The Statesman. — London, England, 1810-07-18 00:00:00

iI.M.- [To be cangilosed.) from the sensations of " those out of doors ;" and, if the Minister could, by any possible means, (this is merely a supposition) contrive to persuade the majority of the Nleuiberi to concur in his plans fur the public weal, might it nut happen, at length, that a minority, receiving no countenance or support (torn the sympathy of the people, the best reward of patriotism, would sink into insig 4ificauce, and in the end be totally lost in a por tentous unanimity of the whole House. Our readers 14 ill recollect that we have spoken all along hypo thetically, and by no means wish to be understood as alluding 'to the present state of affairs. But we turn from such a visionary scene, as one waking from an uneasy dream, to recreate our mind with a very different prospect, that of the real proceedings in Parliament, and the vigorous, enlightened, and patriotic Ministers of the present day. On tho 31st of January, in the year of our Lord 1810, Mr. MINXES moved fur the appoint ment of a Select Committee, to investi;ate the state of the public expenditure ; and we must al. low that this motion was met by the Ministers .with a chearfulness and alacrity that were highly honourable to their character, as intimating, OH their part, ts costsciousness of being " pure in the high office," with e kith they had been entrusted. Thu motion was carried unanimously, and the se. vcral Members Of the Cabinet seemed as eager to promote inquiry upon this head, as Gil Bias scribes his new companions in the Subterranean, at the proposal made by Capt. Rolando, that each of them should relate his adventures, and appar ently for the same reason too,* comme s' ils avaießt chacun quelque chose de beau a raconter. With respect to the qualifications requisite to constitute fit member of such a Committee, namely, com. awn honesty, and a competent knowledge of arithmetic, we have a right to presume them so very abundant in that, House, that little selection ruuld be necessary. The ditty to be performed required nothing more than integrity and in. 4ustry, and these, surely, we have reason to expect to be predominant in an Assembly, which demands omit unreserved and unlimit. tog confidence from the Country. Ve will go farther, and assert that, if the accounts of the Public expenditure were fairly stated, and the enemies, intended exClu‘ively fur the seivico of the Nation, honestly applied to that sole purpose, all the partiality, chicanery, or even injustice, which hlieisters are so very liberal io attributing to those who oppose the measures of their Go. vernmcnt, would not only be unavailing towards injuring them in the public esteem, but must have ultimately redounded to their honour. This 16 so perfectly clear, that we cannot suppose it to have escaped the mind of the English Chancellor of the•Excliequer, without entertaining very serious doubts of those great intellectual endowments, which his panegyrists ascribe to that Right Honourable, and we are ready to say, must respec. table Gentleman. In fact, it is impossible, without supposing him the very reverse• of what his friends describe Mr. PERCEVA4 to be, to ima. gins that he could be blind to so plain an Wei. eace, What, then, are we to think of his wish to nominate the Members of the Ctetimittee ? What of his objections to men, whom he acknowledged to be unobjectionable ? The reasoning, likewise, offered in support of this extraordinary conduct was, to all intents and purposes, of a piece with it. He " vv.ts unwilling to have the Committee com posed of men who agreed in opinion." Was it that he thought more light would have been struck out from the collision of opposite scnti. rents, or, rather, might he not have inspected, that, from the conflict of such as were irrecencile 4ble, the members be wished to have apPointed would, like their predecessors, never have come to a conclusion 3 Were the items of so cum. plea, so intricate, or so confused a nature, that gique but heads, like his own, deeply learned in 011 the mysteries of analysis, could comprehend them ? Or, were they In such a condition as to , require the healing band, the salutary skill, the profound knowledge of infinitcsimals, that arc usually possessed by 'the professors of that ape. ties of political arithmetic that is chit fly conversant about the settlement of Boni:rapt.' .accompts? Whatever be the cause of this Ministerial serene. losity respecting the composition of the Commit. tee, the effect certainly Is a conviction upon the inind of the public, that the concurrence of the Servants of the Crown with the urianimous wishes of the House, was the effect less of choice than of aeccasity. • As if 00 of Om bag soweilkius very fine to relate shout isioself. I.M. Mails. • Due. Dublin • r • o .. . w %. • •• sg,erwr. . • .