The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-04-14 00:00:00

GRAVESEND, APRIL 13.—N0
Sailed the Royal George,
Flora, Staddarts for Barbadoes.

THOMAS EBRIILL.

Amongst the various accidents which herthte
citizens of Landon on Monday last, on the slurs
of the Life Guards from the 'rower, throughput
of the city, scarce one will be found mer 4 dis.
tressing than that which happened to Taean
EGRALL, Citizen and Musician, a young am.
about twouty-fuor years of age, who, in August
last, volunteered his services' to assist is
hi" Majesty's forces on the Islited of Welcher",
He was at the reAuctiuh of Flushing, will is
die most gallant nntnner 1 and, vis his mere, ob.
tained as a reward nu npritiOlinent in the cing
Melees Ordee. To adtl to the exert: dating pain vf,
a ball nut yet extracted front the btenst of this I~ysl
, citizen, by various 'reports tt has 'been attempt
to deprive hint of character, which, coining tuba
knowledge, and feeling conscious of his innocruce,
ho expressed great destro to his mother, as well it
others, that he may, while yet alive, he
to make an affidavat,sif his innocence.

SAINT THOMAS'S HOSPITAL
ABRAHAM'S WARD.
THOMAS F.:SHALL, of the PAHA of St. Damao, it
the City of London, do mike oath, that on M.,iallty
the 9th day of April, about the hour of one o'cloeli, j au
wounded in the breast by a pistol or carhine.shot, itiot
standing in the shop of Mr. GOODETE, corer of 4164.
lane, in Fencharclmitreet.

And I do further make oath, that I did not molest se,
pr,,voke the military, either by throwing br'cks, strots,ckn,
tte. or by hooting and hissing at them, or by say othor mesa
whatever, nor did I give encouragement to others isekne,
Sworn before me, one of his 11ajerty's Jastitio of Us
Peace for the County of hurry, this lith day of April,
1810.
The Mark of THOS. r ARAL!.
JOHN PINIIOII.II. X
Witne‘ses .10IIN TAYLOR,
GEO. GOODENS.
TIIOS,
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ORATORIOS.

Last night there was a . repetition of the nos
performances at Covent. Garden 'fheatre, that
were given on Wednestlay.last. As this was the
concluding Oratorio for the season, the how
was crowded at en tinily hour is all fasfs.;—..
At the commencement of the Omni part, Ike
confoslon• becaMe so great in the pit, tram ow
extretne pressure of the audience, that the course
of the entertainment was suspended for a coil.
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etilerable Aims. The principal desire was, that
, the pit door should be stint, but this was mina
by these who could get no further than the pas.
sage. There was mock vociferation, and loud
cries of " Off! Off!'' "Co on I" " bloc the
standing order ;" ". o. 'P. rise again," Ac. At
length Mr. Bt AJIAT4 addreitsiti `the audience, aid
assured them that Mr. AMILVTIuid sent as mkt
to have the door shut, which was soon effected,
and the Ladiee and.Gentlomen Who could pot itin
admission into the pit, were admitted behind,' the
scenes, and arranged- among the Cheri,tst.when
the demon of disconl was lulled into a ail tw
quiescence, and harmony was restored.
Madame CataLANl.waa in fine ynice, and gars
the celebrated air of 0! panto ranima, *Wigs
increased 'fascination of nianaer ; site was encored,
and the repetition was greeted with acclamation.
Mr. BR AllAKsang the Death of .eloocrombit
withhis usual spirit, •And•he pie us a second edii,
lion of the unintelligible miseries of Kuis!
Mrs. BLAND, Miss GRIGLIETTI, Miss BOLVII
Mr. BrLotassr, and Mr. TAYLOR, fulfilled Omit
SpVtut duties with credit. The national Amine
of. SI GiNtillff the King,"
,terminated the whole,
when Bar curtain dropped amidst the owss ullegill•
rifeatioliesunies of public approbAtivo.
• li •1 .
notelet of a Letter (rote a Gent)emaliliefrat
received in Glasgow, un Monday, dotal • , '
" Califs,
a' iiht7; the revolution in Spain, there has 1/1"
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continually occurring in every putt of their
Ttbi:rebotmJiitiptnie,t:titeahy:thilevots,po7lcdttuhriehriegr.
tcitizaryrvu;itintlteiirni.loge i
4.,
0452:_hmilleell;
ellicoverecl among the Wirers of the tleet, to
atilt: 40 the Bal to the enemv.—Tweutriveatt IV'
ringicadi,rs (chiefly Colonise.) nate hese tools'
ahemthe Captain or the Puri, wt.ila notAla*
night. aitin g filtuals to the en:ittyi, at tkiat,
..1r:
a
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nas leaving the town.—aVihut Qua br ex
nation as this?"
The Pri,sdess Charlotte packet, Pe lolled
Lisbon Papers to the 31st ult. and letters to thi
2d instant. There has been some skirmishiwg 04
the Portuguese frontiers, bet it tines not split
that the French have a forte capable of cunt, c
ing with an army which, 1(141er/ideally 01 the
to
Portuguese levies, has recently receirdi afiwg to
inforeements, and is in the best cooditi" „ters
al
discipline and appointments. The prira" ,;1,„
from Lisbon state, that the most perfect cordial',
prevails between the English and Perlog°l6
ter*
During the late tumults, the Rio •r r
to
were nioored near the Speaker's gs.*deft COI
--„, ea
bilk .at tho Thames, topir9ciir any ail,'"" •
the sea-side of Palace-yard.
Thursday morning, two children belona.-s-higt°ll.
jourttepnan baker, in cow,court, Liaillarrwiii
street, having bent left alone in a 1.401
siel
clothes of the younger, about dime ye4rs
caught are, by which. the child was silillVlo.4 ,
burnt) and died in lees than SelVf 11104_,....
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iTTORNEY qEIVERAL'S OPINIoN
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The Serjeant at Araa ittenaliii the ]loose of
cominoos baying in the execution of this Warder
hell rowed, dine turned out of Fasticis
Isomer's private decking_ tonse by force,
Your opinion is *sit*, *bather the
evecution of this Wartint Ke*in he jati.
bed in breaking open .the utter or any inner
door of the private diVelling-house of Sir
FaAscts BURDILTT, or of any other person
in which there is reasonable cause to suspect
he is concealed, fur the purpose of appre-
hending him. And whether he may take to
11;,; a•sistatice a sufficient citil or military force
lir that purpose, such force acting under the
,;„"ii,in of a Civil Magistrate. And whe-
ther such proceedings will be justifiable dur-
ing the night as well as in the day-time

