The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-07-19 00:00:00

7'llE COUR 71,

The KING came to town yesterday, about 12.
o'clock, from Windsor, escurtud by a party of
Light Horse. His blaie.avy was received by the
Dukes of YORPi, KENT, and CAMBRIDGE. About
WIC o'clock, the Duke of CUMAERLA No visited his
111A,EsTy. llis Royal Highness appears' to be
fast recovering from his wounds. At three o'clock
the Duke set off for Kew in his cArriagc, drawn
by four beautiful greys.
At two O'clock the KING held a Levee, which
vas attended by
The Lord Chancellor, the Lord President of the Conseil,
the Cord Privy Seal, the lira Lord of the Treabary and
Chancellor of the Exchequer, the IVIIWter General of the
Ordnance, the Three Secretaries of State' the Commander
in Chief, the Judge Advocate, the Lord ClinntberLsin, the
Recorder of London; Lord. Wentworth (in waiting), Heath-
held (gold •tick), and Lewisham t Sirs O. Oshorn (groom ita
waiting), E. &dine, General Neetlhain Colonel Burton,
Majors Born Montalemhert, Alwastrong. tile. Favketter.

The following had the honour of being pre.
smiled Irk his MAJESTY :
Major Baron Motaleinhert, on reeeiviNg the Royal L.
four to assume arid use his title in his Majesty's dominions.
Lieutenant-general Needham, on being appointed Co-
fond of the 86th regiment.
Major-General Sir Ewen Bernie, late Protriatial Com-
'nattier-in-Chief of the Army in *mid, go his return from
n.lia.
Major Armstrong, of the 50th Regimentt on his arrival
from Cadiz with dispatches. .
Colonel Parton, on his tirorantion and return from the
Command of the Royal Artillery, in the Windward itual Lee-
ward Islandi.
Lord Lewisham, en his return from abroad.

His MAJESTY held a Privy Council, at which
the Recorder of London attended, and made his
Report of eleven convicts capitally convicted in
the June Sessions, when, we understand, his Ma.
imiTy was graciously pleased to respite them all
during his Royal pleasure.
His MAJESTY gave audiences to Mr. PEnCE.
vat, and the rest or the Cabinet Ministers present.

LANDED PitOPERTY. These few successions
shcw very strikingly how landed property may
be managed in these times of doss and speculation.,
The estate of Allerton Manlevcrer, io Yorkskire,
tiu called to distinguish it from North Allertoty
consiats of 4h25 acres, and continned in the Man.
leverer family till 1786, when Lord GaLwaT
sold it to his Royal Highness the Duke of Yon
for 100,0001. , The Duke, iia 1789, sold it to
Colonel TnoRNTo fur 110,0001. The Colonel
christened it Thornuillc Rave, betanse two
Royal guests (the Prince of WA Els and the Duke
of Tolle) had set foot upon the premises.
February, 1805, the superb mansion, pleasure.
grounds, park, &c. together with the estate parti.
cularly annexed to them,' were sold at Garrawars,
to Lord lirottatom, for 163,8001. Twenty-
eight other !Ws of the Nlanleverer estate were sold
for 62,50 Jr. making a total of 226,3001.; more
than double, within the short space of 10 years.
The Colonel, too, according to report, had put
down timber to the amount of 30,0001. and still
kept land of the value of 40,0001. The whole
amooit, therefore, may be taken at 496,3001.
" If this sum," adds Mr. Burrow, to whom the
public are indebted fur the above information)
does not shew us the value of land, it shoes
for what price land will
SURREY THEATRE.--This Theatre having, by the
'prompt and decisive measures of the Proprietor,
twit perfectly restored to the decorum and ;ran.
qoillity so essential to public conyeuience, is new on-
joyipg the highest patronage ; and we witnessed with
pleasure the astonishing overflow of Monday and
Tuesday evenings. It is the sure mead of industry
and talent, and worthily bestowed on such pieces
as are at present exhibited, where good sense is
happily blended with mirth, and the audience re-
tire perfectly satisfied isitit the consistency of
their enjoyment.
New Ratielagh, Mill Bank, had to boast of
lar4e assemblage of beauty and fashion on Tues.
day evening ; the Fire-works exceeded our expec-
tations ; and the Gardens being illuminated with
several th.oisand lamps, the whole had 4 most
beautiful tilt:et. It ,is reported, that several Fas_
oldies of Distinction iutend vieitiug those Gardens
this evening.

