The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-11-10 00:00:00

THE. STATESMAN.

ANOTHER MEETING OP DUBLIN ALDER-
I . MEN.

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[PROM TILE DUBLIN MORNING POST, NOV. B.]
There has been, it seems, another Meeting of the
Lord Mayor and Aldermen, convened by requisition.
" lo adopt such measures as tiey may deem necessary
to justify themselves to the Government and the pub-
lic." The following document, which we copy from
the Correspondent of last evening, is the result. We
defy the most expert logician among the whole of our
readers, to ascertain from it the " measure' " that
have been adopted, or even to unravel the meaning
of the second revolution ; and, if the meaning be
comeatable by great labour and industry, we shall
then put him to reconcile its structure and phraseo-
logy with the rules or syntax of any Oranunar, an-
cient or modern, foreign or domestic, with which he
may be acquainted. We woul.l most humbly suggest
to the worthy Corporation—to nett no more.
At a Meeting of the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor
and Board of Magistrates- held this day, at the City
Assembly Honse, William-street, in pursuance of the
following Requisition :
To THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD MAYOR.
We, the undersigned Magistrates, who sanctioned
and approved of the proceedings which took place at the
City Assembly House, on Saturday last, when certain
resolutions were entered into in order to prevent the dress-
ing of the Statue of King William, on the 4th of Nov.
having seen, with deep regret- your Lordship's authority
and that of the chartered Magistrates of this City, set at
nought, request your Lordship will call a meeting of the
Magistrates forthwith, in order to adopt such measures
thereupon as they may deem necessary, to justify them-
selves to the government and the
ABRAHAM BRADLEY KING, THOS. AIsKENNY,
WILLIAM STAMER, DRURY JONES,
JOHN CASH, JOHN S. FLEMING,
RICHARD SMYTH, SAML. W. TINDALL,
THOMAS ABBOTT, Wm. H. ARCHER.
JACOB WEST,
Nlonday, sth Nov. 1521."
Resolved—That it appears to the Meeting, that the
instructions of the Lord Alayor, as conveyed in the letter
of his Secretary to the Police Magistrates, on Saturday,
the 3d instant, were clear, express, and definite, and that
the opinion of this body, unequivocally declared in their
Resolutions adopted on that occasion, fully and sin-
cerely accorded with the instructions contained in that
letter.
Resolved—That, it having been stated to this meeting.
that, after the proceeding of this Board on Saturday, it was
communicated to the Lord Mayor and Police Magistrates
that they could not legally interfere to prevent the dress-
ing of the Statue of King William, unless a previous
information upon oath or otherwise should have been
made, that a riot was likely to take place by the dressing
of the Statue; and that in consequence of such legal
opinion, they did not conceive themselves warranted to
act in conformity with the Resolutions so entered into.
Signed by order of the Lord Mayor and Board of Ma.
gistrates.

ALLEN AND GREEN.
Secretaries to the Board.

Dated this 7th day of Nov. 1821.
The worthy Corporators forgot, in the hurry of
taking their " measures," to notice the following
statement, which we copy from a cotemporary
Journal:
6' A fact of some consequence towards enabling the
Government and the public to form a correct notion of
the views of the Magistrates previously to the Fourth
of November, bas come to our knowledge. It is this :.
Captain Smith, the Senior Hierastilf, proposed to
the" Board," when they had to their Proclama-
tion, to place a party of pile* under his orders, and
engaged, if they would do so, that he would prevent
the dressing of the Statue, and, at the same time,
preserve the peace of the city inviolate. This he offered
on his own responsibility, but his offer was not accepted!
Doubtless, for very sufficient reasons, though we have
not heard them stated."
In thus publishing gratis the measures adopted by
the " Board" " to justify themselves to the Govern-
ment and the public," we expect a vote of thanks at
at die next Quarter Day.

