The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-12-17 00:00:00

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lowed in 'from another quarter, &id pre pkeiit tiers srszirsirlirThomet, 1,00 o'cLeick
Epinds for the reception of every thing greet and i l itt is porn-en:mei twatinfiliti &too telgrog fen-
fortunate,--combined with the Unusual cirdelestinee teeeeHe was ordentd.
of the guns being tired fur successei In which the fled Four Months
British Atmy had no immediate share. We recol- in qwpttg; end peY a Pipe' Isf',/5000.
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lect Only one occasion on which a•similar demonstra-
tiun of puhlic rejoicing took place in consequence ' NAVAL 1:1411'g feLIGiINCE;
a victory of our Allies—this was in 1799, for the
battle of Novi, which was gained by SUWARROW; and, P
Mai., Dec; sl6.—Stileff the detained ship O.
we understand, that It was this precedent which de- mono, for Ramsgate 'th Pier, in the lois of an anchor
sided Ministers. in favour of this departure from the and cable.
general rule. The Free Briton transport. Cwt from two anchors
• E had cables this morning; she has been supplied with
C Tut ROYAL FasitsY.—The Dukes of YORE
LARNCE, KENT, CustusathAND, and CANIRRIDoE,' others, and rides very well. •
dined with the QUEEN andPaixcesses, at Carlton ! Remain in the Downs
.his Majesty's ships Mon.
House, on Tuesday : also a select party, were in- mouth, Chatham, Cornwall, Bedford, Duncan,
riled, and dined with the thm, and spent the Gloucester, Plantagenet, La Hogue, Warrior,
evening there. I Asia, Clarence, Rinaldo, Rosario, Cretan, Mos-
fuesday the Princess Coaektrrta of Wm. Es stop-
and Manly; Free Briton and Lady Cathcart
pod at KenAngton Palace on her way to London, : quite,
and dined with the Princess of WALEN. In the transports.
evening, between eight and nine o'clock, the Princess I PLYMOUTH, Disc. 15.—Arrived his Majesty's
CHAIAEoTTE went to Carlton House, and joined the
ships Vengeur and Princess Caroline, from off Brest.
Royal Party at supper.
Yesterday morning the QUEEN and PaINCEssEs
visited the Duchess of Baingswtoc.
Yesterday the Qom and Pat:teases dined with
the PRINCE REGENT, at Carlton House. The
Countess of liannteciros, Mrs. Howe, and a select
party were invited to meet them. la the evening
there was a dress party. Many distinguished cha-
racters were invited to meet her MAJEATY.
Yesterday the Estrl of Ltrattectoa bad an audience
of the Patuce RE4ENT.
We have had, as usual, a multiplicity of assertions,
boldly pronouncing the death of BONAPARTE, but no
such information has been obtained, although he has
certainly been exposed to imminent danger. A letter
was received from Stockholm yesterday, of the date
of the 4th instant, which states, that a Courier had
arrived at Berlin to command the immediate attend.
ance of three skilful surgeons to assist in the cure
of some wounds which had been received by a person
of great distinction in the vicinity of Smolensk.—
This person was, at the Swedish capital, conjectured
to be BoNApARTE, but it is probably one of the Mar-
shals of his Empire.
According to some letters whibh were received
yesterday from Paris, very serious doubts were en-
tertained there of the safety or NAPOLEON. These
were principally occasioned by the arrival of a Mes-
senger from the Grand Army, who had brought no
Bulletin, and respecting whose dispatches the most
guarded secrecy was preserved.
Stocks rose rapidly on the news yesterday morning
from Russia, and about one o'clock Omnium was
done at ten per cent. securing, we understand, to
one adventurer 40,0001. in return for 4000 guineas
which he had given on the contingency of receiving
10001. for each hundred guineas, should Omnium
reach ten per cent. premium, Rreviously.to the pay-
,ment in January. We believe that premiums were
liven to the amount of 16,0001. in all, which will
require a payment of 160,0001. in return.
Mr. DANtel,s, the King's Messenger, arrived at
Lord CAsTLEREAGifs house, on Tuesday night, with
flip dispatches from Viscount CATHCART. i'l..^lll
CAirLEREAGH was gone to hed, having been indis-
posed for several days with a cold, his Lordship got
up, and after perusing the dispatches went to Carl-
ton House, at a quarter past one o'clock, and had
an audience of the PitiNcc ItEGENT to communicate
their contents.

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Op Court was ctowded it an early lindr yeet6f.6
64.101.01 n,, tiiltdblernen and Gentlemen inxibui
to hest the prodeediugs in this case: On the [knell'
we, obierved the Duke of Clarence, bird Desert,
Mr. Denis Brown, Colonel Dillon, &c. The Noble
Defendant in sat amongst the Counsel i Mediately
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under the Bench.
Before the indictment was read,. an, ipplieetititi
was made to the Court by Messrs. Deirecair and
Scentret, to permit the Defendant to plead guilty
to tertain of the countsi and not to ptoteed tin the
others.
