The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-09-15 00:00:00

2iiiE STATESMII N.

TI#E POLIfICS' Or. WiILEIRE.

de.ritlnn of the context, and consultation or ill the
authorities, I have no heSitatie.ii in pronouncing a
slockinr'.:eaoer•. The BERNARDO, or BARXYERDS,
or as seini.ielid if, BARNTARDO, were for a long
period settled at Broome, in Nottinghamshire, and
this unhappy individual was in all probability con-
I damned For
,frame-breaking. Indeed Sit A EsraAttt
'abounds in direct and remote allusions to frames—a
'Subject probably as rife and as interesting in his time
113 it is at present. In'; .Iludi Ado ahbat
'the insurgents are particularly pointed at,—

MOCK itICTIO NS.

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There is no Engliehmeri that does not know 117 . Among the various practices resorted to, in tiiii
hereditary feelitigs, that on the Integrity ofeluiticie metropolis, to plunder its inhabitants; that of selling
the immaculate Purity of Juries, and the Lialttei goods at' what are not very imprOperly Wined
or Tas Pitrae, his happiness and his security as a " Mock. Auctions," Is not the least profitable to
Freenian 'tally exist. In these sad days of seat- the knaves who resort to them.—Persons, indeed;
'selling and German incoiporation, we may some who hale some experience of these things, are not
times feel a little langour upon tHeje subjects ; but likely to be duped ;.but they do not form the ma.
instead of the Trealury gin:bottl?, let ns at Inch jority.; -and it may be of some serSice to a very
moments appiy to our Snatesecsrts for spirit add for *ntby, if nova very wise, part of the people; topes-
resolution. What is Hee it Y tux Foottln' Made to i .. Whom spirits snit in fen^. of villanieg." Plibit a few of the Outward and visible signs by which
tay ?--It was his fate to have a- son, Who, hi the ritid in the Second Part of llENitii int SIXTH, we I a ".Mock Audlion" may be known and avoided.
early part of his life, associated with vagabonds and I may infer,the buyer, frequently form theMselves into a. firm, that the offehce Was considered tretiton- The rogues Who thus profit by the ignorance of
;
loose women, pluttged into debt, and borrowed froth' abk : -
by M Isis dependants ;in short, rue romplitety odt of the "By wicked means to frame our Sonereign'v fall." and announce the Sale as " essrs. —and Co."
course, and gave lernself up to a series of tomes that I "To My Ode to Draco, which I intend intro-
taking special care to pot the name of some respect=
i very COMMOP pracace ; anti though there be an
A..
[Must have degraded his future life into a voracity for !ducing into my next edition of ' 7'o Betties, a
c., afire itud welt-known uctioneer hi front.
i This i.e.
veal-cutlets and the anxieties df a whisker, had not II have subjoined a few notes, which will, I appre-
i
Providence implanted that redeeming Spirit which ' bend, throw much new light upon this subject, and exemption or twb to. the. rele; yet it may kemerally be
"'ilieters. —and Co."
walked with him throegh his excesses, and brought particularly upon the slate and condition of our I fairly concluded; that Theo
involved, iti I are to sells that A gertulseasie;—thot is, one without
him out uninjured. What does Ilisav Tilt ' Fouttru nightly winch, which has been hitherto
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say of the upright Magistrate who punished this . very considerable obsettriter.—J. W. C:"1 reservee is the very last-thing intended ; but thet cer ••
• '
Royal offeuder ? T. 1'; tent Obscure. dealers, who cannot find a read)) sale for
" Happy UM I that have a man go bold. r. • . . .their bud goods, are uniting together to puff them off
" That dares dojastice on toy proper silo." DRURY- LANE THEATRE. ' ~ , :by nuctiou.—For this purpose, a houie is usually
" Happy am I!"—Ever anxious for the welfare of --essneen•se. . taken in h respectable part of the tcitin,—the rubbish
lily countrymen, I do most devoutly trust that these ; The Interior decorations es( this Thom, are now very nearly Inteedeil for sale is silently sent in,—the advertise-
awls words may sink deeply into the memories, and i &stilted. The ceiling is very finely painted, and the carvee,, metits are put forth,—and the carpet displayed at
thence be filtered into the hearts of our present and.' stark on the fronts of the boxes has.a.vory pleasing effect. In the windows.—But when yop get into the sale-room;
all future Rulers. As long as they are happy -that I ttiecoustruction of this edifice, the greatest attention has very
instead of seeing a crowd,and being elbowed by body
seeing and , brokers— for these gentlemen have as great a horrid'
jorop.erly
.been paidb. to those •essentlal reeuisites,
' Justice takes her course, the felicity of the nation is .
wing ; its plan. bring believed to be the st calc.ulated for
ensured ; as it will be most.fafally endangered when- !en.of a " Mock Auction," as a Fellow of the Royal,
r, the aochence to we and hear what is passing on the
ever they open their ears to the whispers of caseistew,! stage. ThCaudience part of the house forms three-fourths of a College has of a Q tack Doctor,—you discover only
or the still more dangerous insinuations of des- 'Circle, which, making some little allowance for the deviation eight .or ten odd-looking persons, Mile. and &-
