The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-12-15 00:00:00

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(MIN Tliil WEST strrow.)
Plymouth Dock, Dee. in, 1423.
Mina continues to melte the most marked attentions here
from all ranks of society. Ills reception at the theatre, yet,
of the most enthusiastic kind, and did equal honour to the
hero and the audience.--Every box had been filled before
Mina and his brother officers* accompanied by the Captsie of
theFrencla brig L'Cuiressier,his Lieutenants, and Midshipose,
made their appearance. The ladies and gentlemen iu the stage
hurt immediatelyrosr, and in the most handsome mannerquitrol
it, while those who sat in contiguous botes. as handsomely
I made room fur the persons thus displaced. The house rose 0¢
the hero's appearance, and the shouts were deafening
of "success to Mina I" " Long life to Mina!" &c. am, were
heard from all parts of the house. It was a noble—a cheering
—4-a truly English welcome ; while, to "complete the steer,
alleers of the Army and Navy were seen shaking hands widour
braveclitef, and congratulating hire on his arrival in Engised.
The women were, if possibl-, mare enthusiastic then the
men. I ine woman der level that site had come several nil,
to see Mina, and that she should not go home contested
unless she shook bands with him. This she accomplished,
when he was leaning on the front of the box, and perceiving
her wisheit, he grasped her hind and shook it most heartily.
Many similar cases occurred. On Sunday morning
Mina attended divine service, at the Roman Catholic (U
pel, Stonehouse. The place was crowded, and after semis
he walked to Dock. He was attended by crowds, ale
continually augmented,. and as in reverential observances(
the day. no cheering could take place, respett for the gal.
lent Chief was shewn by taking oil the hat, bowing.
&c. &c. and all the officers of the Navy and Arny
who met, shook haw(' most heartily with hint. ae
the heal of Stoneltonse-hill, the Ward turned out
.as he
passed; Mina and his comaassians passing it uncovered.
He proceeded through the streets of Dock. and as it was
the couclusion of Divine Service, the soldiers weregiarcii-
ing home. lie particularly noticed the Lancers. and tke
3rd ltegiment of Boards. In the principal street of the
town. the crowd augmented, and all ranks sainted limit
the most cordial manner. It was impossible to ebserte the
sympethyland enthusiasm of the people of all ranks with.
out emotion. All party spirit hail vanish. e(, there was a
complete union of sentiment;—all differences bad merge'
into one general and alarm manifestatioo in favour of the
hero who had fought for freedom, cud the spectacle was
as new as it was impressive..
The invitations to Mina, to partake of dinners, ise
many and pressing; anti some from the highest Tsarina
Once for the week lie dines on hoard the dag•suip; the
Britannia; and on Thursday, at the mess of the Maria
Barracks. Money has been offered to him, but Lelia
declined receiving pecuniary assistance.
One anecdote may sullies tat show that spirit that existed
at Plymouth when he lansied. Just after his retiring collie
room at the Royal Hotel, the president of a party el
gentlemen who were dining, gave the health of ".Miss,"
when the u hole party rose awl gave nine slitotinairg
cheers, shaking the ceiling of tt.e room above them, aiidiet
which the chiet was sitting. Mina walks slowly, and with
the help of a stick, being lame from a wound and flea
being frost bitten. There is more of mildness titan of asy
other quality iu his countenace--good nature, good temper,
affability, and a tendency even to jocularity seem to he no.
printed on his features. He is dressed camplettly als
elnglais, hot several of his stile over Spaiish unifsreit.
lien. Pamplona is among theist.
The Editor of the Plymottth Journal having ins-rttl
some scurrilities respecting Mina and Sir ItJhert Wilson
the indignation here and at Plymouth is such as t atm
before nitnessed. 'I be man who could write such trail
usual have a weak head and a bat heart. He will oe;
however, write much more here. His dismissal is *-
mended on all sides. The paper is generally discoatiaved
—pascittinades are published, and the general belief is that
it cannot long exist.
A copy of the paper was publicly burneJ on Thursday,
and anotbes on Monday, on the Parade, amidst the eat-
orations of a concourse of spectators.

