The Statesman. — London, England, 1810-05-29 00:00:00

• This Day was published, ASTATE of the CASE 11.1wecn Mr. RO RERTSON, and JOHN KING, Esq. late Under Se cretary of Stair and now Comptroller of Army Accounts, relative to a SINECURE PLACE of £1,500 a Year, granted firm to Mr. KING in REVERSION • nod after wards to Mr. KING's SON in REVERSION: from which Mr. K ING has re eived nearly FIFTEEN THOUSAND NW ND% cmtrary to an Act of Parliament, and has user devoird a moment of his lime to the Duties of the Office. To he had at the Office of Tuts SZATEMAX, No. 87, Fleet street. This Day Was published, Price is. 6d. The Third Edition, illustrated with C APRACTICAL TREATISE on tripreven thin and Cure of the VENEREAL DISEASE, par tit olarlv its consequences, as Strictures. Gleets, including Talies Dorsnlif, Hypochoudrianisin, Onaaism, dc. bring a complete Guide in those Diseases. By M. CATON, Surgeon, Late of the United Hospitals of St. Thomas's and Guy's, And Editor of the First and Second Volumes of the London Medical and Surgical Spectator. Printed for S. lligbley, No. 21, Fleet-street; Longman and Co. Paternoster-row ; C. Mutlow, No. 56, Holborn ; Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster -row, London. CHEAPSIDE. A Capital AFsortment of MODERN HOUSE. HOLD FURNITURE. twelve drawing-room chairs, with cushions and casesf a Grecian couch, and three French drapery window-curtains to correspond, fourteen elegant ma hoany chairs, covered in red morocco leather, a Grecian pedestal sideboard, some very fine German table and bed H oeg, fine china, and other effects, the gemlike Property of [CHAR D PHILPOT, Cabinet-maker and Upholsterer, for the benefit of his Creditors, To he SOLD by AUCTION, By Messrs. STAN( LEY and Co. Oa the. Premises, No. 17, Gutter-Lane, Cheapside, TO MORROW, May 29, at 12 o'Clock, All the elegant EFFECTS, comprising elegant double screwed four-post Bedsteads, with rich Chintz Hangin.ts, prime seasoned Goose Beds, Bolsters and Pillows, large Marseilles Quilts and Cotton Counterpanes, fine large Witney Blankets, elegant .French Drapery and Festoon Window Curtains, w itb Gilt and Bronzed Cornices, a large Mahogany Wardrobe, ditto Secretary and Bookcase, a Gentleman's Shaving and Dressing Case, Card, Pembroke, Soft, and Lou Tables. lAdy's Work and Dressing ditto, Cclleret Sideboard, large Pier and Chimney Glasses, and ditto Mirrors in rich Frames, fine Tea, Supper, and Table Services, Sm. &c. Catalogues to be had on the Premises; and of the Auction eer, G.olstonc-square, Whitechapel. THE STATESMAN. LOATON : TUESDAY, HAY 29, 1810. B:2° RESTO a 111' I 0 friday of the Public-Offices. Tuts morniog arrived three Gottenburgh mails. The following is the only intelligence they bring: HELIIINCIDORO, M•tr 10.—The enemy's privateers pro.. raise to be inure numerous than dating the last summer ; two, ►owever, have been put hart de combat by the Fisgard frigate. _ _ . aorrisinuann, MAY 18.—The Tribune frigate bad a se vere brash off the Norge a few days since with four heavy Danish gun-brigs, carrying from 16 to 2021-pounders. After maintaining an action of entaidtralde length, they made of, but not till they had killed 9 of the Tribune's men, and wounded 19. She is considerably cut up in her rigging. YLITZRDAT the Anniversary of the birthday of the late Mr. Pitt was celebrated at the London Tavern. The company, consisting . of persons of the first distinction, was so numerous as to 1111 the large ball.room and the adjoining apartment. The dinner was sumptuous, and the day passed with that solemn and decorous feeling which naturally belonged to the occasion. We have no doubt, that the persons who were present greatly admired the talents and character of Mr. PITT, and sin. cerely lament his loss. It would be a monstrous violation of all principle and feeUng, if they did pot. To the fostering hand of his splendid ge. nius, many of them owe their wealth, their rank, and their elevated station; and if the world could be made up entirely of melt who live only to feed on enjoyment, then all men would be the friends of Mr. PITT, and all men would celebrate his "me, and dignify his birth-day with solemn ackweledgnitot of his greatness. We, there. fore, 4o nut complain that great Comp:inks meet to dine on this occasion. But it is our duty to guard another part of the Nation against an error that may be fatal to their country—to that country which we know they love. We are not speaking of the poor labourer, or the more oppressed part of the middling ranks of society. • The great bulk of them understand the whole of Mr. PITT'S cha. ratter ; for he recorded it on their hearts himself! • But many who mingle with no political dinners, and who wish to eat no bread at any man's ex. ,pence, who arc as independent in their principles as in their purse, arc deceived by the artifices first' used by Mr. PITT, to preserve himself at the helm of affairs, and 'since kept in play by this very kind of dinners.