The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-12-17 00:00:00

mot dig aimperniiimiergaminer. , —.emsar.o, years past, I have seldom attended pnhlir (Honest', end although I am not a mer..ber of the Concentric )4ciety, yet I felt en earnest desire to he amongst you this (ley, for the purpose of expressing mst obli gations to your distinguished guest, Sir Francis Bur dett, for those eminent services he has rendered the Pubic. Sirgraticis Barden neat truly be styled the Ma of tbd'Oople; he has pointed out the road to their 'Alsatian. and if the Nobility and Gentry of England had followed his example, those measures !void have beenveveteted, which have brought die ., tress on the middle ranks of society, ruin on the ' lower ordere, 14 disgrace on theinitionel character. 4i The splendid talents of a Foe and of a Burke, 4eg a lime rimmed and delighted, bet tainted with the evil principles of whiggism, their glory soon vanish• tad ; white the fame of Sir Francis Burdett, who is attached to-tto party, but that of truth and justice, vilest Ostend to future generatinnv: le 'the words of 'Mr. I can say, that I am not in the habit of Snaking political-compliments, but it is more gra ' lifsitig to me to pay my humble treed of praise, where it is so justly due, than to be perpetually ittecking peosiourte, placement borodghmongers, and prevari • 'taints. 44 Gentlemen, for the honobr you have done me • in drliking my health, slid id paticular, for connect ing me with the Independent Electors of Preston, I ei,toerely thank yon. 'The Independent Electors of Ilreeson are a plain, worthy, and, in the true sense of the words, a thinking People; in consequences of which• they the more severely feel the despotism under which they groan. The two factions which -hsive so long prey ed upon the Public at large, hate in a pe culiar manner united to oppress them. It is under. ' stood to be a notorious feet, that more than , 20 years since, under the plea of preserving the peace of the limn, a select number of Geetlemen on the part of Lord Derby, end an equal number on the part of the late Mr. J. Horrecks, entered into a written engage - ascot to oppose any third Candidate, if ha te v r *sere" Its political principles, who should offer to repreant the town in Parliament. Indignant at being placed in sub a degraded situation, they requested me to come • forwardly ataudidete at the last Gemmel Election. • liteMemgeSieg with delight the glorious, triumph of t. indepewlent pelpoiples, obtainedin conjunction with them, at a late County Meeting, I consented to obey rotheir (fag, and, notwithstanding the Election was tsgondected on those•ptinciples of purity, which have tdlistinguished the Electors of Westminster, I obtained after a severe costliest Of neviendays, 1245 independent 4:•lstotes. ..ss:4 sin 44. tti!• , ' 4 Gentlemen, I nrisbisigrett detaining yea longer - at this late hour, but thew are some circumstances I * dm eager to impress upon your minds relative to the I Preston election; sad I will be' as brief as I well • tan. ▪ 66 It is the caste* at Preston, for Candidates, • after they have been proposed and seconded, to ad- A;ciress the electors. Mr. Horrocks briefly observed, I.lhat he had diligently canvassed the town, and from' success he had met with, he was sere of being re. at/elected. Mr. Hornby, in a beautiful speech, entered conduct, and it t ~., • • , .. It 1 C 1 , ; 't , " A 1 - . i • . t . ' - I ) * 4 e. s . . 1 i • i 1 i I ox Ts , t i . 4 ( 1 1 1 t . 1 r . I - e • 1 4 1 the P ° ,‘ :ete sabsequentli permitted by the Court to withdraw this plea, were resumed yesterday, and occupied the Court from ten o'clock till half-past sig. 