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Rai'leff OF TUR-_ LATE SE.S.WAN Oir
` PARLIAMENT.
—4........
tCoAtinsed Ittile war- Pilfer of gesterday.l
In the debate of the 2Gth of January, the tete
Lord Chancellor of Itched, Mr. BoosounT, It
gentleman of great talents and bloat mo deratiost, is
reported to have described the present members
of the British Cabinet collectively, as " the
daemon of Englandos weak, divided, distracted,.
incapable Administration ; an Administration not
only distrusted by the People, but by themselves."
This is certainly a very strong descriptioo, and, if
it owes Rolling to the vivid imagination of the
orator, we can be but little surprised that between
the daemon of England, and the genius of France,
(another daroon, too, we are very willing to al.
low, but of a quite different character) the for.
iner country is in the condition in which lee find it.
The condition is allowed upon all heeds to be pe.
riluus ; but if we look closely into 'it, we shall
find that the danger arises, not from any deficiency
of physical strength, not frogs the want of Talons
and discipline in our fleets and armies, not from
want of skill or courage in their respective °teen,
not, in short, from 4 defect of any of the or.
dinary means of national defence, but from a total
want of that preSiding spirit of wisdom In the dis.
posel of those means, a spirit which often supplies
their absence, and which alone cats give them
weight, energy, end effect.
The chief object, upon which the wisdom of an
honest Statesman is (forta Ily the epithet patriotic
has become so suspicio , that we do not care to
use it) employed, is the pecuniary embarrassments of
the Country, occasioned by a public debt of un.
paralleled magnitude, rapidly increasing, end by
its inevitable consequences threatening the empire
with ruin. The augmentation ,of this debt is a
thing that cannot be avoided, and it is, therefore,
worse than idle to declaim against that circum-
stance; but while we are reedy to concede this
point, it is surely not too much to require in
return that the strictest economy be resorted
to by every order of the State, for the [mime
of alleviating the enormous burden ander which
. the people groan, and the pressure of which is
enough to discourage industry and paralyse ex,
ertion, so es in the end to render them compa-
ratively indifferent to the fate of their country.
We will suppose, what may be likely enough,
the impossibility of lightening the present weight
of taxes ; but one thing at least Is in the power
of the Minister to effect, namely, to convince
the people that the burden is fairly distributed
throughout every order of the community, and
that the product of the imposts is honestly ap.
plied to the reel necessities of the State. A knot!.
ledge of this kind would reconcile mon even to
greater privations than they • now hear, or may
be hereafter called (won to suffer ; but, while
they leo those, whose hands administer the finan.
pee of the country, uniformly opposing, al they
have done, during the whole of lest Session, any
inquiry into their mode of distribution ; while
they see every plan of economy, no; setter' bye''
whom proposed, rejected under the most frivolous{
pretences; while they ,;e this, is it to he Non-
dered at, by those who are at all acquainted with
human nature, if the suspicions of the people are
strongly excited as to the.application of the vast
sums annually taken from them, and if they um.
leer against the Administration that uses no mean'
to satisfy and remove those doubts ?
From every department of the State, serioqs
complaints have been made of gross errors in the
Administration, and that upqn the authority of
men, whose testimony is very little liable to sus.
picion. But the misery is, that every thing of
this nature is • considered as a question of party,
and treated accordingly, "Party may be an essen.
tial feature in our mixed Constitution; but if it
be, it is it necessary evil, the operation of which
at this period must be injurious, and may be fa.
tal. It produces invective instead of advice, and'
recrimination instead of debate. In the discussion
which took place on the 19th of February, upon
a motion which had for its object the suppression
of sinecure places, the Chancellor of the Exche.
quer observed, !‘ that-the feeling which seemed to
be uppermost in the mind of the Opposition, was,
that whatever may be the subject under considera.
tjon, a charge was to he brought against Govern.
ment. Whether the question was one for reform,
mconomy, or upon any subject of general policy,
the Gentlemen opposite took occasion to• bring
complaints against the conduct of Government."
Now it is extremely possible that every syllable of
this is true; but then it behoved Mr. Pencprat, to
show how this could possibly be avoided. .Is it,
indeed, possible to cotsdenta measures emanating
from the Government, without brining a chews
against that Government 1. -If the question he
one of reform, which the Goverment, at far as
the term is confined to the administration of the
Government, uniformly opposes ; or of aeon°.
my, which the same Government affects to eensi.
der es owly another n;me for revolution ; or,,
lastly, of general policy, which involves, in its
discussion, all the errors of omission and commis.
gen, of which the Government stands convicted,