MAIDSTONE.—On Friday last the election for the'
Mayor of Maidstone for the ensuing year, was held
in the Court Hall, and C. Stacey, Esq. and George
Burgess, Esq. were nominated by the Bench of Jurats,
for the election of one of them by the freemen. The
party opposed to the Corporation demanded a poll on
behalf of Mr. Burgess, en the principle of rejecting
the rotation, in consequence of the same system having
been pursued by the Tory party, to the exclusion of the
elder members of the lower bench, from a participation'
in the honours of the Corporation, merely because
they differed with them in politics. After about two
hours polling, Mr. Burgess was elected by a very
considerable majority. When he bad taken his seat,
and the customary oaths, a vote of thanks was pro-
posed to the late Mayor, for his conduct during his
Mayoralty, and the following Amendment was moved :
That this Court, viewing with just indignation
the unconstitutional and intemperate conduct of the
late Chief Magistrate, John Wise, Esq. in calling out
the military on the evening of the 20th of November
last, a measure calculated to disturb the peace, irritate
the minds, and endanger the lives and property of the
inhabitants of the town, which it was his duty to
guard over and protect ; do calmly and dispassionately
censure his conduct, which has brought the office in-
to disrepute, and entailed a lastlag stigma on the
Corporation ; and which censure they direct to be en-
rolled in the books of the Corporation, as a Memorial
to future Magistrate, to avoid such intemperate and
di:lr.:MO] acts." The amendment being read from
the bench to a crowded Hall, and a spew of hands
taken, the Mayor, after consulting with his brethren,
declared, that he could not decide either one way or
the other, and refused to count the numbers, although
manifestly in favour of the Amendment, be then re-
tired amidst much disapprobation. The vote of
thanks consequently fell to the ground.—(kentish
Chronicle.)
DISCOVERY SHIPS.—Most satisfactory accounts
have been received from Captain Parry, dat6d the
16th of July, when the ships had cleared the ice,
which at this season is always found to be dense and
extensive round Resolution Island. On the 22d they
were met with by the last of the Hudson's Bay ships,
steering N. W. with a fair breeze and an open•sea ;
and, as the latter was clear of ice as far as the coast
of America. there is little doubt of their having
reached that coast a few days after they were last seen.
Not an accident of any kind bad happened to either
of tho ships, and both officers and men were in high
health and spirits.—(lbid.)
We rejoice to bear that the admiralty has promoted
Capt. Parry to Post rank, and Lieut. Liddon to that
,of Commander.

LATE PUBLIC rEirlN.a,tai

,KILN.NY.

In reporting the resOlutiUnlor appointing a Com-
mittee to prepare the Petition, the names should have
been separated from the resolve. The motion having
been carried, Thomas blacartney, of Archer's-grove,
&1., the proposer, nominated one member, who nomi-
nated another, and so on till the whole number pro-
posed were appointed, upon which William P. Leech,
Esq., moved that Mr. Macartney be added to the Com-
mittee, which was unanimously carried. We omitted
entirely the name of one most respectable gentleman,
Michael Warren, of Salisbury, Esq., who was a Mem-
ber of the Committee.
The Resolution regulating the presentation of the
Petition to both Houses of Parliament, was acci-
dentally left out of Saturday's Journal. It was as
follows :
Resolved—That the Earl of Ormond and Own, be
requested to present the Petition to the House of birds,
and that Lords Dononghmore and Clifden be requested,
by letter, to support the same ; and that the Hon. Chas.
Butler Clarke be requested to present it to the House of
Commons, and that the Hon. Frederick Pansonby, the
Hon. %V. G. Agar Ellis and the Right Hon. D. Browne,
be requested to support it.—(Leinstcr Journal.)

PROGRESS OF LIBERALITY.

The cause of religious liberty is every day making
greater progress amongst us. Even The Moderator
newspaper, which was lately so decidedly hostile to a
meeting in this city of persons of all religious persua-
sions, to petition for Catholic Emancipation, ig, it
seems, completely satisfied of the propriety of that
measure. Nay, it even goes a step further, and re-
commends a public meeting in the county for the same
purpose. We have great pleasure in subjoining the
article, and have no doubt but the advice it contains
will be speedily followed :
" The friends of public harmony and social concord,
encouraged, doubtless, to further efforts for the pro-
motion of these invaluable objects, by the very signal
success of their recent undertaking, in their work of
peace, have resolved, if report speak truly, to follow up
their wise and salutary labours. Another Conciliation
Meeting' is likely to be soon organised in the County,
under the same kindly auspices that have so admirably
forwarded the cause of public union and tranquillity in
this city. The persuasive combination of temperance,
liberality, and good feeling so eminently displayed at
the Meeting of Tuesday last, cannot hut ensure the
prompt and ardent co-operation of the Nobility, Gentry,
Clergy, and other inhabitants of the County, on the oc-
casion of this. projected Meeting.—(ldem.)

