The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-01-24 00:00:00

e womb' be a dangerous at• I am these men do. wooer Amy thing! Bat if to relict ° cod poor rates, they attempt me of reducing the interest oa salable the faith in torero- Is, so contracts, no jabs : the rid °there, who have heretofore piity of the system. will no tit loyal offers of life aid fre es of Exchequer bills, or the , bow is the interest to be paid. am, exclusive of the lend, are ■ the pound? So let as twist or sbape or fors we please, it mast ind nothing bet a full. fief, and I OVA Honss or PARLIIIIIIIIT. • --- - t averting the ileager which rid* destruction. load from Lisbon, and brosgbt Sae prefect for establishing h we stated in our paper of Mon greed to by the Cortes. has re and is inserted in the Mario The charier Is glatited fur 20 10.000 shares, each of the value pail bait in paper currency and seripdon to be opened*. the Ist sr the iespectioa of the person t of the Cortes ; and as soon as ▪ subscribed. ISO subscribers. umber of shares. are to form a choose, by a majority of votes, a ton, each of whom must be • by naturalisation. and be • pro bates. On the 2d instant, the ie discussion of that part of the t relatet to the judicial authority. abate, the following resolutions ly—That there shall to 25—That there shall manner expressed in o' teb to the New Minister THE STA' 1 leg &MD. [FROM Tar 11017TIIIIRN aaroSTsa Or lILTVRDAT4 FATAL A .—A dreadfai oicarretscs took place yesterday, seven miles from &Won s bemire the Ulonakilty Yeomanry, under.the comm andand of Corals Hungerford, sod about 500 of the peasantry. The Revenue officers and Clonakilty having bad private in formation of an illicit distillery, proceeded to the spot with the yeomanry. made the seizure, and took the owner of the still, named Buckley, and another man whom they found at work, prisoners. As soon as the circumstance wai knows, the country people assent, bled to the number of 500. and strewed every indica ' don of a hostile spirit, by, immediately commencing throwing stones, and were about to rescue the prisoners and the still, when. Captain Hougerford re twastrated with, and cautioned them, at their peril, to desist. otherwise he would, if attacked, shoot the prisoner. This injnaction had not the desired effect; the country people continued to bear on him, and shower stoles on this pony On which, we are sorry to say, the threat was pat Imo es cation, and Buckley was killed on the spot. As be was tied to the other MSS, Walden togrtber, en Irk* it was supposed that they was the NUN fate. Ap a eral attack then took plus. whoa she yogrotaurg Ired upwards of sixty rounds. and drovel ... th!r pie la di directions.. That' their charge to-Sirroakilty. lodgod the still in the King's Stures, and neared their prisoser, without farther ma lestation. The Gentleman who furnished us with the infor mation left Clonakilty at alms o'clock, and was over taken on the road by two Gentlemen, who did not leave it for some time afterwards, sod they informed him, that horns were sounding on the different hills, and that the people were coagregatieg together, in great numbers, with the evident intention of making anotber attack. We bare not heard of the mustier of the country people aho have suffered ; bat, from the shots fired, it is supposed many mast ban been killed land wounded. 1101 V, BUJ , notwithstanding all lorposes of the Royalist atiun to fight San Martin, ... , nt a defeat solely by his entry rtreas did not possess more than provisions, mid was closely se Portuguese Deputy. at . a Eavoy at the same place. Dew lioverumeet et Chi" _ . of die King of Portugal, ,eit as to leave .o doubt tlsority of his Most Faithful lit of this tscogoitioa, as laid i era, is, that she oboditatto . tit keitiosty of a Goveraasoot iv-eh.