The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-05-07 00:00:00

it V PI , ' Ef fr i ettt 7 7% 1 1 . 1 . 15 ci.: kik • . ~:tt.„ • s : • ~~ ,_ Mr.. B. BATII UltSl' slid, there might be an enderstanding ih4t this sum ihoold bathe rearenera. e lion. Mr. I.Eif.l E FOSTER moved for, wad obtained leise to bring in a Bill foe the Relief of Penou sin relarollit possession of Entailed Estates by treat, in eertAio cases, with a rise to assimilate the Lac of irehtml to that of England. POOR LAWS AMENDMENT Stirtr. Mr. ST yams BOURNE moved the IfeYther consideiatiou of the Poor Lees Amendment 818. The Report . was agreed to. Lord CASTLEREACIIsrated, that it mould be edsi.oble to rend the Bill up to the Lords au soon as possible ; he should therefore pet off the Alien Bill till after th' holidays, that the Bill might be dis calmed on Friilmy. tbird time The Bill ois then ordered to be reed a . to.morrow, if then engrossed. The SPEAKER stated, that it would be centre• tient in future to begin on public basin's at a gear. ter pert four. The Church Building Bill was recommitted ; a few verbal amendments were made. Dr. PH I LIAIVIORE Introduced* clause to pre. Wilt burial within the Churches to be built, unless in vaults arched, the entrances to which shall be from without the Churches. The motion was agreed to, the House resumed, the Report was received, and the Bill ordered to be read a third•tioneto4llofrOW. WATCHES AND CLOCKS. Mr. W. SMITH gave notice of a motion for to. soorrow,for leave to bring in a Bill to present frauds 'sand abuses in the import and export of articles affect ing Persons concerned in the manufecture of Watches end Ciecks. . • GAME LAWS. Mr. G. BANKES moved the Order of the Day for the secend reading of the Game Papal's' Prevention Bill. _ • Mr. CURWEN expressed a wish for the post. pooement of the Order, as the Deese was so thin, and as many Gentlemen weeiribsent who were dis. posed to take a part in the discussion: .tjlr G. B I ANKES thinking it desirable that this ;IP should pass, within the Session, felt it impos sible . to accede to thit wish of the Hon. Gentleman. But as the lion. Gentleman was aware that discussion might take place upon a subsequent stage, there could be no necessity on that ground to delay the progress of the measure. He was anxious for the adiption of this Bill, because his own opinion was confirmed by the opinion of others, both within and without the noose, that the law ought to be rendered effective, and this could not be the case while the purchasers of game were exempt from penalty. Such exemption, indeed, must always render the law nu. & dory. because while persons could purchase with impunity the poachers would be on the alert to pro cute game for sale— To put an end then to that im. `p — unity was the object of his Bill, and therefore it %rat to be regarded at a measure of prevention, be. rause it would take away the temptation to crime.— • • Ile professed a desire to have the Game Laws revised and emended, but while they were suffered to exist in their present state it was not tolerable that they should operate only against the poor seller of gam*, while the rich purchaser, who was really the cause of the violation of the laws enjoyed perfect impunity. Mr. CURW EN deprecated the idea of any addi tion to the odious system of the Game Laws, under the 'operation of which no less than I,too persons were imprisoned within the last year. lit his opinion, game ought to he the property of the occupier, and thus the game would be much better preserved than it Wing at present, under a code of Laws so revolting to justice, that no one considered it a moral offence to kill game. But independent of the hostility of those laws, to the principle of equitable property they were peculiarly invidious, from the distinction which they drew between landed and every other descrip. tion of proprietors. it was, however, the fact, that there laws were enacted when laud was the only property in the country, while at present, consider. ing our commercial, colonial, manufacturing, and monied interests, land did not form one-seventh of our national wealth Surely, then, such laws were inapplicable to existing circumstances, exclusive of those considerations of general justice which forbad an interference with the rights of property. Having such an opinion, of the laws in general, he must, of course, object to this Bill, which was, indeed, peat. lied) , objectionable, because it would serve to este. Nish a system of espionage tending even to encourage servants to inform against their masters, if they should happen to purchase any of that game which ought, in fact, to be a marketable commodity. Mr. BRAND spoke against the Bill, and