Opinion.
4, No instance is stated to me, and I presume
that none is to be found, in which the outer door
of a house has been broken open under theSPEAK-
est's Warrant for the purpose of -apprehending
the person aglisiSt whom such Warrant issued
then being therein. I must, therefore; form my
()phases altogether acme eases which have arisen
upon the execution of Writs or Warrants ksuing
from other Courts, and which seem to fall within
the same principle. •
66 I and it laid down in Semayne's case, 5 Co.
91. that where the King is a party, the Sheriff
nay break open the Defendant's house, tither to
arrest him or to du other execution of the Kiug's
recess; if otheiwiii he cannot enter. So if.
the Defendant :bee is the house of another man,
the sheriff may do the same ; but he cannot
break into the house of the Defendant in the exe-
cution of any process at the suit of an individual.
dist;netiou proceeds, as I applehcods upon
the greater importance of enforcing the process
4,1 the. Grown for the public benefit, than that of
disidisols for the suppot t of their private rights.
from hence, I should think that the
Siwaker's Warrants which had issued' to appre-
hend a man under sentence of commitment fur
is Breach of the Privileges of the House of
Commons, might be executed in the same man.
ner with criminal process in the :same of the
King, inasmuch as those Privileges were given
to the House of Commons for thd le•nelit of
the pehlic only ; and the public "are interested
Ls the due support of them. If the act had
been done, and I were asked whether it could
be defended, I should say that it could ; but where
it is preciously known that the execution of the;
Warrinst will be resisted.by force, and if death
saoti emu,: its such a conflict, the Officer who
eiecates the Warrant would stand justifitol, or
not, as the breaking of the house may be held
lawful or unlawful. I feel myself obliged to
bring this under his notice, leaving him to judge
for himself whether he will venture to act upon
eiy opinion, which has no direct authority in
point to support it, but rests upon reasoning
from other cases, which appear to me to fill
nada the same principle. Should the 0111.
ter resolve to break jut() the house, if it be
found necessary, he must be careful, first to
signify the cAsse of ash coming, • and make re.
vest to open the doors, end nut use any force
until it appeari that those within Will not comply ;
aid he shush' be assured that the vai-fy whom he
se:ks to apprehend is within the house. "Tor the
purpose of esocutiug the warrant, he may take
eith him a sufficient force of such description as
the nature of the case renders necessary. If be
has reason to apprehend• a. degree of resistance,
which can only be repelled by a military force,
he may take such force with him; but in this ease
it will be 'prudent to take with him also a Civil
Magistrate:
" I do not think it advisable to esecnte the
Warrant in the night.
" The Officer should understand, that when
Sir FRANCti BURDErt has once been arrested, if
he afterwards effects his escapes or is rescued, his
house, or the house of any other person,
into which he retreats, may be broken for the
purpose of re-taking him.
" Lineohes tun, April t.

