The Statesman. — London, England, 1810-01-30 00:00:00

THE SYIATESMAN. - - . 7'IIEITILE 11014 L, COVENT 61,1RDEN. To-morrow Preninz, THE JEALOUS WIFE. Mr. Oakley, Mr. YooNG.-- Major Oakley; Mr. Conic. . Mrs. OaLity. hir%. C. Kasatt. After wbiels will he performed tite new Comic Pantomime of HARLEQUIN BEDL Alt ; or, Tut; HATINTED WELL. A n'w Mit,icxl Drama. its 3 Acts, interspersed wit'd music, fl!edTne Free Kitietts, ur The Edict of Ckarlesuagust, i, iu rehear-Al. •.• Places ter tie Bowe; to be taken of Ir. Brandon, at the Hoi-eire in Hart-street. Boxes, is; Pit, :id 61; Lower GAL 9.6. ; Upper GAIL Is. PROPOSITI TEMAZ. LO NDO N : • TerFDAY, JANUARY 30. WLNT. CO•RLSb I. %WIT. —ll.lidiry ea the Public-Offices. PAINCE STUlRexasnr sailed from Dover, for Frinee,y,csterday morning. " DOVER, JAN. 29. c' The Austrian Ambassador, Prince ST•Hatissi.nc, and " wilt, arrived here on Saturday, and this morning, at thrve " A. M. embarked on board the Elizabeth, which ilim " diately sailed fur France." If the protractiefesidence of this Ilhntriuus Personage in London, was fur the purpose of fa eilit.iting the negotiation between France auil England, it shonld seem that all hope of peace is at at; end. It is the only conclusion tint can be ration say drawn ; for it is difficult to believe that the communication of Prince STAIIIIEMBERG with the respective Governoicots, cquld greatly promote the (fraud object,. were NArotEoN and the Pritish Ministry mutually sincere In the desire of. Peace. To us it appears Trident that the )repel Zuperor conceives the entire susitigatiOU of thaVeninsula, an indispensible preliminary to negotiation, inasmuch as the present Ministry, shackled by their Pretty with FettolNANft VII., feel themsekes bound to throw the stumiAitig-block of itis recognition in the way of every negoiiitioe . . Thy time will, however, arrive, when the com plete possessive of the Peninsula, by the French envier, wilt render the propo‘3l of acknow lefties the independence of Spa;n as absurd as would he our insisting n " - IT-establish. slight or I,ord Mtwto as Viceroy of Corsica, pint th. « Consgtation" which he carried with bite . to that Island. NAPOLI:Om ie sup rod to be ogi Ike eye, of depnttire fur Spain— . „, db. - Trench armee ors from every quarter di. vim tiwis waqh tg ereo4cs, sn notyith. standing all that we have heard and iontinue to I bear of the Junta, the Cortex, Lord WELLING TON, Sir &HI. WiLSON and his. Portuguese Levy— our anticipation is, that the force with which NAPOLEON once more enters the Peninsula will be found so decidedlypredominant, that the effubion of human blood will be unnecessary—for there will be, comparatively, no resistance. That a petty warfare may for years subsist—that Spain may bean expensive conquest—is nut improbable; —but NAPOLEON will, in Our opinion, infallibly reduce alb Peninsula in the ensuing campaign— which he is not commencing at an "advanced season of the .year." He is not a man to begin a day's labour in the afternoon. The dispatches of our Generals have been filled with complaints of the want of provisions—of tho deficiency of the means of transporting cannon and am munition--of the badness of the cliniate-- in short, every thing has been adverse. Let us see whether the progress of the French ar mies, who must transport every requisite article by land, is for one day arrested by any of those formidable, nay, to us, insurmountable obstacles. But Portugal is certainly tenable! Is it so ? We should be very sorry to underwrite a policy, in. luring the presence of a British regiment in the Peninsula nine months hence. There has ever been some difficulty....-some stumbliug-block in the way of Peace. The inde pendence of Spain is the present difficulty...which NAPOLEON, in less than six months, will elf/dually remove---Well, says NAPOLEON, you cannot aqy longer hate the assurance to talk of the indepen. deuce of Spain---will you treat now ? Such, to Ili, appears the real state of the case. Tuxne was a certain Law-giver who enacted laws, of w hich the special observance of the peo ple was commanded. The code, written in a small character, was affixed against a pillar at such an height that they were illegible, but those who of fended against the law were, notwithstanding, pu. nished. With equal reason and justice, are thu Par liamentary Reporters condemned for misrepresent ing the speeches of some, and tho far greater crime of omitting, or even shortening, those of others. It must excite astonishment in the mind of every Member of the House of Commons, knowing, as he must, the paNsical difficulties which are interposed by the forms of the House, that