The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-08-07 00:00:00

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NAPA', INTRLLIGENCE.

DEAL, Atoust 6.—Came down from the River
and sailed, the Maunder, Scofflens, for the Isle of.
France; Lapwing, Brock, for Malta; Eagle, Bow.
deo, for the Mediterranean; Heywood, for
Quebec; Elizabeth and Sarah, —, for Pictots ;
and Ruben and Elisa, Stowell, for New York.—
Sailed the four Spanish transports for Wis.
Powtsmouvit, AUGUST 6.—Ships at Spithpad : his
Majesty's ship Billette, for Halifax ; and Potton,
Carter, waiting fur orders.—His Majesty's ships
Phaeton and Car"ron, fitting for sea, will go out of

Harbour as soon as seamen can be got.
Cowes. Alio. 6.—Sailed the Sarah and the Asia
transports, for Quebec, with the remainder of the sth
battalion of the 60th Regiment, and part of the 76th

Regiment, under command of Lieut.-Colouel Fitz-
gerald and Major Schoodde.
MARGITE, Aucture 6.—The Drie Gebroeders,
Timmerman, from Antwerp to London, his heen on
shore on Margate Sind, but was got off by assistance
from the shore, and has proceeded this morning for
the Riser.
Hsawros. AUGUST (S.—Several salvage vevsels
base arrived, with timber, lath wood, and deals,
picked up in the Wallet, end under the Sunk, sup-
posed to have been part of the cargo of the" London,
Thomas IVatson," a boat having been brought in
from the same spot with those names upon the stern.
Mu, AUG. 4.—Arrived the Lord Wellington,
Dannatt, from Greenland, with 10 6sh-380 butts
of oil.

NOUTII Smut's, AUG. 4.—Passed this harbour
the Richard, —2 of and for Hull from Greeulaud,
yids 14 fish.

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The Earl Perry, Cunningham, hes arrived at Kirk.
cWy, from Greenland, with 12 fish.

V.JUXIIALL.GARDENS.

This unique place of recreation and amusement has
received daring the present season more than an or-
dinary share of patronage. The uncommon fineness
of the weather has given full effect to the charming
uttractiens of the Gardens, and the fashionable world
have begun spin to cheer and enliven this Elysian
scene by their presence and patronage. The company
on Wednesday night was extremely numerous and
brilliant, and consisted of some of the most distin-
guished personages in the country.
The Duke of Wellington, Mra. Wellesley Pole
and one of her daeghters, Mr. Wellesley Pole, Col.
Marley, and other Gentlemen, were present. The
Doke wore a black coat, buttoned close up to his
collar, white waistcoat, light.coloured breeches and
stockings; he wore a round hat fashionably pointed
in the French style. Ile looked remarkably well
and in escelient health. Ile was soon recognised by
the public company, and, of course, exposed to much
gattnigsMontruience. lie seemed little attentive,
however, to thew marks of silent respect.
The Ladies seemed to command the chief part of
his observation. Ilk Grace and party remained a
considerable time in the Gardens.

It is gratifying to find that the reviving patronage
of the Public ku enabled the Proprietor of Vauxhall
to conduct the fascinating entertainments of these
Gardens on a sale of suitable splendour.
The musical department is well filled, and Mrs.
BLAND retains, as she deserves, het long earned cc.
lebrity. It is impossible to speak of Madame and
Alarlamoiselle Saqui in terms sufficiently expressive of
their extraordinary tasteand skill in the several dances
they perform on the rope.
We hope sincerely, that if the rumour of letting
these grounds on building leases, if ever seriously en-
tertained, wilt be now abandoned. When Itarielagh
was relinquished, the Pantheon supplied its place;
but if Vauxhall were discontinued, there would be

an end to that delightful source of recreation and
entertainment which it furnishes, and which foreign.
era universally acknowledge to be unique in its kind
in Europe.