—" The Pilot that wea thered the :torn." That toast may be fatal to England. There is no exaggeration, no folly I 9 POO supposition. Nations have often owed , their ribt .. ll mparativvly insignificant curses. But there is no insignificancy in this—it . is connoted with • display of talent that asto uitheti even Mr. pifr* Fr inies, and with a gra titude in the colliery at large that sorrow[ he di 1 sic it from tioo:vorst of its foes, and the most fearfel of evils—iron) anarchy, and the minstrels who would allies us With it. The ad miration, therefore, the love that attended upon Mr. Pier's 111111 e" was and ,is natural, tinder the delusion nthien overhung, and may over sslieki this country. It is time, however, that lEe de!usion were past. The country had energies, at the time it fell under the delusion, tba has borne it up to this moment, and may bear it thr.itsgh. We arc anxious, therefore, lo bring the persons we have described, and are ad. dressing, to a right understanding of this important point. Mr. PlreS conduct consists of two parts : first, his policy to put down a faction, supposed to exist is this country ; and steamily ) his system of exterior splendour in the Government, including his war and taxing operations. As to the first, we mean to speak unequivocally and broadly—if there be a faction, at any time, meaning to over. throw, injure, or impair the Constitution, that faction is to be put down, and at any price. In similar dilemmas, there is a parity of reasoning ; and the argument we have already used relative to the burtbens of the country, and the necessity of removing them being the first thing to be attended to, applies to this case, of a faction to de- • stroy the Constitution. If you mean to save the Constitution, you must strangle tho faction, whether, in the conflict and the convulsion, you recover all your former station and advantage, or not. But, although we say—" Save the Consti tution at any price: that is, save it from the nearest danger, if great as well as imminent, even at the hazard of losing it in another direction" — although we .say that, surely it does nut fol. low that a statesman is to throw the Con stitution wantonly, or insidiously and wicked ly, into dangers of *an opposite extreme! But this Mr. PITT did. His motives are now tin. necessary to look into. Whether the error of his policy arose out of arrogance of tem per, inflated by power, or the necessity of making sacrifices to an Aristocracy to preserve that power, or wherever it arose, ho did not hus. band the Constitution in his means and practices, of saving it from a real or a fancied danger. Did his apprehensions call upon him to plunge Eng land into war with France, and successively with every Power in the world, thereby wearing out our resources, and putting us almost within the grasp of the foreign enemy ? Did his fear compel him to shift the seat of Government, which ought to be sacred and unpolluted, even as the Holy Temple ; did it compel him to shift that to the ROTUNDA at the RANK, which, if it were not matter of fact, would be a subject of ridicule? Did his terrors justly invite him to change that happy medium and mean of prospe. rity in this country, where none were poor, and but few over-rich„ to the monstrous thing it is now, where all are poor, except the favoured )(ANT who support his sad system ? Where none smile but those who smile at the tears of others ? Finally, did the necessity he fan. tied he laboured under, call upon him to change and undo that Constitution he pretended to save? It is now time to come to an understanding about all these things, and we do incite the friends of Mr. Purr, who are