The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-04-25 00:00:00

NAV4iL INTELLIGENCE.

PcsitOrnit *Pip. 23. —ltos• off the harbonr,
detained by very light skinctii.the.ship, Favourite.
ltr,bert FeeetkaKhlaster, trans' Stem Leone and
G weep botind 't4o Lawton, SAO. • Cargo estimated
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at 40,0001. the product% of• Africa, Captain
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Thos. Donglisst of the Armylassded.issrof her
this morning, Charged with &pal Cheat but ender-
stood not to cont4in. any listqligcnee onetime-
Saner, nothing po..rtiFtliar havirg occurred in those
colonies. This vessel spoke off Scilly a brig of
war, by which wns learnt, thafon Thursday last
a large French schooner privateer bid captured-
rear to that Island eleven sail of merchant vessel.,
tweet which only had been re-captnr 11.; the rt.:
mainder, together with the privateer, it was fear_
d, had succeeded its getting into a French port.

Arrived the.4.yr, Wearne, from Newport ; the
Unity, Ellis, from Bristol ; the 41furos •brig of
war, of 14 guns, Captain Sneyd, from Guernsey ;
and Patiourile sloop of warp of 18 guns, Capt.
Clement, from a cruise. •

Sailed iita Mariner and Encounter gon.brigst.
on a cruise; the Sdpion, of 74 anns,:.beaiing
the t'g of Rear. Admiral Stopford ; and Chris.
lion VII.; of 110 guns) Captain Yorke, both for.'
Bogue Roads.'

Since writing the above, the Favourite) from
Af, ica, has anchored in the Sound.

PunTsmourtr, Arun. Rt.—Arrived the Fla
slq,,p of war with a convoy from the Eastward.
The St. Geor,ze, 98 guns, Rear. Admiral Rey-
noltlq, is expected to tail fur the Baltic to.mor.
row ; the Victoss, 98 ping, Capt. Demaregq, will
Fi lat the same time, to take on board Sir,,isatcs
Sautuarez at New Yarmouth. .

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DEAL, APRIL 24.—Ssiled the Ronal% Bad
St. Vincent, Harriet, and Reid George. for the
I:,st Intlieslwiththe whole of the out ward.houndt-
under convoy or his Majesty's ship l'rincate, for
Portsmouth.

SPOitTING INTELLIGENCE.

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VEIVIIARKEr GR4VF./1 SEETINCI, 1810.
TOZ•liAlr, ANIIIL q 4.•
Mr. F: Crnven's ch. t...lapsnette; Illy King Matting, nit of
the dam of !tithed., twat Mr: TionrshBl'a o. f. by
tunian, nut of (ialstea, it. 21b. eacb. Ab. M. Fps: h:
—5 to 4 on .I.useet,e.
Mr. Dottglasa Alm:snack, Sst. heat Mr.. Llo%d's Pack,
Ott. 51b. R. M. laics. h. ft.-6 TIO 4 agst Alnumacic. •
D. of ntafton's Morel. Bit. lib. hest str. Shakespeare's
Nonein. 7.t. 71h. D. I. 100ga.-‘7 to 4on Morel.
The Second Class Ai Outlands Stakes of 50gs. each, h. ft.
• ' D. 1.
IA Ostartr‘ Vietrsel'l;` 5 yes .rid. Bst. 91h. .
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Mr. Lake's fumblec, 4 yrs oil, Bst. 91h. . °•
1,4 C. Smneriet's Scorpion, 4 yrs ol•:, • it. 01b.
P. of Orafton's Pope. 3 yrs Sit. Ldb. • •4'
Dlr. Croft's Hipp...neon. aged. 9st. 41b. . .
Xr. Sadler', Rumba, aged. Si,. 61b. - •
' And 6 others. paid.
V) to 1 agst Victoria; 7 to 1 apt fumbler; 4 to l agit Scor-
100n ; 6 to 5 ow P'upe ; 6 to 1 no Itumbo.
Ld Losetner's 14 ,Ins, flat. 71h. rec. fahcs. from Mr. Boa-
verie's Nymploloa, Bst. 41b. D. I.l&g'.

