The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-09-22 00:00:00

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We are sorry to find that some disturbances have
taken place at Buttsley, Ithich have led to a breach
of the peace. Oft' Tuesday 'he belltnati of that town
was enipl,lPd by the weavers to proclaim a Public
Meeting, and the Civil Authority committed him to
prison. An assemblage of persons followed, the
prison was forced, and the hellnian liberated. Fur-
ther irregularities ensued on Wednesday, and military
aid was required. The Manchester and Ssiford Yeo-
manry marched hence in consequence on Thursday
about noon, and their presence hasmaterislly tended
to restore tranquillity. A number of the turbulent
had assembled round the Bull Inn on that day, but
soon dispersed on the approach of the Yisumaiiry,
without having committed any violence. -
The Yeomanry were afterwards employed in as-
sisting the Civil Power to escort prisoners, some of
whom, after esamina t.on, were put into po4t.ehai.es,
to places of proper security. Some other persons
under detention were in the discharged ;
and on seven o'clock on Thursday night tranquillity
was completely restored. All who hid assemhted
had retired. Yesterday afternoon, about four
o'clock, one of Itlek pritiates arrived at the Police
Office on his' wey to Colonel Doherty at the bar-
racks, with dispatches from Captain flindley, and
with the satisfactory intelligence that all was quiet
at Burnley. The Yeomanry had escorted several
prisoners to Padiham ; and it is expected that the
cams may arrive in Manchester this day, as there
was every probability ;oat the necessity had ceased
for and further continuance on this painful duty.—
( Manchester Chronicle, Sept. 19.)

When Mr. KEAN left Paris, he proceeded to Ge-
neva, and thence to Mont Blanc, and to that Con.
vent of St. Bernard, where he and his fellow-ira-
yellers were entertained in the most hospitable man-
ner by the Prior and Moults fora day and night.—
Mr. KEAN) osservlng an old grinner in one of the
apartments of the convent, opened it, and played
some
_little airs, which he also sung. 'F'iis highly
delighted the Prior and Fathers, who pressed him
much to lengthora his visit. Thence Ito returned to
Paris, wheats TALM 1 again paid him every attention
in his power, and performed his prin-ipal characters,
which Mr. KEAN tlas so desirous to see.

Ctiai•i's floserrAr..—Yesterhy being St. Mat-
thew's Day, or Oration D,:y of this School, the Loan
MAYOR and Sheri!ls in their State roriages, ac..o,n.
ponied by severs! Aldermen in their carriages, at.
tended by the City Marshals on horseback, ...tars:sal.
men, &c. on foot, proceeded in gaud st .te from the
Mensien.house In Christ Church, N.,*g.:
where they were met by the Governors of the several
Royal Hospitals. •A most excellent Sermon was
preached on the occasion by. the Rev. Jona Motets
PlT`•t AN, A. M. who took hi, teat from the Bnok of
Ecclesiastes. The church was crowded with respect.
able persons. They, after Divine Service, repaired
to thegreat hall of the If“spitel. The Litin Oration
was delivered by Mr. FlturnateK IZ.IFF, senior
Scholar of the lAtiu Grammar Schots', and that in
English, by Mr. GEORGE BROOKE'S the subjects of
both Orations bin{ the same, viz. on the benefits of
Public Institutions. After the Orations, the audi-
eucc conttihuted their unite to the youthful Orators,
and departed highly satisfied.

TIIE DISAPPOINTED OFFICER.-ThP melancholy
event of the sodden and utilooked for death of a late
gallant Admiral, WV; followed the ensuing morning
with a scene somewhat ludicrous. A brother Officer
having engaged to call on him at an appointed boor
to walk out. well aware of the scrupulous punctuality
of his friend, being a little late, when the servant
presented himself at the door, hurriedly t,ttitl to him,
" Well, is the Admiral off i"—" Yea, Sir." said
the poor man, " he'i gone!"—" That's odd," with
an aspirllion, answered the Officer, "for he pro.
mised to trait for me F"

