The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-10-14 00:00:00

i i I i. .. ') i 9. ,111 , •w . 4 . r I I /1 li 1 ELECTIONS. KENT Corr/rt.—Yesterday morning, pursuant to a Requisition from John Wells, Esq. High Sheriff, a meeting was holden of the Freeholders of Kent, for the purpose of electingtwo Knights for the Shire, to serve in tl►e ensuing Parliament. The Act against Bribery having been read, and the other formulae disposed of; Sir JOHN llosTwoon proposed 'Sir Edward Knatchbull, Barr. and pronounced an high eaogium on his ability and integrity. The nomination was seconded by Mr. AUSTIN, who paid an eloquent and just tribute to the pnt►iotic conduct of Mr. llony wood, the late Member, who, from ill-health was unable longer to discharge the important trust of a Member of Parliament. Sir EDWARD KNATCRDULL then addressed the tneeting, stating, that he had already served the county honourably and faithfully for eighteen years, and he hoped still to merit the confidence of the Electors. Mr. IloDacs put Sir William Geary in nomina tion, and very ably expatiated on the obligations under which the county lay to the Honourable Baro- Pet, who, at the sacrifice of his own fortune, had twice freed the County of Kent from Ministerial shackles. This motion was seconded by Mr. Ryder. Sir WlLErast GEARY, in a very animated manlier, pledged himself to his brother Freeholders to mai►►- tain to the last the same principles which had hitherto guided his conduct. Those principles, particularly respecting Parliamentary Reform, were well known, since he had already twice represented the County. It was true that his private fortune in former con tests had been much injured. He had Spent more than 22,0001. in 1796 and 1802, but in expending it ' be had merely discharged his duty. Should he be returned on the present occasion, he could not at tend in Parliament in consequence of his pecuniary embarrassments, without much inconvenience. The Electors, however, notwithstanding, should always find him at his post. Mr. FOOTE put several questions. to Sir Edward • Knatchbull, with a view to obtain a pledge from him on the grand questions of Parliamentary Reform and Catholic Emancipation, but the Hon. Baronet did not give any answer ; all he pledged himself to was, that when infirmity should render him incapable of discharging the arduous task of a Member of Parlia ment, he would readily retire from a station for which he was no longer qualified. After a few words from Mr. Jarvis, relative to the majority of the frie►►ds of the Candidates pre sent, the Sheriff desired a show of hands, and as no other Candidate offered himself, Sir Edward Knatch. bull and Sir William Geary were declared duly elected. Essex.--Ftast Day.—Monday being the day ap pointed for holding the Election for the county of Essex, at Chelmsford, the following Gentlemen were put in nomination :—J. A. Houblon, Esq. by Mr. Conyers, seconded by Admiral Harvey ; C. C. West ern, Esq. proposed by Mr. Baker, and seconded by the son of Sir T. Leonard ; and M. Burgoyue, Esq. proposed by the Rev. Mr. Gee, and seconded by Mr. Osborne. Mr. Hotrstow, in a neat speech, returned thanks to his friends for the extended assurances of sup port which be had received in the course of his canvass. .---Professions from him were unnecessary—his prin ciples were well known, and he trusted was such as, during the time he had had the honour of represent ing them; had met their approbation ; and should they again return him, he trusted his conduct would be such as to merit a continuance of their approba tion:—[Applauses.] Mr. WESTERN said, he was fully aware of the im portance of the duties attached to the situation to which he now aspired, and hew great was the re sponsibility which he courted, in seeking to become a Representative of a great and wealthy county at this momentous crisis. He had, however, been en couraged to undertake the task, by the wide as surances of support which he had received ; and should he be so fortunate as to prove the object of their choice, he trusted that, aided by their advice and assistance, to which he would at all times refer, lie should be enabled to discharge those duties, how. ever important they might be, to their satisfaction. [Applause.]