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COSIISIT-GARDrN TIICATRRe:— Last night the
Tragedy of Macbeth was represented at this Tee.
atre. It gave us extreme satistictiol to hack!
the British stage, on this occasion, restored to its
true dignity, for Mr.,. Steno's was the heroine of
the evening ! 'Whoever ar.lent in the admiration
of our immortal Poet, Sitaktsetaac, must best).
licitous forthe health of Mrs. SIDDONS, Who cer_
tautly illustrates his het female characters with
more force and truth than any other Lady who
now exists, or who has existed, since we had any
capacity to understand his text.
The table at the Prince of WALES'S grand die.
tier, given to the Knights of tht,Order of the Gar.
ter, on St. George's Day, was covered with Irish
linen. A superb service of cut-glass was like-
wise used for the first time upon this splendid oc-
casion, which hail been presented to his Royal
If ,:hoess by the Corporation of Liverpool.
The Report of the Lords Committee of Secrecy,
to enquire into the causes which prOduced the Or-
der of Council of the 9,6 th February, •1797, re-
specting the Bank of England, . has been pub-
lished by order of the !Iroise of Commons, made
in the present Session of Parliament.
Sir PRILIP FRANCIS, speaking of the fatal in.
dill, renc.; of people in general to government af-
fairs, says, 64 I do not mean to deny that indivi-
thiak in great numbers thrive by the prodigality of
•Gov..roment, and fatten on the public spoil. The
fact is sufficiently known, though Rifle felt ; be-
cause a very symptomatic insensibility to this and
every tither national concern prevails more or less
over the whole Empire. The evil of the day is
tsTitficietit to occupy a degraded population, who,
thinking of nothing but how to exist on any
temp:, how to pay taxes, or how to evade them,
gradually sink into indifference about every thing
but the enjoyment or distress of the moment; as
ii we had converted our whole inheritance into an
annuity, and had nothing but a life interest in the
siltation of the country. Even that base calcu.
lotion rntiN fail under theyselfish being Who trusts
to it. .Vo man, mho is not !uperanwcatedalready,
ran he sure that the thing he calls England, and
by mhich he nieunsi nothing but Me Stas:kß, Well
.t'arz:ive even himskr. Sects apathy, wherever it
prevails, is a true forerunner of national baseness
first, and then of ruin." •

The follossing accident, which happened. at
Cl.•gnw on the 17th instant, suggests an useful'
warning :—A boy, of about three years of age,.
was left sleeping in a folding bud; when a ser—
sant coming its to arrange the furniture and clean
the room, negligently folded the bed without
tak-
iug notice of the child. About a wiener of •an
hour after, the mother came in, and eshielerher
child, turn: d down the bed, and found it eons.
prcs,ed and smothered by the betl.clothes. Every
means of resuscitation was instantly tried, but.
without success.

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To the EDITOR- ot:TIIS STATESMAN.
Stw—Tbough the saiiject of the following verses
is.rathcr slab, it never can be forgotten ;• and a,
they never have appeared ilt ,print, "perhaps you
may 'think Them, worth iasertlng in Tug STATms.
Your humblie Servant,

Slit FRANCIS AND REFORM.

IN IMIFATION OF NORACC

Pastor ewn traheret, i!fe.
When gallant WA RD LE took his nedutnts way
Wi►h Mrs. CLARKS, the Helen of the day,
Determin'd on his hold nod perilous course,
To trace Corruption to its lofty source,
OlctSnitaltDA IV arose, and spoke to a aro
The daring Colonel—" Obloquy and scorn
" Unmerited," quoth he,' " and slanderous wrongs
" Must thou endure, and galling strife of tongues.
" Against thee, now, what nut:::!rous butts combine,
• " All interested to quell thy great design I
" 1 see them ready mariball'd fot the war,
" The ravenous Ministry, the aspiring Bar,
"' The army, led against their better sense,
" And the hot mass of Irish insolence:
" There PERCE,V A L, amidst his poesy crowd,
" Stands to resist thee, petulant mid proud,
" At whose command, to interrupt or cheer,
" They roar nut, Order, order hear, hear, hear!
.4! There Gimps, long practis'd in the wiles of law,
",To twist an.evidence, or find a flaw,
4., Prepares to combat Truth and Common Sense,
' " With his. Old Bailey weapons of defence.
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• " The fretful spleen of Ybait e, with these shall join,
" To rail and threat, and call thee Jacobin.
" If..st thou the formidable strength e splor'd,
" Of hoisterons•Fut.t.*a. desperate Bca *WORD ?
•4' Lomas:, who strikes at random iii.abe dark,
" And Ca ow CR, near a Match for Mrs. C RNA I
• W. And see beside thee, sever'd from the groups '
• Wbere Ain* sits, the Nano* of the trooe;
".In Whom the senaior and a iinemblend,
.410 MR, the nukes disinterested friend,
".Whocouniils, testifies; harangues. and Totes
" AUfratis-b rare miracle of Seats
re-ofved a confidence *bon feet •
" In thine niwilliehesty and patient zeal,
"'The House, cornj?ell'd thy
.ebarges to disease,
" Shall roundl*Ae them false and Ft andalnus,
Thyself shallsink heneatts resistless power.
•" And deem it great good Luck to 'scope Lie Tower."
• T oto tfirilitoi.r)come season of Blismax,
Stills kfiltdelaid, till one wide.yeasting storm
Shall desolate this gonty land, and sweep
temples, titles, Inimlets to the deep
Ntvi►lfgti or nreetneo shall evade the blow,
','....llokispswick then may be as Bourbon now.

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11V4, STATE. MAN

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Sift MAW GIBBS..

" It is proper that the aviary should be Informed of 'he
rink they ritnif mischief bad ensued, cad there should
have been loss of life, . eiterystne. however innocent his in-.
tendon might be, who wilqcoontesinocing the mob by his
would hate been indictable fur murder. An as:
tack:oral .misdolm ,JsitNasitiqn-houle with stones, and othEr
substances--sorry due ifienWeltirg on might he said
to be aidink•and a6etting 'that uttatk, aiirwas amenable
toi the list for allits consequences, One would suppu.e nu
onicoithi-lierfound to engage in so onequ.l a contest, for,
in cases of riot, every,nsitin may be called no fur hisassiA-
anie itiquellisig it,* if life should be taken, the act is
held innocent, whilst every or* rioting is subject to the
' severesilstmlsbinent of the law, and very few cases occur, '
that some feel not its weight."—[ Ererad from Sir VI-
C4RY Gisaii Charge to the Chau! jary ; Saito( 'daises,
1010.]

