The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-02-24 00:00:00

. • k.. 111 at the Pahlie Olieel. THE STATZSMAN._, Y LONDON: . TUEST)AT, 7811IWART Si; 1916. Philadelphia Papers Papers to the 23d, and Boston to the tOth nit. reached .as this forenoon. The American troops, who were ascending the Fast * River,had had another engagement with 1200 lodises 30 miles below Fort Scott. When the impress left, which was on the 18th, the fire from both parties continued; at which time Major Muucaseuaci had three men killed end thirteen wounded ; bet. there was not the least appreheniion of any of the vessels being taken that were under his command. • The troops' so defended themselves In the vessels, hole the enemy, that they were perfectly safe. Captain ' Wisectsu, who commanded a post 12 miles from Fort Scott; with 40 men, was attecited Decembeif, 15, by between R and 300 Indians. .• Captain M. de.. . teased them etiOnot losing a single man, end ftaa• . -Wee* Wes sitiewed4 Thorolad OM been a skirsitsb' between the (deadly end hostile Savages, in which the Chief of the former wits killed, in consequence of which a number of the pert, andertis command de. silted and joined the hostile Indians. The drafted troops were a4sembliog at Darien, and it was understood that they would march ilalite• . diately for Hartford. Gen. Gc.Ascoca, at the bead of 1000 men, left Hartford for the Indian nation e s ti the 27th Dec. A detachment of United States troop, from Amelia, and. a further draft of Militia hid also proceeded towards Dario., es bad also Getters! GAHM!. At length the mountain, after secret workings nod portentous beatings, has been been delivered of Its mouse. The consistent absurdity of our present Ministers is beyond example. " None but them. selves coo be their parallel." They began with. forte, in the " Notch ado about Nothing" style, converted it Into a tragedy, and now they come forth with an other farce upon the same subject, truly original. The Report of the Secret Committee of the Rouse of Lards was submitted last night, metered ender tbp hippies! auspices of official security, end undisturbed by the least appearance of Conflicting testimony; though Ossa was heaped upon Pallor) and Pelii Upon Ossa from the Rome Secretary's Green Doc - collections to assist in •composing this impeoetraige defence. A notable effort of collected wittiest it certainly is. " Catch me if yea tan s " seims:loo the motto. As toeny thing like information hi. partial representation, we believe so onetime / bell silly enoegh -to expect such things from the Rw s and no one will be disappointed*. This Reekbw of the State of the country, this Exposition of Mini sterisl Justice and Policy, relates' no fact to justify the Suspension Measures beyond the subsequent dis turbances et Derby, which might have been repressed by the us-process of the established laws, with the addition of the number of persons arrested on Lord SIDMoCTIOI warrants, and liberated for want of proof; but of the detestable arts of the Government Spies, and the consequenoes of their horrid system, nothing ,111 said in the Report. This -document was to convilla every one that the Ministers spoke troth when they. accused the country of rebellion, and that neither they . ' sior their agents have itemised any uncalled-for se-- verity against the people, who have been clamoaring for Reform. To produce this conviction, it refers to the preceding Reports, the falsehood of which bas base . disproved by every thing that has since transpired of the plans of the *mimed individuals, sod the state of public, sentiment. We are still requested by this . reference to the truth of the former Reports to be lieve in the Stocking Plot of the wretch and spy Castles, who swore that:Dr. Waysoo was to smother all the soldiers and destroy the berrackrby a chymioel process; and that he himself recon emitted the ground for that purpose. leech is the ye ' rification (so far as the Public areacqoainted) of that allegation of the Report ; and something similar may be observed of almost all the others. We are to believe all that has . been said too about-the herroretif the *men System, for which the peer Evawvea have suffered so - much, but respeetieg which' - the Public yet know as little as they did before these Reports were issued. Much is s'laid in the fti port of last night of the projected, risings of tier Reformers, and the intended orlirds of the. Ii; surgeste to London, all. of which were so happily frustrated by " the vigilance of his Majesty's Go vernment, and the activity of the Magistrates, ". lot forgetting " the weedy co-operation of the recibir Troops and Yeomanry Cavalry," who se bravSty took the Retitions from the poor Blanketeers, and assisted to commit them to the dungeons in which they were confined. The Public can compare this very satisfactory detail with the narratives In the Petitions of the Reforming Insurgents, and the statements in the credible document , presented last night in the House of Lords by Earl Cantronvog, mot from persons who had been imprisoned, bat from 'meal of the most re spectable Merchants and lobebitants of the town of Manchester, who had undertaken to investigate the allegations contained in the Reports of the secret Committee t and which stated that the Petitioners had found, on enquiry, that the Reports of the Secret Committees bed been (muscled on erroneous staters seats, and prayed that- their tordsMpe would ags.l point a. Committee to itemise the- esverat peterented to 168'1:fosse, adding that they woad. knish evidence of the most incontrovertible cbsl meter to sepport their assertions!! -Yalu, bat meet ise-worthy effort to procure a legal and poi* 'Meetly for injuries' snits:tilled by any thing bit such Reports. The Tribunal has sat, and deciding . that there is no ground for complaint . Enquiry, it .will now be said, is needless, for enquiry has been had, sod the result is the conviction of thediscretioo, mildness, &c. of his Majesty's Ministers. 44 dreit is Diansh of the Ephelians!" This proof, however, of Ministerial intim:ewe, will not satisfy the Pablic. A Bill of Indemnity is actually. to be broeght in this day epos the Report of last night, and to be reed a second time on Friday ; bet if we can credit out eyes or understandings, we cin perceive 'nothing in this, ezposittoq to supply mateAsis for the defence of, s; Bill of Indemnity, or any reason for the' snatcblegeti ommeestre of ocarith aacept the otter went of any Idler mem* of defence. De the trials, convic..' tine., and incatioa of the Derbyshire Rietos s ; • nester In , jonotrOd: - Oilt"ii;iti kin (Wilt at times persons might bojesisd to the Spy Sla lom, call for a Bail of lodem elty, or how cola lath riots or their WOE supply the least pretest for itittrrisonment without trial? Warrants, it is ad mitted by this Report, were issued against fifth-foor persons; of those, ten were sever taken ; of the re maining forty-four, seven were discharged after es. atniaatioa ; thirty-seven were imprisoned ; sad of those, one (who is described in the Report as having died in prison), we have reason to believe, was so berror-strock at the appearance of an indeterminste incarceration without trial, that be destroyed himself hi York Jail. Merit is taken, because these un fortunate men were imprisoned upon oath. On whose oath is not said. Now, if Ministers were unable to judge of the propriety, or of the adequacy of the evidence to ensure conviction.--and that not with re spect to one or two, but with respect to a large pro-i portion of the Prisoners; bow can it be conceded that they were competent to appreciate justly the evident* open which they bad committed the whole to prison,. Wkhout daring subsequently to bring them to trial? The Roped in the Commons is expected to be jade to-might. • .1 French Papers to the elst instant have arrived.— They are still wonderfully silent on the subject of the . Dike of WetztuoTON's dangers. But some pointed jokiest' getting into rhyme in Paris an the repotted attempt. btarsitak NAcbOttALD Is eapectpd io make the Repeat es the ReCreitaperst Project to' t) House of Poore. The.:Roport the Deputies on the 10welet wilresoo Wouillsrl& *it Ghastlier, the Re. petters being appointed . for •thit perpese. Tho vial of BlettileAU, who has so strangely puzzled the ROURSoII Courts by hii preteosions to the title of Dauphin, has nearly reached its termioation. Oa the 17th, the concluded by moving, that poor MAvir:onittilst sentenced, as welt as hit accomplices, Tovar. 4 l Mid Munson, to five years' imprisonmeot t , to be placed. at the disposal of Government at the termination of that period, and to pay a bee of 3000 (rants. On the 18th, Rau . matt baling chosen Or fauna so Advocate, and re. fusing to defend himself, Counsel were heard in be.' half of TonaLe sad Ritunzon, and the judgment' of the Court was szed for the 19th. In the meta l tioilleeether caedidete for the honours of the Bova.] ~son title is said to haw attempted to play the same Oat Oe . the 18th, a welt-dressed person, of a very igirid s mein, sad tall stature, apparently about . 