The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-08-22 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

FALMOUTH, August 20.—The vessel reported to be on
shore, yesterday, proves to be a Dutch or Bremen Galliot,
called the Neutralitart, from Rochelle for Norway, laden
with wine, brandy, vinegar and sugar; she is gone to pieces
and very little of ber cargo saved.—Arrived the Lady
Arabella packet, from Lisbon; sailed 10th inst.—Sailed
the Fanny, Vorse, for Oporto; Baltic Merchant. for Qne.
bec.—Levant packer, for Newfoundland ; and Henry for
Malaga,—Wind S.W.
DILA L,AutursT 21.—Wind W. by S.—Sailed the Sir God.
frey Webster, for New South Wales; Asia, for Bombay;
Royalist, for:South Seas; Castle, Forbes, Van Diemen's
Land ; Hanover, for New York ; Wilkinson, for Miratni-
chi, and several others ; passed through the Jane, of
Glasgow, and Friends,Pearee, from Jamaica; the Success,
Transport (42), and Brig, Sappho (n) passed at noon
with troops on board.—Arrived from London the Ant, for
Gibraltar. The Mail flag containing the letters for Deal,
has been left by mistake at Gravesend, and has not yet
arrived.

PLYstotrTm, August 20.—Arrived the Barbadoes Bloom-
field from London, for Quebec.—Off she port, the James
Dunlop, Shepherd, from St. Kitts in 39 dam—Sailed the
London packet for 80-ton ; Matilda for Newfoundland ;
John Calla for La Govra, and British Star, and Sophia for
Quebec.—Wind
PORTSMOUTH, August 21.—Arrived from the Downs, the
Asia, Letson,for Quebec, and Richardson for Miratnichi.—
Wind W.S.W.

KING'S COURT AT WINDSOR COURT.
It I,a• ing been ascertained that the King was going to
hold a Court at his ancient and Royal Castle of Windsor,
for the first time since his accession to the Throne, a num-
ber of strangers collected in anxious expectation of seeing
his Majesty. The Earl of Liverpool arrived at the Castle
Inn from Coorobe Wood; the other Cabinet Ministers and
Privy Councillors arrived at the saute inn, and the White
Hart Inn, where they dressed to attend the King. At two
o'clock, being the hour appointed for bolding the Court,
the Royal cavalcade was espied from the hill of the Long-
walk; his Majesty in a carriage and four beautiful bay
horses, attended by the Master of the Horse, and Lord St.
Helen's, as the Lord in Waiting. The Royal procession
proceeded through Park-street. High-street, and Castle-
street, and the King entered the Castle exactly at five mi-
nutes past two o'clock. His Majesty was dressed in the
Windsor uniform, wearing the Order of the Garter. The
Cabinet Ministers and others atteudiog the Court were not
dressed in Court dresses, but appeared in what is called an
evening dress. The King proceeded to hold his Court,
which was attended by the kirst Lord of the Treasury, the
Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Secretary
of State for the Foreign Department, the Master of the
Mint, the Master of the Horse, the Lord Steward, Sir Chas.
Long, Mr. Freemantle, &c. His Majesty held a Privy
Council, at which Mr. Greville attended as Clerk, at which
a proclamation was agreed upon for the election of a Scotch
Peer, In the room of the late Duke of Roxburghe deceased.
His Majesty gave an audience to the Earl of Liverpool, who
ofbciated for the Lord President, who is gone abroad. His
Majesty also gave audiences to Mr. Peel and Mr. Canning.
The Court broke up at half-past three o'clock, when the
King returned to his Lodge to dinner.
Mr. Canning, on his leaving the White Hart Inn, accom-
panied by his son, and his nephew, Lord George Bentiock,
his private Secretary, proceeded on his way to Liverpool,
from which place the Right Hon. Secretary will proceed
into Westmorland, oa a visit to Mr. Bolton, at his seat on
theirs* of Windermere-lake.

