The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-05-18 00:00:00

its child, it would be 'worse than silly iti the Off spriug to lift lb hand against its parent. The Duke of gusaex then proposed • j„,,ph For, ling. the graluitotts all worthy SPe wary of pia Irbtitutioth which was received with the warmest plaudits, *4 thanks returned by Mr. Fox; - who stated, that when be first gave his support to Mr. Lancaster, he met w ith considerable opposition from his friends, and was told that he was a madman for engaging in such a c ause. Notwithstanding this he persevered, and was now happy to find himself surrounded by so m any madmeu—LA laugh.]—w ho were promoting the glorious cause. The business of the meeting was conducted through the evening in a manner which. reflected the highest credit on the Royal Personage who presided, on the s te wards, and on all the company present. Several elegant fAdies were in the gallery, who continued to enjoy the harmony they witnessed till a late hour.— many of the pupils of Mr. Lancaster ere also pre sent, and a subscription from them of 11.55. was an :ouoced by the worthy Secretary. The sum announced in the course of the evening, including 7001. of debt converted into gift. amounted to '25701. The chair will be filled next year by his Grace the Duke of Bedford. Arr. Mails. Dee. I • 8 0 O 0 O 9 lieffthry at M. i& Open- • THE STATESMAN.- LONDON: MONDAY, MAY 18 1 1812. It Is now generally believed anti's. present Mi nisters are not able to form amongst their 'Arty an efficient Administration, and have therefore resolved to resign their sitoationr► A new Ministry, to be composed et Marquis WELLTALET, Mr. CANNING, and some of the most distinguislled men of all parties, is talked Of. But we have reason to believe that, if a change is meditated, none of the supporters of Mr. Purr's system ss ill be included. Mr. WurranEan, we understand, who formerly declined, even under Mr. Fox, to accept of any situation in the Govern ment, is now disposed to contribute, by his talents, to the deliverance of the country from its impending 4.ngers. Ile is spoken of to fill the situation air's. cretary of State for Foreign Affairs, which he is well qualified for, or for any other cation, where silents and integrity, like his, are so much wanted in the management of public affairs. Mr. WHIT. Inman gave a grand dinner yesterday at his house in Diver-street, which was attended by .many of the leading Members of the Oppostion. We are persuaded the interesting proceedings at the Lancasterian dinner on Saturday, of which we have given a full report in our preceding columns, will be read with pleasure by every real friend of the poor, and of the country. loras a groatild of mat exultation to see assembled together,in one place,per. ser.s of the highest rank in the kingdom attached to' the Church of England—individuals, whose un daunted adherence to the !Inman Catholic doctrines, Is so welt known' throughout the country, and Prb t to.tant Dissenters of every denomination all contend•, ingwith each otherwho should be foremost in proirotiog the great and important cause of Educating the Poor on the plan of Mr. LiNCASTEII. irltatit striking con trast '!nes this form to that hotly who haie of akated. to themselves the title of the " - Vational Institution.-" They consist'entirely of high churchmen, who mem ) by their intolerant measures, to say to the Friends of Mr. LANCASTER, " Stand ~ b y, for we are more Ay than yon."