COPY OF AN ADDRESS FROM THE WARD (0
IDSHOPSGATE,To MADAME RIEGUJOUEVUES
MPH HER REPLY.
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We understand that the lien: loosen who were deputed to
wait upon Madame Weil° on this occasion, were very sensi-
bly affected by the sickly, but interesting a,pearanee of
that unfortunate lady. She is evidently labouring mailer a
consumptive complaint, 'but though thus afflicted with a
dangerous disease, as well as sunk in the depthsof 'Metres
yet she appears to suffer with all the resignation °fa pion
Christian, and fortitude of a Roman matron.
"A few inhabitantsof tioeWard of Bishopsgate,associatra
for the purpose of aiding (according to their ability) the
perdecated Patriots of Spain, betrayed by domestic traitor,
and oppressed by a conspiracy of despots from abroad, are
desirous of offering to Madame Meg° the expression of
their sorrow fur her irreparable loss, and their adiniraties
of the distinguished pstriotisin of her murdered husband.
Driven from her native country, and deprived of her natu-
ral protector, it is hoped Madame Itiego will derive tow
consolation from the universal sympathy of the British
nation, and in the reflection that though the brave General
Meg° has not been permitted to witness the establishment
of that blessing for which he fought and bled, that the
spirit of freedom in his unhappy country, althoneb
re
pressed, :11 not extinguished, and mat the day is perhaps an
far distant when the wretch who now trinmplis in his crimes
may expiate them on a scaff..ll,l. At a forme( Meeting the
sum of 50 guineas was snbscribed, and the subscribers see
most respectfully solicit Madame Itiego to accept this sea,
as a small tribute of their esteem for the memory of ha
heroic and renowned husband, and a proof of the deep Is-
(crest excited by her unmerited sufferings.
" Dec. 10." Signet), &e.
[rhea follotving is s translation of Madame (liege'
answer to the above.]
" The widow of tieneral Riego, in replying to
esteemed letter with which some inhabitants of the
the Ward of Bishopsgate I aye honoured her, has the sobs,
faction to assure them, that the sentiiiients nhiett it tot,
tains have poured into her mournful heart the sweet beheld
true consolation. The pleasing distinction with which
they have favoured her, by sending to hers Deputation,
us
new motive to excite in her grateful bosom the most pls•
found emotions of gratitude and esteem—particularly abet
ehe considers, that s• e sensible and enlightened citizen
besides stretching ut a renerons hand in offering to her
the acceptable saber. ption a fifty guineas, have flattered
her with the lively hoi.,, which hey entertain, and with Its
patriotic desires which as mate th m in common with ths
powerful English public ; t at th y shall ,on see bit
country restored to their incon., ars le blessings of libel
and ineleperiolence ; thus repairing the injuries done Is
Spain by the leagued tyrants against the rights of ik
people of all nations, and thee knowledge of the presets
age. Nutwitltstanding that her loss is irreparable, ssi
inch 'sauna continue during her painful existence to over
arterial her with grief ; yet, as she feels a psi ticutor pealtri
in a•soring them in the best manner which an utilearst4
and sick WOllll,l is capable of expressing herself 04.1
sohject so sacred • that she glories in participating in th`
pure and elevated: sentiments which characterised hit
deceased husband.
" MASI'S 'MIES& Pet. fCCOO, T. RIEOO PE MGM
" London, Vex. 13, 31, Frith Street, Soho."

Worthy, an acconnt from Bayonne states that seventevaal
the prisciters concerned, not in tar plot, for it was not one,b'
in the fray of the 2flth of November, had beta • at. DI
11. d been done, it is said, to intimidate toe turbulent sal I.N
(disposed ; and the consequence was that Madrid was trawled,
hut gloomy.

