The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-02-10 00:00:00

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RIOTS AT IVOTTINGHAM:

THE ARMY.

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4, xoTTerolvAlit. Fes. I.
TO TtE EiNTOR OF THE STATESMAN.
4‘ During several days, after ,the date of my last
Sre,—Your Paper possessing more independenee
ommanication the Luddites of this town and neigh-
and spirit than any other I peruse, it has ocauired to
ebourhood seemed to hare laid aside their destructive
operations, at least, such was the prevailing opinion ; i Me, that through the medium Of it, you might, by
and the public were at the same time amused with a ' inserting a letter, adequate to the purpose, addresiml'
circumstance resulting from the late nocturnal visit ! to the Commander, in Chief (eillige and serve a large-
to Clifton. While the frame-breakers were busy, at i
i body of meritorious and ill-paid poor fellows), I
that place, in destroying the frames, Some of their .
n the Subaltern Officers of the regular Army. The
comeanions were active in purloining private proper- 1 mean
tr. This coming to the knowledge of the person, , subject I allude to is, in the first place, in point of
who, as is supposed, commanded the party, he imme- promotion ; for after an Officer bas served as a Subal.l
ibitely ordered a general search for the stolen pro- tern, perhaps eight, ten, or twelte years, upon
iterty ; by which means the various articles were foreign service, encountering the sword and tarlotta
et, ained, and by him restored to their respective'
unwholesome climes, when he comet to state his
owners, accompanied with the following letter:—
.. Unknown Stranger, I have Intrusted thane Articles into claims by Memorial to the Duke of York, the
OW Care and Ido insist that you will see that they our Re- answer is, "your name remains noted for promotion,
itnred to their respective *nem it is with creams], Regrat that I
and will be duly considered as trop oppcfrtuni4
infora you hoe May Came into my hare when I eam, oft with
wy mem their weir sum joined's' drat I Newer had ad with rae ties occur ;" this answer is the comisols place hack.
bifore and it Reg/ these Viiiieds hill pleagered hitt ass we .
wear goin oat of Clifton tarot. nay Moo eamaaad told are that med cant, and I have known hundreds ithia have
be Beleivd that those Men ad got sotiwthoset that they had no
pewee's with I theirfore gave hord.'rs that they acted be received it for years ; although, every day, there
;Awn
watehd
Ead a and what
nd I hope that the oaers has got ages wWe head 00 th• In we left the WlMPewere gust lit the are plenty of favourable opportunities to promote
software have Mused oar of the Villeeds when we Weir In- beardless boys and illegitimate offspring, who never
romedMat the Solders weir at baud and we tsot it Militia tie- saw a shot tired, or were ever out of England, *ben treat.
N. B. The Men that had the woes weir entire strangers they have completed the short time specified for li,
to saryorders or th-y Never dweest ust.haveteeli'd one hinds Subaltern bee beer hero rawhad hr thoirleicay forme moo have bto serve as such. I have myself served'
bees Maid for 3 Mead and then Let down name I Imm a fourteen years as a Subaltern, eight of which hate
fried to the pore Rai %met said a enemy to the oppetssers
ONO. (APO) ~ GB:MEDAL Lou." , been in the line, upon foreign service ;my name was
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noted for a Company nearly six years ago, and I
44 This is a syst-m with a witness !! Indeed, '
such is t6e organization of these nocturnal ass..
have no later than last week (epee my return to
isles, that.theg. sem to bid defiance to the duty
this country after so long h period) received a similar
of the soldiers, and the varied acts of vigilance answer, as if no favourable opportunity bad roc-
of the civil officers. Tire conduct of the two worthy curred in that time; you would, perhaps, be asto.
London Magistrates, Mr. Cotsant and Mr. Baker, ' Dished, if you were acquainted with the extent of my
has ensured them the esteem of every man in this ,
enu-'ms ; but, because I have no interest in any great
