The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-10-26 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

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anted the bond In question. The Illolleitor-Uenend after hip
utcrealiwut rut M the. bond, which was proved I. the regn-
le rarmessi4
as Counsel for the Noble Defendant, said
he had two sitto:sitt. of defence to the action. Viral. be
%should prove itto WIN out w /Jets the bond was founded, had
beep given to tihtchargera eateing debt at Paris. Secondly.
those bills were hot to tale effect before the death of the
Ws Lord Stair. It would appear that the hills were made
available previous to the Intended ti•-te, add eonseqmently
on both points he shouid contend the Plaintifl could not re-
cove,.
The transaction was this.—The preterit Lord Stair, when
Mr. Dalrpmple. was in Parts in 1907, and hewing enfieted in
play with Count IJeben, he Inst g.(Kk%. Those hills were
afterwards withdrawn In manse: renew of some dufent, and
06011 embstflut4 Ay Mr. Dead (now Sir Atevnatter Dodd)
who reeeived tw • hills fro.n Loot Stair, of 1155 W. each.—
'ffttnaa *wildfire got Into the haw!, of Colonel Morgue. an I
fustllg Into the hands °f lit.. plaintiff's father. Lord Stair
afterititeds(took hack the bills and gave a bond.
Sir Aleasader I)add, in the course of his examination as
witness, supported Mr. tilearlett's statemebt, and the Jury
finally rave a verdict for the Plaintiff.
The Counsel far the Defendant had liberty to move to
eater a nonsuit oa the points of law.
Tit KING C. remota.-
This was in Indictment against a solleltbr for perjury,
alleged 'to be Committed is as affidavit made in Chancery.
The S*LICITOII-OVAIRAS opened the case to the jury.
Prom Ms statement it appeared. that the altered .perjury
conalsted in Mr. Palasere's swearing that he was ignorant
of the evictenee of a joist elides as sigh ea the 'Store of two
hnnkrup a. partners. lawfil thetadmeffien in the ethiee af tbe
charter-party on which the claim was founded; Whereas la
precious years he had papers before him. In the course of
business. fr,stu which he must hove known that such charter-
party cellar&
There woe a materiel variance between a petition set net
in the indictment and that produced in evidence, which the
LORD COSIES J ustsce observed, and directedice
Mr gr.& 9 SPTT, for the defendant, begged to state. that he
had not taken the objection. Mr. POISMISA W-11 quite ready
to swear the same std. tit arida Widen rerlds.
The Loe• Cider Justice said, that it would not be pro-
per to enter et el, Into the cage: hut no nue' oucht to pre-
sume that a jrntleman had committed perjure, because, on
er-parfe evidence. • bill was Connd ar sled him.
The verdict of Not Guilty was recorded.

COLUMBIAN 1.0 %N.
rilffE FIRST HALF-YEARLY DIVIRRND on
this !Ann, will be NW oo the First Dsy of Nov.:n-
ncn nest. The holders of the Dividend Worrents ere to
present them for exitenlostion et the oiler of Mesas. Itto-
-10 • (1, G asn 411, sod POWLIS, No. 3, Freensaa's-coert, Cure-
hill.