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41111111F1NG INTBLLKIENCE.
• —seasans—
, nut.. member. 11.—Wind N.W.—(prong breese.—Came
• • anus from the River and sailed. the Atlantic, Pittman, for
,'site.,--Aerivesl
,and music, the Diadem, Edmaw,
csbristopher, Knight, and &snips, Willis. from Qnebests
Ueledoniz, Creighton, Mediterranean ;and Minerva, Frank.
• Ha, far Miramieki. The outward hound asilrd in the
Ms- se of last night, and early this morning. The Caw
bridge for Bombay, and York for Madras and Bengal,
posed through this day.
Porrsmoura, Dec. 14.—Wind Westerly. —No arrivals
tir
Faiwoorn, December 13.—Wind W.V.W.—Areved off the
Fort the Asia, Ward, from Q,sehee, and the following out-
ward bonn•( vessels from London; v,z. Arm Dayborough ;
Hose. Comely; Hobe, hist; Thetis, Bibb sets, and Canierois„
Fisher—also from Yarmouth, she Fame, Yates; Eliza,
Blittain ; Lorine, Miley; and Rebecca, Scott.—Sailed the
Enterprise, for London; Duke of Kent Packet, for Lisbon
Marquess of Salisbory Packet, for Brazil, and the Lorine;
• Plebe, Eliza, and Friends, outward hound vessels.
Cowls, Des e.nber 13 —Arrived the Britosnart, Peache,
tiobs the Mauritius in 90 da)s for orders. Alert, Abbott,
from Seville.; and Alberto.. • Frahm, from Lisbon ; and
• Prince Royal, Sherwood, from lia•avia.
The Marquess Cornwallis, Herring, from Sunderland
to London, is lost off the I),lgger Bank.—Crew saved.
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• Them sessiolis having closed, the Recorder passed the
Seal iseistellion of the law on .the following , priaohers",-
4 0 atii.--UhoiroPenves -Messatford. f,r steeling iron ;
'William otherwise James Hay, for forgery; James chomp.
• -1“, for burglary; Samisel Crouch, fur stealing ins, d well-
••• lag hotise; Henry Harris, for highway robbery ; %Valiant
Verger, for stealing in a dwelling house ; John Hennison,
• fora similar crime ; Ana Dtvis, fur a like offence ; James
Reynolds, ditto ; %Valiant Cumming, ditto, and William
Ludlow, for returning from transporation.
TitaissPonzartoN eon LlM—John Andrews, Daniel
Newton, Thuross Mow, William Wills.
FOR FOURTISRN YEARS.—William Warren.
Foe SEVEN YEARS.—Elizabeth Brown, Elizabeth Reed,
• Jsmrs Williams, Rob, rt Coulson, George Thomss, Mary
Roach, John Fagan, %Villein' Yates, Cornelius Hyesman,
Cu., les Dodd, Robert Sheen, John Brown. William Hyer
ran, Ittbella Levy, John Piny. Ann Rymer, Joltane I
• Mason, Mary Ann Johnson, Thomas Nathaniel Steers,
r John Holes, tied John Duffy.
The remainder were sentenced to various punishment.
Bed the Sessions were adjournirl io the 14th of January.

QUEEN SQUARE—(Tess Mt)

:olio Thomas, a little urchin ender 12 years °rage, was
hvonglit before the Magistrate, charged with picking' the
pocket of Johnson Ltmbert, Esq. of • silk handkerchief,
his property.
The prosecutor lives at Brighton, and came to London
upon business. He was crossing the Parade this morning,
accompanied by 'nattier gentleman, when the prisoner
tame behind him and contrived to pick his pocket, but
unfortunately for himself, he was seen by the prosecutor's
friend, who instantly secured hint with the handkerchief in
sit I:ossession. .
11 hen the prisoner was is,lced where he came from, he
replied,—that otsubi make no difference to any person.—
'lbe Magistrate said it was proper for him to give some
account of himself. He then answered, that his father
has a carpenter at Peotonville. but declined answering
fer.her questions.—llle was fully committeal far trial.
. Goan LISTOWILL:II Corvaoa lionaert.—James Doyle,
Mho stood charged with breaking into the cottage of Lord
Listowell at Knightsbridge, and stealing a variety of
Me idles of dress and other property, was brought up for
te-emsatinetion.

