The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-09-03 00:00:00

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SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH. SEPT. ?.—Wind S.W. Arrirei the Brothers,
Wiliisroson, from Rita ; his Majesty's ship Meals, end Seeing-
spstim, from the westwar•:. tial:ed the Orpheus, Ford, for
Smcrna,

Pcvm• VTR, SEPT. S.S.W.—Arrived the Favour-
ite, Simi. from Memel. Off the Poet, the Kingston, from Lon-
don, for IMnentra.

FALMOCTII, SEPT. S.W. Arrived the 31110114 Eb-
bare, from Ciallpoli, in 61 days.
COWLS, StPTA 2.—Arrived the Trinsbury, Walket, from
London, to take trooos for Malta.
DEAL. SEPT. W.S.W. Came down from the river
yesterday, the Three Brothers. Wright. for Ferrol ; Regulus.
Anderson. for St. John's. N.H.: and Neptune, Boyles, for
Lisbon. Arrived the John Clackling, (isle, from Barbadoes.
and Rio Packet; from Rio Janeiro, with several others; parti-
culars unkLowu.

IRgI.AND.

STATE OF THE COUNTRY-THE INSURRECTION

- ACT.
[PROM THE BELFAST NEW3•LETTER.]
Extract of a letter from a very respectable correspondent,
wt:o vouches its until.

" About ten o'clock at night, on Monday, the 25th inst.
four Roman Catholics. from the nei'ghbourboo. d of Swatragh.
on their return with loads of grabs from Co:..raine market,
were waylaid in Ahadooey, by a number of ruffians, who
were armed with bludgeons, and. as a distinguishing uni-
form, had laid aside their coats. Two of the strangers were
able to make their escape, having receive I a few hlo vs ; the
other two. being old men, were not so fortunate, but were
unmercifully beaten, and left in the ditch " for dead."—
The ruffians nett attacked the loads, cut all theirsacks into
stripes, spilled tkeir grain, and had broken one car, when
fortunately Mr. O. Sampson happened to ride up, at the
noise of whose horse's feet they withdrew. Ale. Sampson
stopped, and giving his horse to a little boy, who came np
shortly after, went to sune of the neighbouring houses,
but the inhabitants, either unwilling or afraid, declined
giving any assiwance. Some women, who were looking
out for the return of their own friends, came to the spot,
in whose charge Mr. S. left the ears, and rode off to the
next village, where he procured some sacks; hut, previous
to his retnrn, the oulfians had pel,ed the bee and women
away stab stones. This oo deterred those trim Caine with
Mr. S. to assist, that thev could not he persuaded to pro-
ceed further, until he galloped to the spot whence thestones
were thrown, and stood g nord whilst the grain was gather-
ed np. llreeof the poor on'e's loads were by this means
for the greater part saved, but the horse of the 'forth hay.
in proceeded farther, the greater part of his grain was lost
on the road; and the owner bring severely beaten, they
nage left all night in the nearest Weise, the other three
Mr. Sampson brought on with him to (lamer.
" It would appear from the description of the persons,
and the clothes of those who so barbarously treated these
unsuspecting and onotfending strangers, that they are em-
ployed in some of the neighbouring bleach-greens. IVe
trust, therefore, that the gentlemen of Aliadocrey will with-
out delay mike every inquiry and exertion to bring to pun-
ishment the perpetrators of an act so disgraceful to their
neighbourhood.
COUNTY KILIPARt. (Na as.)—The Special Sestiinng, na•
der the Insurrection Art, tbr the county of Kildare, took
' place in this town loot we-k. Four persons were convicted
—the lino, one Kelly, a tailor, near 240 years old, who,
being at some distance (loin home, slept at a customer's
house; it was said that he h td a bad character ever since
1795, and lie was sent off from the dock in a post chaise,
with an escort. The second was a Me. Kenny, a wealthy
farmer, who was found in a public bonne after nine o'cloc
on Saturtlae, the 9th of Angot-t; there were two others with
him, one of tin-in to receiv- his wages; the other, a man to
whom he gave a pint of b er after his day's work; they
were 01 found guilty, though eeeellent characters were
given of them. There were many others in the dock who
were acquitted. beiu.r taker) on the high road, with their
drays awl horses, returning from market. It was expected
that the Justice-4 would memorial tioverionent, and have the
County relieved from the operation of this dreadful Act, as
the County is perferly quiet, and no ontrsge has been cowl-
tnitted—no step of the kind was, however, taken. We
cannot helm railing the general attention to the great hard-
ships inflicted by it on industrious and respectable persons.
Here was a crowd of persons seized on the high road, with
%heir sacks, carts, an I horses, returning from market,
where alone they could sell their prodnte —it is true e'er
were acquitted, lint what hiss of time, property, and com-
fort did tit .y incur—what alarm to their wives and farm.
lies? Who were the people to try, when so Tuley Magi,-
' testes assembled ? an old tailor, for sleeping at a custom •T's
house; and a respectable farsurr for giving a drink of beer
to two labourers on Saint-day evening. We hear rho at the
very saute time the Justices and their families were Oct ail
eiaht at balls and suppers. It may truly he said that in
Ivelamil there is one law for the poor, and another for the
rich.