in sup port of the propriety and necessity of revising and amending the Game Laws; with a view, indeed, to that revision and amendment, to submit • plan to the consideration of the House. For to tolerate the absurd remnant of feudal aristocracy which these laws presented, was a disgrace to the intellectual and moral character of the country. Mr. BANKES explained. Mr. LOCK HART thought the Bill unnecessary, and inefficient to the object which it professed to nave in view. He arocarred in the opinion, that the Game IA w s requised rovisioo t but be could not agree that small property, such, for instance, as three or four acres, ahoeld entitle the owner to kill any game that might appear on that property, for if that were allowed poachers might enter into a confederacy with such Proprietors, and continue to kill or take the game at night. Sir C. BUItRELL was an advocate for the Bill, while he wished for a revision of the Game Laws, and in such a revision be was quite willing to pro. coed upon what tie understood to be the opinion of Mr. Fox, namely, that game should be the properly of the occupier of the land upon which it was fed.— But wishing that the principle of this measure should be discussed in a feller House, he proposed the ad. joornment of the debate till Monday se`nnight. Colonel WOOD supported the opinion as to the justice of making game the property' of those by whom it was fed. Alter a few further observations from Sir C. Boa. RELL and. Mr. G. BANKS.% the motion for the Ad jourt,-...sat of the Debate was agreed to. The other Orders of the Day were disposed of, end the MUSS adjourned it Eleven o'Clock. tier entl.Cellluil Coesuis for Ate. II 4 per Cad. 960 ~.. ~ :~_ f'aPiviar!Mw"w7m. • • • .., ; • f Ae gij illominatimg of 'hair boogie. On of the Chember of Depotlei pro: y the Project of tbe Low, adapted for the payment of ibe foreign p • . . ' 7 '4' .19 • 4 ' 4 • - DittritY..tant.—Tly 4 sAm i iced tr* Douglas was last wig rot t est aedieoces which this e aten a imt storing the season. We w e, on this occ on, pm. *ith two novelties. Miss Macenctv, free the Dublin theatre, appeared, for the first time , the London boards, in the character of Lady Raa. dolph--mod Mr. KEAN, who had riot before sustained the part of Young Norval, in the metropolis, so * stood forward as the representative of the gallant sad ingenuous youth. Miss MACAULIT has had cos. siderable provincial experience, and hss acquired no inconsiderable portion of provincial tam.. Her ap. pearance is suitable to the character. lier figura* good, and her countenance intelligent and expressive. She is of the middle stature. The character which she assumed on this occasion, throughout the whole of which a sorrow, pray feminine, prevails, @ppm * to have been very properly selected for her debut,. lier conception of the pelt was just ; and, in moot instances, she displayed powers perfectly suited t o give life and animation to the picture which her fancy bad drawn. There is, in her voice, a considerable _degree of sweetness—hut probably not being aims of the exertion necessary to fill so large a Theatre, it appeared rather deficient in volume. This, b ac , ever, her nextessay may remedy. Miss MACAULEY uses very little action ' • hut it is marked by el egiac* and propriety. This Lady is, unquestionably, to /muesli of -no mean powers. We observed, la tier petforniaucei none of those errors which are, in is. nerd, characteristic of the provincial school. % had no rant, no violence. No attempt was m as h "to split the ears of the groundliu i ts." Her pm. formance was chaste and well suited to the deep sed severe sorrows of Lady Randolph. She was omit admired in the scene where she discovers that hermit lives, and in that still more trying scene, where l she unfolds her history to his astonished @m— in the latter, the description of her husband's eye, which is beautifully poetical, was gins admirably. The pensive fondness with which As dwelt on that once ezpressive feature, whiti, in early life, had beamed on her with Inn and rapture, but whose brightness had long been hidden in the tomb, was very natural and O. , feeling. 'Min MACAIILEY'S reception was through. out the evening, most flattering. Indeed we hate rarely witnessed a more favourable debut. A little ' ezpetience on these boards may correct any failing's action ; and there is no doubt of her becoming a vs. luahle acquisition to the London stage. Mr. KEAN played Douglas in a style which will place that performance among his happiest efforts.