The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-05-25 00:00:00

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OrtiL,liig prof tilt PASIr";
Olt blase sot the Bawl, if be to the boleti
Where Pleasufe lies carekisly min at Fame ;
He was born for much more, and in happier hams;
His soul.might have burn'd with a•holier lame. •
The string that now languishes loose o'er the lyre •
Might have bent a proud bow %the warridt's dart;
And the lip which now breathes but the swig of desire .
Might have posed the full tide elm Patriot's heart!
But alas fur his country, her pride is gone by,
And that spirit is broken which never would bend; •
O'er the ruin her children in secret must sigh*,
For 'tis treason to !svelter, and death to defend!
Unpriz'd are her sons till they've learn'd to betray ;
Uodistinguish'd they live, if they shame Dot theirsires;
And the torch that would light them through dignity's way;

M est be caught from the pile where their estuary expires !
Thep blade not the Bard, if, in Pleasaressoft dream, ,
Ileshould try to forget What be never can heal;
Oh t give but a hope—let a vista but gleam
*Thriiibe gloom of his coentry, and mark how he'll fed !
That instant his heart at her shrine' would lay down
lis'ry passion it ners'd, very blips it adned ;
While the myrtle, now idly eolwin'd with hiscrown,
Like the wreath of H ARSIODIUS, should cover his sword.
But, this' glory be gone, and tho' hope fade away,
Thy seine, loved ERIN ! shalt live in his songs;
Not e'en in the hour when his hearti; most gay,
Will be lose the remembrance of thee and tby wrongs!
The Stranger shall hear tby lament on his plains; •
The sigh of thy harp shall be sent o'er the deep,
Till thy masters themselves, as they rivet thy chains, • .
Shall paaseat the song of their captive, and weep.
• We may suppose this apology to haSe been uttered by
one of those Wan&ring Bards whom SPIERCER so severely,
and perhaps truly, describes in his " State of Irehiad," and
whose Poesy, be tells us, " were sprinkled with souse pretty
Bowers of their neesrul device, which gave good grace and
comeliness onto the which it is great pity to ism:doused
to the igusieg teilmoimil vice, which With redimage
weattaavie la adoesaialbesatify virtue."

On MB MAJESTY'S 'return front London to
Windier, on Wednesday evening, he went to the
Princess Amet.t.t's, where he remained upwards
of an hour. The report of yesterday 'morning
states, that her Royal Highliestwas much the same
as on Wednesday.
Yesterday morning his MAJIISTY, the Dnke of
CAMBRIDGE, the Princesses AUGUSTA and SorGIA,
accompanied by Generals GARTH, FITZROY, Co-
lonel TAYLoa and Lady COLYER, rude in the.
Great Park till twelve.
Ills Royal Highness the Archduke CHARLES has
again accepted the title and office of Genera
simo; he has, as before, the chief command over
every thing relative to war. Baron Yon GRUM
attends his Royal Highness in quality of Privy.

Counsellor. -
Mrs. FITZUEttBERT is said to be in treaty for

the Dowager Marchioness of LANSDOWNE'S ma.
rine villa on the banks of the SoUthampton,river.
Yesterday's .letters from Ireland speak• of seve-
ral large failures in - Dublin, -as well- as:. in Cork.
and Limerick, the effects of which lave been'sen.
sibly felt in London. •
Lord BAYKING died oti Saturday last after as
illness of a few hours. At dinner he was seised
With a 'shivering fit., in conieqUeficc, of which he
was put to 4cil, and about eleven o'clock he el..
tired.. His Lordship is secceded i,r hh titles sod
estates bx. his eldest .son,_Casnt.cs Feariatticit
POWLET TOWNSEND M. P. for Truro:
CHEVALIER D'Eaw—the Counter..l
now made of the sex of_ this generally 'apposed'
female character, is likely. tu.give rive.to Several
actions for the recovery of suree-unkietly, paid.
by various Underwriters on 01 ..faith given to
a Certificate, after an examination of Surgeons
about 30 years •ago,, several of these duped pay-
masters being still alive t 0 reclaim such sums, and
many of the poyex.also.rtnoining in esistence to
answer each demands .of -repayment. It may be
remembered, thstilmediately after this pecuoiery
+Peculation wes . decided, the CHEVALIER assumed
the female habit, which, to keep up the impos- 1
tare,
.was w•rn. to the.day of his death. There
Were present• at the post .obil .examination on
Tuesday Jut, three surgeons of great professional'
respectability, beSides . the French Physician,
PERICIALESIr when all concurred in declaring this
extraordinary personage to be of thu masculine
gender !

