The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-03-31 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

1111:RIIDAT, Mt O'CLOCK.
Major Cartwright arrived here on Saturday last,
poi wee, in good health. Wooler also arrived
a Wednesday evening.
The trials of Major Cartwright, Wooler, Ed-
Aladdox, and Lewis, excite an uncommon
Hof interest for miles round : indeed, such is
*bet, that the town of Warwick has not been
,16r, many years, and not a bed is to he pro-
eed at any of the inns, most of them being en-
„Led before the Assizes commenced.
ihe whole of the above defendants are included
lot indictment, " for conspiring to elect a Legi-
,31„621 Attorney to serve in Parliament for fsir-
limbos." We are informed that the whole of
lye intend to plead in their own defence, and
that the Conrt has arranged the trials to take
pees upon Monday next, which was originally in-
tended to have commenced this morning. Mr.
sajont VAL GRA-. and Mr READER, it is said, are
tonged upon the part of the Crown.
The calendar of prisoners is unusually heavy,
estrining a list of lS prisoners : among whom
,eseveral persons for passing forged notes. The
_cease of crime in this county is so prominent, that
.j.e prisoners to be tried at the present Commis-
00,aithin the last 32 years have quadrupled.
The Judge was compelled to leave the Court
maser earlier than usual on Wednesday night,
Aim to his severe sufferings from the gout.
The town exhibits a great deal of bustle, from
the numerotc.; strangers promenading up and down.

THE JUDGE'S (HON. MR. 111F.AT) CHARGE TO
Tlll GRAND JURY.
Among the names called over, were his Royal
ll•j!isess the Duke of York, Lord Ellenborough,
Chiefiestice Uallss. Hou. Sir C. Greville, &c.
Mr. Best. 10 n of the Jude, administered the
ohs to the Crtuid Jury. The following is a brief
•atch of the Judg►e's excellent and impressive
fie:—The tw!arned judge said, lie was sorry
;itiarrre, in calling their attention to one of the
iebt calendars ever presented to a Grand Jury

this kingdom, it was truly lamentable, and a
s:.:;.ect of great grit. f to him, to see such a vast in-
rem of came awl depravity, and great exertions
east be used by every well-disposed character to
iamb:met such a rapid influx of immorality. The
Igliuses.s of punishment. it was with regret he
stated, had been vie of the principal means : as
it would be seen Iran the calendar, that the same
prisoners had been before them again and again,
et the different Sessintas sad Assizes. No gaols,
however WO, *odd be able to contain them, if"
such calendars were presented; and nine out of
Is.o of those prisoners who, from the lightness of
their punishment, were enabled again to return I
asong society, instead of refraining from their evil
courses, not only co:it:minuted innocent characters,
but plunged themselves into depths of greater
crimes It therefore behoved them, in their coo-
salemtios of the crimes brought before them, to
:et with energy, in order to reduce, at a future ,
period, a calendar s,) appalling to the feelings oft
humanity, and that those criminals, whose acts
railed for it, might he sent out of the tountry—a
calendar containing every species of crime from
high treason down to petty larceny. They would
also be called upon in a case of murder—or ra
servant who had killed her mistress. One also
of sedition—for speaking against the King and
Government in a public-house. Another cue of
erect importance, which occurred between two per-
SOPS who were fighting, and which might or might
hot turn out as murder, according to Lord Ellen-I
borongh's Act, he particularly recommended to their
most serious consideration. If it appeared that one
of the parties had drawn his knife upon the other'
while the battle was going on, that would amount
ti murder It was an un-Englishmanlike act, and
he meld give it no other expression. With
regard to those cases of sedition, and other cir-
cumstances connected with it, he must also call
''less them to act with firmness and decision—
buittheing in their judgment with that coolness and
impartiality which characterised Grand Juries in ge-
neral. The state of the country at present, from the
sissentination of papers and doctrines, urging among
the lower classes of society that it was the reign
of terror, required their utmost vigilance and atten-
tm. They would also be called upon respecting
sone eases of forgery ; and an officer belonging to
the Bank would attend upon them to give every
twcessary information upon the subject. He must
beg pardon for occupying so much of their time ;
but the duty he owed to his situation, called upon
bun to impress on the minds of the Grand Jury the
alarming increase of crimes in this county; and that
also iu their capacities as Magistrates, on their to
Ilring to their homes, to use their utmost vigilance
to prevent disturbances of every kind, and to bring
Injustice all those persons so offending the laws of
their country.
'f he above charge, it appears, made so great an
impression on the minds of the Grand Jury, that
one of them stepped forward, and begged that the
Learned Judge would, at the request of his bre-
thren, cause the charge to be printed, for their
future guide and information.

