The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-11-28 00:00:00

IEI S TATESMAN.

the greatest anarchy prevails in many districts. In
Gallicia, particularly, where the two parties are more
equally balanced, the contest between them is yet open;
and nothing but an able leader is wanted, to render the
Constitutionalists again triumphant. Morillo, an object of
suspicion to all parties, is neither feared nor respected,
either by the citizens or the army; and his situation is
deemed so critical, that his departure from Spain is already
spoken of.

The proceedings at Lincoln on the election of a member
for the County, will be read with much interest. The
spirited conduct of the freeholders, who have answered the
appeal of Col. Johnson and others, to come forward and
assert their independence of Lord Yarborough, has bur'
prised many who held the public spirit of the county in
too light an estimation. The show of bands against the
nominee of Lord Yarborough was decisive: and there can
be no doubt, if the freeholders will take the trouble to go
to the Poll, that Sir J. Thorold will be elected. We know
but little of one candidate, and nothing of the other ; but
the question is whether the freeholders shall choose for
themselves; or whether Mr. Pelham, new Lord Yarbo•
rough, shall choose for them. Not admiring Mr. Pelham's
Patliamentory conduct, we should be aoriy to
see the representative for Lincolnshire dependant
open him for his countenance; for it would be
most likely that the nominee would be only a vane fixed on
the cap of the patron. The present state of the general
representation induces many to regard these single streg.
glee as of but little importance ; but while there is the
shadow of an opposition kept up at St. Stephen's, we are of
opinion that as many honest and decided men, as it is pos-
sible should be sent there ; and that the addition of one
individual, who has the courage to declare his sentiments,
is of great benefit to the common cause.

Dr. Collyer has been sufficiently ill-advised to proceed
by indictment against a publisher of " The Lancet." A
Morning Paper justly remarks, that this course of pro-
ceeding leaves the main question untried. The .defendant
is not permitted to justify his charges, if it were in his
power to do so ; whereas if the Doctor had meant to meet
the accusation, be should have defied the proof, and
proceeded by a civil action for compensation for the
injury he has sustained. We were amongst those
who thought the only means by which Doctor
Collyer could protect himself, was by a prosecution of the
publishers of the charges; but we never dreamt that a
man would attempt to vindicate his character in a way that
shuts out the investigation. The length of time which has
elapsed, is also an suspicions circumstance. Surely it could
require no deliberation whether such attacks should he re-
pelted, or not. The indictment is against a Mr. Onwhyo.
who was not the publisher of " The Lancet" when the new
depositioaswere published in that work. These is besides
another curiosity,in the Doctor's solicitor advertising that he
has preferred an indictment, asa caution to booksellers not
to sell any thing tbat may be "injurious to him;' as he,
means to take "the most summary legal matures" against
all offenders. What has awakened to such fury the hither.
to apathetic feelings of the worthy Divine! The adver-
tisement is quite a curiosity. It begins by saying that he
was disposed to trust in his coosoioua innocence against
the reports that assailed him—that lie was inclined rather
to suffer than to punish wrong :"—and tells us that lie in-
tended to imitate Archbishop Tillotson, who left in his
closet a bundle of papers with an inscription, " libels by
men, who I hope will be pardoned by Goll, as they are
pitied and forgiven by nse." Dr. Collyer's patience, how-
ever, would not hold out; the " bundle" became toe large
for bis forgiving charity ; his friends, whose solicitations
he did not heed at the moment when they ought to have
been attended to, have prevailed at last—and be comes for-
ward, not in a way to vindicate his reputation, bat to punish
its assailants, by an appeal to " the judges and juries of
his country." All this seems to us very unwise, as it
regents himself, and very unjust as it regards others. If
the truth or falsehood of the charges is not tried, nothing
is determined. To send Mr. Onwbyn to prison, because he
has published a book in which somebody has second
Dr. Collyer, will not prove Dr. Collyer to have merited
no reproach. The real point at issue, is the accuracy of
the depositions given in as early number of the Lancet,
I f,they are not proved false, (and the proof is easy if they
are so,) the Doctor would gain nothing, if he were to
imprison all the booksellers in London. We, of course,
offer no opinion on the merits of the case. We Lave DO
wish bat that the Doctor may establish his innocence ;
and we are sorry to perceive that his friends Laveput him
in a wrong way to effect his purpose, and oar desires.

littrrnsoft. Thursday, Nov. 27.—T us morning after
breaktast his hlsksty rode out in his phaeton. The King
proceeded in his morning airing in the Great Park, tke. for
a Considerable time. His Majesty is expected to leave us
tomorrow, to the regret of the inhabitants, &c., for some
length of time.
A letter from Plymouth says, that " Mina and Llobera
are in a French brig in. tbe Sound, which is under quaran-
tine." This accounts for the delay in the arrival of that dis-
tinguished Patriot in London.
Au indictment it apprars, was yesterday, at the instance
of the Rev. Dr. Cullyer. preferred and found by the Grand
Jury against Joseph Onwhyn, the publisher of " The
Lancet."