•• • •••••.•• • • • GittlCSlbilrgb • • .. 4 labboit 0 pthCl Ctlf 06(.4111114p AY AT ONE O'CLOCK . 3 per Cent. Red. 681 3 per Cent. Navy 991 S perGest.Cann. 64 1 Oinniuns dis. 4 per Cent. b 4114 Corooir fur Ate. JAiag Annuittes 18k. LONDIi : WEDNUDAY, JULY 18, 1810. YESTERDAY atoning, Captain Boaau, one of Lord WELLltrovotei Aids-de-Cansp, arrived in town from the army, which be left on the 4th inst. No little had yet been fought, nor was any general action likely to take place fur some time. Ciudad Rodrigo °continued to make a vigorous defence, but it is not expected to hold out any length of time. Lord WELLINGTON had moved to a posi. tion between Almeida and Culerico, in order to support Gcnerdl C--RAUFURD. By an intercepted letter, it .ippears that MASSENA cspected that Lord WELLINGTON would advance to interrupt the siege, and that he bad prepared his operations accord i og TILE os:a South American Commissioners from Caracrds, had their audience of Lord WELLESLEY yestcrii,y, anti delivered their dispatches from the Provisional ()moment of Caraccas, and waited afterwards upon the other Cabinet Ministers. Their names are Don SIMON DE BOLIVAR ) a Colo nel ; and Don Luis Lona MENDEZ, a Commis. nary General. One of them is a relation of neral MIRANDA. Onstust is mended a little. It was done in the early part of tho morning at two per cent. dis. count; but at the hour of our going to press ) was at ono and a half. WE this day give a full Report of the Trial, yesterday, in the Court of King's Bench, in an action brought by the Proprietor of this Paper against Mr. W • %Lea, a vender of newspapers, for sending to a subscriber of The Sr.rz Esau?, another paper in lieu of it—the verdict in which action was given fur the Plaintiff. The law of the case was very ably argued, by the Arronuey. G'ENEILAL, to be witli.the Plaintiff, and must dis. tinctly declared by Lord ELLENBOROUGU to be so. This decision is of the utmost importance to newspaper Proprietors, as it protects their property against an injury of the most subtle and clanger. ous kind; and will also ge a long way towards the deterring of persons who may be inclined to lend themselves to au unprincipled combination to substitute one Paper fur another. We have no doubt, a little warning will be taken from the issue of this trial, and that the Readers of Newspapers will hereafter have an opportunity of regularly receiving the Paper to which they give the preference. This acacia, however, is but one of many that will volubly be !stoned in si. collar cases. The Proprietor of The STATES• NAM has received a very great number of letters, complaining of another Paper being sub ! SlitUted fur Tux STA EESWIN I sometimes' with. lout reason given fur the change, and some. times with the change being grounded on the barest !fatrehoods. It may, therof,ire, require, a few more actions to set this matter right, as far as it I regards these ion aild.vile practices against- TUE STATESMAN—«* )t•it.:iillc: of law that governs the case is, however, fortunately for the Proprietor I of THE STATESMAN, and fur all other Newspaper Proprietors, made 'known, in the Trial of this 1 1 action against Wat.r.r.a. - It is stated in ti letter frou►•Oporto, that thb ez..l plosion of the enemy's magaziue, before Ciudad Rodrigo was tremendous ; it was distinctly heard at the distance of fourteen leagues. Of the four British regiments that were at'Lis. bon, three hare been marched to join the main qtry under - fiord ‘VELLINGTOX. The Royals set oft on th►: 40th ultim►► ; the 9th on the Ist inst. ; the 38:h was to follow in a day or two, and the 83d, the weakest of the four,•was lo remain, and do g:►rrison duty, assisted by 500 marines from the men of war. The Wagrans, a ship of 120 guns, has lately been launched at Toulon; the Queen Charlotte, launched yesterday at Doptford, carries the same number of guns. As both are on an equality in point of birth and rank, we trust that they may shortly meet to itegoeiate upon the existing differ. ences between their respective countries. If they meet, ►.e kayo no doubt but that the quo would bring the' oilier to terms, and the Wagraus might possibly come as far as Deptford to ratify the treaty. Some change in the General Staff of Ireland is immediately to take place, in consequence of which Sir C. Asnit.r. will be succeeded in the Dublin dis trict by General IN YARD. Ilia Grace the LOftU Li EUT EN ANT has issued