The Grand Doke IMlcitAtr, and his suite were not
received every where with the same graciousness. On
application to an eminent manufactory in this county,
for permission to see the w..rka, one of the partners
that he was very , willing to admit the Prince
himself. but did nor choose to extend his permission
to his followers.—( Liverpool Courier.)
Comm. OF ltrianc.rs. LiNcor,NsitinE.
—CAsit ExTitaonntx.attir —On Monday last, Mr.
Pittston, surgeon awl man-midwife, of Holbeach,
seed John Addy •••(1 Mary his wife, for a debt of
one guinea. The Plaintiff said the woman hail be-
spoke Ms attendance at her approaching accouche.
meal; three months had etipseri, and receiving no
notice of the lady's misconception, •he thought fit to
apply ter his fee, which wts refused. The Defend-
ant, a pretty nand-it-looking woman, acknowledged
site did bespeak the Plaintiff to attend her at the time
spoken, but being (Peeked a Wile, and not wanting
his assistance, thought she had no right to pay.—
The Commissioners were puzzled by this knotty ques-
tion ; but, on referring to an eminent accoucheur,
who stated that he should nut have made a charge in
this case; in opinion concurring with' that of the
Commissioners, the Plaintiff's cause was at length
adjudged. to hate miscarried, and he was nonsuited.
—(County i Paper.). '
A most Angular circumstance took place la* st
Knightsbridge Barracks :—Orie of the first troop of
'Life Guards observed, ih cleaning his horse, that the
' animal seemed particularly food of having his face
and head continually rubbed, in doing which the sot.
dier discovered something namable a; he pressed the
cheek of the horse. lie accordingly communicated
the same to Mr. Blozam, the Veterinary Surgeon to
the troop, who took considerable pains to examine
it, and !milt made every necessary preparation,
lanced it, in the hope of discovering the cause, when,
to his surprise, he extracted a grape-shot, weighing
nine ounces, from the horsei4 Lipid, which be,receiied
at the battik or. Waterloo, wher
thewound :was im-
mediately aressed in the osaal;manner, after Of en.
gagement„.94. w”,considerec; olly.as a sword cut.
On Tuesdayintorning, wyriengski, whq was em-
ployed at one of the cotton, mills, at Qlstrgow, while
walking on the south bank of the Clyde, accom-
panied by her sister, ran into the River a little above
the Wrirfinlen Bridge, and &named hersegcher body
has not yet been found. The rash aci,Akis said,
was occasioned by a diaereses she had, w 400;
. . • v ,a): irtn .!IM

-STATESMAN

Ti rez EDITOR or THE W

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SlR,—ltsPems that some people view the workin4
class merely as beasts of burdeu,to which nourialtment
may be given, or reeled, according to the whim
and caprice of certain characters. ''Chis is evident
from the treatment given to the jou•noymen
Manchester and other places, for their present a ttempi
to advance their wage.; in order to ameliorate the
cruel sufferings they esperience from heavy rasa-
tam% and a decay of trade. By thus endeavouring to
'relieve themselves, and their starving wives and chit.
dten, they have incurred the implacable hatred of
those who fatten on the taxes ; consequently they
are loaded with every vile epithet, which the vermin
are able to rave up in the filthy channels of their ac-
customed haunts. But the Public will easily discover
the motives of those miscreants.

The masters having taken advantage of thedepression
of trade to reduce the wages of their journeymen, to
such a miserable pittance as was insliflient to suppor•
nature, for the purpose of eking out an existence,
which was a curse rather than a•hlessing, application
was made .o the parishes for relief. Something cer-
tainly was granted, but only what was barely enough
to prevent the vital spark from becoming wholly ex.
tinguished ; in this wretched state it was necessary to,
continue fur a considerable period. At length trade
begins to assume rather a pleasing aspects of course
the journeymen were aware that an opportunity was
°ire' ing itself to ask for an advance, that they might
get rid of the galling dependence on the parishes, and
provide for themselves and families. This was no more
than their duty ; it was praiseworthy in on eminent
degree : nature su dictated : a father wishes to see
his children delivered from the horrors of starvation ;
hut the masters resist their reasonable demands, and
are supported be the whole of the corrupt tribe.

