The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-11-14 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN

log Naples to the yoke of militarybut Spain I
wised tiler efforte., and Portugal followed its glo- I
09 rumple. South America, placed beyond the
garb of their power, laughs at their threat., and
-seas their horrors by determining to be free.

••••••••••=m=
yesterday the King gave audiences to Viscount Siti-
o" the Marquess of Cholmondeley, the Marquess
Wellesley and the Right Hon. Sir Charles Long.
yesterday the Lords of the Treasury held a Board at
the Vaulty Chambers, Whitehall.
The prince Royal of Denmark has arrived in Paris.
The foreign loan, of which there was a rumour
vday morning on the Stock Exchange, appears to
ce for Denmark. Its present amount will be 1,500,0001.
hot Denmark has the option in the year 1825 of don-
bfis; the amount on the same terms.
A letter received from President Bolivar. dated Co-
see. 7, 1821, states that the inhabitants of Car-
cos,
had sent a deputation, offering to surrender,
molded the President would take possession in per-
Le. it was his intention to make hiss n
entry
into that city on the Ist of October.
Accounts from Corfa state that the Bishop of
Cepltallois had been put under arrest, and conveyed
os Ibipbeard. The operations of the Greeks in the
mores is much perplexed by the ciresuustaeces that
take place in the lonian Islands. In the Alorea and
in Rowena, the Greeks, It 'is said, effect prodigies of
valour in detail, but are deficient in all things ne-'
wary for the conduct of great operations.
The two following paragraphs are from a ministe-
rial paper .
Letters have come to band from St. Petersburg to the
hey
ult. Their contents are important, inasmu
at ach as
ty put a direct negative on the allegation th fresh
Ambassador from that Court, to succeed Baron Strogo-
off at Constantinople, had been appointed. No fears,
however, were entertained in St. Petersburg that peace
would be interrupted. It is admitted .that the negocia-
goes continued, which was the occasion of a constant
correspondence being kept up between Vienna and St.
Petersburg. So strong was the opinion that no war
would break out, that the Exchange on London was
steadily advancing : the last quotation is 9 9-16, which
is much higher than that mentioned by previous arrivals.
Letters have been received from Odessa to the 17th
lilt. and what little is contained in them, on the subject
of politics, completely discountenances the reports of
war between Russia and Turkey.
The Bs tecoN.—By The Scotsman we are informed
that Mr. Gibson, to vindicate his professional charac-
ter from the injuries it has received from The Beacon,
has instituted two actions, one against Mr. Douglas
Cheap, Advocate, as author of the libels and editor of
the paper, and Mr. Duncan Stevenson, as printer of
the same ; laying his damages at 5,0001. The other
action is against Sir William Rae, his Majesty's Ad-
vocate for Scotland, and certain other persons named,
as combining, by contributions in money and other-
wise. to support the said newspaper. The damages,
is the latter action, are laid at 10,0001.
A Court of Aldermen was held yesterday at
Guildhall, to consider of an Address of Congratulation
to his Majesty on his arrival in his British dominions,
at which the Lord Mayor. 13 Aldermen, Sheriffs, and
City Officers were present. Au address was unani-
mously agreed to, and the Sheriffs, attended by the
Remetaloancer. were directed to wait on his Majesty
to know bin royal will and pleasure when the Court
should attend him with the same. The Coart requested
the Lord Mayor tc, call an early Ossart to express their
acknowledgments of the services of the late LOA
Mayor, &c. ; and his Lordship was pleased to appoint
Tuesday next for that purpose.
A Court of Common Council will be held to-mor-
row, for the purpose of considering an Address to his
Illaiesty on his return.
A colossal figure, to commemorate the victories of
the British arms in the Peninsula, will shortly be
erected in St. James's Park, immediately opposite the
.Horse Guards, where the royal mortar formerly stood.
The figure is 18 feet high, and is cast in metal from
the cannon taken during the war. It is in imitation
of that which is on the Monte Cavallo at Rome. and
'styposed to be the work of Phidias.
EQUESTMAN STATUE Or GEORGIC under•
stand it is contemplation to erect, by subscription, a
magnificent equestrian statue to the memory of our late
mach respected Monarch. The site reposed is, we
hear, the West end 'of Great King-street, hi tits space
'between that street and the Royal Circus..
On Tuesday last. the Literary sad Philosophicd
Society of Newcastle, resolved, after much discussion,
'to relinquish the site granted by the Corporation in
New Bridge-street, and to purchase one in Welt-
gate-street, nearly opposite the end of CoMngwood•
street, in certain premises belonging to Mr. C. Angels.
for the purpose of erecting their new library. The
Stipulated price of the ground is 10001.
The City Chamberlain of Edinburgh discovered an
Act of Parliament exempting the gads toils as
corporate body, (tom the hair powder and other tax
e'sarges. Upon representing the matter to theComnsis-
stoners of Taxes, tLey admitted the town's clalin
exemption, 'The erillector, however, wishing. to have
the esetterlettled .by.the highest autherity..appseld
bibs Barium of Exchequer, who confiresed the jidg-
meat of tles,Commislionen. The result was. not only
that the tows would be at no expense is future
on ehb
*musts but that it bad a claim for upwards. of 800/.,
the, overpaid; which would no doubt be recovered.
. ,
We are happy to understand. that **important
'object', Weights and kleasures is likely to come her
lute Parliament in a shape that will in all probability
4ead to ems practical result.—(Ediabwegh titer.)
• The defaulter Tweedy, it is understood, coax rtsd
..20,41001. Into Bills on New York, before his &partite
for America. .. His took• care, besides, to bin tell pro‘
vide(' with. gold. Hers; several days 'slate of his
intrsuess; but, from thin mew employed to Catch him,
he may not, after skt,lksbie to escape. Is the ease
•of a brokerowbo yet off to the same giaiter, about
tel jests ago, with his principal's verily. to the
lasoust of 20.0001.. his route having been known
dieter at 'him arrived at New York before isim, and
when be presented his bills he found: thupayesent slept..
' In a few months his resources is America, became est,
lisostei, and .he retina to London to dirtily biatelf
. .
on the inerty of his injured employer.
So severe was the fall of snow on eta
.olg6l of Se.'
hirday gelid& to the east and north of Lasgholni,
diet .aiy Whirs& of sheep have bees.beried under
a great 'sanitise of which have sot as yet been. es-
'Weaned ;it is fumed many have bees liaMbeted. .