Two pawnbrokers from llloomsbnry attented; one of
them produced a suit of clothes helon4,..ing to John Stone,
an under gardener in his Lordship's service, who had
lately been confined to his bed by the small pox; and the
other pawnbroker produced another suit of clothes belonging
• to the same inmlividusl,which had been stolen from the cottage
dorieg his illness, and pawned by the prisoner. Stone
Was now present, and swore to all the clothes, and the pawn-
brokers recognized the prisoner as having pawned them.
The prisoner himself then confessed his having stolen
and having pawned them. lie made no defence, and was
fa ly committed for trial.
sirisrtnesree, Hat. 13.—Last week, Robert Maraltam
and Henry Railhead', Emirs. Commissioners under time Ac
of Parliament, for investigating the Charities of England
with Air. Pittman Jones, their Secretary, arrived in thi
• city., for the pm-pose of examining into the state of the
Charities within it, and ten miles thereof.
Iris perhaps not generally known that Miss Brown, to
whole Captain Pnrry is so mum h attached, is the daugiver
of Mr. Brown, the proprietor of the colliery of Jarrow,
is the County of Durham, formerly belonging to the late
Simon Temple, Esq., of Hylton Castle.--(Netccartle
amide.
AN UNWELCOME Reatertom.—An artist of oat acq•tain•
tanee,wlso is just now engaged in painting a subject wherein
be intended to introduce a certain old blind fiddler and his
wife, well known in our streets; but on calling upon thent
byesterday for that purpose, he was immediately accused
y the surly old dame of belonging to the gang of resur-
rection men now 'in Carlisle, and she ordered him to quit
their dwelling speedily, or (to -use her own words) site
would lay the poker across his shoulders, "that she would:"
(Carlisle Journal.)
On • Wednesday the premises of Mr. Fricktr, pastry
took, of Frome, were destroyed by lire, with two of his
children. The Coroner's verdict held on the bodies of the

unfortunate ahildreo (girls) was—" That some person or
persons, unknown, wilfully and maliciously set tire to the
said dwelling house."
Ot Saturday night, John Robertson, pensioner, was
newisitted to Renwick xaol, for a violent assault on 51r.
111.1ilann, hair dresser, of that town, sad biting off
Mg his ears.

Amu et!!thg himself Nathan Broadhurst, who is de'
sullied as about 40 years of age, and of a dark complexion,
is going shoat the country representing himself as a per-
muted Parliamentary Reformer, and obtaining money
and goods ender various fraudulent pretences from those
wbe believe hie representation. 'ibis fellow decamped from
Leeds on Tuesday thrbecond inst. and has since been raising
contributions in Huddersfield.—(Leeds Mercury).
Oe Saturday, in information was beard before the
Magistrates, at the Grand Jury Chamber, against the
keeper of Bar-end gate, for demanding a sixpenny toll
of a person who had previously paid, same day, a toll
of 44d. at St. Cross gate. As the, won's of the Act of
Parliament produced, admitted of a doubtful construction,
the Magistrates convicted the keeper in two guineas
risky, with costs. The clerk of the roads attended on
Selloff of the gate keeper, and gave notice of an appeal
to the Quarter Sessions, whose determination lei.' Mt at
rest the questionable construction of the Act. The case
is of great public importance, and has excited mach
'Wrest in this part of the country, particularly amongst
the farmers.
The inhabitants of this city were on Thursday, mach
gratified with a eight of that enterprising naiigstor for
the discovery of the North-West passage from the Atlantic
to the Pacific, Capt. W. E. Parry, it.N. ; who, after having
Melded the service of our Cathedral, at which he
!Meowed much gratified, partook of the hospitality of the
wel Reverend the Dean.—The Freedom of the City has
oho been voted to Paine—He has been on a visit to his
aloe, Mrs. T. Gander, at Bishop's Stoke (of which the
Rev. T. Oareier is Krctor).