30yeers of ege t went into the Theilleries, and fot-; lowharghe ma ots, who were carrying in the King's dieser, bad Dearly got into the dining-ball before he was stopped. ." He called himself CHAttLas of NA. %tans, and insisted on speaking to the King. They brought him before the Doke of BELLuxo, the Ge. neral on del, who sent him to the Prefecture of Po lice, front whom he has since bees sent to Chafes ton, the Bedlam of Paris. Arroonats from Madrid @siert, that a new and con! siderable Expedition Is preparlas against the Sonth American Independents, and hairs are confidently expressed that the may and ill.constrocted ships lately parebased from Hassle will restore the su premacy of the Spanish ftag on the seas ow swarming with the Patriot cruisers. A Mail from Flanders has also arrived. the Premium Government has made a mew regulation, according to which no *gavotte, will be admitted into Prussia ‘y means of passports delivered or signed by Consuls established io foreign countries; and that be cannot pass the frontiers soless he be, provided *kb a passport delivered or signed by the i Legation of his Prussian Majesty residing in the country from which he canes. Letters k', been received from Bruns Ayres to Ylit Member. Every thing is represented es being is a most prosperous stale, the Finances of the wintry had revived, and the present Admieistration wu in theta!! confidence of the inhabitants. Asa set-off for the advantage said to ban been gained by the Royalists, and celebrated In Metlee with illuminations, it is now confidently reported that General Oswego, With 400 men, was captared. by Beenos Ayres &risers, in the South Sen t oft his THE -sIATIMAN: any op to Talcipasso. Ptevious'aecooom had been re:oo6d, that it was lb. loteatioo df the fAllaYieeroir to semi op the above officer, id order to attempt a secooktlme the conquest of Chili ; though in doing this, be was obliged to leave the Peruvian Capital with ally a garrison of 600 men. By the Leeward Island Mail ertiveci tetterday, [44th Letters from Trinidad to Ist Jsnsaryi end from ~l i ogastem to 18th December, it appears trite that a battle had been fought between Gonerel teller/land , tbe Reyalists.though, as uteihilltifietter have greatly serrated their sootalle• • The Blood-money System, which has emitted so 'mach honk, is not yet, we regret to perceive, at ao end, though molt humane efforts are malting in end out of revilement to check this, perhaps, wont of pll cruses.—Tile Reader will find kr seethes column of oar Paper the particelars of another discovery of Vdeliberate deprie'', in this department of guilt, and et the rationale arrest of the punishment, it is be. •of two victims to thie nefarious system. It was by the penetration and active benevoleeee of Aldermen WOOD that theatrecioutectllatakebt 10 14 took place some time ago between the Polite Officers (Druck, Pelham, and Potter), for the conviction of three poor Irishmen for coining', was discovered and defeated—it is also before Mr. WOOO, as the Chair moo of the Parliamentary Committee for enquiry in. to the stele of Newgate, that the new sad appalling revelation has been made. W. have e'ery reason to • belie,* the account, which we give as - folly lithe kn. penance of the subject demands, is froin an authentic source. If then this sanguinary practice of. mini,- ping perilous to guilt and to death is so widely and remorselessly persevered in, bow it it that we read of the extension of the Royal mercy to Convicted blood-hounds of this class,--to villains covered with the most inhuman terpitade ?—The best feelings of the public have been shocked and outraged at the pardon given to the wretches who were convicted by a Jury of this infernal crime.