eotisnr. There are men, who film native cruelty, !in the drop within the proscenium, may be said to he „in.,
.male (the owners of the thins std their puttere),and
or bad Irish habits of whipping and half-hanging, ' pleted by the circilar sweep which connects the outer wall of ; a few simple strangers, who are really come to buy
might counsel a summary mode of proceeding, or (I the boxes with the proscenium. The necessary con.equence, . bargains l —The articles put up are usually new, and
have been in vain looking for an old English phrase therefore, is, that at the spectators will all IM in some part of whets the owners have run them up to their prices
to express it), a rigour beyond the bow. Whenever :the circumference, they muvt unavoidably see all that ; asses in they are knocked down to i %1 r. Thompson, or a
such vipers approach their ear (creatures more suited lacy point within the circle. It is only when the actors may Mrs. Wilson, or a Mr. Anybody that the Impostor
to the Eunuch department in a seraglio, than to the :
privilege of ministering to the understanding of have to perform any part of their duty farther back than the chuses to name, unless some unhappy dropper-in,v—•
proscenium on the stage, that an impel feet view is to be had in
env part of the house; and even in that case, more than three. ,struck with the overpowering eloquence of the Auc.
, monarch) I would 'have them turn to this passage, hurts of the surface of the stage will be visible to the worst-
tioneer, who patheticaly ;tarots the company not
and read it at least ten times over ; nay, hang it drcomstanced seats in the house. • to sacrifice such a useful, beautiful, and costly piece
;
about their necks as a philtre against the conjure- • The view of the stage is relieved by the appearance on either of furniture at less than half its vaitoe—should bid
(ions of these sorcerers, who, like the Magicians , site of two nenniecent Herculean columns, reeve tatting veree . after the said Mr. Thompson or Mrs. Wilson. Its
and Moses, can counterfeit a genuine miracle, ani- 1 antique marble. Columns of a similar deterip,ion oruatnent the i such case, the lot is knocked down to the last and of
mate an immensity of Treasury ver m guild saloon, in; send an army course the best bidder, who soon learns that he has at
of tax-gatherers, la,' locusts, through the land, ' The lusted, by which the house lees be lighted, are made from least paid as large a sum in ready money for his "use.
at each pit- formed by the architect. Ou the s aireases, . ful, beautiful, and costly" bargain; as would-have pro-
and convert the w users of a marsh into a sea of Bri-
tish blood. ' lay, are to tie placed antique lamps, of curious taste and expo-
I , cured a much better article, of the fair dialer, on the
So far for the direct and due use and exercise oflade +d he nta v think himself pretty. well
a"nted workmanship,
notrhkemna circularnshi l)
sralestttinnif thueprocuatrreiPso°lltne designed
ahe ihnywi4lhirc.h‘%:''tl superb; usual
Justice. We have a King's word for the value of its off, if he escapes so easily; Le has often happens, that
antique lamps, formed upon a model also constructed by th ar.
integrity ;—we have a King's authority too, for the ' detect, are to be placed. I double the proper. value hall beets ;laid inetisie way.
mischiefs that Row from its abuse and its degradation I Merpontene and Thalia are to be placed in the niches on either ; B2sido the thinne.s and ill-looks of the assembly,
—an old King—who from having long sat OH a ; side of the proscenium, above the cornice, and the royal arms, ; the uewness of the articles for sale, the absence of
throne, that unhappy eminence from whence a sore- ! with appropriate tro; hies autt decorations, are to be painted on 1 the brokers, and the designation of the Auctioneers
reign' sees and savours the collective exhalations of the semi.c,ircular panne! formed by the arch which appears to •as " Messrs.. ---e-- and Go." there are other teat-
surmouot rite two pillars over the proscenium, I ters, whic'u may be deemed pretty good evidence its
human depravity), knew all the farce and fallacy of ;
The uniform shape of the Lack *all of the boxes gives an titi 1 marking the " Mock Auction" fa.u) the getioiae
life, and tit nearly poisoned with the sacrifices obstructed range to the mind, at the same time that Its thick- ' The residence ofisoftomittedt
isle.
neo (three fed) es an effectual seenrlty aeainst tbe spreading at
altar of selfishness. What does Lean say ?—and' dame, the bottom of the catalogues, and they are not unfre.
even madness could-mot efface the iudelible records of In the earldom which surround and lead to the boxes, the .queotly printed without the darter and days of the
a practised experience,— Doors are formed of stone, and rest upon brick arches without I sale being specified,. but have merely, tt.„iisat• day's
" Through toured doilies small vice; do appear ; any intermixture of &tallier. Another vall.-eissely three feet 'OW' the top kso that they" tansy nerve-an. some
Robes and fined seiwns hide all -large Sinwrifklobli - thick, sierreponds these corridors, so that in coat even thweige or other honest eccssion.--When the goods have itot
And the strong to ace 'of Justice hortket breaks I spectatory were to take fire, there would be a space of nearly ; beets removed to some roots,