'Three Vire of the persons thus accused of paisitlg and having Forged Notes in their possession, were found pill, upon evidence similar to the proofs of forgery iced •n Monday, namely, that of a lIIIIIii In. ...., , : .. vraitor sad of a Signing Clerk, the former of whom mat there had been fevers! (he could not ilay eigifOrbrged Notes received at the Bank de ring the :Test year . ; and the latter; that " be .knew that some Notes had been issued without the Signing -Clerk's home to them !!" . . It has thus happened, that all of those who were permitted to withdraw their original plea, and took . advantage of this indulgence, have been convicted: The Inferences drown from the conduct of the par ties themselves in attempting to utter the forgeries, l id ,the evidence thus adduced from the Bank, may ,Ile 'efficient to warrant the conviction of .the offenders i—guilt is often apparent in very trivial circumstances, but still the Public are as much exposed as ever to he deceired by these impoiitions ; and uotil the Com minity in general are as ikood s judges of a Genuine or a Forged Note, as Mr. Gssisiinsell, of 20 year's ex perience, who admits that he has been once deceived in his life, and that there is an instance of a Genuine Note having been rejectedsas Forged and stamped as such, the mischief of the Paper System will remain undiminished. The Bank is strong in Court only for its own protection—all the rest of the world remalti issposed till it finds a convenient opportunity of com mencing the prosecution of some miserable offender; and what amends do the Public, and the injured indivf.. duels who have lost their property by thadeceptions of the forgers, and by trusting to stereotypes end water. — marksof which they know not hing,derive from the lOC of seeing the needy wretches dangling on a gibbet ? If our Paper System requires to be constantly ce mented by the blood of human victims, it ought to beabandotted aitoget her. ft it now high time that some : effectual step should be taken to diminish the evils of this systems, and to lessen the disgusting frequency of itleals on site ;tart a . 144 ! Ito ,0 1 1 to Po l esfof t *nation' or human Weis to demi, - and to years of lingering punishment. PAWS, Dec. 13.i—Nuaterday the Mist Militated business with the Dike - ot ftitheti ea. ' • Yesteralty the . Doke if '.Wellingtutr Mak lease 'aids Majesty, and the. Primes' end forititeises of Ilse liboyst Family. Ret Item& frteit. this rata, for London. ft t ; A At one o'clock yesterday bit' tlejettt,p4skied at a Cooled of Ministers. I'+. '. - 1 93 • 4 ' Yesterday, at five o'clock, thif Dllkeariffe•oUttes airired at. the Theilleries. ' • The last letters from Roos satofise, that the Prince of Peace was dangeforoly Ul. ' Atllltflieper tore of the courier, his life wag dospaited oh/ t The Minister of War has *igen iirellersefol the completion of the beetles of tafentry. Thipeo bat. tatioifs are to be immediately ?formed. The Le gions of the North, the Bro.lthln, end the Meurthe, are to repair to Peru, and to- receive a more regular organization. These three corps will afterseards berme as a model for the other regiments of the line. The affair of General Cannel came nn again yes= tlrday before the Tribunal of Correctional Pollee. Tbit Advocates of MM. de Sinister Me and rah, ierteere board in contiustion, slid the cause was further poll. k posed foe eight days. French Fends, Dee. 12.—Fits per Cents. 63 f. bO c.-0844 Stock 1475 f. ,0 The projert of building I new palace for the PRINCE REGENT, we are assured, is still seriously entertained at Carlton.houge, and a curious reason is ' assigned fur it. It seems it has been discovered,alt there is not sufficient room for the cream.coloered Horses of the Stair.coach to turn roam! in the yard, when his Royal Highness is going to show himself to Parliament ! What an unfortunate circumstance ! Therefore the wits of Charlton-house have decided, that the Public ought to be pot to the Patience of erecting a new palace on a magnificent scale! As, however, there are some doubts that the whole of the splendid plan devised for this purpose can at pre. sent be carried into execution, it has been resolved, in the meantime, to re-model Carlton-house, that is to try to make another Kremlin of it. The following is the statement most positively vouched for on this subject —" Mark it Condo," it is worth attention. "We anderstand that the roof is to be taken off, end the walls are to be raised a story higher ; and the house, as it will then stand, will form the