orders that the num. her of exercise days for the Yeomanry shall be in. caused to four i►► each month, from the 25th inst. ; and this arrangement is to continue until the 24th of October. Lieutenant-Gencral SirJons DOYLE'S regiment, the 87'h (or Prince of WALES'S Isiah regiment), has recently enrolls! considerable numbers. The motto, or legend, is national — ' Faug an Bal. lagh.' Anglice, ' Clear the may.' The case on the Driffield Poor Rater, which had beets assessed on the money payment of rent fur tyahys, basing been referred to the decision of the court of Ring's Bench, the following was `Mod by Lord Chief Justice ELLEMBOROUGIi : 4 6 To comend that the Appellant is !Naiad to reduce the rate, Is gallica most extravagant legit& You prove that he had property in thp parish to the amount of bs. Bd. and you oleos him at the gate of 11101.1 you might as hell have !mod him af1,0031.; but Churehistudensitad Overseers ato nal he uermitted to tale person at randong, and leave him t o " e l Ai, wa y a pt the best way he can," THE STATESMAN . THE STATESMAN. , „ Colonel iht.Low arrived yesterday in town front Spain, and brought dispatches to Ministers; when lie left the Poisinsula l , Ciudad Rodrigo still held out, though it was thooglkt impossible that it conld stand long. Extract of a letter from kitten, dated July —" A berry and incessant firing of musguetry in the direction of Ciudad Ratirigo, has been dis- tinctly heard by our outposts during the greater part of the night. It gradually abated as the morn. lug ad vaneml, and entirely ceased about six o'clock. It is supposed by some, who have more enthusiasm than prudence, that the garrison had made a sor tie; and by others, who calculated on the disparity of the numbers and resources of the besiegers and the garrison, that an assault bad been made by the former, and gallantly.and resolutely resisted by the latter. This opinion is corroborated - by the breach, which, in a former letter, I stated, upon good authority, to be eight yards in length and two in depth, which, considering the WO of the para. pet, and the facility which the enemy poseess of procuring fascioes, is deemed practicable. The result will be known in a few hours. It is a mat. ter of surprise that the garrison, with such dilapi. dated walls, and wretched outworks, should hare held out so long against a force greatly superior ' in every respect. A ,division of the French army has crossed the Agueda, below Ciudad Rodrigo, which has rendered it prudent for General Cam:- Folio to fall back from the position he occupied on the left bank of that river, to Fort Comp. tion. The French are concentrating their forces, and, from the most correct information that can be - procured, ire making every preparation for the invasion of Portugal. We are daily receiving reinforcements, and continue in good health, high spirits, and in the best possible state of discipline." On Sunday evening, between six and seven o'clock, a French lugger privateer, with yellow sides, black ports, and an English ensign, took three collier brigs, within a short distance of the North Foreland ; she was full of men. The lasi of the three she captured .was the Drake, of Whit. . by. . The Captain seeing the other two taken, and that the privateer was making for him, escaped with his crew on board the Susannah brig, that was in company, and afterwards landed at Mar. gate. The time that the Frenchmen were employ. ed in taking the above, gave opportunity to the Susannah to escape. AbOut half past nine the Beagle and cracker guu.brigs, which were at anchor off Margate, were informed- and i,;nmedl. ately sailed. The prizes were seen steering to the Eastward, and the lugger N. E. in the direttion towards five or six sail in that quarter. The rcductiou of the Isle of France by a coup: de-main, is, by all judiciuus military men, contd. dered impracticable. The place is as strong mid as inaccessible as Gibraltar. It is only by block. ade that there is any chatice .y of reducing. it: and the difficulty of effectually watching it at any sea. son, and the total impossibility of keeping the station at some, as the experience of the last two years his prOved, render even that but a hopeless design. Notwithstanding the taking of the Isle of Bourbon, and the permanent - occupation of Ro. driguez,. the French cruisers .get into and out of the Isle of France with little molestation. • A very respectable Banking.honso in the City, on which a run was recently made, kept paying the deMand upon them a full hour beyond the usual lima of closing; and by this means they soon recovered• the public confidence, of which they bad