The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-02-16 00:00:00

IMPACT OP ANOTHER LETTER--WEOPsDA Y.

" The Committee of the Independent interest had
issued hand-bills, requesting the People to receive
the Lowthers with pertect propriety ; and every one
bad reason to expect the most orderly behaviour. not-
withstanding the extreme unpopularity of the Low-
ther WMe in all parts of the county. The conduct
of their partisans, however, interrupted the harmony
of the town awl neighbourhood. Finding they could
get mune of the Westmorland men to draw their car-
riage, they had recourse to the offensive and most
blamable erspedient of sending large quantities of
think to the labourers employed upon the canal. who
are Irish and Scotch ; and they also gave them a
guinea eAch to serve them fur the day. This excited
the strongest feelings of indignation, and the Is.
boaters were in such a condition as to render a
scuffle almost inevitable. The universal opinion is,
that no Warne whatever can be imputed to Mr.
Brougham's friends, who eaerted themselves in every
directtnii to prtierat the bad etreas uT the culpable
proceedings of their entagonists."
MEMOIR Uls' RICILIRD CROFT.

Sir Richard Croft, Bart. AM. D. served an appren.
ticeship to Mr. Chavasse, an Apothecary, at Burton-
upon.Trent. On the expiration of the term of his
servitude, his parents sent him to London, to corn.
plete his medical education. Here he became a pupil
of the celebrated Dr. Hunter; and b, the recommen-
dation of Dr. Millie (a fellow pupil) he boarded and
lodged with Mr. Denman, an Apothecary, then living
in Queen-street, Golden-square (being contiguous
to Hunter's theatre in Windmill-street, whose chief
dependence was on hoarding and lodging the pupil'
of Hunter). The Duchess of Newcastle, who was
then pregnant, and its a bad state of health, being
advised by Hunter to go to Portugal, engaged Mr.
Derimen, on the recommendation of Mr. Hunter, In
accompany her, chiefly for the purpose of aquaria.
tending her labour. iler Grace having a good time,
and the climate having greatly improved her general
health, she and the Doctor returried to London.
Soon after their arrival, Hunter discharged bus debt
to nature, and her Grace everted all her interest to
snore for Mr. Denman Hunter's Midwifery practice.
Mr. Denman finding that through her (bac?s interest
he should be establisher, as the fashionable accoucheur
in London, relinquished his shop and boarding.) onsel
purchased a diploma, and started as a Physician.sc..
coacher's., and to give en importance to his profes-
sional character, commenced Lectures on the Science
of Midwifery, and the Diseases of Children. Sir
Richard Croft commenced his career as surgeon,
apothecary, and mail-midwife at tudbary, where a
predilection for the sports of the field introduced him
to Lord Vernon. From Tudbury he went to Ox-
ford, which he quitted for London. Dr. Denman
being now in great practice, Sir Richard and Dr.
Baillie renewed their acquaintance with his daughters,
whom they soon afterwards conducted to the altar.—
Denman having acquired are independence by his
practice, and the liberality of the Duchess of Devon-
shire, he gradually withdrew from the fatigue of
practice, in order to introduce his sons-in-le ; and
this he messaged with so much dexterity, that Sir
Richard 1b a short time succeeded to the whole of his
practice—probably in consequence of Dr. Denman's
having intimated that he would give him his attendance
in cases of difficalty. Dr. Ihillie being also the
nephew of Heater, a powerful interest was this
formed, sollicient to semen the best practice la the
metropolis for the aeus•ia-law of Denman.
On a chair by the side of the bedstead on which the
deceased lay, In Mr. Thackeray's house, were seve-
ral of Shakspear's plays. The room was very small,
and it appeared as if the deceased had been reading,
I One of the play-books lay inside the fender, and was
entitled Love's Lebow?. Lost. Oee if the July
tuok up the book and noticed to his brother Jury-
*en that one of the characters used the (ollowirsg es.
pressions ire the page which lay open on the hearth :
" Good God where's the Princess 1"
The getuwea's Parliamentary Levees commie-A
on Saturday evening, at half past-nine oVock, which
being the.firet ibis Session, wee bat thinly attended.

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IfUL INMLLiGENCE.

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DEAL, Fits. 14.—The Dutch pllidt Orlen, Wes,
from Rotterdam to Dublin, laden with linseed in
casks, was stranded on the Goodwin Seeds eft Fria
day night last—crew sated, and landed at Ramegate.
The boats are gone of to endeavour to save part of
the cargo and 1401MS.—Rentsia the Denim and
Castle Huntley, for Benpl.
Frs. 15.—Sailed this morning the Catiffe Stotler
and Desire, for lodis.--Upwsrds of 100 casks of
linseed hare been landed here, saved front the pttiot
Orion, lost on the Goodwin Sands on Friday night.
—Came down from the Riser the Aurora, Earl, for
Madeira and Madras; Swallow, Oliver, fot Isle of
France; Hero, James, for Genoa ; Here, &arts for
Cadiz; Pheasant, Barnes, for Lisboa ;,ad Royal
Edward, —.., for Lisbon.
PORTIMOuTaI, FEB. 15.—Arrived the Morley,
Brown, front Batavia, bound 16 Rotterdaml-4he
Cumberland, Wilkinson, front the Doha!' for India;
and the Memory, Mellen, from Copenhagen for
Africa, pivoted down Channel yostesdat4—Arrilea
the Duke of York, from London for St. lasers.
PLYMOUTH, Fun. 13.—Caine in the Emma, Jae•
wood, from the South Seas, out 17 months, tad re•
turned a full ship, last from St. [Went, in 56 days
passage.
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FIRES. k ; + •