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THE-CONSTABULARY POLICE.
Liazzatcz, Dzi. 10.—Yesterday, Mr. Blackburn*. • •
Session in the City Court. On the Bench were the eyelet
Captain Dratiglit, Sir C. !Jarrett, and Alderman Mabony.
No person being for trial under the Insurrection Act, the
sessions were adjourned to the 13th of January. Mr.
Blackburne than proceeded to the County Court.
At the sitting of the Court, Mr. Illackburne ordered the
IClerk of the Peace total! over the names of the Chief COQ.
stables, and three of them having answered, he stated, that
unless those who did not appear conld satisfactorilyarcennt
for their absence, he would consider it as a contempt of,
the Court. He then stated, that in consequence of com-
munications made to him, he was anxious to correct
some misapprehension on subjects, with respect to which,
it was most important that none shall prevail. The
Cohstabulary Force, established in this and other coins
ti-s of Ireland, was an iustitution calculated to pro
duce the most important results. The utmost attention
had been paid to its organization and discipline. and
the law has armed it with authority sufficient to enable
it to fulfil the great object of preserving the public peace,
odd enforcing the administration of the law. In propor•
tios to the extent ails powers must be the mischief arising
from the abuse of them, and the Police should never forget
that those powers are.intruated to them for the purpose of.
protecting, not that of oparessing, and that while they are
bound firmly tido their duty, they should take care ko,
give no unnecessary offence, nor wound the feelings of any
man. These observations could net be &eased ill-timed ;
they ought to be indelibly feed in the miog; of those sib*
• hol.l the station of Consteb!es ; and they were made,
not with any invidiains object, nor with the roost remote
intentiop of tipeting the Pave to obloquy ; but
they are peculiary called for by two topics to which his
attention had been directed by die Magisiiates.—
The first of those iaroleed that moat impurtatli sub—
jet, " under what circumstances the homicide of ti malt
who is killed in flight by a Peace Officer ran he justified ?"
'Fite instructions printed, and pot into the bands of the
Police, ought to have prevented a doubt on the matter ;
but he would read a still more explicit statement of the.
law, " where an Officer or private person having legal
authority to apprehend a in in, attempts to 'lo so, and the
man, instead of resisting, dies, or resists, and then flies. and
is killed by the Officer or private person in the pursuit ; if
the offence with which the man was charged were a treason,
a felony, or a dangerous wound given, •nd he could not
otherwise be apprehended, the homicide is justifiable."
This dearly defines the rases in which, and in which
clone, force, eedaneerine the life of the man pursued, c in
bedegally resorted to, and not even in these rase*, if death
ensues, can the homicide be excused, unless by distinct,
evidence that it was unavoidably necessary.
The next topic originated in a most erroipans opining
that it was the duty of the Police to kill dogs kept by the
road side, and not confined or logged as the law requires
they should be; the Police have no such ditty; their duty,
when such cases occur, is to complain to the Magistrates,
to whom exclusively belongs all authority on this subject ;
when the Magistrates shall have decided the Police, have to
execute their warrants or orders; and to act without them.
is an unwarrantable, and invidious assumption of an-
thority.
He again repeated his ass• rtion, that what he had now
stated was not intended to expose the Police to any sort al
odium, or depreciate them in the public opinion ; on the
contrary, they were themselves the most deeply interested in
attending to suggestions which would, he trusted, lead
them to adopt the utmost circumspection, anti furbearance
in the exercise of the extensive ;passers confided to.them.
This morning, Mr. Blackburn. proceeded to Roth-
keale to try nine men under the Insurrection Act.—
(Chronicle.)
On the above proceedings, the Debit" Morning Post of Fri-
day, has the following remarks:—
We observe by the report of the proceedings, at a Religions
under the Insurrection Act at Limerick, that Mr. Blackburn.
has given some valuable end necessary advice to the Police.—
I t ores quite time to check a career of licentiousness %thick
would, if permitted to go on, render them more formidable
to the peace of the country than to its disturbers.
The effects of the conduct of the. Palice towards the
country-people, are already perceptible. Oar extracts
(rem the Provincial Journals contain two instances of at-
tacks on policemen—in one case, we regret to find that the
man was murdered.
1 We have no doubt that Mr. Blackburn@ actsd on the
suggestion of the humane and illustrious individual at the
head of the Irish Government.
Dtvottce —ln an action or snit, raised and insisted in
before the Cunsistorial or Commissary Conrt of Scotland,
at the instance of Henry Martin Blake, Esq. of Wind-
field, in (ielwayi Ireland, presently resident in the City
of Edinburgh. against Anastasia Ooasen, for dissolving
his marriage with her, contracted in Scotland, on the
, ground of the lady's tinchastity. The Judges of the slid
Court, after a deliberate trial an 1 proof led in their pre•
sense, on the 24th of October last, pronounced judgment,
finding sufficient proof of the said Anastasia taossen's
guilt of the crime of adultery, finding her guilty accord•
ingly, and therefore divorciag and separating her from
the said Henry Martin Blake, his satiety, fellowship, and
company, in all time coming. And; finding that the
I said Anastasia Gossen had forfeited all the rights of
[ a wife, and that the said Henry Martin Blake is entitled
, to all his rights; and either to live single or to marry
again, the same as if he never had been married to the
said Anastia Omen, or as if she were naturally dead.
' Between the hours of five and six o'clock on Sunday
evening, as John Orpin, policeman, was returning to
• Marybrook, from Kenturk, at Midway he was attacked and
most brutally murdered by. a number of raid ntry, who
with different weapons and Ins own bayonet, mutilated him
in a most shocking manner ; they took from Lim his watch
and bayonet. There are a number of men from tile neigh-
bourhood where the murder was committal taken on
suspicion; and no doubt remains but the perpetrators are
of the number.

