and I would advise the Ministers to read his book: They wilt derive much more profit from him than the Morning Chronicle, who now complains of our sys tem. Alas! Mr. Perry, it is too late to recover things. Pitt decided its fate. It may be made to go on a little faster or a little slower ; but its end will be the same; and all that is worth talking about is, what are the consequences that it will produce as to !the liberty and independence of the nation. This is VAnxnAt.t. Batocc.—This loutidelayed Bridge indeed a question worthy of being discussed by men Is at last contracted for and begun upon. Colonel of real wisdom; but the Prince Regent will, lam Bay mon, in conjunction with Mr. frillier, has tine I afraid, look about him in vain for many men of that dertaken to complete it, under due securities, for description. If there were a man iii power endued the sum of seventy-five thousand pounds. One pier with profound insight as to this subject; a man ca is already laid, and the manner of doing it Is equally gable of foreseeing what would happen, and of pro. novel and ingenious, and if successful, will form a I viten accordingly, he would have in his hands more model for all future bridges, It is to be entirely power to do good than ever before fell to the lot of finished in two years. All the upper parts of the a human being. One thing is certain, that every bridge are to be of cast-iron. man in the country thinks that some great change is Rlotet , rn Acctotter.— Tuesday evening as Mr. at hand. Every man thinks this, except those melt Benjamin Snell, of Upton, near Southwell, was rew who never think beyond their own particular inte turning home from Beaconsfield, accompanied by! rests, and who occupy In the creation a rank little Mr. Twaley, the chaise was violently overturned superior to that of the badger or the utter. Of men about midway, by driving down a precipice, and • who do think, who have minds, and who ex eras broken to pieces. Mr. Such had both his arms tend their wishes to the well-being of others ; and his leg broken, and remains in a very precarious who have some sentiment of honour, who know state; the other gentleman remains in a state of what freedom and what country mean ; of such stupor from an injury on his head, and is not ea- , men there is not one, who does not expect to see petted to recover. ;some great event in England ; but, no one has an A most extraordinary running match took place ; opinion as to what it is to be. It is truly carious to at Plymouth on Monday forenoon, between two;observe with what eagerness those who still adhere seamen, for a bet of fire guineas. The wager was, to the twine of Pitt get rid of every topic connected for one seaman to run from the Market-place, Ply •, with the paper.money. They are afraid to think on mouth, to the five-mile-stone, in Ridgway, and • the subject. But, their avoiding it will not pteveta back again ; to the five-mile-stone again, and back what is to happen. The remedy, of which I possess again to the Market-place—a distance of 50 miles ; the knowledge, would do much; but, I do not flat it was to be performed in three hours and a half.— . ter myself that it will ever be called for in a way that The first seaman started at eleven o'clock, and Shall induce me to divulge it. finished at half-Last two P. M. not distressed. The I Batley, rtith Sept. MI. •••••••••■••••••. second started at twelve o'clock, and performed the same match in three hours and a half exactly, re. An issue has been made from the Bank, of new turning at half-past three, P. M. rather distressed; three shilling and eighteen-penny pieces. They are and what is.remarkable, neither had won the wager. much better executed thaw the other Batik Tokens But it having been so hardly contested in a hot Sep. in circulation. The head is more prominent, and tenter day, the Gentlemen who put up the bet, will require considerable force and power to make gave it to them both fur a supper, and to drink the the impression. The colners, however, will 110013. King's health ; which the Jacks accepted with three attempt to imitate them, and the first counterfeit beauty cheers, and marched off naperlas odium,. detected we hope will he clearly described, let the ing triumphantly. .• i Information Of , the public.. WM. COBRETT. • .41 • •••-. As•• .4.1 IV EH' DR UR Y. • i'ltE rnrrott OF THE STATESMAIts Stft,—Although I , perhaps, may be more ronters‘ ant with black letter than with architecture, and al though I am not one of those who expect every thing to be done at once, and therefore, do not mean to find fault with the Theatre on account of its, exterior not now being wholly of one celotir ; yet, I cannot help ojecting to the imperfect manner in which the front is left, for Want of a Portico. On the point of utility alone, I submit, it cannot be dispensed with. The Portico is necessary, as well for the protection of the person, as of the property, of the frequenters of the Boxes ; who, without it, on leaving their carriages must, in their way across the payee, mix with the passing mobility, and possi bly be carried away with the stream. In this situa