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either by undeniable proof, tarpteading guilty to
the accusation ; how, we say again, is it pkiliiible
to touch upon anx of these topics, without alarm.
ing the morbid sensibility of. the Administration ?
In the mean time, while this Bight Honourable
Gentleman was thus complaining of the introduc.
(ion of irrelative matter into the debate, might he
not have found it difficult to point out the relevan-
cy of his own observations to the subject then un-
der the consideration of the House, which was the
inexpediency of retaining such places at the dispo..
sal of the Minister of theday, to which no duties
are annexed, and which generagy are known by
the name of sinecuves. As little bad recrimination
to do with the point.at issue : -the Gentlemen
opposite might know very ' well, and even the
whole country might know very well, that they
and their partysPosseseed a much larger proper.
tiou of the offices, to which the motion applied,
than the Gentlemen upon his side ;" hut this,
surely, had nothing to do with the acne or dente.
rit of sinecure places ; and if these were found a
burden to the country, without being of any real
use to the State, considered distinct from both
parties, it was, certainly, " fair, just,. and ho-
ttest" in the country to require their abolition.
Besides, even • in the point of view in-which Mr.
Pcncevay. considered the matter, !apposing the
• Opposition sincere in their wish to have those
places abolished, they must thereby have given a
considerghle proof of self.denial, the fundamental
virtue of the Patriot, because, according to the
representation of the Minister, they would them.
selree be the principal losers by the success of the
motion, as, in his own words, " they.and their
party possess a much larger proportion of those
lucrative offices, than the Gentlemen on his side."
iks to the merit of the questiqn itself, we do not
venture to decide ; according to the sage maxim
of Sir Rinse tog CoycaLay, much may he said
upon both sides ; and, indeed, were those places
toed, as it is said they ere reserved, for there.
ward of eminent services to the country, we ihould
not have the least besitatip,‘ in considering them
as one of the most net:every resources, if not an
integral part, of the constitution. One this was
a point upon which the Minister did npt think it
Prtldeat to insist, in deference, we presume, to'
the modesty of 64 the geetlemen on his side,"
who had received such remuneration ; as be
might be celled upoq to enumerate the services
they bM performed—a subject which, we make no
doubt, their delicacy would. have -recoiled from.
The great increase of the influence of the'Crown,
by which we would be always understoqd to mean
the power of eerrePtitte lodged in the hand of the '1
Minister, notwithstanding its being supported by,
the solemn resoletioq of the !Inns, of Commons,
he professed himself "-ready to deny," altho' he
judiciously omitted_ any attempt to prove so daring
e negative. He very prudently declined descending
Ito minute particulars, such as the patronage..tern.
log from the increase of our colonies, beyond
ell example, the division of India with the Di.
.rectors, the Droits of the Admiralty, *mooting
*to eighteen millions, aqd the dependence of the
whole commercial Waco, of the kingdop,
'through the medium of the Bank of England,
• which has been literally brought to the foot of
the throne, as it would by difficult to find in the
progressive irnprOvement of the means and wealth
of the population, any 04 like a counterpoise
to such accumul tied and consolidated influence.—
Such, however, are the topics of argument re.
sorted to by the servants of the Crown upon
every QCCasiOtt and we may safely affirm that the
spirit of recrimination, which during the whole
period of last Session marks the debates in Per.
liament, has given a hold to the agitators for de-
crying equally both parties, and representing
them as dually adverse to every plan of political
improvement.. How far the agitators may have
succeeded in this design, we do not take upon
ourselves to determine. The uproar they have
excited in several part; of the 100,14119 Is, ferT
tainly, no proof of success ; but, {ben, it ought
to be sufficient to excite tile alarm or both sides,
and induce them to lay aside ell motives of private
interest, all heart-hu.nsings aqd party-quarrels,
for the purpose of retrieving the error into which
a neglect of decorum in their mutate!
_altercations
bras betrayed theql.
En' 14,

4 ti LT ttp Poposißl A 14..-,—Tosterday a poor
blind man, for a wager et sevea.shillinptunder.
took to walk si* miles iq ao hour and a half.'
He started at eight o'clock, on the Fulham toad,
conducted by a faithful dog, geinc one nilia opt
and one mile In, and completed his undertaking
hi an hour and a quarter, to their* surprise of
those who were present, amongst whom a sum of
40s. was readily collected and given to him.',
Yesterday, a respectable Lady attended St the.
rinblie-gffice, pow.strect, and stated to Mr.
tikami, the Sitting Magistrate, that slier hed dis.
cerercd that her servant, a girl only 16 years of
an, was pregnant by her own father. The iror.
thy Magistrate lamented, that under the clrenm.
stances, it was not possible far him, of his own
accord, to proceed against the offender, but sent
for the parish 'officers, it being considered the
best means of bringing the !reach to condign pu-
nishment,