" V. G 1 HRS."

Mr. ArronNEIC-GlNsn4 Lis Examination before
the House of Commons.

Were you consulted upon the sultjert of the Speaker's War-
unit, as dire •ted against Sir Francis Burdett, at any time
preCoutly to the case being submitted to you upon the part
of CleSerjeant at Arms) I was never cot upon the le-
tdlity of the warrant, but I was consulted upon the question,
N,lether it could Se executed by breaking the outer door of
Sr Francis Burdest's house.
When, and by whom ? Oa the Satprday morning I was
v!Atred to attend the Connell, and I did attend it ; I. cantatt
ci.lrge my recolledtiois with the time ; I can recollect, from
t*teee'rcts of havior,, .al up so late the preceding night, it was
extremely hte; I -tixtold think ft was abodi one or two
o'clock, but I will not pretend to speak to the time. I was
eked nt the Council whet I thought of the legality of so
'ltenting the warrant, .1 mean, by breaking the outer door
of the house ;1 it was a new • question ; it arose upon the
etettiti:,n of a wa7rant, with the mode itf executing which
I Was in practice unacquainted. No instance could be stated
in rue in which such a warrant Ned been execute(' by break-

irK the inter doar of Ow house; I cool,' therefore only rea-
los rpns analogy to nther cases in the law, which I had in
lYteeolkctina. The tendency of my opinion certainly then
tel?, that it might hewn executed; that isi that the Serjeant
kri a rickt, having demanded entrance. and being reused,
vsi having idate:l the grouad von whih be &mantled en-
*ranc, matey, to execute stich a warrant, that he would 17!'
'5116•11 iv breaking the outer door of the hermit. I stated nt
'he same thpe rsatit was n question new, for the rea'nu 1
1/44'e slated, and that 1 conhi not rive a dncidcd opinion;
hat stint as fir as opilitut went, which was the meet of rea4
4aning, and not of any authority upon the particular point, I
illlPrt it might he so execute)). •
Was that atl that passed at tire Collodi upon the s;toidget of
Speaker's vravnutt I—That It RS the substance *what
Tal.,) stated the consequence Oat moglitivi-r
1') the Se
iyleant in so executing this warrant, if he werk Dot
n law that if any contliet shatildrake place; stud
should gigue (patty much in She terms I aftcridgids
urcl in my opinloW, lie 'would e. would nut he
,jitttified, its
I:leat wode id esecuting the warrant might he deemed legal vse
and I think I stated liken he, that if any thing EMIT
T•ers;:. t" IOPPen to himself, and it should be held that his
.:r eitecnting the warraig tits lileß 1, no person resist-
i":`:'r has r xveutioti of. Initrant wouldbe cruglbialry ant
twcrable for that ci *
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INDIA 11VS..*.
Yesterday a Genet, '*pitetal Codit or Se.
- East

