The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-04-01 00:00:00

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-N.IPitL INTELLIGENCE.
NUL, WARMS 31.—Came done from ts, tint
and remain the Fairlie, Ward; and Henry Porcher,
Aside, for India ; and Swallow, Ford, for Oporto!
the latter has sailed with several others; particalan
not known.—Arrived and sailed for the River, the
Ranger, Remington, from Demerara.
PORTSMOUTH MARCH 31.—The Pioneer, Welsh,
fns Sierra Leone, arrived off the Wight Ibis day,
with timber, for London ; sailed '9th January. The
Magdalen, Watson, would be ready to sail for Lou.
don Ist March ; and also the Mary, Mercer, for
England. The Preston had arrived at Sierra Leone,
24th January, from England, all well. His M 4.
'jetty's ship tiemiramia had also arrived there, and
had sailed again, '2sth January, on a croize. Spoke
the Chapman, ---, from Baltimore to Bordeaux. all
well.—Arrived, the flerstelling, Keeper, from Ant-
werp, with wheat for this port.—Sailed, the General
Graham, Weatherhead, for Madras ; Prince Regent,
Harris, for Bengal ; Camden, Johnson, for Batavia ;
Cornwallis Brown, for Bengal ; Recovery, Totterly,
for ditto.—Retains, the Isabella, convict ship.
FALMOUTH, MARCH 49.—Passed down Channel
about 50 or 60 sail of vessels.
PLYironyn, MAacn 33.—Came in the Victory,
for Jersey ; Nancy, for Ley/horn ; and Comet. Hai,
for Rio Janeiro.—Ssiled the Eliza. for —; Friend-
ship, for the Havatittah; and B.rrosa, Tupper, fee
St. Lucia.
LITZRFOOL, MARCH 30.—Arrived the fiAsitary,
Gray, from I)emsrara ; gaited 6th Feb. The Thomas,
Winn, for Liverpool, ass to sail in 10 days. On the
16th March, in lat. 41. 5?. long. 35 60. spoke the
schooner Rover, from New York for Ilambargh ;.
same day spoke the Two Brothers, Gilchrist, for
Salem ; on the 28th inst. off Tuscan, passed the John
Craig, Williams, from hence for Bahia. Also arrived
the Elizabeth, Brown, from Bata°, Ayres, ender
jary-top-masts.

MEETING AT BERWICK.

On Tuesday last, Lord Osselstnn and the Hon.
Mr. Bennett arrived at Berwick, to take up the Free-
dom of the Borough, which had bees voted them for
presenting to the House of Cornier's', the Petition of
the Burgesses against the Sospension of the Babe's
Corpus Act, the presentation of which had been re-
fused by their present Representatives.
After having been sworn in, they severally re-
turned thanks for the honour they had received, and
addressed the Burgesses at considerable length on
the sufferings which the Saspaosion bad entailed up-
on many individuals, &r.
In the evening they entertained a most numerous
party of the Itergesses at the Red bon is.n, when a
great majority of the Burgesses present votersteered
their v tea to his Lordship for she neat Election.
On Wednesday, his Lordship and Mr. Bennett
were invited to a public dinner, as a testimony of
respect f..r their Parliamentry conduct; and at five
o'clock, a large company of Gentlemen sat down to
dinner; Colonel Ord in the Chair—Vice-Prsi•
dents, P. J. Selby, Esq. M. Gulley, Esq. and Jobe
Wilson, Esq.
After dinner the following toasts were drank:—
The X
The Price Regent. and may he never forget the prinriples
which placed his Family no she Throne.
The CIIAIIIIMV4, after paying some ermaylinents to
Lord Ossolston, for the uniform consistency of his
Parliamentary conduct, proposed his Lotdship's
health, which was drank with three times three,
amidst thunders of applause.
His Lordship returned thanks for the honour con•
ferred upon him by a meeting so truly respectable,
an honour the more gratifying to himself, es dimmest-
ing purely out of a coincidence of their political
opinions, and from which had arisen their conse-
quent approbation of his- Parliamentary viaduct ;
and after declaring his readiness upon vii occasions to
show himself the steady friend of Constitutional
Liberty, he concluded a speech of considerable in-
terest, by proposing the following toast :
Tte Mavar mod Corp,srat ion of Berwick. aid barren to the
trade of the town.
The Custew Oen, after adverting to the pub-
lic cnudoct of Mr. Bennett, and more particularly
to his humanity and attention to the state of our pri-
sons, us well es to the state e 1 the Police of the Me-
tropolis, proposed his health, which was also drank
with three times three, and great plaudits.
Mr. Benefit, after returning thanks in a most
impressive manner for the honour done him, and for
the satisfaction he felt in meeting so many friends,
not less distingeished by their love of the Constitu-
tion, than by their respectability and property, de.
tailed at considerable length the impositions which
had been resorted to, to deceive and delude the Public
under the present system of espioisage—a system de-
structive to the honest feelings of Englishmen, and
subversive of that confidence in each other, which
heretofore had been our peculiar character.—The
lion. Gentleman concluded a most eloquent speech
by giving the following toast .
The um Parliament, and may it he better than the pressrun

