The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-04-12 00:00:00

TUE FUNDS.

To-day being the Account-day, created a con-
siderable deal of bustle; but, owing to the very
trifling fluctuations which hale taken place, the
Account proved extremely small ; indeed the ex-
treme prices have been scarcely I per cent.
This has been attributed t' various causes, but it
Ims emanated chiefly from the stagnation of busi-
ness in general, occasioned the election, which
has so much occupied the attention of every rank.
The market opened this morning at ON, and
the Account closed at these prices. Money
has become extremely plentiful siece the divi-
dends have been in circulat;on, consequently
the continuation has decreased, there being but
4 to 4 per swat diaconal. lama .now till the May
Ac.i3unt, which makes money scarcely worth 3
per cent. India Bonds have risen to 2es. premium,
and Exchequer Bills to 4s. premium.
(mom ANOTIIIIR CoItRE‘PONPENT.)

This is settling day for the Account: but so
little business has been done, and the fluctuations
so trilling during the whole of the Account, that
the gay passes over the same as usual. Consuls
for Money 5811, with scarcely nnv business
doing—
for May, 6111. Up to twelve o'clock no defaulter
was declared, and from the trifling difference to
settle none are expected.

The intelligence from ficotla nil continues to realize
our wishes and our hopes ; and now that the dart
colouring thrown by fear over th,.. whi)!e transac-
tions in that country is lighted by the rays of truth,
ft loses much of its awfulness and its terrors. It
now appears, and we sincerely n k..ice it is the case,
that although the disaffected were allowed every
opportunity to muster, they could only bring toge-
ther SIG ill-armed men, and that the total number
of members of the Union Societies in Glasgow and
its neighbourhood does not come up to a thousand.
The deep stain of rebellion is therefore removed
from the mass of the population, and confined to
those whom we have justly represented, from the
Ant, as the deluders and real enemies of the
people. Yet we will admit that, even with such
a nucleus in the midst of a Manufacturing anti
distressed country, Much mischief might have been,
done, had precipitation or violence directed thel
conduct of the local authorities and of the military.'
The multitudes who merely desisted from working,
and remained undetermined spectators of passing cc-
currences, would have taken an immediate and
an active part in the rebellion, bad any attempt
been made to compel them, by force. to relinquish
their senseless intention of starving themselves to
death. Their misleaders, no doubt, anticipated,
and ardently longed, for a display of 4laneliester
precipitation on the part of the Gle.sgew and Pais-
ley Magistrates, as the surest means of bringing
the people into action. For any hasty attack
on masses that felt they had not broken the
peace, would have excited a conviction among them
that their blood was wantonly shed, and created a',
natural desire of revenging the wrong which they
would conceive they had endured. The few prin-
ciples of loyalty and order, which still lingered in
their hearts, would have instantly given way tel
the exasperation of the m meat, and instead of
rejoicing as we do now, at the rxstoration of peace,
by ways ti etmediaiiim and peace, we should
have .to mourn over the graves of thousands,

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sad the desolation of the whole country. Poe,
in the present state of the popular mind, it would
have been impossible to confine rebellion, even
if its successes were but momentary, within
the place of its birth. The beacons, kindled on
the Scottish hills, would have been answered by
tires of death on our own ; and in the universal
convulsion, the people, generally the ultimate
skeins sf nitsiutions, because always betrayed,
would have learnt too late, that the only thing
necessary to its happiness was not to overturn,
but to repair :—that it had institutions 'suffi-
cient to protect all its rights, if those institutions
were properly guarded and secured; and that li
berty, which is established by the sword, speedily
throws down its disguise, and turns towards its
astonished worshippers the iron face and iron hand
of Arbitrary Despotism. From such evils we have
been rescued by the wisdom and moderation of
the Scotch Magistrates. They acted on no other
instructions than those of their own conscience.