—The Lancasterian system will, mwever, prevail against all' its enemies, because its - Ind and leading object is to promote the truth. The Northern Liberties, a vessel which left New ork on the 16th April, touched at Sandy Hook on e 17th, and left that place On the 18th, has arrived Liverpool. She isOuppoitql to have brought Ame rican Papers to a late date,, which we expect 1$ ill ar rive to-morrow. We are already in possession of the debate which took place in Congress on the do cuments of Tissiew, but we have 'been prevented from publishing it by the mit press of 'other matter. Two Anbolt Mails reached. town* lest night, from which it appears that the Eretich took possession of Pinau on the 2941 April, and are likewise said to hare occupied Konigsburgh and Elbing. The Em peror of Hume is again reported to have left St. Petersburgh to joie his army. This forenoon an ,'her Anbolt Mail arrived, by which we have Got teuburgh Papers to the I3tb instaut : but their con term are net important. We have no room for ex tracts. lAIFORTANT NATIONAL DISCOVERY.. We are glad to learn that Josers LANeasTia, acting the fast meek, submitted to the Dukes of, Kr va and Serial, the Duke of BEDFORD, and Lord Somtavtauc, bid discovery of a principle applicable to Agriculture, existing in the order of nature, and confirmed Ng example daily ander the eye of —.The affect of the discovery will be to enable every person, who reduces the principle to practice, to in r crease the cropa of his land from the proportion of one -twentieth to one-half, according to the degree in the scale of experiment. It will be communi- Sated to the Public, and from It every person may MP - so THE .STATESMAN. gligernON OF JOHN I3E LLING Gild. MM, • - POII . THE MURDER OF MR. PERCEVAL. --.....-. Aim minutes before eight o'clock this morning, BintiataHAst was brought to the scaffold in front of the Debtor's doer, Newgate, attended *by Dr. FORD, the Ordinary, the LORD MAYOR, and Suzarres.— He appeared perfectly resigned to his fate ; and iu' about five minutes was launched into eternity. An immense crowd attended to witness the last moments of this extraordinary character, who, from the per petration of the deed to the moment of his execu tion, never betrayed the least symptoms of fear or remorse, further than sympathizing for the loss which Mr. Pzecevae's family had sustained by his death, On Saturday the Ordinary made several visits- te . him. He appeared affected with his situation, but persisted in defending the crime he had committed ; !and was altogether insensible to those exhortations ! which should induce him to propitiat e the merc y o f It' is a fit moment, before Parliam en t s h a ll pro ceed to vote monuments, or to grant more than a the Almighty, by the only atonement in his power— handsome provision for his family, to enquire why an unreserved acknowledgment of his guilt. The his late colleague, the Marquis %% T urmas:sr, felt Ordinary attended him ag ain between nine ' and t en himself called upon to resign his situatio n i n the poad Ca : binet. We b e li ev e it is lio secret in th e hi g h IL Sund ay on morning in his ce ll ; h e appeare d rat h er cal circles, tho ug h not generally k nown . A piper , detected; but dwelt on th e p rom i ses o f th e G ospe l , which; and hopes of a blessed immo r t a lit y , th roug h t h e me has been read (a n d indeed we have rea d i t ) P States, that the Noble Marquis felt it impossible for ; diation of the Redeemer. • He was particular in his him to continue in °ince, because all his efforts for I enquiries as to the hour and place of execution thiS conducting the foreign department of our affairs with mornin,g; and remarked that—" life had been a 'vigour and effect, were counteracted and nullified weary pilgrimage : to hira—the bliss. fleeting and Hitt- • by she influence o f M r . P ERCEV Al . i n t h e C a bi net. The. sett- it the Peninsula, particalerke was eery; the misery , permanent and real ; in laying it malstained with that energy which gale a chance to ; .n, he had nb 'vain regrets to maks." In this ese skill of our Commanders, and the gallantry off strain ho continued the convereation for some time, our troops, toinake it successful. And here We may : but could not be brought to make airy acknowledg be allowed, by way of parenthesis, to state a. fact ' meta of the crime he had committed. He had several not mentioned in the paper alluded to, but which hours sleep during l ast n i g ht and wrote a letter to his has come to our knowledge—that some ti me a g o Lord WELLING lON stated, that with the aid o f a sum wife, which was deliv ere d t o M r . NE WMAN. 