— Its great beauty consisted in the gentleeesa sad*. tural truth which pervaded each sentienenteadagabg belonging to the character. No Agsgspi. seas feel to force applause by violent gesteet or an nonatari elevation of the tones of the voice; sone of tbet displays •ad cuptandum, into which net this judid. ous actor sometimes falls, were exhibited. He fed the story to the life—and when Ms inforteealetle. tiny is fulfilled by the treif.hery of Glenda's, is house seemed to feet and 10 mourn it as a real real —as the extinction of a. noble mind. The when at the termination seesgteat arid long monied. A slight change has been mode In the• eetattrophe, closing the plsy with the death of Dollies, which is injudirioes, as the fate of Lad.y Ronk** is tbervbr omitted, Sod what becomes of her remai ns doubdsl. The character o( Vlenalvon was endeavoured to he given by Mr BENSIOVGII. The conclusion was marked with tumultuous sp. ptause. HOLLAND appeared, but " Kean" and " morrow" were loudly called out by the sulker; and they only would satisfy the spectators. Mr. ; KLAN appeared, and gave out the same play WWI evening, amidst thondert of applause. COTENT-GAROILN.—A , burlesque drama, le sm AIN, was brought out lest night at this Tbestor stalled the Surrows.cti Warner. This piece is, re 'aspect, a mastodon from one with the same title, stow ;performing at the Theatre Des Variele; i Paris. The idea is a soy good one; few subjects [will less stand the test of ridicule, or form been *materials for the mock-heroic drama, than thiseo teavagant and popular German story. The alike his nut failed to seize on its prominent abierdiali and to introduce them either in description Orb action. The waltzing with Charlotte, the attsclti to the thread-bare blue coat he wet. at their fed meeting, end the incident of cutting bread and hied for the children, are ludicrously set forth; the er tastraphe is got rid of by Walker's shooting hipil instead of himself, when he appears, and An* preaching all parties for not interfering aft* le ostentatious request for pistols, is packed off Mh Munich diligence. The piece was uneommoaly acted, and LISTON, who played Walther, gas much effect to it as possible. There was 'omega' fusion towards the close of the scale, but MOO was announced for repetition this evening. Yesterday morning, soon after eleven o'clock' Prince of Ilussz•Hostaueo, attended by OIVAGHTON and the Count BELGRADE, pr to Woolwich, where they arrived about lratf..psst o'clock. His Serene Highness was welted es to Military parade by Gen. hi act.con, with a Goad Honour, the Band playing 66 God tree the His Serene Highness, after inspecting the freq.° were drawn out upon the occasion , was condom ! through the Barracks, the Stabling, and the flidiet 1 1 school. From thence he proceeded to the Bolic k ' yard, where the troops were drawn out, mooted ll open order for the inspection of his Serene highness when they went through the horse artil ler y nceuvres. His Serene Highness afterwbrds inse d „ the Rocket Artillery, and the whole of the Rot",' Arsenal. His Serene Ilightiecs left a little befad, Ave o'clock, and arrived at the Queen's Palace st tag' to dine will' her MAJESTY and the PRINCESS'S. IN D EPENDENCE OF EIACTION.—A Meeting Of IP Freeholders of the County of Surrey is to take at the N'g's Head, in the Borough, to-morrow ego' ing, to adopt the moat effectual means of eitsoc'' Ming the said County from the Ministerial servili: of its present Representatives, and to invite too dependent Gentlemen to offer themselves at the o ft Grnetal Election. At North Walsham Fair, on Thorsday, lean stork fetched high prices, and fat beasts about 8,. 6(1. ileac A few good horses sold dear. ,t. r-....._..~--- - --- THE STATNSMAN. J.* B ai by the Chamber, Creditor.. The Cheeettet Iteviive3o - - Lem; the 'kit sutborisieg the raising of a Loan of three millions to complete the Harbour of Havre, the other fk, Coal Bfl, and the third for building a Bridgen Saturday also a Deputation from the Chem* of Deputes, ,st kead of which was the Doke of Mummy, presented' to the Chamber of Peers the Projects of the Finance Law, with the Amendments agreed to by his Ma jesty; and that of the Law for the Liquidation of the foreign Claims on France. The second Project was referred to the Bureaux for examination ; but a Special Committee of sevenVeurbets was immediately appointed to ermine the first. A Grand Deputation was then appointed to wait on the King next day, to congratulate him on his entry into Paris on the 3d of May, 1814. The prosecution of M. rime, for seditious writings, has been concluded, and the poor slither has bean found guilty of endeavouring, by seditious writings, to weaken the respect due to the King and his asithority, and therefore adjudged to three months imprisonment, a file of 50 francs; to the surveillance of the high Police far s year; to find security to the