The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-09-22 00:00:00

' II4 E STATESMAN I t is wonderful that the It:Huns and. , Spaniards never thought of appealing to their tutelary S aints, Asvuo%Y and JAMES, against this heathen BON APAV.TL, as the Neapolitans bid to .St. Ja 7 l !iv %RIOS, to stop the torrents of &truing Ivo that were issuing from Mount Vesuvius. . Mutt ere. dit the Mialsterial Papers most have lost in net hay., jog prompted the Russians to call upon the good Kt. Soon before the vial of IsTleoutom's wrath was pooled upon their devoted country i irthose credu lous vehicles of intelligence had .secommentled to ALEXANDER an early reliance .11111- the invincible po*er of St. SDQUES, they might • have laved him from his present dilemma, and prevented the necessity of his leaving the most fertile provinces of ids vast empire to.the ravages of NAPOLEON. These sys tem a of defending ncountry by running away, and depending upon the sid of saints, are too much for some people to contemplate with steady muscles; but we would gravels recommend to ALEXANDEO 4 either to fight manfully for his country, or preserve it from further reneges by a timely peace; for if he depend upon his system of running away—the prayers of Bishops—the influence of Saints—or the military skill of his Councils for the salvation of his country, ne think he will be miserably deceived.— The ringing of the great bell at Moscow for the en f trance of NAPOLEON into that city, may, perhaps, awaken him to a true sense of his danger; and con vince him, that trusting to saints and lying orat ie s may prove dangerous to his repose. NEW LORD LIEIPERN ANT OF tRFLAND. We extract the following from the Dublin Eren. ing Post, of September 10 :—. " It has been already announced to the Public, through the columns of the Dublin Evening Post, that a change—Heaven knows a happy change— was about to take place in the Councils of Ireland! On Thursday we stated, in a Second Edition, on authority of great respectability, that Lord Moms was confidently spoken of as the successor of his Grace the Duke of RICIVIONO, in the Gee. vernmont of this long-abused, ill-treated, ill-v -verned, and oppressed Ceuntry.—We have since had this cheering rumour from authority of still more weight; we are inclined to believe it true, and to hail the went as an approaching peace. I offering to the Irish People. Should our illus. trious Countryman succeed to the Liven-was/6Y— should we see him preside at the Council Hoard in his with' land—should we see that distin. guished Senator, who, on a former occasion, we faint ly described as 66 the Patriol and the soldiery-- respected in the senate—admired in the field—the ornament of the court—the Friend of Liberty—the. Advocate of bis Country"—Should we see um at the head of the nation, then, indeed, would we have faith in the promised conciliation...then should we expect to see the CATHOLIC CLAIMS, meet a full, fair, and uninfluenced Parliamentary discnssion-h -tl,en should we expect to see the Irish Slave shake off his chains, and rise erect and snappalled, proud !n the enjoyment df unconditional Emancipation 1 Then should we see faction hide its head for ever— ploy asperities smoothed, and softened down to a tone of harmony and peace, and a saving Shielding spirit governing the Country, and directing her great and noble energies to the support of the Throne and defence of Imperial Independence. Such are a few of the results likely to spring from the government of Abe Earl of Mota.t." We are happy to be able to contradict any rumour of his MAJESTY having experienced the return of a severe paroxysm. The Kitties health during the past seek, has been as good as at any period since the last Report of the Physicians. Daring her passage home, the Gleaner spoke an American ship, which informed her that Commodore RODGERS, after cruising for some time in the latitude of one of our convoys, had proceeded to the French coast, haying in enmpaay two brigs (one apparen•ly a prize) and an English sloop of war, said to have been taken within two days' sail of Brest. The agreement between Russia and Sweden, re specting Finland, is said to be, that within six months that province shall be restored to the latter Power. The general opinion . (s r that the Swedish Expedition will proceed to Stilt!smut, and it is probable thaf the next Mail will bring an account of the preparations being complete. Letsers from Quebec dated the 19th ult. state, that Gen. Rom, had been thrice repulsed, in an attempt to take Fort Malden, and had been obliged to re cross the river. The same letters contain a repeti tion of the report of an armistice having been con cluded with General DEkttantor. One of these let sets contains the following paragraph We have ly received a reinforcement of the 1(13d regiment, 1000 strong, from England, and the Scotch Royals from Barbadoes, 1000 and upwards, which, with the troops we had before in the country, and