BRIGHTON Nov. 9.—On Wednesday morning, the
brig William and Sally, belonging to Mr. Izard, coal-
merchant of this town, received so much dam.tge when
getting off our beach, from a sudden shift of wind to
the south-east, that she became water-logged ; and, in
attempting to enter Shoreham harbour, upset, and is
a complete wreck : the crew were providentially saved,
after clinging to the rigging for some time in immi-
nent danger of their lives, but with the loss of every
thing bat what was on their backs. Another coal
brig was driven ashore the same day, but fortunately
got off in the course of the evening.
The brig Iris, coal-laden, in approaching Arundel
harbour, on Wednesday, ran ashore, and is much da-
maged. ~•
SniatYLAiltiiuts? —Died in Tr4lee,. tos *WWI
' aTt., aged 7firafter ir protrketed illness, Jeri- alit
leaving prop*, thihe amount of 20,0001., which he
bequeathed to theinbabitants of Tralee, to be added
to sums already subscribed by them, for the purpose of
making a fold to defray the expenses of a lawsuit,
about to be carried on, in the ensuing Term, against
the Denny family, to open the Borough of that town ;
and the overplus, if any, to form the commencement of
a Sinking Fund, to secure the future independence of
the Borough, by defraying the expenses of the popu-
lar candidate at any future contested election, and
thereby encouraging talents and independence in the
country. And in case the inhabitants should de-
cline prosecuting such suit, then the said sum to be
applied in support of the different public institutions
of the town, to be distributed as the Grand Jury
shall thinVilit. The history of this man's life is
as extraotellary as his bequest. In the early
part of, ids career he was an attorney's clerk, in
obi* situation, by persevering industry, and rigid
ecodemy, be amassed a considerable sum cf money,
and considering himself independent, he resolved to
become a man of business; he did not hesitate long
making a choiee ; he commenced the trade of a stock-
broker, or " advantageous money-lender," and in a
few years his seams outran his most sanguine expect-
ations. At hts death he had liens on the estates of
several of t Grandees
in his neighbourhood. For
the last tws years he was the " Collective Wisdom"
of the " Western Empire ;" his house was, at nights,
the resort of all the knowing ones; and as be had no
family, their socturnal orgies were not interrupted by
any apprehensive. of a curtain lecture, or any anxiety
for any offspAng, whose provisions those revels might
lessen,—(Dubfin Paper.)
CARLOW, Nov. 3.—A farmer in the neighbourhood
of this town, having brought the produce of several
acres of barley for sale to the market, found that, on'
receiving the iino ant, he was mines It 6s. 10d. allow-
ing for labo , seed, tithe and land tax, without taking
the rent at all-into account! This sort of farming is
a bad look out for the landlord.
During the late harvest an old woman, named
Bridget Kelly, aged 104 years, hired herself to bind
for Mr. Jobs Warren of this town, and worked the
entire day, IPithout appearing more fatigued than
the youngesftleotnan in the field.
KILICIIH*T,IINIov. 6.—On Sunday morning rather a
heavy shower of snow fell over this city and neigh-
bourhood for upwards of an hoer.
The unusually long etapillirondelle tribe is
much noticed. On SatunTarillißrd, t young swal-
low, not Wiled sufficient for flight, fell down the
chimney of Mr. Win. Hardballs, grocer, at East-gate,
Chichestnit on the 7th, a large number of these
birds we alag over the Broyle road with their
accustomed alacrity. - •
A most melancholy accident hap pewei at %Vesture,
on Friday se'nnight. Whilst SrAg,ittoper to Henry
Elwyn, Esc was steepiog to pick up a hare which his
master had just shot: and another hare rising at the
Mee tints, be anxiously springing forward to stop his
dogs, was unfortunately killed on the spot, receiving
the eentesste of his master's other barrel in the back
of his head. What adds much to this melancholy ca-
tastrophe is, that his father, Wm. Smith, of Tittles-
ball, was reseat:—(Norstic4 Mercary.)

MrERPOOL, OCT. 9.

[RECEIVED THIS MORNING]
FROM THE COMMISSIONERS OF CUSTOMS.
Custom House, London. Sept. ti.

GENTLE)! EN—Doubts having been entertained upon
the arrival of a vessel at her port of destination, on the
31st of May, with a cargo of timber, whether such
cargo won be subject to die new duties, imposed by
the Ist and 2nd Geo. IV. chap. 39, and which attached
on the 28th of that month, until it was proved that the
vessel had not been within the limits of any one pert
in the kingdom, previous to the Vith of May ; the
practice having been to consider Great Britain, as one
general port, and that the arrival within the limits of
any one port, constituted the importation, and that, at
such period, the duties then in existence become due : we
directed the opinion of the Attorney and Solicitor o.t-
-tierals to be taken, whether the duties attach, upon the
arrival of a vessel within the limits of any port in this
kingdom, on her transit to her destined port, or only
upon her arrival within the destined port and they
have given their opinion, that the duties do not attach
upon the arrival of a vessel within the limits of any
port in this kingdom,. on her transit to her port of
destination, but only upon her arrival within her
destined port.