amount of 1,500 francs ; his work to be confiscated and suppressed ; and to pay all the expences of the process. An appeal against this deci sion was immediatelyentered bytheAttorne) of Frxvxx. A still more curious, ridiculnes. and silly prows,- lion is detailed as carrying on before the Tribunal of Correctional Police, against a young man of the name of Fetter, the author of a publication called The Grey Man; or, The Little Chronicles, and the publisher of that work. FERE; who is but 23 years of age, appeared at the first audience in a suit of clothes of the same coloer as the name of his work, but had laid them aside on his last appearance before the Court. The first head of charge was for ridicul ing the revival of the Passion-song in the streets in Passion.week ; the next for attributing the exile of the men whom France honouredihe most, to the hatred of a Ministry stained with every crime; and the last, which is a still more questionable one (but any thing may be called sedition in these days, in France els well es. in England) runs in these words Then there is nothing to fear from those who may wish to overturn the throne; the na tion, for its own interest, will know how to support it. The same force which would crumble it into dust, if it should violate our guarantees, will protect it against every aggression if it is faithful to its oaths." There is a foolish intermediate charge, that " some people would wish the violet (the tower which used to be worn by the Bonsparteans) should turn while (like the lily of France we suppose this quaint wit would ; but the nation would not suffer it, as then the Bower would become degenerate." These are the offences for which the King's Advocate called on the Court for a punishment on FiRLT, of six months imprisonment, and a fine of 1200 francs ; and on ILIWILLIEK, the publisher, of three months imprisonment, and a fine of 5000 francs. The cease was then pot off for a week in . .order to hear M. Mutation's pleadings for M. PIERIT... These Papers contain no further intelligence respecting the proceed ings of the trial at Albi. Letters from Naples, according to the Gaulle de France, say, that Ce ARLIN IV. the Ex-King of Spain, is about to fix his residence in Paris. The French Fund, left off on Salmis) , at 68 f. sc. Bank Stock 1520 f. I 14 per Y e t. t OM* eit%oCl6 CNit i so7k llions96l 15 Stook • Ling Attn. 24 r • F.:dinner Rids 17 rao.4ft.o , ---r^ • • 7.7.---"TT: THE STATESMAIV. • I . LON.b'ON • r't ; -'I TuunpAy, mks 7, IRIS. ........101M•-••• It wise generally understood, and till lately asserted by the Government Journals, that the real object of the movements doer troops in India was to pet down the Piadarrees. 'This mask is, however, now dropt. It is avowed by the Courier, that this show of ioten• tien against a particular tribe was merely a pretext to cover the Marquis of HASTINGS' design of reducing the Mabratta States ander the British yoke. The system of dissimilation is a dangerous game to play. The Marquis appears to have been met with his own weapons. The Native Powers can dissemble too.— , If this art bad constituted no part of their no ted qualifications, it is evident they might have acquired it amply from the beneficent conquerors, who have come among them. "Both sides acted under pretences," says the Courier ; and if this be the case, Lord HASTINGS has not much room to accuse the Mabratta Chiefs of insincerity towards him. "They pretended friendship till the yoke was imposing." — That is, we suppose, they pretended friendship till the yoke was about to be imposed round their necks for ever. Can we wonder, then, at their plans to resist (t, and their starting unanimously into re sistance, when the system so formidatlY proposed against a tribe of wandering robbers, sought to extend itself jo the very heart of their capitals, and es timate them from their ancient dominions ? The In dian armies appear to have been most formidable; and that, they have learnt to fight as well u deceive, negotiate, conclude and break treaties'ishen it suits them, as well as the most accost lished Euro pean Princes, is testified not much to of r satisfaction or advantage by the records of the late events.— HOLICAR has been beaten, but another such victory would thin the British army in that quarter. The powerful and artful SCINDIAII, it seems, is now to be considered an enemy whose redaction is iodispen sible. 