The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-01-17 00:00:00

Arr. Mails. Due. 1 0 O O C Guernsey 2 0 0 l'R ICE OF STOCKS THIS Hank 3 per Cent. Cons. 62ii !=s per. Cent. fir,!. 621 j 4 pet Cents. 78t 19 5 per Cent. Navy 941 e Ist:fig. Ann. 101 1-16 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Bonds Lis. ISs. pr. Exchequer Bills 3d. 3 4 pr. Ditto Sid. 4 6 pr. Omni= Consols for Acct. 624 Lottery Tickets ,ea 5 I`FIE STATESMAN. il LONDON: FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 181 S. -.00.-- r . The particulars of the loss of the St. George and the Defence, as given in an article from the Danish Papers, dated Copenhagen, the 31st ult. will be foiand in a preceding column. It appears that this me lancholy event took place on the 21th and 25th, off the coast of Jutland, and we lament to say, that of the two crews, consisting of 1380 men, not more than 18 escaped a watery grave. Twelve of these belonged to the St. George, which carried 850 men, and the other six to the Defence, the crew of which consisted of 530 m►eo. The whole of the Officers of both ships arc stated to have perished, The folrowing is a list of these gallant and ever.to-be,lamented men : Olken is the St. George—Admiral Reynolds ; Captain Cuirri; Lieutenants Napier, Place, Thompson, Brannel, Donee, Tristram, Riches, and Rogers; Tippett, Flag Lieute smut ; .1. Reit, Master; Mr. Heynes, Surgeon; William If. Lake, Chaplain; Mr. Saunders, Purser. °Seers in the Defence—David Atkins, Captain; Lieutenants 11. Baker, Perrot, Philpot, Nelson, and De Listle ; WA, Master; Nicholson, Parser. _ _ _ Ministers, we understand, have received the parti ,culars of this truly lamentable occurrence, which they will no doubt communicate to. the public as soon as possible. Meanwhile we learn from the I Danish Papers, that this melancholy and fatal acci dent originated in the adverse gales of wind which detained our fleet in Wingo Sound. The loss of the' Si. George arose from the circumstance of her having ler masts carried away off Lolland, whicb, though replaced by jury masts, rendered her less ma =gable in the subsequent tempest on Christ. mass day. The Danish account states, that the cabin of the St. George was seen from the const with people standing on it ; but this was more likely the cabin of the Defence, as the letters, received at the Admiralty, state, that the cabin of that ship had come on shore, and a great quantity of wlck had been picked up on different parts of the coast, where she was stranded. The total amount of the loss sustained by the country In these tremendous };ales, is three fine ships of the line, the Hero, the St. George, and the Defence, together with 1800 va luable lives ! Private letters, received yesterday by the Anholt Mil, confidently assert, that Peace between the Russians and Turks was signed en the 26th of No ) ember, in convenience of which the exchange at St, Petersborgh had risen to 9.0;. It is also stated, that a messenger had arrived with dispatches to our Go • ernment, communicatiug this intelligence. The peace, it is said in the private letters, 44 was accelerated by a destructive battle, in which the Turks were completely erthrown, having been first surrounded by the Rus inns. The Turks at last were so completely dismayed, that they surrendered themselves prisoners of war, to the number, according to the official report from the Russian General K eTesow, published at St. Peters- i burgh, of 35,000 men. The Russians beiug corn pletely in possession of the field of battle, found all the magazines and baggage, and took 56 pieces of Fannon. The news of this important victory was eunounced at st. Petersburgh on the Bth of Decem ber (old style). On this defeat of the Turks, they , f iltered to* accept those terms which they had pro, viously spurned ; and the signing of Preliminaries immediately followed." We do not believe that this preurrence will hate any effect upon the affairs of the Continent, althouila we kuow a notable use b., made of it by the Ministerial Journals.