The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-02-12 00:00:00

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Oliver must
be most indeed
not deemed advisable to set him up, notwithstandiug,
as the above mentioned Noble Lord stated, " be was
on the spot," for what purpose we know not. Thus,
it appears within two days, from our Perliemestary
record, that men eve prosecuted in one part of the
country on charges of offencesegainst the public peace,
and protected and encouraged in the actual commis.
sion of the gime crimes in another, and by the same
Government.. We do, indeed, live in eatraordinary.
Rees, when a system so dangerous and inimical to
'pablic order is openly avowed, end the trade of an
Wormer and dealer in blood is mentioned by State
tenctionaries without the least espression of horror
qtr disesteem ! Ought a Ministry, convicted of each
pima guilt, continue to .have the guardianship of the
public peace? The persons employed to work *G
ibe distressed feelings of the People have been die.
continued in their •employment, and though the sum
of the People's wants has been but little lessened,
Goo knows, no conspiracies have been heard 0f...
The true °Minders are pow before the bar of the
country, and the nation will pass judgment on the
Ministers end their systeei. Wbo will .say after these
developments that the People are wrong in demanding
a Reform in the State ?

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Mr.CANNING volunteered another effort last night,
to push Conviction from its place, by the ghastly
!peer@ of Roitsruanc and his Tribune, which he
thinks are necessarily connected with- the just and
peaceable demands of the People without, and
talked Mach about a Millennium, which he and his
coadjutors .will not apparently be very forward to
hasten ; bat the observations of the Right Honoura-
ble Sinecoast merely went to prove that be and his
friends were determined to keep their places and their
system in spite-of every thing that may be urged from
without, Language is too poor in torsos to upon
this insetting jiggle.'

French Paper; to the 9th instant, and a Dutch
Mail have arrived. The importance of our own
Legislative Proceedings will not at present suffer os
to afford much space• to their contents. It is rather
singular that the Chamber of Peers should have to
decide upon what we should call a matter of privilege
in the Chamber of Deputies. By the Charter, no
one can be a Member of the latter Chamber who is
not aged 40 years; but it will be recollected, that
three Members-were chosen at the late election of a
fifth, who had not completed the prescribed age when
they were chosen, but had completed it in the in-
terval between their election and the opening of the
Session. The right of these Members to sit then be-
came a question, which was decided in the tantalise
by the Deputies. An appeal was, however, carried
to the House of Peers, and a Committee there ap-
pointed for the comideration of the subject : the
Report of this Committee occupies several columns
of the Moniteur of the gth instant, by which, how-
ever, the question is decided in the same manner as
in the Deputies.
The news in these Papers from Mesico, by
Madrid, is of course 'unfavourable to the Indepen-
dents. A letter from Cadix of the ltth ult. states.
that a numerous corps of Insurgents had attempted
to intercept, entire -Iliad from Meaico to Vera Cruz,
a rich convoy of-gold and silver bars and piastres,
destined for Skills), but were defeated with consi-
derable loss. leaving behind them six pieces of cane
non,witb their caissons, 1200 muskets,four standards,
and 600 prisoners, among whom are fifty Officers.
The proposed• law for checking the licentiousness
of the Press in the Netherlauds, provides that any
&other, Printer, or Publisher, who shell write, print,
or circulate any article tending to excite the sub-
jects of ether State. to dissffecticm or rebellion, or
to bring any forrigo,Sovereigu, in amity with It
own Government, or any of his Ministers, into
contempt, shall be punished by imprisonment, of from
three to five years, besides a fine of from 300 to 500
florins, according to circumstances. This is a very
legitimate and Liberals:purse on the part of the Dutch
Goverumeut.

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COURT OF KING'S BENCH.
TR ISTLEWOOWS CASE.

A. THISTLEWOO D was broeght into Court this
morning, and addressing the Bench, said he had been
advised that he had done wrong in pleading guilty on
a former day. It had been suggested to him that to
constitute an offence it was necessary there should be
' criminal and malicious intention. lie disclaimed
having been actuated by, any such motives, and, there-
fore, he now wished Ao withdraw his plea, Rod plead
de novo.
The ArroaNtr-GEWEItAL observed, that although
not a matter of right, the plea of Guilty having been
recotded, .yet betted no objection to the Defendant's
having a trial if he thought proper.
The Defendant upon being again arraigned, pleaded
Not Guilty, and.was itiformed be. would be-tried the
Sittings after nest Easter Term. He was asked when
he would be ready to give bail t 6 the Articles of
the Peare estiibite4 by Lord giurytorrn. He re-
plied, in a day or two.:

Yesterday the Prince of lits.,l:-Ilcrsnr.no had a
long interview with the Pittkci. ItliraiNT at Carlton-
house. •
It is said that S'isenot►t M styli•t F wilt sowed the
Marquis of L1A5441.4;011 in _the- Gott nut- Geseielabip
of India.