- eiftisei.ra r is williogosse to adopt I. Asseries—oiesoing. of 'all come within his ddsi►. _ ie Aida has Wowed big Majesty rfaith/el is his acquiescence in established in his native king bim to be the first to acknowledge broad. We treat that this exam alley on the part of Portugal mill itry nearer home, and to wheat it is such wore beneficial. of Independence of the Spanish and the Articles of the new Coo -1 received. The Declaratioa is ty of St. Domingo le the Spanish 1, 1821, first year of Indepen by Jose Noises de Caren., Pre- Lopes de Caters*, Secretary, be % other i odividoals. It commences yle ;—" No more submission—no no more obedience to the caprice bind of Madrid. In these few verde is contained the firm resole le of St. Domingo this day proclaim e Declaration then alludes to the age of three hundred and twenty is described as a sufficiently long of what was to be hoped from a is the Kings of Spain." The I sod oppressions under which the i snug that period are subsequently I rhst energetic terms, and it con- i jog, that " if Spain recognises sad laration, it shall henceforth be 'ated as a friend : but, if It st. he Independence Which bas been are prepared to defend it with fortune, and their bonottr."— Act, which is also dated on the let rticies, the first of which declares the rti a free and independent State. The t is to be Republican, but established , enieot principles of national rem tie, a Provisional Junta of govern , consistlee of the Captaiskieneral, and deputies from the fire districts fish part of the island is divided.— loge the final regulations, and coma anal system. The fifth article pro tion shall be sent, with the least 'resident of of the Colombian Republic, at has taken place at St. Domingo, Klein of the inhabitants to connect onion with the States, which actually hlic, or those that may hereafter he ath article decrees, that another de feat to the President of the Republic rich part, proposing a treaty of amity, ince for their common defence, io case ion. The remainin g . articles deter cal, civil, and municipal rights and eighteen secures the liberty of the rtain regulations and penalties. an extract of a private letter from annary 21st rived here this day, it appears that the in have been formally opened for the portation of manufactured goods and ascription. Importation of manatee. I . 25 per cent. ish vessels • 15 ditto. 'petition of specie 2 ditto," A requisition , Fingal, the Earl of Bective, the Meath, Lords Gormanstown, Nestorville. and Killeen. and numerous other personages of rank, character, and fortuae. Meath is the native county of ear Illustrious Viceroy, and it becomes it to set so creditable so ex ample to the other counties of the kiagdom. The meeting will take place on Saturday next, the 26th instant. A county meeting is also in progress in °Away. The Catholics of the county of Clue are to hold a meeting at Ennis, for the purpose ofpresenting a Con gratulatory Address to his Excellency. We have rea son to think that % similar address, from the inhabi tants of the unsay at large, and of all persuasions will also be presented. A meeting of the Roman Catholics of the county of Roscommon, was held at Roscommon on Saturday. for the purpose of framing a Congratulatory Address to the most Noble the Marquess Wellesley, on his appointment to the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland. LORD A. Hamterex V. DUNCAN S ZZZZ NEON. PRINTER IN EDINRUROII. This was one of a se►ies of adios' which have I lately bees Instituted against the late PAinborgh news• paper called *, The Beacon." and arose out of a re chassis; petition which had been presented to the Court of Session against a decision of Lord Pittnilly, Lea Ossiiskry. who bad remitted this cause to the Justesitrie , The argsment same on this. day. when the Court was crowded to excess, and the amigos pre seat delivered their opinions. The unanimous deci sion of the Court was as follows:—" The Lords har ing advised the petition with the answers, find that is the ciresostaaces of the nee the Lord Ordinary was warranted in remitting to the Jury Court, and find the petition incompetent, dismiss the same and dears." The consequesee of this decision is, that the action must be tarried into the Jury Court. and there it must be determined whether any and what issue can pro• perly be submitted to the Jury. If such an issue can be settled, it will be for the Jury to determine the question of fret, whether Lord A. Hamilton is entitled to any. aml what damages, from Mr. Stevenson. The of action canal. remarks that were pub- Lordship, certain per- Glasgow. Contains llasgow with a Rejorni. so , are , state, prevueleatidi, in giving evident/capon oatb before the Cowstaittee. as well as some blame attaching to several persons in the office, bas led to some dismissals. The proiesillugs of the Victualling Board are veiled is obscurity, and the supposed magnitude of the abuses is only thereby increased in the general sespicion. It is certain that thee/leers to whom we before alluded have beelltaitected to the several penalties of which we spoke. 