been for a moment deprived by these. ports which some malevolent persons had props" gated against their unquestionable credit. Fire houses in the Manchester trade stopped payllielll on Monday in the City, to the smount s it is said, of more than*" million. The Marquis Marehlogien of DOUGLAS will: set off in a few doys ftiellamittoo Police, scot. land.. - Mr. YORKE,. as First Lord of t h e Admiralty, is expected to take a slimy. of Northlieet, and the surrounding grounds, as..thit proposed scite for the new Naval Arsenal. .He will he attended by Mr.. RENNIE, and other practical 'Engineers. Marquis Tow.touctao is now down 3t antwort., Castle, in Staffordshire, where his Lordship has resoled, with his amiable daughters for nearly the last twelve months. SPORTING. —Colonel THORNTON'S going. to Dow-street, and turning out a pack of Police 0111. cars Its run down a couple of bag fox Lawyers; who had his title-deeds in t h eir hands, and had joined deadly issue to fight a duel, was managed in his'ulual sportsonan.like .styte. Having got a lgood drug of John , Doe and Richard Roe at the „grey of the morn, he. run a burst without a check Hill he pressed .close to their brush with a breast: high scent at the foot of Prirnrose-hill, where they Akulked to earth in the garden of &little pub ' lic.house r from whence they, however, were soon driven by the terriers of the Police, and carried to the Wotan 'herr iw Illoss.street, in the hope of their skewing a better day's sport hereafter The Lyceum was last nightelegautly filled. The new Opera, aided by Knapschou s proves very at. tractive. The Musical,Meeting at Salisbury was well at tended : upwards of 1400 persons being in the Ca. thedral each day. At night the assembly rooms were quite a squeeze. The receipts at the church and assembly rooms were about 20001, Madame CATALANI had 400 guineas for her three days' performance. Walla, the gravedigger, who was convicted on Friday last of stealing a dead—body out of St. George's burial.ground, .was sentenced, at the conclusion of the Sessions, to three months int. prisonment. In the Court of Common Pleas on Saturday, a straw.hat.manufacturer, of the name of Maw , Ltives, recovered fifty peends damages against GILLER, the landlord-of the liald.facesl Stag, on Fincbley Commun. The Plaintiff and i friend were snipe...shouting in January last, oe the Com. mon, and about eight o'clock at night applied • at the Defendant's house for beds and sapper.— This accommodettoo, due by law to all travellers, • they were not only refused, hat sent to If ighgsks Wolch.house fur the eight, ' '.7"Z17 SU.II3IEIt &MN. --simisp— . • BY MR. GRAHAM. Soon let the husbandman arouse to toil, - While yet the sky st'deep empurpled tan Northward displays,' betas the corn-es:a% In min-vell'd meads inak l e the nestling lark • To hail the dawn. Streit is the dubious bound Of•aight and morn, When spray and plant In dew. Street now the odour-breathing hi The gaudy broom; the orchard's blushing boughs, The milk while thorn on which the black bii - 'Till light be shakes his rung plumes, mad His roundelay; and sweet the beau field roi 'Tween which the drilling plough is artful • Striking the dew-drop gently from the Moos Thence on their lingering wins the west sisi A balmy odour. Struck with new•delight, The tell-worn trav'Uer pauses on his way ; Perhaps some veteran, whom - Egypt's sands Have reft of sight (01 when will warfare Leans oa his skill, and wishes that but once. 'But only once, he could behold those bliimas Which now recall Lis father's little field! Nit Via IN7'ELLIGESC, PORTSMOUTK, JULY IT.—Sailed the Implacabl gum, Admiral Sir Richard Keats, for Cadiz • Scylla, Captain Ateliiion, withm convoy far the Arrived the Sarpedon, Captain Green, from r Sailed the Protector on a cruiz.:. The wind coming round in the night, there doubt but the outward-bound Lisbon and bledit took advantage of it, and got wider • weigh from 'Loads ; thciugh it is no better noir again than Iv' N. B. We have beard that they did mil. The Persian Ambassador is engaged in Looking yard, &c. lie will sail in the Liao in a few da: PLYMOUTH, JULY N.—Sailed the Dreadaougl guns, for Basque Roads ; the Acteou brig, ketch, on a cruize. Arrived the Ocean, of Loudon, Captain Feary , with masts and yards for the Dock-Y DCA IL, Jo LY 17.—The outward-bound havi to the Westward, wider convoy of the Kite blot), also the Theseus and MarlborOugh men of war, Flushing. FALMOUTII,JULY 11—Sailed Primus Charlotte for Liskun. GRAVEMND, JULY 17.