bible gaieties who distribute millions of hooks in •
year. It seems odd, that the word which God hint-elf
gave nip...koala stand in need of the severe ar:n of the
law ; of the unreasoning dungeon and lash, to defend it,
seeing that it has all the supporters just mentioned.
Dist this was what the Bishop said; and he said at the
same time, thatfureter& none bet men of p•ent literary
attainments were unbelievers. What that argued. the
Bishop did not say. Ilowever, the jet of his srtnment
was, that severity of laws was necessary to prerent the
c*mmon people from becoming tatteliceers.—Well :
the remedy has been tried : six acts were passed :
sentence after sentence of uncommon severity have
fallen noon the offenders : and the result is,
that the sect of methodists, the sect of Ana-
baptists, the sect of Presbyterians, the sect of
Unitarians, Muggletoniana, or which petitions. is
still mere numerous, the sect of Smuggletonians, is not,
at this day, better known or more openly avowed than
the sectof the Deists! Such has been the result cf the
efforts of the fore to preserve, ■ninjnred, this part and
parcel of the law of the land. It is a fact, of which, per
haps. the Ministers are not aware; but is fact very well
worthy of their serious a'tention; supposing them to have
a sincere desire to prevent the spread of deism; and that fact
is, that precisely in proportion to the severity of the law
in punishing of what has been sailed blasphemy, has
been t►e increase of the number and the seal of the
friends of the prosecuted parties. There have been, us
the Bishop of LA\DA►r observed, Deistical writings in
the country before: Nay, Mr. PAlNe's were in the roan•
try before; and they were almost as completely forgotten
(I mean his Deistical . writings) as if they had never
been written. This fart is notorious ; and, see know that
ithe book was not worth printing at the time dr. CAR.
ma was first prosecuted. Since the trial, there have
been printed not less than seven or eight editions of this
work, some of them sold at a very low price, and proha.
bly, alto ether not less titan forty-thousand copies of the
work have been distributed since Mr. Canute went
into his dungeon ; and especially since his wife and sis-
ter entered that place. The sentences on these two wo-
men, for whom men will feel in spite of all that can be
said or done, have done mach more harm to the cause of
the Christian religion in this country than ever
was done by Mr. PaiNa or by all the Deistical wri!ers
that went before bitn.W hat could we do with Mr. CARL. to
then ? Bundle him out of jail, neck-and-heels. and bid
him go anti speak where he liked. We will engage
that he would not make so many proselytes in the coarse
of his whole life-time as were made in one single day
by Mrs. CanWLE, when we read that she hail been deli-
vered in a prison! That is the way to make proselytes
to Deism !—On the trial of WADDINGTON, the Clllar
Jerince was ask d, it appears, by one of the Jury, whe-
ther it were criminal to deny the Divinity of Jesus
Coeur. According to the report his Lordship an-
swered in the a.firmatire. adding that it was miliaria to
deny it is those words aid to ea/CHRIST an impostor.
Good Goo! And Is this the way to uphold the Chris-
tian Religion! If his Lordship dirt answer in the athr-
melee, he most have forgotten the act of Primate
SSIIII, which made it not to he criminal to impugn the
sloctrios of Br* Trioity..which made it not criminal to
deny the Divinity of Jeses CHRIST. And do not the
Unitarians slimy it, and do not the Free-thinking Chris-
tians deny it is their pulpit every Sand ? An-i do not
that favoured race the Jens deny it; anal, vet, alto isms
much cherished as they are, who beer Nobles and even
Royal Dukes to dine with them. The Jews, however,'
are every bit as much Christians as the Unitarians are;
many of them, we understand, do not know which of
the two sects they belong to. Well then, is it nut as
a ell to drop this prosecuting of this silly thing, which,
were it not for prosecution, would be nothing ? It is a
-little too much to hop►, however, and therefore we may
as well, perhaps, keep our advice to ourselvee.—Wao-
oixoroN made one excellent observation; namely, that
the Bishop of Clogher ha•l done more harm to the
Chords than all the books that were evecweitten and pub-
lished by its enemies.

We have received this morning Paris journals to the
'2 11l instant. These papers bring intelligence from
Spain, whirls no longer speaks of a general action, about
• }dela there had been snch t‘ variety ofcontradictury re-
ports this week, but describes a series of skilful move-
ments, by which the Constitutionalists appear to hare
gained as much ground, as if they bad defeated the In-
surgents in a great battle. betters from St. Jean•pied-
de Port, however, add, that a smart cannonade had
been beard, and that it was highly probable that Irati
was occupied by the Patriots. Four comp.inirs of the
line, coining from Panmelnna, bad entered Vulcarlos,
and taken the chief magazines of the Army of the Faith.
the party left to guard them having dispersed itself,
uithout a struggle, along the frontier. The plan of the
Constitutionalists is smiti-to be to take possession of the

Seo d'llrgel, and to drive the Pretended Recency back
into Prance, ulthout raring for the Guerilla►, *Lich
might fortu themselves iu their rear. The intelligence
front Madrid comes down to the 11th instant. On the
10th a Deputation of the FAA, aonlinary Cortes presented
an Address to the King in reply to the Royal Speech,
in which they assured his Majesty. " toat they deplored
with him the ravages occasioned by the civil war kind-
led in various provinces : that they would fain wish not
to he compelled to use lire and sword to put a lamina-
tion to it, but go back to its origin, and eradicate the
germ which had produced such bitter and destructive
fruits ; but that they would not refuse to pay to the
country the tribute which she claimed in her ;airtime,
and certain of the enthusiasm with which the patriot.
ism of the Spanish people would face the present wants,
they would vote the proposed segmentation of the va-
liant sad patrlotie permanent army, the arming and im-
proved organization of time active Slilitia, ao•l the sums
necessary to support enterprises the object of which was to
consolidate the liberties, the glory. the tranquillity, end
the happiness of the nation which they represented." In
another part of this Address, the. Cortes promise to moist
the king "in causing the Spanish name to be respected by
all the powers, and in extenm;ing saleable relations with
all the Slates with whom suck relations were beeimming,
and especially with those possessed of free institutions
land of interests neat to those of Spain." These papers
also contain intelligence highly favourable to the cause
of Greece. An article from Angshurgh says :—" We
have received, by 'Trieste, news from the Mores to the
H.d of September. The 16th of the same month the