Their object was not to make a display of loyal
zeal, or to obtain the high honour of Royal thanks.
The latter, they have consequently, not yet re-
tail* though they never were more truly de-
served. Their object was, to save the peopk from
its own folly and from the snares of its deluders.—
This object they have effected. If they have not
acted so as to gratify the Gotirt, they have at least
secured the approbation and eternal gratitude of
their country, no mean compensation for the ab-
sence of thanks from the Throne.

It is reported in the Court circles, that his Ma-
jesty intends holding an installation of Knights of
the Garter, lit Windsor Castle, in the course of
the ensiling slimmer, before the soleniuity of the
Coronation.

Yesterday the Duke of York held a Levee nt his
Office in tlie Horse Guards, as Commander-in-Chief.
nis Royal Highness visited the Princess Sophia
vesterday, at Cambridge House •, the Royal Duke
schism misses a day visiting his Royal Sister.
Yesterday the Duke and Duchess of Clarence
had a select party to dinner. The Duchess visited
kle Duchess of Kent yesterday morning, at the
ing's Palace at Kensington.
Linens, Nissen 29.--ilk Majesty's ship Spartan
arrived here on the 26th inst. (rem England, and,
it is said, will sail on Monday next for Rio Janeiro,
with Lord Bereskird.

; iIaNAPARTE.—The following is an extract of a
letter from St. Helena:—
I •• Driftwood, Rt. Helena. Frb. 8. IMO.
" General Bonaparte is in good health, and has
been so for a considerable time past. l have seen
bins often, at a distance, in his garden—outside of
which he never appears. In the morning, he sometimes
appears in a dressing-gown and real cap, unit at others,
in a jacket and straw hat : he works himself, as well as
all his attendants and Generals (a lesson to human va-
nity). lo the evening he is in full dress, with a star un
he sees no strangers. and disappears when
oaf* m. -Mite* hew Which is else t•
his present residence, is nearly finished, and will be fit
for his reception in about three or four mouths, if the
furniture, &c. arrive in due time from England. It is a
substantial building, all on one floor, and Be different
suites of apartments are really handsome and cotnino-
thous. Ile has a carriage anti horses at his command,
awl he can now ride, without any restriction or at-
tendant, within a space upwards of twelve miles in cir-
cntuference, wills variety of hill anal dale, but not well
wooded ; however, all will not induce him to meant a
horse or carriage. The Bertrand. drive out very often,
and the ether people ride about every (lay.
" The society here is very limited: Sir Hudson Lowe
' entertains frequently, and her Ladyship makes the par-
ties at Plantation fistulae very pleasant. We have a
! pretty little Theatre Isere, which is some ainosement to
us. Oar Commanding Officer, Colonel Dodgirt, played
Falslalf; a few weeks ago, in great style, almost with-
out stinting, and your friend attempted Hotspor, which
he had before tried at Colombo."

The public have seen the low attempts that have
been made to tlx on the two honourable persons
returned for Middlesex and Bedfoltlshire the chargis
of coalition, though they had distinctly pledged
themselves to the contrary. The Middlesex Com-
mittee rest their charge on the testimony of a
single person, whose feelings and manners may be
estimated by his lariguare. He was a perfect
stranzer to Mr. Ben;;, and known to his neighbours
to be so vehement in his political opinions, that he
wished " to send Mr. Whitbread to hell" instead
of the House of Commons !—The Committee of the
I Admiralty Baronet published a pretended narrative
of the speeches at the close of the poll, and scil-
fully omitted the refutation of the charge which
they brought against the Noble Marquis.
The following is from the Glasgow Chronicle :
" The appeal made by the rioters to arms is now
confessed, even by those most addicted to visionary fear,
tai• halve failed. No ono now denies that the scheme
was one of the wildest and most ridiculous in the annals
of-the world. _ .