Gramme or Enamour* lbw INTO 3 era Uwe. Cow-
lounATen AND lIRDUCIED ANNItItTiLs.—A Notice from the Ex-
chequer liill-ollee, in imatrs Mai the Certificates on w hieh the
Inftalwaents d..e the lit of August has been paid, are now ready
'for deist erv. The llostalinrats ore to be made either in I ache-
quer Bill-..dated before the Ist of August INK on wh ch day the
interval thereon a all eraser a r bye payment in money. in sib ch
case Ail. mosey most he paid in lieu of each I VI. l'Acheetter
SAL Interest muss else be paid of id. per diem Nom each
lull. money, to be computed from the let of August to the day
payment .
Yesterday an official commenication was made by
the Bank to the Stock Exchange, that the.pirecters
will, as usual, give every faci.ity to the negociators
of the New Stock ; that they will, what is lechot.
telly called, 66 take in the Oinitiams," which is, to
wake paysient et the remainder of the instalments,
on being paid interest at the rate of five per cent.
for the weary 'dreary&
ENGLISH Oreaa —Last night, after the Ame-
ricans, tie very sterling and Interesting Opera of the be.,erier
of Naples ant, fur the first time (1113 sra'on, performed at this
Theatre. Ilk- Kur y, is the character of Louise, dis;,layed
her uneammea powers of acting - the unhappy feelings she ex-
pressed at the trick put ups her lover, as well as the whole of
her admirable performance. appeared to be so naturally the
olitriciF assert ates lion. that site audience. as it were by an
Instinctive impel e of sympathy. could not avoid expressing the
Mitt butt-felt applause. I' P. COOK. in usury, the Deserter.
Vai greeted with the mo►t nattering approbation. 11is kgiire iy
better than 'lease Jos %nos's, and his- actill is good ; Let
[atom settries we thought he dial soot evince tullici. of pathos,
or a counterpart of feeling in the heart-ret.ding sorrow so finely
ezhibired by Slim KELLY, which is the very suet of acting.—
CmerreatAr, in Skirmish. and VilLencson, in Simi.kin. af-
fOrded a treat to those who can enjoy PI sodden a transition
from she sublime to the halter, ui—we seldom witnessed so good
a piece erecting in low comedy as %lummox in Sitnekin; In-
d ed the characters are so well um is this tr gi.comic Opera,
that we have no doubt the Managers will find it their interest
uceasionail. to repeat la daring the season.
In Sands, one of the o.kney Islands, the send
has been lately blown away to the depth of nearly 50
feet, end has discovered the remains of buildings of
east antiquity, enclosed by stone walls nearly half a
talkies extent ; some of the houses are very large, end
roofed with stones of a prodigious size. There are
several circular tumuli, each colossi gg i( is then, graves,
none of which are more than four feet sit inches long.
There is not the slightest tradition that cast throw
soy light on these very interesting and curious re.
ilmioN which have yet been very slightly
Wed.

A 4.4

MURDER or A E4TIIBR IN IRELAND.

At the Assizes for the county of Wicklow, Philip
Lewin stood indicted, before the fienoorable Bann
George, for the murder of Thomas Lewins, his
father.

The circumstances that led to the apprehension of
the Prisoner, his conviction, and execution were few.
On the morning of the murder, a woman met the Pri-
soner,with whom she was acquainted. He was dressed
in a dark-coloured coat, and wore white yarn stock-
ing. In about an hour after this meeting, she was going
up the same road, she heard cries of distress ; she
advanced and saw a man striking another man on the
ground, but did not know the person inflicting the
wounds. Being apprehensive of approaching alone,
she applied to a woman living on the ►oad, and also
to a man, and directed them to where a man was
lying. As they came up they saw a man with a large
dark coat and white stockings, running away, but
did not see his face ; on arriving where the body of
the man lay, perfectly dead, and discovered it to be
the Prisoner's father,• with his head heat in in three
places. The man brought by the woman exclaimed,
" It is either Phil. or Pat. that has murdered the
father." While standing there a boy came up,
and on seeing the body, mentioned to them that
he had just met Phil. Lewins running up the road;
that Phil. had asked him if he bad seen a man
running before, with a light-coloured coat ?-1
To this the boy replied that he had not, and passed
on. The Prisoner continued to run; the boy looked
hack and saw him go into the gap of a field, and
almost return, and continue trunning. Being asked
if he could point out the gap, he replied he could ;
accordingly the party repaired there, and after three
searches, found a pistol with the pan down, the stock
broken, and loaded with powder and ball; a pursuit
was made, and at the distance of about four miles the
Prisoner was discovered by his white stockings in a
field, covered, except his legs, with furze. When
the Prisoner was discovered, he was asked, what
brought him into that situation ? He replied, that
he owed his Landlord 501. rent, and that when he
saw the crowd he thought they were Bailiffs coming
to arrest him for the debt, and that therefore he was
in the situation they found him.
This was the only defence made on the trial, which
was negatived by the Landlord, who declared, thitt
though the Prisoner was indebted to him, he had no
cause to apprehend en arrest at his suit.
The Prisoner was instantly found
Baron GEORGE, in his address to the Prisoner,
after conviction, endeavoured to arouse him to a
sense of the atrocity of his offence, aggravated by
the fact of that being the murder of his father.
The Prisoner. instead of paying the least attention
to the Learned Judge, merely said—" They stole my
lease—William stole it and gave it to him (meaning
his father), and he gave it up to Mills."