— We regard the report, brought by the Anholt of there being a prospect of a good un .lN.setroling between this country and Sweden, altogether unfounded. The Northern Powers s tow too well the physical strength of Bo: curative, :o ti.k the total loss of their dominions by engaging ia at,other contest ; and Great Britaig, they also knot % , is unable, from the present state of her finances, to &Herd them any pecuniary aid, ohould they again feel inclined to unsheath the sword. We have received the Dublin Papers of Tuesday ' 1 from which we es.tract the following articles respt,ting the Petition of the Protestant; of Ireland for Catliolle Emancipation " It had been recently intended, at the suggestion . pf some distinguished persons, to call County Meetings, to expressvtin opinions of the Protes- PP/i$ cat the great' faestion of Catholic Emancipa tion. We understand that course has been given tin for the Inferable pne of a Petition from the Protestants of Ireland—by which MetillS, the agi tation littentling large Meetings will be avoided, anti the sense of the property of Ireland will be rzpressed iu the most convincing. and unequivocal planner. A Petition has beets prepared for the pur. • pose ; it is moderate and judiciously drawn up; it 'voids eyery topic of irritation, and atom pleas .f FO ;my and politics. There can be ts 9 ) s I; i ' 1 .. t 1 ! .1 f . . ,- • i . ' I ' ~,.• i i . 1 i f• ° / j .. , i , + : I i' 1 ' : I ; i ' • I to ; 4• • I THE STATESMAN. doubt that it will emphatically speak the general sense of the landed and commercial property of the. rotestants, and, beyond any thing which has yet occurred, tend to harmonise the feelings of this country, and give confidence and security to the Empire. The first name to the above-mentioned Petition is that of the Right Hon. DAVID Lixoncur:, followed by the signatures of several others of that most respectable family. We have also observed the names of the Right HOD. HENRY GRATTAN, Lords MEATH and LISMORE, the BOR. JAMES BUTLER, &C." —(Correspondent.) " It was announced in the Dublin Evening Post of last Saturday, that a Petition to Parliament was circulated for the purpose of being signed by Pro testants, in favour of the claims of their Catholic countrymen. This statement has been denied with an illiberality of expression peculiar to one of the State Slanderers, whose virulence, like a gangrene, becomes more malignant by the lapse of years and the decay of nature ! It was stated that the Peti tions were signed by some of the most respectable Protestants in Dublin, and the statement is true. Even signatures of Gentlemen resident in the coun try, but possessing property in the city, have been received at this Office. It is impossible, at the pre ! sent late hour of the day (two o'clock), to insert all the signatures, but the following names appear at the head of the list :—DAvIn LA TOUCHE, P. LA TOUCHE, PETER DIORES LA TOUCHE, Lord Lis- MORE, HENRY GRATTAN, BUTLER, M. P. for Kilkenny, &c. &c."—(Dublin Evening Post ) A report haring gone abroad that Mrs. VERMIL• Low., of the Pear-tree public-house, where IVillions resided, had confessed that she participated in the guilt of that atrocious murderer, we have made inquiry respecting the matter, and hare ascer tained that there is no truth in de story. Mrs. VERMILLOE IS now at home at her own house, and no appearance of guilt attached to her. Hart, and the landlord of the Duke of Kent public-house, are to be privately examined this afternoon at Bow 'street. Last night, in the House of Commons, Mr. PER.• - ctvAL submitted his plan for the new arrangement of his MAJESTY'S Household. It will comprise 28 Officers, including four Lords of the Bed-cham ber, four Grooms of the Chamber, seven Equer ries, with the Groom of the Stole at its head, and in his absence, the Vice-Chamberlain. — The KING'S private property is to be invested in three Commissioners, one of them a Master in Chancery. The whole additional annual expense to the nation is estimated at 70,0001. The whole of his MAJESTY'S Household is to be under the controul of the QuREI. His Royal Highness the Prince of WALzs is to be allowed 100,0001. to reimburse his expenses as Regent, since he took upon him the du• ties of that office. There are accounts from France to the 6th inst. which state that reinforcements have been lately sent into Spain, consisting chiefly of Conscripts. Disparities were yesterday sent off for Cadiz, with propositions for adjusting the points in dispute be tween our Minister and the Spanish Government. A vessel has arrived at Londonderry from New York, after a short passage. We do not Lind that the least prospect is held out of any accommodation of the differences between Mr. FOSTER and Mr. Mostoe. • _ _ 111N715 FOR d NEW POLICE, --.11111.