centre of a palace, upon a magnificent scale, to be built at a (were, period. When the additional buildingsare about to be began, Warwirk-house, Warwick-street, and the' whole of the houses from the Haymarket to Carlton. house, are to be pulled down; and on the other side, the Rod-house, Mr. PH11.1.111'6 hoQse, with some others, so as to obtain sufficient space to render the wings of the new palace uniform. Such, we under stand, are the outlines of the plan in agitation. It was ascertained on the first time of his MAJESTY'S Stale coach, with the cream-coloured horses, entering the yard, that there was not sufficient room for them to turn round. In consequence of this, the PRINCE RECENT, on all State occasions, in going to Parlia ment, has been obliged to go to, St. James's Palace to get into the State carriage. 4eenniing to the plan now in view, a larger Court-yard will be formed be. 4LO: „~ -America ; the Diana pocket, . for the Brieit s , kib "with Mails ; and his . Majesty's ship Mersey, plain Collier, for America.--Arrived the Doke of -Igoet packet, with a Mail, from Lisbon—sailed the inst. " " • MARGATE, *AC . 16 —Sailed the Royal &overflie s Gibbs, from London for Rotterdam. , GIAVESEND, PEC• 16.—Anived the Jong. WI. Noykin;. William Bowers, Mason; and Gis• lag' Frederick, all from Rotterdam; Heart of Oak, Nicholson, from Riga; Telemachus, frees Dunkirk; I.irely, Biros, from Harlingen ; Vrnw Catherina, Bastin, from Windom; asidYnong G ra ff, from Rotterdarn . .—Siiied ,the Royal Eagle, Gibbs, for liamhurgh ; Dawson, BMW, for Ma. &c.; Roberts, foe. Rotterda m; Mary end Elise, Philips ; Traveller, lOtivr, both fee the Havannah ; and Flora, Pay, for Calais. Dec. 14.—Arrived off thi. port packet, oupposed to he the Duke of Kent, from Lis. bon.—The Emily fi sunk near the shore, and has 10 feet water on her deck at low water. Ti' , i:atchri were got off )este,day, when some puncheons of rims and other articles, floated out. If the weather con. tinues moderate, it is eapected the greater part of the cargo will be savod:i . An expresi•drrivid yesterday morning with the prices of tise French funds for Monday last, whan, as irsppoors,they.experienced s material improvement : the last qnntation in the printod list is 65. 50.; French stock was in great request yeste ay in the City. An eminent broker in foreign stoo who had an order ,to purchase to the amount . of 1 0001. sterling, on account of the grost demand he*, was compelled to give 67f. with 23. 75. for the rate of exchange, in making the remittances: this is purchasing ander mock disadvantage, as the difference of price Here and at Paris, added to the. Course of &change, 4'llllol.Accesion. a loss. on the transaction, of more than 7 Cent. B i t s i Ike. •15.—The PRINCE R EMIT re sfdis' lion from all - additional company, and no in ns have been issued for evening parties, i n consequence of the mourning. With the excep tion of tart evening, his Royal Highness dispensed with the attendaiscd of .his private band of musicians, end Japan. OW occasion their porfoomenchs marl con. We steeetiOrw;vlf stirred m u sit,' Tretri She coop 1 ,.. sligas of 110.ntr., HAYDN, &C.. About sir o'clock yesterday evening, a person arrived at tie Pavilion, with a Petition to the Puiscx REGENT, in behalf of Cashman and others, who were erderrd for esecution this mooning at the Old Bailey.. lie returned to town about four houra afterwards. 'the Prince VA Li ssE 1, one of the Noblemen who accompanied the Emprror of Russia on his Imperial Master's late visit to this country, landed at Dover on Sunday night, horn Calais, and yesterday arrived at the Fountain lintel, in this city, on his route for London. While faking some refreshment, he made enquiries as to any objects of cariosity in the city worthy'of notice, and accordingly visited our ve nerable Cathedral and pehlic walk of She Dane John. field, and expressed much admiration at 'the archi tecture of the one, and at the public spirit which had dictated the formation of the other. The object of his journey to England is for a residence of some months, in order more leisurely