The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-12-15 00:00:00

Tlit STATESMAN

'AIL INT'M LIGENCE.

DEAN Dac. 14.—Arrived the Royal Charlotte,
Harper, from Hull for Cadiz, and sailed ; and Ac-
tive, Chisel, from Petershorgh for D•istot.—Cams
down from the River Not night and sailed, the
Rosen*. Snow, for Boston; Charlotte, Rattans, for
Santander.
PollTetof MITI!, DEC. I.l.—Arrived the Sarah,
Whicherd, from Sunderland ; Le Felicite. he Chard.
from o..nlopr.—Sailed the Speedwell, Harrington,
far Waterfowl.
Fatmotrrif, Dec. W.—Arrived his Majesty's ship
:Hersey, fro% i crtrize. and rernsino with his'Ma-
jesty's.shipo Lee and Heron.—Stiled tho Duke of
Kent packet, for Lisbon ; and the Lady Wellington
packet, for Jlmeics, both with Mails; and a few out-
ward-bound vessels.

reseanct, Dec. 12.—Arrived the Thomas and
William, Brown, from Plymouth for Glanow, very
leaky ; and several other constero.—The boat Morn-
ing Star, Kerwin, took out the crew of the Emily,
Thomas, which struck on the aundle4tone c,, Thura-
day, and landed them at S. Levan, it then blowing a
strong gali.

MONTUOSE, DEC. 11.---The harbour lights of this
port are to be lighted on the tist, sod continue to
be lighted from sun-set to sun-rise, until the let of
!Any.

LERWICK, NOT. 26.—A large ship (about 400
tons), from the Bsltir, with timber, brought up on
the 18th instant, off' the west side of these Isllnds,
in 60 fathoms water, with loss of bowsprit, fore-
topmast, and misenmast, and all the deck lumber.—
The pilot wished to get her into frillswieh, but it
came on to blow so hard, that they found it impos-
sible; they were therefore, obliged to let her drift
to sea. She had plenty of provi‘ions and water on
board, and it is hoped will be able to get into some
port in these Islands eery soon. The pilot says, she

belonged to Stockholm.
H ‘ft %nett, Dm. 11—Reported to MOWN. Billings,
and Co. as Vice-Admiralty Agents—one anchor
about 7 cwt., about 0} 'athoms of 10 inch chain, 41111
piece of bony rope, no bum.. swept in Ballet:ley Bay,
marked " Industry, Newcastle, Bedlington ;" on•

ditto, about 7 cwt., no buoy, hut about it fathoms
rope, about 37 fathoms of 10 inch cable—supposed
to be lost on Friday morning, swept in Ho%Lesley
Bay about 1+ m les above S. W. buoy of the
Whiting, the Lights open to the westward about a
sail's breadth.

Among the rumoured chanvat in Administration,
it is said that the Marquis of BUCKINGHAM will SOC-
co.d Lord MELVILLK in the office of First Lord of
the Admiralty.
Sir Wit.r.law SCOTT has decided, that in all cases
of capture of ships in rivers, harbours, *c. by con-
joint expoditions (Army and Navy), the parties are
not entitled to /tend nroney; bat only when captured
et sea, and by ships alone.
A Petition, very numerously end respectably sign-
ed by the Inhabitants "1 Sheerness, is Rhea( to he
presented' n the Lords Commissioners of the Admi-
ralty, praying that their Lordships would he pleased
to say when that portion of the town included in the
late Act of Parliament, and to be pulled down to en•
large the Dock-yard, will be wanted by the Board.—
The anspense occasioned by the indefinite period
when the same may be taken by the Admiralty from
the proprietors, no more than a few dews notice be.
ing required, has occasioned a corn,•lete stagnation of
business, and may, unless relieved, ultimately ruin
many industrious individoals.
A private letter from La 111.-sche, dated the sth
;nat. in the department of the Sirthe, slates, that
some disturbances had taken place among the mili-
tary pupils of the Royal School in that town. They
proceeded to acts of violence; but no serious con-
sequences resulted from them.
Mr. MATIIEKS is arrived at Bath, where be is now
At How.
VI cena, Nov. 28.—Connt Joseph Colloredo,
Grand Prior of the Or ler of ,Malta, Privy Coooritter,
C,smberlairs, Minister of State, Field.Mstothrii,
Di•ertor-Getieral of Artillery, and Proprietor of a
Regiment of Infantry, died the day before yesterday
of a dr'psy on the longs, at the age of eighty.four.
M Era XCIIoIT SUICIDE.—Sunday evening, bet wren
sit and seven o'clock, Mr. Moore, the landlord of
the Bull's Head Tarim, corner of Jerusrdem.parts.
age, Ayleshury-street, Clerkenwelt, in a fit of insa-
nity, committed the dreadful act of self-destroc•
(ion. lie went from the bar to the water-closot,
which is upon the ground.floor. A person passing
by a few minutes after, saw him reel out of the
closet, and fall upon the floor, with his throat dread-
fully cut. 'l' he family were alarmed, and the unfor-
tunate man was carried to his bed, and medical aid
was sent for. A knife was found lying on the
ground, near the place where the deceased fell, which
was supposed to have been the instrument he perpe-
trated the deed with; but, upon farther search, a
razor was found, covered with blood, in the water-
closet. He had lately been in the habit of drinking
to excess, particularly brandy, and it had deranged
his intellects. Ile died yesterday morning, at eight
s' ock, leaving a wife and several children.
Sunday night the coach-house of the Rev. A. C.
Onslow, Rector of Newington, was broke open and
robbed of a set of chaise-harness and a riding saddle.
Sheffield and its neighbourhood were 'jailed on
Thursday, the 3d inst. by a most tremendous storm
of thunder and lighloireg, which caused the greatest
alarm throughout the town and its vicinity. The
lightning appeared one vast brillitist sheet. It pass-
ed over the Bracco into the valley beneath, where it
struck a strong brick wall fiat to the ground, tore up
pert of the foundation, and drove out a sash
window fr m • house, sod carried it to the oppo-
o
2;,fi, side of the room: fortunately no person re-
ceived the least injury.

