The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-08-19 00:00:00

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The basso relieve which has been esteeted on the
South front ofthis handsome pile, was &ain't/ to
the Public on Saturday list, The idea is
Britannia is offering a recnmpence--biildfng out a
wreath in each hand to the Army and Navy. The
subjects Ire classically treated. On the right are
the prows of twirls and their sails warlike ample.
meets and British tars. Ost the left, the army, indi-
cated by horses and warriors of different sees. The
figures are fuer feet in height. and pnviefotine otteom.
mob intelligence and 'migration. Snoirke famished
the drawing, and Westmacott executed it.
The house *ill be finished ih November ; bat it
*ill occupy ninhtti longer to complete the interior
decorations, furnitrire, &c. A portico of the Dodd
order, with four delumes, of the same Site as those
on the Wetter,' side, will give a cntainanCling effect
to the basso relieve. 'l'he principal rooms will he
three, each from 00 to 70 feet bug, and 30 wide.
The first—the seinen, will be richly ornamented with
ahields of the three countries—keg:and, Scotland,
and Ireland. At thr•upper 'ehd
.of the apartment
will be plazed.a very titre picture of Lord Lytle.
dock, as the founder of the Club. The secohd great
room is intended for a library and rearling-roam
the third, the dining and coffee•ruern ; other eating.
rooms ; the largest is 40 feet long this is to be
called the house dieiee.ronM, wherein coveys *ill
he laid every d is, in the year. There are torn bil-
liard-rooms. The establiahmenl will be very large,
net less than 15 men servants, with upper domes-
tics of a•sirperior description ; the maitre d'hotel to
hare a salary of 5001. e.yeer. Immensely large cot.
hers far wines, the) will contain 150 pipes, and a great
part of them already 41.4 in..
Tile first dinner eat he held in January, at which
the Duke of W-Ilingten ptesitle+. T e ,Prince
Regent, and the D.rke of Yerko will also be present.

Mtn,. Auo. 9.—Captain Ridley, of the triad
whale-ship of this port, jest returned froth the,
Northern Ocean, informs me, that on the 10th May
he was in lat. 80.55. about eight miles from Spittbet-
gen, in '32 fathoms wales ; the sun was at a great al7
sited@ ; there was scarcely any night ; they could fol:
low the glorious luminary circling again and agile:
round the heavens—the atmosphere at this time was
very clear—Captain It. went to the top-mast, and
could see with a glass to the extent of between 40 and
'5O miles (as he supposes) over the great Polar Ocean,
which was much more open than when he was in let.
81. last year. There were indeed large islands of
flaw ice floating about ; but he says the sea was na:.
vigable, without great difficulty, as far as the ey•
mild reach, But the ire was running ashore, and
accumulating iu large masses on the northern coast
of Spitsbergen. Captain Ridley thinks the es-
prdition came too late ; presuming that the open-
ing he found would soon be closed ; and, as far
as he knows, it was then the only one westward
of Spitsbergen. Indeed, it would undoubtedly ape
pear, that the Discovery Ships have been obliged to
abandon the attempt to navigate the sea between
Greenland and Spitsbergen; Captain R. says, that
when he left the sea, there wes an immense accumu.
lation of field and ikto ice, stretching almost from
shore to shore. Ile quitted the vicinity of Spits-
bergen about the 15th of May, and directed his'
course towards Greenland. About the middle of
June, being in Wiled. 78. 120 miles from laud, as
nearly as he can judge, the *Pother very rainy, with
thick fog, he spoke an Aberdeen whale fishing ship,
the master of which had seen the Discovery Ships,
on the 19th of June, in latitude 80; and *eta on
board with his log-book. tie was Wormed by the
Officers that they had explored in every direction to
the writ of Spitsbergen, for a wimp northward.
but could not get half a decree farther than they then
were. They were steering S. W. when last seen.—
Whether they might not find it practicable to peas
between Spitsbergen and Nova Zembla, is another
question. Their S W. course would induce us to
think they did not intend trying it at that time.—
From all this, there is much apparent cause for re-
gret that the expedition did not set out sooner ; as
then they might have coasted Spitzh-rgen, and en.
fere() the Polar Basin by the opening which Captain
Ridley fouud.