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The Isle of Corfu, considering its strong posi-
tion, the number of troops there, and the quantity
of previsions of every kind collected fur the use
of the populatioa and Harrison, can give no uses.
siness with respect to any attempt of the enemy,
who, indeed, dues not show any sign df even la-
tteding an attack.—Santa Maura was a bad post.
flea, which could not be defended. On the 3d taf
this month, there was a rather serious engagement'
between the flotilla of his Majesty and a large
English frigate. After a ceattest of three hours,
the enemy retired. We have to regret .the NO of
many brave men who fell in this action : it took
place near Ischia.

Intelligence from Bombay, dated the 9th of
Dec. gives an account of the taking of the town
and port of Rusul Khira,lnhabited by a desperate
horde of pirates. The Compauy't troops, on the
13th of November, under the command of Lien.
tenaitXolonel SMITH, were landed at that
,place
from hit Majesty's ship La Citiffunes. Captain
AiNirftichigh who, with the marines of that
ship, and the Cs; oline frigate, asaisted in the ,
operations. The. predatory hordes were driven
away in a short time in the most gallant manner,
and the troops ro.embarked on the following day.
Our loss was but trifling. The Minerva, une of
our vessels; which had been captured by these pi:
rates, was found in the Bay. She got under
:weigh on the approach of the British, and tan on
the beach. A considerable body of the people on
shore wife sent to reinforce tier, bit, after two or
three broadsides from the Prince of • Walesonid
gunboats sent in to the attack, the Arabs deserted
tier ; but the *iressi.4 was unfortunately in flames,
, and destroyed by sun-set. The Sultan, who cow.'
' minded these pirates, 'Seeped on the only horse in
the place. Our troops found plenty of booty ;
one of thellsth regiment found 1400 goldmohori.
The loss of *the pirates was about 200.


