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

iStell since last July ; and yet the Right Hon. Gen • tleroan had thought proper to put off the assembling o f parliament for 18 days longer than the period at which it became necessary. The Right Hon. Gen tleman ought to answer to the country why he made that unconstitutional Bill last one day longer than it n as necessary. With respect to the appointments on his Majesty, was it a fact that any of the Lords o f the Bed-chamber, or any of the Equerries, ever attended regularly, when there was a probability of his Majesty's recovery ? And now that such reco very was highly improbable, why was their attend lace necessary ? It was incumbent on the Right lion. Gentleman to shew the necessity of. this uew Court that he was setting up. He certainly did not wish to insinuate any thing unpleasant to her Majes ty, or to wound her feelings unnecessarily in any t j e gree; but it was impossible for him not to perceive, an d perceiving, it was proper for him to state, that i the additional expence was coupled with this Court ; because all that part of it which related to Lords of the Bed-chamber, was not necessary. ..lie wished to • know whether all this additional state was to be an i a b r idgment of so much of what it had been usual for the Kings of this country to receive eat their pa rticilar a ppointments to the Executive Power?—With respect to the 10,0001. additional to her Majesty, he.would not say a word about it. But taking all the sums into account, it wooldepliettrahat upwards of 200,0001. was to be pieced - at the disposal of the Queen,. for, the purpose of taking care of his Majesty. Geittle won should recollect that her Majesty the Queen has splendid personages about her person, and why then might not the same persons serve both their Majes ties ? Mr. Tierney went on to observe, that by the plan of the Right lion. Gent. the Civil List would be reduced 100,0001. per annum, and is supply this deduction in part, the Prince RegTnt was to be call ed on to transfer 50,0(Xe. of his annual income, which upon the cessation of the Income Tax, which be had hitherto in common with the rest of his Majes ty's subjects paid, would amount to 120,0001. Se venty thousand pounds would thus remain Whim in his character of Prince of Wales. He knew not pre cisely upon what ground any distinction should be made between the causes of expenditure in the dif ferent cases of his Majesty and his Royal Highness; except, perhaps, the increase on account of the Princesses. The Right Hon. Gent. had informed the House, that In the year 1801, 180,0001. had been voted in addition to the Civil List, but that it had been discovered in the following year, that the• whole still tell short in the sum of 121,0001. and the Right lion. Gent. had pretty plainly intimated that a similar excess might reasonably be expected to take place even after any subsequent addition which might he made— [Wear, hear!] —Vas this a satisfactory declaration to the House, or a sufficient inducement to justify them in pledging themselves to any vote before the precise nature of the demands, and the causes of each parti cular excess, were distinctly before them ?-iflear, hear, hear!]—lle wished to abstain from giving a direct opposition to any part of the Right Hon, Gentleman's plan, bet he tottfmed himself anxious ' to consider it in detail, and he could not help think ing that this was a subject that could not be too clearly or perspicuously arranged, and understood, previous to the Prince Regent's fall assumption of I all the functihns of royalty. All, however, that the Right Honourable Gentleman had condescended to say by way of elucidating this matter, was to inform , Them, that if the conjoint amount of the Dreits of . Admiralty and of the Scotch Civil List should be i sufficient to meet the recurring excess on the Civil List expenditure, Parliament would never hear of those excesses. But really the Right lion. Gentle man had so Many turns about him, there were so many reservations in his statements, and so much ambiguity in his language, that he carried the appear- ante to his mind to be always aiming to lead the ! House into a snare, and keep them wide of the real mark. Ile should, however, wait till the subject came Moreparticularly before the House, and in the mean' - time, as he did not mean to press a division he begged leaveao ask the Right Hon. Gentleman, whether hei You'd consent to defer his Resolutions till to-morrow? I -. hie:SHERIDAN said , that he was induced to say a