POST4QN• OF thrl'AftS.

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CARNARVON, JULY 25—Foots ersa ANTIQUA•
BIANS —A few mouths ago eta bought for a guinea,
of a poor man, a beautiful gold ring. It was found
in removing some rubbish by the great gate of the
Castle. It has engraved upon it, the figure of a re.
male, nursing a child, with either a ChWese or
Saxon inactiptinii. Neither the Antiquariaris here, 11,4
at Chester, can make out the inacriptiorr, and it
is now in the Antiquarian S-ciety, in Loudon.—
The Lady who purchased it, has been already
offered twenty pines% for it. It has, uitheut doubt,
lain there duce the building of the mhos. structure :
when found, it was inclosed in a sm4 11 silver nos.
along with some little things like crucifies, o hich thac
fellow that sound them threw away, because, he says,
they were decayed and not worth keeping.
Bonae, in his celebrated speech on public economy,
made the following remarks :••-•44 I do most serrousiv
pot it to Administration to consider the wisdom of
a timely reform ; early reformations are amicable
arringements with a friend in power;—late reform&
lions are terms imposed upon a conquered one ray.
Early rilformations are made in cold blood ;•—late
rtformations are made under a state of infirm.
million. In that state of things the People be•
held in Government nothing that is respectable;
they see abuse, and will see nothing else.—
Let the Commons in Parliament assembled, be
one and the same thing with the Commons at
large; the distinctions that are made to separate
us are unnatural and wicked contrivances ; let us
identify let os incorporate ourselves with the
People—let us cut all the cables and snap the chains
which tie us to an unfriendly shore, and enter the
friendly harbour that shoots far out into the main
its moles and jetties to receive us. Let os give a
faithful pledge to the People that we honour the
Crown, but that we belong to them—that we are
their auxiliaries, and not their task-masters—their
fellow.la banters iu the same vineyard ; not lording
it over their rights, but helpers of their joy."
At the last Quarter Sessions for the county of
Sussex, some demur was made on the presentation of
the Coroner's quarterly account, in which he had
computed his distance from, as well as to, the places
at which he had held inquisitions, and charged for
the whole number of miles out cud in. The bill was,
however, allowed, under the authority of an opinion
which the present Atiorney•General had given of the
case. Serjeant Fuctiv has given a similar opistion ;
and the alio wance.has been made in Middlesex, Sur-
rey, Susses, and various other counties.
Two whales have been seen for the last fats or sis
days inside the harbour's mouth at Cove ; on Sunday,
the City of Cork steam packet, with a great num-
ber of passengers on board, proceeded to sea for a
few boors, and went very near Yooghal harbour;
we were informed by a Gentleman who was on
board, that the steam.hoat passed quite close to one
of these whales near the harbour's mouth, and the
persons on board had a distinct view of it, and were
much amused at seeing it spout up the water, which it
did to a considerable height ; two row-boats were en-
deavouring to drive it inside the harbour, but with
little effect; the appearance of these whales on our
coasts, may be owing to the icebergs, which have
lately been so much talked of by navigators.—
(Cork Paper.)
Thursday a very melancholy accident happened at
Blackhill.locks, near Glasgow. A young woman,
Margaret Wilson, was washing on the bank of the
Canal, when the Lock.keeper, a young man of the
name of Sinclair Henderson, making fun with her,
they both fell into the water, and were drowned.
On the 24 ult. at Sold. a small town nine leagues
from Nome, after a terrifying noise, a tremendous
hail storm came an, which lasted three quarters of
an hour ; some of the hail-stones weighed eighteen
ounces. Several persons were datigeroody wnuud-
ed, a number of animals were killed, arid the vines,
which promised a magnificent harvest, were totally
destroyed.