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. 14.113" INTML raarrsokt.,
COURT OF KING% BENCH; MAY 24.
ISAAC. num' N, EA: ti. k kso.
Mr. Cassias moved to make the Rule ansolale;
directing that the inguiaitiod hill in this cause
should be let aside, it having turbid AO dashagesi
and that the Delendint should
lay aka'.
Mr. Hurt, the Defendant, role to 4114 Simnel
.against the Rule. In the course of hil speeelt hi
recapitulated the circumstances of the case; lei .
October 1808, at he was passing one diy with hit •
dogs along the read that IW through the Pleintiff't
ground, obserting a dog to point, he follOsied the
game and shut it. His acquisition happened to he
a fine hare, and he carried it off io triumph.. The
gamekeeper of Mr. Astley, the landlord, *is in.
formed of the circumstance, and in the trial which
followed, the Defendant suffered judgment us go by
default. A Jury *ere summoned to rate the di.
maw. On their meeting at the Weymouth Arms,
Warmstead, in the county of:Wilts, tbeDefendant
addressed them on the quantum of the damage which
had been dune. 'Trio Jury found that no damage bad
been done to Mr. Sinspkin, and refused to fix soy
damages. • A nother ' Jury Were then summoned;
thcy met at the Town Hall, in Devitt's; the De.
fendant again pleaded his own cause ; and the
second Jury refused to give a verdict of damages,
where they had been told, in the course of the
Defendant's .speech, that by finding it, when no
dimage was done, they must porpre themselvea.
The Deputy Sheriff remonstrated, and threatesed
to confine the Jurors till they• brought in a mord
satisfactory verdict. The .Ilifors were stilt obsti.
nate, under the conviction which the Defendant
had impressed upon them. No damages could be
had, and iu • consequence the Court of King's
Bench was applied to, for the pi:0Mo( ordering
I new inquiry.
Mr. HUNT read several voluminous affidavits?
and commented on them as he went along, with
eonsiderableeasc and fluency. He Concluded by
declaring that he was perfectly ready to submit to
the award of. the Court, but hoped a Deputy She.
-tiff would have nothing to do with it. Ile knew
that the decisions of the inferior Courts might be
evcr.hauted by the King's Bench; and he" was
convineedi that if one half of those decisions were
.reversed, it would be for the good of the country;
still he bad but one fear, and the only thing that •
haunted his imagination, was a Deputy Sheriff in
the pomp and plenitudeof his Court.
Lord EtteNsonorou was perfectly of opinion
that the Deputy,Sheriff had done nothing but his
duty. The Jury were summoned to fix the dams.
ges, and they would not fix them. The Sheriff
had nu right to- consider that as a verdict which
. was not one, either in spirit or letter. If the De.
fenilanthad allowed himself to be guided by the
reason of others, ho would have known that the .
Jury Must have found damages, when he had owned
his offence by suffering judgment to go by default.
They were prejudiced by being told that they
riskidihncrime of perjury by finding the very
verdict which yet they ought to hate found. It
was not to be slid in-law, that herniate oo actual
andiateable damage mold be found, there was no
damage done: If there were no other, there wee
a damage to the right If a man Might walk across
the opesneld of his neighbour, the *damage doss
'Might be less In value than soy coin of the realm.
Yet. if there were so 4amiege to bo assumed in this
case, he might coptinue passing along that ground,
till.cnstom had trove . tato.a right.of tholnuglt.
fare. As. the costs oa the first 'aphides had sot
bees mentioned, when the matter 'was already be.
fore the Court, they would out now betted upou
the Defendant, but he must 'be liable to those of
the second inquisition, and the pretend applies.
lion. The Defendant should issit, however, be
again subjected to. the *enquiry before 'the Deputy
Sheriff. The next should bi had before 'a Judge
of the Court.
Richard Barrow). who had been brought op
yesterday for judgment, appeared again in Court
to-day. But On the Counsel oo both sides =pre,.
sing themselves satisfied with the . prevision which
he tendered for the child's future support till the
age of twelve years, he.wasdismissed without fur.
'her punishment.
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Mr. ROGER O'Coxsoa, it is said, is gone over
to Ireland, to procure documents which he con.
eeives necessary to the justification •of his public
chJracter.
Foox-Race.—A match for 60 guineas. • side,
12 miles, was run on the road from Kingston to
Staines, yesterday, between Mr. Pewrey, an
amateur runner,• and a young Gentleman, of the
liable of Passingham. Mr. Pewsey was the L.
eonrite ; be followed his adversary seven miles,
when he made play and won the match easily, in
one hour and a half.
Suicine.—A Cyprian, of the name.of Bentley
cut her throat, at her apartments, in Mary.le-
bone-street, on Monday night, when in a state of
iintoxication. Medical assistance was immediately
procured, and hopes were entertained of the un-
fortunate girl's recovery, until she began to bleed
again on Wednesday night, when she expired.--
The deceased was eighteen years of age.
DREADFUL FIRE AT 'EXTON PA EL.—Widnes.
day morning, about five o'clock, the east Wing of
the venerable mansion belonging to Colonel Noel,
at Exton Park, Rutland, was discovered to be ~e,
fire; and before assistance could be had, all the
rooms east of the great hall, together with their
valuable contents, were destroyed. •In these
apartments were the admired paintings by those
excellent artists, Tenien and Gainsborouglt ; to.
gether with the greater part of a valuable library, •
collected by the late Earl of Oainsborongh, and
h 1 prerkcessor, Colonel Noel. Among the pic-
tures that wero saved and stored in the church,
'aloag'll4th the books, furniture, 6;6. were the
portraits 'of Lord Moira, Lord Barham, and.
Mrs. Siddons ; and that large inimitable one of
Captain Englefiold, in the Centaur. The pictures
bud all been repaired sad cleaned by Mr.
who completed themand left Estee Park hui the
preceding evening. It is impossible
to estimate the
loss sustained at present. One.picture aluter,,,a
landscape, 'was worth 1000 guineas. We India-
staild Elie COIMCI 'Ras inured for bOOOl. only. •
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