DEATH OF ROBERT BLOOMFIELD.
On Tuesday, Aug. 19, aid, Bedfordshire, in his
fifty-seventh year, died Robert Bloomfield, author of the
• Farmer's Boy,' &c. &c.—His constitution, naturally weak,
had of late years become alarmingly impaired ; every fresh
attack left him still weaker; the last, it was feared, bad he
survived it, would have fixed him in a state of mental
aberration, to which himself and dearest friends must have
preferred his death. Although a brief obituary may hardly
be considered the proper place to discuss his merits as an au-
thor, yet it is difficult to pass them over without notice, since
they are so intimately connected with his virtues as a man.
His first production,' The Farmer's Buy,' which became the
basis of his futon, reputation, was written under circum-
stances most appalling to genius and taste ; yet it was not
to adventitious considerations, hut to its own intrinsic me-
rits, the public bestowed on it a most unbounded admira-
tion ; those merits were universally acknowledged, and
peobaps no other ever possessed higher or more valuable
testimonials of esteem, procured through talent than Robt.
Bloomfield. Charmed as the world was with other ab•
straot beauties of the poem, they could not but reverence
that fervid glow of pensive morality which has been justly
said to 'pervade and hover over every page,'—and which
was taken by the best judges of the human heart as an
earnest that' his Want less life still answered to his song;'
in this they have not been deceived. As a descriptive
poem, The Farmer's Boy' possesses beauties that have
never been surpassed, and which prove its author to have
been an adorer of the external forms of Nature. As a
pastoral, it has a dramatic cast of character that must al
ways render it most interesting to every class of readers,
throughout the whole he is continually inculcating. his fa-
vorite principle, proving by example, that • Duty's basis
is Humanity, and that man's best ambition is directed to
' Peace, and Home, and Love.' fhroughont the whole of
Bloomfield's writings, the characters, the manners, the oc-
cupations, the feelings, are all the product of his ilative
country, and, if we may be allowed the expression, he is the
most ENGLISH author in our language. Of all the modern
poets, poor Hiles was Nature's warmest enthusiast and
purest devotee : if she did not unlock for him her most
magnificent treasures, filling him with high thoughts, she
was pleased to admit him to her most familiar converse,
giving him the key of her affections, and through him
waking our tenderest sympathies in language that needs
no teaching to understand. Throughout all his poetry,
sweetness and pathos are the prevailing characteristics, and
in penning has tender and beautiful ' Rural Tales,' the
reader frequently feels, a witness that he cannot stop, to
rove that he never appeals to the heart in vain. His bal-
lads
and tales arc indeed fac-similies (and as snch alone are
truly valuable) of the manners of a happy English pea-
santry, before refinement and reform changed their cha-
racter and made them candidates for pauperism. Even
yet, perhaps, in some few nooks of our island, let us hope
some Walters and Janes, some Pitches, some Peggy
Jlel-
drams, may be found to strengthen their hopes by his
many examples of virtuous love triumphing over poverty,
disappointment, and despair. This was the field where his
genius loved,to refresh itself, and his reward was never so
full as when shedding tears of satisfaction over the young
couple be bad made happy. Alas! that he who employed
himself so often in contriving the ideal happiness of others,
should not have participated in his own designs.
Ah. wbishouhl Fate her baleful influence shed
Why pour It on the buds devoted bead
From Fortune's cup the bitterest draught he takes,
And feels the ['lance dulnees never unites.
To pour Bloomfield the malice of Fortune has been unre-
lenting. He was indeed a man of sorrows, but be is now
gone. His mild and gentle spirit has slipped the fiery cords
that hound it, and lie is at length safe from her persecutions,
anchored in that spot where the destitute find refuge and
the weary rest.