THOMAS TOURTILL'S BANICRUPTCY.—The third meeting
of the Creditors will take place to-morrow (Saturday) at
OuildhaH, when the bankrupt will, it is presumed, he
present.
DUBLIN GRAND JURY.—The presenting Grand Jury
came into Court this day, and read a string of Resolutions,
in which they state, that the evidence of the parochial de•
puties before the Committee of the House of Commons was
false and libellous: Another Resolution was, that they
would be hereafter very sparing of the public money.—
(Dubtin Even. Post, of Tuesday.)
Several respectable grocers of Dundee have last week
given up business. and removed to places where their
enterprise is likely tole better rewarded.—(Scotch Paper.)

GLASGOW SUBSCRIPTION FOR THE SPANISH
REFUGEES.

(Ir ROll Tug GLASGOW IRIS Passe.)
A number of poor Spaniards with their wives and children
are flying to this country for protection from the fierce cruelties
of their tyrant; they are houseless, moneyless, friendless—
they are
Far from the land their souls ador'd,
From happy homes and altars free—
Their only talisman the sword— !t
Their only spell-word—Liberty !
They have fought for the freedom of Spain and of men—they
hate been sold by French gold and Spanish treachery—they
litter been cheated by false hopes of British succnur :—and
they now fly to us, poor victims of unparalleled perfidy and
endurable oppression, for liberty to live, and bread and water
to subsist upon. Several gentlemen in London have formed
themselves into a Committee to relive them, will the gentle.
men of Glasgow co-operate with them? All ponies are sup.
porting this subscription. The Coe rier on the one side, and
the STATSSISAN on the other—thee people of Glasgow never
subscribed a penny for the Sipanish cause, will they abut their
ears and their purses to the melting cries of the babes of the
murdered brave—of Riego's distressed, deserted, desolate
family—of the poor women and children self expatriated for
liberty ?
We ha re mentioned this ease to a few gentlemen of Glasgow
who immediately subscribed their names to a subscription
paper, which we shall keep in our office until a Committee be
formed in Glasgow for this truly Christian and patriotic par.
pose. We will publish the names of the generous individuals,
whose hearts may warm and eyes welt for these poor foreign.
era, in our next Free Press ; and we call upon the other news-
papers of Glasgow to cooperate with us, and to insert lists of
the subscriptions, gratis, in their columns. We believe they
will cheerfully do it.

RPANISR PATRlOTS.—Yesterday a Committee, composed
of gentlemen of the first respectability, assembled at the
British Hotel, Cockspur Street, for the purpose of promot-
ing a subscription for the relief of those Spaniards who
have been compelled to seek in this country an asylum
from the vengeance of the restored Ferdinand. The
committee, after consulting for some time as to the best
means of effecting the object which they have it view, ad-
journed until Monday next. Colonel Jones, of the
titenadier Guards, who was in the Chair, received com-
munications from Earl Spencer, and other distinguished
individuals, approving of the proposed subscriptions, and
expressing the strongest sympathy thr the unfortunate
Spaniards.
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Another unfortunate member of the Cortes, Don Ma-
nuel Saint de Burnage, Ex Vicar of the Parish of Cazeras
in the Archbishopric of Toledo, has fallen into the bands
or the Royalists of the present day. As he voted for the
removal of the King to Cadiz, and the appointment of a
Regency, the only crimes for which Riego was tried and
put to death, there is little doubt of his being equally
sacrificed. His only ciance of escape arises from his
bearing an ecclesiastical character.

NEW ORANGE SYSTEM.

(1,11011 AS IRISH PAPER.)