— !f there were any palliative circumstances in the cases of these men, unknown to the Juries who tried them,' and te the Public, whose w and approved their verdicts, . they-ought to be explained and made public. With. out such explanation, horror and alarm will continue to pervade all ranks and classes of the community. Those men have been convicted of crimes which have no ,parallel in the black catalogue of human guilt— and these man are deemed prppec objects of Mercy, and deserviog of especial. favour and protection ! whilst the persons who stand up for the rights of the People, and the perky of the constltatioual laws, are subjected to fetters antlimprisonment ! The Paiuce REGENT and Decline of GLoucesTen relweesdlo L. doe ow lenday referring from Windsor. • Yesterday, about three o'clock, her MASIISTY, ac companied by the Princesses AUGUSTA and ELIZA.. arrived at the Queen's Palace from Windsor, where they were received by the' Duke or CLAINNCE 1 and the Duchess of Gtouuestau. The Dukes of YORK and Susses soon after- paid their respects.te their Royal Mother and sisters. The Duchess of -You= abe arrived in town from °attends. Yesterday, the Prince of Hesse•Heateuao received vhiks from the Archbishop of CANTEIMURY, the Dike of CLARENCE, Bishop Of LONDON, Viscount CASTLEREAGII, EarISPENCER,Und Earl WHITWORTII; and tis Serene Highness afterwards pad some visite. '• At four o'clock he went to the Queen's Palace to visit her MAJESTY and the Prinellisnt Auouvre end EIINAIRTH. In tke evening he dined with the hihrsieis Of HIRT/ORD, where be met the PRINCE URGENT. • Yesterday, dispatches were received at FAIT' BA. - -eitunse's otilce from Sir HUDSON Low*, at St. Ile- Awn. The Duke if CLARenCE has received on Savant of the death if the gallant Captain FITZCLARENCE, his eldest son. A rumour was circulated yesterday morning ell over towil,Ablit her MAJESTYIeati been taken and. denly ill in the night. Nay, some accounts went further. These reports were soon proved to be to -Silly void of foundation; and shoot. three o'clock bet .141AJESTraltne to town, and will remain till after the Drawing-room. • We are requested to state, that the name of the 'Foremen of the Grand Jury, whose presentment we Oslo yesterday, is TUOINAS GLOVER, tint Jens G Loves. • 'A silted !Isla of an earthquake was felt tut wdek teem out side of the county of Lincoln to the Whor l ; and @Mewled 'across Iloldernees. It is singular to' ramerk, iheethie is the second shock which hes been esperieseed in that coesty within the specs of twelve , months.. In some pieces the noise was aid a buttery of cannon was discharged. In Ifoldernees it rum , bled the clattering of carts and waggons driven with great haste along the road. It would appear that Btsn's Tickets and Sheres.in the present Lottery, are travelling' after die Iftlies .40 sold in the last ; for not only is the demand at his ogees is Luedoe great, Devoid all precedent, but . his Agents throughout the kingdom are equally busy. The Lottery will begin Drawing on Wednes• day, the 4th of Neat Mouth, on which day nearly 5000 Tickets Will be drawn, etch Number deciding its own fate, end no other. By the arrangement made, ten Capitals out of the one hundred, whit% the Scheme contains, must be dteon in 'the first ten senates, 'idolise of what the chance of the Wheel may aftertarde bring forth. This natotally accounts for the eagerness of adventurers to mike their per. chases before the Drawing commences, test the whole of the Three Prises of £30,000 should be drawn the Iritsit Day. One of the Prisoners as the list tot trial et tht Old- Dailey, yesterday made an attempt to cut his throat in the morels* hs Newgete,-bet he was pre vented from completing his purpose. Ilia" trial is Postponed until coat Session. .L. _. SPORTING INTELLIGENu R. STATER%T OF THE ODDS 0* THE bEREY ASO . °AIM rrAitEs. ace:--Fsa. 1:4101B1r. la In 110 toll by Waxy, oat of 5111toalet. 11} I* 1 wit liscutor i out of Iforaby Las. taken 1 t to 1 apt colt by Orville. •Lt of Alltgterta: 11 to 1 sot Brother lo Crecy. 14 to 144 cop by Wooty, mil or Ringtail. Is to 1 agst colt by Seyiikuoti unt btlftotalioa: ' OAKS. l'attie 5 lb I'Bo LAO ; by Waxy. lb to 1 againit aoy usher: EIDDLFSVrOaTFI ttAkRS. 5 to 1 apt Bioillee to Ctecy. 56 to 1 art Dictator, 7 to 1 opt 4.alt by Waxy. Oat of ithitat Total 76 to 1 salt Hartaioa. oil of lakaciabiag Oa; g to 1 apt Suter to Plotter. itid'alt:lNrg L G IGENCt • . Datiejai.l.l.-;Arriied snd tailed for the Ricer; the Providence, Toy, from Leghoin Alblow, Reed. from ditto; Elizabeth, - INN fromWerpaol; add Jo: seph, *ikon, from fitinebeadi for Sunderland; the lat: ter remains wind homed.—taint doslit from the Ririe theZeplsyr. Hewed, for Gibialter.—Pot back again lbaSasahisliiiriondi Sl.Tliontaissi and Wailes in 4110- *kb --Site lie!". frigate, pa Jaye' Thomson, 4oi- Batavia. - .‘ • "- RAIISGATR ia Fan. 23:--TllO Strhannee„ Lindbtiorof of Stockholm, from Hainbarith (Or Lisbodi whit *beat, 'was lost on the Kentish Knock, on the ihotoinic of the 21st instant; the master and Crew wesp taken off the wee& by Captain A. Smith, ot the sloop Hoop, and landed here this di?. HARWICH ' Fee. ti2l .