Lord ELLE.NRORDUGII said, it was the ddty fit thel
Court to go on with those parts of the Indictment to
which the Defendant pleaded not guilty. lie tile*
of no case in law in which a Defentient had pleaded -
guilty to one part of an indictment, end wile kit
tried on the remaining counts. the Crown had I. '
right to do what it pleased with its own peoseCution.
If the Attorney-General chose to ehter a non ie...e.
the bgsiness was disposed of; othervvise the Court
I must go on.
has
been
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the!fi c:itoutsttsk_ol±,
A Report, founded upon actual sureeys,
laid before his Royal Highness the Paine REGENT, . Bowe Peter Browne, Marquis of Sligo, &c. with a
at Monday's Levee, for the establishment of British o misdemeanour, in having received on board his ship,
Fisheries : we trust this important source of wealth the Pylades, lying at Malta, on the 13th of May'
and food will now be completely established on al 1810, one Wiliam Elden, a seaman belonging to
national scale. All the Fisheries of Europe are de.. his Majesty's ship Montague, while in a state of in.
stroyed, those of the United States of America sus. : toxication, whom he harboured and concealed. The
pendeti, sad that of Newfoundland interrupted. The second count charged Defettlavit with int aWf Illy and
precarious supplies of grain that may arrive train the disloyally enticing and inciting Pie said Wiliam El.
Baltic or America, exclusive of the policy of Fishery don to desert from his Majesty"
establishments, are all reasons why we should at . count set forth, that the said WUliain Elden, has-
home look for a supply of food from our own ing so deserted, was received on board Defendant's
coasts, stocked with fish beyond any other quarter ship, he being cognisant of the fact of his deser.
of the world. The poor may be employed in many lion. There were several counts alleging similar
departments of the undertaking, and the addition of ficts, in reference to other seamen ! end the last
the best sailors for our fleets, is amongst none of the , charged the Defendant with the cominis:,init of as.
least objects, worthy of our consideration. i milt and false imprisonment on all the mariner* who
EXTRAORDINARY PRIVATE DISTILLERY.—Not- had been enticed from his Majesty's service on hoard
withiltanding that illicit distillation has been carried : the Pylades.
to a great extent in Ireland, and which has exhibited : The ADVOCATE-GENERAL steed the case. lle
uncommon ingenuity in the arts of concealment, we l observed, hat it was a charge against the DA-, et!aet
believe they are all eclipsed by the following. It ' for enticing from the public service 13 inailtiere bee
reminds us of Captain Rolando's cave., described in longing to his Majesty's navy, for receiviee them out
Gil Inas. On Saturday the 2Rth ult. a discovery was board his vessel, the Pylades, and Conti ut og them
made of an illegal distillery, situated on the burn of , there, after search had been made for them. lie
Shiech, which runs throagh the Grampian hills, in the then shortly stated the circumstances under whi It
parish of Durris, in Kincardineshire, by M. Gillespie, : those persons had been enticed by the Defendant,
Officer of Excise. The situation of the hut was so and afterwards abandoned by him in foreign perts.--
aptly chosen, and the hut itself so artfully built and The Defendant is a Nobleman of high rte.k and fo .
covered with heath, that its roof appeared to compose tuue, and, while on his travel;, art iveci at Met a.—
part of the surface of the hi t, and it could not have He was there introduced to Captain tipt;ittger, of
been discovered by ac indifferent observer. It was his Majesty's ship Warrior, lied comma.idieg ollieer
20 feet long and 14 broad. The still made use of in that port. 'As he wished to make a so,. el
contained about 55 gallons, and the quantity of wash through the Mediterranean, he there pnrchastel a
discovered amounted to 275; so that the weekly con- vessel, tile Pylndes, in fitting up which he was as•
sumption of the distillery could not have averaged sisted by Captain Sprenger, and, far two or three
less than 20 bolls of barley. Mr. Gillespie was aided weeks he was conveyed to and from the vessel ie
in giving effect to the discovery. which he had made, • the Warrior's gig, which was manned by pielted
by a party of the Kincardiueshire militia staff.— sailors, whose smartness the Defendant' particularly
( Aberdeen Journal.) . noticed,- and therefore he could not plied ignerniice
It may be iuteresting to some of our Readers to of their persons whet, they were brought abcrod bit
be informed that the oliau Chi4tain, Nome. whoiestsieb,eiteloppeneti spring the time the repairs
has proved so serviceable in Canada, is the individual , were inakitig, that two of these men, 'who wets Or
who was introduced at the meeting of the Bath and tried fidelity, prior to that period, were missing,
West of Eogland.Agricultural Society, Dec. 11, 1804 Captain • Springer applied for them; having heard
(by the name of reyoninhokerawen, which signifies that they were in the Defendant's vessel ; but as
an open dour), and received from its President, Sir ; all knowledge of them was densed, he contented
BENJAstIN Between, peculiar marks of attention; himself a ithcautioning the Defendant to beware of
and respect. Under such direction the Indians are' the consequences of herbourisig any of his Majesty's
doubtless no longer to be viewed as mere barbarous seamen. It would, flowerer, be seen, that not-
arnhuscaders, nor their warfare as a system of sur- withstanding this caution, these two persons, and
prise and assassination : on the contrary, we have : 13 others, who had deserted from different vessels, in
reason to expect that their personal courage and ac- the port of Malta, were on board the Pylades; and
tivity, their habits of enterprize, and endurance of for this purpose six of them would be called in erie
toil and privation, will (under the guidance of a dence. With respect •to the first count it ape
Chief who has viewed European civilization; and is , peered, that on the 12th of May certain seamen be.