-- ' TO MR. SECRETARY RYDER. The system of Police ought to he organised upon! the principles of a silk or cotton mill ; from the head, like the great water wheel which moves the whole machinery, there should be a regular gradation of subordinates, all acting as checks upon each other, so that none of them could be deficient in duty, from the highest to the lowest, without instant detection. No rewards upon any account whatever ought to be given, or suffered to be taken, by any Police Officer. There should be three gradations from the Bench, equal to Serjeant, Corporal, and Private; but as mi , Mary terms are obnoxious to many people, they may be called Marshals, Surrogates, and Battoons, or Baton-men; a sufficient salary, according to their respective ranks, should be fixed, and the hope of ad. vancement, or fear of dismissal and punishment, !should be the only incentive to do their duty. In all affairs of the least consequence there should be one Surrogate of the party., and in matters of importance a Marshal also. The Magistrates (as a check) should occasionally examine the subordinates privately. All slang and impudent familiarity with the Bench must be instantly extinguished ; the same respect and distance must be observed as in the army with pri vates, corporals, and serjeants; the disgraceful in terference of thief-takers with the duty of the Ma gistrate has long been a scandalous reproach to Po lice Offices; in fact, it is them, and not the Magis trate, nine times out of ten, who decide! Can any thing be more contemptible, or can any man acorn- I mon sense expect those inferiors to do their duty faithfully, who assume the controul of the Bench ! The whole Police must be enjoined, upon all occa sions, to do their duty resolutely, but with the least possible violence ; and if any of them should be guilty of wanton outrage, be si.ou'd be suspended, degraded, or dismissed, and punished according to the nature and degree of the offence. Parties should be continually patrolling in every direction ; but each party confined to a particular district, that they might be readily found and in stantly assembled upon any emergency. No Marshal, Surrogate, or Battoon, to be per mitted to choose their jobs, or to hobble to a route, and make old Dowagers stare by repeating slang lan guage, or to beg at Christmas; but every man must be upon the alert, and ready to do his duty promptly cuu gratuitous(y against all offenders. All known thieves and receivers ought immediately to be taken up ; such of them as can be Lawfully ha ' sighed, to be immediately transported, either to the condemned regiments or to Botany Bay; the others to be kept at hard labour in solitary confinement, for such time as the Statute enacts, under a solemn as surance that if they are again found, in a week after their enlargement, without the means of an honest livelihood, that they will be remanded to their old quarters. Those diabolical haunts, known to be the resort of thieves, should be instantly shut up ; the house keepers threatened and attentively watched. No Police Magistrates should have any other avo cation; but devote the whole of his time to the du ties of his office. Finally, there mat be a Marshal-General, or grand head of the Police, but not a Minister of State ; he should have controul aver Police Magis trates only; to suspend, dismiss, or prosecute, upon evidence of misconduct; but he should not haz.v the smallest power, directly or indirectly, to appoint or even recommend either Magistrate, Marshal, Sur rogate, or Balloon. With these regulations, and such others as may occur in detail, we would very soon find climes di minish, and thieves almost annihilated. Gray's Inn, Jan.ls. betters were received yesterday from Virginia, which state trade to be exceedingly dull there, and the warehouses fall of goods, there being no vent for them. It is said that two ships of the line of the Scheldt fleet are manned and officered exclusively with Danes, who receive the pay of their own Government, which is very small, and the French pay also. BONAPARTIC, in his last visit to Antwerp, visited these ships, and wishin ,, to shew a particular mark of his favour to the ammodere, wrote to the Court of Denmark, to promote him to the rank of Admiral ; the request was,' however, refuse.!, as contrary to the etiquette ef the Dani , l navy ; but BONAPARTE found a remedy by making the person at once a Rear-Admiral of France ! The Danish crews are kept as much as possible distinct from the French,"having a landing place and watering-place appropriated to themselves. these measures are probably intended as precautions ' to prevent quarrelling: but it seems also that BONA PARTE studies to win the Dlues to his interest by a show of confidence as well as of favour. Letters from Newfoundland state, that the Mi. sierra frigate had been struck by lightning, which shattered the fore-topmast, top-gallant, and royal mast, struck a man overboard from the main-topsail yard, upset the Officer of the watch and two seamen, and killed a sheep on deck. The Topaz, lately arrived from the Mediterra nean, was dispatched by Admiral Sir Enwsan Pu.