'of 100,0001. the Spanish Government w ou ld b eve l We did. not hear of any accident thi s morn ie gm l been able to race and equip an army for the defence i except what arose from a scene o f con f us i on b y an ' or Gallicia, which would set free, at an auspicious ever drove ox forcing his way through the crowd.—. Moment, the whole of the British and Pertuguesel Af ter h ang ing the usual time the body offensive operations against the enemsrof BEL.. force, so as to enable him to advance tie —but Mr. important , LI NGH All was cut down and d e li vere d f or di ssect i on . PERCEVAT. declared, in the most peremptory manner, The greatest pivcautions were previously adopted that the case odour resources would not enable him to prevent accidents among the crowd.—A large bill. to apply any such extra sum to the war in the Penin- was placarded at' all the avenues to the Old Bail ey, sula. And yet he soon after, in complacency to the and carried aheut on a pole, to this effect :—" Be prevailing taste at head-quarters, was quite ready to of enterintt the Crewd!—Remember Thirty devote double the sum to the raising of extra bar. Ware •• - D racks in the neighbourhood of London, B r i s t o l, Poor Creatures were pressed to Death by the Crowd and Liverpool. 13arracks certainly u se l e s s a t token Ha gge rty and Holloway were executed!" this time, when there are so few troops in the To prevent any disposition to tumult, a military country, and net very constitutional" at any time.— force was stationed near Islington, and to the SoUth In every thing the Noble Marquis fo un d himself of Bl ac k - friars' Bridge; and all the Volunteer Corps crippled in the discharge of his functions, and in car- ,i.; the Aletrepolis received instructions to be under tying into exec aim, the measures which he con e .°' ceived to be the best calculated, for the success of the arms the whole of this day. great struggle in which we were involved; and there- • FURTIIER PARTICULARS. fore, on the very day when Mr. PERCEVAL proposed to bring in :he Bill, for taking off the restrictions from We have received the following narrative from a the authori.) of the 'tee ENT, the Noble Lord laid his quarter which may be confidently relied on :--= prayer before his Royal Highness, that he might be - The only persons that have seen BELLINGHAM, from permitted to resign. He made known this deter- ~, sentence to the moment of execution, besides , e s deter mination to Mr. P ERCEV A L in a letter, w hi c h th a t ' Right Honourable Gentleman answered hi terms eat- I the Ordinary and Keepers, were Mr. Alderman tying b, his Lordship. The PRINCE REGENT earnest- Wools, Mr. Sheriff Ilzveate, Mr. STEPHEN, M. P. ly betwecued the Noble Marquis to continue in place .brother e ituda* to. Ms. Wiusuensuitcs, his.-Josavia for a'time at least (the obvious meaning of which, we Burreewonvu, of Fleet-street, and the Rev. Mr. suppose, the Noble Lord could not mistake), and ee wresore, of John-street Chapel. The four first accordingly consented to hold the seals ; but it was went to the cell yesterday, at one o'clock, BELLING with no little surprize that he learnt that Mr. PER C EVA% had, without communicating the fact to him, new, was asked how he did, he answered very cheer and while he continued, indeed, to observe towards fully," lam as well as I can be With bread and-water." him the farms of outward civility and confidence, Mr. STE:puce saddressed him, by saving, that he was a made repeated 'applications to his Royal Highness to very intimate friend of Mr. PERCET AL ; that he did not nominate a successor to Marquis WEELESLEY ; and had actully, at different times, roposed to take his tome to see him out of any curiosity, but is ith a sitmere p pleasure on the appointment of Earl MOIRA, of Lord desire to know if he were fitted for another world; and CASTLEREAGH, and of Lord Stusotern in his room. that he was certain,it was of all things what MrePen- When thisdisiogenuous proceeding came to the know- c EVAL wished, if he wouldeleclare this to be the case. ledge of the Noble Lord, be renewed his application I'. era.' NG:IAM replied, that he had 'no enmity towards to the Newt REGENT to be permitted to resign.