The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-02-04 00:00:00

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A Dutch Mail has also arrived, with Papers to the
let inst. They contain tome details of the proceed-
ings-of the Second Chamber of' the Sta•es General
respecting Finance, in which several' Members ob-
jected to the Ministerial Estimates, particularly, of
Military Espeaditere; but the Government carried
their measures by a considerable majority. ft is sa-
tisfactory to find by an article from Leipsic, that
British manufactures found a ready sale at the late
fair in that city.

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, FEB. 4.—Notice
is hereby given, that his Royal Highness the PRINCE
REGENT will hold a Levee et Carlton-house, on
Thursday, the 13th inst.•at two o'clock.
The Duke of YORK went to Windsor unexpectedly
on Sunday to meet the Pnince REGENT. Ilia Royal
Highness returned to town in the evening.
The PRINCE REGENT, on the occasion of his late
visit to Windsor, is supposed to have arranged with
the QUEEN, the time at which her MAJESTY'S next
Drawing-room is to be held.
A letter from Windsor states, that an alteration
has taken place in the mode of disposing the pieces of
sitting in St. George's Chapel : the Dean and Canons
are removed from the stalls which they have been
accustomed to occupy for many years, and are to
sit behind the Poor Knights. The reason assigned
for this innovation is, that the PRINCE REGENT
having been offended by the exclusion of bis Pages
and principal Gentlemen from the Chapel oil the
night of the funeral of the Princess CHARLOTTE,
ordered an investigation Wove Lord Stvuouvu, the
result of which has been the preceding regulation.

Inv EAR:. or Sarrox.—Letiers have been re-
ceived from Crotteth, giving a *till more favourable
report of the convalesceoce of the Noble Lord. We
have the pleasure to add that the change hes been pro-
gressively for the better during the lest fortnight ;
during which period not the slightest relapse has
taken place
CUTENT•GARDEN THEtTRE.—A new melo•drama,
.
:t; two acts, called The Illustrious Traveller; or,
The Forges of Kennel, was produced last night
at this Theatre. An individual, a man of rank, pro-
scribed, in great measure without justice, for treason
and murder, taking refuge froM the strong arm of
power amidst the horrors of a Norwegian winter, pro-
tected and preserved by the attachment and fidelity
of an individual who had scarcely before beard his
name, and who loved him chiefly because he was in
danger, constitute the main action. It is a very in•
teresting piece, and contains one or two scenes of
great pathos. FARLEY sustained the principal cha-
racter. The piece was announced for repetition on
Thursday without a dissentient voice.

DUG, Fes. 3.—Came down from the River last
evening and sailed, several outward-bound ships ;
particulars unknown.—Remain the Johanna Maria
Constantia, Madden, for Surinam.
PLystouva, Fea. 2.—Cuse in the Speculator,
Morrison, from Terceina. ,
FALstouttt, FER I.—Arrived the Dutch ship Ca-
tharine Theodore, Vanwalne, from Liverpool for
Surinam, with loss of fore-top-mast.
LzvestrooL, FES. 2.—Airived the Wiliam Fwart,
Fisher, from Nassau, New Providence, with Sir
Gregor 1111 Gregor passenger on board.
Matelot, Fes 3.—Arrived the Castlereagh,
M‘Donough,with Mails and passengers from Ilelvoet ;
and Lord Nelson, Livings, with ditto from Cue-
baven.—Sailed the Lady Nepeati, Liveiug, with
ditto for Cushaven.
Doyen, Fut. 3.—Sailed the Verses transport, and
the Boston packet for Calais, for troops.—Arrived,
the sloop Fortitude, Randal, from Jersey to London,
with loss of boom, gaff, and bulwark.
GRAVESEND. Fea 3.—Arrived the Duke of York,
Fryer, from Rotterdam ; Good Friends, Sherratt,
from Dublin; sod Fortuna, Hughes, from o,tend.
Sailed the Princess Amelia, Balaton, for Indiaf;
London, Campbell, for ditto ; Kingston, Bowen,
for Java ; Mary, Fords, for St. Mary's, Sierra
Leone ; Valency, Bryant, for Lisbon ; Williams,
Williams, for Dublin; and Minerva, Smith Allen,
for New York.

LIVERPOOL, Fes.i.—The True Blue, Flat, for
Holyhead, was lost ou the 31st ult. on West 110)41;
the Master, his wife, and one man drowned; and one
man saved.
Coax-Excatamaa, FEE. 4.—Our market was thin-
ly supplied with all grain this morning, owing to con.
trary winds.—Fine Wheat folly supports Monday's
prices, as well as prime malting Barley, but the in.
ferior qualities of each grain are very heavy, except
at low prices.—ln Pus, Beans, and Oats, there is
no alteratifm.
Mrs. Dxvises, in consequence -of some migon.
derstanding with the Sob-Committee of Drury-lime,
la no lesser a member of that Theatre.
Mr. Lw. performed Octavian, in the Mountain-
wen) lac eight, 61 4itt tignstiv these two years.