WINDson CASTLE.--. 1 he apartments which will be oe
copied by his Majesty in Windsor Castle. his Makers 0
State, and the Royal Household, are the southern sal
eastern sides of ib:it spacious fabric. The roams on the
ground floor are prepared for the various officers of tho
establishment, awl three have all been painted and oapered,
and fitted up with suitable furniture, which was remain-
ing in the Castle, or has been collected from the Queen's
Lodge, Cumberland Lodge, &c. The apartments on the
second floor will be occupied by the King an a his visitors.
The suite of rooms more especially devoted to his Majesty,
are these formerly occupied by the Queen and the Princess
Elizabeth. These are lofty and spacious, and have been
very handsomely fitted up and furnished, under the di-
rection of Mr. Brent. of the Lord Steward's office. They
command the most beautiful views over the threat Perk,
Cooper's Hill, and the surrounding country. The Music
Boom and the Dining Room are also preparing for public
.entertainments, On State occasions, his Majesty will bold
his Court in the splendid apartments whirl, are now shown
to the public. On the northern side, the kitchen, silver
scullery, pastry, and other offices have been repaired ; and
by the removal of several purtitio is. a very handsome
room, with a fine ancient groineil ceiling, has neon pre-
pared as a servant's hall. The Upper or Queen's Lodge
is immediately to be sold, by order of the Surveyor-Bene-
ral of his Majesty's Board of Works. By its removal the
fine views of the forest will he opened to the Castle-hill,
and magnificent avenue of the Lone Walk will attain that
object for which it must have been planted. viz. as a road to
the Castle.
The improvements adjoininy Westminster Hall will in-
clude a passage from the intended new Courts opening into
the main avenue of both Houses of Parliament. The Mew'
bers' Servants' Room, and the Committee Room over it,
bare been cleared away to make the openiog.
We understand that the house occupied by the Board of
Trade, adjoining the Treasury Passage, Whitehall, is to be
immediately pulled down, aid a new and more convenient
building erected on its suite. As the new offices are not
expected to be finished in less than two or three years, the
Lords Commissioners will, in the meantime, meet at the
new premises in threat George-street.
The workmen removing the stone and flint walls of the
old House of Lords, have found that ancient work so firmly
cemented,as to require wedges and sledge hammers to move
it. The square stone is discoloured like the old materials!.
of Henry VI Itb's Chapel, and the internal part pulverised.
The fiat and cement uu the contrary, he still a hard and
firm substance, bidding defiaoce, as it were, to We power
of time.
The competition among the seem beats on the Clyde
is at present so great, that some of them carry passengers
from Glasgow to Canapbeltown, a distance of upwards Of a
hundred wiles, fot the charge of kali a crown.

ONE PARISH VESTRY v. FOUR INNS OF COURT.

4m.a.111110.6.
" The beg!anlr: of strife Is as the letting out of tratera."--Sotornon.