— '''and that hwould ' have. His Royal Highness at length said, that he should . Mr. Pritcevae, c as soon killed one of his own children ; but ha was bound hear his' determination through Lord ELDON, and two days" after the seals were sent for.— in justice to do what he did. He was about to The paper in question concludes with a declaration of elder fully into ae justification of his case, which he the opinion of she Noble Marquis on the very made- has always done since his confinement; but. Mr: quath talents. of M. PERCEVAL to the situation of Prime Minister, though he might possess abilities STEPHEN . begged hie, to dismiss every feeling of that nat:re and in a very energetic address of half an that fitted him for inferior situations in the State—that , s the Noble Marquis was resolved never again to act "our, endeavoured , to impress on his mind the ne under Mr. Pencevat ; but he by no means had the cessisty of a due penitence. He appeared very much desire or ambition to be Minister himself. • On the pleased with it. Mr. BUTTERWORTH also addressed 'contrary, he would he quite ready to act under others him at some length, During the whole of the time -under such men, for instance, as Earl Morit♦ or the was very attentive. He was asked whether he was Lord Hoer...ten—nor had he any objection to act with any persons—even with Mr. PERCEVAL, but of the Church of England ? He said yes, but that he went to other places of .worship, for religioe certainly not under him. We Mention the substance of this paper (which was in the heart,,and not iii the forms. He said he has been so long in circulation as to be no longer a se- had been attended is the morning by Dr. Fo RD, the Bret at the West end of the town), because it is fit 1 Ordinary, from whom he had received comfort and when there is Wilk of public honours and of reweede.,,eonsolation; thin he was' to see him again' On Mon . .. . leg the services of Mr. PERCEVAL by a inonome n t ,- to day morning at half past six. He was asked whether make knows the sentiments of his most able a n d dis tinguished coadjutor on his talents and c on d uc t i n he would Jike to have another Clergyman that . mi..............._ office.—(Morning 'Chronicle.) evening ?' Ile said lie should. like it very mech. , THE OPARKETS. . .....Mr. STEPHEN undertook to get a Clergyeteli Advises were received from Paris on &NNW , to • to attend, and in the evening Mr: Wit.OK:#: •• CORN EXObIaNGE., Mat 18. ' *, *: s• N it y. iht n tr i asta. y t t he pi ttaz e ,:il i ntioa ui r oa a i in n i p d r il i l;:g sr o l l . t , ~ The date of the 10th instant. It now appears that John-street Chapel, went to him. Mr. the allegatiou that Bole:meat had left his capital on sea mentioned Plat the Town Clerk • -of Liverw dull sale, and again lower . V Malt likewise. Wnite Pmet, ana the 4 nth is wholly unfounded. and sai d The arrivals of Oats make .he supplrialker considerable, hut.. pool and a Mr. PAWDEN had called, and said that his -el" sort of Beans , keep . their price .. *Gre y liel are . • ;'. The Cabinet Ministers have had meetings ever p w r h ic e es zt . Flour every wife and children would be taken care of.' He re- from the late demand, this ararte newly supportsth e last cinotcd Without variation. • 'night since the assassination of Mr. Peaceeae, and I at ten o'clock, ' hive not separated till about one in the morning. c 1 eived this information without any emo ti on ; ' ' 110:: Fioe ditto ads 112 s 130 s 1 Tick do. (pew) .. fin 74 155 144 . Do. (Fine Old) .. . -75 76 Another tarc:lng took place last nig ht said he should Jike to have seen Mr. PARDEE... Mr. live which was summoned by the Earl of Livearooe. A .58 nO i 1 uhind do. sil 59 , PARTIES and he, it is believed, had some businautee ear. , • ste 95 , , Potatoedo. • l,O meeting was also to take place this der Yat two o'clock gether. It is said he wrote Mr. PARDEN oti the . :White ' • rie • 33 (boilen) 6.5 g o y aw . seed ... e .. dr76 XBO at the Foreign Office. ; M on d ay of the Assassination, that he should 'plty t t r e epo, 74 78' Fine Flour ' loss. 110 e. , TY TS See(4ll. . • 100 105 Thertemmeti Council of the City .of London, on ' card that would surprise them all. Dacia : 1115. Beare ..