I urk. ni.de a mud sortie fruit, Corinth I but
repots I with the loos of four hundred men. The lirt.
afterwartis entered into the town and port, which 6,1.
actnally ocenpiest. There are at Corinth *boot three
'thousand wrinuded, which greatly augmented the top
inent of the Turks, and which may be th.m.o,
even of ha.tening the fall cf the Castle. Snloetia..l
arms front Kotula, of the 4tol of this 'month, normal,
s4nirly that the Castle of Corinth sorreadered to Coho,
Irani on the 24 Is of September, at the close of a
battle
lost by the Turks. As to the Turkish fleet, they str
that it pursued it. coups, tomards the Dardanelles, Mtii
a view to passing. the winter there • not that, pr.”,,t lie
the Creek fleet, it ran fur safety into the Golf of !C;••
poli Rona mita, on the 13:h o(September. As goys.,
the Creeks got no ice of it. they came from all par!.,
seeking to eitoge the Turks to fight nn these reins."
Oue of Ilse most extraordinary articles, houeter, in
these patters, both it its style and in its portant!. 14
• note, of which wo have inserted a cop,: in another
limn, from the British Anolmmador, Cord S;raizt,„
to the Ottoman Porte. This note complains tint omer.l
British subjects have elm ms npon the tdoperty of 11,
Creeks who have Bed from the fear of massacre.
claims the Turks will not liquidate, UCACIP, scconlioc
to the Mahometao lass, a property canal h•
made, nusweraisla for his debts, unless himself 'JP pr.srn;
tssatlruit the justice of the demands. t. Therefore,"
says the British Diplomatist to the Court to which be ii
accredited, fecal these fugitive ind.ht.rf
their homes. that they may be proemeted by noir
British creditors betonr the commteut tribunal. •
for the sums n hid' they oily owe!!! The !fail.
isms of Wednesday contains a formidable story of
some dagger-blades, with emblematic devices 0p,,,
they", that hays been wised en their entry into Fra,C•
from the side of Belgium, or that point where Pfilf`l4
touches upon France.
cc-rio.„l23.a—t hi;
jirie
list.
_Cr;
tot. Csota.s,ohla
°ltridlietrfiFittilc.9l.2.uNr.N.6Dl:os.l'.!°;itan Pis. per Cents. 841.—P,Iehanee
on London, one month, 3f 1c ; three months,V.ls,.

Yesterday, the Earl of Clancarty had a long aadierre
of his Majesty. The noble Earl, it was nrdershyd,
took leave of the King on his departure far the limo-.
An article from Vienna, dated October 13, says 4r.
Irving, the banker, and Mr. Ward, an oheer robe tie.
vernment, arrived here from Loudon a few dip, art.—
They set out for Verona the day aftcr to-marrow, far
purpose, it is said, of obtaining r--psym rut of the
sums lent to Atts rim in the years 1796 and 1797."
Ads ices from Vi, nna. dated Oct. 11, says z—o We see
assured, that the Unke of Wellington has instructions
from the '. ahin't of St. Jarros'e, of a m at pudic mitere,
and in cone...rip-nee trite opposed to the st ishes wine!,
hove heels here openly expressed by souse fil•ras, sibs
talk of nothing else hot interfering in the affairs of
Peoinsula with arms in theit hands, and 17ispensirg tic
Constitutional assemblies of Madrid and Lisbon. hy
lance of Cossacks.—The system of tireat Britain tends.
on the contrary, to presets.. prace in the Meer as well
as in the East.

A Portuguese paper states, that when :he King, after
swearing to the Constitution, received the Pareiza Mis-
isters, he observed to thew, that they might Inform their
respective Sovereign', that be had taken the oath with
the greatest satisfaction and cordiality, and entirety of
his awn free will.