lie received the awful and dreadful sentence of
death without emetinti, and retired from the Court
still speaking of the lease.
Frequently, previous to his execution, he was at.
tended by the Rev. Dr. Porter, who Os he doeslti
every case) exerted the piety by which his character
is marked, to bring the wretched being to a sense of
his awful situation—of religion he had no knowledge'
—a Prayer he either wnultl not, or could not say—
not even the Lord's Prayer. To the pious exhorta-
tion of the Rev. Cle►gyuman he replied, `• They stole
my lease." lie had been of the Catholic Religion,
and shout 14 years ago read his recantation—pre.
miming he might wish to commune with a Clergyman-
of his former persuasion, Dr. Porter mentioned to
him, if such was his wish, the parish priest should
be sent for. fie declared, "he wanted no clergy.
man."

On the morning of his execution, when his cell wee
opened to bring him forth, he was found lying nn his
straw ; when his irons were taking off, he assisted, as
if to prevent his uncles from being injured. Being
informel it was time to ascend the stairs to the Etr-
cution-room, he walked up firmly, and when the rope
was put about his neck, which he felt with his hand,
it produced no sensation or alteration of counte-
nance.

Doctor Porter went on his knees to prayer; the
culprit also (lid the same, but not with the same view.
He found fault with his cap being too low down—it
was raised. He was sevent y.five feet from the ground,
and an immense multitude of spectators before him.
This had no effect —" William stole my lease, and
Tom Len ins gave it up to Mills," was frequently re-
pealed by him. The Clergyman did every thing that
religion and humanity could suggest, to bring him
10 g sense of his situnfienl—it was in vain. lie
was asked. wou'd he say whether he was guilty
or not ? The reply was, " I have said enough,
and I will say no more; I die a Member of
the Established Church ; let me down easy, and do
not give me a hard chuck."—He then said to the
Clergyman, " Will yogi promise to give my body to
my friends ?"—The promise was made, and the ques.
Lion as to his innocence or guilt repeated, but received
the same answer.

When he went not on the bars of the gallows he
sat down, and endeavoured to hold the rope. This
being prevented, and standing up, the platform fell,
and he was launched into eternity.
After hanging the usual time he was let down into
his coffin, and sent to the surgeon for dissection ;
and after having been opened, on the promise of the
Rev. Clergyman, it was delivered to his friends. The
following day his body was numerously attended to
the grave.

INCREASE OF FEVER IN IRELAND.—We regret to
learn from the Irish Papers, that the Fever which
has afflicted that Country for such a length of time,
is on the increase, as it is decidedly in Dublin. The
Fever is of a mild type at present, but, as one of the
Reports remarks, it is impossible to say bow long it
may continue so.
It is rather singular that the sister of Hussey de-
stroyed herself in a fit of insanity at Mr. Shore's, at
Highgate, last summer; and that Hussey's brother
and uncle are at present confined in Bethlehem Hos-
pital.
The Calendar of Prisoners for the very extensive
an popelous county of Northumberland contains, we
are nappy to say, only seven—one for the murder of
a bastard infant; one for perjury; one for Swindling;
and four fur theft.

fi §TATESNTASI.