tion, it is not unlikely, my Lady may loose her diamond sprig, and my Lord his gold repeater with its appendages ; as once did my late Learned Friend the famous Mr. ALEXANDER WennzaauaNc, then Lord Chancellor Loughborough, in his way from the door of that unfinished building, the Opera House, to his carriage. Besides, when lam my Lord Chief Justice, or Sir %VM. WRANGLER, Knt. his Majesty's Attorney or Solicitor-General, is it to i be supposed I could trust myself, or permit my Lady to venture herself across such a stream in those damp unwholesome nights, especially for delicate tonsti- tutioes, which we so frequently meet with in the play , going months, when my Lady may possibly have, not 1 only to encounter the serious stream alluded to, but also the pelting of the pityless storm, the effects of I • wnielt might,at least, operate as such a damper on my ILady's spirits, that all the comic powers of a Joe -1 DAN, or the humours of a BANNISTER, might not be able to raise them sufficiently high to produce a smile the whole evening. Besides, in such a case, the al- I most certainty of catching a cold, as it is called, fol.l Ilowed probably with a fever, and that perhaps by Death himself, whom her Ladyship might not be prepared to meet quite so suddenly. For these, and • other as substantial reasons, which will, I have no doubt, octur to you and many of your Readers, I most solemnly protest against the non-erection of a portico. • Before I quit the subject I must add, that I cannot con• ceise how the four, comparatively speaking, very small lamps ' set upon the massive pillars of the entrance, can • give any thing like a sufficient light, especially on those pitchey dark nights we sometimes have in the • winter season, at such times, if not at others, I think they can only have the effect of making dmkness visible. - Tour's, A TEMPLAR. From my Office, in the Paper-hnildinrs. L (NES oit A Tobias emelt or tour. wietwee, Wito Drib of VOMID VII gaibrtlrl littP 11M111, AT lartiagh Zr ompon c._ Does as kind friehd, with feeling belle, My Asturr's tomb draw near g Doi/ no soft eye, with grief IsopSrt, The tribute of a tear. When last he lift mews the shore To tempt the dang'rons wave, • feat'd, that in the battle's roar‘ Too soon he'd Sod a grave. 13.1 sot in battle glory's bed, WaS ABEIVe Gte to die; Where victory's laurels shade the teal, And cannons rend the sky. Hut on the told, and distant strand, Of Thule's naked isle g Where surly fogs obscure the land, And cloud the sutnasefstmile. Tau lhOfe, be drew hi; latest breath t. Twas there, his heart sn true, Sled, as he clos'd his eyes io death, Sly Matta—love— Meth 1 TO THE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN. SIR,-1 formerly sent you some Strictures oft the Speculations concerning the high price of Bread, by your Correspondent PVILIOOLA : those, not alto. gether under the influence of that justice and impar tiality, which you owed to me, as a volunteer in your and the public service, you did not insert, al though you obviously paid them a due attention in another mode. I have now to repeat my complaints against a writer of such obvious good sense, acute. nest, and pathetic intentions, as Puiticoi..s.., desiring to introduce into your Paper the great guide of the respectable aftd intelligent middling and lower classes, the Wog exploded, nonsensical, and liberticide doc trines of private monopoly and forestalling ! ! A doctrine by which the people are blinded, and the real delinquents sheltered; and of this they are so well convinced, that their hired Prints, the Anti- Jacobin Review, Morning Post, Courier, and others of that stamp, universally join in the common cry against monopoly, directing their cry to every quar ter but that in which monopoly really exists, or can exist, and so warding off the public vengeance from those on whom it ought justly and speedily to fall. It is a cause like this, which your Correspondent, with the best intentions in the world, is unwittingly defending. PUBLICOLA is right in the abstraet—" the faces of our ingenious, labouring, and half-starved popula tion, art ground down with poverty, monopoly, and misery.l But P. seems unaware of the true cause. There ought to be plenty, and there might be plenty, but for ACCURSED MONOPOLY; not a however, of that spurious kind, which your Correspondent supposes, and which is merely the liberty that every man, rich or poor, has a right to, in the disposal of his own property. Strange that such a man as PuSLIcoLA, cannot see the real ground of this most obvious and interesting subject, into which, I hope, he will make deeper researches, that he may not, with so many others, mislead the labouring classes, who seem to ' have an almost miraculous misconception of their real rights, which they are so desirous to barter for others of a superficial and spurious kind, inferior too in value and solidity, as ten to a million. Bread falling In the country, and not in London!