The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-01-11 00:00:00

PrIE STATEgMkti.

To Two EDITOR or reit ST4TESNAN.
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Sia,—l should he extremely unwilling Bony come
usanicatiow frem me should base the effect of dissolve
ing that 'ion between the English end Scottish
nation which his so long subsisted between them.
The English is • generous, rich, and free nation :
Scotland is • wise and social one. Both nations bare
their merits. England is profusely liberal for ell
services done to it : Scotland knows this, and is per-
tinerionly morseling in continuing arse services,
which the People are fully sensible is se eroded', to
the support of the English end Irish Administration.
Owe greet political mosim with us is, to prevent, as
far as possible, all altercation in the British Podia.
ant. When • House Is divided amongst them-
selves, that Boon capon long stand. To prevent this is
she ardent desire of our Scottish Minister ; and the ad-
vantages which are derived from a coaleseedßepresen.
Lotion, makes one Midslerareful to receive no Member
into the brotherhood who should create difference of
opinions loParliament, which should lead to long dig-
ressions or to untimely boors, when Members ought
to be et home with their families. The Scottish /le-
presentelion is eri these snows highly prized by
the English and Irish Minister:, who, with one con.
sent, confer upon our Minister the patronage of the
Arley, the patronage of the Navy, and the patronage,
as It Is culled, of Scotland, to be disposed of by him
amongst all his good and peaceable children, who
attend best to their education, who do not fight
amongst themselves, and •he lake not the pet at
their baiter and bread, or, as yen call it in Eoglaod,
bread and hotter.
Now, I cannot agree with en ENGLISHMAN in your
Paper, of the sth December current, that Scotland is
not as conspicuous for wisdom and discrimination as
England is fur liberalityand gratitude. It is certainly
• very becoming thing to see 45Megsbers of such peen-
able demeanour, and of such unanimity of Seilli.
rent, enter the British Senate ; and it is no less
creditable to the English nation, through their Mi.
mister, to wren an unequivocally their sense of the
dignity they confer open that House, by the liberal
and Madame Intoner they take in rewarding them
for it. It is highly creditable to the several merits
of both iiminsis, when a mutual sense( favours thus
bestowed shall continue to bind them so closely.
Your Correspondent mined. olds the effect of
what I stared about the Judges of the Court of Ses-
sion, having power to legislate and rescind the
Statutes of Pediment. What I meant to say was
this, namely, that In relent for the liberal remoseene
lions void by she English and Irish Ministers for our
45 Kuiets and Bergeens, we thought it bat jest to
enable them to devote their whole time and atten-
tion t. 'be topsides moinn of English and Irish affairs,
unencumbered with those of Scotland, already sub-
jected to the tare and consideration of ear Minister
end t• the legisleli.to of eat Parliament here. Wes
It not for the information the llonse has received
frein the present Lord Advocate while be was Mem-
ber for Yarmouth, not another Member, either there
or in the Pa*, Caroni!, of the profeetion is net
up
by as who cats esplsin to Parliament how we
stand. The late Lord bilet.vit.t.i could do so. He
was also Lord Advocate for Scotland, and spoke the
Scotch language *dudishly; so much so that no Mem-
ber could in eit her Iluotie take pert with him in any de-
bate respecting the ice.' tish Judicatories ; and no man,
since the days of Lannxenatai, who was also Lord
Advocate, and who, in 1674, held for these reasons
in Scotland so absolute a power. It was a minim
with him to allow none to enter that House who could
In Scottish affairs impugn his decide's.
If year Correspondent wishes to too, the Scottish
Constitution, it is fronded god perfected, in 1532,
by the &elate instituting the Court of Session; and
let him jest connect it op to the present day, with a
historical annul of its promising,. He will God
it lordly and universally applauded by • loyal and
contented People at the Convention of Estates, called
by LAVOUDALIC, at Edinburgh. in 1681. Ile will ate
the beauty of earConstitetion, in the good cease and
prudence manifested in the Acts of Sederont, with.
wet the smallest censure from Parliament--he will
diners the perfection end excellence ia slaws& every
article .1 the Declaration of lights, a -len parody
upon that of England, at a second Convention, called
in 16b9; again at the glorious Kevoletion of twit
year: and, above all, by the propositne made, in
war times, through a public Newspaper, to erect by
subscription, le violation of the two lirst command-
ments of God, a state. to a living character, pos-
sessing the disposal of a patronage, and in possession
of a power meliorable only by that species of ad.-
lotion, which au endue disposal of the see, and as
unjust (mortise of the other, never fails to produce.
I am, Sir, your vary obedient servant,
JURIDICUS.