town, whose esteem Is worth possessing; but, as to
man to say a word in my favour, all my services
(ht. Police Officers whom they have brought with
them, though they have played off all their arts, they must remain unnoticed, and I shall remain as lam
ore far from being considered here as modern Solo; • until fortune may please to favour me. The Military
mom; and they have had the honesty to arknow- ' Secretary will take good care of himself, no favour-
le4e, that they are quite out-generaled by General . aisle opportunity will escape when his promotion is
/did!! Nor can one of them enter a neietbouriog
in question. A Major, the other day, in the 89th
village without being immediately recognised, its
Regiment, removed to the 3d Foot Guards, as Lieu-
Dim, tale the watchword of caution passes before
Dim, let him direct his steps which way he will. But, ; tenant-Colonel, and now popped over all the Lien-
in proportion as the difficulty of detecting the depre- ; tenant-Colonels in the Army by obtaining the rank
dators increases, so does the alarm of ihose whose' of Colonel, from being appointed an Aid-de-Camp
property is supposed to form an abject of their yen- to the PRINCE REGENT. Another thing you
geanre ; in consequence of which the number of so'.
diets is almost daily increasing amongst us ; though, would much oblige the poor Subalterns in would be,
In sty opinion, the sound of PEACE, or any to recommend the re-usage of their former bit of
thing indicative of so happy an event, would pride, I mean the bullion epaulette, for two reasons,
do more towards allaying the troubles is this• if there were no more ; that it was always the cue-
teighbourhood, than 1(0,000 soldiers, aided tom) heretofore, when we did not ape so much at
b) all the Police Officers in i London. The House ..oreves.
customs, and that it is much cheaper than the
of Lords may institute an enquiry into .the business,
and it is right it should, and the House of Commons present blackguard thing, substituted by Sir DAVID
to.', and the result will be, if the business is property Thienas, independent of one hundred other good
enquired bah ',that theremotecause lies in rear, and the reasons which might be adduced. I confess myself
iNntediate cause in the Order, in Council, therefore, inadeqtiate to the task of writing to effect upon ei-
Lot d Lauderdale was right when he stated his Majesty 's ther subject, otherwise I should feel most happy to
Alieisters to be the cause of these troubles. Many minor ,
send you what would be worth insertion ; but you
cause; there arc, no doubt ; but remove the principal
may depend upon it, that your noticing these subjects
one, and the ethers will immediately var;4ll into air.
'I hough, if a Legislative Feiquiry be hereafter irtstitut- will gain you some thousands of friends ; should
ccl it would Le right' to inquire into every pOssible there be any farther information necessary, if you
reas !l for the eaistewre of these .commistitsus, in • will have the goodness to acknowledge the receipt of
s.rich case persons, in both the higher and this litter in your-valuable Paper, by saying so you
ir,,,,:r orders is this town ought to be sent for ;
shall immediately hear from
0.,, in that case, a Legislative balsam may be applied ..
to the numerous wounds, and without that is done
tau? Lsgislature must remain ignorant still!! On
'1',,,;1a) last the Royal Rucks Militia arrived here in
t t.; -eight waggons, by forced stages, from Wood•
i.:nige barracks, each man being ft.rnished with thirty
relonis of bell-cartridge, and yesterday two field.
pieces belonging to them. arrived ; and on 11'eduel-
iitty t.vo tome troops of Hussars also arrived. Bat,
totwithstauding that many soldiers ere stationed in
every sarrounding village, yet the systematic revolt-
o. s still continue their operations ; for, on Monday
evening one frame was destroyed and. carried away
at dobbers-mill ; one on Tuesday night was destroy.
ad at Basford ; and the same evening two others
were broken at Taghill, and five at Burton-Joice,
the latter place being six miles east of Nottingham,
anti Taghill twelve miles west ; as to the other places
they are in our immedia•e vicinity."