'ifatisfirlind also, that a Commission has been sitting, eonspeeill ;w• Lords'of the Admiralty, assisted by the Secretes) , dad Solicitor; for the investigation of the abuses. Now, without speaking a word more respect ing the misconduct of inferior officers, we say that the 1 1 1 messily of forming such a commission, at once proves the Inadequacy of the Board. Does not a commission, esiosietiag of strangers, appointed to examine the con cons of a mercantile house, 'since the unfitness of the partners to conduct their own affair ? In the same man ner, if the Victualling Board, or any other Board what ever, is iocepable of detecting and repressing the abuses of its own servants, till those abuses have attained such a magnitude as to attract the general attention of Go vernment, we say at once, that such a Board ought not, to exist ; it ought to be dissolved, and recast. Indeed we ' recollect, when the relative of a certain Lord of the Ad miralty was made one of the Commissioners of the Victu alling Board, we then stated that the new Commissioner, most preposterously taken from the army, was not a nose of habits suited to his new employment ; and that the appointment was made merely to give bin) a pension mail the pplolie money. We fear the same thing may be said of others in this laird. Oa the detection of every sisgie abase by the Commission now sitting, an inquiry, leeks geodes, will necessarily spring up and suggest Dien' to every one's mind—how came the Board to overlook this aet of misconduct ? of what use was a body seder which , that abuse has been so long practised without observation ? _ _ _ When we use, u we have done. the word " abuse" in the preceding remarks, we must be understood as merely employing that term upon the strength of the dismissis of which we spoke yesterday : of the deeds reilly done, we know very little; we cannot learn that they are of a very reprehensible nature. Among the dismissed is said to be one—even a Cenunissioner—who violated the or der which himself bad written; his case is of course the worst,. The act of taking up Victualling Bills, pur ehaseable Uke all other Government paper is said to have been prohibited to the people io the office, only heron.. it was thought to interfere with their employment, or might too much engage their attention ; not that it w..s conceived to be, Or could be, illegal or dishonourable: cod among the most trivial violations of the rule is said to be that by one who had only taken op a bill or to o for a sister•in-law. The last but most remarkable occurrence is the mode of correction adopted by the Commission itself ; for w • Gad that the subentate for she dismissed Commission, r, whose salary shank' have been saved to the country, is mother army gostionson considerably advanced in years. who has bees brought swaystrom the Navy board. We may add, that in pursuance of their Manlius' to search into and detect abuse wh it is likely exist, the Committee of Inquiry mean to investigate'. expenditure of that branch of the ,Victualling Office which is at Deptford. Yesterday afternoon an Ingot-ition was take' fore Thomas Shelton, Esq. Coroner, at the Blue Boy, Lent-street, Borough, on the body of Om Glassp 'Ol, Eeq , aged 48, who put an end to his ence in the manner we stated yesterday. Mr. Henry Webb, residing in the house of the deceased, deposed that the deceased was his consin, and was one of the chief clerks in the Victualling Office, Somereet House. Witness arose about eight o'clock on Tut morning, anti was brushing his coat in the hall, w the deceased came down stairs in his morning gown, passed by him. Witness, as he passed, asked him? he found himself ; he replied, not very well. 