This motOing a little after he 'Al.*, tire Urge
cotton-mill of Mr. Thomas Atkinson, at Caine.
bridge, near Huddersfield, was discovered to be oft
fire, and though every eitertian was used to Patin.
goish the names, the hula of it *us burnt to the
ground. But the moat calamitous and dreadful part
of this misfortune is pit to reitite; for- in conse.
qtwnce of the fire begitinlog near the btaircase, the,
retreat of a number of the children r. as cut off, and
upwards of 14 girl., who had been working all night
in the tuctory, perisnA in the flames. The bodies of
sis of these aulleiers have been dug from the Mins,
but in so metilated a state as to render it impossible
for their nearest friends to recognise eked'. The cost-
Fterttation and distress occasioned among the friends
of those children who are mi,siligf toe/ be conceived,
but cannot adequately be described.--( Leeds Mer-
cury, Feb. 14.)

On Tuesday night, the cry of " fire" rang throegh
our streets (Nottingham), and no mall c .nsternation
wss eseited by the report that tho banking-house of
Messrs. Fellows, Mellor, and liar, was eoveloperl
iu flames, and cr,:wdi of people hastened to the spot.
This report, though not unfounded, was happily
much exaggerated ; the room in which the hauking
busine►s was usually transacted, was actually on file,
and at one time the cot ration hid a very menacing
appearance, bet by thiMsertions made, the flames
were got under and the building saved. We under+
stand the accident originated from a flue belonging
to another apartment, which after running undie
the floor of the room in question goes lute the
chimney. There bed been a lire that day, and sheet
balf•past eight in the evening, the cook discovered that
the room was on fire, and on procuring the key and
opening the rimer, the flames rushed oat. The slang
was immediately giveu, and assistance being at hand,
' the r•n4ines wets soon broeght to the spot and began
to play through the door into the room ; it was, hoe..
ever, found necessary to break open the shatters, a
work of (Airtime difficulty, and when some of the
panels were forced out the engines played in, and
there being no ace rt,iy of nicer and the people ►ery
active in giving assisia Cie fire was got under.—.
About 20 minutes after Ili, ~'crock a persnn appear.
eti at one of the upper window% 14 rid informed the con-
gregated Multitude, that all was safe, sod there was
no further danger. Neither the banks nor money
were Hared, and the whole extent of the loss is not
estimated at more then 2001. The premises were in.
gored in•tbe Birmingham Fire.office.—(Nottinghals
Review.)

Arrounts from Rome giwe a deplorable picture of
the vete of the county, from the incursions of the
brigands. They increase daily in their audacious
depredationa, anti even sustained a successf .1 con.
flirt with the military near St. Lomita. The con-
tinuance of these egresses is attributed to the want
of co-operation on the part of the Neapolitan Go-
"aliment.

Admiral Daum and General Oswato were in.
vested with the insignia of Knights Commanders of
the Bath, on Thersday, after the Levee. They had
been appointed so long back as the month of Jan.
1818.
Friday Mr. 8E Err, the Judge-Advocate,
had an audience ditto. liaises Recoil., at Carlton-
house, and laid before his Royal Highness the pro.
reeding, of some Coorta-Martisl, and took his Royal
Highness's commands upon them.
Wtt Sours.—lt is proposed, by a few persons
forming tl Club in the City, for the purchase of
Tickets and Shares in the present Lottery, that should
they become entitled to any part of the It Pipes of
Port Wine, which Bisu has soperadded to the Scheme,
that the landlord be required to cellar it fur their
use ; and that the quantity obtained shall regulate
the allowance to each member nightly, it being un-
derstood that in any case it shall not be less than a
pint, not more than hen bottles.--An (sigh member
observed, 6' that he was sore the blind Godde,s
would lint overlook such good fellows, but che them,
with theft share of the Wine, a share of the Ono
Hundred Capitals into the bargain, in which case he
would not fail to toast the health f Busts, het Prime
Minister."

On Saturday afternoon his Serene Highness the
Prince of Hesse liolliatatri had the honour of being
infreduced to her Heys! Highness the Princess Km-
:Anita, by the Patmcc ['enemy, at the Queen's
Th• Patrice Raciest at the isms time la-
'reduced his Serene Highness to her MAJESTY, the
Princess AUGUSTA, and the Duchess of Geoutestza.
The latter had previously arrived for that purpose
from Gloucester-boast. His *rem' Higheese was
molt graciously received by all the Royal personages; •
he confirmed his visit a• hear and • half, and then
left the Palau► with the Peurce Ittetrur. Apart.
meets are preparing in St. James's Palece for the re-
sidence of his Serene ifighnent who th °peeled to
ray semi time iu Eogland.

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