The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-03-10 00:00:00

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Loracc begs lessee regtedfully la *ferns the
Subscribers to the CoNersrcorrom that he intends
to enlarge the size of* to TWEN47 COLUMNS
next Sunday, and the price will be continued at
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'hink" that the Members of the Corporation of the
Empirel.werwtoo Ilene the scat of
,Glol:terronplis of the'
meenttoes
Pea that they woold vote an
address in' praise. of their measurer? Wo recol-
lect when Lostilkacirram.is Hsaatrirtevi Member for
Lanarkshire which ; Glasgow is situated),
i.,voted on the conduct of the late Viscount
MELvIkE.E, while Treatiarer of the Navy, his .
Lordship stated, that " he rose at that late hoar
only to remark, that •no one Scotch Member had
spoken against the nefarious proceedings of the two I
S'cotchnten, whose conduct had been the subject of
debate. It was on this account, that he now pre.
'Wed himself to tho House, for the purpose of de.
•claring that he should vote for the original motion."
We wish we could say that the opinions avowed by
this patriotic Nobleman, cm this and every ethic
occasion where the punishment of public delinquents
was called for, pervaded the Corporation of the City
of Glasgow, which he represeats--we should then have
the satisfaction of believing, that the Address of that
body was a spontaneous effusion of loyalty, which
ought to be universally Imitated. Bat knowing, as
we do, that 'the Mai.vim.E interest has the asCea-
dan4P in Scotland, ever all others, partied/01y
among the Borough Corporations, we ca see Isa•
thing in the creditable and honourable conduct, as
the Morning Post calls it, of the Glasgow Magii.
tracy, but a manceuvre of Ministers to procure, by
stratagem, the applause which they were convinced!
they could never obtain by fair and honourable!
means. But what, after all, is the Corporation oft
Glasgow compared to the population of that city ?'
What is the population of that city compared to the
population of Scotland ? Aud what again is the pea
pulation of Scotland compared to the whole Britisi
Empire ? The Corporation of Glasgow consists
only thirty-three Members, who, like all the other
Corporations in Scotland, are 'self-elected to the dif%
fereut offices they fill: the people whom they govern
have no suffrage whatever in their appointment. How I
easy then was it for the Miuisier to procure an Ad-
dress
from a body thus situated ? and what a tlisgrao3
does it not bring upon the City of Glasgow to .find
that their Magistrates should be, praising the very
measures of those men which, in common with other
manufacturiug towns, have-reduced them fo beggary
and bankruptCy ? Other Corporations of a similar
description may act as the Glasgow Corporation has
done; but we are persuaded that not a Corporate
Body in the United Kingdom, whose powers flow
directly-from the people, will ever disgrace them.
selves by following such an example.

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ND:9N• s a t-7' re, Alll9 ' Osv'•'; '4;
, c TUlll.llll.iasiliCit 10, -Nab?
The eiscueshisithh total been pre-
sented to the Pause,* sissinPtion
of
the unrestricted regal' Aided & pr&ty
strong proof of the unpopularity of thee,' men whom
his Royal Highness toad sppointed to- govern the
country. Whatever they have been the feelings of
the Prince on this very *narked disapprobation of the
first act or his sovereignity, we shall not pretend to
say, but this we know, that Ministers have not felt
thetnseives altogether at ease, in consequence of so
stronger proof of the natioo's displeasure, and that
I they have been endeavouring of late to stimulate the
Mayors of Burghs, and others dependent upon them,
who may have influence with the Corporate Bodies
-in the kingdom, to come forward with suitable Ad-
dresses. A few days ago the Mayer of Norwich,
who holds a most lucrative situation under Govern-