Tim Petition
Busparr, •
Saturday
forms.

" TO
4 I It,

of Beth,
resulitd,

thojnjurioes . the Representation of the Pao.
ple, intreat your early attention to the gamin
Parliamentary Reform.
" A great proportion, perhaps a majority, k
your Honourable House, so far from being the
' peesentatives of the People, are notoriously Mre,
to represent the interests of wealthy Peers, or trading
Boroughenettgers, or to have purchased seats in Jeer
Honourable Roue, for the express purpose of dia.
posing of them to iha•best adiantage to the MinistrY
of the day; one of whom has been hinsielf branderi
with trafficking in this disgraceful barter of national
honour for individual interest.
" Such a state of pollistion, in an Assembly which
ought to bathe sowers of honce•, and, )he fountain
of prosperity and freedoui, has t mailed upon tbis
jured country all the mischief, attendant upon a state
of corruption so gross, and a dependence so unlimited
upon the increased and increasing influence of the'
Crown ; and being firmly convinced that a radical(
Reform in the Representation, a recurrent' to 44.
Nita Perliamente, and the adoption of Chsiressd
Ihiffrage, are the only means of preventing a fatal
'evolution, we ask from the wisdom of the truly
Honourable Members of your Honourable House,
those messeres, which can alone restore the coo.
Hence, and teener the tranquillity of the Nation:—
And your Petitioners 'dull ever pray."
The greater number of the l'ati.ions were in a form
which expresses our gricrince • and itr remedy, is
nearly as few words as possii,li.'''i'Vf heti the /lucre
refuses to receise printed Petite+, its; an,' a Statute
makes it penal for more persons than lazenly to sign
one Petition, then an expedient to save utsuecessary
writing is valuable. The concise form runs thus:—'
" Defective Representation being the Nation's
'bane, we pray that all male subjects (infants, Wm's?,
and criminals excepted) tiny equally ::hare in annually.
electing Represeutetives to serve in Parliament."*

• The Luna v. Wd be still more rimeeisr by umitting-Tbe wise
—infants, insane', and criminal", nod substituting—who pp •
laic'.

LONDON ADJOURNED SESSIONS.

The following statement is deserving public Men.,
Lion :--Yesterday morning the above Sessions were
to he holden at Guildhall, and at 10 o'clock the Ra..
CORDER and Mr. SHELTON (the Clerk of the Peace)
arrived. Soon after Messrs. Aldermen Cox and
BaXAN. with Mr. ALLEY, and other Counsel, So.
licitors, &c. entered the Hall. The Court, floweret,
could not proceed without a third Alderman, and
notwitbstending that several of the Worthy Magi's.
trates were summoned for the purpose, and mes-
sengers disp.•t bed in all directions, no Alderman
was to be found. After wailing more than en hear,
the Gentlemen (about 24 in number) summoned al
Jurors became loud and impatient, and applied to
the RecokuEtt, soliciting, or rather demanding, the e
discharge. Ilts Lordship regretted very much the
inattention that had been manifested in forwarding the
public business and the ends of justice, as welt as the
inconvenience to which the Jury bad been subjected.
After this the Recorder, as well as the Jury, toured;
some of the latter declaring that they would !eke no-
tice of the circumstance in a public way, the more,
particularly as a like occurrence hau not long since-
taken place. In these complaints tit« Jury were •
joined by the parties who stood upon their liberty,
and were to be tried, together with numerous wit.
nesse, and others. A man named Feumore stated to
the Jory, that lie had been arrested upon the warrant
of a Judge for a slight assault upon what Is termed a
r• bail above man," and his sureties nor being deem- •
ed eligible, he was thrust into one of the dungeons of
Newgste, and remained there some time. From this
incarceration he had hoped to have been delivered 00
the present occasion by a verdict of his countrymen,
but his hopes were vain. The other parties to be
tried felt equally hurt at the unaccountable postpone-
ment of their cases, as did numerous others who had
applications to make to the Court.

..."377113 ik...;:l';/PZI."."12:111412114411NTIONS.
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Petitions from Bath, presented by Sr Faint*
rtr, on Wednesday, the Mb, and egg' 10 011
ty, the 31st of January, were in two mutat
One of them is follows :-
70 THE HONOURABLE THE HOUSB OF
COMMONS.
'our Petitioners, the undersigned inhabitaots
deeply impressed with the eft!, that hank
d, sod the rein that threatens to follow, from
naves state of the Representation of the