The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-08-29 00:00:00

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APPiAr lafromrsaßindr.

In consequence of the circumstances which took
place at Knightsbridge on Sunday afternoon, Mr.
Sheriff Waldman has addressed the following letter to
Lord liathurbt:—

" My Loa consider it my duty to apprise his
Majesty's Government, through your Lordship, of a
violent outrage of the public peace committed by some
individuals of the Lifeilluards at Knightsbridge yester-
day, and of an attempt at assassination upon me per-
sonally, while in the exercise of my linty as Sheriff of
Middlesex, at the head of the civil power of the
county.

" Your Lordship thought proper to direct the Lord
Mayor on Saturday, to take the necessary measures to
preserve the peace of the City during the intended
funeral of Haney and Francis; and although no such
caution was addressed to the Sheriff, as Conservator of
the public peace of the County, I felt it my duty to
direct the Deputy Sheri►fs of the City and County to
order out the Constables of the divisions nearest to, and
through which the funeral was expected to pass ; and
also to attend in person with proper officers, to prevent
or quell any tumult or disorder.
" Conceiving, that under the existing irritation of
the people, and the circumstances for which they hail
assembled, some insult mi.ilit be offered to the Life
Guards in their barracks, I disposed of the constables
chiefly in that vicinity, and actually ranged a body of
them in front of the barracks, with instructions to a;i-
prehend every individual who should attempt tocomutit
any act of outrage or disorder.
" The funeral, in consequence of these precautions,
passed the barracks in an orderly and quiet manner,
marked by no other peculiar circumstance, than that
of a brick being' thrown from the barracks, which fell
near my horse, and wounded, as I ant informed, a
young girl. My admonitions, and the presence of the
constables succeeded, however, in repressing the irrita-
tion this wanton act was calculated to ett.ite.

" When the procession bad passed, and while the
road continued to he crowded with people, the gates
of the barracks were thrown open, and the avenues tilled
with the soldiers. The people, as mijht have been
foreseen, gathered round the spot, and expressed their
displeasure. A tumult seemed inevitable. I requested
to speak with the officer on duty, but without ► Meet.
and, at length, by repeated expostulations with the
soldiers, I succeeded in prevailing upon them to retire
and close the gates.
"Some time after, upon returning to the same spot, I
saw a number of soldiers running' from the wicket-
gate, ant! pursuing the people on the cattalos-ay. Find-
ing an affray actually tommenced, I sprung my horse
upon the causeway, interposed between the parties
and succeeded in separating them. While thus en-
gaged, a soldier, with whom I hat been before expos-
tulating, and who was therefore acquainted oils my
official station, started forward at a man and knocked
him down. At the same time, o bile using my ut-
most endeavours to pret ail upon the soldiers to re-
tire into the barracks, and the people to desist and
keep the peace, the 1,6(14 of my horse was violently
seized, on the one side by a young officer in undress,
aid on the other by the soldier whose violence I ha•l'
just noticed, who together endeavoured to throw my
horse over the causeway ; and I only succeeded in ex-
tricating tatyralf by striking the soldier with my stick,
and making my horse plunge. Immediately several
' of the soldiers ri:slied at me with their swords drawn,
and one actually loaded his carbine, and directed it
towards me; but was, es I have been informed,
knocked down by one of the constables. Further
mischief was prevented by the interposition of some
military officers of 14her authority, and the soldiers
at length retired into their barracks.
" My Lord, these circumstances require no com-
ment. At a critical conjons titre the soldiers were left
to their own exasperated feelino, and manifested a
lawless spirit. The ('ivil Power under my direction
was fully adcalnate for the preservation of the peace
among the people, but not to encounter an armed sol-
diery. I had no communication from his Majesty's
Government, nor could I obtain an interview with
any of the officer, of the rroiment; and when I di-
rected sonic of the constables to represent to the offi-
cers in the most respectful terms, toy desire that the
'edifiers should be kept withio the barracks, the
Message returned was, " that the Sheriff might be
tl—d, they would not mike their men prisoners for
him ;" and I feel assured, that had I not interposed
with the Civil Power, and even risked my own life, a
frightful slaughter must have ensued. Of subordi-
nation to civil authority the soldiery appeared to be
wholly unconscious, and that authority, in my person,
was repeatedly insulted and grossly outraged.
" It would, my Lord, Ike as needless as presumptu•
ons in me, to attempt to instruct your Lordship and
his Majesty's Government in the nature'of the Con-
stitutional Authority under which I -attended yester-
day, or the right I possessed in my official character
to have claimed the aid and assistance of those very
military to suppress tumult, who have upon this oc-
casion, in open defiance of the Civil Authority, been
the promoters of it ; nor nerd I add one word in ag-
gravation of the enormity of the offences Committed ;
the offenders cat% some of them, be identified, and I
trust your Lordship Witt cause inimedjwte and effec-
tual means to be adopted to bring them to justice as
a salutary example to others.
" I have the honour to be, my Lot'J,
" Your Lordship's obedient'humble servant,
" Bridge-street, Aug, 27, 1921. " R. WAITIIMAN.
" The Right Hoc Earl Bathurst," de. dr.