Nothing i 4 more evident than the manufacturing
class being the most valualle in .society. Thi• cißs:
take, the raw article, and by indus'ry nod ingenuity
brings it to a slate of perfection, whereby not slily
the People of this country sic furnisned with every
necessary of apparel, but also a great part of Ito.'
world ; consequeltly an immense revenue it created
for. the exigent:ie. at GI versiment. fly this industry
a.“l ingenuity the misters ate enabled to lice in
alliJence, horderi• g on eatravagancp, treating those
whom they consider to be ,their inferiors with the
greatest insolence. Many of those masters are mere
upstarts; for they have risen, lint hay any intrinsic
talent of their own, hut by foituitoaa circumstances
arising in their favour, and lifting them abase that
sphere in which Nature intended them to move—
men perfectly destitute of education, ft is this in.
demi), and ingenuity which fill the bellies of the tat•
eaters, provide them with the means of intosication,
and furnishes them wills every species of dainties, to
satisfy their gormatirlizi3g appetites. On this in.
dostry and ingenoity depends principally the wealth
of the nation. Are these journeymen, then, no to
enjoy what is steceisary to render life comfortable,
or ars% they to betniskad on as the very sink of society,
deserving the scoff and scorn of the Courier and other
Newspapers?venal

Now, let us, ust take a glance et the properties of
the alasters and the tax-esters. As for the masters they
certainly purchase the raw article, and defray the
expence of manufacturing it, but in every other re-
spect they are little better than lookers on : they in
general do no labour, nor esercise any ingenuity to
bring the manufacture to a state of perfection; it is
the journeymen, as I have before said, who perform
this task. The masters are ever attentive to serve
their own selfish purpases, sod this is the principal
merit they possess, therefore their merit consists in
serving themselves rather than in serving the coot-
nrunity. But when 1 turn•my eyes towards the las.
esters, I behold a lazy lurking crew, pilfering all the
other classes, without rendering, at any period, one
solitary essential service. Tliis is not all, they are
ever plotting against the People, by whose bounty
they are fed, and involving them in embarrassment
and misery ; never at rest, hut continually brooding
over mischief. It may be truly said, that the journey-
men .are the bees; the masters rather of a molly
breed ; and the tax-eaters the drones. .
The argument made use of against the advance of
wages, is the necessary advance of the price of the
manufacture ; consequently, besides a decrease of the
home consumption, en inability to maintain a corn-
petition in the foreign market. Granting this to he
the case, it will not occur rightist an advance of
wares; for they should not have been reduced at all,
as they were no more than sufficient to procure the
journeymen a decent livelihood. Even supposing
those three classes to be on an equality, with le.
spect to the requisites for the enjoyment of life,
ought the comforts of that class. which is the most
valuable in society, to be sacrificed, when it is neces-
sary to lower the price of our manufactures, in order
to maintain the energies of commerce, while those
the most worthless classes remain untouched ? Surely
not. But the comforts of the journeymen are far
from being equal to those of the masters, or the tea.
eaters. The journeymen are deeply sunk in po.
'terry and wretchedness ; therefore, ought net the
enormous profits of the masters, in ease of • de-
pression of commerce, to be diminished; and their
selfish passion for leer. •to receive those salutary
checks which may confine them within the bounds
.f moderation • However, the pilfritingad the iro-
racioos drones of tax-eaters ought to be abated, if
apt entirely suspended, as they are not merely use.
less., but the greatest bane with which, the Public has
to grapple.
It is well known rho a great manyoftbelower class
are reduced to suck*• wretched stateiilm'tb he unable
to procure any species- bf frrott, ezeripi petetoes sea.
lona with a little salt ; 'Der any specilit'Of beieisge
elckpt water. Notwithstanding,' while., these. mi-
serable creatures ask rot whet' Wbeislitteeignstobio,
and *Mt •no maw ;Of harashaleetietsl %twig wise tW
deny, them, viz. an bieriAlse of ears; theiiie sibUiett
and bullied by the Courier add bthMi baseltiotollike4,l
as if they were the -arery-ovitents-of society. How
did Ibis Fero of aff, ritiolgt relic! . hie !mild pi id
cbeesti dinnees. w ben ikapgikaittirtg pa.itttiakgp.-bwd
wielding that :m9si alihri94lPrltf VIM* 1411
044 Pterspeed le ? . f 4e,d4 apt ppackerskiatt breerA
Criffilliek.4o* 411#4114. ?etatoes.and salt; with a
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little motor for. beverot; ogres with his NI
flpe•l Dovs not this despicable -A postatv
:)e: fortnPr rinses? Cane*, he •Pt. how