grateful for European kindness) render them regu- ', longing to the Montague obtained leave of absence
lar and powerful auxiliaries, and that they will be' f0x.21 hours at Malta; that while on shore they
employed wit:. increased effect in our service. May.i were plied with liquor by the Defendant's servants,
we not also indulge the hope, that, ceeverted by, and put on hoard his vessel, its a state of intoxice-
' such a missionary, from subsidized eav ages they will . tipili,.end when they al terwards requested to be scut
at no distant period become industituue cultiseturs, icetMr ship, it was refused. On the 13th of May
tractable citizens, and useful allies' the Pylades sailed to Palermo, and from thence to
ANECDOTE or Lone NottTli.—lt is now a fa'ct : Messina, at both which places a sort of restraint
of historical record, that the famous Col. BARRE! was imposed on the Eoglieh seamen, Italian eentinele
and Lord NORTH were the strongest possible Par.i being placed over them. In proceeding up' the Me-
liamentars enemies, the former never losing an op.! ditermisean, two Officers of the Active, who had
portunity of most rancorously attacking " the received intelliimice of the deserters, boarded and
able but unfortunate Minister," as Notten has keen searched Defendant's vessel, but ineffectually, as the
emphaticdlly and truly termed. le may also be men were concealed in a place under Defendant's
known that NORTH was 64 the best humoureti'man" cabin, who stated, on his word, that there were no
breathing, and that nothing could disturb the even-1 such persons on board. Defendant then sailed to
ness of his temper • while Benne was petulant 1 Patmos, where a num'eer of the seamen went on
and irritable to the last degree. While in the ful- ' sheik, having been informed that the vessel e•ould
of senatorial glory they both became blind.— remain some days, but she sailed the same evening,
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a subsequent occasion, NoliTu made the hap- leaving ihem behind. Three of them were afterwards
pieta use of this circumstance in the course of a' taken on board by the Defendant at Ceo; the re-
very irritable debate in the Commons. BARRE had mainder were sent by the British Consul to Smyrna ; .
been attacking the Minister NORTH in a most . had been tried by Court-Martial • and from theta
)pointed, rancorous, and apparently successful man- some of the witnesses were selected.
ner, when the latter commenced his reply to this : captain Spraisger, of the Warrior, was the first
etrect—" Mr. Speaker—l have been attacked in the witness called, and corroborated part of Dr. Robert-
most virulent style by a Gentleman opposite, to sou's statement.
whom the House always. listens with becoming dee The witness stated, among other things,
'hat he
Terence; and yet notwithstanding all the virulence went on board the, Pylades, his Lordship, the De-
' of that speech, I will venture to say that there are fentlant's vessel, which was fitted out as a letter of
.stot two men in his Majesty's domiuions who would marque, as well as a pleasure yacht, having fifteen
be happier to sec one another than we should be!" guns, and a large complereent of men, but he never
STEALING A DEAD Bouv.--,The bOdy of Mrs. , searched her, because he took his Lordship's word
Vilfing, the deceased wife of a tradesman in the Bo- of honour that no men belonging to the Wan for
rough, who had died in childbed, was interred in St. were on board, nor yet any of the Montague, or of
Thomas's Church-yard a few days ago with her child. ' any other.
The husband suspected, the grave had been opened, A letter was put in. written by Lord Sligo, to
*id on examining it he found such to be the case, Captain Sprenger, dated. Constantinople, 10th of
and the corpse had been taken away. Ile traced the Nov. 0110, acknowledging that soma of the men
body to a `surgeon's in Blenheim-Street, where he were on board his (Defendant'a) 'ship, but that they
identified it, with two others, and It was again in, got on board without his kblenowle gde; that hbut e ade
terred. . . motion iiimelf- to be amena to the law, it
Method of destroying. the Slug on Clover Ley conclueled with " thanking God that he could pay
Wheats, communicated by an intelligent Essex any 6na which tbat law could indict without any ia.
Farmer.—On a ten-acre piece of clover ley wheat, I coeivelqimee." '
had laid a small market cart load of Swedish turnip The witness underwent a tong MSc-examination,
and cabbage leives singly, -Ind about five yards dis• by Mr. Dec ecf v, on behalf oT the Defendant, but
tance, only one row to ethreeestep land: very early nothing i nportattt turned upon it.
the next morning we took it large quantity of stop, William Elden, a seaman who was in the Navy
of ail sizes, and after one repelitioir I hale the sa- .nearly 13--yeArs, and at the time mentioned was on
1011 01 belieriug my plant is steed. ' board the :Monmouth, off Malta, and bad a ticket
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