The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-01-18 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

TMI FUNDS. •

srorx EXCHANGE, ONE'G'CLOCIL
The Funds have been remarkably steady. this
week past, preparatory to the aetiiilw of Consols.
The Market opened this morning 'at 0911, and
being the Account day, there was a great
influx of business, both real and speeulative; Con-
sols rose to 691 buyers, and afterwards declined
to 694 sellers ; the continuation from now until
next time is only i per cent. which, of course,
renders money a drug; these circumstances might
' be thought a prelude to a rise, but the bears mesa
at present the strongest party: the consequence is,
the market seems on the decline. There has been
no failures to-day, as yet, nor are there any anti-
; cipated ; although the differences must be large.
Consols for the February Account arc now 68 ex.
I die.

THE KING.
--.40.--

The bodily indisposition with which the King
was afflicted, about two months since, arose from a
violent cold which his Majesty then caught, sup-
posed to be occasioned by the severe north and
north-east winds, which then blew remarkably
strong. To guard against it. recurrence, an additional
stove has been put up in one of his rooms, and ether
means taken to render the whole suit of apartments,
which are ruuch exposed to the north winds, warmer.—
The apartments appropriated to the occupation of the
king, and his immediate and personal attendant., are on
the north side of Windsor testis, which, from its height,
is unavoidably much exposed to the weather. These
apartments overlook the Terrace, to which there is a
communication. The King has occasionally walked
there, properly accompanied, although this has been
but very seldom, and the part is so secluded, that he
could not he observed by any person. N. one, indeed,
is allowed to walk on the Terrace, to prevent which, sen-
tinels are stationed at the ends.

The King has always been a very hearty eater; his
appetite continues very good. He is in Fenrnil with-
(lends, composed to order his dinner. He is personally'
attended by Mr. Hatt, sen. his principal Page, who pre-
pares his 'firmer. The King, some time since, bad his
dinner hour changed from one o'clock to half-past one t
and by the advice of his Doctors it has been altered an
boar later, to half-past two, being a more eqnal divi-
sion of the day. The Members of the Council frequently
stop to see his Majesty dine, which occasions the Coun-
cil to sit longer than when the King dined earlier.
The Royal Pages are in attendance upon his Majesty,
in addition to those persons appointed and selected by
the Doctors.

A Porrtc EICLAIMATIoN or a GREAT PERSONAGE IN
A PlOl,Ol. VB IN AT THY MIDNIGHT TABLE.

" floppy the son whose hoary sire Is blest
" With humhle ofittence and domestic rest;
" floppier than I. to future empire born."—
• • • • • •

To which his little companion replies--
" Indulge tbo genial hour, unbend thy soul ; '
`• Leave thought to age, sad drain the Bowing bowl.

We lament to state, that advice was received at
Kensington Palace, on Sunday, announcing that
illis. Royal Higbee's the Duke of lisuirea illsessbad
trammed most alarming symptoms. It is an inllam-
.
Nation on the chest. Yesterday morning Sir DA-
VID DENDAS set off express to Sidmoutb, to attend
on his Royal Highness.
A report is now in circulation at Vienna, that
the German Empire is to be re-established, and
that the Emperor is to have a coadjutor in the per.
son of the King of Prussia, who is to have the
title of King of Germany.
PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.—The following Re-
solutions, it is said, are now under consideration by
the Members of the York Whig Club
That the duration of Parliament, authorised by law,
might not to exceed three years.—That all boroughs in
which the number of electors is so few as to lay them
*pen to the influence of bribery—and all boroughs
which, front their constitntion, hare become individual
property, ought to he disfranchised.—That in lieu of
the boroughs so disfranchised, the right of represents-
tion ought to be given to the more populous towns of
the United Kingdom—and to the inhabitants of the
Kingdom at large, being occupiers of a separate dwelling
house, or directly liable to taxation; provided such per-
sons are not reeeirag parish relief, aml have otherwise
no vote for any city, town, or county.—That, for the more
equal representation of the people at large, thus entitled
' to vote, the Kingdom ought to be divided into elective
districts.—That in county. and district elections, the
votes ought to be taken in each parish, or in united
' parishes—and all on the same day That iu parochial
k elections the ballot ought to be used.
The following article might seem to have been
borrowed from one of the romances of the last cost-
tury, if the facts were not so recent and still to be
witnessed:—
" Osrexu, JAN. 10.—For some time past we hive
seen in our port the most intrepid mariner perhaps that
ever existed. Ile is an Englishman, who in a small and
frail boat, about 16 feet in length and four in breadth,
undertakes alone the voyage from England to ()stead,
where he takes on board a cargo of productions of the
eisaatry, which he conveys to England in his boat.
'bat is most astonishing is, that neither the high sea,
nor the cold, nor the inclemency of the weather, steps
this hardy mariner. Let us imagine a man entirely
alone in the open sea, guiding a little boat, which
hardly rises six inches above the surface of the ocean,
exposed to the rain, to the winds, and, above ali, to the
intense cold which we nbw have, and we may judge how
far the love of gain will go. In his last voyage hither
he was three days in the passage, awl did not stop the
whole time. He has contrived an ingenious method to
steer his frail vessel: placed in the front of the boat,
' with his back turned to the prow, be guides the helm
by means of two ropes, which go the whole length of
tile boat, and thence manages his sails without quitting
his place. As the ice might accumulate against the
sides of his boat, and thus expose him to sink, be has
I taken care. before putting out to sea, to grease all the
sides of his boat, that the water may not adhere to it ;
j and in this manner he traverses fhb ocean, without
troubling himself about the numerous hungers which
I he incurs, and which he has hitherto braved with im-
punity."
Tbere are no fewer than fipren indictments for
libel against The Manchester Observer. Ooe of
them is against David Wroe, a child sheet fen years
of age, who has already suffered incaretroticis and
been heid to bail, for that he (being instigated by
the devil) did utter, vend, and sell a aeditlons libel
i contained in The Oblerser newspaper, Ike. &c.
. ,