—lie wished, however, now publicly to declare, that although, if he were elected their Re presentative, he should, on all occasions bemost happy to profit by their advice, yet he would never receive instructions from an, body, however respectable ; but should, on all occasions, be determined in the dis charge of his duties by the dictates of his own con science.—[Applause.] Mr. BURGO.YNE then came forward, and was re ceived with mingled marks of disapprobation and ap. plause. Ile entered at length into a statement of his political principles and the efforts which he had made in support of Parliamentary Reform and the Independence of the County of Essex: in the latter great cause he now stood forward, and called on the Whig interest of the County to stand forward and, suppprt him in a cause which was in fact their own. He called on them to declare, whether they would have Banquo's Ghost, lame of one leg and blind of one eye, to represent them, or whether they would have Britannia, with Magna Charta in on hand and the Bill of Rights in the other; if the latter, they would return two independent Members ' • if the former, they would choose a Whig and a Tory.— [dpplaute.)—He called on the friends of Mr. Wes tern to give him their second votes, and he would recommend his friends to pursue the same course to. wards that gentleman. It might, perhaps, be said, that he, the advocate against sinecures, was himself the holder of a sinecure. He was so • but he pledged himself, if he was elected, immediately to relinquish it, and to call on all others to follow his example. The Hum &mum then put the question, and de clared it was carried by a great majority in favour of Mr. lioublon and Mr. Western, not more than a dozen hands being held up in favour of Mr. But. goyne. Upon that gentleman coming forward, aasf with an intention of addressing the Meeting, the r was a general cry of—" Retire, Mire!" Mr. BcftGosruz, however, declared he stood tot. ward for the Independence of the County of FAsesd; ho had done his duty, and he called on the Meters • to do theirs.--The cry of retire still catistuings' gtATESMAN. Mr. IlowywooD, jun. came forward, he declared himself the friend of Mr. Burgoyne from principle, and that he would always support him as long as he considered it for the benefit of the . County ; to ascer tain what chance of support that Gentleman had on the present occasion, he and his father called on. Mr. 'Western's Committee, to know if they would split in favour of Mr. Burgoyne, and they had declared they would net, upon which himself and his father had advised that Gentleman to retire, as his perse vering in keeping open the poll would only have the effect of agitating the county to no purpose.--{Ap plauses.] Mr. Osnonm, the Gentleman who seconded Mr. Burgoyne, also came forward and advised him to retire. Mr. BunooTee, however, said he had given his word to several of the Freeholders, and whether they were men of forty shillings or forty thousand pounds per annum, be held his word equally sacred, and would stand the poll. A poll commenced immediately, and at the close of it, at five o'clock, the numbers were-- iloublon . 576 I Western . 453 I Burgoyne . 86 ALDEBURGH, Surror.n.—A very warm and spirit- 1 ed contest has taken place for the representation of this town ; in which no opposition to the prevailing interest possessed by the Crespigny family has occur red for nearly 40 years. This town was incorpo rated by a charter of Edward VI. in the second year of his reign, when the King's tenants and the in- i habitants took the corporate designation of the Bai-, lifts and Burgesses of Aldeburgh, and the inhabit.l ants were empowered annually to chose two bailiffs. The first return of Members to Parliament . took I place in the 13th of Elizabeth, and nine successive returns of Members to Parliament were made under that charter. This corporation afterwards received ; from James the First, in the fourth year of his reign, a charter, confirming the former one, and granting! them further privileges. And these charters were further confirmed by Charles I. in the thirteenth year of his reign. The last decision of the House of Commons, in the year 1709, declared the right of voting in this place to be iu the Bailiffs, Burgesses, and Freemen not receiving alms. The late Mr. P. I Crespigny created and maintained a superior Parlia. mentary interest in this burgh by introducing, as ; honourary freemen, a large number of his friends; from various parts of the United Kingdom. This system has been continued by his sons, with the ad ditional grievance of excluding almost