The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-03-03 00:00:00

6.111011R0W AI ORN im6 LOTTERY .DRAWS• ..—THREE PE lit% OF 610.000.0 N E HUNDRED CA P W Etif E PI Prar OF PORT. yitici: OF STOCKS l`Hts ' ()Xi' AT ONE 'CLOCK Bank Sleek . 5 Per Cent. Navy 103 106.1 9 per lent it t 4.191 7S India Bondy 93 97 p s per C e nt.Cosaints•7lll/1 - -- Stock Comilla for An 7811 .I mm A i m. . shnt • 4 per Cent. 961 99 981 Exchequer Bilk 17 20 p • THE. STATESMAN. LONDON: SVIODAY. MARCIE 3, 1818 ' *hilst the public attention is turned in •an inte testing degree to the attempt about to be made to open a navigation across the Polar Seas, we believe we shall perform an acceptible office to Science, and the Nautical part of our countrymen, by laying be fore the Public the account, which wlll be found in .another part of our Paper, of a voyage from Port Jackson,in New South Wales, to Ceylon, by ti new, and it would appear a safer tract than the one usually perused to the East Indies. This important article we copy from the Hobart Gazette, published at Ilobart's Town, Van Dieroan's Land, which, with the explanatory letter annexed, has , been obligingly transmitted to us by the Correspondent who signs it. The Government of Sidney having suppressed Lieut. JEFFRIEeII narrative in Februa►y, 1816, it was published the following May in the Cazette of the Hobart Colony, with engraved charts of reference fruni the Captain's drawings : it will be matter of surprize that any effort of au thority should have been made to suppress this discovery ; and, it cats only be accounted for by supposing, that it might bay, been conceived that Government sanction would have been im. plied by its publication in the manner in• tended, and for which it was so auziously looked. But sorely such objections, if no more private rea• son prevailed, would stand iu the way of many useful disclosures. Lest night, in the House of Commons, the Army Estimates were moved by Lord PALMERSTON, and were agreed to by the House in a Committee of Supply. The flambee of troops, intended to be enaintaitied is England, appears by the Army Esti mates to be '25,000; that in Ireland 22,(X)0; the latter apportionment seems to be excessive, for Ireland is even more tranquil than England. Mr. CALCRArT gave notice, that he would this day propose a reduc tion in the numerical force of 8 or 9000 men. If the country be so happy and tranquil as Ministers have lately discovered it to be, this tweeter may be very well spared from the military establishments. — The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER In the Commit tee gave some information on the subject of the Finance Committee's deliberations, 'which is not easily reconciled with the statements in the Com mittee's Report, which has also been made.— Thi. Report mentions only the reduction in the pre posed espenditure at home and in the garrisons, without regard to the armies in France and India, while Mr. V A NSITTA RT stated that the diminution would be in every department. The reduction in expellee, according to the Report, amounts mily to 1138,0271. 19s. 3d. ; areordiug to the CHAN VELLOK of the EXCHEQUER'S speech it will be something more than 418,0001. In the Committee some (locations were put to the CHANCELLOR of the .Exculau ell relative to the application of the con tribution money from France, the replies to which will show with what wisdom these sums are laid out. it was stated that independent of the suet of 125 millions of francs appropriated by the Treaty of Paris to building and repairing forti fications •in the Netherlands, this country had also engaged to pay an additional sum of two millions of pounds sterling, to be expended, with an equal sum from the Court of the Netherlands, in forming a barrier for that Power against the possible encrout:h. anent: of France. • Of this sum, one million was to be advanced this year, which, with the exception of some counter claims that we have against the Netherlands, will be moved for, to - morrow in the Rouse of Commons. if this suit be voted by the Mouse, it will absorb whatever part of the French contributions might otherwise have been available, this year to the service of Great Britain. What an absorbing quality these Net/edam!, posseis ! The French will care little about these expensive barri ers, when they again direct their arms spinet the power of his Netherland Majesty. Mr. BENNETT last night moved, in the House of Commons, for leave to bring in a Bill for altering the present system of rewarding Police-officer% by pre miums on the conviction of offenders. This is a most necessary alteration in the system of Police Lew, for it has been seen by lamentable movies, how much the laws of the country, and the practices of those who ars appointed to execate them, have been set in array against, each other.