The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-07-25 00:00:00

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,NCIAL CELRBRATIONS OF THE CORO-
NATION.
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Ex*Trit.—The Coronation of his Majesty was
celebrated in this city, as in most other places by a•
appearance of general rejoicing, the poor of the dif-
ferent parishes having been regaled with meat, bread,
beer, cider, &c. raised by contribution. Whatever
may be the real sentiments of an extensive population,
realty of whom neutrally are in the most needy
circumstances, the gratuitous distribution of food is
an argument too powerful--an inducement too great,
to be withstood ; it may therefore be said there
were but few individuals who did not share in the fes-
tivities of the day, and business was almost suspended.
The morn was ushered in by the ringing of belle; and
at half-past eleven the Right Worshipful the Mayor,
accompanied by a great number of the respectab'e in-
habitants, charity schools, &c. assembled at St. John's
Hosidtal, from whence they proceeded to the Cathe-
dral, preceileJ by the Blue School Boys, Trade Incor-
porations, with their banners, &c.
A dinner at the new Subscription Rooms ensued,
and a ball followed ; and in the evening, there was a
display of fireworks in St. Peter's yard. A few per-
sons attended to witness the exhibition, it was con-
ducted with great order, and had a pleasing effect.
The illuminaffon, though extremely partial (for we
cannot average that more than one house out of twenty
was lighted up) presented a few neat transparencies
and appropriate inscriptioff. The parish of St. Sid-
well's, which was partietTerly conspicuous in their
...demonstrations of joy on the acquittal of j coy,
• presented, on this evening, a gloomy ap , three
houses only being illuminated. wever,
did not fail, in the early part of the days to exert his
'ewers upon them—they indulged in copious libations,
and created much merriment among their neighbours
and friends ; but it is necessary to remark that no dis-
turbance arose during the whole of the day, as had
been anticipated by many of those who professed them-
selves the most ardent admirers and strenuous sup-
porters of the King. On this, as on every occasion of
public rejoicing, those dreadful creatures, the friend,
of the giseett, have proved themselves, not only her
friends, hut the friends of genuine loyalty, good hu-
mour, and peace.
At Truro the Yeomanry Cavalry had a field d.ty,
and tired several vollies. The Corporation and gen-
tlemen of tl:e Borough of Truro caused a quantity of
beef to he distributed to the poor, about IMO in num-
ber: and in the parish of Kenwys a public subscrip-
tion was raised which provided a comfortable dinner
for several hundred persons, uho were seated at tabl"s
spread in a field near Lemon-street, where they were
abundantly supplied with beef, pudding and beer. At
four o'clock, a number of lientlemen and most of the
principal tradesmen sat down to a sumptuous dinner at
the Red Lion Hotel, the Mayor in the chair. The
shops throughout the town were shut, bands of music
paraded the streets, and the day was kept as a national
festival. The only drawback that was felt on the oc-
casion arose from the consideration of the treatment
... experienced by her Majesty the Queen, and the anxiety
generally expressed respecting the result of her being
'• prevented sy force from witnessing the ceremony of
the coronation.
We leers that a respectable tradesman of Wolver-
-1 hampton, has been examined before a 111a.,,tistrate, for
s% hat is termed " seditious cries" on the night of
1 'I harsday. The person in question is not a party-loan.
The Drunken Clues who sanied from their bottles,
and madly provoked the people, ought to have been
committed for a hint.

At Litchfield the people dined from a suite of tables,
extending down 14 :Ir-street, from the Talbot to the
; all went off in peace and good fellowship
with many expressed, but more amppressed good wishes
for the Q. tern.
The Tevius of Walsall, Bilston, Stourbridge,
glerminver (1 town decidedly friendly to the Queen)
Broms.-ro% 0, Warwick, and Coventry, observed the
dty with the good old English virtues, charity and
hospitality.
In celebration of the Coronation at Shrewsbury, the
Coronation Medals were exchanged by the proi.le who
walked in the Procession, for those of the • Princess
Charlotte,' has ing a C. overshadowed by a willow :
motto, " England mourns live. Princess!"
At L:nets the Coronation day was celebrated in a
singular manner. All the tradesmen kept their shops
shut, and 'natty of them went to see the festivities at
Brighton. A subscription dinner was provided for
the poor of one parish, St. Ann's, the smallest parish
in the town ; and a public dinner, at which the prin-
e/pal inhabitants assembled, was held a day or tuu
afterwards.