rior those joocueymen are to Lim ? Upon
&great measure, depends the weeth of
bat what depeods open ?-4 should

idwoceting,..rtbe cause of Corruption and
Fortuustriy, however, .he being well IL
do but little harm.
Sept. 19. :"4..

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ARCTIC EXPEVITOA
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A letter, of which the followintivaimiliabilAtea
'seen received free au Officer employed ihlthwebN•
service, dated-..• e• i e:tt otoi

‘l' Hill Maies•y•• 41.10 Vle,
h„,,,,,
jbet, 71. L.., al •
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litli,liklyjafi 1:"
ag vArtiAtioc
.:, •N- !.. qki‘l ;;01'.1 ta•lt Ss, I1:1
Ship's Iv.fol V. U. F., ablal 6.. ppials.. ..I.:ail 10 ii?oliiiilioo
oiii4 W. 64
lacrea%lng and ttPcikkalat regdo dill ."1-1. ..ritn Ilidi ft 41d46
point 4devitativa tr. tit Su L: • .ii lia., il” 8,4b.,1 •

66 We had a favourable pump. teleblpll4.4.llll‘l4l
the entrance to Datra'a Streit', maititrefirghaet Nis
Ist of June, and by the 16tii of the sirmellbeestts v.
were near Disco, 4 Datisk settlement Oil lltelireik
coast of Greenland, 'inlet. 69. cad N..ind hint.
about 49 W. . Tee .whole of this tr.irst, afterentei-
ing the Straits, is•laid down in the charts 3'Wr4 de.
grees to the eastward of eha it nught to he :ibis emit
error will reduce toe size of listfinss 04 pry eon-
sidergilly, should we fiod the longitude to the west-
ward laid down correctly, t ,Allithe a views of B.f.
fin, as far as we bare yet explored, are scrrprisingly
cot rect. It is wonderful to God it so at such an early
period, when iris, rumenrs. were iniperrect4 iliOt ileitis
getion hut superficially understood : how fir-We Owl(
continue to find him so is yet to he prated. •ii'emit4
have wished we had found .zonsethitiOapvit: Yes
will perceive that very little progress hal'beFtl solute
duritiz the last month; ettitn'ugh every exer-
tion has ti•ieit used.----One shin Wringing to
lioll has been lost in the co stready : she
had taken sit large olialet. Toe' mem were saved,
but the vessel went down. The greateat danger it
from the large fields Of lee approaching and joining
nnetetinther, or by the ici..herga gotHdz a 10.iti be-
t wilt them ; if that be the case escape-is impossible.—•
An ice.herg is a large •piece of ice or• congregated
snow, from two to Three hundred feet high, of ditfer•
ens I.nigths anti breadth', r you may jutige of their
4ito when 1 tell yee•that they are sewed times as
much .under water. , These bergs, taking the ground
in 1(k) fathoms inrserii.preverit the ice breaking up,
and whet. broke% op prevent it* dispersing or •drift•
inq to the southward, Wit hate at limes, during
clear weather, coonteri.a4 many as five bendrod of
these huge masses gloating about when in the in.
tiuetice of the tides; had .1 not actually seem
1 them I would scarcely have believed tooth melees
of ice could have accemolated.W44eund some
natives, who are poor sniaerablmmereltheav living
entirely on seat and' grel.friwl.q, Theriot& tidy
indolent, only providiag food for tibudityi ,pree
paring, however, •a quantity ,of seal i for the •sea.
son, when the aria is frozen over, which is only lot
two or three: mouths, .as 'het itiQuente •of he tides
which at springs rise to eats feet, geueraily "epees it
close its shore. .o IN! ;t. . • ..1"
" We are now fast in the Ice —is ere/tier to itil'itio‘t
around us; but ifiryTOßFOTTrtnif has considerable
