The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-10-19 00:00:00

SIR FRANCIS BUROET7'.AND THE AWL-
SHALL OF THE KING'S BENCH.

1. Mr. Jones, the Mandial of the Kiss's Bench Pris"",kk' pub.
mit contradi, ted, in the most positive terms, the statement
'floe. by Sir Fronds Burdett, in his Address to the Electors. of
Westminster, that Lord Ellenborough participated with hint is
the emolumelits of that office.
This contradiction has produced the following letter:—
" 6, Duke-street, St. limes's. Oct. 17.
66 SI Rl—Having seen in some of the Newspapers's
letter signed Wm. Jones, Marshal,' and dated
King's Bench, ' contradicting the assertion' in Sir
F. Burdett's Address to the Electoraof Westminster,
that ' the Lord Chief Justice, Ellenborough, parti-
cipated in the emoluments of his own gaoler,' I feel
myself called upon, as having had some communica.
tion with Sir Francis, and others of our Legislators,
on the enormous emoluments of the King's Bench
Prison, and the system in which those emoluments
originate, to say a few words on the occasion.
—Bow Willliam Jones, Marshal, call reconcile
his contradiction of Sir Francis, in the most
express and unequivocal terms,' with the Re-
port of the Committee of the House of Commons,
on Sinecures, &c. I cannot see, if he will not
say that he makes the Lord Chief Justice of the
King's Bench a present of 8001. per annum, as in
that per there is a statement of his Lordship's re-
ceiving such a yearly sum from him. Perhaps, in.
deed, he may be able to contradict the Committee as
expressly and unequivocally' as he does Sir Francis,
and to declare' that the statement of the former is--
as ' wholly without foundation' as the assertion of
the latter. But if so, ns the statement has been as
long public as the assertion is,. and has been till now
unzontrudicted, might nor the duty, which it be-
comes Mr. Jones to perform, and which he trusts
he has now performed,' be as well performed by a
little less ' strong,' or at any rate a little more chit
contradiction of Sir Francis, who may have imagined,
as I confess I cannot help as yet doing, that the
Committee's statement was from Mr. Jones's own
account them ? William Jones, Marshal, makes Sir
Francis say, that ' the Lord Chief Justice unduly
participates' Sir Francis says only that his Lord.
ship participates.' He leaves the public to make
their own comment. Mr. Jones, perhaps, knowilil
. what the comment should be, is willing to spare them
the trouble.
" What Mr. Jones's private, or secret, if he has
any secret accounts with the Lord Chief Justice,
may he, perhaps it may not be easy for the public to
know. If those accounts are secrets worth knowing,
they probably may also be worth concealing. But
some of the secrets of their prison-house, and some
of the enormous emoluments arising from it and its
rules, however disposed of, I know, and, as I ass
not ashamed to acknowledge, that I hare been an in-
habitant of that house, and that I have, without a
• minute's notice, been ' turned out' of that house
on account of my endeavours to expose the entire
system, and to oppose the exactions on that most
, distressed portion of the community, the poor inset..
vent debtors taking the benefit of Insolvent Acts, I
shall, in a little work of mine, which Will soon
make its appearance, and which, I hope, will be as
beneficial to the country at large, as to debtor and
creditor, let the public know also.
1 am, Sir,
' I " Your obedient servant,'
1 %V. J. BALDWIN."

NAVAL INTE LIUENCE.

PORTSNIOL'I 11, Ocr. IS.

Arrived yesterday, Lis Majesty's Rhips Sprightly and Der
went, from a cruise.

Sailed his Majesty's ship (lope on a cralse.
Put back his Majesty's ship Semiramis to St. Helens, bound
to the Cape of Ruud Hope.
Arrived the Partridge sloop of war from a cruise.
His Majesty's ship Boxer is appointed convoy for the Downs.