orietors of A- . Indie art lieitt at their
house, 10^adenhall-sttbilt Rl4.
the Chairman, In the Chafe."'''
DEPOSED warttits, CADETS;.
The Minute* of the Gotta of Directors being
read over, and an abstract Of the Bye.lavis being
also read, agreeably to the usual practice at ilte•
first meeting after the choke of Directoia.
The CHAIRMAN room!, that the Resolution of
the Court of Directors for readmitting Henry
Gardner, a Student in the East India College,)
destined for the Madill' Etiiblishment, who had
been dismissed in consequence of his nomination'
having been procured by corrupt practices, of';
which, however, it appeared that he himself was
ignorant, but who had been re-appointed by
James Daniell, Esq. one of the Directors, be
agreed to.,
Mr. Roca expressed his high approbation of
the Resolution. lie hoped to see every one of
the young men who stood in this unfortunate si.
tuation restored. If there were any et' them,
which he much feared was the Cale, who had no
personal friends among the, Directon to restore
them to their situations, he sincerely trnsted that
the Court in general would take the case of those
who were thus unhappily situated into their con.
sideration, and would, as a body, extend to them
that sympathy and commiseration to which they
were entitled, in consequence of 'a punishment in:
dieted on them for offences of which they were in- •
noceut, at least in the moral guilt of which they
had no participation. 6
' The Resolution. of the Conrt of •Dtreeton was.
then unanimously agreed to.
PETITION TO PARLIAMENT' FOR AID.
The Coatamaa informed the Court of Proprie.
tors, that the present Court had been made
special fur the purpose of perusing a Petition pro.
posed to be presented to the House of Commune
on the subject of the Company's Affairs. He
should nut detain the Court with offering any ob.
nervations in support of the Petition, bet should
simply propose that it he read, reserving to him.
self to deliver his sentiments on the occasion, if,
unexpectedly, any objection or doubt should arise
on the subject.
The Petition was then' read.—lt refers to the
Petition presented by the Company, to the House
of Common', in April 1808, and states the fact
that 1,500,0001. was then granted to them by
Parliament, towards the demand claimed by the
Company against the country. This sum, with
the sales, which were more favourable than had
been expected, the Petition goes on to state, pre.
vented the necessity of tho Company's applying
for assistance in any other quarter. The reven'ae
of the Company fur the year 1809,10, there was
every reason to suppose, would be nearly equal
to the claims to be made against-it. The ex.
traordinary calls. on the Company, however,
had not yet ceased.—These arose, first from
drafts from India, to the amount of 4,900,0001.
on account of the wars carried on there ; and
from losses in their shipping, during the last
year, amounting, in the two article* of merehanil
dire at prime cost, and of freight to 1,048,0001.',
From prospective estimates which had been made
for the year 1809.10, it appeared that- in • Mil
way the sums to be expended would exceed • the
income to the amount of about 2,083,0001. which •
the Company could not raise from its own re.
sources ; nor were its funds ever equal, at any
one limp, to the expences of carrying on the Go.
verument in India, in time of war. The accounts
of last March, however, spewed that •the funds
of the Company in England exceeded its debts, to
the amount of four millions • eight hundred and
twenty-two thousand pounds, which sum they
hoped would he equal to cover any advances made
by. the Honourable the House of Commons.
The Petition being being read,
The CUAIRmAN moved that this Petition be pre.
sensed to the House of Commons.
Mr. Rock suggested, as the present Petition re-
ferred to a Pctition formerly presented by the
Company on the same subject, and as there were
many Proprietors now present who might not have
been present when the former Petition was before
them, that it too should be now read.
Mr. Gitatir (the late Chairman) observed, that
the one Petition did not at all hang on the other.
It was not, therefore, at all necessary to judge of
the propriety of the pretest Petition, that the
former one should be read. The reference to the
former Petition had been introduced into the pre.
sent one only historically. He had no objection,
however, if it could prove satisfactory to the
Conn, that the former Petition should be read.
Mr. ROCK presumed to think that the reading
of the former Petition would prove satisfactory to
the Court.. Ile, for one, could answer that it
would prove so to him.
The CIIAIRMAN contended, that the former Pe.-
thion had nothing to dd with the present question.
The former Petition had been presented for sped:
fic purposes, which were streaSy answered.
Mr. Roca stilt insisted that the Petition in April
1808 should be read.
On this a show of hands was taken, when the
proposition was deflated to have been negatived.
The Petition was then approved of. it was or-
dered that the Seal of the Company be affixed to it ;
and that it be presented to the Mouse of Commons
by the Chairman.
On the motion of Mr. GRANT, the Court then
immediately adjourned.

Return of the number of Yeomanry and Volnn.
terrs.eftective, iii each County of Great Britain,
according to the return of December last--Total
77,135.
'Yesterday afternoon, as the Countess of Ui
tliatnoi, accompanied by her grand daughter*
MIN CAM, were proceeding in their ,carriaae
through Charles.street, Grusvennraquare, the
axletrce broke; fortunately the 'coachman was
not thrown front the box, and he instantly stopped
the Isorsee;. her Ladyship and Miss CAPE?. gut out
without injury, and walked to Lady GALL‘iAY's
• Baktlepstrust) Postmaa-square. ,

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