— It is difficult to account for the protection and rewards afforded to the Wanton; wretches Si hose .criminal conduct has excited loch a sensation of indignation and disgust in the public mind. It is known that the artful and execrable Vaughan now enjoys an appointment at the New Penitentiary House, Westminster, of 2001. a year; sad we be lieve ilia no less trim, that he actually eallted from the 11111§1111Nvos.- ". - " , q"' - giPATtAMAN: . . 'risouin which he was so justly incarcerated, to the-i Notwithstanding tho.sileoce of the Paris Papers enjoyment of the responsible situation which he noirj.ol the Debi ei Ws:jammers:es affair, it appears the fills. • • the iireenistanet of the shot is closely attended to by We have already mentioned that plots of a sled. the French Police. We gise in anether coletnn; tht larly"detestable nature had been discovered at Mae. copy ofa letter from a respectable private source; *hie chaster, tainting also, there was strong reasonsto may be read in the absence of other information. suppose, some parts of the Police of that place. A There is still a suspicion that the design was haithe ' public investigation of the circumstances believed to in Belgium ; and one of the statements on Ibis head lurk at the hottom of the transactions that have is, that Lord K --INNAIRD tarried with him to Pari transpired, and which are still held to impeach the one MARTINET. who was the keeper of an hotel at characters of some of the deputies in police authority,' Dijon, and a violent Bonapartion. From this man has been generally demanded, but this has not yet been his Lordship is supposed to 'hare received the intelli• granted. A sort of Secret Committee has, however, Bence which he communicated to General MURRAY. been sitting on Ilse green begs of the parties ac- relative to the design against the Duke of Wet.- cused ; but the information that has been sub- LINOTON. A Bonapartian then revealed the plot against the greatest foe of BONAPARTE! Soon after milled to the Public in this respect sloes not appear to hose been yet very satisfactory.— Lord KINISAIRD'S arrival at Paris, a M. De qua- It has not allayed the agitation that the late dig. QUENcoURG, a Belgian officer, was arrested, as be coteries were calculated to excite. The Manchester was leaving his carriage, at the door of the Opera- Observer, which has laudably and materially assisted house. to elicit the facts and particulars of the mysterious end hateful practices sought to be investigated, af 'ords us the following information : On Thursday lest there was an extra meeting of District Magistrates, with the Bnroughreeve and Con stables of Manchester, at the New Bailey, who as• ft will be seen by our Stock List, that the prices have declined a half . per cent. this morning, but we have not heard of any particular cause beiog as signed. for it, except the amount of sales being larger than usual. Mr. %VYNN's proposed Bill for regulating Elections was lost last night Witte Commons by a mejotity of SEVEN ugainat the third reading. Tile LORD ADVOCtir of Scotland has aerated Hs seat in Pat liament for Yarmouth, Isle of %%lot, and is to be elected for the Burghs or Ewer and Wester Asistruther, Kilrentoy, l'ittenweem, and Crail, in room of Sir I J. CANILICHAEL ANSTRUTHER, Bart. dekea red. sembled for the purpose of deliberating on the Ina' opinions obtained, touching the case of' the notorious Ilindley. About one o'clock W. D. EVAN%, Esq. our daily Magistrate, attended by the other Meg's. hates, with the Constables of the town, came into Court, and addressed himself publicly to the au ditors, on the result of the deliberations which they had just closed in the Magistrates' room. 'this ad dress was animated, interesting, sod particular ; ant was received by all present with the strictest atten tion and most profound silence; and that is the ut most we can say for its reception. From the statement made by the worthy Chairman, it appeared, that there had been at least a difference of opinion amongst the Magistracy, touching the liberation of Ilindley ; that it bad, however, been concluded, by a considerable majority, to discharge Hindley from jail without putting him upon trial. We cannot here 'omit to state, that one of the Ma gistrates, who was in the minority of voters, end whose conduct has been manly and uniform from the first of this business, protested to the last moment against the liberation of Ilindley, without first bringing him to trial before a Jury of his country men and compeers. We have been told that this Magistrate was Wra. MAttatorr, Esq. whose manly and spirited conduct on this