meat, issued summonses for a special meeting of the
Corpofation•of that city, for the purpose of preparing
an Address to his Royal Highness. Bus, however !
desirous Ms worship might be of evincing his grati-
tude; loyalty, and satisfaction at Mr. Ptaccvar.'s re-
rosining in office, the Premier appears to have re-
gardcd his anxiety not only in an official, but
also in an officious view; for the Minister, who,
honest man, wishes to, influence and direct all
the important matters of state himself, being
apprized of the intention, intimated through.
another of his grateful Mends, an Alderman and
Member of Parliament for the City of Norwich,
that he, Mr. PLECEVAL, was led to decline such a
mark of esteem, because other Cities and Corporate
Bodles bad not yet expressed similar desires on the
occasion. Irian probability the CHANCELLOR of the
Excnrolczn recollected that there were such things
as Counter-Addresses, and having dreaded the
effect which one of these might produce, he very
Wady idolised, As this instance, the proposal of the
° Mayer. On receipt of the intelligence, so conde-
scendingly etanannicated, this Chief Magistrate
took great pains to make it known that the Ad-
. dress to the REGENT, for the above reasons,
• would not be attempted to be carried. Still, how-
ever, a second trial was made, under the immediate

The two last set• of dispatches forwarded by Mr.
Russeu; for Mr.. • cr. BARLOW, by cartels to Mor.
leis, it will be learnt with surprize, have been in-
tercepted, end this Gentleman has, we believe, de.
termitted to send no farther communication to Fiance
until the cause'be explained.
It was reported afGibraltar, that six vessels were
taken and carried into Tunis, and thirteen into Ma.
logo, being part of the fleet which sailed from Malta
ou the Ist of January, under convoy of the Lowden.
The Catholic Question was, at the request of Mr. j
Pgaccvsz, postponed, last night, in the House of',
Commons, from Monday the 13th, to Tuesday the
14th of April. At the same time, on the motion of
Mr. PLaCEVAL, the Call of the House was hied for
the 13th.
Every effort made to swell the party of the Minis.
trra ends in the mortification of the recruiting officer.
, A message was sent by him to Sir JOHN S---1
minding hint, that several years ago he had given the.
Panics of WeLes the promise of accepting the
office of. Groom of the .Bedchamber as soon as be
isitould establiih a household. Sir Joel.; returned an
answer to the following ellect: " I perfectly retnem.
ber the circumstance—and I. remember too that at
the very same time his Royal Highness promised to-
j act on the principles, and by the advice of the friends
of Mr. lox. Now, when his Royal Highness per":
forms his part of 0.. c-contract, I will perform mine. "1
The l'arl of G *Upon:) , Lord SAY and Sue, and
several other Noblemen hate been applied to by hisl
Royal Ilighne4s, with an earnest solicitation to act
with Mr. PettezvAL, but they have all steadily, j
though respectfully, declined all connection u ith that
Learned Gentleman.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, d'i'd not sit- yesterday at
u's . inn, as he had to' attend the House of
Lords early to hear Appeal Causes. The Courts
of King's Deitch and Common Pleas were• also
shut, tle Chief Jestices having left town Jo attend
circuits.
Yesterday, at one otelock, the

sanction of the Prettier, but this proved completely
abortive, as a Meeting of the Body Corporate for
any such purpose could not be obtained• But though
the city of Norwich, in resisting this barefaced at-
tempt to gain its applause iu support of the present
!Ministers, and of course its approbation of the do-