EGYPT.

MALE POPULATION OF ENGLAND.

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It was yesterday reported that a Messenger had
reached town from Paris with dispatches.
Letters have been received from the llavannah to
the 12th of December, containing advices from
/dekko to the 29th of November, which state, that
the strength of the insurgents had Increased, from
the revolt in the Northern Provinces. From a Pro-
elamation issued by the Viceroy, it appears that they
have ob ained supplies of arms and ammunition from
the United States; and some of their leaders are
*Ten said to be natives of that country. In compli-
ance with the urgent requests of the Wceroy, vessels
were fitting oat at the llavannah to convey a body
of troops from thence to Mexico. When the regu.
.lar troops entered a district which had been declared
in a state of revolt, they punished the inhabitants by
fles) &c. On their departure, et on their force
,(11113 sensibly weakened, the insurgents returned,
isisted upon free quarters, sad levied a heavy con-
'ribution.

We are concerned to state, that advice is said to
Lave been received by Govern's**, of the death d
iajOr-General CSLAUTIMID, in consequence of the
ninll which he received at the head of his Brigade,
Gallantly enter* the breach of Ciudad Rodrigo.
it has been generally supposed that General HILL
"as advancing by force/ marches from Portstlepe,
for the purpose of jelaille Lord WSLLtNISTON. This
supposition has ceftaialy not received any conirma.
tion from authority, and is in complete contradiction
to the following coma of a letter. from Lisbon,
tilted Jan. 25:_u Genotai sryL having fallen back.
upon l'Ortaiegre, it is currently reported that b
mm 4 to invest Badajoz."
b Tile King of PIDISIA, it Selloll, is not afraid of a
t.e,forni—he has made many salutary regulations,
highly satisfactory to the lower orders of Ms king-
m• He has, no doubt, some good adviser nearlsim,
moo knows how to profit by the experience which
important passing events afford him.

There is about 200,000 of the best men, and of the
best age, for either fighting the battles of the country,
ploughing our fields or the ocean, employed as ladies'
footmen, valets, men milliners, tailors, &c. These
may be said to be taken out of the very heart's
blood of our limited population. Any one that
will take the trouble to observe, will see the
justice of these remarks; for the houses of the nobi-
lity and gentry are over-run and infested with male
domestics of the largest stature, who have almost
nothing to do but eat, drink, debauch the female
domestics, lounge about the halls, ground parlours,
and kitchens, and make game of the passengers.—
The writer of this article has seen eight, tea, six-
teen, and as high as twenty of these gentry in
some houses, and scarcely one of them that was
not fit to be a grenadier.—lf, instead of these,
men of a smaller description were employed they
would do just as well. Would not our superannuated
soldiers, from 40 to 50, make just as good domestics
as these young sparks, who, instead of dangling
after women, ought to be fighting the battles of their
country : I do not hesitate to say, that there ought to
be a tax equal to a prohibition (say 501. or 601. a-
year) laid on all young 'men from 20 to 40, and
above five feet five inches, found in such useless
and unmanly employments. If Noblemen and
Gentlemen, to indulge the vanity of their ladies,
will have such a description of men, they ought to be
made to pay well for them. As to shops, women are
nearly expelled from them, and driven on the_town ;
their places being usurped by men, and it is no un-
common thing to see three or four tall young fellows
behind a counter measuring yards of ribbon, and
selling lace caps, who ought to be otherwise em.
ployed. There are near 20,000 tailors in London,
when half the number would be sufficient, as women
could do most tailors' work as well as men.—These
things are not as they ought to be.
PUBLICOLA.

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SCOTLAND.
EDINBURGH, Frs. 6.