" To the Senior Magistrate of Aberdeeo."

. LAW iNTELLIGIiii, K.
Cobra
RICHARD DART D HAidii
AND PRIM RANIEW44:
This viii a Poitints lii batik ' ly, wlitch itafed

_:uptey,
the toltoiving fails! Harris itild Pace, preitiiiii to
1793, weed indebted to Diat4 bodtt.•e, of
Bristol, in'ilds sum of 5211. 44/41. Ciimrdistioo
Was istaed agslugt Herd 'doe bn th# 0011 of
April, 1793, kid three Atiffstilttris *ere deassiedi
•mosiiitiug in the *hole to piiiivid; en that
the'etsim of 1)4%4 and Sots, titidtbe the Air iittitetr
debt, ads 4101. Its. id. 'Aftei, honefet: Ate 'debt
had been proved, no demand -of thP difirfetiti sad
ever made to the aisigneel-ehtil the ohtl M.lBl or
the beginning of Mid, *WC Mr.. R; flirtb..is;
the present Member for BrititilVpitt id hit detnind as
surviving reprebentatite of • Ote'lhiftkrolliti of
Maas and Son. Mr CollelMMi It TiVre•
sentetlve of the 101%400.4s 'OWN ritislikeoent et the
tepee of time, and tin the gtniiiiirthlir bat
of esebsiige. aceepteahi th? 'lVArtite'erltAtifer nod
Co., placed by Harris aite Price lo the i;arialtbi Davit
sod Son, as a robe ;Pat decUillyfikfn hot been pen.
dared by Mr. It. niff imodbili has lied it
been brought roman!, Harris and -p rice. Ifi• Iheii
lasigriees' might have. ebtifnesi 11141,100 ill4ler the
reale of Glover and Co: &MI lieffierthie the
question for the decision of the Lord Chilecelf .r was,
whether the Petitioner,. IitILA4(I Pe;
titled to the dividend epnttitis debt of 5211: 641.
The liottti CHANCELLOR. hi: gitl.i judgoteri,„ ob-
Served upon the ciocemstanee that the ita÷es of
Herds arid Price had (levee came frerstaid.l49iieffhire
that the prattler a debt by Da 440 and' Swn Altfoblt bti
rapostged,' oh the eroehri.thst Ho' difidedidlid'itert
claimed from 1793. to WO: file taol4llllliti
Peek Aieterithltiniling, was geite tbeettrtitut • stir:
tieing "Aleienee h.d d right• to•dernitsid se-
' eerily placed in the hie* a Demi,' hhal?..4ilee thei
%inkhorns should be Oen I orr 160brilinihoi dealfend
'wire paid •' industrlitte' ~eh 4411 dehtillogisen
ttudide for the hittof Glnierienti'Cos thee idtelleltft it
tilde t had# get•into the triode of ItHP milhaip. of
ll;rris Nut Pike; het (hit seemed IntpraitribP4l.,..lll4
.brirsishiP teebttruietided Chita foloteecito%lolullk its
:tist: hest teeetotte.olo Made to the Assiidelelletoolsfst
fikisewriek dishmod the Petition, Min AV ItWarit tints.
'.h. *to:4: 'lriirtis V. Atitteo4it. "4 lON
• iftiVieslsliot•-"peclerl the riikt of cerftiM tredltorti
Whelhet.prblietty of It Clergyman iniaidisliftiors
debtb. t
•TkOACHID•CkaStaPLLOR.' *heti Milted olfeetithie
rie•tolietweetiti.yedemerve 'epee the cased obseeted.
that he had already stated his opinion on vistiretoc-
iesioteethateensleiiNough Codotel bad prdhably not
heird him; ihrre was no doubt that a Harlot, lifter
jutigment,and iesqeestritido, vras.lh the situation of
&levy etberdebtor; his • property might be taken its
esecetina,itut of coarse with a proviso (hat no per.
son claimed it who had a previous estate in it. • lid
thought that the Petitioner, was edtitled to the ap.
pointment of a receirerr ' Ile added, that It* present
Jess only one out of eight or ten different briefs that
had, been banded up to him, do which he bad been ree
quested to give judgment tens threes endorsee four
.times over, because Counsel did not stteddiviot at the
lime he first pronounced his opinion. li wet a law
einallm that übiquity only belonged to the King ;,but
the practice of this Court seemed to show, that It be.
'longed to the Counsel In Chasitery, who were before
the Vice. Chancellor, the Master of the Rolls, him.
self, and elsewhere, at the sante' time.
PRACTICE OF BAttitlBl9.lV; tN TIIR COUR'? OF
ell/SNOWY.
The Loan CHANCELLOR took an opportunity ha
the course of the moruing of stating, that he had
given directions that an order should he fr ,matt so
strict in its terms, as to put an end to the incotive.
nievice of which he had bed lately so much reser to
,cnenplajo, viz. that tyuunsel did not attend him be.
cause they liked better to go before tba,Vice•qano
cellor.
Mr. Mosnau observed, that the completutcould
not reasonably be made against binsoliek(he had, re.
turned fees to the amount of more .heater kelness,
because he would always be In his place betide the
Lord Ghaticellee :, this fact, tie believed, *ge welt
known to thst,,protession. , The moment ,he found
what ceases would come before the YicrwchanCollot
by the printed list, he had given back the briefs to those
who intrusted him with them.
The LORD CHANCaLLOR added, that he had cif•
taint, found Mr. Montagu constant and puncteal,
but it was not so with all. lie had now presided
more than 10 years in this Court, and he did not
think that any Gentleman could fairly complain of
any want of courtesy on his part. That he might not
be accused. of discourtesy, he had given this notice of
the rule he had in preparation, and *Lich would com.
mence operation in Michaelmas Term. His Lord•
ship was. resolved that this part of the bu.inese of the
Court should be put upuu the same footing as the
other.
The Barristers who were present bowed their as.%
seat.
BEDFORD
idoebrsservoifnigheMjre.welasyrneneal:
gaLeononthCernsA NorCIThLeO
sod some
•had made
Rogue, present, repeated what he bad said to Sir S.

