The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-01-16 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

the knife of the midnight robber and assassin.--.
*hi -Me' feet grateful for the boon INA, though
late, has been 'at list granted us, and there-
fore we shall not withhold our tribute of praise
to Government, for this proof they have given,
that they do not altogether consider the per-
med safely of the people unworthy their no-
tice. • Bet there yet remains a great deal more to be
done before security and tranquillity can be restored
to the Metropolis. The Police system mast be com-
pletely investigated, as it is rotten to the very core,
and will be found to be the real source from whence
all those evils have sprung, 4ha't have occasioned
universal consternation and dismay. In a subsequent
I column we have inserted a Second Letter upon ithis
I subject to Mr. Secretary RYDER, which, we trust, he
I will take Into his serious consideration; and, agree-
ably to the wish expressed by the writer, show that
he is a man of sense and of honour, by introducing
a system of Police that will encourage morality,
discountenance vice, and Mend our property against
j both thieves and thief-takers."

' The Report of the Committee of the House of
Commmons, appointed to examine the Physicians
attendant on his MAJESTY, respecting the state of
his health, will be found at fall length in our pre-
ceding columns. There is a slight variation in the I
evidence of the Physicinus, but they, all agree in the
improbability of the KING'S recosery.: Early, In
July last, the disorder had talc to an aggravated tarn,
and his MAJESTY'S mind had continued ever since in
the same disordered state. As to the expectation of
' recovery, Dr. BAILLIE states that he thinks it " high-
ly improbable." Dr. II EBERDEN says, that "it is
highly improbable, but not in an extreme degree."
Dr. MUNRO considers it as " very improbable." Dr.
SiststoNs regards it as "improbable," butthinks "it
difficult, perhaps impossible, to say in what degree."
It is Dr. IlAt.ro RD'S opinion that it is " very impro-
bable." Dr. im.: Wm.'s expresses himself in the
same way; and Dr. R. D. WILLis regards it as "ex-
tremely improbable." With respect to his MAJEa-
TY'S bodily health, Drs. BAILLIE, BERERDEN, M N.•
ao, and StritmoNs, state it to be tolerably good. Dr.
J. WILLts says, that on the morning of his examina-
tion (Monday last), his MAJESTY was " in an ex-
tremely agitated and nervous state, which has been
increased for some time past ;" while Sir HEAT
HAEroan, and D. R. WILLIs pronounce his M AJES
TY'S bodily health to be by no meadtgood.
It is said that the provision to be made for the new
arrangement of the KING'S Household, respecting
which a motion is to be brought forward this evening
in the House of Cominons, will, perhaps, somewhat
exceed the sum at which it had originally been estimat-
ed ; but that the Household is to be limited to it:Officers
in the appointment of her MAJESTY : viz.—Four
Lords of the Bedchamber ; four Grooms of thee,l
Stole; a Master of the itobes, and a Keeper of the '
Privy Purse: over these a new Officer of superior
rank is to be placed, to superintend and controul the
whole; that Officer, 1,,•e understand, will be the.
Earl of VV INCIIELSEA.—The PRINCE REGENT, when
unrestricted, w ill of course have a separate household.
Bet, it is added, that his Royal Highness has so
settled the point of etiquette in this respect, that
the head of the KING'S household is on all occasions
o take precedence of the Officers of the REGENT'S
household.

Yesterday his Royal Highness held a Court at
Carlton-house. At half-past two o'clock, the
PRINCE held a Privy Council; which was attended
by the Cabinet Ministers, the Duke of MONTROSE,
the Earls Of WINCHELSEA and ATLESFORD. HIS
Royal Highness gave audiences to Earl CAMDEN, the
F.arl of WESTMORLAND, Marquis WRILLISLRY, Mr.
PERCEVAL, and Mr. RYDER.
Yesterday FArl Motaa bad an audience of the
PRINCE REGENT.

LORI CLORGE CATEMDISH, and not Lord TAM-
SOCK, •will make the motion relative to Irelaud on
Monday se'nnight.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the
East India House, when Captain Cowsvaaxa, of the
ship Chapman, took leave of the Court previous to
departing for Bombay and Bengal. • Captain
D'FATERISE was sworn into the command of .the ship
Fairlie, consigned to Bengal direct.
In consequence of the death of Sir SADIEs Ca ties,
the 78th Regiment Is become vacant. It is under-
stcod that Sir SAMUEL AUCTIMUTT is tQ have it, and
that the Hou. Major-General COLE is to have Sir
SAMUEL'S present Regiment, the 103 d. -
The Catholic Aggregate Meetings are in progress
through all the Counties of Ireland. We have already
noticed those of Cork and Limerick. Clare was to
meet on the 11th, and Kerry is lied for the 18th at
Tralee.

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A General Fast has been ordered on the sth of
next month. A General Feast, in consequence of
a peace, we belie'', would be at least as satisfactory
to the public.
After all the various attempts to prove the san-
guinary suicide Williams to have been an Irishman,
a Scotehman, and a Wekhmam, he proves after all,
unfortunately, to have been an Englishman, being a
dative of the town of Coggeshall, in Essex.
A vessel arrived yesterday from Alicant, but
brought no news, the latest letters being doted on
the sth of December. Thera is a report in circula-
tion of the defeat of BLAKE, and the surrender of
Valencia.. _ _

The Pantheon Directors have bad a carious cor-
respondence with the Vice-Chansberhiin, in respect
Itvositidhietiyr liandee;
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persons concerned in the Establishment, to take
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Into consideration the etohitrossing Prediciment in
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which they .stand, and to.determine on the comae
they shall pursue: no iinni detiregagitkon• arevero
took piste. • . •

ALAAMING STATE of the .11IETR01'OLIS.
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE B. RYDRR.

