The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-08-26 00:00:00

STATiSMAN

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Sufficient remuneration is expressly stated to be the not only the establishment of an equitable reward
foundation of that neglect of duty which is I
everyfor public service, but by, tbe Ilibecelity4l9Puent
where apparent io respect to the nuntination of these te secure thelabone of a Class of Int*trell 'Oho • from
. t.. t
officers. their education and early liebife, Inky iie,tonsidered
Mr. Fielding informed your Committee, that in his es less assailable by. the leniplations fteribilth •they
district of Westmioster, most of these officers serve are ezposed, than from the smallness of the Salary
by substitutes, and that there is hardly a single con- and she dieereibt. attached in a free country to their
stable serving in his own right. " Some few of them office, they may be supposed to be. In order to
Ina? ii, fbet thise he hears of everyday are those who bring shortlybefore the oonsiderstion of the House
go en from year to year as substitutes fur others." the present situation of these officers, your Commit-
Th'e office
of constable is of great antiquity
exec beg leave to. draw its attention te the following
thettgh, it is i many respects admirably suited to the ract from the evidence of a person of the name of
Wants of a free People, in the nature of domestic' Vickery, sue of the Bow-street officers, whose tea.
policy, your Committee, howeeer, recommend that timotty upon this subject is most important :
to the office of Iligh Constable of each division a " With respect to the subject of rewarding officers
Wary 0004 be attached; the appointment remain. for ettriordinary services, to which rte Committee
ing as it is at present, in the nomination of the Ma- has alluded, I think that the power of warding the.
gistrates. The person selected for that office should officers seould be in the bands of the Magistretes
on no account be a tradesman, or connected in any rather than of the Judgeti; for neboder can tell who
with trading ; he should haves salary adequate tO the are most
. deservieg of reward for activity and r-
duties he is called upon to perform, and be removable tions so well as the Magistrates themselves ; and 1
far misconduct,by the sameauthorities that originally am persuaded; that if this power wit left in the
nominated hint. The petty constableshoold be en. hands of the Magistrates it would excite an emula.
der his crontroul ; and it should be his duty to watch. tion
the Ma amongst thes. e officeat-rs to.obtain the gstanoodds at pre. opinion
eau the general state of the Police within his district of gistrat Bas this r
sod to make to the Police-office of the quarter in sent the offi.cers are carless of the Magistrates ; fur
which he acts, a daily return of the events of the they know that however active their exertions may
lest 24 hours. Ile should take his instructions from be, they will never receive an extra sixpence from
the Magistrates, and of course it would he his duty the offiee. I do not speak merely of...Bowenriet,
to become acquainted with the state of his own dig. Cro there the •Magistratet de esercise a power of re:
cries, the conduct of the victuallers, the houses of eardin Officers for extraordinary exertions ; but I
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ill-fame, and of all that affects the good order of that
speak of the officers connected with the Police in the
portion of the community, whose officer he is. In different parts of the Metropolis. I held a situation
wester to carry this measure into effect, it would be in one of those offices .for twelve years, and I may
arleisable ter makes new division of thesedistricts, so venture to say, that o ith • all the exertions I• could
that each nigh Constable should not hive a eider make, and all the itelustry I could use, I never had
-rang. thin he can conveniently atteid to. At pre. the means of saving a single sixpence for my family
Hilt the High Constable enjoys no salary, and does in case any accident might happen to myself.• There
hardly any duty. Your Committee have been in- is another thing I would mention to the Committee;
formed of a practice, which generally *lists, of this I ant not speaking for myself, for perhaps I .may
Officer being a cost-merchant, or engaged in some never want it, but lam speaking on behalf of men
trade, by which ••he levies contributions on the vic. who will want it • for it is to he observed, that many
rteallers and others. At present, though there is no of the officers har'dly receive more reward for their
salary, whenever a vacancy occurs, there is no want services than is just enough to enable them tolive
.of •candidates; it is then only by being corrupt, or without becoming thieves and theri,fore I shoals,
winking at the misconduct of others, that these suggest that a prolision should be made for such men
officers can be remunerated for their trouble. Your as are wounded, or receive severe bodily injuries in
,• Committee are therefore of opinion, that in order to the performance of their duty; or who are worn (tut
bare these situations effectively nd properly filled, a in the service : it is a weary life, end wears men out
salary should he ansesed to them, sufficient to secure very fast. And without praising those men too much,
the independence of the Officer, and to prevent the I think iomething should be done for those men, who
Oetressity of his recurrence to those means which,to the have done their duty to the utmost of their power,
discredit of this class of persons, end to the great in• through s long life, in protecting the lives and pro.
juryof the public interests, are constantly practised. perty of the Public. I hope the Committee do not
Evidence has also been offered to your Committee, think I am ea in too much, when I suggest that
40 show that great unfairness and partiality takes some trifling provision should be made in the nature
place in the appointment of petty constables ; a great of superannuation money, for those men who have
• proportion of these officers nominated in the Metro- attained the age* of 50, 60, or 70 sears, or who
folis, serve by deputy ; these deputies, in many in. otherwise, may be incapacitated from age or infirmity,
-stances, are characters of the worst and lowest de- to do their duty. I got myself cut all to pieces two
scription ; the fine they receive from the person Who years ego, and that was its an attempt to take two
appoints them, varies from 10s. to 51.; the conse- men w o had