-The of and front Welds, for London, coal laden, aas abandoned at tare o'hiork this rnoreing on the - Middle Sound, but has since been got off anti brought Into ibis barbooe by threo smacks. PORTSMOUTH, rat. 4J.—Arrived the brig Eliza beth, Sopen. from Gibraltar for Poole, with a cargd of salt, and hat been pet tender 4oarantine.—The collies brig, Mentioned in yesterday's letter as being on shot. et Sallyport, has bees got of without da: ono, add has come into this harbour. Lircarttot. ran. 22.—Arrived the Neptene. Wade..frosit.Rio Janeiro in 70 dais. (in the 18th inst. in tat. 48. 45. long. 14. 30. spoke the Betsey, Smith. Gem this - Port for Rio Janeiro, and fiber. nisi, Brown, from New Orleans : sailed Jan. 4, and from Belize Jas. 11 ; on the 17th inst. of Mites IHead. spore the Sown, Reeling, from this Port, for Charleston. WIIATBY, JAN. 23.—Yesterday the 1 2 ,141660% of Sunderland, coal laden, got on the Rock °abide of this harborn, bat was shortly gut off and proceeded. The Lsdy flanks, Walker, boodd to Madras, owl drivers on shore yesterday near Gravesend. ,~ LIVERPOOL hi EICTI 1161.--• lASI weeki a Ilequisitiott respectably signed, lass handed to the Mayor, rem questing him to call a Publichleeting, fot the purpose of opposing any Dill of Indemnity which Ministers may seek, for their late enconslitotional and over's , oleo conchs& ; time to crmvidee of the privets" of pea titionieg the legislator* upon the " one thing nee& fel t " Without which t all other legislative measures are of little avail;-we mean Reform in the ;absurd stated per Representation. The Mayor has thought proper to decline complying with the regulation ; but we treat that theoequisitionists *ingot safer the 1 veto of any Mayor to intrtfere with (belt wishes. They, ire indeed, deprived Of tholes! of the Towns ball, "thick ought to belong to the bergesses at forge; —bet they cam meet elsewhere, as they bate done before. We should indeed be cootemptibie, were we to depend open the and of any Mayor ,for the our. the of the greet coostitothroal privilege of meeting to state oar grietancet and ergs oet remonstrances. We 'wiled to find (bat the Counnon Council of London ere shoat to meet on the some !object, very soon.; tad comma feel any objection op the score of etiquette that they should, as meal, take the lead.-' ( LlVerp:oi Mercury.) A young women, elegantly dressed i has been brought by Habeas Corpus from Bristol to Lestea d and committed to Horsham jail, for trial at the eu , suing Assizes, on a duo of bigsety. Tie very great satiefactitm the plan adopted in former Lotteries gave to persons residing in the Country, hes induced 'l'. Base, the Contractor, to repeat it in the present ; and he hopes he his, as in a recent Lottery. selected tome of the dapitals amongst those Nembers advettised.-'The under. mentioned Nembers may be had, either in whole Tickets,' Halves, (leaden, Eighths, or Sizteretbs, at No. 4f, Cornhill :-.; 12„tw 1 163121 16455 -1.4/2 I 1920 174 6' , " i9l 6. 11.4518 9.121 17.951 , .11.196 16,47 16.057 2.814 11.121 - . •/I 43.9041 19;42 Mite! 8,325 2.157 u,456 1 /6.21.1 /5,041 11,122 2,110 . The ktilowistgNiumbers may be had either in *hold Tickets, Halves, gearters, Eighths, or Sieteenthsf at N 0.9, Charing cross I— • 10914 f 12.321 11,49(1 4.608 13.553 , • 19.23 1 1 10.115 4,611 11,123 7. 415 I . 16,069 17,291 3,002 I€l 671 8.483 Volt 16.090 I 1 10.11) II a* 3. 1 3 t • %oil 13,235 1 11,459 3,122 1 2,816 . „ The. present Lottery contains Three Prig•s of 00,0011,—One 11eadted Capftels,—all Sterling Mosey,—no Stock Prises,--7-ao Claises,—eo re. drawing: The Drawing cotemeoces Witexastun, the dib of Ma cB. • PRESENT PRICE. - Ti. feet fter, .. 4llO 9 111 Beale It is 6 Qaora : 5 5 0 1 noisome *** Letters (pest paid) containing Dank Moto, or Post-Olfice Orders, duly attended to. The Wit Lottery that contained Tbtee Prises of t 30,000, Hint geld them Ail and tan Lottery be sold Three Prises of 220,000, sit iff Sbaresi levsnitaer of HAITCR A tee Metterista.-6-At three o'clock this morning the workmen begin to dig the hole, in (he ground et Ow top of Neopte •street, in which She mangled twatains of this sisedoe sod suicide were to be Defied., sad et bait-past eight he Ina throne from a bootie the cart into the &At, feardowewards, with tie tiger ilia Which he Oerpo• Plod the horrid acts sespsoded to kis *wk. A. eentbee of periens witeeseed the stigleafiltiell we.; ; Imlay, emend% littheitale time, the ctiso be 144 'tigsseltSet, •, c• 4 I 1 . T Z, i i . i