speeches can be reported with such general accuracy. Let any Member of that Honourable House try. to .report his speech, and see what sJrt of a hand ho will make of it. If public reports of what passes in the House of Com mons be admitted to be necessary, why not aftOni the aceewary facilities to those who are dammed to a task irksome and laborious beyond precedent or calculation ? The motion of thanks to Lord GAMBIER, fur his services in Basque Roads, which was to have been proposed last night in the House of Lords, was deferred until Thursday, on account of the nou-attendance of Lord Mousaavt. His Lord ship's absence was occasioned by the death of Mr. MALLING (Lady Mut.Gaavt's father,) who was one of the Commissionertof Excise. Mr. HUNT was the Private Secretary of Earl i CHATHAM, when First Lord of the Admiralty ; his Lsrdshiptfterwards made him a Commissioner of Victualling,, and subsequently appoiuted him Treasurer of the Ordnane.e. Ou the PERSIAN AMMAR_ * ,_. _lO to the i . i b i . ‘l I Prince of WALLS the other da Atiaißoyal High. Ac ea tics, presented him with a very eats' and cu. riot's clock, invented by the celebrated Mr. Cox. GREVE, in which the time is measured by the mo tion of a small Pisan; ball. Mr. SALT, Secretary to Lord ,VALENTIA, who is gone en a special commission to Abyssinia, ar. rived at Mozambique on tho 25th of August. Mr. SALT left Mozambique on the 16th Sept. fur the Red Sea. • .. CoNJUNCTIONS 011/4 1 / 4 1TICAL PLANETS.—At the Court on the Rettzres Birth-day, Mr. CAN NING was jammed itke corner with Lord CASTLE. I LAGU, and LOOICOS*RANE and Lord GAMBIEII • .0 . were squeezed together. The India Company, we understand, are in pos session of a very long dispatch from Lord Minto, reciting, at full length, all the particulars, with the names of the enfo . rtunate iudividuals who have offended ;. hut they intend to let no part of it transpire, until they receive further advice' from Madras. The names of 30 vessels were posted at Luio's, yeclerday morning, as being at Quebec on the was of November, and not expected tort away in cuusequence of the ice. A duel was fought 'on Saturday at Kemming's Grove, on the Watford road, betwixt a Gentle. man of the name of Duboy, and a Capt. Smith, in which the latter was dangerously wounded. The family of the young Nobleman who is mis. sing, are truly distressed at his non-appearance, and aro sadly doubtful as to his safety. The young Gentleman, it is said, was much attached to a Laxly to whom he wished to offer his hand; but his father, not approving of the match, has withal). pity been the cause of his absenting himself. • The utmost reserve and caution are observed by the East Indira Newspapers in making pithily's, lions respecting the late disturbenees : 'limiting is given hut in an official shape from authority. Beside the privateer taken 'last week by the Brisk sloop of wait, there arc others cost from St. Melees. A yessel is arrived at Greenpck from Ncw York. She brought dispatches from Mlii/Aft. ‘ SUN . She saitcd en the 11.0. or 4,7 th of laikt rsi,oo4 'AM L : INTELLIGENCE. -e,r1000" Poarssiorrn, Jaw t ,lM.n-Arrived the Faint, Captain Allen, from Deptford. , Sailed the Crane and Centhiel gan-beigs, for the Eastward and the Vestal sloop of war, with Mr. Stewart, Aasbassiider far Lisbon, on board. F./anon:is. JAN. 27.—Arrinid the Eliza, French sloop, lades) with planks, taken by a Ran-hric of the Isle de Bos. Sailtql the Termagant and Shearwater, with about 40 sail, for Portugal. Spain, and. the Mediterranean; his Majesty's sloop Philomel; on a cruize ; Prince of Wales packet, Capt. Kirktum, fur Lisboa. GRAVESEND, JAN. 29.--Arrived the Expedition, Copely k from Heligoland. Sailed the Catherine and Caroline, Harmor, for Cadiz ; George, Johnson, for Li bolt; and the Orion, Evans, for Dublin. I , ~ta~~ was proposed to appiiiht a Committee for the pur loose of devising merot tes to secure the attainintint of their object. A ti.t of fifteen Gentlemen was otteoralint,ly read over as eligible to form this Coin ',titles. On reading the same of Mr. Rowcroft, that Gentleman begged to deciisse the honour in tended him, as he had ow yet made tip his mind on the subjer:t of the proposed institution. He could easily conceive a Company of this nature being very advantageous to trade, although it might be injurious to the interest of some '.Gentlemen around him. That the Company to which the Resolutions referred, was of that nature which he could approve, he was not prepared to say ; but yet, as 1w was not acqitainted with it, lie wished to suspend his judgment respecting its eligibility, and therefore would deem it ine.onsistent to