every inhabi tant of the town from this important privilege. The simple question in the present contest is, whether the inhabitants, under their first charter, be or be not Burgesses, and, as Burgesses, whether they have not a right to exercise the elective franchise, which seems to have 'existed in and to have been exercised by them, and by them only, in the first nine returns of Members to Parliament under their first charter of incorporation. The election commenced last Friday morning, when James Cranberne Strode, Esq. and Justinian Casa. major, Esq. were nominated by the town party, and Lord Dufferin and Andrew Strahan, Esq. by Mr. Crespigny. Upon a show of hands the returning officers declared the majority to be In favour of Mr.', Strode and Mr. Casamajor ; upon which a poll was demanded by Mr. Crespigny for the absent candi dates, Lord Dufferin and Mr. Strahan. Mr. Casa.' major addressed the meeting in two very spirited speeches, in which he drew a very faithful picture of the state of representation to which the town had sn long submitted, end expressed the determination of himself and his brother Candidate to support the in dependence of the inhabitants, and to recover, if ; possible, their long-suspended rights. The poll closed on Friday at five o'clock, after a very few votes bad been polled. The greater part of Saturday ' was employed by the Bailiffs and capital Burgesses in hearing the arguments of Counsel in support of and opposition to the clause of the inhabitants to be en. rolled as Burgesses, which was rejected by that 1 Court, Mr. Common Serjeant Knowlys was re tained on the part of the Town. Candidates, Mr. Alderson oa the part of Mr. Crespigny; and Mr.. Capel Loft acted as Assessor to the returning officers ) ; the Bailiffs. On Saturday evening, about five o'clock, the poll was again opened, and continued till ten at night, when, after a most able and animated address i from Mr. Common Serjeant, and a reply by Mr. Al. derson, on the question of admitting the inhabitants to vote as Burgesses, under their first charter, the returning officers, upon the recommendation of the Learned Assessor, admitted the tender of the party on the poll-book, but rejected the vote, thus fear ing the question of right in the Burgesses open to fu-' ture discussion before a Committee of the House of Commons, should the parties be inclined to make suck appeal. The poll was then adjourned to Man-1 day morning, at 11 o'clock. At Leominster, Herefordshire, the two old Mem bers have withdrawn—Mr. Bonham declining a contest, and Sir John Lubbock, resigning in favour of his nephew, J. W. Lubbock, Esq. The other candidates were the Right Hon. J. Brabazon„ Earl of Meath, an Irish Peer, of extensive property In the neighbourhood, who was supported by the Corpora tion, and J. Harcourt, Esq. of Well Hall, Kent (an entire stranger), in the popular interest. The poll commenced on Friday morning, and continued till afternoon, when Lord Meath declined the contest, and Messrs. Lubbock and Harcourt were declared duly elected. ICITY or WoacErrrn.—After the severest contest experienced in this city for the last fifty years, the election closed at 10 o'clock yesterday morning, when Abraham Roberts, Esq. and William Gordon Esq. were returned. The struggle lay between Lorj Deerhurst and Mr. Gorden, the former being sup ported by the powerful connections of the Coventry, Beauchamp, Foley, and Somers' families, in con juction with the leading Members of the Corporation ; and the latter by what is generally called the old in dependent interest of the city, uninfluenced by any particular system of politics. The absence of Mr. ordon, who is in Spain, was of course no iuconsi : derable advantage to. Lord .Deerhurst, but it was ably supplied by the personal exertions of his father rin-law, 'Sr George Cornwall, Colonel Murphy, l Mr. Quin, and iho iudefsttgableieal of his numerous 4•4 111P"'"'• • • Ir . ' .P.PO friends In Worcester. The numbers at the close of the Poll were— , ~." Roberts .... 1948 i'Ci0rd05....:.... 939 I Lnrd Deerhorst 835 Nearly lOC* individuals polled on the occasion. CATHARINE OF RUSSIA. A Russian poet, named Sumarakoff, the author of several Tragedies, happened to quarrel with the chief Actress of the Moscow Theatre. The Governor of that city, shortly afterwards ordered one of this pr. son's 'pieces to be presented, he opposed its represen tation, because the Actress in question was to pia) .the principal part. This reason not appearing suffi cient to the Governor, the poet took leave of his senses to such a degree, as to leap upon the stage when the curtain rose, and drag the Actress off it.