m
h co l
wamitted a murder
moulds h
, t I did d
not ex.
moence is, having some expence and no salary, they pect to live I s aid up for sixan I w
Hie by extortion ; by countenaucing all species or in that situation at the time that I should not have
lice; by an understanding with the keepers of left my wife and family a farthing if I had died."
brothels and disorderly ale-houses ;by attending in " Did not the office make you any allowance for
Courts of Justice, and giving their false evidence to your wounds ?—Never a farthing ; they peel my
ensure conviction, when their expences are paid ; doctor's bill : but, in fact, they had it not in their
wad by all the various means by which artful and de. power. I Imo?. they would willingly have done it :
signing men can entrap the weak, and prey upon the and Sir Nathaniel Conant said he would have done
'Unwary. Your Committee recommend the evidence all in his power for me if he could."
wpon this- subject to the serious attention of the " There is no allowance made for old age or in.
-Roue. They feel convinced that some efficient re. firmities ?—Noste whatever. There is to the Magi..
inedy is requisite; and they trust the consideration trate% and clerks, but the officers are considered as
of Parliament will be directed to it in the ensuing Melting in the thing
'Session. The nomination of the Magistrates to the different
• Your Committee are of opinion, that if a better Offices is in the Crowe, and, according to the 16th
Node of selecting persons to serve was adopted, Ilse sect. of the 54th Gen. 111. chap. 37, other consm-
fine for not serving greatly segmented. and a surer hies and officers are to be appointed by the Magi,.
certificate of character required from the deputies, as tretes • and any two isf them are empowered to dis•
well as a limitation of the period of such service, some miss from their employment the respective officers
of the evils complained of could he remedied. ' 6 whom they shall think remiss or negligent in the
POLICI OFTICERR —lndependent of the patrols at execution of their duty, or otherwise unfit for the
Bou.strept, which consists of 87 men and 14 con. same, and appoint, subject to the approbation of the
-electors, the former receiving ‘2s. 611. per night, and Secretary of State, others in their stead." Your
the latter 54.; there are regular office tor
tand con. Committee have however learnt, that since the pass.
etables, also ameunt, in liettnn•aerdess en, but ing of this Act, the Secretary of State for the Home
In all and e•ch of the other offices, indwells Bow- Department has appointed three persons to fill the
-.tree, to eight ; their salary being one guinea each situntinet of officers in %V nrshilestreet.
-per week. This payment is considered in the nature Your Committee observe that the
olio f Parlia.
la a retaining fee, and they are permitted to receive meet places the eomitsation of the perso the hands
-compensation for their trouble from the private indi. of the Magistrates, subject, however, to the approbse
eldest§ who employ their services. The esact amount lion of the Secretary of the State ; no doubt from
wf these profits, derived from various snare's, your considering the Magistrates to be the best judges of
Committee have not been able to learn ; hut as many singlificatio of the different candidates, but im.
of these officers, particularly those of Bow .street, poet the same time the consent of the Secretary
are employed at plsces of public resort, at the of State, to serve as a check on their choice. le
theatres, &c. &c. ; in almost all cases of robbery, by some instances, the Secretary of State has not waited
Abe patties who have been robbediticome arising for the nomination o the Magistrates, but made the
free
those Tatious modes of revenue, must to some appointment himself; this breach of RH Act of Psr•
of them he very considerable. They besides terve liament on the part of the Secretary of Stste, has pro.
their share of Parliaraentary rewards, the amount of duced the result which might have bets aoticipated.
which, of course, must vary ; and to each officer One of the persons so appointed by Isis Lordship, was
-this source of profit must be very uncertain. a worthless abandoned clot recter,a Jew bail, who was
Your Committee hiving in their second Report imprisoned in the King's Bench, an not being able
expressed a decided opinion against this mode of sti• to perform Isis duty, was turned outd
o; his situation
mutating the exertion of Police.officers, refrain from he is described by the Chief Clerk as a man who hired
recurring spin to the subject. They observe that himself out as a fraudulent bail, and was never known
the Magistrates of Bow.stroet have charged in their at the Office till he came to be sworn its.
eccount, in the year 1814, 1;199i. 'ls. Ild., and Your Committee beg lease to observe, that this in-
in 1815, 1,1861. 6s. lld: for espences and trouble terference of the Secretary of State is not warranted
incurred by different officers and moieties in the ee. by the law which regulates the Police, and will no
ecution of their public duty. The payments at the doubt, if persevered in, be attended with the worst
other offices on these heeds are very trifling ; but effects. Of tee four persons nominated by Lord
though the Committee are aware that the Bow-street Sidmouth, one declined his appointment ; another
officers travel almost exclusively isstuthecuuntry, yet was turned out of the office ; and Use remaining two
they cannot understand why the extra services of were confirmed in their situations, in defiance of the
this body of men should be paid for, and those of propel remonstrance of the Magistrates upon the
the other offices go unrewarded; the payment of tea- subject.
\
- yelling espences may constitute some portion of this
eapecce, but any money received for trouble must be
in the nature of reward, and in that payment all the
other offices have an equal title to share.
The salaries of the regular officers are small, being
• one guinea each per week ; bet the patrols of the
city, whose duty is somewhat similar, enjoys a sa.
tory of one guinea and a half, a sum which your
Committee does not think to be too great. In addi.
Con to this, it appears to them to be just to secure a
provision to those who may be wounded and crip-
pled in the service, which arraegerneat does not at
present exist, as well as a pension of retirement after
30 years service to the full amoont of their salary.—
Your Committee, in recommendlog this iocrease lo
the salary of these Accra of the Pollees have in view