occasion will not - soon •be forgotten by the inhabitants of Manchester. , After all the particulars so minutely stated by the Worthy Chairman, it still appears to us that !heron duct of Ilindlcy, and his connexion with nor Deputy Constable (NAnIN) does, and for the present most remain doubtful, °incase, equivocal. and mysteri ous; and we still maintain, that nothing can fairly wipe away the stein and imputation cast upon the character of our Deputy Constable, but a public in vestigation ; and as a public officer, invested with high authority, Iris character is of the utmost cause. quence to the inhabitants of Manchester, of every denomination, high and low, rich and poor. With out this, we feel confident that the Public never can, and in fact, never will, ha satisfied, under the pozer of so important an officer. The public mind has been highly agitated, and its indignation and alarm justly raised, and this indignation sod alarm• cannot possibly he allayed without some satisfactory ground of future sour dy. 'the worthy Chairman, in the course of his ad dress, alluded to the advertisement published by the Boroughreeve sod Constables, sad the pledge made by them to publish the result of the then pending in vestigation ; which pledge, we are happy to find, will be red.emed, and the promised result laid be fore the Public at an early thy. This publication, we are confident, will be read by the Public with the highest interest. Yegterday, about one o'clock, her MAJESTT, 'Princesses AUGUSTA, ELIZABETH, and the Duelie.s of CitoucesTut, took an airing over Wes.minster bridge to Clapham, snit returned over Battersea. bridge by the King's-road to the Queen's Palace. Yesterday the Prince of Iltssx-Hostavitc paid his daily visit at the Queen's Palace. Yesterday being the Duchess of CUMBERLAND'S birth-day, the same was observed in the morning by Hof King's Guards, at St. James's Palace, mounting duty with the grand birth-day colours. The Duke of SUSCEX, the Prince of fivst-llostovact, the Pres. sign Ambassador, with his full suite of attendants, and a number of others, waited upon her Royal Highness,. to pay their respectful congratulations upon the happy relent of the day, which her Royal Highness received most graciously. In the evening, the Doke and Duchess gave a grand dinner, upon the occasion, to the Pomo REGENT, the Prince of llEsse-lloweueo, and a relict party. Their Royal Highnesses had also a numerous party, at nine o'clock, to celebrate the day. The state of Prince Lecreoce's health, says a Morning Paper, we learn, with regret, has declined still further. Tne air of Clme having been found less mild, than is requisite fur the restoratien of his Serene Highness, he toss been advised to remove to Wey. mouth, where Gloucester Lodge has twin prepared for his reception. In the coarse of the spring, his Serene Highness will probably visit the Continent ; but, at present, he avoids fatigue. The Finance Committee's Seventh Report is en tirely confined to the expenditure of the Army and of the Military Departments, the items of which it gives in the mode of a recital, made by SID office of accounts to one of examination and su pervision. It enters upon no comparison between exigencies and means, takes no review of the rea sons bys which expenditure is to be justified or cen sured ; and, in short, never once touches urn a ques . tints of political economy. The proposed expendi ture may be right for ought that we ere prepared to say, but the Report is a strange thing to be tendered by one deliberating Body to another. The War- Office could have sent op exactly the same infornia lion to the House of Commons, and much of it has indeed already appeared in totter shapes. It is less cdpinus than the information stfoodeil to the House last night, by the Coamces.cort of the Etctirourn, mud less satisfactory. A clause of the first pa,a,;raph is perhaps the most important, which that the numbers en the present Army Estimates below those of 1817 are diminished (only) by about 2,tXX) men, and that thin reduction takes place in the troops sta tioned in Ireland, the remainder upon every other home and foreign station continuing nearly up in the former establishment. The F.-timites for 1817 were 3,351,3771., and for 1818, 3477,37-11., being less its the latter year by 74,00'i1. 