MGR. COURT OF JUSTICIARY. •
Monday, tame on the trial of John Lindsay Cram-
fard, some time of Dungannon, Ireland, claimant
of the title and estates of the Earl of Craufurd, first
Viscount Garuock ; and James Bradley, some time
schoolmaster and clerk at Castle Dawson, county
of Londonderry, Ireland, accused of having forged
or falsified certain writings, in order to support the
claim of the slid John Lindsay Craufurd.
The following is a sketch of the circumstances of
this extraordinary case :
Craufurd, one of the Prisoners, was a schoolmas-
ter, and some time a serjeant of militia; in the North
of Ireland ; the other was a schoolmaster, and Both
were intimate with a person of the name of Fanning,
who likewise followed the same profession: Some
time after the death of the late Earl of Cranfurd,
the Prisoner, John Lindsay Craufurd, supposing
that a relation of the late Earl had Hied as steward
at Castle Dawson, thought that if he could
prove a propinquity td him, he might by that means
obtain the Earldom, and certain estates in Ayrshire ;
and for this purpose he got possession of some old
dends, in which the names of James Craufurd, senior
and junior, were insetted, the former of whom was
brbther tb the first Viscount Garnock. Having Sub-
mitted them to his associates, Bradley and Fanning,
be repaired to Kilbirnie, in Ayrshire, and, in the
hands of a descendant of a former factor, he found
certain leases and old letters: These were traits-
dvitted by C trusty messenger to Bradley, who, with
the aseistince Of Fanning, deleted certain passages
the letters; and sabseitelesi something relative to
this James Craufurd; and for the names of some of
the• witnesses, which were also deleted, that of Crau-
furd was likewise substituted.
The singular ingenuity diNsplayed in these altera-
tions, struck every one who bad access to see the
papers, the handwriting and colour of the ink being
not only most successfully imitated, but the fabric;
of the paper, though old and worn, was preserved 1
entire and uninjured. The papers had, in fact, sa '
much the appearance of genuine tleeds, that the de-
ception was in part completely successful. At this
juncture, Fanning, to whose dexterity his associates
were indebted for the success of their plans, turned
King's evidence; and having made a declaration be-
fore the Sheriff, intimated to Craufurd's agent the
whole of the circumstances. In consequence of Fan-
ning's information, Bradley and Craufurd were won ,
after apprehended ; and the declaration emitted by
Bradley opened a scene of the most deliberate fraud:
Several witnesses were called in corroboration of
the declarations ; and the exculpatory evidence only
proved the good characters of the Prisoners previous
to this transaction, and the bad character of Fanning,
the witness, on whose evidence they were convicted.
The point chiefly insisted on by the Prisoner's Coup-
sel was, that, as no patrimonial interest was affected,
no crime was committed. The Jury were inclosed
at half-past seven o'clock of Tuesday morning, and
yesterday returned a verdict of Guilty; on which
Lord MEADOWIIASE, who presided, thanked their
for the unwearied attention which they had paid to i
the case, and for the uncommon skill with which
they had made up their serdict.
Ns objection being stated by the Counsel for the
Prisoners, the Lords proceeded to deliver their opi-
nions; and, after expatiating fully on the enormity
of the crime, Lord MEADOIVBANK delivered a most
suitable ethortation to the Prisoners, and sentenced
them to 14 years banishment beyond tides.
The Court was unusually crowded. The Earl Or
Wemyss and Lord Kinniird were accommodated
with chairs on the Bench; and the Bishop of Meath
was seated within the bar. The Judges were—Lord
Meadowbank, Lord Hermand, and Lord Wood-
houselee. The Lord Justice Clerk declined sitting,
in consequence of his relationship to the noble family
of Craufurd, and Lord Armadale, we are sorry to
hear, was prevented by indisposition.
COURT-MARTIAL—EDINBURGH CASTLE.
GENERAL ORDER.