The William hit Indianian, with Government
stores for St. Helena, from whims ishe is to ;ifoceed
to Benceelen sad China, wet obliged to cot her a-
ble no Thursday, at St. Helens, sad run up to the
Motherbenk, es, in endeavouring to purchase the
anchor, her messenger parted, by which nine sees
received various iejeries, bet it Is hoped none of
them will prove verifies.
Cumtous ANICOOTE.—Gretna Green has never
been more distinguished then within the last two or
three weeks, having been visited by a very eminent
legal Noblemen,inerly 70 years of age, in company
with • female who has brought him several children
out of the pale of wedlock, which female, with the
assistance of the eetehlisbed joiner of the place, he
misfiled. His Lordship travelled from London in the
iodised head-divas of a female. The object of this
very eztraordinary step is to legitimize the children
°of this cennezion, who, accord:nig to Scottish law,
tease to be bastards no the marriage of the paten!,
at any time. His Lordsit'p foretell? signed certain
vermicides on the spot, to give his children the ad-
vsollige 011 the conduct pursued. The Noble and
Leuri...l Lift' his children by a former manage,
eat, misfile. this singular proceeding ran by no
sof Wet wc.: astir English tights, whatever it
• ti 1.14 Unit icutlialt.—(Ssircgsbury Chronicle,

To rnv EDIWR or rue STATESMAN.

St a,—Many have been the ways and great the in-
gravity displayed in disburshening she People
this country of t►eir money, and among the whole,
know not of any that asrpau►s the Polar '
fitted out at an npenee that would base
relieved many hundreds of persons its the late dis-
tresaing times, in order to attain a purpose haw&
ems and eairernoly precarious ; and whisk, tf attain-
ed, could be of no reel benefit. The diScelly of
observing the emersion% of satellites at sea, {MU
little hope of ascertaining the longitude better thin
by the present sonde its us., esc.ept an asserting time-
piece could be iovented; and, if it could be improved
by Ships for Discovery, she Pete is not the proper
track. The hesitation for a North-West passage is
among fields of ice that would render the passage
unfit for commercial vessels, if discovered.
This variation of the compass and the causes of the
Polar ottraction, are PO likely to be better know.
by a voyage to the North—it may be caused by the
presence of electric fluid, and the losequslity of the
Earth's diameters: Ibis cannot be discovered by belle(
present at any particular point. No commerce can
be expected so tar within the hose's trgions of the
North, therefore, let this notable affair be viewed
which way it will, there is not the least reel service
to be derived from it, either to navigation or coin-
merce. The rides of she Ileaven-burn Schemer
seems to hover over and direct the ■dions of his
successors ; and although the spirit of him who died
its oar service, of grief and wine, is gone to join the
political church triumphant, some happy Saint of St.
Stephen's has made a lucky snatch at his mantle.—
Thus, with Sinking Funds and Swimming Funds,
Jubilee., Park Carnivals, Paper Money, Cons Bills,
Polar Espeditioes, and such like things, we are
comforted. The sublime conceptions manifest-
ed in some of these affairs might lead limp.-
: deuced people to think they belong to some descend-
mot of an illestriess Personag►, who has witnessed
the g►nerous disseved fur tbe oedema% if 09911117
eabibiled by thous who had the charge of thee,
equalled 'only by his ow• parsimony.—Yesers, &c.
Jar. 9, 1819. I. CALVERT.

This being neigh Mnisday, the Mime for the
several Wards in the City, chosen lit the last Ward.
snowy, serve sworn Into office at Guildhall, before
the Lord Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, &r.
()wing to the high wind on Saturday several ',ret-
ails in the River were driven front their wwwwinga,
and a terse brig belonging to Belfast was driven
ashorenear Long Reach, end received considerable
destsc'

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The pest week is one of the most remediable
which has 'wearied for a long period, for • seeks of
coesuretcial faller., : and is, perhaps, wittiest •
parallel since the disastrous times of the year 1810.
Th. • t oppays of seen hones at Paris was publicly
hews,' un 'Change on N. isday, and was socceeded,
on the ensuing day, by • City hone of greet coo-
seqsence, hamg at the heed of the firm a Bank
Director and a Member of the last Parliament.—
'On Wr•cluesday and Thursday other failures were
d ; and on Friday • house of the first
asegnitede in the City of London, whose cha-
. racier and credit have never 'offered the slightest
impeachment, having become involved in unex-
pected difficulties, was compelled to suspend its
payments. It is reported, lls.t they hate necepeences
out to the amount et 800.0001. while the other de-
mand. upon them spoke about 300,0001. is ell about
900,0001.; the greatest sum for which any how* has
stepped payment since the failure of FOIIDTIA in
1772. We understand, that the Batik was applied to
net Friday for assistance ; bet that the Directors, after
an nomination of the affairs of the hoes. in qemtion,
thought proper to reject the opplication. No failure
within nor recollection hes excited more sy enpethy I hen
this. The upright coaduct end high character of the
I p,.,ies hove ceased their misfortune to be universally
rewretied.llopesareetill entertained, that theassisteoce
of friends may enable the concern to proceed. At
all nerds, little doubt Is entertained that the eredi-
, tars of theism:se will ultimately receive little short of
their entire claims • as it is said, their books ealtibit •
balance of "100,0601. in their favour. Two other
houses in the City stopped payment on Saturday, in
consequence, it is supposed, of being deeply involved
with the firm just mentioned. The utmost gloom has
prevailed in the City le consequeoce of these nests,
which, in oddities to their immediste effects, per.
haps crests s still greater nil is the dist lust thereby
diffused emeog commercial men in then dealings with
such other. . .

