The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-01-05 00:00:00

,OMAN.._
ITALIAN

WITNESSES.

[Aa a specimen of the Improved style of oven Reiletems's
reran. at the present day, we give the followiug ektract oat
a well known popular topic
WITH our own Island vices tot eontent,
We rob our neighbours op the Continent :
• Italia, verse of ov'ry softer arts
Who, feigning to reline, unmans the hien.
Who lays the realessliCfsense and virtue waste.
Who mars while she pretends to mend our taste ;
Italia, to complete and crown our shone,
Sends us a Send—Majoechl is his name.
The farce of greatness, withost being great,
Pride without pow'r, Mies without estate,
Souls without vigour, bodies without force,
Hate without cause, revenge without remorse.
Dark, mean revenge, murder without defence,
Jealousy without love, sound without sense,
Mirth without humour, without wit grimace,
Faith without reason, gospel without grace.

A county meeting was held at Ayr on Saturday last,
want of room compels us to postpone till to•inorrow,
an account of the proceedings. A well supported op-
position was made to the very loyal address proposed ;
but on a division the numbers fin the address were 66,
and against it 15.
MALIGNANT FETZIL—At .Macclesfield, a most ma-
lignant fever has made its appearance, to which a
groat number of persons have already fallen victims.
To such an alarming extent has been its ravaxes,
Mit front ten to fifteen persons die daily. The town
add neighboiffbod are in the greatest consternation.
Its introdnction is stated to have arisen front some
bales of newly imported foreign silk. It will be re-
membered that a great portion of the population are
engage.) in silk manufacture. All the skill of the
faculty has been exerted in vain to arrest its progress,
and it is with regret we learn that some cases
have made their appearance recently at Leek and
Congleton the adjoining towns. It is hoped some pre-
cautionary measure will he adoptesi to prevent its
spreading in the more populutut manufacturing towns
of Lancashire, where the anticipation has already
created considerable alarm.

Tue FAosv.—The floating ict in the names ex-
hibit at present a ery picturesque scene, and is accu-
mulating so fast that, if the frost continue, we may
expect the river in a few days to be passable by per-
sons on foot in the vicinity of London Bridge. Al-
ready it is so much impeded in the narrow parts, as
scarcely to be navigable above Richmond. The water-
men there have dragged their boats ashore, to prevent
their being damaged by the ice. In the south west of
England, it is said, the frost has been severer than in
the neighbourho..d of the metropolis ; and the river
Exe was frozen give: ist Exeter so early as Thursday
last. On the continent, as we learnt incidentally from
the accident that happened last week in the Palace of
the Prince of Orange at Brussels, the cold was still
more intense than in England. The mercury in Beau-
mur's thermometer stood at that time at 10 decrees
below Zero, or in other words 10 degrees below the
freezing point of Farettlorit. Vesta.' day, several of
the mails front vario;:s parts of the country were much
later than usual, in consequence of the heavy fall of
snow in slitfrrent parts on Wednesday. In some
platers, we understand, it has been sel en and eight
feet deep on the road. The Exeter mail had been
twice dug out en Wednesday night. At Brighton,
flea toll commitztent brtner -sunierier on Wednesday
morning, and was incessant all the day. The ground
exldhited a hoary covering, more than uncle deep,
every where ; and where it had drifted, it ruse to a
height of many feet. About Edinburgh the snow began
to rover the hills on Sunday, and in the north of
Scotland there has been so heavy a fall of snow, that
in the glens or vallies, between the hills, it is at
least ten feet in depth, and many sheep leave been
barled under it.

Tuts SICRPrNTIINE RIYEIt.-••••ThOligh there was little
wind yesterday, and the day, npt.n the whole, much
more pleasant and favourable than the preceding one,
the skaiters were neither ntinserou.; nor select, and the
anintemrs out-numbered the prgi•arurr by, at least,
fifty to one. The ice, indeed, is su very indifferent,
that this is by no means wonderful. duly a very
small part at the extremity is at all fit for tine skait-
lug. The remainder, having been congealed during
a strong wind, resembles more a ploughed. field than
a sheet of ice.

Sit tewnEca.—The brig James, Captain Jacks, from
Greenock, in ballast, with 1211 passengers, consigned
co Mr. Archibald Taylor, was stranded on the main
bar, on the 9th instant. She left Greenock on the
Sth October, and when she arrived off the bar, came
in too close, in consequcure of the wind, to work off,
so as to wait for a pilot ; and the only alternative was
to go asiore, or attctuitt to come over the bar—in do-
ing the latter the vessel was lost ; but we understand
that most of the sails and rigging will be preserved.
Nu lives were lost, and all the baggage of the passen-
gers was saved.—(Cope Fear Recorder.)
The Westminster Grand Jury found a true bill, yes•
tertlay, against Mr. Frederic iccum, fo: stealing 200
printed sheets, value 10d. front the Library of the
Royal Institution.
01611 TRCAIVIN.—On Wednesday John Palin, th•
Wan who, it will he re, ollezted, was taken into custody
some time ago, after a reward of .200 t. for his apprehen-
sion hail been offered by the Home Secretary, upon a
charge of high treason, and conspiring with Arthur
Thistlewood, and others, to assassinate his Majesty's
Ministers at a Cabinet dinner, was brought from Cold-
bath-fields prison, by Adkins, the Governor, before the
Privy Council, at Whitehall, and was examined by the
Attorney-tleneral, and about nine of his Majesty's Priv'?
Council, for upwards of an boor and a half. He declared
that it never was his intention to join in the horrid deed
and that kg had all along endeavoured to persuade This-
tiewood and his companions from the act which they
meditated. Palin was called upon to enter into his own
recognizance' in the sun' of WO:. for seven years, for
which period be was held to kee;► the peace, and to he
tinder the anrveillance of the police. Ile entered into
the recognizant-es, and was discharged.
Tut Dots Ducasc's Cot:amt.—A Morning Paper
of yesterday, which we copied, in giving an account
of this atrocious affair, supposes the possibility of
the attack having been made np3n the courier by
some of the horse-patrol, under the idea that he was
a robber. Another paper of this morning asserts,
they have the anthority of Mr. Birnie for stating,
that such a supposition must he wholly erroneous; in-
mooch m there is only one single horse-patrol 'ta-
ttooed *a the Harrow-road: and it se happened that
Rent IN Was of duty os the sight in question.