independent of his post. humous Mtntaxs, to meet us on the bare fact, and be with the COUNTRY, or nut, from this very day. It then will be seen, if they open th.ir eyes to the fact, how easy it is to save the Cunstitu. tion from every enemyi and the Country from every foe, without endangering even its temporary health and safety. TUE SHERITY of BERKSHIRE has called a Meet. ing of the Copoty of Llerks, for Tuesday next, the sth of June, at ten o'clock, on a Requisition, signed by upwards of e6O of the most respectable and opulent Freeholders. The object is the same as that of other County and City Meetings, which is the object of every Englishman—a remonstrance to the (louse of Commons, on its late proceedings. AMONG other important privileges, that of the Solicitor to the Treasury may probably be called in question. To the action brought against the SPEALZR, that Gentleman has appeared and pleaded " by HENRY CHARLES LITCHFIELD, his .4ttorney." If this same HENRY CHARLES LITCHFIELD be the present Soli. citor to the Treasury, it is doubtful whether he was admitted an Attorney under the Act for theßegula. tion of Solicitors. On the contrary, before ho was appointed Solicitor to the T?easury, he was a respectable practising Barrister. And though the, Actalluded to does not extend to Solicitors for the Treasury, or any other branch of the revenue, and permits them to practice in their respective offices, as they might have done before, yet it does not authorize them to act out of their offices asAt. tornies for private individuals, unless they have been previously admitted Attornies under that Act of Parliament ; and though a person, not an At. torney, might heretofore have been admitted by the Court to• act as such in a particular cause. yet, since the Stat. 2. Geo. 11. c. 23, it is pre. sumed it cannot now be done. Probably, there fore, it, the present case, application may be made to the Court, with the view of obtaining its opinion on the point. LORD Houvvn lately moved certain Resolu. lions relative to the TENTHS anti FIRST FRUITS of the Church ; his object being to make those sacred solaces available, as they ought to be, for the improving the condition of the Pooh Cr.euay. The following are former Resolutions of the Honso of Commons, together with a clause of an Act of Parliassept, on thig subject ; and we give them with a view 19 make game comments on them to. morrow : Resolved, lsdy, That -II ILa MAJESTY waverseiotarly pleased, at the commencers,* pithe present gnaw, to recornnered to two ROWS of Parliament So mum the comideratio, of Til It STATESMAN. the State of the i! ferior Clergy. and to adopt such further fßeaSllftS upon this iateresting subject as alight appear to them to be proper. Resolved, Idly, That by the Act of 26 HENRY VIII. r. sect. 3. his Maje:ty Ki‘.g HeNRY VIII., his heirs and seceersors, were empowered, front time to time, at his or their pleasure, to appoint Cetnmissioners, under the Great Seal, as well to Cialnille and search for the just and true value of ecclesiastical first fruits, annexed by the said Act to the Crown, as to coinpou:sd and agree fur the same; and by sect. 10 and 12 of the ream at, the Chancellor of England, for the time being, was empowered to direct Commissioners, in the King's name, into every diocese of Eugland and Wales, to examine, eruct', and inquire of and for the true and just, whole and entire yearly value? of all ecclesiastical dignities and benefices therein, and to certify the same wider their seals ; by which certificates the yearly tent or pension of the tenth part of all ecclesiastical revenues annexed by the said Act to the Crown, should be set, taxed, rated, and taken justly and truly and iuditferently by the Treasurer, Chan cellor, Chamberlain, and lianas of the King's Exchequer; in consequence of which Act, Commiesianen were ap puiuted by his Majesty King Iles u x VIII. who made the said v.Attation accordingly, and certified the same to the Court of hi. Majesty's Exchequer, by which Naluation the first fruits and tenths due by the ecclesiastical dignities and benefices in Xuglaad and Wales, are nue' set, taxed, rated, and taiteu. Resolved, 341 y, That the Act of 20 HENRY VIII. c. 3. baying been repealed by the Act of '2 and Put L. and Men c. 4, was revived and confirmed by the Act of 1 El.'s. c. 4 ; and such parts of it, in particular, as touched or concerned the order. levying, true arissvering, aid payment, or qualifi cation of the mid first fruits and might., or the charge, dis charge, or alteration of them or any of them, were declared to be, remain and continue in their full and perfect strengths and forces, and ordered to be observed and put io due recce- lion, accordiug to the ten s ors :aid purports of the !awe and every of them. Resolved, 4thly, That in the Act of 2 and 3 ANNE, c. 11, enabling her hlajesty, by her letters patent, under the Great Seal of England, to incorporate such persons, as her AI AJ EST v shall therein nominate, into s body politic and corporate, to have a common seal and perpetual succession, and to grant to such incorporation, in Iran, fie the unginentation of the maintemence of the poor Clergy, all the revenues of tint fruits, and•yeuly perpetual tenths of all dignities, officer, be nefices, and promotions spiritual whatsoever, payable to her AJ CITY, her heirs, .and successors, by virtue of an Act of Parliament made in the reign of King lIeIaY V 111., it was declined and emitted, that all and every the statutes and pro visions, touching ur concerning the ordering, levying, trur an -Issvering, and payment ur qualification of the said first fruits and truths, or touching the charge, discharge, or alterat . of them, or any of them, or any matter or thing relating thereunto, w►tch were in force at the time of snaking this Act, shall be, remain. and continue in their full force and effect, and be observed, and put in due execution, according to the tenors and purports of the same and every of them. Resolved,*6thly, That in the Act of 3 GEo.I. c. /0, enti tled an Act fur the better•collecting and levying the Revenue of the Teuths of the Clergy, it is, provided and enacted that the mid statute made is the '26th year of the reign of the said King HENRY VIII., and all and every laws, statutes, and provisions touching and concerning the imposing, charging, asses►ing, and levying, and the true answering and payulent of the first fruits, and of the said tenths, or touching the charge, discharge, or alteration of them or any of them, or smiler or thing relating thereunto which were in force at the time of the making of this present Act, and,not hereby or hereisibefore altered or repealed, shall be, remain, and con tinue in their full force and effect, and shall hereafter be ob served and put in dire execution according to the tenor and purport of the same, and every of them. Resolved, 6titly, That it appears to this !lonic, that nei ti►er his Majesty, nor nuy of his royal predecessors, siace the time of HENRY VIII, have been advised to appoint Cum missiouers by virtue of the above-recited Acts, to examine and search for the true and just value of ecclesiastical first fruits and tenths, and that in consequence thereof the pro duce of the same appropriated by the Act of 2 and 3 of ANNE, C. 11, to the augmentation and maintenance of the poor Clergy, falls greLtly short of the revenue of first fruits and yearly perpetual tenths of all dignities, offices, bear kes, and promotions spiritual,- payable to the Crown by virtue of the Act of Parliament made in the reign of flcm *Y VIII. Resolved 7thly, That with a view of relieving the dis tresses of the inferior Clergy, and of avoiding all unnecessary addition to the burdens which a long and expensive war has entailed on his Majesty's People, and aWI due regard to the great increase of the Ecclesiastical Revenues which ha% tak e n plac of late years, it appears to this House, that the first fruits and teeth', by law appropriated to the nugmentatinn of the maintenance of the potir Clergy, ought to be made more effectual to that purpose, in conformity with the true intent and meaning of the above recited Acts of Parlianient. Resolved Sthly. That a Committee . be appointed ter prepare an Address to his Majesty, humbly praying that his Majesty would be graciously pleased to appoint Commissioners under the Great Seal, with power and authority as well toes:smine nod search fur the true and just value of the said first fruits, by all the ways and means that they can, as to einnpou ad and agree for the lame; and that his Majesty would be graci ously pleased to command his Lord High Chancellor of