- Lrw, Bart. to Athens, there to take on board the va luable statues found near those, which she has brought home. This day Mr. RYDER will move for a Committee in the Commons, to take into consideration the pre sent Defective State of the Police of the Metropolis, and to report their opinion thereon to the Bostic. true bill was yesterday found against Beg/Min Walsh, at the Old Bailey, for felony, It is highly creditable to the courage of the female sex, that the greatest opposition recently made to house-breakers has proceeded from women. A tradesman in Ftertsittred, disposed tp profit by the existing . terror about murderers, has advertised throat preservers, which, be assures the Ladies, will be found no less oruamental than useful. These, it may be supposed, are in Imitation of the collars of tha Shepherds; dogs to SpOrs, which are copper, and iron spiked, to prevent doe weirs" f r mi fatteningon Hilary Term co mmences next Week, but the in the neek of those faithful animal., te restin g Term of Hilarity, begins at Nine o'clock If any addititional proof had been wanting of ti e on Tuesday Morning next, when the Grand Wheel ineffective state of tho the discovery a of Fortune will open and dispense 120,0001. in va- French knife, and other bloody appen4egee, round ried Capitals, and Prizes to Adventurers in the in Willie:nal' lodgings, upon a search, only within i present State Lottery; but as the Drawing begins so Ike lq4 OM fikVss !IlUst pleeitied "very decisive early in the Morning, no Tickets or quires can be one , I brought after neat Monday. PUBLICOLA. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 16. Arrived the Mars, of 71 gain, Captain Roper, from the Fliuhing fleet; andthe Fisgard frigate, Captain Mason, from the Baltic, last from the ?lore. Sailed the Goshawk. Captain Lilburn, on a cruise. Arrived the Hope, Captain Garrett ; and Cadmus, 18, Capt. Wynter, from a cruise. Came into harbour the Topaz frigate, Captain Harvey, leaky; and the Swan cutter is goye out. The Mediterranean convoy saih on Sunday. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 15. Sailed yesterday the Loire frigate to the Westward. Arrived the Ann, of Dartmouth, Weeks, from Waterford ; and Russell, Garland, also from the same place, both with pro visions; and the Aan, Jackson, from Prince Edward's Island, aith timber. The Helicon sloop of war is appointed to take the trade to Portsmouth. Arrived the Growler gun-brig from Basque Roads. SHEERNESS. Jan. 16. Arrived at the Nore, for the purpose of being paid, his Ma jesty's ship San Domingo, bearing the Sag or Sir Richard S tra than ; abo the Cossack, to refit. DEA,L, JAW. 16. Came down from the River the Adventure cutter, for St. Mi chael's; William and Mary, for Malta ; and the Flora, Wal ker, for Lisbon. Arrived his Majesty's ship Diligence, from the Baltic; and the Censor, from Norte Yarmouth. YARMOUTH, JAW. 16. Sailed yesterday his Majesty's ship Briseis, for the Nore; and to-day *e Princess of Wales cotter, for the oast of JutJuland, to endeavour to get some intelligence of the S c t. George d De , fence: OLD BAILEY. James Dixon stood indicted for maliciously shoot. ing at Anne, the wife of Richard Earl, in the month of December last. The Prosecutrix, it appeared, lodged in Clerkenwell, and on the night on which the offence was alleged to have been committed, she was washing in a back room, when the wadding of a gun or pistol passed through a pane of glass, and struck her on the breast. Terrified at the circum. stance, she immediately gave an alarm, and after a search of an hour it was discovered that the Prisoner had discharged a gun from a back window fronting that near which the Prosecutrix stood. On being interrogated as to the cause of his conduct, he said he had been shooting at cats, and had not the slight. est intention of injuring any person in existence. Ile also expressed his satisfaction that no material ill effects had resulted from his imprudence. 1 The Jury, from all the circumstances of the rase, ' did not conceive the Prisoner had any malicious do. sign, and therefore acquitted him. BURGLARY. John Clayon and William Jenkins were next tried on a capital indictment, charging them with burg'. riously breaking and entering the house of Jane Furm, in the parish of St. James's, on the night of the Ist of January instant, with an intent to steal. The facts of the case have been so recently before our Renders in:a report from Bow-street office, un der the name of Mrs. Martin's house, in Bury-street, that we do not think it necessary to enter into a mi nute detail of the circumstances attending the Pri soners' guilt and apprehension. It may be recol lected that Clayton, by intriguing with the servant. maid of the