The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-02-17 00:00:00

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LORI) POitMIOUTH.

! Never, since the days of 31(rif!Eft Illi();VNRIC,
have there been, in England, or any where else that e
know of, thin,rm !fraught to light so shocking, so dis,
honourable to human nature, and especially to 11 v
English female character, as the things now brought to
light respecting this unfortmfate nobjettnatk. wh...t
Ists bami.eween t044,41-rthlishedi he- true;slflP:e
things be true, here is something TA() zdtaitrons

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,spas whets oetnethins heing.:.don e by threematry.at
larpit:o. altar itsltlittestatiow of such acts', It is .;
.finrll,ne• tOntrion. to. the most part of mankind, reel; to..
the refielestApare.ofmankind, td a bow sOine•clegres of
tewrierness, at any rate, towards those whom it hae:7
pleased (104 to deprive of reason. What, then, allait
wd say of the, horrible cruelty inflicted
..upowthis un-•
fortunate ittoblenian ? We must consider, too, the
kndi from which the acts of eittelty earn?. !Nor 1,11,t
we leave !hull;( out of view, the sitaiatign in life of the
•uefostsivate party.whieh, whom we consider it.certaluto.
adds to. Me. indignation that we feel against the er&,l
monsters. *There'will be time enough here'affer to -;,-o
hilly lento this matter, to put it upon record ;.‘ anti to
do justice .to till the parties, In the meauwhile, we
cannot but secprem oar wonder that these acts of cruelty
have been suffered to he carried •on so long. Mr.
Felloiv's his, by soine.persons, been accused of want-
ing to secure_ the estate to his children. gr. Fellows!
why.it was the duty of any niighbtett to interfere.; of
tiny stringer ; of any human being. If what has
Lean swop to awl published be true, here ought, upon
fifty occasions, to have been persons.hroeghi before
the'hfagistrhte for the dtsautfi, fur the hare assaulk ;
the hare breaebesof the peace; and is it not monstrou.,
then, to throw out a.suspieion of seitisitnese againq
a brother, because he at •last interfrr.‘.; ? "It ,is
impossible that this thing ••slionid net produce
great impression'' upon the pnblic.ruind, Mr. Pel-
luws oust hays been regarded as a most onfeeilue
man if he had not interfered. • The other thingra...
The other conduct of , the parties is hid'
enough, •if what be iworn to and published be trite ;
but, it is the arts of cruelty ; it is.these acts of atro-
cious and utterly unparalleled cruelty that we hold in
the greatest' abhorrence.--The cridence shfire all
through the inoffensiveness cit. this unfortunate noble-
man when he was treated kindly.
,Ouo.perion cas •
that he consented to undergo the, ceremony of mir.
I riage, for, fear of beingsbut up. There appears never
Ito hare been 'any reason fur shutting hint up.. Itsis
imbecility ; it is imperfection of mind ; it is incolt:-
! pletion of formation or organization ; it is that si;e.'.
cies of defect, which has wails him, all his life
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1 through, think like a boy of seven or eight rears of
i age, having, at the same time, the strength of a mat.
A very great calamity, certainly ; but, if he had been
suffered to remain at his estate iu the country. and to
throw away a few hundreds. a year in his, harm/efts
amusements amongst his carters and game-keepers,
this calamity would have beea rendered not at. all M.
convenient to any one ; injurioos to no one, sad all
this scandal and this atrocieurternelty would have Isere
avoided. -Considering hit taste; considering the,
amusements that he delighted in, why was he' err
taken from his estate? Oh, there was a reasoa for
that. Never could he hare received the treatment in
!Hampshire that he received at Turnham ilreea saki at
i Edinburgh! Hut, we must stop till the whole `thing
' be over, before we offer much more in the way of It.
I mark. When it is over, tic shall think it our duty to
make an analysis of the whole 'of this hurt ible story,
and to put It upon reties ; though we by no meats
think ourselves bound to desist, even now, any twee
l• than we think ourselves so bound as to any of those
eases that come before the police magistrates. la an-
other part of this paper, there is a letter from Mr.
Cobbett to Lord Byron, and, we shall be by no means
sparing to that nobleman unless he satistictcoi:y clears
1 up the strange facts alluded to in that letter.

STOCK EXCHANRE HALF PIST TirELYg c'etocit.—
There is some basinest doing :.err this g hit '.tit
to great extent. Consols (opened at and all,rwarA
went don nto 73444, with alo any in ;riot. Oa ing to the
energetic measures which the Spaaish Government are
atiopting, there are but Mi.• hopes of any accommodatiatt
taking place betweea them and the Fle..ch. An i !ea is
ewer:tined by somr persons in the city, tile!: Russia has
formed a trio nith France and Austria, lem 'mg to Franco
the conquest of Spain ; to Austria the addi!iou of Italy,
and to herself the aNnisi ;inn of Turkey; leasing Prussia
and John Bs!l to shift for the nselvrs.

In the Foreign Market this mbraing, there it no. nr.els
&tint. except in New Spanish, which gmlna'ly loses its
rattle. Two Expre ses a- ri c i ;143 more ag from Pais,
bringing the Fred) forth, 78.80.
FOREIGN MA attaT.—Ncw Spat.iAt tonls o:,ene3 this
morning at 341, since ,shish they hate ttcline4 to 3311'
owing to the Llmost certainty of the invasion of Spitin.

Chili, 71—New Spanish, 33k—Old, 33—New Prassist, 73
—onl,7Bl—Russia, 71—Danish, Mtn 79—Nrapolitan,74I-
-61 —Spanish Scrip, 33.

We hire no reports or any new from Fia:iee on 'Cliange
or consequence, up to this Itou:.

Paris pliers have al rived to the Ilth instant. The
Monitcur contaltis att Ortlinauc. for rais'ilt M. de I.a•
garde to the dignity cf the Peerage, :;nil a t ertate. to
support his honours. is r.:-ass..rie I 1:t tl:e se Ft:Jo:a
that the DuLe of Angouleine will set out for the arms
on the sth of Mar.lt, awl tha• ;ill the cusps still be rot
!cited by the 15:h on the frontier. M. NvssArode,
siau linistor for Forei;tl Affairs, 14 expeetird shortly at
Paris.

Frtaxcti FUNDS nNAy.—Five per Cer):.
Action., 11•24`.—N .al4.litv; I{cntep,
Saturciay ti!ey opene4 7!,f. 79c: ; ;;;1:1 eased at ;'S. !XL:.

Thr German papers witichlrri red this Ir:oral:pg. contain
an elaborate article fr.•m the Ave: rirta Witerver, dated
Fri). 4, the chief object of whirls appears to he, to cor-
ceal the designs of th:• Holy Allies under a vast display of
words which profess to rxplai❑ and defend them. Ar•
cordin)g to this article, " :he lattgragr which Austria,
and Prussia have held a: .‘tatli was out a di-
e:we:on of war; the recal of a mis:tion was not ar i•t .1
hostility." As to France, fr.no her e'o•e contact ►ei;h
Spain, her " further resolutions ..re dep.•mtent on ron.:i-
aerations and motives, the weight of a hick we most ac.
knon ledge, without lightly deciding on thtir result)).

The Susannah, from Wa'erforli to Cheyer, was to-
.ally wrecked pear th, Hook Light, the 12th