. . OLD 341Lsr SSISIONS.
THIS DAY.

John Rederfeets, a apectablelo•iting man, was pat to
the hat, charged with stealing, on tint 4th of Jane last,
a mare, the property of James Richards.
The prosecutor stated, that he is a linessalesper, re-
sitting in Oxford-street: On the 4th of Jane last, a
maws belonging to hint was mkt Iron ish ambit near
Oxford-street. On the middle of that day, the priiefter
hired the snare for the (ley, rode of with it, and never
asign produced it. la oonsequescoof the mare not amain .
home, the witness went to make inquiry at the Hanover
Arno, Stanmore, the place Where the prisoner said he was
going to. No information respecting her maid be
gained there. In the July following, witness saw the
prisoner at Reading, when the latter said his hallo was
flayley, and that witness mast therefore be reietalten in
'opposing that he bad hired the mare. Witness did
• not then cause his apprehension, becaeee the land-
' toed of the inn said he knew the prisoner to be
a respectable wan. Upon further, qtiestioning hiss,
the prisoner said he was a •Conimercial traveller,
and gave witness an address which he said was the
firm of the house for which be was travelling. Wit-
ness then inquired no farther, but went to the ad- I
dress given by the prisoner, and was there informed that
the prisoner was not known. Some tint. afterwards t
witness met the prisoner walking in Bolton-street, and
wood his immediate apprehension. Tile prisoner,
epos being eased with giving a faimaddress, denied that
he was the person whom witness had seen at Reading,
and gave his address—" John Robertson, Bloomsbury
tentage, Regent's Casa." Witness not being satisfies'
with the prisoner's subseqamit explanation, at length
gave him in charge to a constable.
Cross-examined by Mr. ALLST.—Witness admitted
that he had ooce sines the rubbery met a person some-
what resembling the prisoner. Swore positively to the
identity of the prisoner.
Alexander Patrick is the ostler of Mr. Richards. Re-
collects the circumstance of the mare being hired ; but
cannot say, with certainty, that the prisonet is the man.
William Thorpe, an ostler, belonging to the Angel, at
Reading, was nest called. He deposed that, in July
last, be did net live at the (leery, but was well ac-
quainted with the house. Upon looking at the pri-
soner, he was confident that he had frequently seen him
at Reading.
This was the ease fur the prosecution.
The prisoner, in defence,. handed in a written papee,
which was read by the Clerk of Arraigns. Its purport
was to show that the prisoner bad hitherto borne a most
respectable character, and altogether unlikely to
commit the offence charged. In conclusion, the rest of
the defence was consigned to the prisoner's Counsel.
Margaret Hodiney lives in N 0.37, King-street; her
husband is a meat Messenger. The prisoner
came to ledge with her on the 2d of November, 1918,
and remained until August, 1919. Witness was cosh-
dent that, during that time, the prisoner never slept
' a night oat of her house 4 lie was a man of extremely
gaoler habits. He then, as at every other time, wore a
rowlered wig.
John Stevens, a fellow-lodger of the prisoner, posi-
tively swore that the prisoner could not have been absent
from town twelve hours together in June or July last.
Other witnesses swore to the same effect, and we pre-
sume the Jury wool.! find. for the prisoner; but we left
Court before the verdict was given.

ThWlliarfilbg, at four o'clock, the inhabitants of the
&toad were suddenly ahrnsed by cries of '• Mrs :"
which were found to proceed from the house of Mr. Kerr,
1 boot-maker, the corner of Norfolk-street, Strand. Be-
i fore say effectual assistance could be rendered, the Noakes
had overspread the whole of Mr. Kerr's and the adjoini■
houses, sad subsegnentiv two other houses on the Strand
side were caught and destroyed. The firemen belong-
ing to the different Offices worked their engines with
great alacrity, but we are sorry to add with little effect.
At the moment we are now writing, three of the
houses present nothing bet a heap of fallen ruins;
and the fire is not yet estinguisbed. It is pleas-
-log, boweve►, to state that uo liees bars been
lost, although hir. Kerr bad a most narrow escape.
rile had left his !loose, and was desirous to return to
fetch some money, when one of the firemen forcibly
revented him, and a few minutes afterwards the whole
fell in. The fire, we understand, originated from the
'tirelessness of a female servant, who fell asleep whilst
waiting up for a Tamil y occupying pert of the house.
' Another fire also broke not this morning, at eight
o'clock. on the premises of W. Sprightly, near Water-
loo-bridge. The house was burned down, but the fire
has been eitinguisbed without further damage to the
surrounding bosses. Several tikober-yarsis are close to
the premises ; furtuttetely, however, the Ike did not ex-
tend to them.