invalids , . Chatham.
—Seiler! the Tottenham, with convicts for rfew
South Wales.
DEAL, Fee. 11.—Remain the Severn frigate; pod
the Deni ra, ilansilten, for Bengal.
POINTOIIIOIIIIII, FEB. 11.--•Affilled his Majesty's
ship Cadmus, from a cruise. The Princess Amelia,
Behton ; and Landes, Campbell, passed by from
the Downs for Madras and China.—Sailed the King-
otos, Bowen, for Java; and the Faith, Quelch, for
Madeira and St. Kitts.
Ws-mourn, Fmk H.—Arrived "the Countess of
Liverpool picket, with Mails from Geernsey and
Jersey.—Passed by this port yesterday, the !Weldon,
of Medlin, Hodge, from London for the Canaries.
PLTUOUTIII Fug. 10.—Sailed the Jane, Bruce, for.
Lisboa; and the City of Botwdeaus, for Beer-
dotes.
Gammen., Fats. 11.—Acrived the Elita,Wren;
and. Collette, -Klouson, from Ostend; Calot Char-
lotte, Kluiste ; and Providence, Grant, from Ant-
werp.; Neptune, Ifermens, from Amsterdam; Dili-
gent, Atkinson, from Hailing; Dyke of Drente,
Repley, from Leghorn ; Netly, Gibb, front Ham.
bough • Gambier, Dove, from Genoa; Fortitude,
Randall, from Jersey; Le Amite', Coke, from
; Coventry, Sinikh, from Riga; i lbelmi
frntp Rotterdam ; sod the ?respect, Colhurn, from
Africa.—Sailed the Aurora, Earl, for Madeira and
Madras ; Crisis; Braithwaite, for Bahia ; Duke of
York, Finhyson, fort. Michael's; Dart, Conic, for
Sierra Leone; Gainsborough, Aysthorpe, for Gib.
ratter; Eclipse, Brock, for Smyrna; Resolution,
Price, for Antwerp; and the John and Richard,
Voss, for Rosen. •

Yesterday the Dukes of YORK and CUIRRERLAND
visited the PaiNCe REGENT.
Viscount MELVILLE had a long audience of the
PRINCE REGENT, at Cult-on-house, on Tuesdiy
evening, after the breaking op of the Court.
Lord GRANTRAM, who has Ostensive estates in
Bedfordshire, will,• it is expected, succeed the late
Earl of UPPER OSSORY, as Lord Lieutenant of that
county.
A Meeting was held yesterday at the City of Lon-
don Tavern, for the purpose of raising a subscription
is aid of the Society of Friends of Foreigners in
Distress. During the 10 years of the existence of
this Society, it appeared that 719 G persons had been
relieved ; but there. had been an increased demand,
which required an increase of fund. The Duke of
Susscs presided, and by his speech, seconded by the
earnest appeal of Mr. WILBERVORCE, succeeded in
raising a considerable sum. His Royal Highness and
Mr. WILBERFORCA anbscribed 101. each.
Tut Ettoon SYSTIM MANCH attn.—Much live-
ly interest has bevir excited in Manchester by the
acquittal. at the late (airliner Sessions in that town,
of two boys, named Hill anti Lea, charged with
stealing pieces of fustian. From the circumstances I
developed in the course of the investigation, there
remains little doubt that the system of con'pirscy is
practised at Manchester as well as in London. The
boys appear to have been entrapped into the situation
of having the goods in charge, by a returned trans-
port of the name of Bindles, who was called in by the
Police to give evidence against the boys. On Hindley's
being placed in the witness's box, both the boys cried
out, "That is the man Chit gave us the goods;" Hind-
ley (for it was the very man who bad been sent for)
was then taken into custody, and the boys Hill, and
Lea, having given evidenceou oath against him, he
was, we understand, fully committed for trial. The
Chairman addressed the boys, and in the course of
his observations stated, that they left the bar " as
free from imputation of guilt in 'hearse on which they
were brought to trial, at the Bench itself w 114." We
ought to add, that on searching Hindley's house,
the clothes which .the boys described him as having
worn, were found there. These tricks are practised
by old offenders, wlin having often smarted under the
lash of the law, find it an act of policy to compro-
mise with the Police for their own safety, by en-
trapping others, and furnishing recruits in felony.—
We understand an examination of (he subject is still
in progress, end we find, Mr. Nsdin, the Deputy
Constable, is now in London, sent for, no doubt,
to be examined by the Secret Committee.
The intended canal from Arundel to Portsmouth
is immediately to he begun, and it is said wilP be com-
pleted in about 18 months time. The Duke of Noa-
rout is a warm friend to the measure.
A wether sheep, 36 months old. and fed on grass
and turnips only, was killed, lest week,, in Exeter,
which weighed, when alive, 307 pounds, and the
carcase when dead, 219 pounds. it was bred and
fed by Mr. COMER, of Newton, St. Cyres.
THE 600 Mr Les MATCH IN 10 DAYll.l—ME.Preward
finished his ninth day's performance, at Knaresford,
oft Taudarnight, Cul e'clook, it havinctaken him
20 hosts to do 56 miles. He went to rest very lame,
but he bad great confidence In doing 54 miles to
complete the match yesterday, bet betting is against
him.

A man named WGinnis, a groom, undertook,
yesterday, to. run a mile in five minutes on the Kil.
burn-road, for a guinea. He made gond Ms ground
the first three quarters of a mile, hot he lagged in the
last quarter, and lost the match by three seconds.—
lie had not trained for the race.
Among the papers of the late Mr. M. of Gisid ,
man's-fields, who died worth 2163,000, was the
following curious document, to show how he ob..
tained the greater part of his property. Ile had a
wheel, in which he put 1,000 small cards, numbered
from one to 1,000; and, after well turning it, drew'
as many numbers as there were thousands its the
State Lottery at the time he used it ; that is, if there'
were 18,000 Tickets (as in the prepent Lnttery), he
would draw 18 promiscuous numberst—these be
noted down se numberebetween No. 1 end N 0.1,000.
Ile then put the whole again into the wheel, and
after turning it, drew 18 more, which he noted
down numbers between No. 1,001 and No. 2000;
and so on, until he had 18 !limbers for every thou.
lend, which in this case, would be 314 numbers; hi.
then put these 324 number*, only into the wheel, and
slirew 18 of them; from these he made his purchases.
and &routed the greater part of his wetitb by Capital

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