become a member of ally hotly e9ecially appointed to op. pope it. The wish of Mr. Rowcroft was acceded to, and his name immediately cancelled. Mr. Woon approval of the Company to which the Resolutions referred, being of opinion that it would be pro,luctive of much good to the commer cial world, without doing any injury to the lac rests of that House or its Members. Mr. B. SHAW spoke strongly in favour of the Resolutions. lie cautioned the Meeting to be particularly careful in selecting the Members of this Committee, as many important Members of that House, including some of those who formed the Committee for managing its concerns, were known to have Shares in the proposed Company. Mr. IIA 1.1.11)1y followed On the same side. Upon Mr. MA [MYATT'S name being proposed as one of the Committee, that gentleman expressed his regret, that being under the necessity, as a Member of the house of Coinnions, to attend to Committees of that House, he could not became an efficient Member of this Committee, and re. ()nested, therefore, that his name might be omitted. Toe Hun. Gentleman, however, declared, that he wort anxiously wished success to that object which the resolutions had in view, pledging himself to appose his utmost efforts to the measure referred to in all its stages. To the principle of chartered companies he prof'ossed himself decidedly hostile. A chartered company was, in his judgment, generally an evil, because it interfered with the rights of it ttluaa ; but in the instance which , e ase ri.e t•i this meeting, it was particularly to be ttepr, called as an evil, because it would interfere with a positive good, namely, with the interests of that 11ouw, to Which lie was strongly atached, pot only from a recollection of the property which he had derived from it, and from a regard to the majority of its members, but from a conviction of the patriotism and public spirit, the loyalty and liberality which belonged to it, and which it had on all occasions so signally displayed. This at tachment Ito would endeavour to evince by his UM fur their cause upon this occasion. Mr. fllarryatt was repeatedly cheered, and ano. 'her name WAS substituted for his upon the Cool. After the Committee was-completed, the Chair man and Mover of the Revolutions were thanked, ant i t h e Meeting dissolved. . A-live:l. Malls. Doe. 1 t Dublin u . W•ierford • . ••• 3 1 0 THE ORDNANCE. A report has been prevalent, for some days, that Mr. HUNT, the Treasurer of the Ordnance, was a defaulter to a considerable amount. This report furnishes anew instance of thu weakness of Minis. tars, and is, we are happy to say, totally dustitute of foundation. The following are, we understand, the circumstances of the case :—Mr. PititCEYAL, some days since, received as anonymous letter, stat ing, that Mr. HUNT was a defaulter to the amount of t 50,0001. The natural inference was, that thelet tor came from some private enemy of Mr. BUNT, 'who sought to do him an injury. or derive some ad vantage by his removal from office. It made, how. ever, an impression on Mr. PERCEYLOS mind, and he communicated the contents to Mr. ASHLEY COWPER, the Clerk of the Ordnance, and sum. , atoned a Board for Tuesday, at which Mr. HUNT was requested to attend. Mr. HUNT attended before the Board met, and was received by Mr. COWPER, who communicated to him the purpose fur which the Board was summoned; but Mr. IIuNT, indignant at the treatment which he had received, epee the mere suggestion of an anonymous scribbler, immediately left the office, and sent in his resignation. At that time there was 280,0001. of the money of the Ordnance in the Bank, and the Board thought it adviseablc, as a measure of precaution, to give notice to the Bank to suspend its payments; and they accord ingly did remain suspended until Thursday, by which time it was ascertained, that the charge in the anonymous letter was without foundation. The boasted demolition of the docks and arse nal of Flushing amounts only to this, that the gates by which the great basun was formed sod secured, with the piles which surrounded it, have been destroyed and removed, and that the interior of the arsenal has been blown up ; but the prin cipal walls of the latter are still standing. During two months of fine weather, the whole of the damage done to the forts, docks, and arsenal, on the final evacuation of Welchem', can be com pletely repaired. No account has been received of the missing ships in the homeward-bound Jamaica and Leeward Island convoys, that sullered in the hurricane of the 27th of August last. There is every reason to fear they must have foundered. A person who lately held a situation