—.the in. variable consequence of that most silly of all anti. quitted customs, an assize of bread, which the coun try is wise enough to do without, and at which, as well as the popular credulity on that, and the sub lett of witchcraft, the courtiers, tnealmeu, and bakers, with Sir W:LLLAM CuaTis at their head, laugh most heartily over their cups. Does your friend PusucoLA believe also in witchcraft Public health and respect ! EQUAL LAWS. 2'. tir.s..EDITOE OF THE ST4TESM44N. Sta,—A perusal of your Paper of yesterday re minds me of a resolution I had formed, since the decision of the Court of King's Bench upon the housebreaking business in Piccadilly, to request you, on the eve of a General Election, to favour the country with a correct list of those Members of the Hon. House, ;rho voted for the seizure and imprison. meet of Sir F. BURDETT (contrary to all law) that the Zlecton of the United Kingdom, disapproving of tyranny and Injustice, may mark the conduct of such men by aa indignant rejection of their services, and, if possible, compel their new Candidates to some such kind of oath as you have often suggested, " not to Imprison the people of England without trial." From your known public spirit I cannot doubt of your readiness, either by the mode I suggest, or by one of your own, to serve the country—perhaps a repetition for several days would be advisable. Your's, AN ENEMY TO NOUSE-BR EA KING, By ANALOGY, AND EX-OFFICIO INFORMATIONS. September 25, 1812. CorgNZaARDRN THP4IVIE. Comfit Eves Comedy of tow fie Love Ins tea vived at this Thoatre last night, and so far as the col• loquy is involved, it certainly is a drama of primary merit, and looks among the majority of (Jar modern productions like a giant among petit mailres, because it possesses great strength, though very little of torn .. pa tative politeness. Mr. F.tercrrr enacted Foresight, Ind though ho marked the general outline of the character with pre• etslon, yet we thought him in some Instances imper. feet, particularly when he laughed at the repetition of the verses which implied the probability of his own cuckoldom _ _ __________ AA Add if his head he laid In grolfd i We made if it be fruitful found. Mr. C. KEstet.t (who is one of the host revte§otitvi tires of a Gentleman upon the stage) played Valentine s and very much cannot be done with Valentine by any professor. The nautical character of Bees *as sustained by Mr. Emsitir, but not with his accustomed discrimina.• tion. He had the fault which path appertained to all the scenic mufflers of this part that we have 'eels since the days of Mr. YATEs, nudely, he was a little too coarse. It should be recollected that he is the son of a Baronet, and though such a person may be • tinctured, and influenced, with marine phraseology, yet even that win never absorb, altogether, the origi nal features and traces of a man well borne Mrs. H. JOHNSTON was lively and genteel in An• gclicts, and the other characters were tolerably well managed. The Burletta of Midas went off with an increasing ' pplAuse. Ltssrost, it seems, does, " not feel himself at home" in Midas, and wishes to resign the character into the hands of f Awcrrr, and the Public will probably be St/enema FOR Yeese.—The difficulty, at times, of procuring yeast, particularly in places remote i gratified by the change. from breweries, must render a substitute desirable ; ; Mrs. ionto.in is about t 6 return to town, after and the following, we are assured, by persons who 1 reaping a most abundant Theatrical Harvest at Ply. have frequently used it, answers, is bread making, mouth, &c. every purpose, as fully as the best yeast : —(The I It is understood that the Ilayetatitet Theatre will ounce of the best hops, boiled for letlf an hour in a . close for the season the evening before the openlog of gallon of water, which, when strained from the New Drury. hops, is to have half a pound of flour well mixed On the 12th inst. a robbery of bank-notes to a with it—the whole to be put in a bottle or keg, to ! large amount seas committed in Dublin, attended by be kept for three days, after which it will be fit for ithe following very singular circumstanee a tt e n d [ op. use. The same proportion to a given quantity o f • pears that between the hours of 11 and 12 at night flour as is used for the real yeast will be sufficient for . a prostitute was accosted in College-green, by a per fermentation. A few potatoes, meshed with the . son having the dress of a gentleman, and somewhat dough, renders the bread lighter. By reducing the : intoxicated, who took her to a house of ill.fame in ingredients to a proportionate degree, any smaller ; Tucker's-row, when, steer drinking some punch, she quantity wished for may be made. I t w ill k eep f or i contrived to pick his coat pockets of 1,9001. in sin e month in cool weather. . gle notes of 1001. contained in a small envelope.