Pia,—lnanmerable robberies, and two with at-
lempts to murder, have been committed since Friday
last. Both town and country are overwhelmed with
the most determined villains, vomited forth from
these dens of infamy and seminaries of vices known
by the name of thieves' houses. How long shall such
sinks of villany be permitted to exist? How long
shall thieves'and thief-takers be permitted to consort
and assemble together? How long shall our weak
and indolent Police Magistrates be ruled and guided
by the mere ipse dixit of those vermin, -whose evi-
dence will go to acquit or condemn according as they
are paid? How long shall public morals be out-
raged with the notice that Boa this, and Blot. that,
headed their gangs upon particular occasions?—
How long shall it be said that notorious cha-
racters, whose lives hare been twenty times
.forfeited
to the laws, are brought to the bar of the Old
Bailey for the twentieth, tlltieth, attd fortieth time,
and still permitted to prowl upon soci. ty ? What s s-
' tern can it be that permits such enormities? I
tell you, it it a system most contpletely calculated to
promote rice and encourage villany! To be a revenue
to Magistrates and thief-takers, at the expence of the
lives and properties of the lieges ! !! 'fo be a source
I of wealth and emolument to the scum of the earth,
linol of lops, trouble, and vexation to the honest and
Industrious ! When a crimina/. is'af4sy. time brongOtt
to punishment, it is not for the purpose of example,
or flr satisfaction to the offended laws of the coun-
try, but because the poor wretch treiyhß his weight ! !
Away with such reproachful doing ! it DF.R,
act like a man of sense and honour ; introduce a sys-
tem or Police that will encourage ntwaiity, discoun-
tenance vice, and defend our property against both
thieves and thief-takers ; and let the present demo-
niac system, with all its appendages, be consigned
to etetval oblivion and contempt.
I St. JSrues's-square, Tuesday Morning. IIUMANITAS.

Thetships of the line at Spitheld are to lw put kto
an inulediate state o f equipment, for some sudden
service} The report is, they are to take a reinforce-
ment d troops to Portugal.
'rhe .41-cniure, JACK3ON, from Liverpool to St.
Mitt's, was taken on the 914 Nov. by tu o French
frigate, bound from the East I to Brest.
The Amsterdam packet, ,arrivc..i at (lull, on
Thursday last ; left Mal wyck on the 11th of No-
vember, with about 40 sail of tessel, under convoy of,
the hirtator Knd Ardent men of war, two frigates,
two sloops of war, and three brigs, being the last
fleet for this season. Ou passing Elsinore, the Castle
kept up a tremendous fire, but without doing the
Feast injury to any of the convoy.
Coffee and Sugar have experienced an advance of
price, in consequence of a general anticipation that
the Russian-ports will be opened, in the spring, to
British commerce. . • •
The French General &mom has broken Ms parole,
and absconded from Odiham. SIMON is styled a
Baron and Chevalier of the French Empire. The
Transport Board have offered a reward of 1001. for
his apprehension, and `.tUl. for the conviction of any
British subject who shall have aided SIMON in his
escape. A reward of 10 guineas is also offered for
thu recapture of PHILIP Boittox, a French surgeon,
Ivisoner of war, who accompanied SIMON in his
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It has always been the error of England to rush
into %.-nr, as though we wer.s impatient to exercise
our §trongth in destruction as a Ladino passion,
rather than reserving it for such an application
as a last and fatal resource. Glory. is with us
a Mild of hallucinated idea: it is one chord of the
national mind on which we may be said to be mad.
France, formerly, had a passion only for fop-
pery: she was a polite nation. Germany at least
fought only her own battles. The Russian Court
slept through the long winters of the north, or bask-
ed in the faint sunshine of their glimmering summer.
Holland smoked to keep her warm in the short days,
and to beguile the tadium of long ones. Spain lived
only to adjust her plumes, and flatter her pride: and
Portugal had no higher ambition than the stately dis-
play of the mitre and the cowl; her monks and her
mutes ; her long and ceremonious rites, and holy pro-
cestions. But England had always apassion for tzar :
she is a fiesiing nation. hew England a squabble,
and she will soon be iu it. She appears to be the Don
Quixote of the whole world ; and fancies that she is
interested in every fray. If she be oety fighting in
three quarters of the kobe at one time, she looks with
such jealousy to wartif the other quarter, and is so un-
comfortable under suspicion, that she prefers cer:
taro war to doubtful peace. This is precisely
her case at the prelent moment • and though her
red flag already streams amid the snows of the
'Korth, and along the burning splendour of the
two continents of the east, it is now menacing
the peaceful commerce and quiet homes Of the
new world. On every continent, and almost every
isle; on every sea, and every shore, does this 44 little
nation with a mighty heart," either wage or threaten
war !—But *e do not require to be reminded of the
ascendancy of our military character. We may travel
the globe roond, and hear it told.us in every nation,
and every tongue. We had rather hear something
more about peaceful affairs et home. We mayoppear,
" covered with glory" to the world; but under this
impaling mask—all is not well.
The lietients personified the Deity, who presided'
over the fortunate destinies of mankind as a Female.
It is a siogsayr circumstance that distinguishes the
Lottery to be drawn next Tuesday—that a Female
distributes Tickets, and Shares of Ticked, to those
who wish, by the uaparalleled beneficial Scheme of
the present Lottery, to acquire wealth and indepen-
deoce.—Lady Dasiacossa, No. 1, Bolbotu-had,
the career of Middle-row ; and34l4 St. Margaret's-
WI, &rough ;k the. person to Islam we ilinde,
sad we acknowledge bather nasii-atoee is suffi-
cient to procure the patronage of
um who wish to Awe is the• .fift
POecnit Lottery, • .

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