To rzE EDITOR or rms STATESMAN,


have this thotaeut read your Paper of last
Thursday, containing a Getter written by Major
CAZTWRIGHT, and addressed to the Duke of BED

►ORD, in which the writer states certain objections to

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my two Letters published in your Psper of the 30th
SepteMber and 15th October last, on the subject of
the distressed Lshnorers and Manufacturers. As 1
am at present upon a •isiit of some continuance to a

particular friend, it is impossible for me either to re.

consider my own Letters, or reply to the Major's
objections; but as soon as I return hotne,*hich pro.
bably will not he till after the 116lidaya, I will care-
fully re-peruse both the one and the; onto; and if I
find that I have fallen into any error will 4e very
re,dy to retract it. Having enlisted myself under
the banners of TRUTH and LIBERTY, I should really

think that I disgraced my colours if I were not open
to conviction. At the same time I beg leave to say,
that I will never desert a cause which I have once
adopted from principle, so long as that cause con-
tinuos to appear just and right in my estimation.—
To the name of CARTWRIGHT I am willing to piy
the tribute of respect, but not authority. Though
that Gentleman appears in the light of a political op-
ponent, yet 1 trust that I may still regard him as my
friend. Ile very well knows that I write hastily and
negligently, and likewise that I feel strongly; he
must be aware, therefore, how difficult it is fur one
under such circumstance', so to regulate and measure
his expressions, that a larger meaning can never be
' applied to his words than what he himself wished and
intended them to have : and therefore I must request

that if any expressions, in any of my four Letters on
the above subject should appear to him too harsh, he
will accept this declaration as a suflicient apology,
that nothing unkind or unfriendly was mitten led.—
I am enovinced that we both mean well to the cause
of the poor distressed Manufacturers, Labourers,
Artificers, &r. consequently, in our competition of
measures to befriend that cause, and the reas,tning
And inve•tigatinu to which that amicable competition
may lead, I can conceive nothing hot good likely to
result to the cause itself. Let the subject be sift.el
to the bottom, and the parties concerned be enabled
to form an accurate judgment which exped'ent is
most likely to afford them relief from oppression,
the Major's or mine. But my friend says, that shove
a million of persons hare already declared by their
petitions their decided opinion, that they regard
Universal Suffrage ert the hest remedy for their case.
To this I reply, that these persons were then in a
state of political darkness. They did not kenw
what their ancestors had done for them—they were
ignorant of the laws and customs of the laud having
already extended to them a powerful protection against
all tazatinn whatever ; neither did they consider
that the King, by his Coronation Oath, swears to
govern according to these ancient lams and customs,
which no Minister can controvert without great per-
sonal danger to himself. These laws were dormant
but not abrogated: sad alt the humble merit I aspire
to is that of bringing them into public notice,
con-
vinces' that this alone is sufficient to give them efficacy.
Ott the other hand, the Universal Suffrage for which
these persons prey, or have prayed, would take
from them this Cotistrerettomar. snier.o, and brinz
them within the power and controul of legitimate
taxation. I therefore pray, on my part, my friend,
seriously to consider the temper of the times, and
the disposition of the People of this coentry, in which
CORRUPTION rules predominant, and bee nearly de-
faced every remaining vestige of REAL REPitasENTA•
?low. What analogy can now be said to exist he-
tween the present days, and the days of oar ancestors
as referred to in my last hotter, when the Represen-
tatives of the People conceived they bad no right
whatever to giveaway the money of their constituents
without their formal consent first bad and obtained ?
Look among the Reformers MN, and see if they
offer to the People such a kind of Representation.—
There are but two instances I know of : one is the
Gent tertian of this house by w hose hospitable fire-side I
am now writing, who told the Electors of Berkshire
that " his onlyambition was to he their &amend faith-
ful Representative, and as loth to follow the SENSE
of his constituents, not only respecting ltrform, but
upon all other important occasions." The other in-
stance is that of a worthy patriot in the West. who
I have also the honour to call my hind.- and who
made a similar declaration to the Electors of Exeter;
hut what was the result ? Alas ! both these Gentle-
men lost their election. Let the worthy Major there.
fore consider ,when he proposes to extend Represen.
tatinn as a protection against oppressive Taxation,
what Representation wow ir, and that the very minds
of the People most undergo a change before it will,
Of can be, rendered a REALITY instead of a DELUSION,
I remain. for the present,
• Sir, your's, &c.,.
i\TRUEMAN.
Deatoed-house, Berks, Dec.l2. 1818.

, ;

Crowder, who was indicted, and was to baseball
tried for the robbery of the Sterling ntail-coach of a
box rostaining a large quantity of bank-nntes be-
longing to the Sterling Bank, has been liberated, the
Bank having declined to proceed any further in the
basiness.—(Ediaburgh Paper.)
Sanday eight the pamias of the Too Collector of
Breetwood, in Esse:, wprii broke op's, sod robbed
of 2001. in Book of EogloadAlNSl. •