those raised I►ere of late, with militia, &c. will be able to make a formidable resistance, and I doubt not but we shall astonish the Yankees." Lord A. Brsocr.rat reconnoitred the enemy's squadron in the Telel on the evening Of the Bth inst. then consisting of nine sail of the line, four hie gates, five brigs, and some mallet vessels. " They," , says a letter frem•the blockading ships, " appear as quiet as ever, and discover not the least intention of putting to sea. Five or six sail get under weigh at. most every day to exercise. They manage tiosirohlp very badly, and when they anchor take /abet roe sell, at a time; which tends to confirm the information we obtained from a vessel which came out of the Texel. that they are very badly manned ; and that al most all the troops have been drawn from the Tend, hardly leaving a satiteittat number to Saud the iLosA. _ CO VENT-GA/WEN TI I &lift& • • The admirable hilt belletteyed Tragedy of Richard the Third was brongiLforward last night, for the JIM time this sessoni-aall Mr. C. REMBLII was in. diced (as We Isreitintel' Orepersonify that ruthless - Monarch. ~e;•• • Of all the Osys, l 4lltat tee now enacted in the saw round of the aritish*Diama, thOl‘e.ii not one that 10 popular with • the vulgar as this, and no t ir ith. standing its scenes are more tinctured with blood and brutality, in fact and in detail, than any other Tragedy that is now brought forward, yet it coati..., lines to be eminently attractive, though we Nave much reason to believe that the portraiture of Richard Li, in a degree, * posthumous libel upon his person and character, • and written by Shnkspeare to gratify, the spleen of Queen Elizabeth, whose re.;/ gal father *as morts naturally sanguinary, though' his features have been delineated with so mueb. forbearance, by the very Bard who deemed it • expedient to fashion such a caricature of Richard Plantagenet. But all departed greatness is so partially and unduly handled by the historian, who often writes from a spirit ef servility rather than truth, that a thoughtful and just man should hesitate before he fulls in with the swelling tide of pr6udice, as it is very probable that neither Richard nor Catatisse were half so villainous as they have been represented, though the aims of the !louse of Tudor, and the traitorous ambition of some Roman Patricians, might render it as necessary to begrime either, for purposes rather sinister than virtuous! But all that is merely ea parinnt. .In the representation of this Character, .Mr. C. KEstat.e did what he generally does, that is, he eahi. bited many traits of merit, some discrimination, some inaccuracies of conception, and much.energy. When he bath murdered King Henry, in the first act, and utters " See hnw my sword weep s At the 40. d King's death. 1w evidently misunderstood his duty, by directing his discourse to tile Pit, who are certainly no parties in the affair, and not the instrument which is the me dium of his sarcasm; and this is a failing that is too common Kith our Tragedians, who should recollect, that it is their bounden obligation, as actors, to play before the audience, and not to them. In the love scene with Lady Anne, he was not eqsal to his great brother, who was not equal to Mr. Graze; but the talent of uttering soft insinuations to the Ladies, on the stage, does not seem to he one of the most perfect qualifications that the Kcsint.c family possess. In the fourth act he appeared to us to be more meritorious than in any other, though he, occasion ally, was too hUd ; hut the callow part of the audi ence encourage tdis propensity, so lamentably, that ,carcely nny performer can excite applause who doth not violate his judgment on this head. _ . In the fifth act, we thought Mr. C. ICtstittit was comewhnt too dispirited; fur though Richard is dis. comfited by the ghosts, who make him a midnight visit, yet it should be remembered that he was ne►er an absolute dastard. After these objections, we must in candour allow, that, on taking the whole exertion together, it stir passed our expectations; and while the legitimate Riaard is incline to remain on the other side of the Atlantic, and Mr. KEstaLE to secede from dramatic admiration, we know of no other person who could manage so dilbcnit a part so ably. Mr. Assetr put on the bins of Richmond, but they did not precisely fit him. In the Barletta of Miles, we were happy to per. ceive that Mr. SINCIAIR paid some attention to our advice; but he bath even now something, in method, to unlearn. Mr. It'er.tv understood the devices of this sylvan Apollo more perfectly than any other per son that we have seen in the character.. All the Battalions in England are to send detach ments to the Peninsula, so as to leave themselves skeletons to be filled up by recruiting. This is cer tainly the best mode of reinforcing Lord WELLING. TbN. Rear-Admiral COCKBVIIN will sail from Ports mouth, for Cadiz, the moment the wind is fair.