feu, words to the House in consequence of some- I .thing which had fallen from the Right lion. Gentle man (Mr. Pecceval), in answer to a question put by I his Right Hon. Friend (Sir. Ponsonhy). His Right lien. Friend had inquired, whether it was the inten. lion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to bring fore' ward any measure bearing reference to the arrears due to the Prince of Wales, arising oat of the revenues of tkeThichy of Cornwall ? [Mr. Perceval being en= gaged in conversation, Mr. Sheridan said, he hoped the Right Hon. Gentleman was searching for more ac . curate information than he had just appeared to pos sess.] The answer of that Right Hon. Gentleman had, indeed, surprised him. It stated that he had not referred to these arrears, and that he did not propose to bring forward any mention of a claim, the justice 01 ahuch he was known to have always controverted. In this o pi n i on, h e b e li eve d , th e Ri g ht " Honourable Gentleman was rather singular. In the year 1802, the general sense of the House was understood to he decisively in favour of the validity and legality of the Prince's claims. In 1803, a Message was received from his Majesty recommending the stale of his Royal Highness's affairs to the consi deration of the House. From what passed on this occasion, the Right Honourable Gentleman says he conceived that the claims of the Prince were dually relinquished. He (Mr. Sheridan) had reason to be lieve that an impression to this effect was pretty pre valent nut of doors. He had himself met with it in various quarters. lie was on this account the more desirous that the true circumstances of the case should be made known. The Right 'Honourable Gentleman, he strongly apprehended had derived Eris belief, with respect to the Prince's nett-assertion of his claims at the latter period. (1803), from the loose reports of the debates in that House, contained in the Annual Register, instead of consulting that register of original documents, the Joureals on the table.. In that publication it was stated that his Royal Highness had made a surrender of his claims, in contradiction to which he would quote the Mee-, sage from the Prince, which Message had beenddlia vered to the House by Mr. Tyrrwhitt, and siaitottee Isequently recorded on their Journals. •No renuncia.. • lion, he again asserted, had ever been made on the part of his Royal Highness, becausesuch renunciation . must have been atteuded with very great injustice—in- 7- 1 111 E grrAITAMAN: -justice to his successors, injustice to his Creditors' at escaped, as the waves and current, *hire. ran large. The Welt Mon. Gentleman had certainly fallen 'strong southerly with the wind at N. N. W. wash into a very gross, though not an intentional error ; ed the people Wilt before they could reach the shore and in support of this, he read the message de. I Some endeavoured to save th e m se l ve s on a raft, but livered by Mr. Tyrrvelutt. Mr. Sherida n p u t it t o who, according to report, had perished. Accounts had the candour and fairness of the Right Hon. Gentle- likewise been received from Lemvig, stating that the St. George was entirely sank, a n d on ly t we l v e men o f man, whether there was in this language any thing that, bv a just and liberal construction, could be un- her crew saved. The ship was a b ove 300 f a thoms o ff the shelv e The six men saved out of the Defence ness's claims ? At that time it was well known that I have , derstoca as a surrender for ever of his Royal High on examination, declared, that th e first cause of this misfortune was the St. G e o r ge ha v ing last month the Commissioners had deducted ten per cent. with. bat leer masts in a gale of wind when off Gotland, in out exception, from the whole of the demands made upon the Prince, and that the Prince had declared it the . Belt, hnd consequently when she came into -the' to be his resolution not to take advantage of this de- North Sea, she could not easily be brought into stays duction. Although Parliameut had therefore meted or keep up with the fleet which ceme - out from Wingo.' 40,0001. per annum, no alteration was made in the near to Gottenburgh. on the 16th of this month, and Prince's expenditure. He had taken the liberty of mistd of eight ships of the line, viz. Victory,' of making this explanation, as there was much miscon- grins, Admiral Saumarez, Commander-in-Chief; ception on this subject. out of doors, and this mss - St. George, of 98 gons„Admiral Reynolds; Dread conception also possessed the mind of the Right ion. nought. 