of public trust, has been in custody some days on a charge . of capital felony. The charge against him is for an offence, which he was employed by a concern of the greati-st magnitude to detect. It must have been highly gratifying to Lord CASTLEREAGH ) milli' return to that side which he ought never taltave abandoned, to find that his weight had turned the scale against his former col. leagues ; and it was perhaps no mortification to him to discover that the plotter and contriver of his disgrace had calculated so erroneously the re. salt of that night's division, as to be found with hit little senate of feeble amateurs in the ranks of a Ministry which be had quitted, contending in a heeled minority in a . lloe, by underhand arts, an inquiry which tlisither he nor any one else had the boldness openly to oppose. Nothing indeed was wanting to complete the contrast between Mr. CANNING and Lord CASTLEREAGII since their quarrel, except the votes which they respectively gave on Friday last. On Sunday afternoon, a gentleman, wbo was skaiting on the Serpentine River, had the misfur. tuna to fall into a hole which was broken, near the carriage road, on the North side ; he disap peared for a moment, and came,up again, whin he supported himself by laying hold of the ice, and in this situation called loudly for assistance. The skaitors, however, dreaded to approach him, uutil a gentleman, at the hazard of his life, skaited. to the -oory tsdge, and, by holding out his stick, saved hit fello* skaiter. w o was so iiilerZttittstvd . as to, be carried to Kensington for assistance. 'Elie spec tators were truly entities for the fate of both the gentlemen, until they . observed the exertiqua; and humanity of the former crowned with success; The ponds in St. James's and the Grant Parks are again frozen over, and crowds of skaiters ap peared yesterday on each. , The Bath and West of England Agricultural Society, in a late report on the subject of Wool, have stated, that they have for two or more suc. cessive years fonlid, that wool from a cross be. tween the original Merino ram and Rycland ewes, and from their 'posterity variously intermixed for several generations, without any further recurrence to the pure breed, has, iq every instance in which the trial has been mad4,prpcluced cloth and im seym.ere finer than those ,ntitinfactured from the most noted Spanish Piles, tor the express purpose of oinoposi lion. Thc ream of the delivery of letters from the Post.uffice yesterday being later than usual, was owing to the vast number of order's far Tickets and Shares from All parts of the country. Indeed the Seheine of the present Lottery is extremely popular, owing to these,boing only 5,000 numbers and 5,000 prizes, atm, .foresecing that, early laid in a great variety of Tickets, that the public Odic:m.lM considers, his bast friends') may be sup. plied, at 4, Cortikill, and 9, Charing-cruse; where eight of the principal , Capitals intim last Lottery lere said . iq Slam, . CELEBRATION4MA liVirantra, • GLASGOW. JeN. 25. • Yesterday, niuety-nne Gentlessna Great Ball of the Black. Bull Ina here , in of the Birth-day of Mr. Fox ; Sir John M int of Pollock, Bart. in the Chair. Nationst"4 patriotic airs by an instrumental band, a n d lest appropriate songs enlivened the comeeleit Of the evening. It was resolved, that th o p • of Constitutional Principles in Glasgo w I/ 4 neighbourhood, should dine annually on t h e day. Among many excellent toasts, w o remi sill o rto the following— • The King. The glorious aad iramartarMeraory of Chu. Prince of Wales. g loit The Navy. The Army, and may its valour never be frustrated by The incapacity. YIP The H louse of llanover, and may they never forget th e ciples which seated them motile 'throw. The Rights of the People, which Mr. Fox spent by , in ilefeudiug. The Cause for which Hampden bled In th e R e id , mmi gli Lisec on the sestrate. The Sovereignty of the People. The Liberty of the Press. The Man who dares be honest in the must of ti.,, Magog Cbarta, and may the Nobility ever m a d n il tritest interest in prutecting the rights of the peopl e . A speedy, hononrable, and lasting Peace, Lord Grenville , and may the kinOom saw b etr a y mild by his liberal policy to the Catholics. Pee Grey, and may Presbyterians soon be per i defend the State, without reautio:ing their Church. The Memory of General Moore. General Ferguson, and victories without convention. The Itose; the Thistle, and the Shamrock. The Duke of Bedford, and the speedy retarn of heal Government to Ireland. The Duke of Norfolk, mut the Whig, of Englad. The Marquis of Douglas, and our friends who eel& the day iu