A curious contest is Commencing in the Parish of St.
Clement Danes. The Gentlemen of the Vestry, it appears.
have the hardihood to encounter the Gentlemen of the Law.
in all the four Inns of Court in that Parish. The point
brought into dispute is. whether the watch rate should be
enforced against the Inhabitants of these Inns. About
sixty years ago an Act of Parliament was passed, to compel',
ell who benefit by the watch and ward of the Parish to
contribute to its support; but the Societies of the Inns
having been accustomed to watch their own dwellings.
none of the Vestries bad hitherto charged them
for a service. which the parish watchmen had
never performed. An Idea, notwithstanding, has oc-
cured to the present Vestry, that however these
Societies may watch themselves, there are reasons why
they oeght to he seettei:ed; and it seems to be the wish
of the leaders of this parish that they shall either watch
the Inns, or be paid a watch rate by the inhabitants, with-
out doing the service. To neither side of this alternative
do the inhabitants of the Inns incline; and the Society 4
Clements' Inn, have already, by way of demurrer,
determined to close their gates at nine o'clock every
evening. By this preliminary step, hostile in effect, though
founded in right and conformable to law. the public are
deprivedlof a convenient thoroughfare; and the inhabitants
of the avenues and of a nrighhourir.g market, are ob-
structed in their trade. But this is not all the pri-
vations that are apprehended: Lincoln's Inn Is another
important pass, in the line of communication between
the parish and the north eastern pins of the
town; and its garden has for time immemorial' been
liberally opened as • safe and pleasant airing ground to the'
nurselings of all respectable families in the vicinity. On
the, nee of these advantages, invidious restrictions •are; ex-
pected to be soon imposed ; while to balance the losses of the
parish in these respects, it has been calculated that the
whole benefit to La derived from levying the watch-rate
on the inhabitants of the Inns, would br a saving to each
househulder of only one farthing a week

SCOTLAND.
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SPANISB SUBSCRIPTIONS, PAISIAT.--(FROM A CORRI-
SPONDSNT.)—We formerly intimated that a subscription
had been opened in Paisley in aid of Spanish independence.
It gives us great pleasure now to state, that upitards of
1201. have already been subscribed there, and that the
Committee have also received WI. 16s. col:ected in Barr-

-t;--n-d -neighbourhood, and 31. 12s. 7d. Co in head a derslie.—
(Glasgow Chroaecle)
Since the removal of the restrictions on the trade hetween
Brest Britain and Ireland, large quantities of Irish call.
cues have been sold both here anil in 31.snchester. The

trade is very likely to increase, os notwithstanding the low
wages pail here, they are greatly lower in Ireland. It
seems probable that, instead of the poor Irish coming here
to weave, they will now obtain work at home, and that
their wages will become somewhat higher.—(Mid)
The tenters and dressers in the power haunt factories
bare refused to concur in the regulations published on
Saturday last, and the woks, containing about 300
looms, continue shot up. The leaders of the combination

are likely to do their t•ilowers a great deal of injnry, as
numbers of weavers have already made application fur their
employment. The number ituplicated in the combination
do net mach exceed 350; bat they throw idle all the wea-
vers, and those engaged in the other departments of the
factories ; and the money earned by the whole, amounts to
about 3,6001. a week, a suns which it is impossible they
can lung subsist without. There is at present a large stock
of goods in the market, and the profit in the ousnotacture
has not bees. so great as to'make the present stoppage an
affair of moment to the proprietors.(ibist )
Some time since, a gentleman on horseback, dressed in
white truwsers, blink vest, blue coat, and round hat, at-
tempted to pass the Gallowette toll-bar. The tacksinan
intimated his determination io detain him till he paid the
usual duty. This the gent 0111411 refused, stating that he
was a surgeon ill the army, atm that he was going to Ha-
milton by the orders of his commanding officer, at the saute
time exhlbring toe order. The toil:nun stated, that having
been frequeutly deceive! by people who pretended to belong
to the uoittary. he was resolved to allow no person to pass
in future unless they were in full unildrin. with arms and
accoutrements, agreeably td the /let of Parliament. The
surgeon paid the toll, arid passed on. Having lodged a coin.
plaint of the circumstance with the Procure or Fiscal. a
Isniniuons was sent to the tecksinau, at his instance. for ex-
aciing the toll from a person belonging to the army. On
-Tuesday se'nnight the case came before two jastices, who
found that the tacksman is josoiti-91 in levying the toll from
every person nut in full military uniform, aud dismissed the
complsint.—(t.icstgow Courier.)
Sir Walter Scott is fitting up his hdlise at Abbotsford
with gas light. The bells are rtmz by the pressure of air
through a bra-s tare, in place of wire now in use.
The highlands of Perthshire have lately been overrun by
rats. The lowlands used to he the favourite residence of
this enterprising species of vermin; but within the last two
or three years they pushed their settlements in tine district
of Strathsay, Appin of Dull, Fortingall, and Breadalhane,
most am singly. During the present season, they have
been known to devour whole litters of pigs and broods of
poultry ; and Mothers begin to apprehend danger from them
to their helpless intatits.—(Duadee Advertiser.)
Last week, as some people were engaged in pulling
down the roof of a very old thatched tenement in the .
Castle-wyn I, St. Andrew's, Scotland. they discovered
pair of plot which had been thrust itdo the thatch, for
use sake of concealment. They are evidently of foreign
make. nearly two Met in length, silver mounted, but very
much corroded, and no date call be visited upon them.
What renders them objects of inserest to the coricris, is
the singular pectilistrity in the construction of the locks,
very diderent (rout those of modern manufacture.
On Monday last (25th ult.) whilst souse workmen were
employed in removing stone, from a cairn, formerly of
large dimensions, on ibe west end of the hill of 1.7, tzeli,
they accidentally discovered a stone chest or coffin contain-
ing an urn, and several small pieces of human bones. The
Chest, contrary to the position in which these relics of an-
tiquity ace usa Illy found, was lying nearly due south and
north ; it was about live feet in lengthy about 18 inches in
breadth, and neatly paved with stones, over which was laid
a quantity of very small pebble.. The urn is in possession
of Mr. Wyllie, Alaius of Js izell.--u:Caledoniau Mercury.)
On Friday week a jury was summoned at Pettycur, to as-
certain the value of one acre and a quarter of the island of
Inchkeith, past of the entailed property of the Duke of
Bucclench, and purchased by the Commissioners of the
Northern Lights, for the use of the light-house and its ma-
nagers. The price was in the shape of a fetal duty of ground
rent, which was fixed at tw:dity pounds sterling yearly.
The whole island at this rate, would be well worth three or
four thousand pounds a-year ! We doubt if it will ever
yield as many pence, setting aside this profitable acre.—
OMR/WOO
FORFARSUIRIL—WaIter Graham and James Cameron are
charged with circulating forged bank-notes. Graham and
Cameron having turced on their trial under the act 1701,
were put to the bar of the High Court of Justiciary on the
7th of July. The trial was put off till the 12th, when ano-
ther postponement took place to give time to debate smile i
technical objections to the indictment. When the panels
were placed at the bar on the 280 i, the Solicitor General oh.
served that Graham had contrived to disguise himself, chiefly
by changing tae colour of his hair (rout black to a dirty
red; and again their case was adjourned to afford time to
establish the prisoner's identity. Thirty witnesses ate now
eszooned fur the Crown.—(edinburiin Paper)