[To be Continued.]

TREATMENT or NAPOLEON AND Its
PHYSICIAN.

[FURTHER lITRAETE VRO* IIR. 011111R1 COR.
assroNnzwcs.)

DECLARATION.
Lowisood. April 25, 1818.
I declare, that since the mouth of October last,
when it was decided by the Governor, Sir Hodson
Lowe, that se more Bulletins should be asked from
owe without communicating them first to Napoleon,
I have usade Done; and that I have, to all the visits
II was obliged to stake to blot, at IA besot to re-

ift in, (tale 644
join' dad iti ot
firty 4., iii-i-jueiel.
*
__ snuff e orts to destroy the Iteaolit.iotis
This' isanndoir a t sitli sts r°11.11.11: r thea ks rtP744hrialeZ:t.ilyet has
e
protegee of the Priesti, 'and the min who supposes
that nations are for ever to remain under petticoat
Government ; but it is of all things the most in.
reasonable to. eapect that ibis .twentry in purl.
cular, by whose means alone such an attempt could
be made,• would • give its 'content - and its ten.
nay to put down the system' which placed one
..t)
present Royal Family on the Throne, and mein,
taint that alt Goversnment is a trust for the he.
uefit of the governed-. Ills Spanish Majesty, it eNt
e seen, refers to previous Notes on the same sob.
ject, and particularly to negocia tions with this roe&
try, and ihfers from the favourable answers returned,
that the Allies may be induced to assist him in so.
duing the ievoltecl Colonies. Ile falsely represents
the Revolution in those' Provinces as a part of go.
NAPIRTE'S iystenst- which he considers his Milli
bound to put down .in America, as well as is L.
rope. Iles ptiteiliet to ,the Insurgents, upon thit
submitting, ',wend amnesty, and a co.participetins
in all crificeijirlit the European Spaniards; Medals
lure to his All*, 'he offer, a trade with the hog;
crin Provinces, 'founded on priticiples of freedom,
The High Allied* Powers,' we hive no doublotssAi
without the inducement of any such promises, VA.
tingly annihilate in America itself the system which
gave birth to the American Revelation, but they have
not yet obtained the power of doing so; and as to the
disastrous effect of this system, we suspect their sell.
jects think very differently from them on that matter.
Willingly, indeed, would these Potentates annilulats.
the great. American Republic, but it has already oat.
grown all their efforts, and. may well laugh at their is.
potent malice. Under this denounced s) stem the
United States have, since their etnancipation,continued
.
to enjoy a most unexampled &hare of happiness and pro.
sperity—a prosperity of • very diffetent kind (MID that .
dispensed by the armed pow et nil hi- Logitimates, elm
regard the happiness and freedom of America whin
jealous fear that poisons all their triumphs. The
picture ef that prosperity -firitliiii way tom every
corner of Europe. Stupid and debased as the People
maybe in many countries, the esample cannot (iii
to produce ma impression on them, and to lead two
to enquire into the cause of so much happiness in die
one case, and so much misery in the other. Tire ps.
inflation of America,whidi amounted in 1749 lonely'
few thousiindi above a million, is now nearly ten wit.
lions and,:a half; and these men are not like the dales
'whom-the despots of Russia, Austria, and Piunia,oe
the-Prieita otii, Inquisition tyrannise user. line.
ever intmicable • the principles of American imolai
may be to the tenfederated Powers to whom Spaisis I
thus appiilina: the destruCtion of the system in am.
der itself, which they holt; so much in ahhorreeti,
ts-ke)► tti4.4lkeig.sotef:_ . The Soul fl. Amer ica n 5, ill
doubt not, are as little to be affected by the ornt,
and promises of the. imbecile Government otiel, is
under the necessity of seeking foreign aid to se,,,