The Learned Judge, in answer, returned thanks
to the Grand Jury for the compliment they had
paid to him, and stated, that if any gentleman in
Court had taken notes of it, with that assistance,
at some other period, it should be done, as he (the
Judge, we understood to say,) had no copy of what
l►e had been addressing to them.
The Court was occupied nearly the whole of the
day in action for damages brought by a Mr. Crock-
ett, butcher, of Coventry, against a Mr. Bray, of the
same trade, residing at Firomyard, in Herefordshire.
It appeared that Mr. Bray bad had a pony stolen
from his stable for upwards of five years, and the
latter accidentally met the plaintiff riding upon it.
He (Mr. Crockett) in co►sequence was charged
with felony, and taken before a Magistrate, but
ultimately discharged. A variety of aggravated
circumstances were connected with the defendant's
conduct ; one of which was, that he knew the
person who had stolen his pony (a man of the
name of Jordon) was dead, and buried in Brom-
yard church-yard, yet he wished to prosecute and
harass for the felony, Mr. Crockett. Serjeant
VAUCHAR was for the plaintiff, and Mr. CLARKE for
the defendant.—Damages, '2 50l . —An action was
then brought to recover the pony, in which Is.
damages were given, and the pony ordered to be
returned.

Letters from Seville state, that the city of Cadiz,
on the 9th, presented a scene of tumult, confusion,
and bloodshed, of a most aggravated nature. According
to one account, the leading inhabitants of Cad's, on the
morning of the 9th, sent a deputation to the tiovernor,
Valdes, to request he would accede to the general wish j
of the people, by proclaiming the Constitution ; but
Valdes, it is added, became so extremely indignant at'
the application, that he ordered the deputies to be put
to death. This inhuman and tyrannical order circula-
ting among the people, they rose ea mane, with such
arms as each man was able to provide ; and after an
obstinate conflict, in which many lives were lost, suc-
ceeded in overpowering the garrison. Valdes, and Cam-
pane, the lioversior-in-Chief, it is said, lost their lives
on the occasion. Other letters from Seville state, that
the inhabitants of Cadiz, in the beginning of the con-
test, opened their gates to the troops in thelsle de Leon,
and by their assistance repulsed the garrison. The
Dutch vessel, which brought to Oibraltar the news
of the proclamation of the Constitution at Cadiz on the.
I Ith, brought no advice, of the tumult on the 9th, and
this omission forms a strong ground of hope that the
statements hare at least been greatly magnified.
The following changes are said to have taken
place in the Ministerial appointments at Madrid :
M. Peres de Castro, a Liberal, and former Deputy of
the Cortes, is named Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the
place of the Duke de San Fernando, who is chosen Am-
bassador at Vienna, in the room of M. Cevallos, ulio is
to have a seat in the Council of State.

'lh• Duke de Ferstan Nunez, Ambassador at Paris, is
re-called, and succeeded by the Duke Del Petrie, one
of the first Generals who suede war against Napoleon
during the late reroleties.
The Duke 41e Sae Carlos, Ambassador Lassidon, is
also re-called, and the Duke de Fritts, whose sentiments
have alo ay. been Liberal, is to take his place.
Dun Outs, former Minister in the United fitates of
America, is named Ambassador at Naples, in the place
of H. Labrador, who is recalled.
M. de Campuzano, former Secretary of the Embassy
in London, is named Ambassador at Dresden, in place
of M. .ammo's, who is to go to St. Peteraburgh.
The Count de Torreno, former Deputy of the Cartes,
late an exile at Paris, and now in this capital, is named
Ambassador at Nerlib. _