— The Marlborough, 74, Captain Ross, bearing his flag, went down to St. Helens on Friday, with he con vey for Lisbon and the Mediterranean. In order to try the stage sounding-board of the New Theatre, of Drury-lane, a general rehearsal of the intended opening Play, and an Opemtical After-piece, is to take place early in the next week. The chosen Address -that may he drawn the prize of honour, from amongst one hundred and eleven poetic Blanks ) is to have a recitation at the same time ! The School . for Scandal is said to be lied upon as the opening piece at Ne►v Drury, in compliment to its author, Mr. SHERIDAN. _ _ In the li‘t of performers engaged for New Drury, the name of Mr. Diamus was accidentally omitted. He is certainly engaged to MI his former station is the company. The death of Mrs. LOVEGROVt is reported in some of the Papers of yesterday ; hut though considered in danger, we are happy to be informed she was still Wise at the date of the last account. Mrs. MOUNTAIN is returned to town, perfectly re covered from her Ispe and dangerous indisposition. On Thursday the King-Fisher Cartel returned to Portsmouth, from Morlaiz, bringing over Mrs. HILL; who has been nine years a detenue in France. She left Verdun a mouth since. The prisoners were , very healthy. A slight shock of an earthquake was felt between eight and nine o'clock on the evening of Wednesday sennight, at Shenton, Hoverington, and several other villages bordering on the Kiver Trent. It W4ll ac companied with a noise, resembling a violent rushing wind, and continued some seconds. Tin FATAL CHALT.-•-•SMAA little time ago, Mr. BONITACI4 of Ford, near Arundel, lost a grey heend, and made strict enquiry after him, but to ao purpose, until last Friday fortnight, when lie was found, dead, by some reapers amongst the' standing corn, with a hare lying by his side, both Ina state of putrefaction. The parsuit and escape, contended for in this gallant chaos, by these Seet footed animals, it may be fairly presumed, *ma so equally sustained, that they ran 'until Ratan was, totally exhausted, sad until they fell, broleettyheatt. sod, togethse. . NitrglL INTELLIG ' - • PORTSMOUTIN; • Arrived the Melpomene, lAN imps 011hootd, frets tie Downs, bound to Spain t alai* Savage, Capt. Rowell, from Quebec,. lastfroortie Dow Sailed, the Iphigeoia frigate, Capt. Corti., with specie on beard for the Army le the Peeinsula; and the Pioneer. with a elsovoy foe Ityasoitth. The Aldred,' Ado*. Cockburit, continues at St. ilelad i n Rttl t i the CadiOlod4 • DEAL, Sara% 21. . • , sti see=lll,wo, l % the River his Majesty's s hip s• Di eete de a n d and valipar transport, ,with troops for foreign setvlai I ids MakstAship Cumberland; fur off Flushing , • His Najaf/Ship Tphigenla b seder orders f Lisboa, sale will son thsllnt Mr wiled. ~„, litoettvAvt.--The new road to Highgafe vances rapidly. :The workmen have removed the earth where the tunnel broke in, several feet below the crown of the arch. It is said that the intention of repair ing the tunnel is abandoned. The intersecting road from Hornsey-lane will he made by a bridge. They are digging now to find a foundatign for, the piers be low the loose earth which sunk in the *9O. The bridge will be handsomely built of brick,' maaefrom the earth thrown up by the excavation. The magni ude of this undertaking attracts the curiosity of thousands and the works are attended daily by the curious from all parts of London and the vicinity. The prices of wheat continua to decline rapidly throughout the kingdom, and it is positively asserted in Sussex, that wheat will this year yield more,profit at ten pounds the load, than it did last year at forty pounds the load - and a Gloucestershire farmer, who rents many hundred acres, says, that he has this year more wheat than he had in the whole of the three last years; and that his gleaners have now more grain than his land produced in 1811. BREAD.—No Court of Aldermen today.—The Lose MAYOR, after inspecting the Returns, ordered the present prices to continue. We have the following official authority for Ge neral Hocc's repulses : _ _ 0, Quebec, Aug. 6, 1812. " GENERAL ORDER.—His Excellency the Com mander of the Forces announces with great satisfac tion to the troops under his command, the capture of Fort Michilimackinac on the 17th of July last, by a detachment of the 18th Veteran Battalion, aided by a party of Canadian Voyageurs, led on by some Gentlemen of the North West Company, the whole , under the command of Captain Roams. This ' service has been effected in a manner highly credit able to Capt. lt. and the Men; and men employed, upon the occasion, and without the loss of a maul.