98 guns; Vigo, 74 guns, Admiral Dixon ; Gentleman. 'Cressy, 74 ; Orion, 74; Hero, 74; and Defence, The CHANCELLOR of the Exclip,QuF,R of * guns besides some other smaller ships o war 7, and a fle ; et of t at ess out 150 sail of merchant vels. f conceived it incumbent on him, - after the immediate As it was blowing a heavy gale, Admiral Saumarez allusiotts of the Right Hon. Gentleman, to repeat to gave orders for the Defence and Cressy to keep close the House the substance of what he had already to the St. George. The Hero and some other smaller stated, in answering the question put by the Right ships were directed, as the wind was against them, to Hon. Gentleman' (Mr. Ponsonby). He was anxious return btck to Wingoe, while a part of the merchant to say a word or two upon this point, beceuse he vessel s which had left the other ships of the line, shaped' should be extremely sorry to be misunderstood upon • thew course for England. The St. George, Defence, ! le v eithee iu or out , of the House, and more par- and C ressy kept the north sea five days in a dreadflit' ticularly in consequence of the Message read by the ' gale from W. N'' . W. west and south, but at length bad Right lion. Gentlemen, and Mad, as he could not to co m b a t with a terrible tempest from the N. W. un- ' help suspecting, for the first time this night. pil to t hey were lost. Whether the Cressy has been strand-, laugh.] He (Mr. Perceval) had certainly said t at i e d e 1 grtbe r towards the southward, or has got cl e ar, is it was not his intention to propose any steps what..l not • t ye • known. ever with reference to those claims, because, con- SLSSNORR, Dec. y 28.—Yesterda af t ernoon , at ha lt _ ceiving that those claims rested upon no legal found-, .1 pelt three o'clock, the enemy ' s fleet again put out to i ation, he was not the person who could be expected . ! the northward. Th e fortress fired many guns, and to frame any measure of that nature. The impres- `threw a number of hll s e sat them. The largest frigate sion on his mind, also, undoubtedly was, that these! among them had one of her sails claims had been finally renounced. But after the I mast damaged. The enemy likewise fired a number of ' I i wind SOOO Message from the Prince, which had been read, he shot, but without any e ff ect. It is thought that the was at a loss to conceiee how any friend or adviser fleet can scarcely have reached Anholt, as the . of his Royal Highness, possessing a mind so liberal after came to the northward. - ! and enlightened as the Right lion. Gentleman, could 1 GOTT EN RU RUN, Jan. 6.—A good understanding is ever rewire to recommend it to his Royal Highness expected shortly to take place between Sweden and Eng. to revive a suit, relinquished as this had been, in ~ land.—Tne French Consul here has suddenly left us, 1803. With respect to what had fallen front the land by the Stockholm mail we learn, that the French Right Hon. Gentleman, who spoke before (Mr. Minister to that Court took an abrupt departure from Tierney), he hadsetmied to think that there appeared I that city. As yet, nothing has transpired with regard in his (Mr. Perceval's) conduct a sort of contracting I to this sudden change of affairs ; but it is thought he spirit, and* wish to compromise with the Prince , discovered too great an intimacy between the Russian Regent. This, hecitald not help thinking rather an I Minister and the Swedish Foreign Secretary, who of extravagant idea, and one that he trusted would not late have been closeted together for several hours. The be countenanced by the House. The Right lion. Exdiange at the departure of the last mail from St. Pe- Gentleman then referred to what had been said by 1 ter°b"rg , was at 201. Mr. Tierney with respect to the Lords of the Bed- I Hemaenott, Dec. 28.—The English pursue with chamber, but in so low a tone of voice as to be in- ^ constancy their dreadful system of disbanding, by audible in the Gallerf. He concluded with remind- which they free their army and nation from all the lug' the House, that there would be further opportu- , old soldiers from whom they can expect no further Rifles of discussing the principle of his Resolutions, : services. We can ascertain the number of indivi and deemed it therefore quite unnecessary to post. duals they land, but not compare it with the register pone them. I of those embarked; the whole of 110 detachment sent Mr. SHERIDAN replied, that the question was 1 from Heligoland arrives upon the coasts of the em merely one of grammar and construction of