to inspect its insti tutions, public buildings, and manners, than was af., forded him on his former visit..;:—((ianterbury Paper.) Yesterday, the Duke of WELLINGTON', baggage, containing his Grace's magnificent services of plate, with various ether valuable articles' of furniture, ar rived off Billingsgate, in the River, from Antwerp, where they were embarked, under the care of his Grace's under butler. Three gene , ' sailed, on &tardily last, from Gravesend for New Granada, in South America, on board of which were tipster& of 500 men, eriliied by the ',gents of Sir Gamma M•Gazooa • they prin cipally consisted of paupers and distressed eaechaalks, having been newly clothed, they amide a respectable airearartli• So' ROBERT WILSON, Mr. Alderman Woo°, Mt • Alderman WAITIIIIIA.N, sad Col. DAVIS, M. P. for Worcester, were on the Bench &grim. the whole of the trial of Kingston, yesterday, at the. Old Wily. The remains of Lord ELLSWIOIOIIOII are is 0.- ' removed on Tuesday morning nest, from his lOW residence in Sr. James's-square, for interment iss)lho Charter-h000e; they aro to be deposited in the vault by the side of the remains of Ms. Sargon ' it l afounder, who was interred in the reign of (been Et.ixanertt. epwsrds of 200 )ears ago. Ms Lordship was V l B ~- years of Egli. ... We have lthority f 'ti g, that the Pe. Chispsnate l .Weittf , l'a;-- • - _ _ Jets good authority for stilt& t. fore each of the new wings; as these will extend in a titlon, purporting to he signed by • ,eloping foram to the rear." Who says that the and Driscol, inserted in the Obserrer , %per, and .Pssistcs lisconT is not desirous of procuring work copied into other l'spers of Monday, was never eren for his hungry People ? se gynuch less , igretl,by theseunfortuoate indisidt Ott the clay previous to the insertion of this Petition The Archduke MAXIMILIAN and suite, Seem.. into the Ohserrer, it was sent to Mr; Brown, the pesfrd by Sir W. W. WYNN, visited the Castle of Keeper of Newgate, enclosed in an anonymous let. 16bwerpr on Smartie,' last, and, attended by Mr. Hen- ter, requesting him to get it signed by the three men. Snow. the architect', examined, with considerabl e at- r. Brown did not evert show the 1 3 , film§ to them, Widen, the-Jail, County-hall, Armoury, an d o th er hut immediately transmitted it to Mr. Capper, of bmiistings, with which his Iligh ii e ss w a s muc h gra . the Secretary of State's Office. The next day, how • 064 ever,to his surprise, he saw this eery PetitiOn print, of Directors was held a t th e Yesterday a Court signed with the names of Cashman, Weller, anti Eastleska-house, when Captain C..GgAnaw, of the Driscol. The Petition, therefore, was so far a fa. ship William Pitt, took leave of the Court previo u s bricaiion, that the very men who purported t 9 sign to departing fur St. thins ; Behcooleo l and China. , it, did not even know of its existence. • • •...:, c k • • ~, i `f . . ..I -rtig ' C.A.TESMA,. ' ' . N.eult . INT . g tria l s ` Ncii )- 1 4 . - 4. . • ? •So arch lovahß letter: Hot It• il,ttop s o on letillesAt onday are to by crerlifed, they ezfle• ),- .. s 4 e ing statement which tieilarlyelaitia eV a G: piesiied . Oat day a depre;Siok ot -- 4f. 50c. hasiall ' - 1 1. -111 .r.)41 ft. ' i r r It is as telloWs :sie .t • boisit ie diroajow at 59f. . Thai etiwirsets, however, DEAL, DEC .I9:-;etame down trolalloritti mr 4 4 N. B. 'rho %affair thirletter -Is a , pool , belch- • . i pli. with * thew of sailed the Forteede,4lSmith, for Berbsawm . Q - we b een iron's+ tt . a sinister ~ , wea n . layer, from Suseew, with a wife and eh children.— en " Foleakr i ap .,4 lo wick, Hoyt, t eltfOrlesos • and Petspere R Ile was seal asap ta4aseriesiellg koiserititoOtse..4Aseawsg 6110 11 1 0. wke.l oll l÷iPeb .•• . 11 0 ~ 9 01P, ' -...*. s. they rich 'iambi!' Taiils I; !Ra, anti Mee ehlfdien, Loadon. tiarket., ( I A allik AI speculation of this for Rouen. in order to renews the Pariah Ist the Ittitition.•' Two PoRTsSOUTII, Ec. 16 .