In Toete's Diversions il'Pwriey, page 122, is,
" You mean that we should never forget our situa-
tion, and that we should be prudently contented
to do good within our own sphere, where it can
hare an effect ; and that we should not be misled,
even by a virtuous benevolence and public spirit,
to waste ourselves in fruitless efforts beyond our
power of influence."
VACCINATION.—There has no country on the
',lobe, it seems, derived so much benefit from the
diicavery of vaccination as that of Russia. The
depopulation that the small-pox occasioned in some
of the provinces of this vast empire, would surpass
all belief if not fuUy authenticated. Kamtschatka
-was, about fifty years ago, nearly devastated by
this cruel disorder, as witness the following note
from 1.,a PEROUSE, p. 25, vol. iii.:—
“ The stuall-pov, in 1769, swept away three-fourths
of the Katntschadale nation, leaving now only 4000
persons or less scattered over the whole peninsula."
The guard and coachman- who attended the
London had from this city, on the day of the late rob-
bery, contradict the staoutsiews which I;as been made in
several London and country papers, that a candle had
been introduced into the coach at Bath. We are assured
that nothing of the sortoectirred, nor, indeed, any ether
circumstance which could create the least suspicion.—
(arida Mercury.)
Nowak Roissaay.-01 Thursday, about noon, a !tumor
Gentleman from the country aliihted at the door of a
friend in this city, to pay a moralag visit. The hit of
!hod that he node, was fastened by the bridle to the
! hall-door, whirh remained open while the gentleman
i was passing off the compliments of the morning. On
returning to mount, he found, to his astonishment, that
hls saddle had hewn carried off!—All was bustle and
, cealusion ; however, one of the young Ladies of the
1 house ieroltected, that whilst she load been standing at
the window., she nor a tall stout man, with an ohl blue
coat, come up to the door and unloose the saddle tidbit ;
but thought. of courm, that the fellow must biliing to
the *lr. as be 'Ned not dare to take so mach liberty.

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AVMPie AT.TiVITIRRAL

..0, JAN. 17.

DURY
II to 1 opts. Sy Wohoo, t by Pita* oat of Watts
10 to I opt 'no Dote 4
•
17 to 14 agot Plodardo
IS to 1 apt Brother to Witcher •

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OAKS ..gas XIDDIJOIWORTH.
No oltootion.

DONCASTER ST. LEGSR.
16 to 1 iast c. by Walton, oat of Limrl/0
100 to 3 *Pt Cavalier
100 to 4 apt Mr. Watts's Tramper
100 to 4 apt Illoareith
100 to 4 apt c. oat at Eleanor
ALPII AB NTICAL LIST or rig WINNING HORSE*, he.
IN lISIBLAND, 1100TLAPID, AND WILLIS, 1819.

(Contintsed /rem ear Paper qj Tuesday last.)
Age. IF Dllra ANIIRSAIN.
4. Brown colt. Mr. J. Lord's. 401. at Teabery
4. Gammon. Mr. Platters. M. at Nottingham
4. Little Dick, Lord G. 11. Cavendish's, 90p mad 40p, at

Newswirket -
b. Btalabrough, Mr. Theiluson's. 30ga. at Abashes • sit
Mr. Dowbiggin's, the Gold Cep, visite 100" et Per
S. The Student, Mr. Udiy's,loogs, at Newmarket
b. Trictrac. Mr. 0. Pot's, 60ga, at Poolefraetr, and Its
King's Purse, of 100 g% at Richmond
ay stryofwissimiseres).
6. Slick mare (Brown BeUy), Mr. Staves's, M. at Tat-
bevy; SW. at Brawls ; and 301. at Worcester
4. Cloes. colt, (out of Laura) Mr. illeardsworth's, iop, it
Stafford
6. Duplicate, Mr. Tomas's, 110 gs, at Mancbester: BM. 164.
at Wareriek ; the Havrarden Castle litakes of 00ra
and 70gs, at llolywell-Hunt ; also 70gs at Tarportcy
Hunt
3. Manfredi, Mr. Thornhill's, 601, at Newmarket
6. Mks Bradley, Mr. Stevens's, 501. at Winchester; M. at
Monmouth; and Mr. C. Day's 30/. at Olansorrin
S. Sir Homy, Mr. Roberts's, bogs and 30gs, at Newcastle-
ander-Lyme
4. Sir William, Mr. James's, 471. be. at Durham
ler DOCTOR.
4. Rustic, Mr. Yarworth's, 40gs, at Warwick
(7'e be onstinard.)