infleence trail, seibeinrchefew lioura!wo may be
again quite out of it—au.-anatch for Arctic Espedi.
Lions, flievitig.but.little4itne ox opposiordlyi- Ipa
only arld, that we have, merle ,considerable. dint'
veries on the nature of varietioe. particularly, the
elation of vitiation, wbic wektd to be. fitl.44e,
to kw r. degrees."
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16 It is said that Mr. il4tit':)sveibtil wile Attie , /Ili n
in order to witness the pot oreiance 'oc "tr. traeite
in Lord Ogleby,sw.t'sd' well' 141tfigid is ler AWN tit
augmenttitiodif thee eiceitint'aptWijiiife .. '3' ''''
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the
[AM T 114151011 piellooptLafter iNght 0.c10C11,,,
Oftlance C41019b.111 1,9 s rfsl4lll;l4eferpcsol,yeS peer.
turned at tbe, iCef igarl,;Arrmaivr Phi° ,eboue a wile
from 11114 Ofc4NriltufstitlollP. Pilch, fi!°P • , who is re.
presented tg,,lotll be/ft ie../ ,elttlesef 4Pt4,0111160
turning tin Skidesdy towards the inn. . ,14411 0"
when the secidenk•bappeuetr, these were tarp wptifide
and silt insi(le passengers; ati4 ope elderly .watoen•
of the name of Thorp, an iehitlptertt:qo4iver,poyil,
and the mother of eight children, had one,.of „l ell.
legs broken in two places, and the, t booth of hoe. iliat,
hand dislocated. A Lady in the coac4a,.*liPllsllili,
we have not heard, wired A,APTufli:cl9.l6lMllig
the head ; and a .Geptireien.from laantloo; of, It
name of Read. had ifs,,arekso much braise!! %its
find it neressary to use a sling. The other p 'stingers
all providehtially escaped wi bout Any serious injury
eacept a foreigner, who was thrown into a state of
1 estreme agitation, butt sulterfd no bodily injyry.-,.-
1 The coachman paid the Venally of his intempetance
nod waist of caution on the spilt, the splinter bone of
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his leg having been broke, by, his leoppie the tr.,.3
—(Leeds illercury.,A• ;„,4„„t t.f.b.,,,,, ,„„.),,,,,,
pusg,loAms Pins...4uteshllat the Isediord of%tki,
Crown,. in laul-larie#sateranned one of his cast &meets
In the Court of Regulate, at itiuildhall, for the value
of two new pots, which be pad he hid delivered to
the sereeet of the Defendant with porter' and whist*
were not.reterned. The publican said, ttit.lossearita
1 this way mere 'very gem!, and that he was Arius's' to
I take this step, in order its ascertain whether thorn
was kreasedy in law. The CoraMissiopera dial net
think Otos:overtime within !belt xognizsnce,. sod fee
(erred the: Cesaplaiustit to the Jestice Reuel, tabe
Complainant went, and saw-the Chief 004, who
said,.if the Coors of Requests had no toesole.,efvfo- .
tecting the publicans treto,the lee s. coonpisiooti:,of,
i the tribuoal to which he,yreamyfersed,waa egsseilif Ore
41.inpepent, as it could oplyiectstmlitue the porV,011; 4
be.pritverl to slave bees notigi,;4o4) them coold'only,
commii,the; OW fur brie,. ~,11e,:howeeer,. worn,
alMikani, to 4140114.ibe!brought.agairtst the person '
4tlilTsri OVAirt4 eftl;;Wslif4efl Moen intrusted.. This
' WIPPJIII smAl:re444olsolliitellood • Pothata, 0, the
ItkollePtialem Vh,Oopphotjbetwrota. liti4.ttske-en eg..
lawl's" lumber is deliver.
ie,riellt..o the, graPoihl*,lol,l.o .
fomented - Nai
lid, 0920314 Om glinitlifi "Allfid4s p . .
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be bpued to prove Ate FitT, to tbo. owner.
i tha {apt were missed
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