the Scottish capital. The Doke of Argyll, and the principles of his aja i r House. Lord Archibald Hamilton, and the iddepende a t holders of this widy. Mr. Ponsouby, and the Whigs of Ireland. Mr. Whitbread, and the efectual pumishamt of pe ta l tion. Colonel Wardle, and his minority, and may it seas be majority. Lord Holland, and may he represent the principles of immortal Relative. - Lord Erskine and the Trial by Jury. The memory o f Wallace, and may our countrymen cherish the cause in which he bled. Lord Lauderdale, and a reform of oar India syste m . • The memory of Professor Miller, and may Coasta l * principles ever distinguish the Scottish Universities. Alderman Collte, and the City of Loudon. The memory of Beek ford, and the Subjects' right of Pe, 'rite memory of IYashington, and amity between tie., two free nations of the world. The revival and triumph of Spanish liberty. Clerk of 'Odin, the inventor of the Naval manmerre d breaking the line, and may British science ever glad e l iteS4 valour. Sir Samuel Romiily. and the independence of the Bar. The memory of Francis Doke of Bedford. The memory of Fletcher of Saltoun. Lord Folkestone, and the Freehulders of Berkshire. LAW INTE L LIG ENC E. COURT OF KING'S BENCH., 51coroLT,JANA .~ ;., ~. ATToaNiES. In a case where an ;Wolin.) , lard issued (mirk. ccss whilst he himself was a prisoner conhind Newgate, the Court made the rule absolute tuts striking him WI from the list of the ilituruies this Court, pursuant to the statute iu that cats. made and provided. In another case, Mr. ifora,acx rndsed for rule, calling upon an Attorney to sheer tweak), he should nut return the sum of 1.1. teethes . .with a promissory note for 311. which he with,. held. The circumstance* of the case wets m :—The person fur whom tho applicatim. was made, had owed a person 3-11. fur: which Is. gave the promissory note in qnestion ; bet hat., ing paid it by cash and goods, at .different he neglected to take it up. About the middle frt, October last, however, he feund himself arriMai i by another person fur the salmi note, and wig* person turned out to be the Attorney NOS! whom this application was made; whereof)* Ni accompanied the Officer to his house, whet** acquainted him that he had paid the; fore to the person to whom he had given the Attorney answered, that ho had the hiligienlf to him in payment of a debt from Anet.irttap and that he must immediately diaeharalkiili oa . to prison.. The poor man, who had no o.t,lnn.pre/ perty but a waggon ani: four horses, Ity:sideb s Ail ii_carrier, he supported a large farsailu,mlketo tan go to prisen immediately, .exeopt*d p.,1104, l ** of tbo waggon and. hnrpep dey, who forthwith took theta.; having woes sa valuation upon the* at 541. paid himpttlf tart the amount of the bill,. and 141. cots . , 414104 unfortunate man that there *was only Al.. cpnibi4: ti) him ; but even that he his pot,thongbt fit, ton give, him, though , h o at this loelant is in.pelanittlei and uses the waggon and bursas.—.Rule graMpl., t His Lordship proceeded to-hold the int fitollg ie TerM at Guildhall, where he arrived abfnallenf. trelOrke - 7r! ",.. • . . . A An early day, it is expected, will be appoiat.iit.o for the meeting of the Electors of Westmisstd, catt consider of a'Petition for ParliamentatigSfqrs'l " Sow endive this month, and it fill WO Inkt in February," says the careful gardener. " t Lottery Tickets this mouth, and they *Weigel up in February," says the more sagacious Moe' Stock. Exchange against Cuvent.garden atatbillml fur knowledge of the world, at any time. ALL FOURS is one of the oldest gams egg record, and by which large sums have been and lost ; but the New Game of ALL FOURS* now playing by all ranks of Persons—this DilmL Game was flint intredeced last year by dli F •T wen t y Thousand Pound Prizes being drawn' One. Day, and disided into Shaeilantapssllllllll l w Lie, Thus beneficial and entertaining Oast jagain be Played on nest/Talent ine's .1 - Aay, Feb. 14. i GANN, Twk• aundgoTbgsilad Po*nds. • DIED. .)r . Yesterday meesieg, at six O'elock, at his aparneililer James-street, Oqventzgardeu t kir. Adams, the ialitefif ° ILI Misses Adams, of Uovent-sarden; Through hii life. 464 ported the character o? a teak] worthy 111311 1 . his dei be long inottnled by Ilia (antik., and regretted by after , knew him. Saturday but. the Rev. Richard Aluoktiouse,.D. KJ ' . Itr,ul'' I of Wakefield. Six candidates, It is said, are gone Wilms' themselves at the preferment. at the feet of the .Patcosiage-kepeuipg Ur: fa . ' revel, to ebtfer . . LONDON t Printed tied Published by 17. Loin 1.1; Si 111 i bx . krifsesot Orfict i. bi, 'fleet-WA. .1