" The rioters hare had every opportunity that they
could wise for a full muster. Their treasonable placard
was very generally perused on Sunday. For the three
following (lays they were allowed to infest the streets,
in obedience to its injunction to be idle ; and when
they hoisted their banuers of rebellion in Bridgetown,
they remained three hours on the streets or in the neigh-
bourhood, unmolested and unquestioned by any person.
So circumstanced, they would doubtless bring forward
whatever strength they possessed. Its numerical amount
deserves to be noticed. From Calton and Bridgetown
there came 'JS armed men ; from tiorbals and Trades-
town, GO; those routed at Kilsyth were 51 ; and if the
41) nien that appeared at Kirkintilloch did not belong to
Bridgetown they will make a total of 246 men, armed
ukb pikes, fowling-pieces, blunderbusses, and pistols:
but of these only 51 tool; the field.
" We have reason to believe that the total number
!of members of the Union Societies belonging to
tilssgow, its dependencies and neighbouring villages,
fall short of a thousand. In the heyday of radicalism
they never amounted to 1500.
" That this small portion of the pepulation—about one
hundredth part—should have ruled imperiously OM
retire number of the working people, would Incite sur-
prise, if u e did not every day witness how easy it is for
a few men united to dictate to the facile rotate, and if
we did not know that the commereial pressure must hate
enabled the rioters to esliggerate their numbers, by as •
fossidin discoutut with the wish for revelation.

OLD BAILEY SESSION&
These §emions commenced this morning, . before the
Right HOD. the Loan Maton, the CONSION S&.. aa,T,
M. Duo. Wottn, and Mr. Justice PARS, presided on
the Bench.
A numbei of prisoners were placed In the dock and
arraigned, amongst whom, a soldier pleaded o,,ilty to a
charge bf robbery, but at the recommendation of the
Court, inbsequently withdrew hii plea, and pleaded Not
The following are the chief prisoners now in New-
gate, and the offences with which they are charred.—
Since the list was .nade out, a considerable number of
other offenders hare been brought to Newgate:—
M rder 1
. . . . . . . .
Stealing notes from a letter in the Genet al Pug Office 1
Housebreakers . . .
Burglary . . . . . . 13
Unnatural crime . . . . . . . I
Uttering forged notes . . . . . . 44
Highway robbery

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Stealing in dwell ...g-houses 1.1
Stealing privately
Ditto froth the person . . . . . . 36
Larceny
Receiving stolen goods
Embezzlement . . . . . . . 1
Misdemeanour I
Morrie Jomee, a boy 14 years of age, was contict.d
of burglary.
Thomas Poole stood indicted for having, on the 28th
of Feb. last, burglariously entered the Louse of Stephen
William Young, with intent to steal.
Young, the nephew of the prosecutor, stated that,
oa the evening in question he was sitting In the front
parlour in his uncle's house, which is situate in Pulitn..:•
street, when, hearing the street door open, he ran oat
with a candle in his hand to ascertain the cause. The
door closed again immediately, and witness, throwing
down the candlestick, ran into the street. He observed
the prisoner about five yards from the duo:. There
was hut one more prison within sight, and he wzs
seventy yatds from the Louse. Witness thought :t
impossible fur any one to
_get so far from the house
in the short time which had elapsed since be g:1
into the street. Ile observed the prisoner to throw some-
thing down, which afterwards proved to be a bunch of
keys. .Witness picked up one key, and immediately
seised the prisoner. The latter said, " What do yen
want with rue? It was a man in a white coat.'—
No person was present in a white coat. A struggle er-
sued, and tile prisoner was eventually secured. Upon
the person of the prisoner were fount two n hole can-
dles and two candlestick-tops, a little s:lver, a ti:k
handkerchief, and a silver watch, u ith gold chain and
seals.
The prisoner made no defence.
The Jury not thdliking the evidence sufficiently strong,
acquitted the prisoner.
In the course of the morning the ATTORNKT-Olie;eßAL.
appeared in Court, and motion, which, from the
low tone in which it was we found it inipo-si'J:e
to collect.
Nil/ I LUGS CE.
brAL, APRIL 1 I.—Arrivlld. sod sailed for the River,
the Albinia, Lynn, from Ihtuliay ; Grantham, Untie:.
wood, from Demerara; and Friendship, Meek. from
China, last from America, for Antwerp.—game down
from the River the Latoua, Lovie ; and Richard, Wil-
liamson, from Demerara. They remain with the ou
ward-hound, except the Woodford, Chapman, for India,
which ship has tatted to the weststard.
• Ptailut:Ta, ATM& 10.—Arrived the Antelope, Lam,
'trout Stittds, fat ttibtagerr; btatitali entawn.g, ftu.rt
Messina, for Amsterdam, and eailad arain; Robert Ed-
wards, Sherburne. from London, foe Lenten; and Anr,
Sutts, from London, for Rio Janeiro.—Sailed the F;ve
isters, Hioniss, for 'Falmouth.