— ' After having committed this breach of the peace, he still thought he had not done enough, and in his poetical phrenzy, he addressed two letters Mt of in. discretion and audacity to the Empress, complaining bitterly of the Actress. • Her Imperial Majesty received these epitles, and one morniug, after having regulated the affairs of the Archipelago, Moldavia, the Crimea, Georgia, and the banks of the Euxine, she had still time enough to dictate the following answer, so worthy of the great mind from which it proceeded : 1 44 M. SUMARAEOFF,--.I was much astonished, by the receipt of your's, of the2Bth of January, and still ! more by that of the Ist of February. They both contain certain complaints against La Belmonte s I who, nevertheless, did nothing but in obedience to the orders of Count Soltikoti. The Field-Marshal . 'wished to see one of your tragedies ; he did you ho nour : you should, without hesitation, have con formed to the wish of a person invested with the chief authority of Moscow—a person whose will, bad he ordered the representation of the piece, should have been complied with as a matter of necessity. You should know, as well as others, what a degree of respect is due to men who have grown grey in the service of their country, and I therefore counsel you to avoid in future the disputes like that in which you have been now eugaged. Thus you will pre serve that tranquillity which is so necessary for the proper composing of your works, and, for my own part, I shall always derive more pleasure from read ! ing a representation of the human passions in your Dramas than in your letters. " Itt other respects, I remain your affectionate, CATHARINE. Mr. SCOTT receives 3,1501. for his new Poem of Rokeby. Mr. STEwxaT, the Traveller, who has been for merly an Aid-de-Camp to the Nabos of ARCOT, has received a sum due to hirri from the latter, amount ing to 14,0001. , ln every part of the kingdom the most eager and anxious enqiry was made for Canditletes to stand on the popular interest; but the general .answer was, " If you mean what you say, follow the pure ex ample of Westminster, and elect men of whose prin ciples you approve, without even desiring their at tendance at the poll." It is whimsical to hear their • whining lamentations for the want of the usual effu ilsion of spirltous liquors. They have only themselves to blame for the neglect which they have experi enced, and though, for the present, the country may ! suffer by the return of men who will support every measure of a feeble and misguided Government, yet ultimately this General Election will work out a Re form in the Representation of the People ; . since the corrupt part of the community have been properly ' taught not to consider the elective franchise as a property which they had a right to sell. Moscow.--The city of Moscow, the capital of Russia, being now in possession of the Emperor of France, the following short description of it will ' probably not be unacceptable to our Readers :H 1" The city of Moscow stands upon a river of the; same name, in a large and pleasant plain, and makes at a distance the finest chew of any city in Europe; for, having in it many hundreds of gilt steeples, the reflection of the sun-beams gives it an astonishing air of magnificence; to which, however, its inside s, by no means answerable. It is in length about six Italian miles, and one in breadth. It is divided into four parts, each of which is surrounded by a wall and a ditch, which answer all civil purposes very well, though with regard to military strength they are very insignificant. Within the first wall lies , Slabodas or suburbs, of which there are several.— Within the second lies the Czar-Gorad, or the Em peror's City.—The third is stiled Katai-Gorad, that; is the Chinese-town, chiefly inhabited by strangers, and where a prodigious commerce is carried on. The inmost quarter is the Kremelin, or Imperial resi dence, large enough of itself to make a considerable town ; for besides the Czar's Palace, that of the Pa triarch, and many other fine houses, all built of stone, the number of churches and chapels are im mense. It is computed, that in the rest of the city there are upwards of three thousand stone buildings, but all the rest are of wood ; so that no city in the world is more exposed to fires; it has been said, in deed, that one third of the houses were destroyed by two dreadful fires which occurred in this city some yelis since." _ POLICE. MARLEOTIMICZATIMET.