TU TIIE EDITOR OE THE STATESMAN.
SIR,—In controverting the above dictum of the
ATToittiElt-GcNERAL, I shall eudeavour to use
brevity as much as possible:- It is not my inten.

tion to enter into an elaborate legal argument, for
that is oat of my power; I oily, as a Briton and
a Freeman, who has read something of the Laws
and Cotistktotion of his country, wish that your
Readers may not be misled by the high authority
of the above quotation. The political ability of
Sir VICARY I hold is the, most sovereign coo-
tempt—as a statesman he is a mere baby ; but
when I hear all parties express respect for his
'legal knowledge, lam compelled to acquiesce. A
professional friend, the other day, toll me the
Arreawax.Gxwitaat, was the first I-wyer in the
,country,-" he k the first unconstitutional law.
firer," was my reply; and that opinion is further
confirmed by the above sentiments as contained• its•
his Charge. When I read them, as detailed in'
the Newspapers, I naturally concluded there might
be a mistake; but on consulting some friends who
were present in the Court when they were ut.
tiled, I was assured the reporter had been cor.
reet—l then turned .to BLACESTONC, and.

other constitutional law authorities, where I
found thit the obscurity of Sir VICARTIS epi-
ndon arose.from his omission of a very important
circumstance, which he, seems purposely to have
kept out of sight, fur I then found that the con.
seqtiences so solemnly fqretold by the ATTORNEY-
GINERAt, could only' take place provided the
perions tumultuously meeting together do not
within one hour after the Chief Magistrate's Pro-
clamation) quittly disperse. This totally alters
the face of the business : we' see nothing men.
tioned of a Proclamation in Sir VICART's speech,
we heard nothing of a Proclamation from the
Milian on the night in question, consequently I
can only consider the Charge to the Grand Jury
as eaten) ated.te. deceive: •
Further,:f,fiodthat the assembling of more than
:twelve persenflogethery cannot be construed tutu
rrott.whilst they remain quiet, and do not by
;74levd, or deed, create any disturbance. Now,
Should ask Sir VIC/ST— GSM, why,on the
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nightio.llowing diet on which the pretended riot
took pliceland when, in .consequence of the se-
vere measures employed by the Magistrates, every
Jhing was In a state of comparative quietness, the
Constables, at the recommendation, I should Ant),
pose, of Sir VICART, patroled the streets, au
where three or more persons were convened to.:
gether, ordered them to depart, end on a tempe.
rate refusal, used force to compel thorn All nay
researches.into legal authorities do net enable me
to acknowledge this conduct as constitutional.
I now catmint", respeetriillb.'*.
Mr. EDITOR, yours, A
Kingsdowne, Bristol, April 21, IdiU. •
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ON THE UNEQUAL. PUN'S/114E1ff OF
OFFENCES.
When the Almighty anelently condescended
.to
legiilate ter a particular watiuni strict,- imparttialA
justice was sublimely enjoiliet. I ; neitner the rich
ituatt's wealth, nor the poormlitte poverty, *sew
ititlnence the judge, but the wit kedriesi • orthe.
wicked was to be visited upon him, etc.-Wine to.
the Divine Commandwents. Depraeed nut
spirits ere, and-prone to be governed by-au
bias, still there is something in et which revolts
at the sight of glaring itiequalities.4ol,the punii6.l
ment of offences. Humanity;:slegenerated as it
undoubtedly is, feels itself outraged vied cunfound.
ed when the poor man's crime is scourged with
the utmost extreme of severity, while the rich
man is seen either escaping with complete impu..
er subjected to a few ihcontinieucies,
which it is possible, may soon be surmounted and
forgotten—We 'allude to what appeared in,
all the Newspapers of last week. The same day's
Papers recorded a debate in the House of Commune
respecting a public defaulter -to the amount, it is
said, of near 100,0001. and who, it was inti-
mated, would be expelled the House of Coin.
mons; while, at the • same time, an account was
given to the public of the execution of a labour.
lug man, on Peatiendon Heath, near Maidstone,
for breaking into an uninhabited house, and steal.
lug to the amount of five shi!:inp Lately a
sentence of transportation fur fourteen years was,
passed on a clerk, for embezzling 1171.sandwhe
plore.l mercy, having a wife and eight. children
depending upon him for support.; Sir S. horn-illy
is employed in endeavours to amend the Criminal
Laws, and it is to bo hoped he will succeed; bet
why is not embezzlement to be puaished.le the rich
as as well as in the poor, and especially 'why( the
a-noutit is of such magnitude ? The consideration
tills the mind with griefoold vetations and makes
men wish that they could teke their departure•to
sonic world " wherein dwelieth righteousness!"

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