-- Arrived kis iltajeit ) / a _ single werking!seu !Gatlin* ttip ; oRe-44014p5,.e5s sp al a rei . th a t t - -- sort': coneicferabie ' eieeti yesterday offered on *old bertloni nn or loft - Ikisilk, 0 last trees Plymouth, idle one, cane toils spin, ft'tstok polls. titer t,o bet , , cts . l . ~4 e1.i. ..*.. 66 - r. placed under qesreetiae; and his Majesty's bri t ship them all_oll4. "Oitis...cost t a parhh welds at _.__?!!!. .._r .!!'n .._... ___....... ___. 7 7.- -. • . RelliT6TlTeiffili . AV'....l'iased . elielin Cliiiiiiil As SOOl. Thie, in Sawn, is called a. great rf!: ~ as • • .v. - t .. r . 77. 1111 Ut mi . •. Time p ' Reg amt. nom yesterday were 4 1 1'thina, Lytta;'' - ve Cork.—Pasted through for there if little to di tor srliktiest;oifog ie the rinses letting aril their handing' gis iittp deeek4.,. sib let lotereithig. The trials - of 'those Sou'thampelas ) l tketroeide Roop, from A.msterda*:-.. 'PeillfsilV ie :? r ad pieviOnslrplesde4 'Guilty to the ' Sailed 11141 bAntrarß packet, Venables, fur D e . . 0 , ; 1 4 ;.!,, I,,FAJANGIi P 4 184,14.V. i . 4; 1 ~i f • minor chest of hawing Forged Notes in their pos. math;. cad , Retrench, Gunder, for J ama i ca. we Iv ?-..evesti ev•ouru.tf.e 4 lo P' " r ttt ' . 4 r ` ' session, masout a Sufficient escose, and who were FaLeourne, Du. 14.--Sailed the Speedy psckwt, - . - .. - - - ._ ....e.L.a....., f... A ....A... al.. £91..... .....9..... t_ - .. .. ._ " 430 STOCKS THU Bank Stock 9 per Cent. Red. 771 i 3 per Cent. Comas Se per Cent. 86ii t.o►uol' for Ace. 7811 4 per Cent. , DAY AT ONE crFLpCK. 5 per Cent. Navy baba Bonds 1 1 Long Ann. liachecpubr Hills 6 14 1/ 011811illa% 31 dip. 1 TEE STATESMAN. L•desirour of obtaining votes in the House of Commons, t . .ahould have formed a coalition with Mr. Horrocks, a Gentleman of entirely opposite political principles i to his own, I observed, that being a rapid orator, he bad, probably, forgotten to explain hieing upon : that point, and that I would pause to gin bun an opportunity. • "He replied, that he 6 had entered into the ,-coalition, regarding Mr. liorrocks as a more fit •vperson to represent them in Parliament than Dr: Crompton.' • 66 I immediately cried out, 'We have him, tre e have him; hen knows I was not applied to till loog after be had formed the coalition, and that I was sent for to blast it.' A burit of indignant disepproba. tion resounded through the Hall, which you may 'better conceive than I can describe; hot you, Mr.' Chairman, may form a pretty just conception of it,' . when I tell you, it exceeded even that burst of in.' dignation which took place at the Eachanev.hall, • when you and others so successfully *trued ti.e coo : duct of Mr. John Gladstone, now Member of Par. • liament for Lancaster, on the subject of his cor. • respoudence with Lord Liverpool, respecting the' Property Tax. Such were the political proceedings t 'of Mr. Hereby, although in private life a Gentle:il *even of the greatest respectability. I conclude, I Gentlemen, by again thanking you for the patient attention' you have given me.", LABOURERS' WAGES Is AMERICA. 2 . The following, is iiv*hed f .. t(*! the literal copy of a letter from Thomis Pord, late a- Eisi Methly, but now of Norfolk, Virginia, to his son, accompa- , nied by a statement of a very singular nature. The letter. which, it is said, reached East 'loath!, ,on .the 3d of October last, states the arrival of the writer in . Norfolk on the 19th May preceding, his hiving coinmenced . working as a bricklayer on the' 22d May, at one dollar and three-fourths per day, and afterwirdi earning three dollars a day :—" 1 don't think;" he says, " of getting more thin two dollars and a half per day for . tiiwto come ;bero is plenty , of work at two, dollars pet' day ; .1 can get piant te urtiiitstetifor tliet . . . ;.•. . . . . man need be afraid of coming to ^ larica, if hews work ; there is plenty of work ; lv tiarOurers may have 4s. 6d. ter day and his board ; 6s. for shoeing a light horse; a pair of pelts is from. 3s. 6d. to 41. 