structive measures they are pursuing, have shown
, that there yet remain in the country some indepen-
dent men, who neither regard the frowns nor the
smiles of a mercenary and profligate Government,
Mr. Pelmet-Az bee not been altogether unsuccessful
in his endeavours, in another quarter, to obtain what
be considers so essential to the establishment of his
popularity; for though his Royal Muter, who has no
pi ediloctioas *gratify , has been graciously pleased to
smile upon him, and to declare to the world that he
possesses hisen ti re con fiden co,th e Premier lea wa re that
thre is still a higher approbation to be obtained then
that of Ms foveteign--tke approbation of the People,
with whom all sovereign power originates—whose
yokel
,when united,_ and rendered indignant by op-
Irtsibeiiiilerttot way aide the C.Esafis ltemble, but,
in-our owit days, bakkaried a Monarch from his
throne, to expiate. Ms indil'erence to,the cells of his
subjects by an ignominious death. Having such an
example before his eyes, we have the charity for Mr.
FERCETAL to believe„that he really knows the value
• airs* ia.anzieusfor, puhlicapplause. But here we
are at p loss,whet her to despise him most, for theman-
tier in 'which he has endeavoured' to obtain thia, or to ;
pity him for: the -want of inccess. In Saturday's]
Gwettei the first and the indi Address appeared)
which has been ablate call forth, notwithstanding
his boasted popularity in the coutitry, and the ell-
powerful nieo us be reseeded 40tielidating his pull-
cans. -61 ?hi 'Cotpiwttlkis r okagoto," says the
411Oriiiitg Post extil • jr. s the credit and he-
Roar ol taking Use rmidpatolug the PRINCE
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Two Bilk are passing through the Baum of Cem-
ents*: foe, the better altivitlea of nary_ timber in
tteepuithes of Alice Holt andWooltnetiin Hatepshire, '
in the former of which his liLtiesew claims about
12,427; and in the latter 3,277 awed, [abject to Lord
STAWELL'S claims. The Bills recite, that, from the
'lncreasing difileulty of preauring a supely, of timber
from foreign parts, and from the estates of indivi-
I ails, it has become necessary to adopt such men-
suros for securing a more adequate supply ; and if
his MAJESTY were empowered to enclose certain parts.
of these forests for the growth of timber, great be-
I nefit would be derived to his MAJESTY andthe pub-
lic. The deer to be destroyed, or wholly removed
from the said forests.
On the 2d inst. the Right Honourable Sir Wit.-
miss GRANT, Master of the Rolls, was unanimously
_Fe-elected Lord Rector of the Marischal College iud
Uniten I ity of Aberdeen. His Lordship's assessors,
sill the Dean of Faculty, were also continued.
The Right Honourable W. Dutro,ss hasoffered him-
self to represtnatthe city of Edinburgh in Parliament,
in the troont of Sir PATRICK MURRAY, of Ochter- !
tyre, who is a candidate for Perthshire.
LAW.—A caste is expected to come on at our en-
suirsgassizes, where the Life of BORAIOARTI is con-
Icerned..--(York Herald.)
Ork 'Friday hitt, I porter clandestinely sucked up
such !quantity of spkift from a cask on the quay of
Belisle, that he rleepped down en the spot. He was'!
carried *Oa* spethothey's shop; where every medical
; aid was tried to save him; big sills vain : bellied is
I thin deplorable stale. : ...•
i The kick of the tate prisoners, which have arrived
I from Lithoni have nearly filled all the vacancies in
`the prison hospitals and Perim prison hospital ship,
but from the tare and attendee paid to their food,
clothing, &c. their recovery is speedily expected.
These poor fellows were long- confined in Spanish
prisons, having been mostly captured by the Guerit.
I las, and suffered almost every privation of life.
I They are overjoyed at the different treatment they
experience from British humanity.
SINGULAR CUSTOR.+OII King's-hill, at Hoch-
ford, in Essex, every Wednesday morning after-Mi-
chaelmas-day, at cocks' crowing, in compliance with
an ancient usage, a Court is held by the Lord of the i
Manor of Raleigh, which is vulgarly called the'
1 luwkss Court. The Steward and Suitors whisper to
each ether, and have uo candles nor any pens and
ink, but supply their offices with a coal, and he that
ewes suit or service to the Court and fails to appear,
! forfeits double rent to the Lord for every 'hour of his
absence. How admirable yould this system of whir-'
pering Ilud the use of cod be if adopted in some
• other Courts, in preventing the ambiguous verbo.
i4ities of the Gentlemen of the long robe, and the
wired drawn tendologies of legal periphrasis l
The ship Joseph and Phoebe, with passengers from
Londonderry for New York, is lost.—About eight
days after she sailed she experienced the heavy gale
in which the Saidatsh4 was lost, sprung her bow-
sprit, and received some further damage ; notwith•
standing, through the perseverance of the Captain
and crew, she made the land off Sandy Hook,
within eight miles of New York. Harbour, iu fifty-
two days, when she was caught in a dreadful snow
storm, which rendered it impossible for a pilot to
hood her, and which drove her en shore on Long
Island, about thirty miles from the Hook.—The pas- i
,sengers and creiv, with their luggage, are all safe.
On Sunday last an Inquest was held in Carrick- I
ft rgus jail, oe the body. of Daniel Hammitt, wno e as
convicted at the Sessions, some time ago, of stealing'
shoes from a shop in Church-lane, and who was after-
wards
discovered tp be a deserter from the artillery.l
It appeared that the unfertanate man, in order to
reader himself unfit for the army, had applied an ex-
traordinam quantity of corrosive sublimate to a sore
lieg and hid-also taken of it Internally, which soon
bed such an effect, that dreadful convulsions ensued,
sod Is. died in great agony, notwithstanding eve'',
Medical attention was paid to his situation. The
*Coroner's inquest brought in a verdict, that his death
Texas occasioned by the imprudent use of mercury.—,
'(Delfast Commerehd Chronicle.)
An usronseeAte Lex-A-rm.—An unhappy wan.'
derer, of•the name of John Marsdon, who was con-
fined in the Yoi k hospital, Pimlico, evaded his keeper
au Friday, and got into the adjoining fields before he
was discovered. He was. pursued as far as Sloane-
square, where he was overtaken, end enticed back to
the hospital, when he again rebelled, and got on the
top of the building, but was again secured. He had
on a strait waistcoat the whole of the time, and he
suddenly got away from his keeper again, by opening
the ward door with his mouth, his hands having been
secured. Ile however made a leap, and succeeded in
ascending a paling ten feet high, and from thence he
plunged into the bed of a privy,•and descended ten
feet, and was smothered. The verdict of the Jury
was—Liu:ors.
The ideas tied many years ago of building a
4 Opera
.• iso the. late- of the -Mews, -'
-t red,' ands ckiin of with' mdre coliff,
it 0. the'