--Arrived the Hind, Gibraltai; Wellington, .........., for St. Lucia ma, Goodwin, for Malta. Soiled the Governor Milne, Hayes, for Tam MILITMLY INTELLIUEN( A General Court-Martial assembled on Mi CAnterhury, fur the trial of a private helongiug , temp Battalion, lately arrived at Sheerness from on a charge of repeatedly urikiug, and after b6 superior Officer. That excellent regimeat, the 18th Hussars, . on Friday last by General Nightingale, at Deal, seam of a number of General Officers, at which expressed hi; entire approbation at the quicknew with which they esteemed theirmaricennes. two borseifell, and one of them had its'ieek Instantly expired. The other hotre, and the , very luckily escaped without receiving an serious A detachment of the Ean Norfolk Regiment rived at Sheerness yesterday; - con BXCH4I+I4_4IL • . ~ • Wheat thin. 414* in consideraliist i !Ellin of .. " . 6rit Quality, which supports inferior aliiiii, unsaleable. Very lit Matt it kit. ....VOLle.Peas likewise. two kind hardly: at the late reduction. Illerablpisiip'rlies Of Pats, and this trade cheaper. 'flunk ist . lkto prices. '.' . ; •.. tEIR:t IiNT PRICt , Wlsenf, e;• 74*. - 91,. 1L24. Tick Beam, Fine ditto - - - - 11;40. 111 s. ()ass, /.. . - - Rye, - • - --• .. -48 i. 044. • rififtiodf - - - Maley, •Mali,? . . • ~. - -.-- 71s. 80.. Itnpe Seed • W. Pen% (linilen) 70s. 75.. Fine Flour - Grey Peas, • • • • 535. 565. Second. - - • Beans, - ..- - ,-.- .56,. trii. The Mince of Whtas Is expected brigade of Life Guards, on Mond Wimbledon Common. He Will be accompanied on this . occasion by the Dukes of YORE and Cam. Bianca. This Gne corps have had several addi tional held days, that they•may display their h,gh. est discipline before his Kurd Highness, who is esteemed by military men as one of Usti fiat Cavalry Officers iu Europe. . . ,• 4 • In the event of the death of die , DM of BERERLEY, which is daily expected, the legiti. macy of his eldest ion, Lord Dunst.xy, which has been so long a question o(seriotis discussion, must be more solemnly investigated in the House of Peers, as one of privilege, and probably. before any succeeding Earl of BERILRLEY may hts:admitted to take his seat-as a Peer of Parliament. Yesterday owning, for a,wager of fire guineas, a man of the name of Daniel Grant 50 years of -age, undertook to walk from Short:ditch to Ware, ;in Hertfordshire, In Cour hoer', and after resting two hours, to walk back again in the same space of time. He started at three o'clock, stopped twice on the road,' and arrived at Ware ten mi. notes before sem; after resting the time allowed, be started afresh, and completed the whole by half past twelve o'clock, winning Ids wager by half an hour : several bets were depending upon the The whole distance is 42 miles. Early yesterday Morning, Mr. Gumbridge, of Epsom, going up Holborn-till, had his pocket picked of his book containing 301. in bank notes. Early yesterday morning, as Mr. Gumbridge, of Epping, was going up Holboris.hill, he was hustled by a gang of villains who pretended to be drunk, who picked his pocket of his book, coo. taining 301. in banknotes, and made theii escape with their booty towards -Field-lane; they are supposed to belong to the Chick-line gang, who infest thattquarter. A woman of the name of Sable, was killed yes. terdey by a kick from a led horse belOnging to an Officer et Knightsbridge. She was wheeling a barrow of linen ) at which the horse took fright. .'s call It ound are drenclid birch, bought, bird roost:, chams ows, sieved, non: clods war: r, ids e cease ! cc. oms 7E. placable, of ;4 Win ; and the he I)owns. a a cruise. e cannot be a iterrancan deft rout Yarmouth vest. ft. ug at the dock. "is. • duought, of 98 , and Gleaner ry, from North Yard. re main sailed sloop of war; ▪ (ma cruise td larlatte packet, d, Lumley, for .1 and the Has. NCE. • Monday last at ' g to the ith Ve- um the Tower, swards Licking were reviewed t teal, in the pres ich the General . essutd precision In the charge dislocated, nod to two human, :. Tious is‘jury. lit of Militia sr. rsorPply, but is last prices ; little Barley. Beanie( the t. T here are 11 side ii quoted .4&1.54.. -02 s. - - .34.. 970. 415. Ud. ▪ - - .BSc - 956 1001. • - • - 955. 9ts. to review the day next, on accompanied MIL and CAN. I several addl. • lay their. high. Owen ' who is 6 first Cavalry r. of td, 4he legiti. ay, which has scussion, must the Boise of sbably . before ey ha:admitted intr. sf file guineas, :, 0 rho oscl lame after tmYo cear est in g orspace a Ware, of luck, stopped Ware ten mi. thin allowed, r whole by half ger by half an upon the Wig. umbridge, of ad his pocket n bank notes. r. Gumbridge, he was iretcoded to be is book, coo- ide their escape sue; they are sine gang, who was killed yet.