The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-02-25 00:00:00

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N.4r4A. Attr114108,114;14.
Our Wilms them the coast this iterning state some
mournful catia4ties produced by,the late gales. Tire
following are the principal disaster' yet knows :
The Rambler, Pack, of Bed from -Yarmeeth to
London, with a cargo of cork ,arid deur, was run
down, on the night of the 23d, oil Paltefield.
Crew saved.—The Minerva, -.-....., from Limerick
to Liverpool, with oats, is wended near South
Port, and has five feet water in her hold.
Ross, FEL 21.—Last night, during a beery gale;
the William, of Weymouth, was wrecked oe alto
point of Cairusore, and the crew it is feared bare
perished, there not being the least trace of them—
the vessel is a complete wreck.
CAUTION TO Al ARINERS.-41ARWICH, Fen. 24.
Reporchas been broieght to this place, of Ihe,Longsaad
,haring increased near use miles in Went, iu a N.E.
direction, on a line with the Galloper.

The marriage of the Duke of ektiazscE with the
rich heiress Miss WYEEHAK, is said to be finally ar-
ranged, and frost what we observe, it is not likely to
'pier any delay from the late domestic celavaity. It
je said that the Passes astrater has gives his own
"MOOS, assent; but whether it bee named through
the mseetitational forms, and that the Royal Assent in
Council bas been given we do not pretend to know.
It mast have that sanction to secure to the Lady the
right, for .herself aced heirs, of succeeding to the
Throne. On this interesting sehject it cannot be
forgottett, that the KING in Coeocil refused his as-
fent in three (wank instances.

The refusal of the Princess Royal of Dcomseit
arrived in town oa Monday or Tuesday last week.
On Wednesday it was communicated to hic Royal
Highness the Duke of CLARENCE, and on Thursday
he set off to Brighton, offered his hand to Miss
WICKMAN, and r• was a thriving wooer."
Yesterday, in the afternoon, the P.ince of acct.
Ammar; paid another visit to the QUAEN and Prin.
ceases. In the evening, the QuEcrs and the Prin.
Centel AUGUSTA and ELIZARETII dined Al Catkin:l-
-
The Borough of Faeslism will be warmly contest.
ed at the ensuing General Eiectinti ; Mr. Bounu-
TOX, the son of Sir CHAttLES Rosa Iluutarrow,
Bart. has offered himself upon the Independent in-
terest of the Borough, and is supported by Mr.
ROGGE'S strong natural interest : upon the public ation
of an animated Address from each of these Gentlemen
to the Electors and Inhabitants of the town, Mr.
MANNING declined, end Sir CHARLES COMERELL,
Bart. Lord NORTHWICK'S brother-iu.law, has started
in his stead, to preserve to the Corporation the no-
mination of one of the Members, in opposition► to
the popular party. Mr. Howawrit stands so fair
with theElectors,that his return is considered certain.