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owe.
The following toasts were then severally given
46 Th. Navy and Army," to which the following
addition was made by Lord Ossulston--" the former
placed upon a ba;is equal to its merits, and the latter
reduced to a constitutional standard."
66 The Friends to Liberty all over the world," by
Mr. Selby.
" Lord Holland, sod the Liberty of the Preget"
by Mr. Colley.
The memory of Mr. Fox.
The memory of Mr. N bitb read.
" Lord Erskine, and the Trial by Jury," by Mr.
Wilson.
" May spies and their employers soon find the
punishment they so well merit," by Mr. Selby.
Mr. GREY, of Milfield-bill, then rose t• propose
the health of Earl Grey, which he prefaced with en
electeent speech, which produced an electric feeling
in the company, that it is almost impossible to de-
scribe.
After many other toys' and constitutional toasts
were drank, ttie c,.mpasiy departed at about a 'par-
: ter past eleven, hithiy gratified with the proceedings
of thedov, which miAbt troll be described as having
'bees " the feast of reason sad thellow of soul."

STATE MAN.

!IN WIAITBLEY.

-...a55.-... , •
TO THE EDITOR OF THE LtEDS MERCURY;
Mn. Ezitecia,—Plesse to insert the following ob-
servations on an ationymotis letter; published in the
Leeds lute Meister of the gth inst. from I man call-
log himself my neighbour--(and he may be the
neighbour " to him that fell among thieves," but
that he is not the good Samaritan, his conduct suf.
bciently proves). lii my neighbour's 14.1ter, the con-
duct of Mr. Bennett, for " forcing open the House
of Commons trash Petitions," without enquiring into
the merit or demerit of the character of the Petition-
ers, is condemned. Mr. Bennett's character stands
above the reach of this traducer's malevolence ; and
as to my character, it would note I em sure, safer,
on a cemparrison with that of a man who is 'Misused
of his name. Both my character and my comfort
have stood the test, for if either of them coeld
have been impugned, is it likely that my cruel per-
secutors would have relinquished their preieceileas
and dismissed me without trial? I believe fe* men
will say that the milk of human kindness is to
found in such breasts. Ttioir tender mercies are
cruel, and woe be to the man that stands in need of
their clemency.
•
1 mention the lionoorsble Mr. Bennett with the
most profound regard :--he is • rare sight, "an
honest man amid a crowd of sycophants." Mr. Ben-
nett merely did his duty to his fellow...abject in pre-
senting my Petition, and as a Member of the Le-
gislature could imiss.la • fully refuse it. And *ill sty
neighbour, the Priest, or the Levite, undertake to
say that Mr. Bennett did sot acquaint himself with
my character? In my l'rtitiun I complained of
hard sod unmanly usage at Waiteht4d sod SAltshory,
I and of my wife and friends being refused to sea or
speak with me at IVorcester. I did not petition
1 with • design to pert the createres appointed to do
1 such drudgery, but to show the injustice done, in
Imy person, to the lass of my country. I pointed
out my loss of health sod of business, but said no-
thing even of the distressed situation of my wife, for
to more compassiusi was out my design:—no ; pity
I abhor, and justice I Inive a right to demand.
My design, in this address, is to warn my coun-
trymen how, in future, they deliver innocent men 1
into the hands of malicious and interested tyrants; I
and I am ready, when la a fuliy called, and when a
prospect of redress presents itself, to prove, that
every word, in my Petition, was true; and to show
that I Prittured such treatment, nut 'ten hinted at in
my Petition, as would make the heir of my nameless
neighbour stated erect, if • slavish disposition had
not merle-• his cart. But why does the coward
conceal his name? Is it that. judging fi OM his own
wicked heart, be fears the coilequPticp ? Or am I to
I *oppose that the Editor of the Leeds Intelligence,' is
I himself the fabricator of this precious production ?
i such • supposition I have a just right to entertain,
1
1 for when I applied to him, as I did in person, for
the tome of my traducer, he refused to give it op,
thereby showitig tile sincerity of the boasted readi.
ness at the sissiderer to stand roman!, in his proper
person; or rather, showing his consciousness that he
has dealt in calumny, and like his betters, shrinks
from respousibility.—l pm your obedient servant,
i Wiese, itt, rwar BENJAMIN WHITELEY.
Ilueder,tiele, March 23.