The Trish Orange Association has adopted a new system of
rules and regulations, arranged by the Grand Lodge of Ire-
land, assembled in Dublin on the 4th of August, 1E23. To
these rules they had prefixed a short declaration, and a copy of
the oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration. According
to the new rules, no other oaths are to be taken by the members
of this association, nor any secret to be kept, except the pass
words by which they are to be known to one another as mem-
bers of the same body. The oaths are to be taken before ma-
gistrates, and not privatelyadministered. The presentotficers
of the Grand Lodge of Ireland are as follows:
Grand Master.—The Right lion. Chas. Henry St. John,Earl
O'Neill, K.S.P. &c.
Deputy Grand Master—Col. Wm. Blacker.
Grand Treasurer—Sir A. Bradley King, Bart.
Deputy Grand Secretary—D. Fred. Ryan. Esq. Barrister.
Deputy Greed Treasurer—Wm. Stoker, Esq.
Grand Chaplain—The Rev. John Graham, A.M.
ht`` Assistant GrendChapleins—The Rev. Sit Harcourt Lee,.
Bart. the Rev. John 1. Beresford, A.B. and the Rev. S. H.
Steward, A.B.
The following is the declaration of the Lodge:—" This as-
sociation
is formed by persons desiriog, to the utmost of their
power, to support and defend his Majesty King George IV.
the constitution and laws of the country, and the succession to
the throne in his Majesty's illustrious House,being Protestant,
for the defaisce of their person and property, and for the maim
tenance of the peace of the country.; and for these purposes the
members hold themselves obliged, when lawfully called upon,
to he at all times ready to assist the civil and military powers
in the just and lawful discharge of their duty. They associate,
also, in honour of King William 11l Prince of Orange, whose
name they hear, whose glorious memory they hold in reve-
rence, and whose iiiistrious deeds they annually commemorate,
tending as they did to the restoration of titil and religious
liberty, and of the pure form of religion established in these
reslms. This is exclusively a Protestant Association; yet,
detesting en intolerant spirit, it admits no persons its brother-
hood who are not well known to he incapable of persecuting,
injnriog, or upbraiding any one on account of his religious
opinions; but that their principle is, to aid and assist every
loyal subject of every religious description, by protecting hint
and oppression."

THE LATE LORD ERSKINE.
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081 O:NA t • NSCDOTZE

The chagrin experienced by Mr. Erskine at the &fee.
tion of Lord Loughborough from the Whig party, in t4e
year 179.?, must have been much exasperated by top
collection of the vexatious, though little known, deft*
which his Lordship, while actuated by similar views,
had occasioned to the projects of the Whigs, in the year
1789.
At-that very interesting period, when the insanity of his
late Majesty bad given rise to the most ,violent dispute;
in Parliament, respecting the necessity and nature of s
Regency, the minds of political placemen became tins.
anally agitated ; aud respect for the party of the expect
Vicegerent began to supersede, in various instances, at.
t Almelo to that of the declining King. Among the per.
sonages who were likely to be of the greatest weight is ded{,
ing the momentous qu-stions then at issue, Lord Thinker,
from the nature of his talents.as well as of his office, was app
of the chief ; and his accession to the party of the
was an object of the first importance. The firmness, how
ever, of his Lordship's resolations, the character oft,S
previous politics, and the length of time be had acted with
the Ministry of Pitt, presented obstacles, apparently is,
superable, to his union with Fox; but, strange as it
would seem to those who were not aware of his Lordship's
aversion to the hauteur of the reigning Premier, was
decided steps had been taken by his Lordship towards as
arrangement with the party of the Heir Apparent. Tsit
negotiation had been ant,piciously proceeding all the trials
the Regency question was in progress. All the preliminaries
had been agreed upon—the measures to be subsrquently pito
aned had been arranged—and the only point that retnaia,{
to be settled was, who was to hold the Seals ? What olio
" to be, or not to be " the restrictions of the Repost,
were matters of no moment, then ; hut, who was" to be,*
not to he" the Lord High Chancellor of England —" the
was the question." Lord Thurlow in possession, dart.
mined to re'ain the office; Lord Loughborough, in roe.
was urgently demons to obtain it. Lord Thurioter
resolution to kohl, could not pos.;ihly be induced to yield;
Lord Loughborough's cagerross to possess, could not p.,.
sibly be appeased.
In this state of contention stood the minds if
, the rival claimants for the woolsack, when the Re
geocy question arrived at its crisis in Parliament. lin
and Dundas bait been aware of toe negotiation in whini
L ird Thurlotv was engaged with the party; but were net
apprised of the turn it had taken. On the day the R..
gency question came on among the Lords, they vient ts.
gether to the House, with the greatest anxiety, (as Durd.i
acknowledged to a friend) to Ceara Lord Thurlow's de.
cision, in the course of the debate.
It was on that occasion his Lordship delivered the
memorable words so often quoted, which might hare bees
deemed conclusive evidence of political consistency sal
resolution, that had never been, and that never could is
shaken—" If I forget my King, may my God forget sae

COURT OF KING'S BENCH--(Tuis DAY)
BOROUGH OF MONMOUTH.