31. de Paulo is named 51inistei in Portugal, in the
loom of Count de Casa Flores, who is recalled.
AN AMERICAN SENATOR •URNT IN Eutot.—We
think it proper to state, for the information of Mr. Se-
nator Laninan, that his late vote upon the Missouri sub-
ject recites the uni'versal indignation of this community.
An evidence of the popular feeling upon this occasion
was exhibited in this city on Thursday night, about
niur o'clock, when a number of prisons assembled in
the yard of the State House, and burnt Mr. Senator in
effigy. A transparency was displayed, bearing the
words, in large letters, Lantuan and Slavery." We
cannot, however, hut regret the occurrence, as popular
outrages of the kind are never calculated to do good.
If Mr. Lanman has disgraced his constituents, the
people can aptl:y the remedy at the election, by selecting
rosters of more principle, capacity, and independence.—
(tort. Mirror.)
Yesterday morning the Duke of York left town
for Oatlantis. His Roynl Highness returned to
London in the evening to dinner.
During the continuation of the poll at Brentford
yesterday, Mr. Farmer, one of the check-clerks for
Mr. Mellish, went to the Sheriffs'-box, and stated,
that a person of the name of Anderson had voted
a second time for Mr. Mellish, under the tame name.
Mr. Sheriff Parkins questioned Anderson as to this fact,
when be acknowledged that he had polled twice, assign-
ing as a reason that he had two separate freeholds.
Upon being further interrogated; he stated, that he bad
been foreman to the West India Dock Company, but
that at the present moment he was out of employ. He
resided at No. 3, Green-street, Stepney. Mr. Sheriff
Parkins, after giving Anderson a severe reprimand, in-
I formed him that he should consider it his Jolty to cause
him to be prosecuted for perjury.
In consequence of Mr. Curwen being elected br
the county of Cumberland, he last week delivered op
to the Freemen of Carlisle the Blue Flag, which has
been in his possession for the last 34 yeah, and a warm
contest will take place for that city, between William
James, Esq. and Sir Philip 51usgrave ; the former
upon the Curwen, and the latter upon the Lowther
interest.
TRIALS roa HIGH TREASO,I-1I has been
finally arranged, that the whole of the prisoners
connected with the Cato-street conspiracy shall be
arraigned at the bar of the Old Bailey on Saturday,
the 15th of the ensuing month. It is probable
that nothing further than their arraignment will take
'place on that day, but the business will proceed on the
following Monday, to the exclusion of the regular bald-
ness of the Sessions, which commences on the 12th of
the month.
The Dennison, the Friends, the Minerva. and the
cmiset, all of South Shields, are still anion, the missing
stiips since the late storm, and there is every reason to
far their being all lost, with their crews, as boats and
parts of some of them have come ashore, or been picked
up at sea. In the Minerva were the owner, also master,
and two of his sons.—(sdedoaims Mercury.)
There is now reason to fear that 13, if not 19 ships,
were tota!lv lost, with most of their crews, on the Sunk
Sand, on the fatal Yd of March.— (Mid.)

PARI:VAN THICATRICALS.

A new and very popular Tragedy is now performing
at the Theatre Francais, Paris. As it is represented, it I
exhibits the character of Mary in a different point oil
view from that in which we had been accustomed to
fonteesplate her. %dem»beetle thichesnois, who per-
sonates her, not being a handsome woman, much of the
illusion necessary to the scene is lost, for the Queen of
Scott never appears to our imagination but adorned with
all the grace and beauty peculiar to her sex ; besides
they have made her character too passionate and violent.
Through the four first arts she seldom appears but in a
storm of passion, and which, in the interview with Eliza-
beth, in the park of F•utherin,.av Castle, rises into so ab-
solute paroxysm of fury, in which she flings about and
stamps upon the stage, as agile would tear up the very
hoards ; the stern-hearted arbitrary Elizabeth is a very
lamb to her. This is neither historically nor poetically
true; nor do we recognise until the parting scene in the
fifth set, the tender, unfortunate, and resigned Queen
of Scot., whose hopes have been blasted, and spirit sub-
dued by a nineteen yearscaptivity, who pardons her Jea-
lous and unrelenting rival, and seems gladly to einkrace
death as a refuge from the cruel world which had aban-
doned her. This farewrl scene, in which she takes
leave bf her WOllll9l and servants, and distributes her
jewels amongst them, is profoundly affecting, and Com-
, moldy draws forth the must abundant tribute of tears;
every one who possesses a handkerchief has it nut on
the occasion. The women weep and sub like children,
OW the men's eyes run like fountains—thus tender I
hearted are the Parisians. The closing teeny is also ex-1
eellent, and extremely well managed. M':ry is led out
to the scaffold, and 'Leicester remains alone upon the
stage; he listens at a window to the soniols which pro-
cee.l fl-uni a chamber underneath, in which the execu-
tion takes place—be hears some one praying, he catches
the sound of his on n name, as if the victim was praying
for him in her last agony—a breathless and portentous
silence ensues, which is at length broken by the descent
of the axe, he utter, a soul•hsrrouiur scream; to which
every nerve in the house vibrates, and falls senseless on
the door. The curtain drops. 'the effect of this last scene
is terrible—is electric. It is in such a moment
that 'Palma shows himself the gtratest of actors—his
deep-murinnring voice exetts a tremendous and almost
supernatural power. Its bursting out is like a volcanic
explosion of mingled passions--pity, love, sellhatred,
remorse, horror, and despair, are all set forth in one wild
expression of voice, and colintrnatire, and attitude. The
character of Leires-1,-.e... (as they pronounce it) is de-
testable throughout the piece—nut possessing ■ simple
redeeming trait—he is a cold, calculating. compromising
courtier, and a mean, pusillanimous, and treacherous
lover.