It appears front a Parliamentaty paper, that the
sums disbursed by the Excise of Scotland, as expenses
of law proceedings before the Court of Exchequer,
Session, and Justiciary, for the six years ending Ib2o,
amounted to 45,0561. which is about 7,5001. a-year,
or 25/. a-dry. The sums paid to the Solicitor of Ex-
cise have been about 5,3401. annually during these
six years, out of which he has paid about 1,200/. an-
nually to Counsel. We have no doubt that the cheese-
parings and candle-ends which fall into the bands of
this functionary, as dues of office, greatly exceed the
gains of an American Secretary of State'—(Scotch
/04Pcr.)
ECOXONL—A gentleman, who had remarked how
magnificently a friend of his lived upon • small in-
come, observed, that with such slender means to make '
such a figure, was much to hie credit. "Not only
his," replied another, " but to ties credit of all his
tradesmen."

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. LIVERPOOL, llEGusr 27.
Treasury Chamber. Ji;ly 9.
zGENTLEMEN.—I am directed by the Lora Com-
missioners of his Majesty's Treasury, to state to
yen that it being impossible for the masters of inch
vessels as left this country, previous to the passing
of the Act of the present Session I and 2 (leo.
IV. chap. 37, for the purpose of loading timber in
the British North American Colonies to be warn of
the regulations es•ahlished by that act, their Lordships
therefore desire that you will dispense with the cer-
tificate, required by the 11th section of the said Act,
and with the oath of the master as to the growth and
iJentity of any timber which may be imported from any
British Colony or Plantation in America, in all cases
where the vessels importing the same .11211 arrive in a
port of Great Britain previous to Ist day of September
next.

(Signed) S. R. LUSHINGTON.
To the Commissioners of Customs.

MURDER AT HOR.VSEr L.INE, HIGHGATE.

'Yesterday evening (in consequence of some circum-
stances haring. transpired, which it would be improper
at present to s'isclose) Thomas Barrett, the man who
_.ire evidence before the Coroner's Jury, which sat on
the body of the Watchman, who wAs murdered un
Friday morqiag last, on the premises of Thomas Hale,
!:-q., of ilidisgate, was apprehended by one of the
Ilvw-street officers, on suspicion of being concerned
in the robbery and murder of the unfortunate
deceased. The most praiseworthy exertions
'save he, n used by the inhabitants of 1;1;411:Tate and
the Magistracy, (pirticularly by the Rev. Hr. Owen),
and by the Police, to point out the inhuman wretches
who so cruelly destroyed the aged and inoffensive
watchman. Dr. Owen, yesterday, waited upon the
rosier Secretary of State, and represented to Mr.
ll..bhouse on behalf of the inhabitants of Highgate, the
general wash that his 'Majesty would be I leased to
issue a Proclamation, offering a reward of PO/.
for the discovery of the murderer, and a leer pardon
to an accomplice who was not the actual murderer. A
messenger was transmitted with the gteatest prompt-
ness t Ireland, to obtain his Majesty's most gracious
commands ; and in a few days no doubt the Procla-
mation will he issued. Souse part of narrates statement
before the Jury was considered very suspicious,and some
of t!so Inhabitants then wished him to be secured, but
the Coroner, who remarked after the Jury returned tieir
verdict—" that he thought he could write four names
nn paper, amongst which would ultimately be found
the murderers"—was of opinion that not sufficient
crinfinatory evidence had at that time been adduced
to authorise the apprehension of narratt, on a charLe
of Murder. 'I he prisoner arrived in London this
mornius,, having been in Highgate watch-house dur-
ing the night. He had left his home at Son:bend,
when secured by the police. He is very reserved ; but
strongly persists in his innocence. lie will be exa
mined this afternoon at llow.street, before Mr. Birnie.
tau the other Magistrates of the mike.