Fug haul to direct into every Diocese of England and Wales, Coinntiosione in the King's name, under the Great Se .1, to such persons as his Majesty shall name mid appoint, com manding and authorizing the said Cointnissioners to examine, search and inqoire, by all the ways dud means th a they can, by their discretioas of and for the true and ju-t whale and en ire yearly value of all Ecelesiusacal Dignities and Benefices, and with such deductions as are specified and alloned in the Act of 4 25 Heaav VIII. c. and 11110 e I other; to certify the same to the Chancellor and Baron of his Majesty's Exchequer; in order that his Majesty, with and'by the advice of his Parliatnesit, may direct the whole or a part of the tenths payable therefrom, to be levied and ap plied to the relief of the inferior Clergy. and may take such lother steps therein, as to his Majesty and his two House. of Parliament shall seem just,equitables and expedient. Clause from the Act of the Rd and 9d An mg, c. 11, hilts& the last clause of the Act. " VI. And whereas four bonds fur four half-yearly pay ments of the First Fruits, as the some are rated, and 4111111* fifth bond for a further value or payment, in respect of the said First Fruits, have been required and tattoo from the 'Clergy, to their great and unnecessary burden sad grievanee.“ For remedy thereof, be it enacted and declared by the au thority aforesaid, That from and after the twenty-fifth day of March, iu Ilte year of our Lord one thousand seven hue dred and him, one bond shall, in sack case, be given or re quired for the frlr payments of the raid First Fruits, which said First Fruits, as well as the Tenths payable by the Cler gy, shall hereafter, he answered and paid by thee, according to such ratesand proportions only as the same have heretofore been usually rated and paid; And, so such fifth bond already given shall, from and efier the !aid twenty-411h day of March, is tlme year one tiseusgatl sets& 0 60#ted aotl Elm, ho wed or reeeverPd. By a neutral vessel which arrived .at Dover ois Sunday, we learn that BONAPARTE, and his br o . thers, the Kings of HOLLAND and WEsTruaua, were at Ostend that day, with a large train of their Nobility ; they were going on a tour along sh ore to Calais, Boulogne, &c. Whilst BoxarA are was at Ostend, he went down to view the Pier, .and while there a vessel entered ; when he got, back to hi. hotel, he sent fur the Captain, and in. terrogated him as to where he came from, &c. Th e Captain, alarmed, declared that he came from some ' port of Norway, where he pretended that hahad been with a cargo of wheat. But the EMPEROR, putting on a stern air, told him that he knew he told him a lie ; that he knew he came from Eng. land, and commanded him instantly to go and .fetch him his English licence, which the Captain complied with ; when BONAPARTE having perused it, and asked him what news there was 111 England, an d b o w many sail of men of war there were in the Downs, returned him the licence, and permit. ted him to depart unmolested. The french Papers contain an account of an attack made by souse of the boats of our squadron off Marseilles, on the island of Pomeqle. This affair has it e irvinly been noticed in our liars! Cor. respondence, and thotigh the capture of the chip. ping, valet► was the object of attack, Was not ac. complished, the enterprise was one most conspi. cuous for ifs gallantly. The fort on the island was surprised by our brave tars, and the Com. mander, who was absent, by the order of Bonaparte, to be tried by a Military Commission. The following from New England, received y es . terday, refers to a subject of considerable im. portance, on which by our several letu rs i t will have been seen there is great diversity o f sentiment : " BOSTON. APRS 2.—You already know. that by a Clause in the Art. the Non-Itotercour-e law Is to expire at the conclusion of the Session of Congress, but many petiOrtl here imagine, that the President w1:1 have a power to con tinue its operation for such further time m he may think ex pedient. I have reason to believe, that no such authority will be given him; and,. lam of opinion, t h at vessels will ' be perfectly safe, signingbonds for their good conduct, though they %review take their departure in a.dicipation of the expi ration of the law, and that the bonds they are compelled to i enter into would not be made the foundation of any process. Congress will rise early iu this month." The Report of the Committee of the [love of Lords, respecting the improvements near West. 