'Flit ceased went into the kitchen, and in a few moments ness heard the report of a pistol; he ran down stt and found the deceased lying on his right side, on door, apparently quite dead; a vast quantity of was scattered on the wainscot. Witness was very alarmed, and ran up stairs and acquainted Mrs. pool of the event ; be thee set off to inform the rel of the deceased, who lived close at hand. On I tarn be found Mr. Baylis, the surgeon, and several the neighbours is the house. Witness afterwards 1.- a horse-pistol, which had keen recently discharged. For the last three mootlas the deceased had betn reel low anti desponding state of mind, and was s reserved in his manner. He lived very happily with wife, to whom he ball Italia unapt! twelve tun, bat' no children. Witness considered Lim te bile • ranged state. Mary Roberts, the maid- aaaaa nt, deposed that ceased had been in a melancholy state for some time. On the morning of the shocking event he looked tremely wild and dejected. Witness was in the kitcl when the deceased came down stairs, but left it, tie ks. entering, to attend on her mistress, who had* sot 4efs her chamber. On her getting np stairs te the bed-cocci, she howl the report of a pistol ; Mrs. fl, heard it alto. and asked what the noise was. Witness replied it was the back-door slammed to. At this inonsent the last wit ness ran np stairs, and said the deceased ha shot hint. self. Witness called the assistance of some eeighbours, anti ran immediately for the surgeon. Mr. Josiah Baylis, assistant to Mr. Heywood, surgeon, in Blackman-street, deposed that he went the honse (lithe deceased, and found hint lying on his riht side in the back kitchen ; he felt his wrist. his pulse bad ceased; he was qaite dead. Wi turned him on his back, when he discovered an sive wound from a pistol shot just below the bone; the heart was ruptured, and had pros through the wound, and was lying on his breast a.. !accreted. The protrusion of the heart was caused by the violence of the explosion, together with the rebosed lug of the charge which h td sent it forward. A grotlensan frost the Victualling-office attesdtd b desire of the Commissioners. from whose a ut o ma t ist appeared that a number of clerks bad, and were aft to be dismissed from the Victnalling-office. The mac - mination of the deceased had been taken previous' • his dismissal ; when the deceased signed the same, said, •• I have now signed my death warrant." no doubt the deceased was in a deranged state. The Jury consulted for a few moments, r turned a verdict. " That the deceased had shut self, being at the time is a state of tataporary rangement." Yt stertlay 1 Coin at Wirelitirririld( 4- . Bast India-house, when Captain T. P. swore into the command of the ship Asia. roust to Madras and Bengal. Captain W. Havisidee sander of the ship Thames, took leave of the previous to departing for Bencoolen aad China. " Paean AGAINST OoLD. Riehard Brintley flan once lost a considerable sum at Whist to start woman of fashion, more remarkable for fectation than her good sense, and her acrimony leer good nature. When the table was broken • Sheridan tendered this Madam payment in bawl which were not then so current as they were an d which, perhaps, my lady did not then enders..., tt Oh, sir ;" said Mrs. Consequential," in all the greell boners where 1 play, they pay in gold."—" Probate , Madam:" replied the wit, piqued no doubt, with Lady Fortune, as with Mistress Insolence, in all the little houses I frequent, they use par The late Benj. Hawes, Esq. who died at W. on Friday seltnight, has, by his will, direct munificent benefaction of 10001. each, to be • I the following Societies after the death of a .. j hair relation, who had constantly contributed health and comfort :—ltoyal Humane Society, for the Destitute. Foreigners in Distress, Pbilanthi Society, St. Luke's Hospital, Magdalen Magdalen Asylum, Indigent mind. Satiety Relief of Prisoners for Small Debts, Jews' ?cool lEnd, London Truss Society, General Peoitet London Hibernian Society, London Hospital, % chapel road. British and Foreign Bible Society, Missionary, Religions Tract Society, Quaker's House, Methodist Preachers, Presbyterian ditto. tist ditto, independent ditto, Roman Catholic Quaker's ditto. Donate ‘'s ANNUAL ItSGISTQL—The Pr of this work have the satisfaction to announce printing of the