-•-• - --.111W..- ..ts _ Satitrday last, unanimously voted an Address of 11841 TUVIRLD AlSititef.--sier 18. * ' , 'whole of this interum which was full an hour, 4El* ' To sink tow Otah per Mine of Bth.. Condolers* to the PRINCE REGENT, on the atrocious • assassination of Mr. PERCEVAL. 1 ' LINORAN appears composed, and conducted hims - PICI p ee r ....s e . 24. vo fe. .411..1 [mead o r c s on t -spi s t r ays .. 1848- with great firmness, net expressing any jorrow foe :ter - 53 - 7 4 0 1 1 . r e Gi' ' O 4 l a n h eX' 19 1511*.. CURIOUS • COMM DENCE.—The PIVII Of CHATHAINT the act except the of Mr. P k 11 .1. 4• 1 4 1 ! PPortt 7; : :ts i : ' (ft . . to 7 . 9.1 . . CarVga .. .... . . :..•• 9 11) : , as•to person ale' died iu the Houle of Lords, on the lath May, 1778; - , t • Limb i• u•O. To as. 0,1. Pi,.,• , , .• • ' He frequently said be had prepariel blinker fri2 g littaffe ... . .ft A Y-31.1 It ii ET. - Mr. PERCEvAL, Chancellor of , the Exchequer, was i ,4 • • - • ' l . l I . ^... $1 C 5. tin,- in 61. 0.. or% • . shot in the lobby of the H ouse ' p f C ommons; the time poet to go to his Father, and ,that he 5h0u t., ... . , • Ili vi •:... ie . 10 . od Ift3 , . 5... 04. . llth of May, 1812. I ?loosed wlien .the hoer arriyed.. .W.hea the pBe.tt -:t ea....".. Si. 64. 041. to 71.. Os. ed. .:-7 • , .%'•*- ... . . determine for himself the extent to which lie will try it on his own land. The chief expence of carrying it into effect being to latest more capital in-the in dustry of agriculture, which, at the same time, will. beneficially employ a great number of destitute poor. ---,We are assuted that the prinCiple is true and perspicnousy• and mill be brought forward and made clear by facts, equal to occular demonstration. The Dukes of KENT and SUSSEX, and the Duke of BEDFORD, and Lord Sosteaviu.c, have engaged to attend a lecture at the Freemasons' Tavern, which will be given early in the next month,/ when JOSEI`II LANCASTER will publicly explain the astonishing principle, on which the important discovery and im provement may be realised. The particulars will be duly advertised. were retiring, he asked allow him a hair-dresser to shave - him ) as ha was not fit to he seen by the Clergyman, Mr. Have tie told him he would not allow any person to see him with out heitas present, and that he was afraid he could not see him again that afternoon. He replied that his hands might be tied. • MARQUIS WELLESLY'S DECLARATION. Several men belonging to the 5111 Dragoon Guards have been left at Portsmouth to be tried by a Court- Martial, for disobedience of orders on their march to that place, to embark for l'ortugal. Their conduct was so extremely unsoldierlike, as to render it I%e:es sary to application to a regiment of militia for an escort. The f.ld Battalions of the 6th and tltst regiments are amongst the reinforcements for Portugil. The Ist battalion of the latter regiment is now 1200 strong. . - The old woman and her daughter, whom we mentioned last week as being accus , 41 of the murder or the latter's bastard child, at Lower St. St. Columb, were committed to Bodmin goal on Fri day last ; the Coroner's Inquest having returucd a verdict of wilful murder against them. It appears from circumstances, that the child was a week old when it was strangled; the stone under which it was found evidently being recently ,removed, the body was not putrid, and the mark of the cord round the neck quite fresh. The overseer had sent for the old Woman and her daughter, to examine into the probe the litter's" llaV l n g beediiielitryWrift rat et a imstard child, when the former only attended, and on being sent for her daughter, it is cuppoud committed the horrid deed, finding it i. , ,possilde to conceal the child. These wretcheiearrired at min during the time that the unfortunate 1%) at t as being executed. The old woman is upwards of 70 years of age and has had twelve children, the Baugh- . ter is about 30.