AIX-LA-CHAPELLE.
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" Aix-la-Chapelle stands in a fertile bowl, inf.-
roomier, by hold hilts, on descending from which,
either on the road from Liege or from Juliers, the
slated roofs and minarets of the Hotel de Ville, and
the grotesque dome of the Cathedral, give to the old
Imperial City an air of *main* dignity. On enter-
ing it you find it, howefir, far from a handsome
town, according to the modern acceptation of the
phrase—nor is the interest of antiquity united with
any of that architectural curiosity which give the
great cities of the Netherlands so striking a charac-
ter. The city, which is by no means large, is as
usual surrounded by a thick rampart, how half in
decay, with small Raman towets at nearly equal dis-
taste's, Below the ramparts are agreeable shrub.
heries and gardens, chiefly the work of the Frenal,
and which form favourite promenades to the com-
pany of the bathing-place.
" Our visit in the summer, when the place was
overflowing with company, gave us some idea of the
mode of life of the diversified groups who were drink-
ing deeper of its waters and amusements than our-
selves ; both of which have no small resemblance to
those of similar scenes in England. Gaiety has,
however, a more decided character ; I.leasure is more
the avowed business of every body ; and if enui may
be the motive of as many visits to this place, us to
similar ones in Great Britain, the remedy here ap.
pears more successful ; for you can rarely read in a
single countenance, as you so often may in the li-
braries of Brighton or Cheltenham, the inveterate
disease of whi, h persons conga to be cured. The
system of the day commences with a bath, taken
early, for about half an hour. After breakfast fol-
low excursions in the environs, walks in tl.e gardens,
visits to the cafes and billiard-rooms, an:l above all,
the pleasures of the redoubt, or grand soloist', which
occupy the gay world till dinner, at two or
three. This last.mentioned place of rendezvous is
the great centre of attraction ; and with the
reception of much more gaiety, more avowea
vice, and the absence of all pretence at rational
resources, arts the part of the library at an
English watering-place. The redoubt is a large
handsome building, the ground floor open with a
colonnade in front, appropriated to print, tny-shops,
t&c. A wide staircase conducts to the first floor,
where, after depositing your hat and stick with the
gendarmes at the door, you enter the grand saloon
—a splendid room, with a carved ceiling, and lined
with mirrors. On otie side a crowd of motley, but
well dressed and gay-looking persons (I regret to
say, of both sexes) are pressing .rear each other',
heeds, round two large batiks of rouge el nuir. An
anxious silence reigns, only interrupted by the tat.
tliog of the roulette, the clink of the Napoleons and
francs, and the titters and jokes of the few whose
speculations are • matter of mere frolic. The play
is frequently very high, but the batik does not refuse
to sweep its a solitary franc. Pretty, interesting
women were putting down their Napoleons, and see.
ling them swept sway, or drawing them in doubled,
1 with a sun': froid which showed they were no novices
in-heir srniT.ttylavist
46 li.tween four and five o'clock, groups of the
beau monde repair to the louiaberg—a bold sandy
hill, rising abruptly just above the ramparts of the
loon, the view from which overlooks the city and
tt e rich valley beneath, and stretches over the neigh-
bouring hills and fertile ptsturet, to a range of cress
mountains which bound the horizon towards Ger.
many. The scene of attraction on the mountain is a
large tavern, with • splendid saloon, commanding a
noble prospect. Music, dancing., smoking, tea-
drinking, walks in the gardens, Scc. occupy the va-
rious descriptions of guests ; and the scene has few
features of difference from our cockney rendezvous
near town, esrept the characters of the parties, who,
instead of being worthy cits, with fat spouses, are
often a gay assemblage of Counts, Harallf, &C. of
various nations and qualities.
" Daring the continuance of the season there is
generally a company of German players at Aix-la.
Chapelle, and the company hastily return from the
Lituisherg to the Theatre. The building is small,
and by no means handsome. An Opera was given
I the night I was there, the music of which was egrets-
, able, but the actors by no means extraordinary.
66 The Cathedral of Ai: is interesting for its his-
tory, and its rude specimens of early Salon archi-
tecture; but has neither beauty nor grandeur to re.
commend it. The qaaint old dome, which com.
prehends the whole edifice, except the light Gothic
choir of a later date, is a venerable relic of the old
minter with which Charlemagne adorned his native
city. Some of the variegated marble pillsrs which
adorned the old edifice are now returned from their
temporary visit to Paris, and are shown• with the
curiosities of the Church. Under the centre of the
dome repose the ashes of the Great Charles, with
the simple bat impressive inscription on the pave-
ment, 6 Carllo illagno.'—lmmediately above hangs
an immense circular sort of chandelier in the shape of
a crown, composed of silver and brass—a present to
the Church from Frederick the Great, called Char.
lemagne's Crown.
" The lofty Hotel de Ville, with its antique mi-
narets, and its roof studded with diminutive win-
dows, crowns with a venerable dignity the Grande
Place of the town—a bustling square, adorned by
an immense bronze basin and fountain in the centre
surmounted by an antique browse statue of Chart..
magic, fully accoutred. Two large black eagles
flap their metal wings on pedestals by side of the
fountain. The Monarch and the eagles turn their
heads towards the Hotel de Ville—the ancient Pa-
lace in which Charles was born. The statue was
honoured by the French with a visit to Paris, among
the other works of art. The modern l'russian eagle
now figures over the door of the hotel, announcing
the Police and Municipal offices of the Prussian
Regency. We entered the hotel by a spacious hell,
with vaulted roofs, and grotesquely carved and
painted walls. A wide" staircase conducted us to
the grand saloon, where the memorable Congress
was held which concluded the Peace of Ais-la.
Chapelle, in 1748. An immense well-executed
picture represents the whole Corps Diplomatique,
with their Secretaries, in full costume, at the delibe-
rative table, to the number of about thirty. Le
Chevalier Robinson, meaning Sir Thomas Robin.
son, stud Lord Sandwich, were pointed out to us as
, oar Plenipotentiaries i and Maria Theresa's famous