'Muster Abbey; states, 66 That the amount of rent to be obtained from the whole extent of land is 8781. ; from this 4661. 10s. must be deducted as reserved rent payable to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster ; the tutal,sum, therefore, to be re. ceived by the Public would be 4111. 10s. ; and if the space in the neighbourhood of the Abbey be ' left vacant, this must be sacrificed ; it will also be necessary to provide some fund for the payment of that rent which is due to the Dean and Chapter. 9. ' The Committee farther observe, that The amount of this sacrifice will he differently viewed, at. cording to the notions entertained of the increase of beauty and grandeur to the metropolis, from the appearance of the Abbey in its present state. The Committee, in their former Report. havingstated that their main object was to preserve, and, if possible, to Increase the effect produced by that building, can have no hesitation now in declaring, that this object will be morefolly obtained, by leaving the whokspace vacant, than by the erection of any buildings of which they have seen the Magus. Sir 11. HALYARD attended Ptiacess AMELIA OA Sunday evening, and left Windsor yesterday more. Lug for London. Her Royal Highness remits much the same ; not 'considered worse. Mr. WINDHAM was considered much worse yesterday. Great hopes of his life being pre. : served were entertained, by his medical attendants, on the preceding evening. But, although ho hai four hours sleep in the course of the night, the. whole system became evidently affected towards • the morning. We are assured that no hopes now remain. The private communication, made yes.: , . terday to all his friends, was, " that his Physie cians had given him over." Mr, Wznonan,.• with his usual fortitude, settled all his worldly con. terns in the course of the day. A mortification is hourly expected to take place, The friends of Ministers have failed in an attempt to excite a Counter:meeting at Berwick.upott , ' Tweed. By great exertions 21 names Mete oh. tained to a Counter Requisition—but a hen tile people met, the majority against the friends of corruption was so decided, that the attempt VII rendered completely abortive, At the Annual Meeting of the Commissjonen of Supply 2 held at Kirkcudbright it was proposed to address his Majesty, praying the removal of hie present Ministers. After a long debate, the question was negatived by a majority of three, the. numbers being for the Address 26, against it 29. LIBERTY oF TIIE PRESS.--WithOOl freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom,, and no such thing as public Liberty without free. dom of speech, which is the right of every man, as fa‘ as by it he does not hurt and controul the rights of another ; and this is the only check which . it ought to sulfur, and the only bound% which it ought to know.—Whoever would overturn the liberty of the nation must begin by subduing free. dem of speech.—To do public mischief without hearing of it, is the prerogative of tyranny. A German Paper speaks of the recal of Gen. Motteau from America, and of his being elevated to the Peertige,'under the title of the Duke of lie. lIENLINDEN. The celebrated KorzanuE is under arrest at Rigs. The theatrical disturbances at Liverpool still continue, and the advocates for half price !mitt , interrupted the performance with more or let` noise every night last Keck. The Manager hat published a conciliatory Address to the Public, but without effect ; in the me an time several ac.• ditiOnal criminal informations have been filed in the Court. of King's Bench against persons who have been active in interrupting the performances ; these will come before the Court to.morrow. Tlie only lump of native plating that is known, has recently been presented to the King of Pays ma's cabinet of minerals, by M. litissacir.ov, who found it during his travels in South Ametic , i• It is of the site of a pigeon's egg, and weighs 10,037 grains. Basay.—Today there being noCoart of Al dermen, the LOAD MAYOR, after ' inspecting the returns, ordered it to advance Id. per peck.