."•'a sale not being per. *
Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw cloth pierce it." nine feet, including two walls of three feet each in ttlickness, mitted on the premises,"
aag are, to be put up in a •
This is a fine picture, and, in all its keeping and • without any combustible matter, to arrest the progress of the house hired for the purpose,. you majbeat once detect
flames towards that part of the house through which the specta- the trick, by observing thatrnvany othe thingscou
ld
ton
colouring, fresh and vivid at this day as it was in the •
tort would have to retire.
not possibly hayebelosiged to the !loose, being larger,
olden time. " The law's delay," and the various The means provided for the extinction of fire, if it should ever
ways of ruining a man, even by a successful suit in -
take place, are the inventioo of pulouel CoNORtAs, and coo- or smaller, or otherwise manifestly unfit. . •
Chancery, were never better known or more exten- silt In the application of compressed air, by means of which Had these practices beets rere, or even decreasing,
sively practised than at the present period ; nor did water can be forced through pipes alteady laid to every part of they might not perhaps have been worthy such attest.
chicane, swindling, jobbing, malpractice, bribery, and the building. In the centre of the ceiling there is a head or lion ; but " Mock Auctions," it
,Seems, are every
corruption, ever produce more vigorous shoots than Apollo upon a circular hoard, upon which the rays of the sun where starting up ; amid the writer of this exposition •
at this hour, wisest education is at its acme of petite.- are painted, and which hangs a little lower than the rest of the has beets assured, from good authority, that a gen-
ceiling round it. To this part of the ceiling a great pipe is con- demon was recently plundered at o;te of them of se-
teachingtidn, honour professed even in Parliament, Dr. Beet.,
vexed, from which, by the operation of machinery river the veral hundred poutelseand that thousands are an-
the Church Catechism in sand, and Ilenuette..
ceiling, ...voter may he discharged in great abundance, and by timidly obtained by the steni.—And it reallyeseents
Nl.4lllllpublishink the baits of marriage between the the twrik-
ontal whirling of the circular board beneath, be spread . -
• worth tisotime and space, should only a small nuns.
Bible and the Prayer-book. in a heavy shower over every part or the pit and boxes. i
The beginning of this fine speech of LEAR, from • tee quantity of water in the reservoir at all times will be 200 her of holiest people,—perimps some tyoung Vika
ie 1 7 Vo k, eSitilig merely a few potteds to
.
''Which the preceding four lines and extracted, is nlen hogsheads, which a ill be sufficient to keed all the pipes fully newly marr
highly illustrative of that detestation of cruelty which siipOied about ball nu hour ; and in order to secure a constant i set them off hi Itle,--be
t spared the loss mid Chagrin o
id one of SueggeeenE'S striking characteristics, and steely. is case it should be wanted, the Directors of fl e Vont- &er attendant on beige; made the dupes of a set of
applies forcibly to 1812, when Authority seems to ,
buildings Water-works are enKaged, by contrite., upon a me- r scoundrels, who, though 'they perhaps manage to
have put on her sternest aspect, and Penal Laws rise moot s notice, la put
their mcam-engines in activity, and in YO avoid the visitations of the law, are in justice as fit
1 •as fast as mushrooms upon the dunghill of erroneous minutes te replenish the reservoir. subjects for the pillory as any blackleg or pickpocket
1 'this magnificent building will be completed for the sum of lau . ..taustner.
its the d ( F ' )
VOliCy. I 111,0.101. The expellee, incitiding lamps, lusters, stoves, grates, i
...
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" Thou reseal beadle kold thy bloody hood. furniture of the most tasteful and costly description (which is
" Why (In,llhos lath tent nli,,n• ?" . supplied by Mr. Oakley, of Bood-unreel), and Architeers eohs-
This 'was uttered centuries ago, its mitigation of a , mis-ion, will not exceed 125,0001. sand the whole amount of ex-
Prostitute's punishment ; yet, till withitsa few months pendinire, including scenery, wardrobe, and all the other pro-
, Ohl a FREE Pates unknotted the cat-o'-nine-tails, ' puny necessary to be provided for opening the Theatre fur the-
; the backs of our soldiers were scored with the thong, atrical perfornmeces, will not exceed 150001.
1 while the surgeon, with his finger on the pulse, anal
his eye.guaging agony, was bound to the horrid task
lof arresting torture, only when life ebbed to its ex-
ktinction ! Thanks to the independent men who rais-
ed their voices against such disgusting barbarism, the
practice issieclinine, and will soon be annihilated,
and military discipline will no longer he founded on
the hyliction, but on the fear of disgrace.
Just as these observations upon cruelty and the
Penal Laws had dropped from my pen, I put my
hand on some detached comments, hy celebrated cha-
racters (which I shall, to vary my subject, introduce
now and then), and picked out a few, very applicable
to these painful but important topics, elicited by
varying opinions du a line in "Measure for Med-
, sure,"