—(West Briton.) • 'NAKN4L INTELLIGENGFI. 1 • PORTSMOUTH, M.sz 17, I Arrived his' Majesty's ships Aeasta and Parthian, from the I Downs; the Dauntless slots of War, ,with several ships finis 1 . Jarnaica l among which are the following:—Andrews, Prince ißegent; SamJel, Prince Fawn, Suspence, Bellona, and Fleet- , rwood;—they arc 40 days.from Jamaica; also his NI aim y's ships Tyrian pod Jaiper,.wit' f i a con ay from t h e Downs, among them atc.theStarchismess of Ely, Earl Howe, and tsaii•lie; and his Majesty's ship Sprightly, from a.cnilsk .. • DEAL, Met 17. • , Re mill in the Downs, the Essex nod Warren Hastings East indiatnen ; also all the Bengal ships, detaival by contraryt . Winds. • . • PLYMOUTH, MAT lfi. Sailed en Thursday the Hannibal and .dagniticent, of 74 guns; to the westward. ' • - Arrived the Snake, Captaip Burford, from the Cove of Good Hope, busload to London with pepper, nine Weeks passage; 'leg ates sloop of wax, Captain Brown, from a cruise; ?abound . brig of war from a cruise; and Intelligent brig of war fnmit the eastward. • • • • ' FA LIIO7TII, *AV 15. rri tied the rf HU cutter frpm.si cruise. • Sailed again the Laill4edbeßa packet for Lisboa, and thil Swlttsure packet for tifbraltar and Make a his Alartsays slit" noisoolae, for Oporto ; Alpha schooner, with a Mall for. Norsv7.:l York and Halifax r and the Montague man of war, Admiral. Dixon, with the outward•bound-Lost The British detachment in Bundlecund, under Captain Waysots, was in ' September engaged with a predatory force, commanded by GOPAUL Sisio. The . latter, being repulsed retired under the walls of the fortress of C iargong, a fastness of most difficult ap proach, and which he had strengthened with great skill. Ills troops gave • way, however, it the iirst ,charge of our infantry in front, and a squadre:t of the ;6th native cavalry coming- round, nearly at the same ipstant, by the ravines . on their rear, the.whol- force was destroyed or disperstsl. GOPAUt. SING, however, • ,with his usual good. fortune, escaped front the tail. The kingdom of Cahill was restored to perfect t;•attquillit, . The predatory bands had retired .from Herat; and Mahmood' Su All and his Vizier FUTTER Ku AN were preparing for an expedition against CANIMVit&•—• • Lord 1111Nro has been atilicted.with a lamene a la °ire of his legs. Sir S. Au - tumult-it, at the above; date, ' was daily expected at Fort St. G..orge from the Ma. labar coast. ;The celebrated Mahratta Chieftain, JEswyNr 11. to liorAltrt, died at Bhanpoorah,. on • • .the 27th of October. Lieutenant-General ElksvErt may be expected in the next fleet from India.. -He, .embarked at Calcutta in IX- Comber. * The complaints made during the last season retard. lag the French p r i va t eers swarming it the Monal'as.• sage, and other st r ait s In thte . West Indies, Itre.'re i newedi is consensewee 4ll lhattreaptnrea, • the as r of some of which we re orKitUrday posted at. tioyd'a x A letter from Halifax Say's, tfiet ti-report had reach ed that place from Huddersliekl, that Mr. Cart wright hat" leen shot by the Luddites. Loughbo rough was.a scene of tumult on Thursday, the lower orders having nomerenity assembled in .the market and supplied thems elves with the different ar ticitl of provisions at their own prices. Government have deemed it expedient to grant protections to all the River Fencibles lately disband‘ ed, which are to be in force until next Session of Par-. liament. ' • • I .) • '•• I tit f. • G` '~,~ ii t, Mr. She►iff HEYGATE, to ID %hare - him., fiS he vrafi not