The frillowinz letter, arldresied to Rob. Garden,
Magistrate of Aberdeen, Las beet, Ire-
ITeil from Mr. Ruse, M. P. far that district of
anrghs:— :-) . ~ •
•, 1 "Joirsanel, Jab 24. ,
" Sta.—l think it proper to cammu9icatt.to 'sok '
for the itsformoiott of Ili. inhabitants of Abeyrigen,•d
s ou should think proper, that strict orders hese been
leeatctiesrle,:tnetr.cmpowise, or by coach, to.ll,Tilf.
lately given by the P..,tinisters-Gerieraf,,ior !Teri
pas.enger, or in any boa or carriage... to be, limed,
and the penalty of 51. to be levied ors of
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" A few days ego, s bnz, containing lip, roust
young met, proceeding to India, was shipped et•hisiso
t rose for London, and contained a letter ot.lptrodsea.,
tinn from a Gentleman in Montrose his tion in
Lolls, anda list of the contents of the boa; s note
wart also confided to the Captain of the reatril'to be
put into the Two-penny Poet on bis arrival in 6,ndow,
to intimate the arrival of the butt at the wharf, pea.
three letters were seized by, the Cistom.house Officers,
I and the Solicitor to the General Post-office has re+
ceived orders to levy the penalty of 51. for each letter 1
so seized. I have had an interview with Mr. Freelingsl
the Secretary of the Post-office, to explain that the
error w-s committed through ignorance, and to so-
licit the Postowter General to pardon the offence.
1 —As the Acts of Parliament are esplicit, and the
Offiriars of the General Post-office are determined to
enforce every clause, I hope this intimation may be
the means of 'rimming trouble to some of the town's-
people.---I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" JOSEPH HUME.