FALMOVTH, Aran. 9.—Arrived the Prince Ernest
packet, with a mail from Lisbon, in 10 days : and Sur-
prise, Nelson, from Borwileaus, for Bristol, in D days.—
Sailed the Luke of Marlhoroagli packet, for Lisbon ;
and Diana packet, for the Meiliterrairean, each with a
mail.
Cowls, Aram 11.—Arrived yesterlay the Clay,
Hitching% from Antwerp, to take in specie for Batavia.

CORN RXCRANGR, APRIL le.
We have not had any fresh arrivals since Monday, bnt
the quantity of Wheat then unsold was very consideraLle.
and for which there was very little demand this morniuz,
consequotly the hales were+ exceedingly heavy, and olds'
a few picked samples obtained Aloutlay's prices ; all
other sorts may be conkidered lull Is. per quarter lower.
Fine Barley being scarce, prime samples went off freely,
on full as good terms as on Monday, hot the middling
qualities Were very heavy Beans, Peas, and
Oats, there is no alteration.

The Municipality of Alicant has granted the
wish of the people, that the names of Quirogs,
and Riego, shall be given to two streets in that
town, and that a column or pyramid shall be
erected, inscribed with the Constitution.
The Ipswich scrutiny is proceeding but very
slowly; the number of votes struck off from each
party at the last report were exactly the same. so
that the majority remained then as it did at the
close of the poll.
Married, at Cleasby, in Yorkshire, on Wei:ties-
day last, by the Rev. R. Waistell, Richard Sinks,
E•q., of Hull, to Isabella, younerst datsebter of the late
George Gordon, of Middleton Tres. The bride is turned
53 years of age; and the bridegroom (who has only
been six months a widower), is upwards of 76. Tbi.
marriage excited a little curiosity; the bridegroom was
unable to get Into the chaise without assistance, sad th•
worthy Clereyman, who officiated in the occasion, see-
ing the uneasiness of the bride on this account, kindly
stepped forward, and, not without difficulty, secceedea
in placing hint by her side.
LARGE LETT& Rlll.--The /0110 Wing letter, we un-
derstand, it authentic, and we insert it became it
is creditable to the friendly zeal of the Manager, and
to the modesty, as well as liberal feelings of the
Writer

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" MT DEAR ELLIITON—I am sorry you bare 11!7-
flounced me for Porter Caratroell is large letters. Yon
meant it, I am willing to allow. as a kindness ; but I be-
seech you to alter it in future advertisements. I expect
that any little merit I may posses in my profession shall
I hare its fair chance; bet cannot endure that my name
should be particularised by any marks of distinctlen in tie
play-bills. The most subordinate performer should be
allowed to ergetiis claim to poitlie favour entscejudiimd,
as well as the highest.--I do and ever shell regard my
brothers and sisters of the prcfessien too much to desire
(ante or proivity injuring their repuistioo, or semittnuor
their feeling*. For your ewe sake. for the hoisour u.
the stage. abstain from such ?moires—tare them to
gawks. Immerytuffers. so& ißasking-iwainin.
•• Tette% deer Illistow, sine rely„
" April El, 1920." • "N. liowrow."

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