Prosecutrix, who is a single woman, re siding at No. 4, Bury-street, St. James's, found means to gain admission to her house during her Mr sence at the theatre, and afterwards admitted his az sociate Jenkins; where; after threatening to blew out the brains of the servant if she made a noise, they proceeded to break open doors and drawers for the purpose of stealing such property as they could find. Fortunately, however, for the sake of pu'►= lic justice, the Officers of Bow-street had informa tion of the intended depredation, and secured the Prisoners at the moment ►when they had nearly com pleted their work. These facts having been most clearly substantiated, the Prisoners were found guilty—Dealh. They are both young men, the one by trade a gold beater, and the other a chair-maker. In the passage of the house, after their apprehen. sion, was found a small wooden case, containing IG different implements of polished steel, for the pur pose of picking locks, unscrewing hinges, and per. forming other operations connected with their ini quitous profession. HIGHWAY ROBBERY. • • George Snsilh stood indicted for feloniously as saulting on the King's highway, Elisabeth Sharpe, and forcibly and against her will taking from her person tea shillings worth of halfpence, the property of her father Joseph Sharpe. The Prosecutrix, a little girl not more than twelve years of age, stated, that on the evening of the 11th of December last, about seven o'clock, she was past" ing through Clement's Inn, with the halfpence in question on her arm, when two men overtook her, and one of them placed his hand on her mouth to pre. vent her giving an alarm, while the other, the Pri soner, took from her the two papers containing the halfpence, and ran off. She immediately pursued him, crying " Stop thief," and he was stopped by the Pa trole in Ciement's-lane, near to him, where he was secured, were found nine shillings and eleven-pence of the halfpence, he had taken from the child. These facts were corroborated by two other witnesses. Three persons spoke to the general good character of the Prisoner, who it appears was engaged in 4 printing-office in Water-lane, Fleet-street. The LOAD CHIEF BARON, in summing np the evi• dence observed, that In order to substantiate the charge mied against the Prisoner, it was necessary that the Jury should be satisfied that coercion had been used in order to obtain the money in question om the Prosecutrix.—" Hands off" was certainly a fundamental principle of the law, yet under the pe culiar circumstances of the case, and the tender years of the Prosecutrix, he thought in a charge, the effects of which went to so severe a punishment, it might not be improper to entertain some hesitation before a ver dict to the full extent of the charge was given. If* doubt existed, the Prisoner was certainly entitled to the benefit of that doubt, and upon the whole he deemed it would be more consistent with the evidence, to find him guilty of the larceny on the person, but not of the highway robbery. The Jury according with his Lordship's humane reemrk, acquitted the Prisoner of the capital of- I fence, bat found him Guilty of stealing front the person. THE L4TE MURDERS. BO W -ST R E ET. Mr. GRANAM pursued his private investigation of these horr i ble acts, in a room adjoining the Police ()dice. Mrs. Vermilloe, the landlady of the Year Tree public-house, attended, and gave her evidence at considerable length, respecting a man of the name of if/bass, who was apprehended on Wednesday evening, and brought to the Office. This man has been in custody before, when he denied knowing Wit , - liana ; it has since been proved that he was his com panion. A boy has proved that he saw three men look ing in at Mr. l‘larr's shop, a short time before it was Ant up, on the night of the murder. Albass is kept in close confinement, with a man to look after him. Mr. Read attended In a mom on the first floor with Mr. Cro• ker, the Secretary of the Admiralty, and Mr. Marter, of Green wich Hospital, and proeeeded in a private investigation of the baud* and forgeries lately discovered at the Admiralty, the "Navy Office, and Greenwich Hospital—Gawler, the Clerk, is - net yet taken. UNION-HALL. George Halton and Moses Clark were yesterday apgrebended by Collingbourn and Glennon, on sus pick's, of being concerned in the outrage at Mr. Pryor's, on Sundayevening last. The Prisoners un derwent a long private examination before Mr. Evancs and Mr. Hicks, but Sarah Wilkins continu ing still too weak to be confronted with them, they were committed for re-examination. LON IL/ON: Printed and Published by D. Lovisah at t$ Fr 4 T ll . l 4l ( ?Mig O t r4cl-svect, i L