-vert them. They have gone too far to rerede in
their contest for independence. They are lily
aware of the total inability of the Mother Count'
to reduce them *gels le subjection;, and they kna‘
that both the interests, and inclinations of the oill
country in Europe; from which they could have se
thing to dread, are decidedly opposed to any attempt
to replace them in a state of bondage. The Solth
Americans know very well that the finances of de
High Allied Powers are all expended on their iv
mettle Armies ; they also know that the interfereats
of the European Powers in the offal's of Snob
America, would at once rouse the Republic of the
United States, which is desirous of having no-
thing to do with the quarrels of Europe, and
equally desirous of excluding Europe from Americo.
We should really like to see the favourable warren
which the Spanish Court talks of having received
from the liberating Allies. They must afford be
specimens of the principles on which their Holy AO
once, is formed. The King of SeAtN talks of lie
right" and dignities, that is the right which hi
tliiiiks be has to sacrifice the happiness and prosperity_
of 20 millions of men for the sake of his divilli
We have not doubted that tlieworthy Government This is also the constant and disgusting cant of Idt
of FvuotNAsto VII. whose humane end liberal On-
"
ciples assimilate so well with the Legitimate C on- High Allies ; but thisis language that will be Isothid
to scorn ,in America, where the rights of undid
federacy, who have entered into a compact to de. are better understood, and the happiness and ere'
stray all Republican Governments, and annihilate spirit), of millions of human beings are not cadets
the system of free election in all countries within
their reach and controul, has been making earnest &Pena' On the dignity and the whitns and the pleated
of Kings-and Princes.
and repeated applications to the Powers coalesced for ! Soot' e doubts are expressed in one of the taints
this worthy purpose, to obtain their aid against the Journals as to the authenticity of this document, ad
South American Provinces that have shook off the this mode of discrediting the application and the
yoke of despotic tyranny ; and that such represents. statements in it is very likely to be ail*
lions have been actually made to the Allied Powers ed where these cannot be otherwise deltoid;
appears certain, from the extraordinary Document but whether it be a genuine or a spurious produce
which we this day insert from the Hamborgh end it will bate the same effect on the South Amer +l
French Papers. We allude to the copy of the who will not new surrender the fabric of their liter'
Note trinsmitted; on the 12th "of June last,
by the Cabinet of Madrid to the Allied Courts iv to his Catholic Majesty, or to all the PoltelS
Europe, whatever steps they may take to Wel
with regard to the state of affairs in South their rights and their costly dignities.
America, from which it would appear the Spanish _......
cskei
Government conceives the Allied Sovereigns, who A good deal of French intelligence basbeen Tr
have already defeated in Europe the disastrous the Papers that were in arrear having reached DI ii Ir
system which gave birth to the-American Revolution, 43d inst. The Duke of WELLINGTON arrive 4
l"'
4,
Will not have completed their work sushi they have 1 Paris on Thursday evening, and nest. day ree
sumihilsded this system its America itself. This i visits from the Duke DE RICDELIEVI the R.t!
task yet remains for them to accomplish,' and his Ambassador, and the Tuscan Minister. The flo"
Catholic Majesty is most• defames that the -I. rats lof Swimsi antler tba title of Countess of Gotb