10s.; but what is more singular still is, tnat the Staff fur 1818 is more that' that of the preceding year by 3,7531. The Charleston Papers to the 3Uth January, inform us, that the new Spanish Viceroy of South America has notified his inability to maintain the kingdom, in consequence of the disasters which his partisans had experienced on the plains of Casseeare ; that Mont t.r.o had threatened to execute one of his Generals, fur having retreated with five thousand men, before three hundred Independents ; that on the 6th of October, the Independents had defeated the Boy Wiese, and captured the proviece of Pamplana ; that in Carthagena the Spaniards were preparing fur an ex pected siege. The Yaws from the loath Sena, by e Gentlemen front Panama, inform, that the Indeprodent army of Chili, had landed in Pero, to join the powerful armies from Buenos Ayres; that the Royal Army in Peru had been routed, and that the Patriot armies were in triumphant march for lima ; that Casi , had already become independent, which had excited great alarm in Lime ; that the Ports of Lima and Guaya quil were closely blockaded by the Patriots, whose vessels hid appeared off Panama, and it was sup• posed their flag will Ay in triumph (rum Cape Horn to the north point of Venezuela, within six months. Yesterday a very numerous Meeting of the Ms giatrates of the County of Sauey took place, at the Sessions-House, Horsemoneer-lane. Amongst them were Lord MIDDLETON, Mr. Hoi.wt SUMNER, Mr. SAMUEL THORNTON, Mr. SWAN, &C.—The Report of the Committee appointed to enquire into the ne cessity for removing some sod enlarging others of the Prisons of the Coenty, ' . hattiog been read and agreed to, a Reining - OW tissnrade— to borrow a sum not exceeding 40,000[. for such purposes ; to pay the toasty sates arctis be asorigord. We find, by the accounts from the Hague, of the 25th ult. received by Mails from and Flan ders, that another chaing,e has taken placer in the Dutch and Flemish Ministry. The Prince of ORANGE, for some reason that does not appear, hag once more resigned the Ministry of War, and the King is said to have accepted his resignation. The warlike Prince, however, retains hi* military employments, and it is said that there is to be an Aolic Council of War established, at the Lead of which the Prince is to preside. Count oc GOLTS, kiho had on a previous occasion fallen ender the displeasure of his ltoyal nighties*, is named a member of the first Chamber of the State. General PIPER, fermerty Intendant-Ge neral of War, is appointed Secretary of glans to con duct the War Department; end Gen. D'AuswEme, charged with a certain subdivision. of t h e War-of fice, is to commorricate immediately With the. King.— Some importance has been attached on the Conti bent to these Ministerial fluctuations, and a good deal of cariosity has been set afloat to ascertain the .precise motives iu which they have originated. The Project .of Law for enacting penalties on the publication of articles containing insults • against Foreign Powers, has been rejected in the Second Chamber of the States-General, by a majority of 39 to 36. The Heiman of the. Cossacks, Count PLATOI7, lately died at Novotscherkash. It is mentioned as highly indicative of his great celebrity, that in Eng land the men, women, and children crowded to !PP him. So they did to look and laugh at old BLUCUER I I mustachios and odd figure ; and so they crowd to Potato's Menagerie, to admire the very civilized company whom that celetrited person has also con trived to bring together. p.var • .••••••••• .•••••-• ?~ Tiq' PitIF4TE CORRESPONUICNCEi — Nils, Feb S. the Pobliklseire ire Still at i to i that to coojec: , ure on the attempt to assassinate the Duke lOW EL; LINDTON. A greater harmony than tier reigni be.; IA pen the French Ministry and his Grace ; and from •ome circuMstancei that babe transpired, there iv reason to believe that the etteinpt , in questinn, if not really a feigned one. *ea taused by pis.ions and terests entirely foreign to France or Frenchmen ; it may be the case that this plot, which seems to hare been broached in • Belgians; may have been ton.. titled to a Frenchman ; yet thete Is nothing tlbsitit knotio ma the fact, except that the pint, real toe feigned, originated in the Low Countries. We hisliti :tideed collected information that we deem iserpothatit; but in a ease like this every thing but certeiti loth ought not to be promulgated as if not Otte ; in the end incalculable mischief may be dune. It is this bad of Information *WO we believe to hive reached the French Ministry, and bn which measures of pru-. dente command entire *Hence sometime longer.— I.drd KINNAIRD has freq.oeirt, _indeed we may say d.ily, interviews with the - Minister of Police; the Duke of WCLLINGTdN also seek him (the Count p Caw) very frequently; and although nothing ea. traordinary is abseiled in the movements of the Pa lice, except the searching all the tarnished hotels int Paris, we have the certitude that ii employs, with oxtreme ardour, all the means in Its power to ob.; fain information which shall leave on doubt as to the authors of the plot, and the end they had i:s view. It is certain that neither the Ultras nor Republicatti I have played any part in thin melodrama. DRURY•LANE TWEATItg. _.....