—A cam of considerable imporares to the agrlepltural and farming isiterest, wa= on Tuesday lie„ i d at this office, on en iiiformation preferred by ,fir. Sheppard, a farmer, in Hertfordshire, against liamsden a farmer of t a il , wile:alone-gate, for exacting Us. lid. for overweight ie at waggonload of dung. Mr. Sheppard waggons &Nuttily passed through the gate laden with dung unmolested, hut an ine 'd instant, the Defendant caused the dun g .10 weigbea demanded 'al. :Os. €d. for overweight, and he detained two lionises until t h e money was paid. it was comet:led in suiting.; of the information, that a clause in the A et of the 14th tires, exempted dung from being weighed, and although by an Art of the last Seasion which was made to favour gardeners' cults, theprovisiims in the Act of the 11 t h h a d b een overlooked, ye t this latter Act did not go to repeal the former. For tile! Defendant it was contea led, that the recent act was passed t 3 remedy the ambiguities of various loral arts, a n d w coucentrale them generally into eme gener.tt art. In lift clause of that • act, it was enacted, that no waggon with wheels six incue. In Jai-sail, should be alia. wed to carry more than three tons weight is the winter, and two and a halt in the Incr. Another objection was taken ender !lie Act of tit-14th of the King, that ale other lead but doug could be cothidered es. mid. when is this instance, a basket nay part of the c a i ri..ge. Mr. Bris9, M. condemned the Act of Ind Se-sion ilt s. timely prejudicial to agriculture, as it %mild he the cause ifs stoppage o tile farmer if dung 1113 to he it eie,ned. tbr act has seriously iqjnrions, and neglectfully friv!.ed. and the Hououia. ble Member pledged himself to tiring it before earli mein an its op e nin g . The Magistrates also reprobated the act, am di, mis'ud the infarnestiuu, on the ground, that although flit' In;,d was substantially dung, yet n basket was a part of thl^ They were of opiniob the Act of last Se4inii did not le,iral du; of the Itth, and that dung was exempted from bring unglued ' by virtue of that Act, where nothing was added thi re 0; soil any collectoe who • should' charge for extra weight would lay himself open both to an action and ludiclasent. LANCASTERIAN SCHOOL—On Monday th e f ou nd s . tion stone of a new school-house , capable of c on . t n a e h a i r i n t g h e loo l ) 0 i s t i ! , l e ri l l i d sa re ry n w Ed .as ii l i o bu b r;h. We u n d erstan d laid in Davie-stre e t, the Lord Provost and Magistrates, impressed with highsense of the utility of the institution , a were t o attend on this occasion. The Directors, ordinal) , and extraohliitary, were to meet the Lord Provost and Nlagistrates at the Merchants ,If ll and astalk in procession front thence to DA t t tte-s ree ,at tw o o'clock. . BANsisTrn has unfortpnately met with another accident, having been thrown out of a chaise, which . brought on a fit of the gout, but he is • now so much recovered that his appearance at New D • • Drury ma ) • be expected in the course of this week. The Venerable Marquis of DROGUEO A,. now in ! his 83d year, and colonel of that fine corps, the 18th, or Royal Irish Hussars, is now Father of the Army, being the oldest Field Officer on the list, since the death of General VERNON. We are sorry to announce the death of that • ttuet amiable Nobleman, the Earl of KENIVARI.. llis Lordship died on Saturday se'nnight, at his seat at Castleto , se, in the County of Kerry. He is "sue. ceded in his title and estates by his son, eldest Lord CASTLEROSS E. Rotten Burroughs are now as cheap as rotten eggs. The buyers, dreading a short Parliament, wish to bargain for a certain number of years; hut the Mongers are up to that, and prefer s2Ping, for the usual term, at a reduced price. On Monday morning, in consequence of private information given to Mr. H. D.eimead, he secured E. Sexton, a slater, and 'Thad, adrk, a butcher, charged with being concerned in the wanton attack made on the sentinel of the 90th Regiment, as men tioned in our last. Sexton and Quirk were com mitted for trial by the Right Worshipful the Id ayter. —(Limerick Evening Post.) Early on Thursday morning last, Captain Wm. Mathias, Master of the Marian, of Newport, hav ing spent the preceding evening at the Bristol Trader, a public-house in Milford, proceeded to go on board his vessel : it being dark, lie unfortunately approach. ed too near the Cliff, in hailing his boat, and fell over among some craggy rocks, by which his brains I were dashed out, and he expired instantly. DEPOT AT PERTII.