COTENT•CARDEL—The new Opera of Zama was
repeated last night with increased effect. Some judi-
cious curtailments and alterations have been made.—
The patriotic song by BAMIMI, 111 the tune of the
Mum!lois Hymn, is, we need not say, still a fa.
teethe, notwithstanding the violent attack made
upon it, the Licenser, toe finger. and the Managers
of the Theatre, by the Newspapers that hate the
very sound of liberty.
The arrangements for the vessels about to caldera
the Arctic regions are now nearly completed, and
it is expected they will leave the River about the
21th March. Esery precaution has been taken for
the general comfort of the crews, fixed bed-places
are fitted, with sliding-doors for men to sleep in;
housings, to form roofs over the ships in the event
of being frozen in ; a liberal supply of vegetables,
and a propertion of xis months' beef, slightly
corned, with some preserved meat, will be sup-
plied. The Isabella and Alexander are intended
to proceed in a north-wed direction to Davis'
Straits, and explore there for a passage through, into
the great Pacific Ocean, by the American Continent.
The Dorothea and Trent, proceeding to the eastward
of Greenland, will take a northerly direction, in
the hope of reaching the Pole, and from thence to
Behring's Straits.
His Excellency Governor FARQUHAR, suite, and
family, are passengers by the Phaeton from the Mae-
ritius, and Commodore PUGET and son (formerly
from Trincomalee) from the Cape—in all eighteen
passenger.. Sir ARTHUR FORRI4, Bart., and Lies-
tenant .1 casuists, Nth Regiment, late Aids-de-
Camp to Governor Fanounaa, are come home with
him. We are informed she does not bring any in.
telligence of importance. There had been sin recent
seizure of slave vessels in the neighbourhood of the
Mauritius. The Slave Trade had been abolished by
the Native Powers of Madagascar (which island was
the great source of supply), by their municipal laws,
in conformity with a Treaty concluded between the
King of OVA and the Government of the Mauritius.
Capt. STAEYELL (of the Phaeton), who had been in-
defatigable, zealous, and active in co-operation, for
effectually seppressing the Slave Trade in the
Eastern Seas, and Mr. Pt's, Agent for the British
Government with the Madagascar States, carried into
effect this most important measure. When the
Phaeton was at St. Helena (Sib of January), BONA..
Passes was generally believed to be in good health ;
but he had not been visible, for souse time, to
strangers.
RsoucTiox lie THE PRICE Or PORTER.—An Ad-
vertisement on this subject from the Anti-Monopoly
Committee will be found in our Paper of this day.—
The Public are much indebted to these Gentlemen
for the active manner its which they pursue their ob-
ject, and we hope will co-operate in supplying the
mesas of rendering their exertions effective.
The Tottenham convict ship, with the Derby rioters
on board, having repaired the damage she lately sos-
mined its. the Downs, has again sailed from Sheerness,
,on her way to Botany Bay.
Eisen/intr.—This m.-citing, at the usual hour,
William and John Rarrlinson, suffered the sentence
of the law in front of Newgste, for robbery on the
river Thames. The frequency of these spectacles is
truly horrible. The providential discoYery respect-
hog Kelly and Spicer, prevented the addition of two
other condemned victims of guilt on this occasion.
Coati-EXCHANGE, Fes. 23.—Owing to the heavy
gales of wind we had no arrisils of any Grain at this
day's market, yet what remained over from Monday's
supply, met very dull sale, having but few buyer";
but prices of all articles are nominally Oat *oft as on
-Monday.

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at %sl ZOMMON HALL. ,v
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Coabson Hall of the Tiverymen of
Loudon Wits assembled pWrSuant toe Requisition, to
Petition both [louses of Parliament against any In.
demnity Bill, and against the conduct of Admiuist rm.
lion during the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Ad.,
After the Requisitiow bad been read, this LORD
MAYOR came forward and hoped that both aides
would be heard in the course of the discussion, as
that was the best mode of proceeding in every public
assembly.
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Mr. FAVELL said that they WM' POI then assembien,
that there might be brought before them points',
of dispute out abstract principles of right, or pure.l
theories of Government. They stood that day upon
the great and admired principles, upon which were
founded the laws of their country, and for which they
might go back to their -Saxon auceators. The Nor-
mans indeed had endeavoured to destroy them, but
they still survived. Our forefathers had erected grout
landmarks by which the liberties of the subject were
recognized and kept in..siew. These were Magna
Chart., the Petition of Rights, the Act of Settlement,
and the glorrious Revolution, which had marked oat!
and defined the coudoct and dirties of freemen Peen to
that moment. It ought to be observed, that that
day they came to consider the great trouts, the vital
principles of their Constitution. If men were to
be dragged to prison, and diet, released without trial,
or without compensation for their sufferitte., our
Constitution was not of much avail to us. If such
things were to happen, we might go and bombard
the Algetines, but we kept the spirit of their Go.
vernment.—(Applause.)—He did not deny that there
might be extreme cases, in which the Suspension of
the Habeas Corpus Act might he necessary, but there
`had never such a thing before occurred at a period of
profound peace. If a foreign enemy threatened nor
shores ; if invasion seemed inevitable, in that case
the suspension might, perhaps, be necessary. But
it could not be requited when there appeared not pa-
ternal danger and little internal commotion. He
spoke to a body of men titan whom he was con-
vinced none would go farther in putting down to.
mutts and insurrections ; bat while there was a plau-
sible .oaiety manifested against tumults, they should
take care they did not pot down the Constitution of
their country. There bad been many dreadful in-
stances of abase in the conduct of Administration;
some, indeed, so dreadful that one could scarcely
think of them without shuddering. Ile was always
unwilling to take op the time of the hall, but there
was something that had come to bins that day of the
most estraordinary and important ostu re. He alluded
to two letters that had been pot into hi, hands, the
subject of which, he had been told, was to be agi-
tated in Parliament by the Noble Lord, the Member
fur Yorkshire. [The Worthy Gentleman then read
the following documents t---)