—. a A new Comedy, or tether ti piece purporting id he of this description, under the title of Due Cased if Glendower, e Welsh story. was produced for thei tirst, and we suppose for the last, time at this 'rheatro test night. It was, in the dramatic phrase, completely damned. The scene a as laid atSwansea. The chat artful were, Llewellin Glendower, in old man (DowzoN). whose grief for the death of his wife has turned tete frenzy, and his frenzy into die conception thsi be is a Welsh monarch. Ilia dilapidated house ii thence. forth his castle of palace, his rustic daueliter, Glen dora (Mrs. Rostesoe), a Pi Iticess, and liii two d.a. ouistics into, we believe, i first Lady of - the bed. chamber, and a Lord in waitiog. As if the Author had felt the monie of his Welshinatt, he had created, for contrast, several touter ',table pet Seem.; ; ,B EN . GOUGH was a real Duke, Mrs. !)acme a Duchess, 1 and Pesteez. and WALLACK noteittg short of Peers of the realm. Besides the mad Welsh King, there ' ass only another character clesettiug the name, and that was an ill.contriveti liter‘Alu Lady, MISS Ifairloll i (Mrs. Amor), who hail a rhyme either of leer own or of some other person's, Neon every occasiou. This ! Lady strays into the castle. and is taken for a ghost, whileva young Gentleman is truac:•ine another young I Lady, Glendora, to draw, and such sentimental wit las the following is passing between them. Glendora, I after rece:ving a few lessons from her tutor, feels in. I clitted to impart to bins the story of her misfortunes ; she tells a few incidents, sod stops." Alt 1" Bare she, " I can't go on ; my tears, I perceive, blot the picture I was employed upon. i ',An you dram tears E" The Gentleman answers—" Ne., but you can"—and i he puts his handkerchief to his face. Disapprobation began to he manifested at the close of the ?..l act.. fit the middle of the 3d act the discontent was loud and general. Mrs. Awn , was absolutely blotto! off the I +out.; anti the whole Gaups, witen they finally appear ed to give and take in marriage, weir put to the rout with boundless' dismay, perplexity, and precipita. lion. A dance by tiguratits and Miss Toile, was gone through in the third art, stud to make that ob. eteeious too, a burlesque of all dancing was played off in the person of a Mr. MAY, who contrived to get the dance hissed as heartily as th e play. In tea fourth act the pit stood ep, stud ist , isiod on the fall of the curtain. Mr. 11. JOHNSTwI came out to eh treat that the Play might he suffered to proceed, for the sake of the performers—a consideration not eery itutellieible to the audience, as the performers could scarcely feel any peculiar interest in its liviug or dying. The hisses were accordiu4ly c o ntinued. Se. feral voices cried out, " It is Ws butt—too bail— withdrew it now." The Manager retired—the re. milting two acts were hurried over in a few Minutes, and at the fail of the curtain, the Aleasger came for. ward, awl announced another Play fur this even. fal, which was as much as to say, that the piece/ was withdrawn. The prologue and epilogue were not altogether contemptible. What kind of peeten• sious can the Management of Drury-line set up tra common sense, not to talk of taste (for that is out of the question), after presenting to a London awn. I eiice sects a Carstedy as The Castle of Glendower? 1 • . . rORTHNOUTH, MARCH 2 —Arrived the Thrtlphitt. Proofing, from St. Thomas's; sailed JAIL 23, and Cilia for orders. She encountered very severe weather, and has greatly damaged her bulwarks, and recrived other datnagea—spoke,• off Scilly, the Amp. rican ship Jane, from attalia for Cowes.—A beg dis masted, pea s tld ra t eougb for Cowes i name unknown. — !Heiman, Norini (a Swedish brig), from boodon to Bsitreia, has put hack with both her watt and bow. sprit one and other &ma i m hating experienced a heavy gale of wind on the 23l Feb. off Cape Finis ferre—is note off the late of Wight, on her way to Cell% eq. LIVERPOOL, M Atti,Pll 1111' 54011901, Gascoyne, Etat intlisman, from Calcutta, with the toss of mizen.mast, hoatt, sails, ante other damages, .—she gaited Aug. 19;• froth Ceylon, Sept. 30; from the Cape, Dec. 23;• from St. Helena, Jan. 15.---Thst Active, from Philadelphia for Limerick, is stranded neer Dingle Bay. The vettel will be I total tom Crew laved. The Sarah, Most, got on the Mare Mick on Si nudity lan, near Esnrootb, and it is reeved Will go to places, ea tire wind bas btoAU very herd stet sines him W.S.W. _ - ii iiii.__,i e d . ~. •-.w!-i~., ~.,.mow. --- ~-- 4 Al ... . _ , s. • 'll4 . 1; s ' .!7 I