Mr. T. SHERIDAN IS gone down with Lord KIN.
atAtaninto Suitland, in order to embark from Leith
for the Madeira Isles, for the restoration of his
ht.x;t h.

I
. Nothing can more strongly exemplify the merit of
the institution of the Royal Military Academy at 1'
Woolwich, than an occurrence which took place pre- i
vious to the late vacation: The Cadets, on exami- ;
nation, were found not to) lave made the usual pe- '
, riodical progress in their studies; and, in conse. I
. queues thereof, the commissions intended to he given .
to them were itithheld ; they were at the same time I
informed, that a second examination would he 0e..1
dered on their return to the Academy, 814 the
most unremitting assiduity "was expected fru m them i
during the holidays. The admonition hat the de:. I
sired effect, and the Gentlemen .were pre.4ented with
Commissions in the Artillery and Engine.ers3 ouWed.. _
nearby last. I
" Ynn muff ri.e and he hanZed." I The population of the County
" I cannot understand whence the new lights have returned at 199,311 souls t it pis: 7f taxseS:diiciasexha 5 1
to
proceeded that dazzled like meteors, and like them amount of 61,7511. Is.
84.
"...ion s. : its amount of
7ne h
have misled the present generation of philanthropists. the tax on income ii, 78,9011'.. its. •
's and ware te.
It is clear from this passage that they are not de- turn of income under the
&eon t tax, 1.436,5431.!
rived from our forefathers. • In those good times It contains 1,140,000 e• ' • t r3' •
..trta, la parishes, and Sends I
people were hanged without all the ado and stir-that 28 Members to Pali%
mtint
prevails now a-days. Of this the line in the text is We anderstano
......4 T :._1 MR_
M‘t Lord nuonsztoa
a decisive proof. filaarrAnoirtE is called to he hang. give his piste tr. .1 ..
sto be for farmer'se '
ed with as little ceremony as he would lie called to ; horses ally, - ** Intends to I
..?. gape. ~ run
_.ee;
• 1 At .IV ar wi Mc ensuing November Zvi Mg.'
breakfast; SirAISTEARE drew all his characters from I Bax.,*o.- T'
. .
nere was no Court of Alderinein to-dky,
life, and his Executioner amongst the rest, and we `the Lor vs, • • .
lee, from the familiarity of his talk, that this excel- • dered_ ..01 MAYOR, after. inspecting the returns, or-
Hit present prices, to continue.
lent custom was" laudably prevalent at that period.l
-- ---" Tall% less,‘ the Kinel Me" ' tenger,. returning' from
the Carl of Winchester's, near Sarum, in a post-
" I have always thought, and the concurrent a,. imis 1 the horses fell, the clihise was overturned.'
thorities of Lord CAtrurltsAon and Mr. Rirtire ' 4." i —ll.sel -3. •confirmed me in the opinion, that sanguine ry Any* and very much damaged. tor. Ross escaped• un-
laws, not merely contribute to the prestKr- g .1"11 i hurt;
Awn di I Five (fine children in the middle of last month
people, but are particularity calealal4rl 1 __a
them humane. We see how lightV
opals...Jet:awl I Unlotisett it, and
to render 1 finuituta boat on the coast of the Island of Call,
Cheats the sobject in the address to, illi . fy
getting in were hurried from the
s malefactor, i shore, by.. ii squall of wind, mad all uufortunate
who) from a careful perusal of U.
Psalagei c0n0i.... 4/owe/A.