Minard: and George, who lately reeepeel from
prison when under sentence of death, have been ap-
prehended; and likewise four others of a desperate
gang, who lately robbed Mr. Marriott, of Ose.ton
Desuery, near this town. The whole of the gang has
been secured, three of whom have been sworn to,
and property found on the rest.—(Northeetplon
Paper.)
A re4pite, till further orders, has been received
for Charles Timmins and George Ashcroft, two of
the malefactors under sentence of death in Shrews-
bury jail, for horse-stealing. John Richards, for
sheep-stealing, was expected to suffer.
Saturday morning, about holf.past eleven o'clock,
Ma. Knightson, was weuted at the New Drop, be-
hind York Castle, for adminioteiiitg a quantity of
ar-enic to his brother-in-laic, J. Dorlsworth, of Ar-
kendale, near Boroughbridge, with an intent to mur-
der him.
IIIGHW4Y Itonsay AND ATTZMPT TO MURDER
—TAP account we gave yesterday of Mr. Wilcocks'
being attacked by three footpads in the Wandsworth
road on Monday morning, between three awl four
o'clock, is of a more serious nature titan we sppre.
heeded. Mr. Wilcocks lies in a hopeless state at his
house at Putney, from the effects of the blows he re.
ceived by the monsters striking him with bludgeons.
Yesterday the Magistrate, K. I. Chamhers, Eq.
W ks f, the rpose of taking his

visited Mr. . ilcocL int , purpose _ - -A -
deposition, but the unfortunate man was unable to go Itomilly on a previous day, viz. that he . oft op
through with his evidence from extreme debility; be his mind hat Jew boys were slot admissible into the
was able to say that he knew one of the gang, and grammar-t school of the Bedford Charity. Whether
ersons of the Jewish persuasion were entitled to any
gave his name (which we do not publish from pro. p
deutial motives), and also the description of the other of the other benefits, he had not yet determined ; but
two. Colliugbourne and Hall are in pursuit of the as soon as he
be de had, h
known e would take care that biz deci•
robbers. sion should ma.
Monday, as the Glasgow. Mail was on its road to His Lordship then concluded his sittings at Lie•
town, it was overturned within foer miles of St. cois
'. nn, obsferorving, t
erusalhat•
• bet t
ams a
of pa
pe
rers *as
N eot's. None of the passengers were hurt; hut the yet before him p ;fter little laza-
Coachman was slightly bruised, and the guard, J. C. tion, he should be able to get through snore in three
Foe, was severely hurt, and conveyed to his house boors than at presont in
HERthree days.
LASCINIA.
at El W
ton, where he lies dasteerously ill. LASCiNtA AND OTS V. ANDC
Monday night, about half-past eleven o'clock, as Mr. COLLINsoN stated, this was a motion to dis.
Mr. Keneth, of Denmark-passage, in the Strand, was solve an Injunction which had been granted to the
returning home with his daughter from the Edgeware. Plaintiffs a
bill on an exp
behalf of himselfarte application.an Tlinfante Plaintiff
road, along Park•lane, a fellow came up mod stopped had filed on d tiro-
them ; Miss Keneth, on running into she road, was tilers, against
late f theather, Defendant
*rid his , ism mother in.law
hu, thge
stopped by another villain, who 'until then was un. wile of his adiz, c.
seen ; the villains demanded their property, threaten. iog her with embezzling and making away with the
ing to murder them both if they made the slightest re. furniture, plate, &c. of the testator, and also of s
oistance; two other fellows stood at some distance ner-d of leasehold property. On this statement of
from them, as if to make an alarm if necessary. Mr. supposed facts his
Lordship had granted the None.
Keneth and his daughter were robbei of a watch, a dun. The Defendant had put in her answer, setting
pound notes some silvers aid a scarf. forth that her late busbsad was a publican sod •
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