BARTHOLOM E W FAIR.

-•rIllw--

The hustle displayed this morning among the " show
folk" in making ready for the opening of this animal Sa•
turnalia by the Lord Mayor, and the immense number of
persons thus had assembled to witness the imposing core
mono, far exceeded any thing of the kind ever before seen
at this place. The old and the young, the joyous and the
thoughtless. who have been deprived of their customary
en uyinents at the neighbouring Fairs. here seemed to
think themselves securefrom all hypocritical meddling. Bar.
Uentl Fair exclaimed a sly Old Cockney exaltinely, is held bi a
Charter and ye defies all the Magistrates in banana to violate
it. This feeling appeared to have been general in all the
'amending villages, if we may judge limn the appearance
of a great portion of its visitant% who had subjected them
selves to the jostling of a London mob to partake of the
festivities of St. Bartholomew. About ten o'clock, the ap-
pretence of the fair threatened great disappointment
to the hoilday folks, by the very few booths
that predented them•elves to the view. In about
an hour, however, (limits, arid Giantesses, Dwarfs awl
Dwarfrssrs, with all the usual weeders, were displayed to
the great gratification of the gaping multitude. At ten
minutes after twelve the ringing of hells and the binds
from the different booths announced the approach of the
Lord 111...y0r, who proceeded to proclaim the fair in the
usual manner. The fun and frolic immediately com-
menced, amid the Miming of the multitude and roar-
ing of wild beasts, the din from which wait of so around*
lag a nature as compelled us to make a hasty retreat.

SPORTING INV:LIMA:NCB.
SWAFFIIAM RACES, THURSDAY, Auc.
(FURTHFR PARTICULARS.)
Tits County Members' Plate of sul. fur ad ages. Four-mile
heats.

Major %Ikon's bl. f. 3 yrs old, 6,1 111,
IA Vernlans's b. c. Vaanen, 3 yr old, 6•t. 41b 1 2 2
Ilandicap Sweepstakes of 10es each, with 23 added A mile
and a distance.
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Mr. Warne's Lounger, 6 yrs old 1
Mr. Smith's Tom 'rhumb, 3 yrs old
Mr. Gibbs. Huntress 3