lan.ipire. From the I.lth to the 16th of this month, gusge, and the Right lion. Gentleman had too fa. lettere have been landed upon the coast of the Etietern miliar an acquaintance with the English tongue to Ems 133 individuals, a list of which we have just remain long deceived on such a point. He was quite I received. They were sent in a cutter, No. 14, and sure the Right lion. Gentleman had been referring e a brig, No. 16. The last vessel was not able to to the reports of the Annual Register, and had such i come sufficiently near the land to ,effect the dis an opinion of his candour as to believe that if he I embarkation without danger. The passengers were could, before he went to bed, consult better authority, I obliged to go into the water; a part of them only was he would to-morrow come down and own himself ut. !able to gain the shore. A man name Johann Charles terly inistakee. [if laugh.] The import of the Rouse , discharged as un fi t for service, has just arrived Prince's Message, in 1803, was obviously this, that ' at Hambyrgh. The vessel in which he came lost 16 although you, the house of Commons, have voted men in the disembarkation. This man, who, previous me an additional sum of money for the purpose of to going to England, had been for a length of time in enabling me to resume the rank and dignity of my , the service of President Bartel() and Dr. Hasse of this station, I find myself, in justice and honour, unable I town, bears all the marks of the reverses which he to comply with this, your object. Nevertheless, I suffered during the six years he was in the British trusting to your liberality, I shall not now urge those : Army. Nothing can be more touching than the de claims, which are now undergoing legal investiga- i•tait of his labours and sufferings ; nothing better cal tion, and do accordingly now relinquish the suit. If eulated to excite indignation against the perfidious the Right lion. Gentlemat would promise to examine Government which recompences men, by the most in the Journals of the House, he could not fail to dis. famous abandonment, and the risks of almost certain cover the incorrectness of his information, and would shipwreck, the moment their services cease to be use also find that all the great legal authorities of that I Nl.—(Correspondent, Dec. 31.) day, except himself, acknowledged the validity of i NAPLES, Dec. 7.—The English have me l ee an at the Prince's claims. i tack upon the town of Reggio. The damage caused Mr. C. ADA M spoke shortly. We understood by it hardly deserves to be mentioned ; and as the Eng him to recommend to the House the vote of a sum I dish have no other happiness than that of hurting, of money for the repairs and improvement of Carl- they wit' find neither consolation nor recompense re ton-house. suiting from that they made. All the losses, on the The Resolutions were then put and agreed to— contrary, fall upon themselves. They themselves " That it is expedient that a sum not exceeding confess, they had many killed and' wounded; de. 70,0001. he gtanted out of the Consolidated Fund to serters assert, theday after the action they saw a great her Majesty," &c. &c. number of women lamenting at Gen. Maitland's door " That it is expedient that provision be made foe the loss of a husband or son. We likewise know, enabling Isis Royal Highness to assume," &c. &c. that two of their gun-boats were rendered incapable Mr. 'PI ERN EY moved, that the Papers laid •' of further service, and that a mortar which burst the table be printed.—Ordered. 'in the midst of the fire, augmented their loss and da- The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER mage, The intelligence, which we receive from the moved, that a Secret Committee be appointed to exa- Lettoral of the kingdom, washed by the Adriatic, mine into and report what were the ordinary pay- States, that the enemy had for a considerable time meats made out of' the Privy Purse, for which it, left these waters. might be expedient to provide, and that Mr. Ryder, The gales which they lately experienced through- Mr. Sheridan, &c. be of the said Committee. out the whole extent of the Gulf, has caused them Mr. FREEMANTLE moeed e lhat there be laid great losses, in consequence of their having no before the House an Account of all sums applied itt friendly port in which they can take shelter. Thus, aid of the Civil List, from the sth of April, 1801, after having consumed in these sees the fine season, to the present time, distinguishing each year, and without preventing the coasting trade between the ports from what sources derived.