MIDDLESEX SiSSSIO,

Them Sessions commenced yesterday morning.—
The Grand Jury being sworn, the CHAIRMAN ob-
served, that as there was nothing very heavy on the
calendar, he would not detain them from proceeding
to business.
Ma. Eaves, a respectable looking man, was in.
dieted for assaulting James MiGuire, at a livery-
stables in Osford-street.
Tne Prosecutor stated, that he was a servant out of
place, he went to the stables of the Defendant, who
is a horse-dealer, to look not for • pair of horses for
a Gentleman who wanted to perchese them. lie saw
some for sale, and as esagniuing the mouth of one,
he ohkerved that it was very old ; Defendant called
him a lying rascal, and said, he was nojudee of horse.
flesh. After some further remarks, Defendant struck
Prosecutor several times, and calling him various
names, turned him not of the stables.
On his cross.esamination witness said, he was or-
dered to look out for the horses by • Mr. M'Kensie,
who lived iu Parsdise-row, at the back of Feathery-
square.
Mr. R stay, for the Defendant, said, the Prosecutor
was one of those persons known by the name of crab-
bers, servants out of place, who went about stables
where horses were for sale, and procured purchasers
on receiving a bribe from the seller, which, if he re-
fused to give, they persuaded the purchasers that there
was not a good horse in the stable; this was called
crabbing the horse-dealers.
The Jury returned • verdict—Not Guillp

CITY Beet/Mts.—A Court of Aldermen was held
yesterday et Guildhall. The Thanks of the Court
were unanimously voted to the Bishop of PETER.
nonoucn, and the Rev. W. CuAVY, D.D. Master of
Sidney Susses College, Cambridge, for their mei-
lent Sermons preached before the Court swills, Go•
vernors of the several Hospitals, at Christ's Much,
Neweste.street, on Monday and Tuesday ist Easter
week last. Twelve bars of gold, weighing upwards
of 1800 ounces, were sworn off for exportatioa.
Messrs SAMUEL DIXON led Deputy FISHIER, wets
sworn Coal-meters, in trust ; and Messrs. PEWIT,
SCATCIIIERD, D. BRITTEN, and DEANE, Corte-meters,
in trust, for the City, for four years, if so long Mem-
bers of the Court of Common. Council.
Something will soon be done to relieve the
Quava's bootee from the effects of the overflow of
water, from Rosamond's Pond, which has formed a
I subterraneons passage across the Green Park, sod
will ultimately sap the foundation of that fits* edifice.
The water runs along tbe.Park wall from the Canal;
and, although numberless workmen bars been em-
ployed for months in the construction of a e
sewer on
the East side of Lord Consist's garden, tbe vil
still (mists ; the ground, indeed, is a complete swamp.
James Gobbet and George Jyticirily for uttering
forged bank-notes, were emoted on Friday at
Northampton; they denied to the last knowing the
notes were forged, stating they took then of a per-
son at Redbourn fair.