port—to wit,-.,lwicii a week,ll
ex4.plaidid the pforessiA4(.o be
of 'llket:cattipla)nt, which, from the firstday, give tliketitia most
woe testi belief tbat it was hepats,. at wilt appear f . Wild mate
as my opinionp by a reference to the Bulletini of I ~.. inefica,
:-ltre Ist and sth of October; an opinion rendered 7.iri.
more probable by the frequency of the complaint in "1
this Island, and which hae latterly been Converted.;
into a certainty. At first there, were some symptom)
indicative of the attack of the disease in an acute
form, but these eppearances were afterwards 'Mi.
;buten!, to severe catarrah. I declare also that, par-
-tieularly on the 28th of November, 18th, '2sth, and
'27th of September, 1817; 9th and 16th of is.
nasty, 25thof .March-, 3d and..7th of Aril, 1818,
II reported the symptoms of the complaint as
25th havin
of
g
increased for the worse; and that op the
*March I declined to the Governor, that'l conceived
the disease to be hepatitis not very ler advanceil ;
explaining to him that the progress of the complaint
was occasionally very slow atid insidious ; bat
if Napoleon B. was a soldier or a sailor, and that I
was at liberty to treat him according to my opitrion,
I would put in practice, first, repeated end active
purging, with eoercioe, especially on horseback
(the first part of which plan, via. the purgatives, had
been pot in execution for some time); and that if
these merino did not subdue it, I would commence
speedily a course of calomel, or some preparation. of
mercury. That I have constantly explained the pro.
greis of the disease, the symptoms of which have
been at times better, at times worse, according to.the
state of the bowels, skin, anti to the effect of the
remedies taken.—Tbet I have constantly represented
the pressing necessity which the patient had of taking
exercise on horseback, anti that on the 25th of
March, when the Governor asked me " Why he did
not go out and ride on horseback ?" I answered,
" I did not'know the reasons which prevented him."
.In. consequence of the abusive language, violence,
and bad trearmeirt which I. experienced from the
Governor, whenever I delivered an opinion or senti-
ment not conyonant to his own, which necessitated
me to come to a determination not to meddle in dis-
cessions foreign to medical subjects. I also certify
that I never did ask to quit Longwood ; but that
when it was signified to me by the Governor, that he
had some intention of imposing upon me 'the same
restrictions as those inflicted upon the French pri-
soners, I declared to him that I would sooner resign
than submit to such ; that I also explained to him
in July lam, that I bad been informed he had applied
for my Wei; which drew down upon me from him
reproaches and abuse, which he took the advantage
of, his situation of superior officer to verit.upou me.
(Sigrcd) BARRY O'MEARA, Surgeon.
TILL BULLETINS BF:MIRED TO.
Longwood, October 1, 1817.
I SIR,---1 have the honour to inform your Excel-
lency, that this morning, Gene,at Bonaparte com-
plained of a dull pain in the right hypochondriac re.
gion, and a similar sensation in the right shoulder,
neither of which were severe. There is a trilling ac-
celeration of his pulse, the range of which is gene-
rally 60, viz. from that to 68. As his bowels are
rather costive, it is possible that the sensation of
of pain in the side may be occasioned by that. Should
it, however. continue or increase, there will•be eveiy
reason to believe that he has esperienced an Sulk's'
of chronic hepatitis.
I have the honour to he sir.
(Signed) BAR tt Y E. O'M EA RA, Samson.
To his E‘cetleiley Lientesokne Genetol Sir Hudson •
Lowe, K.G.B. doe. &c. dec. Governer.
'. Longwood, Oct. 5,'1817.'
Six,—l have the honour to inform your Excel-
lency, that since the Report of' the 211 of Ottobes,
General Bonaparte has complained of a dull pain in
the right side, at zompunied with a sensation of heat
in the same pace, and occasionally a similar sense of
pain in the right shoulder. A tumefaction is also
evident to the sight and touch in the right side ; 'but
I have not ,et been able to determine, whether it
proceeds (coin an enlargement of the liver or is ex•
ternal to it. As he has not, (since the last Report,
been entirely free from pain, it is most probable that
the complaint is chronic hepatitis.
I have the honour, &c. &c.
HARRY E. O'M EA RA, Surgeon.
To Lowecelle Lirest..Ge. Sir Ituthoin.
•, K. C. U. rttc. &c. 4.1..ver00r.

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LONDON:

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1818•

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