66 The next news witl probably bring ac counts of a battle with his army." The dissolution of his power is not so certain. The dispersion of these armies is not annihilation. The scattered elements soon re-unite, and the European who aims at imposing tbe yoke of thraldom upon them has to " fight all his battles o'er again," and " slay the slain" as many times over as the frantic Macedonian. The gallantry of oar countrymen has, indeed, been eminently con spicuous in the fields of India as in the many other lands which their blood has better moistened ; and it is bat too true that the exploits on the ensanguined scenes of the East, recut the remembrauce of the fatal days of 66 Talav era and Waterloo," where vie tory wept over her own triumphs, and nations will not know whether to raise the emblem of glory or the monument of grief and despair. The Ceylon Government Gaulle, has reached as, containing a multitude of minute particulars respect ing the progress of the inserection in that island.— The general aspect of the rebellion, however, was not very formidable to a regular force, the Prw tender himself being driven to extremities, aid compelled in one instance to escape ou foot into a jungle. The facts enumerated are, politically speaking, of very little importance. Two or three whites have been murdered. On one occasion Assist ant-Surgeon KENNEDY, and a native interpreter, were put to death by a body of Candians, armed with bows and arrows ; the detachment of a serjeant end 10 native soldiers, who escorted them, having exhausted their ammunition in repelling the attack, bad fallen sacrifices in defence of the British officer. A variety of subjects, important in themselves, but without much apparent claims to interest upon the face of them, came under consideration last night in the Houses of Parliament. 'The Parish Vestry Bill, to which we have endeavoured to call public aUention, is passing rapidly and without much oppo. sition, the third reading being to take place this even lug. When this Act.shall be carried into effect, the Public will be better acquainted with its nature, on. less it undergo a greater transformation in the short progress it now has to make (a very onlikely cir. cumstance) than any of the verbal alterations made in it have yet effected in its spirit and object. We cannot imagine that the most pleas ing feeling will be excited in the minds of some of our countrymen, who, though they are not pos. seined of much wealth, have yet some interests to guard, when they attend the Parish Vestry, under the new Act, and find some of their richer neighbours entitled to give six voles for their one. yet this is very likely to happen, and still more injarloos effects are likely to spring from the Bill, which takes this method of subverting the *misting order and pri vileges of society. ...111011.1r- Baltimore and Philadelphia Papers to the 4th ult. have reached us. The Aurora states, " that Lord CocuRANE is appointed by the Independent States of South America, Commander of their squadron in the Pacific Ocean ; that he has written letters accepting the appointment, and is expected shortly to assume the command." The American Government, it is said, intends to blockade the ports of St. Domingo, in the occupation of CuutcToruE and PETtox. if the proposals transmitted by the Hornet •loop of war should be rejected. Tile chief ground of complaint against the former is the illegal detention of property belonging to American merchants at Cape Henry, because rs. merchant at Baltimore had detained some property of CuatsTorn Os ; and against the latter Chief, the shooting of an American sailor, who, in the defence of the Mate of the vessel he belonged to, struck a negro, who, in consequence of the blow, MI over the ship's side, into • bait; and died from the effects of the fall. The sailor was taken, tried, condemned, arid shot, in the apace , of four-and twenty hours. The Vice• President of the United States had resigned the Chair of the Senate ) and an ad interim succestior was to be elected on the 24 ult. Both Houses of Congress bad resolved to adjourn on the 20th. The QUEEN may be considered to be completely recovered from her late attack: her MAJESTY had a select party yesterday evening. The Prince and Printers of lIESIE•HOMBURG will make an incursion to Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight, previously to their departure for the Continent. Viscount CASTLEREAOII had a long audience of the PRINCE Ractwr yesterday. The general opinion in the navy is, that Sr JAMES SAUSAREZ Will receive the situation of Major. General of the Marines, vacant by the death of Ad- Paris Papers to the 4th inst. bare arrived. Great axial Hoer.. preparations were making for the solemnisation at A Paper of last night asserts, that the celebrated Court of the loyal Revolution of the 3d of May,l LavALErrz hes arrived in town from Scotland, where 1814 1 and the inhabitants of rule were alto pre- Ise bad been residing some months. 7 -7'7 . ""; Y- 77 ,- • IF! •