FAWN IX IRELAND.
WITH AN OR It; IN /11. AN EC DOTE ON THE
SUBJECT.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN.

SlR—The contempt in which the Irish hold ,'ltcrory
honours is incredible, and is to me most unaccountable,
when I consider their universal quickness of capacity.
You will scarcely believe it, but it is nevertheless a fact,
that to be an atrestnn there, is to be a Bile for almost
every creatti:r that knows him; and I need not tell you
the talent lie Irish have for ridicule. The momenta
man publishes a line, be the subject what it may, he is
in derision called a " POET," and is thenceforward
considered as crazy. So it is that men of the most
transeendsnt talents, of the most brilliant wit, of the
most finished education never think of rrritio;r. So it
is that what ought to adorn the study or the library,
what ought to entitle its author to a garland or a sta-
tue, evaporates in convivial conversations, and that
perhaps in the society, not of the ignorant and vulgar
only, but of the satyrical and vicious. Disgusted,
restless and languishing for laurels, those unfortunate
children of grinds, preferring mental to bodily grati-
tication ; preferring even the inhospitality of English
eicili:ation, to abundance and obscurity at home, come

to London to be admired cud starred. •
Notwithstanding such is generally the fate of
geouis in Ireland, there is not a spot on earth where
there is to be found more select and elegant society
than there; but certainly this class of society is as dis-
tinguished from the larger class I have at first alluded
to, as is the parterre from the pasture, the shrubbery
from the heath, or as is the silvery lake from the
muddy bog.
The great misfortune of all Irish GINTLIMAN in
England is, that all classes of his countrymen are

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Mr. James's Fleur-de-Lis
Won by a neck.
ti to 4on Augusta-8 to 4 asst Adolphus.
The ()attend Sia:.es of 30 ga. each, for all ages (two-year-
olds excepted.) Two miles and a half.
Mr. Rush's Romp, 6 years, 9st. walked over.
Hi* Majesty's Plate of 100 gs.. for Mares of all Ages.—
Three-jear-olds, 7st. ; four, 6st. btb.; five, Set. 118). ;
six and aged, Ost."Stb. Two mile beats.
Mr. BOUlerie's b. f. Tipsy, by Election, out of Mirth,
3 years, (rode by a lad.)
Lord Clarendon's b. f. Antiope, by Whalebone. 4 yrs * dr
Mr. Barham's br. 1. by Young Whiskev. 3 leers
Won by a length.--6 to 4on Tip,i).
OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.-7'uss Moasts.va.

Mary Stalker pleaded Galley to the minor °Genes of
haviog a forged It. uote in ber possession, knowing it
to be stolen.
RAPE.
Jobs Shorter was capitally iudizted for violating the
pc: son of Eliza tiodfreyo a child not more than 11 years
of age, in tee month of February last. in Great 0r-

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ouond-street.
The nature of the charge precludes our giving it in
detail. The prisoner bad subsequently offered first V.
and afterwards 101. to hush up the matter, bat the offer
had been refused.
It appeared ib crost -elimination that the witness bad
gone to school afterwards, and bad not made any men-
tion of the circumstance until pweek afterwards, when
she told it to one of her school-fellows. Her mother
was not made acquainted with it until three months
afterwards. Witness said that dnring the commission
of the crime she cried out several times.
The prisoner left his defence to the Counsel.
Mrs. Young, of Creat Ormond-street, deposed that
she lived ;II a room over the stable where the crime was
stated to have been committed, and that she bad not
heard any cries ors the morning mentioned in the in-
ilictineht. She thought that she mu-lt have heard tit.:
cries had they been uttered.
Another witness was called, tor the purpose of detail-
ing a conversation said to have been held between one
of the witnesses for the prosecution and a Mrs. Chitty,
in which the farmer was reported to have said that the
store of the child was all a d—d lie. The testimonv of
this witness fell short of the purpose for which he wa..
called.
Mr. Justice Ocaltorntoe summed up the evidence, and
remarked upon the different features of the ease. Ho-
particularly noticed the circumstance of the child having
neglected to mention the violenceoffered to her antitumor:
time afterwards. From the time of Lord Hale until
the present day, the greatest Lawyers had always
held, that if it appeared that the female had not made
complaint within a short time after the violence seas
committed, it was the dnty of Juries on so setious a
charge, to acquit the prisoner, especially as the prisoner
was always put to great difficulty in repelling the charge,
after a great length of time bad beeu suffered to elapse.
The Jury retirild, and upon their return pronounced
verdict of—Not Guilty.