The quarters designed for the Royal Regiment of
Horse Guards (Blue), in the neighbourhood of Lon-
don (preparatory to embarkation), are—seven troops
to he stationed at ltomford, and one troop at Horn.
church.

It is expected that the Life Guards will march to•
morrow for Portsmouth.
ft is said that six troops of his Royal highness the
Prince Regent's regiment, the 10th Light Dragoons;
will shortly join the Mai quis of W EWA SCIT)Si.
A HUa LING MATCll.—Yesterday afternoon a cast
concourse of people assembled on Kennington Com- .
' mon, to witness the decision of a match at !furling,
phyrd for a considerable sum of money, by a party
of Irishmen, consisting of R 2 from St. Giles's, and
the like cumber from Wapping. The former were
disfibguished' by blue caps, and the latter by red
ones; when, after a severe contest, the match was
' decided in faiour'of those from St. Giles's.
1 Yesterday about four o'cicck, as a servant was
riding a horse. and leading another, in Portland-
• street, the animals' by some accident got entangled
I with a post the corner of Clipstone.ehreet. and one
i of them had its leg broke, and watt otherwise so.
much injured that it became necessary' to shoot it.
The !errant was thrown and W4l much hurt. Both
' the horses were salvable boniest'.
RARE 'News I—We are inexpressibly happy that
it hat fallen within the sphere of our power to pro.
mulgale to the sons of Mem, parliwularly to the
iniigent and distressed clatetivf mankind, the follow.
itti heartfelt intelligence of the unprecedented depre.
dation in•the price of grain, at Looghh.trotigh mar-,
ket, within the last fortnight. On 'frotr,day sa'at-
night (beingthe market day) wheat felt 1-36. pt,r, guar-
' ter, and on the sultsequeail Thursday., it experie: ced
a still greater reduction, as the average was about Id
or 17s. a quarter lota. In Nottingham market. on
' Sat, rday , 'bet rwlo a decline ila price of 12a. period.,
. tor.—(Lfrirolit t4eronick.)