— The Commander of the Forces takes great pleasure in also announcing to the troops, that the enemy under Brigadier-General Hum. have been revised in three attacks made on the 18th, 10th, and 20th of last month, upon part of the garrisou of Am. berstburgh, on the river Cenar,l, in the neigh. bourhood cf that place; in which his Majesty's 41st. regiment have particularly distinguished themselves. —ln justice to that corps, his Excellency wishes particularly to call the attention of the troops to the heroism and self-devotion displayed by two pri vates, who being left as centinels when the party to which they belonged had retired, contrived to main. tain their station against the whole of the Inemy's force, until they both fell, when one of them, whose arm had been broken, again raising himself, opposed with his bayonet those advancing against him, until he nas overwhelmed by numbers. An instance of such firmness and intrepidity deserves to be thus publicly recorded, and his Excellency thinks that it will not fail to animate the troops under his com mand with an ardent desire to follow so noble an example, whenever an opportunity shall hereafter be offered to them." On Wednesday morning, between two and three o'clock, the premises of Mr. England, linen-draper and haberdasher, Providence-buildings, New Kent road, were broken open, and robbed of a quantity of Irish linens, thread, laces, &c. to the amount of 160 or 2001. The robbers had cut away two squares of the door-shutter, and broke the glass, which enabled them to open the bolts of the shop-door; a 12d who slept in an adjoining room, divided only by a thin partition, heard nothing of the affair. Mrs. England was awakened by a noise, and looked out of the win. dow, when she perceived a person walking backwards and forwards, whom she sopposed to be the watchman. The robbery was not discovered till the family rose in the morning. We are favoured with the following extract from an eloquent charge delivered by the Lord Bishop of Derry, to his Clergy, at the visitation held ia the cathedral of St. Columb's, the 10th of Septem ber:—" I shall not now detail ybo lon g ; and, in truth s I have but few observations to Make, unless I chose to take up your time by indulging my. self in dwelling on my high adprobation of a Clergy, whose conduct at nine years' intimate knowledge of this diocese, has enabled me to ap preciate ; many, very many of whose members, individually, I esteem, and collectively, I am proud .of ; a diocese, in which there are more churches than benefices—more clergy than churches ; more than nine-tenths of whose beneficed clergy are resident ; more than three-fourths in glebe houses ; and of the very few who are absent there is not one whose non-residence cannot be accounted for, either by a state of health Incapacitating him from the performance of his duties, or by legal ex emptions, or by his being beneficed in some other diocese, where, from local circumstances, he is more adeantageously placed for the general welfare of the establishmeat. I should not even'aeit - have giatified miielt in nuttier these few Observiiiions, bed net the ilitiridated state of the churches, and thisloefkkAdY the Clergy in Ireland, been of late the. t►iime loe'tstiery, who have been -permitted to gain so mach tile . more credit, as their charges, bowever'unfoundetl, have not hitherto been met by , afar end authentic tefutatioe. It is peculiarly en thin Account that I now feel the greater pride and pleasure in this my deliberate and public assertion s that the diocese of Derry, at least, is free from the higgal apt SP" gas Put of Se Unita Char h." • - dR AND dREATOKE • - Greystoke Castle has been a scene of splendid hos.. • pitality since the arrival of the Doke of Nostrumt there on the Bth inst. Nine fat bucks have already • been sacrificed ; and it has greatly heightened the sat,., tisfaction of hi s G race ' s numerous f i i .nd4, to oinervea isite in possession of the highest health and spirits. Oa Satnrday the whole party proceeded in a cavaieade of • carriages to Ullswater, and were entertainer eitit': ,L t' 'stag-hunting, fi s hi ng , an d sa ili ng on t h e l a k e , „ a sumptuous dinner, including no less than fireth, haunches, was in preparation at the tower. The Manes ness of the weather and the grandeur of the surroundat n lug scenery contributed their powerful aid to rendett this excursion delightful. The visit was repeated on Monday on a still more extended scale. The DuktiO was received on the ground with military honours, ' by fourscore sharp-shooters, commanded by Captain ; Su TT ON, nd raised al toget her from hisGrate's tenantry"' . in that neighbourhood. The corps went through the* various evolutions and manoeuvres of a grand field s day, with great precision and skill : the spot was pea culiarly favourable to their operations, and their vol.. lies were echoed and re-echoed among the surround...e lag mountains with the finest effect. The display of Ladies on the take was among the most prominertro attractions. Thus situated, they viewed the busy ' scene un 'er every advantage, directing their atten. lion to martial music and military parade, wail the stag, close pressed by " hounds and horns," was seen rapidly descending the mountains, and at length vainly seeking refuge in the water, which pre. sented a new host of assailants in the boats, vying with each other in their exertions to seize him. One *tame!, in particul tr, made frequent attempt: to gain the opposite shore, and thus prolonged this nautical warfare during the greater part of an hour. At five, dinner was served to the Duke and a select party, comprising most of the princi. pal families in the vicinity, and several from West morland, Yorkshire, and still remoter distances.