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A Court of Common Council, convened in conse-
quence of a Requisition to the Lord Mayor, will be
held at Guildhall to-morrow, at twelve o'clock, to con-
sider the important subject relative to the alteration
or rebuilding of London Bridge.
WARD or BASSIIIBAW.—A Wardenote for the Kler.
tion of a Common Councilman in the room of Mr. 17 rushy,
the late Deputy, was yesterday held before Alderman
Sir C. S. Hunter, Bart. at the Wisitg. Bear Inn, Liasing•
hall-street, in pursuance of a fresh precept directed by
the Court of Aldermen, who had declared the former
Election void. Mr. Hughes and Mr. Lister, the ear-
difiates on the former Election, were again pnt in no-
mination; and a chew of holds being taken, there
appeared a large majority in favour of Mr. Hughes.
A P.. 11 was demanded, at the close of which the num-
bers were declared as follow ;
For Mr. Henry Hughes - 11
Mr. William !Aster - - ti
The Poll continues open for •$ hone, viz. from 12 to 1,
this day and to-morrow, when it finally closes.
Sir IVilliam Maxwell's race-horse, Clootie (formerly
Lucifer), was found dead in his stall, at Hellen Link*,
on Thursday morning last. lie was quite well •
evening hefore.—(Edin:lrgh piper.)
The Observer of Sun !ay last, July 22, rentaial
a fall and correct account of the Coronation
nie., illustrated with Four Plates (tjte Dra...ings for
which, with the Engra‘ing, cost One Unwired Guineas
Twenty-tive Guineas each.) It conai,ts fa.' Two Sheets,
making Forty Folio Columns, without any silvertise-
ments an either. Each sheet contains two Vielcy;of the
Interior of the Abbey, and the Hall, at tin; Most in-
teresting periods of the Ceremony. The 'pri, eof
the Two Sheets is Font-free Pence (Sevin Pence
each.) To prevent disappointment, The Observer
will be kept on sale itr fourteen days, so %hit it cal be
had until the ten August; and be'ing a stanipe.l
newspaper, it tan be sent Lonny part r,f the king,.ona
free of postageolsanks for which pc.rprise may he had
gratuitously at the Ofrgies, No. 1f)9; and No. 192,
Strand, London. The Platte are n,Jporking UlOll3
clear and perfect than when they fir,t o.

Coax Earcusrroa, Jut 4 25.—Y4 weather having
been unsettled since bloseay. prininned a more general
demand for fine Wheat this morilag, and prime ampler
obtained rather better prices; bur ate inferior qualities
still meet heavy sale.—Barle a* and Beans sold on
full as good terms as ott.Motodet, and the ordinary de-
scriptions of Oats are Is. pet qt. dearer.—ln other arti-
cles there is no alteration. I

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SPORTiIvo I •111,LIUENCE.
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CHELMSFORD RAC TUEiDAY, JULY 'A
Sweepstakes of 30 p. oah. ft. For three-year-old
colts. tigt. 71b. ; MOM • alb. The Yew kti e. The
winner of the Ri • ,000 Guinea Stakes. New-
market Stakes, 1000 10 StiMei, Derby, or Oslo, to
carry 61b. of say two Of arc Sib. extra.
larquess of Exeter'/ b. f. Augusta, by Woful. (Roblawns) I
.orli Uroseewor's Adolphus, broner to Abr.
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