— On the morning afterwards she first went to her fa. A singular circumstance lately happened at the pa- rish church of Donington, in Lincolnshire, where the ' ther, to whom she gave one of the notes; she next Minister generally gives a lecture on a week-day . repaired to the house of ore Casey, A meal.man, in evening :--A poor girl, about IQ years of age, took . King.street, to whom she entrusted another to pro.. a seat in one of the pews atom., where, instead of cure cha n ge , but from whom she then concealed, the engaging in the service, she paid extent of her booty ; and finally to a Mr. Lynch, ins her devotions to Morpheus, and was left unobserved by the congrega. Stephen's-green, with whom she hadefermerly lived, time Awaking front her slumbers about midnight, . and commit te d t o h is c a re two mor e of the notes, un. extremely frightened at her situation, she endeavoured der a promise of getting ellen , for theft. Mr. to make her escape through the windows. Her ' Lynch counted the remaining property in her pots [ .session, hut incautiously permitted her to retain it e screams alarmed a Gentleman in the neighbourhood, determined, however, to disclose the transact-10u in. who sent for the clerk to see what hobgoblin had gratings o f • stantly and take advice how he should act; with thiil taken possession of the sanctuary. The . the lock, and the heavy door on its hinges, thunder- Intention he repaired to the banking-house whose ing through the vaulted arches, and the ghostly ap. . name appeared to the notes, where be was desired to . . pearance of Roger, increased the screams arrange the best means of securing the delinquent on reen's and fears 'of the miserable captive to such a degree, that it was her return, that the property might in the first in. - i with difficulty she could be take'', in her rapid flight stance be recovered far the owner. Upon this he through various parts of the building, till at letteth had an intercourse with Casey, to whom he commie , i she was brought out lacerated with broken glass, and I deated ail he knew, and agreed with him that-b 1 ; otherwise much injured by the fright. , case the women should call on the latter first, she Thursday evening Adkins, one of the Bow-street should be detained, and immediate notice given to Mr. Lynch; this agreement, it appears, Casey, very, Officers, arrived in town from Sherries% with Morris Fitzgerald, alias De 3fedie, the man who has con-arrs soon after conceived the intention of violating, and feared having been guilty of the murder of the M tuntiug the transaction to his own advantage, in cone I cer, he was in so violent a state that it was found s. and Williamson.. When delivertel to the above offi- • federac y with one M'Lin, a next door nei g hbour ; for, on the return of the woman, she was decoyed in l necessary to lash him down hand anti foot, and in . to the house of a Mr. Smith, and under pretence of that manner he was brought oe in the Admiral's getting chance for the notes, they got possession at r ! Tender to the Tower, where he was put into a 'the entire, and then threatened her with a certain 1 hackney-coach and conveyed to the House of Cor rection, Cold Ruth-Aelds, raving the whole way i n ; punishment for the crime, turned her out, with an 1 iii . ounction to fly •, this she did for a few hours, but the most incoherent manner about the murders, and ; afterwards gave herself up, and disclosed the whole threatening those about him. It appears that a few ; facts here detailed. Casey and M'Lin are both in days ago he entered as a landsman on board the ! custody, but the most extraordinary circumstance in Tender, at the Tower, from wheucc be was sent to 1 the whole case is, that no person has yet come for -1 the Ceres, at the Sore, where he had been a very 'ward to claim the property. short time before he 'hewed the most violent %yelp - 1 One night this week, as a respectable tradesman, I toms of madness, and for some days previous to his . who rev des in Bedfordbury, was returning home, r emoval from the ship, had refused to take any sus ; he was attacked about ten o'clock at night, by fon t tenance. Once on his passage op the river he asked . footpads, in Rose-street, Coventsgarden, who robbed for a little water, and since he has been in the house I him of his watch, and afterwards made their escape. of Correction he has eitt.n part of a loaf, though he Mraeceeous ESCAPE.—A few days ago, as an un. continues in the same violent paroxysm of rage, so ; loaded cart (the driver being criminally riding upon. that it ii at present impossible to collect any thing ra-,i it) was passing near the top of the SAO hies, near tional from him, nor is it yet ascertained whether it !Nottingham, one of the wheels was absolutely ie really proceeds from madness, or is assumed. , .1 the act of rolling upon the breast of a child, which Avery numerous and respectable meeting of Ladies - had just thin.bapeened - to fall down; hat two gen. and Gentiernau was held at the Booth.hall, in . dealers, wen were passing by at the bistare, de.v to Gloucester, oe Thursday last, Sir G. 0. Paul, Bart. .the assistance of ,the child ; for while one of t e w in the chair; when sue Auxiliary. Bible Society. .forseiled the'horse's heed, the other applied his whole that city and comity was established ; the Dukesiof ''strength to,the obtruding wheel, and thee rewired the Norfolk and Beaufort an appoksted Preoidentia , .llttle innocent from an otherwise immediate death. : . . , . A cfsira • 2./.....- • , , . ~.- •3 Vs.! 1 '1 4 k-,. : .i. 2:. • i \ 1 1 - , 1 J1!I