—Ordered.—Adjourned. of Abruzzes de la Pouille, and those of the kingdom of Italy, the Illyrian provinces, and Corfu ; these insular pirates hive been forced to abandon the thea tre, upon which they wished to exercise their vii. lanies.—(2lbeille du Nord, Dec. 3.) Viesee e Moe 18e—The most profound h e still envelops the deliberations of the Bengt. Diet ; itteonly.said that that assembly had prophet. financial measures, which the Government did not think proper to accept.—(Same Pssper). llscnntsut 21.—Many Greek commercial houses established bete have received letters of a very re cent date from Constantinople. The errivaleof the Grand Vizier's • dispatchea, containing . I the, details /.the late events ' the haeks of . the Ma- 4N HOLY' MAILS. • LOSS OF THE ST. GEORGE AND DEFENCIL, COPENHAGEN, Dec. 3l.—Advice has been - reis4 4 - 1 ed here, of the English Admiral's ship, St. Gelrge,l of 94 guns, commanded by Admiral Reynolds. and the Defence, of 74 guns: Capt. David Atkins, having, on the morning of the '24th December, been stranded on the coast of the Barony pf Ryssensteen, in the district of Ringheshing. The crew of the first named ship isi said to have consisted of 850 men, and that of the last; 530 men, esclusiva of officers. In half an hour aßei the Defence struck, she went entirety to pieces. ,: tbe whole of the crew were drowned, • ' tion of five seamen and one marina, selves by pieces of the wreck. The bo kinioarne on shore by the sea. in the following day a part of the St. Geo ) 'stern-frame, on which a number of ing, PIS perceived from the shore. mast being cut away, a cool/kr of of which it is supposed but very ire!) , to pieces. awl of the late events • upon the banks of the Va- with th e eseep. nube, produced • a great seeettieo. 110. that ,capital: IN* who saved them- , Mtn -.wan iorsteetly , aseemblent,. sod al boar -af:carit. At held several Councils: ..Iheciyipd Vista is gesl‘tly. the afternoon of the blamed.for. the utefortuttafe ei4iltine,:, to -which, by :t'h George's ;cabin -44 is' ir0prude0ce;.1e441 , :114041.44 1 0 1 1•14f.;: and still w peop l e e iiiid: e xie l n into°, fer,the , sictifloo IlitAftenosol4etlibeksg mvide.ia p. A giiiest of thi, •rb are assitstd,•thot oviii' 1 0 0 11 1 * ° •" ‘°"'" people got upoit i 4 - Allitionsttokfon _quhd, i t: ;tie Crescent • in try feet:. an have 'and attittldte atttheixiifeditissis to.. • Gland . Vizier . ' Whit is certain is , thatthe 'taint Veit • energetic measures. , Tenni - Sr, DEC. t --The policydf the PaChi Cairo, in tuassitcreing ali the Mamelukes, has not been attendeti with ail the efeett expected from tha! measure. Those who kuiTiVed it fled towards Upt per Egypt, and ea#Tywhere raised the standard of war. ' • LOSS OF i`HE MEDEA-. The following extract of a letter frets dioact Murray, of the Medea, dated south Ulst, Dee. 21; states the melancholy particulars of the loss of that vessel :—" I am sorry to inform you that the Medea is a total wreck. We sailed from Quebec on the 191 b of October : during our voyage we lost several of our masts, sails, &c. owing to the moat tempestuotti weather. On the morning of the Yid we saw the lane of this island ; as the vessel was nearly ungovernalde, I endeavoured to clear the land to run through some of the many passages here—but not having sails or masts requisite, the sea drove her to lee ward, in spite of all our efforts. When I saw my fate, and the breakers in all directions, I ran to the clearest part 1 could see, and let.gp fey best bower, and wore away the most,pf the.adde WI fathoms water; I found the bottom Anil rikaittafoupA. Mr the rocks cut the cable nigh, the . .stichar, and I. cat what remained on board, to oar her wear before the wind for the clearest girt - -the Sound. The seamen claimed the boat, and could not be prevailed upon to stop with me till day-light, and their im portunity prevailed on me to take My chande with them. I threw my papers into the boat, wrapped up in a handkerchief, and only waited a chance td p lget in, when a boisterous sea broke over the vessel, l and buried them all in a watery grave, I alone escapm and au old man that was below sickly." DEATH Or ins GRACE THE DcEE or BUCCLEII( —On the 11th current, at Dalkeith Palace, his Grace s HENRY SCOTT, Duke of Baccleugh and Queens+ berry, Marquis of Dumfriesshire. Earl of Dalkc Sault'har and Drumlattrig, Viscount Nith, Torthi wall and Ross, Lord Scott of Eshdale, Doutcar Kinmount, Middlebie and Dornock Eat Doncaster and Lord Tynedale in England, Km of the Garter, Lord Lieutenant of the coat of Edinburgh and Roxburghshire, Governo! th Royal Pattk of Scotland, &c. His Gra. was born in 1716, and succeeded his grand , father in 1752. lie was the only son of Flt.lle Cli Earl of Dar:act-NI. by Lady CAnotuttc C' BEL.L, eldest daught r of Joint, the great Duke of . OVLE. In 1767. h:s Grace married VaLIZABETII MI TAGU, only daughter of the last Duke of Mobil.: by whom he has is ue,Ctiaarms WILLIAM, uow D , of BUCCLEUGH IittEMBERRY, and HENRY Ja. 