TO TMa‘EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN.

Sin,—We sometimes do things that are truly pain-
ful to our feelings, and, on this occasion, I am not ex-
empted.
It appears to me strange, that persons who form a
part of the population of other, donntries should, when
any thing of a calamitous nature attends them, fly to
our pockets for assistance. The Smite adventurers to
the Brasil., lately applied to us for pecuniary aid, be-
cause they did not happen to succeed in their golden
anticipations on arriving in the country of his most
faithful Majesty.
The like appeal, now making by the distressed people
of Spain, is equally strange. if not more so, because the
people of Spain, and their Government, must know our
eitnation, as well as we know it. They must know,
that at this time, we are the most distressed people,
taking us as a nation, in the whole world. We have a
debt of a thousand millions, the interest of which, and
the taxes, to pay this interest, have chained us to the
very earth. Onr gaols are crammed with debtors, and
oar poor-houses with their wives and children. Hun-
dreds, ney, thousands of farms, are now unoccupied,
are in a state of death, while the landlord and the
farnsupare standing by them as chief mourners. and
their labourers in tears. Thousands upon th-ousands
of our own countrymen do not know where to get a
breakfast when they get out of bed ; and hundreds
have no beds to lay down upon. Our streets ate
crowded with human misery, while others bide them-
selves and their misery from,the eye. The merchants'
vessels are rotting in the docks, and their warehouses
are empty. Oar manufacturers have no employment
for those who were wont to perform all the labour, be-
cause there is no market abroad for the goods. The
wives and children of those so unemployed are starv-
ing. Thousands of others have been driven, by mi-
sery, to go to the wilds of Africa, to wage incessant
war with the Lion and the Hyena ; and to the woods
of America, to form a kind of friendly co-partnership
with the Beaver and the Bear, to get food to keep
themselves in existence.
This, Sir, is a true, though truly sable picture of
the state of our own country, and of the condition of
our countrymen ; and the civilised world knows it well;
and this knowledge renders it cruel of any one people
to make an appeal to our humanity. It is all slang
about appealing to the "brave and generous British
nation." Our situation, as a people, shows what our
bravery is ; and our misery what it Is that constitutes
our generosity.
Panto:Mlle, Nov. la, MI.

HUMANITAS.