Adjutant-GeneraPs Once, Edinburgh, Jan. 31.
At a general Court-Martial, held in Edinburgh ,
Castle upon the 22d day of January, 1812, and con-
tinned by adjournments till the 28th day of the same
month inclusive, whereof Colonel Dunlop, of the
Reufrewshire regiment of Militia, was 'President, for
.the trial of Captain David Loader and Litutehant
Duncan Campbell, both of the Royal Perthshire
regiment, of militia, upon the following charges, ex-
hibited against them by Lieutenant-Colonel J. S. Oli-
phant, of the same regiment, viz. •
Ist, For disobedience of a regimental order, in not repairing,
at the hour appointed, to sit on a.Regimental Court-Martial or.
dered to be held by the f 'onnuanAang Officer, lids Jan. 1811.
Id, For being drubk vi hen they mime to sit on the above
Court-Martial.
Fo r having behaved in a scandalous and infamous manner,
such as is unbecoming the character of as Officer and a Gentle-
man j in proceeding, when not sober, to take and administer
the urns required by the IBth Article of the 16th Section of the
Articles of War, as President anti Member of a Regimental
Coart-Martial respectively, and to sit in
.judgment on the pri-
soner brought before the said Court-Martial for trial.
'OPINION AND SENTENCE.
The Court having deliberately considered the several charges
preferred against the prisoners, the evidence adduced in support
of the prosecution, as well as that brought by the prisoners in
their defence, i.nd their admission, together with the whole pro-
ceedings, are of opinion. that the prisonen are (kill of the
first charge, In breach of the Articles of War.
The Court are of opinion, that the prisoners are not Guilty of
dm second and third charges, and do therefore Acquit them of
the same.
The Court, la respect of that part of the charges of which the
Prisoners are fouud guilty, do sentence them to be reprimanded
in such manner as the t ommander of the forces shall prescribe.
In acquitting the Prisoners of the second sad third charges, the
Court deem it their duty to state, that they are satisfied too
charges have not been brought forward from any other motive
than the good of the service.
General Viscount t athcart ap, roves and confirms the finding
and sentence of the Court, and not only concurs in the statement
they have made, that they are satisfied the charges have soot hero
brought forward from any other motive than the good of the
servicti but is decidedly of opinion, that it Vas the bounden
duty of the Major to report to the Llentenant t colonel his own
observation, and the information h- bad received, in regard to
the conduct of the Prisoners, and of the Lieutenant-t. olonel to
prefer charges before a geoeral Court Martial, by which alone
The Poe-Office Clerks, Sorters, and Letter Car- j the matters charged could be satisfactorily investigated.
il`Lordship is not aware that ah officer on any former occar
tiers, all expect to work double tides this week, or even suspected of, coining drunk to a '
consequence of VALierrixe's DAY falliog on Friday, ttoort-uutrtiol, and be rejoices seergich
sincerely that the pri,o:ters
in glee, isas ever tried for,
have heft acquitted of charges, vi if they shall ever be made
and the multitude of Commissions likely to arrive
goad must be treated as of the most wrocioas and disgraceful
from all parts of the Kingdom, for Tickets and 1--criptien, and must be marked by the most exemplary punish.
Shares In so unprecedented a Little Lottery Scheme went, pa being utterly repugnant to the honose•of the commis-
, s 1
as racer holds, and most subversive of military•discipliue.
with 20,0001. Prizes, as that which will be drawn oil tit the ci„, oea hid, die pi„se,„re found guilty,
Tuesday not.- . it se y outdo:stood that any neat at pluesteality must

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always be cetniidered as a breach of digelpithse, eireamstancei
may vary toe degree he the Offence.
The particular causes whitit nee:. i'tned these °Meets to etlme
too late to the appointed place, do Lot appeal on the pro.-eed.
lags. The General leaves it to the prisoners to refeet upon the,
circumstances, whatever they may be, whit% oecasioneu dad" .
being ton late, and desires that they will appreciate theft:oll'one
in theii own minds accordingly, and hee.uk.id rs them Li I.ete%
primanded. by the publicatiou of the tiold,og entesee of the
Court.
This general order to he revd at the heal of every reglvaent
and corps in North Britain, and entered in their respective In-;
derly books.
By ordei of Genera! Viscount C.vnicaatir, 11(.; T.
Commander of she forces.
WILLIAM GIFFOI4ri„
Colonel, Deputy Adjut.ua.GeneraL