'Lord MONTAGU, and four duighters; viz. the Court. I test of COURTOWN, Conntest of Hour, Marchiov „ of WEENSRErtity, aid CeunfesS Of Aatci tM of whom have families. His Grace is sucdeedi his titles and estates by his eldest son, CHARLES LiCki, Earl of D ILKEtTEI, Wiio married HARI daughter of the late Viscount Sumas', who has ral children. Mrs. Jortn ts, it is stated, ha renewed her gagement at Covent Garden 'Mears, and is t up the interval till the return of Mrs. SIDiONS, Easter. Thalia, on this occasi , n, will be an mirable substitute for Melpomear• _ _ By the death of the Duke of BuccLxvotts an, Blue Ribbon has fallen to the disposal of the Pit REGENT. Last week a shocking outrage was comtnitt Alton, Hants. A young woman, who had with two children to school, was retuning some liquor for the family with which she lived rant, when a gang of gypsies, known in that c( try by the name of the Stanleys, stopped her. female belonging to the gang first stripped all clothes off her back, and left her exposed to the clemency of the weather. The poor gill itt the tuation begged hard for some part of her dress cover her nakedness, but instead of compliance her request, she received from the brutal miscrea several severe wounds in different parts of her br One of the wretches threatened to cut off her bn and actually inflicted a dtvp wound for that purpi After remaining there in a most shocking stet considerable tim e, she was discovered by some rants belonging to a farmer, and by them court to her abode in the vicinity of Alton. Saturday evening an attempt to rob, accdelpa with circumstances of fereci ty, occurred on the Sti road, near Canterbury :—Soon after serer, as Smithett Spain, an elderly and respectable yeoman Hearne, was on his return towards his home horaeback, he came up with two men habited as diers, near the end of Meadow-pastureolane, forty rods from Vauxhall-turnpike; they were vided on each side the road : and the one or right, without any previous demand to step, het* was made, it was unheard by Mr. Spain, somewhat deaf, immediately on his passing at him with a pistol, which wounded him on, right side. The flash and report startled the her and it :sprang forward and threw Mr. Spain it; peck, mho in the impulse dropped his hat and whip„ but- the horse continued his speed till it reached Starry; where Mr. Spain having borrowed a hat, he proceeded to his home, and surgical assist. ance being obtained, on examining his wound it rip- peered that a bait had entered between the right gib and the back, just under the shoulder-bone, and tra. eersing the ribs obliquely under the arm, had lodged in the right breast, where it was perceptible,oend from Whence it was,soen after extracted ; and ale though he bad.sinimillikered much from the operatiCnn of probing the wound, in order to discover the 004 pf the wadding and-cletifeti that had been driven into it, he was not its agy imOlfiate danger. Informs• tion.wes'cdmmonicated to thi different Wrecks 'the vicinity; and parties ordered oat to ;Wrote, but the offenders had escaped. Two soldiers bad beers observed ltrrking about that part of the road her se veral nights preceding; and on Friday night, abed* the same hour, stopped two persons, the one a poor woman, from whom they toot a shilling ; the other labouring man, who had nothing to lose. The Guardians' of thenight talk of *lining for art increase of wages, if they ate eapectesi to lager smuts all night. • . . ~_ 655,2, tcap. I ; ; :4 MOIL Tate, 4 ;. eensa Leith, rtho. ; ; :as of arl of .night unties nr of ry'race rand , • tt.l N. I* A a. Moo. AG Ui . Duke kltEat - ,oun. oness : all. lea id WnA . sere- td fill P after I ado [lather 'Aunt ttA at holt • with A ger- cou:i. ,; • r. A the he in. hat si. t i • ess td With, S remits ,1 body. oreast, rposc: ate, a is SCr4 eye:t. li t t ,anietl turryJ Mr: " nan of ne on s aol. about 1 1 ire dig in hit • , or it who fired the t's . horse, in on 1 ( I 1' ' li' i . "4 l i , 1 ,! lw ' , I I ' if 1 $ 4 t 1 ;/ , 1 / t, t . I 1 ~. t 71 a ~' 1 . .: ~,. , ~.1 .