—On Tuesday, an attempt by the prisoners in the D; pot to effect their escape was discovered and prevented. A mine, on which they had been employed three days, was excavated from within the privy of the prison, allotted to the Petty Officers, and had been pushed as far as the outer wall, on the inside of which the earth gave way, and occasioned a detection of the stratagem. The dig. ging had been carried on through the day, and at night, when the privies are inspected, the stones which had been removed, were so neatly and regu. larly replaced as to prevent suspicion. The Petty Officers are confined in the upper story of the prison, through the floor of which they had cut a hole, by which they might pass to the lower. They had afire. wards cut out the lock of the door which opens to the yard, and consequently to the entrance of their mine. The lock Which connects the Gloucester and Bet ke. ley Canal with the Severn, having recontly been cleaned out, was on Monday se'unight opened for the passage'of vessels, and accordingly a barge, laden with coal, was admitted into the basin.. Some venug men having procured three swivel guns, to celebrate the event; and wishing to cause s louder report than usual, inconsiderately rammed down the charge of one of them very forcibly with wet wadding von applying the match it unfortunately burst, and wounded three of the bye-standers so severely, that one of them, Mr. S. Dowdeswell, a reputable farmer, of Standish, died on the spot, leaving a young willow and three infant children to lament hi. untimely laid; another (the youth who fired the fatal piece) lived only till the following night; but-the 000 most dangerously hurt, still survives; and fheream some hopes that he may ultimately recover.—(Giou cester Journal.) A worthy Ilebrew went the other day into a Oh lic-house, in the neighbourhood of Leadenhall-mar. ket, and offered for sale, to some persons in theta'''. room, a very elegantly polished time-piece, which was decbrated with great taste. The sum he :weed for it was live pounds, but nobody offering Stit'll price, and many wishing to obtain ti article, the) proposed that it shottld be set up for auction. After some consideration the Hebrew agreed, and the time piece being knocked down at twenty-two shillings, he was paid and departed. The lucky purchaser, upon examining it closely, was surprised to find that it otis very difficult to open the back, where it was neces sary to wind up the works, but, ben; determined to view the mysteries of his acquisition, he broke it open, and, to his astonisliment ‘ found that it was stuffed with pieces of leadi for the purpose of remov ing suspicion test!riuw( . _ DRUILY-LAKE THZATRE.—The impetuous • eager ness to view the interior of this fine structure, and which occasioned so much alarm and inconvenience on Saturday night, having materially subsided, we had last night a fairer, as less interrupted, opportu nity of contemplating and admiring its various beau ties, accommodations, and magnificence. The spa cious vestibule, the noble staircase, the lofty dome, the ample and superb saloon, with its concomitant refectories, the exquisite proportion of the Theatre itself, and the brilliant, tasteful, and matchless dis position of its ornaments and decorations engage and occupy the mind and imagination with a mixture and fulness of enjoyment as %Indescribable as rare. The entablature, in fresco, behind the damal staircase, as well as the Royal Arms and lateral figures over the stage, are specimens of the artist's skill which, we believe, are incampambte, and seem much more like sculpture than painting. A great improvement in the disposition 61 . the Stage is effected in the exclu sion of those fixed doors in the front which we have bees aceestomesir to sse at bni moment adniitting • - 11facbsbito • the .elespler . lot g pilnans, and the e 11 • 1 " i DON : Printed and Publi*lg.sl r►v 0. ! nvou,nA b g 'preposterously cintiOnting tviionßirnham Forest. "t s. 4 roxiasa Owslics. 81. 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