" Catharine-bowie, Jae. 26, 1818.
M T LORD.--I beg lease to lay before your
Lordship a most distressing case of the widow and
family of ten children of the late Thomas Riley, who
was, in my opinion, unjustly committed to York
!guile in July fast, by order of Lout Sidurootb, me
stated by B. H. Allen, Esq. but contradicted by my
Lord Sidmouth, when questioned afterwards by Mr.
Barclay, M. P.; who said he knew nothing against
him, althoogh the before-mentioned Magistrate bad
stated' to a respectable mercnant at Huddersfield,
that they had no charge against him there, but that
he was ordered to be detained by the Secretary of
State for the Home Department, and committed to
prison. At the following Agsiges Lis Solicitor had
prepared his defence, but he was refused a trial, for
reasons well known to your Lordship, the palladium
of British Liberty being at that time, and still con-
tinuing, suspended. He remained in prison until the
7th October, when he put a period to his existence by
cutting his throat, occasioned by a depression of
spirits brought on by confinement. Although a Peti-
tion, numerously and respectably signed by his
friends at Huddersfield, aria a certificate from Iris
medical attendants accompanying such Petition, bad
byeti laid before Lord Sidmouth, of the danger of his
further confinement, sod of his acknowledged in.
dustry, and respectability of character and lo)alty iu
his own neighbourhood ; and althougb Mr. Barclay
pressed the necessity of his liberation upon the Noble
Secretary, yet his case was neglected, and tie could
riot bear so ignominious an incarceration without
being allowed an opportunity of exculpating himself
from charges yet uuktioirti, and believed siever to
hate esisted.

•• ender these circumstances, can I prevail upon
your Lordship to lay this case before the Executive
Government of the country, and intercede for some
annual assistance, as either the Huddersfield Magi-
strates or the Secretary of Stare most have been the
cause of robbing this family of their present as well
as of all future prospect of support and protection
from their natural parent and guardian. Begging
your pardon fur thi► intrusion, I remain,
•' Your Lordship's molt obedient bumble servant,
"rtinlit Hon. Lord Milton, M.P. &c."

•• Al. S.

Such .as the substance el the letter which the
brother of this unfortunate man Ltd addressed to the
Member for Yin ksbire. The other document stated
that—

" On Tuesday, the 17th of last Jesie, George
Whitehead, constable of Huddersfield, went to my
brother's house, and told hini he was his prisoner, and
expressed that he was much pleased he Initial length gni
hold of him; he newer showed any aethority for tak-
ing him, and it is generally believed he had no Warrant
for that purpose. On hearing he was apprehended, I
went over to Huddersfield, but was denied admit•
tante to him, nor could I learn any charge they had
against him; bat learned that bail to any amount
had been offered, but was declined on the part of
B. H. Allen, Magistrate, of Huddersfield, intimating,
at the saw time that he weir not acting upon his awn
information, but from higher authority. On learn.,
ing this I wrote to you, informing you that, as far as
I could hear, the information or charge was-laid in
.London, at the Secretary of State'a Office. On the
receipt of my letter yes applied through the medium
of Mr. Barclay, M. P., to Mr. Addington, Under
Secretary of State; this was on Wednesrtrie, gri July;.
on the very NOW day a respectable Gentleman at
Huddersfield was deputed to wait on Mr. Benjamin
H. Alfas, who asked him if- bail would be•tateia for
lig *realer Mr. Allen said be could set be liberated.

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