volume for 1520 will be completed very few weeks. The unusual delay which has wee in the publication, is attributable to a change it conduct of the work, the illness of its condoler, the unparalleled quantity of Events, foreign dad domes. tic, which required to be ...pressed within minierate, though not the usual limits. The commencement of a New Reign suggested the propriety of introducing. foe the first time, a variety of useful lists and dommientsos exhibit to future ages the present Political State of teat i Empire. Three Revolutions abroad, and an eerteasardi nary number of State Trials, all of which a • - unduiehout which an Annual Register woul complete, sufficiently acculant for at least a pm delay. But a similar delay need not again be bentled, as the volume for 1821 will be published usual time. The Editor's object has bees to thing which it may hereafter be desirable to ' to leave ncomplete; eyed the publishers I quite ready to rest their claims to the higle public tronage ;thick the work has ever pommeled, on ' ratter oldie forth-coining volume. PSDESTRIAN PiRIPORMANCII.—LateIy, for . of a our-io.nred no-c, John Hudson a bar4eman, 65 years, walked from Mr. Skiiler's Fleshing buns , Rochester-bridge, to hisidstone.bridge, Wire of nice miles, earryiog a bushel of rusk oat laying it down the whole way, in two 25 minutes ; he only stood still a few mil bearing his load. while drinking a pint of won the wager in excellent spirits,-and walked back to Rochester, singing jovially fiends who accsoupauied ~~ ll be Juries in • grounds of action are certain remarks that were pub- On Wednesday sennight a number of stacks lished is "The Beacon," reflecting on his Lordship, shall heJnriea of corn were destroyed by incendiaries between Cork for mitrospoodiog on the Corn laws with a certain per- in the Yd pro- and Braden ; and near Newcastle another barbered& v son wbo was convicted of High Treason at Glasgow. ' murder has been committed. 'I he Police, however, for presenting a , petition to the Boum of Commons moister of War are no the alert. Persons charged with the murder from soother who bad been imprironed in Glasgow all we are told have been apprehended, and many other persons have on a similar charge, sad for corresponding with a yalist General, been lodged in gaol on the charge of Wititeboyism. third person es the subject of Scotch Burgh Retort*. 1 Marti., and It is said that Mr. Serjeant Vandeleer, and not Mr. ___ _ r by his entry Borrowes, will be the successor of Mr. Justice Daly. inCTUALLING OFFICE. less more than --(Dublin *topsails. Post.) —.....-- ras closely in- We bare head, bat eau scarcely afford credit Mille The late proceedings at the Victualling-office having statement, that we litodred and ten procesaei hive excited considerable interest. we present the following uty, at Buenos been catered at the r o h i Sessions, for tithes doe lot an kh, f rom sh e papers of this morning ...... nue place, the I. . oat of one wish Is this county II - 116 mull For some weeks past we understand that an inquiry if Chili is re- cues the crop, the tithe of !bleb Is so demanded. was has been carryleg on at the Victualling-office by a Com- Irtagal, and the not taken of the greeidd;. and a large portion if it rallan (Sir 0. Cockburn and Sir 0. Clerk) of the Lords doubt of its pro- washed away by the Antis: If this is the fact. It is of the Admiralty, respecting the manner of examining it Faithful Ma- really a melancholy prig of the severity of the tithe thewertentiesif Pursers, am well as into some charges of nt, as laid deers system. We may notice the cirsumetance tree far calleskra between clerks and pursers to increase the obedience of a hereafter.—(Gone Paper.) ' • hinge et weight of provisions is the hands of the lat- a Governing. A requisition ball e presultind 46'44_ gh Mho , . ,_ the victuanis Chili. ma .14 e clffiat the e,nrty ma , fqe 'flick any went eis tee ry . g it ie Age it towards Why, clergy aid gentry, ' ress e ;iirirs , ming, of course. geese Wellesley oa the auspicious appointment of his inquiry aged ea Salankf 14 " r and from what we can his delleitiou. Excellency as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. 