6d. Workmen are all well paid for • th e ir work here, and every man that works can keep plenty of grog in his house. The inhabitants are about three parts negroes, which the white men buy and sell as a farmer will a horse in England., jam sorry to say that the negro our in Virginia gets mere to est and drink than the peer•white man its &stand; most of these masters that owns the negrortaltave nn work for themi 10 they go oat to work, load and on -ad vessels ; they gat 31 1 .,,e1id. per dey s petd.their. .d and apint of rum ; they carry 94. per week to masters ; whit is left is their own." ' • TiIIAISDAY, DiCIDIEBIR 17, 181 8. '• ; 1. • LONDONv. =r. t• ! . ' ! 1. 7 ? Monk y that Government had re. dispatches -from gpaill. The is Cabinet Caudell, it is andershrod, to attend the Putact at Brighttani i mystery is . in circulation. Ono pretty generally on account of the channel throagb hich it -was derived, asserted that a general and simultaneous retolt had broken out ; that the sol• diers of the line, sent to oppose the Guerillas, had joined and made common cause with them, and were actually marching on Madrid, from whence the Royal Family and Sir HENRY WILLESLEY, it is eddel, had fled and taken refuge io the Escurial. Cataloglia, Galatia, and Biscay, were . sippobed to be the pre. winces in most generil 'milt. Of course, we give the stateMewt. as a mere report, which nothing ant has transpired to.day has confirmed; but, as we ob. served yesterday, we have been long prepared for something of the highest importance from Spain. sir The French Papers to the 15th have reached 0. Lord CAMEREAGII was espected to take his lei, of Louis XVIII. on Sunday, preparatory to he return to this country. The Duke 1)MIGOULI,1 returned to Paris on Saturday, from his Wow. tion of the fortresses occupied by the Allid troops ; and -the following day the Duke Of WELLINGTON left that capital. The activity of the War Department is unremitting. The nister has issued orders that the Legions of n. [entry shall be raised to their full complemera— Those of the North, of the Lower Rhine, arid of Meurthe, are to repair to Paris, in order to recere a more regular organisation ; their complement% to be 1500 men ; and they are hereafter to me as a model to the other regiments of the line_ Among the fresh instances of the earnest wish of le French Ministry to give a prominent character ad increased force to their military establishment, my be quoted the Report of the Commission charpd with the inspection of the fortified places, and whb atteuded the Duke D'AmciouLcase on his toot.. Th Report declares ii to be the opinion of the Membe of the Commission, that it is necessary to replace i lnew fortresses those which had been ceded by tb - Treaty of Paris. We are noce t Wtare of any Fren fortres t O,,,pf importance having. been ceded by II Treeigellecked to, with the exceptiou of Landau; that, foe the defence of the French frontier in chi ditecittnti ft would only be requisite to erect a sing fisitress: We apprehend, however, that the intentit of .the French Government is to tient a whole li of fortresses along the hurtle, towards Switzerlati the most vulnerable part of the 14 . reseh territory. On Saturday the French 5 per Cents. which had he as low es 601. in the course of that day, are stet in these Papers to have again risen to 83 f. 50 c. which they are laid to have left oil'. if the plies load i)oartl .4beir • • • tr , eit large upon hi, Parliamentary conduct, and in an. Av e . 1 . 1 . 1 area s i•swer to Mr. Myers, who did me•the honour of pro. - i__.' ' T1'.1! %: 1 I ,posing me, and who had ()Netted to •him„fsf. fill 1 1 .01 0 0ein $ taking a greater share in the debanak". To c9rOmons, . 4 refliah .f tit: . bola trii 1 • • lb! , *id nits,lcwiLtpßeabft , big ' .. .... list sir gielifitat -il „he Electors, after a far pron. ' • ~. ' "••• ,ne, .own r a4 iU m ii chnrpressed my saaptise, how Mr. llornhy f erho was so cr edited i Ymom , a I -I--:_-... ...e —....L.L. ~,.... L. Iha llama of Commons.------"Y' t „~ 1 tll Sil ' Toni devil ally. - the attest. *tell uric opal tly; I - Toy ill , II tor • that' sOi• , I bri it. hay: , cola' I by b‘r, who from . ftn. • and • piaci •re, pool die • it P°l t t 4 P° • trc cal •1 • •ll . ib ' • It , .0 1 3 r -: a II fd 1 i amt MI . MI) . 01] to 4 4 i i I i 1 I