MARVELLOUS SHOWER Or SN.II /LS EXPLAINED

" The thin s we know are neither rich nor rtre ;
" tiY w the they got there."
nonttroas appearini.e of snails at Tockington,
is not a single instance of the kind ; about 3 years
ago there at•as a similar circumstance, and near the
sa.ne spot. The name of these diminutive snails is
Feli.e firgald, and may be considered as a local spe-
cies; but they are f lurid in prodigious ntimber-: in
sandy situations abuut Whitsand bay, and ol,er
parts of Cornwall, and in the sonth of Devonshire ;
where, it is believed, they contribute nut a little to
the fattening of sheep. On the approach of heat they
leave their hiding•placea near the roots of grass,
crawling upon the leat•es an I plt.nts.

The Earl of Pembrolie and the Earl of R oh( c have
riven directions to their respective game-herpes., not to
commence shooting on their Lordships' -manors until
the l9th of Sept. in conseiptence a the backward-
ness of the harvest.

An aecoLnt of the quantity and value of the (V-
-ferrnt products of tillate and patqure, exported from
Ireland in the year efolin; .Ith January, 121.
1' ft,
Wheat, barrels...:.... 649.433 at 275. 14h6,737 3
Barley. ditto.
Oats, ditto .1,340.893 10.. 6d. R 118,968 It)
Flour, ewt 101,663 Vt.. 194,1163 0
Oatmeal, cwt.
Beef, barrels.
Pork, ditto.. 142.431 635. 462,911 U 13
Flitches of Bacon. .. ... 406.11013 —31 s, 794.330 0
Hams, ewt. .
Pigs
Sheep . . 24,164 955. 30,203 0
Horned cattle 32,191 Wk. 931,839 10
Butter. cwt 536.333 70.. 1,947.242 It)
Ilpirits. gallons 316043 tn. 1:41.221 6
Beer, barrels 3,284— 325. 3,222 b

16,066.916 6

The *trial population of Ireland is supposed to ex-
ceed xis millions and a half; its productive land has
been computed to amount to 13,154,375 acres. There
are consequently little more than two acres to each
Inhabitant, and yet the value of the exported surplus
produce of each acre, one with another, appears to
have amounted to about nine shillings.
The Hants sailing match, which took place on Sa-
turday week, was not decided till Sunday morning, the
contending vessels, and all that accomppnied them,above
100 sail, being co•opletely becalmed off Calshot Castle,
with all the spectators on board of them.
_

At Dr. Pigott's residence
il t k Mereworth, in Kent,
which has been lately rob ' e thieves carried off a
considerable number of m struck on occasion of
coronations, victories, the Hanoverian succession, &c.
and first impressions of the geld, silver, and copper
' coins of former reigns up to the present time, some of
them as far back as the Conquest.
SINGCLAR SatzttE.—A few days since, Mrs. Prowse
who lives at Mount EdgetunSe Lodge, near Plymouth,
left a basket of lite cockles outside the door, find on
her return foundea robin, which had flown into the
basket, vainly endeavouring to escape from one of the
shell fish, which had caught the bird by the foot,
and preserved its bold with such tenacity, as to de-
prive the little flutterer of two claws before be could be
extricated.

On Sunday the sth inst., a party was assembled at
the house of Mr. John Walton, of London-brad,
Irton, among whom were seven sous and six daughters
of the late Mr. Henry Tyson, of White•syke, Nether-
grasdale ; the eldest whole 60 years orate, is 26 years
older than the youngest; sad the mother, who:is still
surviviag, is hi her 113tb year►--their united ages is
711 years.