IMPROVEMENTS IN I:DINBURGII.—On laying the font
ation stone of a New Church on Friday last, the Lord Pro
vost of Edinburgh said, speaking of Edinburgh—" With
respect. to our own metropolis, it might be truly said, and
he congratulated his fellow citizens upon it, that the in-
. eiraied grandeur of the city, and the various additional
accommodations which the inhabitants enjoy, were never
in so short a space of time equalled by any one city in the
British dominions, far less in any other part of the world.
The reputation of Edinburgh is now widely extended, and
not only the inhabitants of our sister kingdom, but foreign-
ers of distinction, from every part of the Continent, visit
it in.gemst numbers every year, and I venture to say, none
depart from it, without being filled with admiration at the
natural beauties of its situation, and the magnificence of its
buildings." We could have wished his Lordship to have
been a little more particular on the subject of the additional
accommodations in the modern Athens, for the sake of the
inhabitants of this part of the island. At present the
stoutest hearted enter the steam boats with fear and fore-
boding.
ST. ANDREW'S LOYALTY.—Our citizens have long been
celebrated for loyalty. Not content with the festivities of
St. George, the 12th of August is also observed as the birth
day of our liege Sovereign. " Losh," quoth a clown in
the fair, as his astounded ears were saluted with the din of
bells, " Wba e'er heerd o' the like o' a man born twice in
a'e year ?" " Whisht man," quoth his companion, " ilka
man's no a king !"—(Scotch Paper.)
DREADFUL AND FATAL OCCeRRENCL—At the village
of Claverton, near Bath, a mill is erected for the purpose
of throwing the water out of the old river into the Kennet
and Avon Canal. Qn Saturday night, a young man of the
name of Lideard, 22 years of age, by some means, it is sop.
posed by his foot slipping, got entangled in this mill as be
was walking near the place, and, dreadful to relate, his
body was literally ground to death ! When discovered by
Ms friends, they could scarcely recognise his person.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

YORK AUGUST MEETING, WEDVESDAV, Aug 2).
Produce Stakes of 100 gs each, h. ft. for three-yr old colts, sst.
Alb. fillies, Bs4. 21b.-31b. allowed to untried Stallions, dee.
Two miles. (9 Subs.)
Mr. Pierse's hr. c. by Comus...
Lord Milton's br. c. Bordeaux 2
Mr. Watt's b. c. Abron 3
Fifty Pounds, given by the City of York, to he added to a Sub-
scription Purse, for four-yr old colts, Sst. 71b., fillies, Bst.4lb.
Four miles.

Mr. Watt's b. e. Dupore walked ove 4

HESTON PARK MEETING, WEIIIKESDAY, Aug. 20.
Hunter's Stakes of sgs each, with 15 added. Heats two miles ;
to carry list.
Mr. Benton's ch. g. Chanee I 1
Capt. Howard's b. at. Amelia
Mr. Boaverie's Trance. 2 3
Mr. Arrowsmith's gr. h. Mockbird.. 3 4
Major Joues's Music 5 dr
Mr. Howard's Truth 6 dr
Mr. G. Udney's bl.h. (fell) di 4.
Both heals were well contested, and Amelia was the favourite.

Sweepstakes of logs each did not fill.
The Heston Stake of Seven Sovereigns each for Horses not
thorough bred.
Mr. Jones's Pilot
Mr. Thelluson's Giant . .. 2
Mr. Goddard's Hypocrite 3
Three only were placed. Won easy.
CANTERBURY RACES, WEISNESDAY, Aog. 20.
His Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas.
Ld Egremont's b. li. Centaur 1 I
Mr. Woollen's b. h. Minister 2 dis

The County Members' Plate of 80/.—(Maiden.)
This Plate afforded some excellent sport, there being two
well contested heats.
Mr. Watson's ch. f. Princess
Mr. Howard's br. c. Worthy 2

THURSDAY.
A Sweepstakes of 25 son. each.
Mr. G. J. Miles's ch. f. Pincushion. I I
Mr. Lushington's ch. c. The 5m0ker........ 2 2
This race afforded excellent sport, being won by only half a
neck.

The Sweepstakes of 20 guineas each was won by Mr. Los' a
ington's eh. e. The Smoker, which walked over the course, as
did the same Gentleman's b. c. Repeater, for the Sweepstakes
of 10gs each.

YARMOUTH RACES, TUESDAY, Aug. 19.
The Gold Cup Stakes.
Ld Verylant's b. c Vanrieu, 3 yrs old
Mr. Rush's f. by Pioneer. 3 yrs old 3
Mr. Jay's Counsellor (late Lounger) 3
Mr. Anson's f. Helena., 3 yrs old
The winner the favourite.
Plate of 601.
Major Wilson's Laurence I 1
Mr. W. Edwards's Ilelena
Mr. Warner's Huntress