0, ig g , gather from a chant respectable source, though not so :ed his Majesty natures to the requisition include those of the wad of fully mwe shdeld wish to lay before the public, we are acquiescence in Fingal, the Earl of Bemire, the Lord Biebell'of enabled to silt:, that considerable prevarication, in . ____ _ _ .- mei( n ely to to the Office en he- Coat leorge as one esereet ue It.y . when rn, and sn'bow 'lse dr- ts u it- stairr, on the ' blood r melt Glass • rlatives his re ant of ids saw target!. •en it a as very pith hire bat bad ▪ ash the dc- ced ex- kitchen , on lsis• sot left• el-ronai, it oho. . lit was Nu nit: lot rlibours, soil, the went to Lg on his net, bur Witness In exten• is breast • rotruded est much allied by reboshd- raided b 4 3, resist .r o'it The rug • rvioas' same, he ' He bed a• id es- that teary dot • ••„C' von Was • !unsi g ned We, coo- lie Court net. ley Sheri. to en tip. pr her a may than n up, Mr. sak-ndtes, re lataly, iderstand. the greet Probably, see,• " but paper." Cothing, rected tba e wade to • near and led to his y, Refuge lauthropic . • • Hospital. y fur the Poor, Mile oitentiary. al, White- riety, The Imes Poor litto. Hap- olic ditto. proprietors cc that the ,pleted in a is occurred Cage in the • actor, and lad domes. waitieratr, meant of a lacing. fur inewierots k to date of thee r errant-di- ere One. • k part of the be appre• shed rt the ▪ omit no- know, end blishers are public pa- an the eita• pig :m r a a n p i r e s a h r ire :e i : . lige. a dis- - waft. with- bcr,rs ae4 itnoth. lAA bite, and • keeru eras ly with Lie - • • rntts-i-t; MR. GOODACRE'S LECTURES. Mr. Goodaere has requested us to coatraslict an err statement which was inadvertemly inserted in our paper of Thursday last. We observed that Mr. Ooodacre was about to retire from the metropolis, in disgust at the ill-treatment be had received from a want of public patronage. Had Mr. 0. any such in tention, it would be altered in consequence of the support be received during the latter part of last week from numerous and respectable audiences at the Haymarket; and we understand that Mr. G., having completed his engagements with the proprleeore of that Theatre, purposes commenclog a course of Astro. nonskid Lectures in the city. At all events, we are happy to find that public opi nion has not fallen so low as we feared it had ; and we rejoice to observe that these is a prospect of Mr. Goodacre's being remunerated for the carom he has incurred in providing the most costly appetites to elucidate his subjects. The fact is, we think that Mr Goodacre, however able be undoubtedly is, a. a man of science, has not the talent of quackery, which unfortunately has brought most sciences (and no one more than that of Astronomy) into undeserved son. tempt. The Duke of Sussex left Mr. Cokes seat in Norfolk, on Tuesday, on a visit to the Bishop of Norwich, at the Palace, Norwich. Sir Francis Burdett has been laid up tires weeks. in consequence of a kick from bis horse, whilst mount log it at the Leicester Hunt. about a month ago. The blow was received In the right knee. Happily no evil results are sow apprehended. The Baronet Is gone to Bath to take the waters. Box APAIITI'II WILL.-Thu Headman who is agent in London to Count Menthols's, and who says be has is his possession an attested copy of the original will of Bonaparte, has declared, in a letter to the Lifter of a soraing paper that the copy which Count Non tholes has sotioed, differs essentially from the origi nal, mid is "full of errors." This Gentleman, how ever, does not condensed to itate what the snarl as. r • COURT , MO'S BBBCH.—.Tors Der. ---....-- 111110E-RTRRET ASSOCIATION. Tns 11111.110 IP. cutest. Mr. MARITAT?, 1110 behlllfd the prosecution. moved that an indictment, preferred against the defendant, should be 'wheel. Mr. Justice BnaT enquired if any costs bad been incurred _ . ------- Mr. Usaavarr waa wet aware that there had. Mr. DIA LTST, howe►er, stating that it was custom• cry such motion should be mo►ed with costs . The Learned JUDAS desired it should be so in the present case.—Motion granted. It will he recollected that this was an indictment for disposing of a publication• called "Queen Slab," and was down foktrial at the Sittings after last term. COURT MAURO'', JAN. 19.