THE RING O. YATES.

Mr. Scaeceirr rose to oppose a rule for a quo warrss
calling on the defendant to sbew by what authority he sell
the office of burgess of the Borough of elonnionth. Mr.
S. said, the only object of this application, was to out
the defendant, by means of a long purse. The piaisef
complains of want l,f notice, and yet lie lets the elertise
rest fur three years before he comes to disturb it. TM
usual notice, by ringing a bell, was given.
The COMMON SERJEANT followed, on the same side,
did Mr.CAMPBeLL and Mr. linovniism, arguing aging
111.1 objection that a previous nomination, by the Guieese
Council, was necessary to.render the election Viand. Theis
hadt been a subsequent election, and there were nor q
lineations for ail ty-one quo-warranios in these stale prefab
togs.
The Cover, without troubling the 'opposite side to reply
thought that the rule must be made absolute. The matter en
at moat doubtful, and a lit subject for the consideration els
Jury. The decision on one might serve for all the rest.
NARRATIVE OF THE MURDER Or MR. WEARE.
THE KING V. EDGIIRLES, AND SHERWOOD AND J.)Nes.
Mr. DUKNET moved to make the rule absolute, whirl
had been obtained against the Defendauts, for printiog dal
publishing the above named work.
Mr. Scsautre for Mr. Sh,rwoed said,that his cliesthai
received the office copy of the affidavit on which the isle
was obtained, only yesterday, and that in ennsetrience, bs
was not yet in a coalition to reply to it. For this resat
be prayed that the role [night be enlarged till next term
Mr. COMMON SERJEANT, OD behalf of Mr. I.llgerlrF.
theiprinter, submitted that his client was a very poor em
and that, as soon as he beard of the proceedings aphis!
the Surrey Theatre, lie stopped the sale of the work, ass
called hi All the copies that be could collect. lie word
undertake to discontinue the sale, and on these grounls,
he hoped that the prosecution would be abandoned spied
him.
Mr. GURNEY said he could not accede to this. Here as
a man who, it was sworn, by the prosecutor, and not dew
ed, by the defendant, had sold 10,000 copies of the waif
and who comes and says he is too poor to sustain a proem,
tion.
Chief Justice ABBOTT asked if he gave the name oftie
author; sod was answered in the negative.
The COMMON SERJEANT then made some objections It
the form of the prosecutor's affidavit, He was cloaks
as clerk to Mr. Fenton. but it did not state what Me
Femme was; and the Court always required to know sow
thing of the circumstances of the prosectitor,io order that
the defendant might know where to look for th:. coat
On these grounds he hoped the Court would not go runlet
than to enlarge the rule agaiu.t his el.eut.
The Loan CHIEF JUSIICII said, the role must be ash
absolute against the printer. The mitigating rinse.
stances that had been urged in his favour, would beware
for the consideration of the Court, on an other manila
if he did not make his peace in the mean time.
Rule against Sherwood & Jones enlarged till sal
Term.

The Fishmongers Corrirr,nv, of whom Alderman Wool
the master, gave yesterday an elegant dinner, at their Hall
in Thames Street, to more than fifty gentlemen of dile
tinguished characote,r, amongst whom were the Right lbs.
the Lard Mayor, 1.-rd A. Hamilton. several Alders's'.
the Chamberlain of.Lundon, Messrs. Brougham, Deanuri
84. c.
The New Post Office will be finished and quite readyUr
occupation in three years from the present time. ready
Robert Sutirhe, jn n., is the Architect, under the insrtti4l
of the Board of Works. The city pay oar-third of tis
exp.iice. The offices and all the interiar departments 11,
the new building %ill he arranged nuder the 'Uremia
that excellent servant of the public, Mr. Freeling,—(yam'
ing paw)
EXTENSIVE ROllllERT.—Wormatien was this trerliq
received at the Police Office, Hatton Garden, oft!
following extensive robbery at No. 11, Charter 1111"'
Street, between Tuesday evening and Wednesdayniveirf
viz. 40 ounces of tine grain gold, '4l ozs. of gram o'4
the same weight of old silver coin, 121. in silver,
gold watches, two silver watches, a quantity of cr..,
numerous loose precious stones o peat value, coast
to brilliants, emeralds, amethysts, topazes, ike. kr. at.
considerable booty iu different articles of marks
plate. A reward is offered for the recosterf et 4.
property,