WATERFORD CATHOLIC Bisuor.---Last Wednesday
a Meeting of Catholic Clergy of the United Diocese
of Waterford and Lismore, held at Carrick-on-Salt,
agreed vsanimemely to postulate for the Right Rev.
Dr. Patrick Kelly, 'Whop of Virginia, in America, to
fill the vacant Ste of Waterford and Linnets.—
(Weterfbrd Mirror, N0v.119
• EDIIIIIHROH, Nov. 11.-11 is very gvatifyiag ter ob.
serve the progress which has been made, in the course
of the season, is building the College. The passage
from the street to the interior of the quadrangle. upon
the improved plan, has been completed, which, consi-
dering its stupendousness and magnificence, is itself a
very considerable advance towards the completion of
the building. The north side has been proceeded in
with so mach activity, that the mason work may be
expected to be soon finished. So much of its inner
front as was previously built, has been pulled down aid
rebuilt, so as to accommodate it to the new plan,
which provides the whole front with the noble orna-
ment of Corinthian pillars. As the south side will
exactly correspond with it, a perfect idea may now be
formed of the appearance which this grand build-
ing will present when finally completed. This le
an event to which the public have long looked for-
ward with so little anxiety ; and they must contem-
plate with much satisfaction the sear prospect of its
accomplishment.
We have lately seen models of a new description of
steam-vessels, which are to be propelled by means of
machinery, and a moving power contained entirely
within the two natural slides and stem and stern of
the vessel, thereby completely obviating the danger
sad inconvenience, as well as the awkward appearance
of the outside paddle wheels used on the present system.
vessel on this new plan may be applied either to
'anal or deep-sea navigation ; and she has not oalyl
the same appearance, but in a few minutes can be ere.
vetted into an ordinary sailing vessel, without she
moving power proviag the smallest obstacle to her
progress through the water.--(Caledesien Mercury.)
On Thursday, fith inst. suddenly, of Angina POI1IP•.1
ris, in his 54th year, John Jones, of Franklyn,
F.S. A. a Solicitbr of lIIIIIIROOOR in this city. lidueeted
at the Middle Temple, ma originally designed for the
bar, an conspiring dispositioa led him to prefer a lees
conspicuous department of the law. • Not reluctant to
communicate interesting information, but from retired
habits averse to attract the public eye, be affixed his
same to only a eingleliterarf production, an admirable
memoir in the " Archstologia," on the ancient consti-
tution and discipline of the Cathedral Church of Exe-
ter. He had completed the collect!** of materials for
a second memoir, and contributed valuable documents
Ito Oliver's History of Enter, Carlisle's Bedewed
Schools, and other works of salebrity. The coinci-
deuce is remarkable, that by Mr. Jose's relinquish-
ment of the bar for the Office, the present Attoiney-
General, disappointid of an eligible partaership, deter-
wised on forensic pursuits.
SiIIOULAR CIRCURSTANCIL..ArItdardIIy morning at
lily-break, as as inhabitant of Edgware was crossing
a field near to that village, he was surprised by ob-
serving. at a abort distance from him, a nianwsereiegly
reclining against the'side of a ditch. He wirtimto
the spot. and ealletrfo4dly ; but to his
he discerned thatitilhis a corpse. The.
EMI is the neighbourhood the day before,
believed that be came fetal Looks
were found on his perms likely to lead
of his friends. The Cagiest (T. Stirilog,
-1-5.4 an impost to he held this day- -

THEATRES.
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DRURY LANE.
A new Comedy. entitled Lost Life, was produced at
this Biskra last night. It is in three acts. The follow-
ing is a sketch of the plot :
Old Pilgrim, a traveller, while on his voyage from
America, is reported to be dead. Arriving in England
be finds a young spark. Mr. Featherbrain, his heir-at-
law, in possession of his property. The scene is laid at
Bognor, where both the parties reside, the young man
indulging in the follies and recreations of the place ;
the old man employed in watching the conduct of his
heir, to determine in what way be shall ultimately deal
with him. Featherbrain, before be became rich, had
gained the affections of Emma, a pretty cottager, bat
now he proposes that they shall merely be friends, and
subsequently he invites her to become his mistress.
This conduct excites the indignation of Pilgrim, who
determines on " coming to life again" to punish it. In
the mean time Featherbrain pays his court to a milliner,
who is adventuring for a husband, and who, at the same
time receives the address of Daffodil, a Cockney Poet,
and Captain Freshwater, a Cockney Sailor. They
agree that each shall write to his mistress, to meet him
eta particular time and place, and the three letters
lan sent by Doldroun, the assistant at a circulating
library, who knowing them all to be to the same ef-
fect, thinks it unnecessary to deliver more than one.
lbe *male adventurer proceeds to the appointed place,
and is recognised by each at the same moment as the
mistress of his heart. This produces an explanation
which Is fatal to the hopes of the lady, and she is con-
temptuously deserted by her three swains. In the next
act, she suttee ds in imposing herself on a person,
who his imposed himself on her for Pilgrim. Their
artifices, and the confusion produced by the circutn-
stance of another individual being mistaken for Pilgrim,
bring the play to its conclusion, when the real Pilgrim
succeeds in proving himself to be alive. The poor Emma
being discovered to be his relation, becomes rich, and
generously gives her hand to the man who bad deserted
her, but who by subsequent remorse, s supposed to
have atoned for his misconduct.
The piece will require considerable alteration in the
third Act to render it completely Palatable to an audience.
It was well received lut night, and the announcement
for repetition met with much applause.
COVENT GARDEN.
Miss Tans, that inimitable representative of the com-
Weed beauties of acting and song, was last night re-
stored to the public, after a long and painful indisposition.
She appeared innate, a character whose ineffable sweet-
ness and grace she conceives and executes in the most
perfect and fascinating style. Her vocal talent is hap-
pily unimpaired by her long suffering from disease, and
we sincerely hope, as well on her own account as for
the sake of our national Opera, that their exercise will
not in future be found incompatible with health. She
played last night with a delicacy and chasteness, which
wire in fell keeping with a character perhaps, the most
beautiful and pure offspring of our immortal bard's ima-
gination. Her singing was also marked by its usual pe-
culiarity of taste and excellence. The last song was
omitted, in consequence of Miss Taaa's excessive agita-
tion at the kind and almost affectionate manner in which
sae was received, and her exertions repeatedly rewarded
y die aedlowee. The ether characters of the Comedy
were filled by their usual representatives, and the whole
-emit with die meet deekloil edict.