The iliepatch of the Portugueeo Anehasaader, which
was seised on Mr Bowrine, was received by him on
Thursday. The seal had evidently been brekte, and part
of the contents had been removed.
It is stated in an article from Frankfort, that new in-
structions hem been sent from London to the Govern.
meat of the Tinian Islands, reqiiree a great relaxation
of the rigorous meantime adopted By Sir Thames Mait-
land towards the losiana, who Lave uniformly 'bran
thinterlve* the ermiuset partazar4 of toe Orme& es.
Extract of a learn from Ciecome demi MO Ape& 4
1622:—titur appetites for intelligence bays
been lately much sharpened by the less of the ptrkets Ea
ships. the Lady Loskingtoonnd the Matitita, and thin
ban made your Parrs and letters the more agreeable
to as. All is gni...ant flourishisz here. The opinion of
iteenr:ty and Y.bility nhicli the natives attach to chat
prosperity may be inferred from the extraordinary facts
that Government Bead., the interest on which is payable
only tete, are ibis day at Wiper cent- premium. Before
the late changes in our cite oentancee, they were
said to be at 12 per cent. ili-inunt."
The fellowieg letter list been received frees Ireland
by a correspondent in Birmingham :
•• I sent you a newspaper lately. and 1 send you ale
other by this post. In the c.nntry she poor are still
badly olf ; not from any want of provisions, but for want
of a market fur the produce of the conntry. In Li-
merick market. os Saturday lase prime new oats only
brought from 6*. to per barrel—prime new wheat
11,. to 17n. per barrel of 20 stone: this price would not
pay for the tillaze of the land. even if they tool it rest
free. I greatly fear that befi-re this winter is over, se
shall have as had disturbleces es ever—the unfortunate
people seem determined not to pity any tithe. and is
many plates already hare they deoroyed that part
which the tithe-proctors have been obliged to take is
kind. Cattle of all kind are still cheaper than coin. A
few weeks ago I was under the necessity of putting se
execution on a gertletnun's property in the county of
Limerick. I bad tke rattle in my tenoessino for .here
week., and when I found itimpomille t_ bring him to
settlement, I was utilized to sell them by *ldiom I
did so last Wednesday, and I am sere vex will be Ho-
, prised when I tell yon that prime Mitch rows only
god 31.6•. each— two year old heifer. 21. 111..—fat
sheep; 134.—snarlsherp, 3m—horse., IL 15s. to 41. ceche
and they were reckoned to have gene orf well."
Owthe night *of 'non minniehe considerable
alarm wimwerited in Lowkwinimeli by a .tiscovery that
the cotton-works there, the property of Messrs, Felton
and Bitchannon, wrre on file. Tim fined of a 'medic
11'11,4 bees InAdveiteney dropped anon. a quantity of
cotton., the fire comumuicated itself to the ailjoieite inn-
chine's", and all the combustible materials were iastiatly
in a blaze. The loose cotter ettaehed and hanging to 4
ermennnication shaft caught the fame, and with the re-
pidity of lightning, it wan conveyed to the looms abate.
Its abutting progress SPOIXitd to ti.tf2telf deiltftlailli to
the whole property. However, by the prompt and ai—
-1 tire exertions of the inmates the lii., was suaa eltll.-
1' swished.
A correspondent remark.. Shit the impressions at the
Bar will not aln a). hear severe critition. Mr. Coen-
miler tiorney (an elder in the ere., of the 14000) Je-
elered hints"if tLe other d.ly in Court a horn christian,
1 which reminds our cot re.poudeet, lie stye. of a similar
etaccnesey in a hover asteuipti nee to intimidate an Ana-
-1 tug 'Allem at the •Assis * of Carlisle; in the early part M.
the lest ressteiy—s• .Cast thou horn a Quaker r" slid he
tai the niteiree, a tilain men of the name of Walker. an
ancestor of Mr. Walker, of Beeford..qoare. Whet
question ?" said the Quaker, with astonishment; •• waist
thou born a lawyer 7" This produced a roar of laughter
in the Court.—(.lteraing paper.)
Miss Stepher.e in nose at Edielourgh, where she it sn-
eezed for 12 nights at the Theatre, and appeared ea
Monday last as Polly.
We are semi :o learn that Mr. M'Cready, who he'
bees palming the theatrical vacattto in travereieg the
climb: held of Italy. experiences! 1 severe attack of .e-
-ver. in coneneence of visiting the cold nod damagecm-
rations of Herculanen it, during an extremely hot day.
['hough recovered from all the danger of the attack, it
left behind a degree of deteli!)- which it was fe.ree
would nut be entirely removed till he breathed ow.
again his native air.