As Michael Bast see..a sub-constable for this county, was
returning home from Shanagolden Church to his quarters,
on the evening of Sunday last, ke was attacked rear Tier.
more, by two men who rushed from behind a hedge on
the road side, and caught bold of, and deprived him
of his carbine. before be was aware of their intentions.
They then (having conceived that his carbine oas
loaded, as is usually the case, but fortunately not
in this instance), twice cocked, and of course missed ire,
at him, as he %you'd not surrender his bayonet, which
remained in his scabbard, and which he retained notwith-
standing their attempt to deprive him of it. There were
more men who lay in acub3sh, but they did not make
their appearance at first. probably beause it would pre-
pare Hosiery for their attack. There is a party of polite
'quartered within a furlong of where this outrage oc•
curred. . .

Coroner's Invest was held of
Wednesday, et the Meath Hospital, on the body of Thomas
Gillen, who died there from bayonet wounds which he had
received at Hollywood, County of Wicklow, on the night
of Saturday, the Ist of November. After the examination
of several witnesses, the Jury returned the following
seedier:—" We find thst the said Thomas Dillon came by
his death by a bayonet wound infleted on the thigh, at
Molt wood, parish of Donard, Couivy of Wicklow, Saturday
night, the lit of November, 1823 ; said wound supposed
to be inflicted by a Policeman, named William Henning, of
Crylielia, in the said County." Manning is in custody, and
the several witnesses are bound over'ato appear at the Assizes
forthe County of Wicklow.
POLICE RIOT.-00 Wednesday last an inquiry iras held-
in, the Sessions House, at L, ighlin bridge, in this Coitn.y,
before three Magistrates, the Rev. Mr. Roberts, Phil