froth ..
pr..GARTIISIIOI lEwere removed---,. 40 than ever.l‘,4llroutd df 1 -projected eui...
St:Martiu'i-line, to Dunhill burying ground, attend- would-face Piribimentalkeet,
ed by a number of inouroini coaches and Getitle. i In sock event, dimpe persons who have property in-
, mewsprivate carriages. ind another Pall-mall..
'lterate in boxes and otherwise in the present Italluit
No farther depredations have been cornamitted is ..
Theatre ;veld belreinifetted to the new house to rut(
the neighbourhood of Leeds last week : but so mesh,
alarm prevails among the ur D'oat their respective terms ; and it is said to be rob',
• °- rit°rs of gi4-.12:9 ble that in order to put at rest the floating i&o, 'of
that a military guard is nightly stationed for it i .._.,
protection. , i a...
„..47.Theatro, the preaent Opera ltousewould pro-
Died, 14 ltatinclt, surgeon, of Chicliesta:-"Illa "in, of, (what is called) the Dorsi.
atier'* authority
, to, .
-, wis cowverted into* Playhouse, to be opened-
Aboktb was iscasitsiiud by paring off. some hard akin !wont; and be akto,tbe Sumner Theatre. . .
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Ibwiled..ter and before, whel,:;,,_lse I. • Ile intindei Breakwater .in PVavetith Satads_a___
runfortuutely cat 4.0 r, -,- tres--sp It- r------) which la to
indar that sechorage San frm elm"'
4iferenee, a.. mortibtation took place, .surd, tatadm'i
noted his existence on Sunday last.
AtivEnTi4cperi.--To be disposed of, clitar4br 11.011110,46 Ilk
iii cost one million three Is:mired
lE:swoli which sow conchs from the Aga*,
andAviik.eatploy 1009 Pim !Isle,'
few yards of Woad Mee Ribbott--welwf hale -Ili& is, 4sunggidles. ,ft stilt: by 14411111450 r
bawked about a Hides 'NS are not. ilea the Ironer: - • kip Wial :14 portaie rocll. (tie,
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