—. The sharp-shooters had a separate table assigned to them ; and on this a stag, roasted whole, was • placed after mutual addresses and many ceremonies of mirth between his Grace and the commander. The next table, under one of the marquees, was oc. cupied by the younger branches of the families with his Grace • and a fourth was open to every invited or uninvite d visitor. Some idea may be formed of the scale of this magnificent fete, when it is added, that on the two days more than a thousand per. sons partook of his Grace's liberality at a regular dinner. At eight o'clock his Grace's leparture was announced by three hearty cheers ; when the cont. pany reluctantly retired from a spot where all we read or have heard of old Ealish hospitality has been so completely retired, and so nobly realised. Extract of a letter from Cadiz, dated the 27th tilt.: —" I have the happiness to inform you, that the French have entirely raised the siege of Cadiz. Oa the 25th they began to blow up their works (which have cost them years of hard labour to erect), and burst their mortars and guns, by overcharging and placing their muzzles one against another, and ex ploding them withport-fires and trains. 'They had just completed a martello teem', and got very long brass 24. pounder on it, bet they blew this up also; • oat of GOO pieces of ordnance (all brass)from Chic lana to Rota, almost the whole have either burst or been rendered unserviceable. The contrast be tween the night previous to their departure, and the nest morning, was singularly pleasing. In the night the French employed themselves in throwing shells into the city, and the inhabitants were filled with dismay. The next morning was wihered in with the spectacle of the enemy in full retreat, and their strong holds involved in flames. The current of joy ran through the populace like an electric spark, and soon the people were seen bringing their beds and goods from the bomb-proofs, and replacing them in' their houses, while boats, crowded with persons of all descriptions, proceeded to the opposite seoiv, for the purposes of curiosity, or to see old friend:, from; whom they had been so long separated. Al' he gun -1 boats, weexpect, will be removed to'Gibraltar. They . have gone up the river to Seville." • I A barbarous murder was committed near Den ; high on 4 4utulay the Gth inetant, the folln.ving are . the particulars as related to us :—Ahnut 9 o'elnek lin the evening a number of reapers who had been drinking iu the town, and were returning home,: quarelled ; a man of the name of E. Edward's, in . , the employ of Mr. Price, grocer, -*as. passing by, on horseback, and endeavoured to ;miry them,l when one of the pirtY, a native of Capel Garcon, . near Llanwrst, struck his horse upon the, nose, which so much exasperated him that he gave the man a blo* across the face with a ,lick, upon this the other' plunged a knife into his belly. As immediately dismounted and beat the Man for some I time, one of the bystanders cried oat, " You will, Ikill ate man i" he replied, " he has killed me' , alre - idy r At length, through loss or blood, he became faint, fell, and was taken into a neighbour. tog house ; soon after he was placed on a bier and removed to Denbigh, where he expired in a few hours. Upoiexamining the body it was discovered, that hie bowels had protruded through the wound.—A.Coro., lutes Inquest sat on the body, and returned a verdict, , of Wilful Alarckr.—The offender was taken bap. custody and committed to Ruthin Gaol. We record with pleasure the following instance et' juvenile, generosity end intrepidity, which occurred at. Crossford, on the . eveping of the 9th met. As' a very young gentleman and a woman were crossing. the Clyde after clerk', the unusual swell from the late rains rendered t'he boat quite unmanageable, and carried it beyond the usual landing-place into deep and dangerous . part of the river. The woman, overcome by her fears, made an effort which over turned the boat. The boy, Wittismayed by the darkness of the night end his o*h imminent danger, seized the sinking• female, and at las!, with great courage and:Wren, %ream mien the railing whirl. pobt, and carried heir tak ail a very difficult shore. Last week was committed to York Nene, Jame* Starkey, carpel-wear r; chimed with • having con spired, with several o th ers , to .blow op end destroy the cotton-mill of ?di) !Um Canniest,. st Raw.. fele• - • 71 . 7 1 11 ~ ib ``. ? l ~~ I 4 ' , • It I J