Wednesday being thy Anniversary .f the Epiphany,
it was observed as easel at the Chapel Royal, St.
James's Palace. where the Yeomen .f the Girard at-
tended. Tem Gentlemen Ushers were In attendance
in the Royal Cl..et, and descending a short time be-
fore the clot* of the Service, they approached the Al.
tar, and in the name of the Sovereign presented
bosses of gold, frankincense' and myrrh. 'Elie offer-
ing.; were received by the Rev. Mr. HOLMp, the
Sah.Lkan, in • massy gold Communion Dish. The
Gentlemen Ushers r•tired from the Altar in the same
„toiler @sag approached it. An appropriate Anthem,
composer' by Mr. AT/WOOD, was sang upon the ne.•
casion.

Sittings appointed is be held in Middles: and
I..,nei.)h, Wore th• Right Honourable Sir COMMIS
Aesut, Ki.ielit, Lead Chief Justice of the Court of
Kies'. Bench, iu and after Hilary 'fern, 1819:

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Saturday . . lrt. 1J I . . Feb. 15
A fire krok• net nn 4s.urday meriting at a picture
frame strikers, Ver....treat, Clete-casket; bat, by
'be timety awed nt ceps's it we. put cut wittiest
dui:l much dtmage.

NAVAL INVILLIGENCE.

DIAL, JAN. 10...—Arrived yesterday morning god
sailed far the Mom, the Liard Wellington, William-
son, from Galante ; Lord Wellington, Hill, free
Madras; and wove others, names net know's.—
To-doy wilted and sailed for the River, the Coven.
try, Horn, from Amigos; Diana, Cameron, freer
Now Brunswick ; end several others, names no. I
known.—Careir down from the River and remain,
with the netward-boond, as per last, sU well ; the
IThetis, Yarrow, for Barbados,.
PORTSMOUTH, Jae. 10.—Arrived yesterday the
Kingston, Bowen. from Java; sailed the 14th Sep-
tember, and from St. Helena, Itid November; and
has brought Divagates from Sir Hudson Lowe to
Lord Bathurst ; left at St. Helens his Majesty's ship
Conqrsernr, Eurydice, and Dotterel': the Barton,
Standard, end Prince Regent merchantmen, were to
sail the same day from Si. Helena for England.—
Arrived today the Prince Regent, Clifford, fro.
the De•ns for Bombay; Rethy, Wile, from ditto
for Charleston; Reby, Chapman, from Messina tat
Grimsby. leaky, sails split, and fore-yard tarried
sway.—Arrived, last evening, tbeFriends,Stenehoese,
from St. Andrew's; Resides, Walker, from St.
Jelan's N. 8., anchor broke, sad rather leaky ;
Nancy, Pugh, from Seville to London; the whole
pot in by stress of soother; the whole of the Ships
are riding in safety.
PLYMOUTH. JAR. 9.—Como In the Sally, Wile
dron, from Poole and Neefoondland, with damage,
having been blow' of the Banks; Cyprus, [Mdse..
from Smyrna to Grimsby, oat 95 days, with leis of
some sails stud two boats.
FALMOUTH, JAN. B.—Arrived the Prince Ernest
packet, with a Mail. irons Lisbon. in fner days and
a half ; the Duke of Kent packet (2), had arrived et
Lisbon in four days from hence.—Sailed wend ves-
sels for London yesterday.
LIVERPOOL, J tn. B.—The Ilerroler. Cobb, for
New York, has put back to repair her damages.
Cons, JAN. S.—Sailed the Albino transport, for
St. Helena, with troops.
RARIGATE. JIIN. 10..--.Yesierday strong gales
end foggy ; the Friend's Increase, Tope, from Slen-
derised to Sandwich, is on shore in Pegwell Bay,
but has been got off to.doy, end into harbour.
MARGATE, JAN. 10--Arrived yesterday the Al.
Men. Cumbers', from London to itye ; I. Elslle
do Malin. Le Roy, from do. to Roses, baring hems
on shore on Foreness Rock; and Waists, Watson.
from I..i‘b,,u, with loss r f anchor sod cable, and imdied
this moritiog for the River.
WLYMOUTH, JAN. 10.—Put in here last sktesslog,
the Faso. Storey, of and from Dirtmouth to inn.
doe, having got ilanrige in a gale of wind, mad it is
feared the cargo must be discharged.
MILFORD, J %N. 'J.—Arrived the Britannia,
Reliably. from Bristol to Watetford, having been
obliged to cut (roan both anchors, at the entrance of
lhe barbour, in order to get morn a place of safety.