The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-12-09 00:00:00


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NAVAL INTRLLIGENGE.

Dear., Dec. S.—Came down tints the River the
William sod Alfred, Clark, for Antigee.; Charles,
Mane, for Tobago; Starling, Barreti, for gaits,
sg, and remain in the Dawns with the 'Outward-
boundoll well.—Arrived and remains the Brothers,
from Antwerp to Oporto.
RAIRSG ATE, DEC. B.—Came in several valets for
shelter.
Dovea, Dec. S.—Arrived off this port the Trent,
Langhottom, 29 days from Quebec for London : on
the 24th Nov. experienced a severe gale in long. 32.
W. which lasted 36 hours—lost during the gale, one
man washed overboard, stero-boat, bulwarks, and
decks cleared °Pall lumber.
PORTSMOUTH, DEC. B.—Arrived ,the Sir .George
(Morn, (transport), from Cork, to take troops to
Ireland.—Sailed the Voyager, Jacks, for London.
Wcirmounr, Dcc. 7.—Last evening was brought
into these Roads, the galli .t Friendshaft, Penarn,
from Boardeaus to Bremen, in a very leaky state :
• the tinsel is much strained, and it is feared her cargo
'mast come net; also the Ana and Susanne, Dunn,
from -- to Cowes, with loss of boom and gaff.-
the wind being fair, she sailed for that port.
FaLmouni, Doc. 6.—Strong gale and thick
weather. The skips in the Roads have struck their
' top.gallaat masts, at appear to ride the gale out

well.
SCAISCIROUGII, Dec. 7.—The Woodall, Smith, of
Bell, took oat the crew of the Deinlos, Mathews,
of and from Sondastand, Witt costs, for London, en
the 3.1 lost., which vessel in was a sinking state. and
with both masts slid bowsprit goue.—Several Billie

ships ere off this place.
CAanto %NI, Dec. 7.—The Muster and crew of the
John and Mary, DAWSOII, of Kinsale, landed in
their boil last Thursday evening near Newport, Pent•
brokeshire, they report their vessel to have foundered
that day off Strurnble Head, laden with copper ore,
from Beerhaven to Swansea.
LONDONDERRY, DEC. 4.- -The Newcastle packet,
Robinson, from Leith, with herrings, is totally lost
in ouviver.

The Indians, of DiewcrotiP, is totally lost on the
Goofiest Sind—crew and most of the stores saved.

INTERESTING EXPEDITION.
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[FROM A PARIS PAPER
A great number of French travellers are at this
moment labouring to extend our empire of know.
ledge. Amongst these per.evefing men. we most
place in the first rank Captain Freyrinet, Common- ,
der of the corvrtto l'Ureuie, wbich is on her way to
the Southern Hemisphere. lie has instructions to
determine the configuration of the globe; to make
observations respecting the variation of the needle.,
anti the intensity or magnetic power. ; to devote big
attention to meteorological operations and general
physics, which ire cennected with the theory of the
earth; and finally, to observations on netural his-
tory, shore all, in whet relates to animals. The
last accounts which have been received from him,
were dated from the Cape of Good Hope; the
crew enjoyed the mast perfect health, and the learned
navigator was preparing to pumas bis important
mission.

LOUD RAKELAGII AND Mit. ADOLPUUS.—The day
after the memorable trial at tlicks's Ilan, in which
Lord RANELADII we; •convicted end fined 501. for
an assault, his Lordship, it seems, called open Mr.
ADOLPHUS, et his Chambers, and applied the words
•t coward, liar, and scoundrel," to Mr. A. with the
view of ,provokitrg him to fight a duel. Mr. A DOL.
I'HOS, however, heard his Lordship's abuse with
commendable temper, though under hi♦ own roof,
and on Monday last took the wiser measure of pre-
ferring a hill against his Lordship for having widen.
'routed to provoke him to fight a duel. The bill
vas found by the Grand Jury. Mr. Aormottus im-
mediately directed his Solicitor to move the case, by
certiorari, to the Kitties Bench. This was accord-
ingly done, and notice to that effect was set ved upon
Lord R.AMELAGII'S
THE FUNDs.—Stocks have been looking upwards
for some days, awl a further ti,e is expected with
confidence, as the value of the great Capitals in the
present Lottery increases with every advance of the
Funds, Btsti's Office in Gorohill is every day
throttled with adventurers. IVbat en extraordinary
thing it would he in the annals of Lotteries should
one Ticket get £60.000 in Stock. on the first day
if so, we hope it may be sold in Shores ; and at no
Office is this su likely to happen as at Bost's.

A DANDY STRIPPED.—On Monday night, about
ten o'clock, a flashy fellow, of the Dandy species,
entered the Posilion Tavern, near the OlvmpicThee-
tre, and had tome liquor, and immediately after went
out. Mr. 'hard, the Master of the Tavern, suspected
his character I, ow his foppish appearance. and ob-
serving him going out of the house, thought it might
not be his intention to return, end following him,
saw him set off at full speed. He was able, how-
ever, to overtake end bring him back ; he demanded
payment for the refreshment he had taken, and the
D.lndy replied, " 'Pon my honour. my dear fellow, I
have left my purse at home." Mr. Ir Mtn took his
(a•la Francais) hat, and the Dandy said he should die
on the road home if he had not his chapeau. A Gen.
tleman told him to leave his waistcoat, for his stays
and padding would prevent him from taking cold.—
Ile accordingly took off his waistcoat, nod gave it
info the hands of Mr. laird. lie then put nn his
coat, buttoned it up to the throat, slid walked out
nearly as dandified as when he entered. On search-
ing the waistcoat pocket, Mr. I. (onto) an artificial
mustachio and a tavern-Wines bill fur board and
lodging, -unpaid.

TIT E ST Arr EgM

To Tux EDITOR or TUE STATESMAX

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Sin,—At the instance and solicitude of many well-
beloved friends, I have long withdrawn from open
combat with the adversaries of Freedom, the real
enemies of their country ; I have net, however, the
less employed my pen and tongue in private, in ads°.
eating that cruise which involves within it all that
distinguishes the reasonable man from the brute.—
Though I have never for a moment despaired of that
divine cense, yet I have thought it not wrong to 'b-
efalls from openly declaring my feelings upon so im-
portant a question; those feelings. since that time,
could not fril to have been aggravated by the recol•
lection of the loss of fortune and liberty so many
Mars in a loathsome prison; and that too fur doing
what I consider an act partaking more of the meri-
torious than any other of my whole life, viz. for en.
deavouring (not only disinterestedly endeavouring,
but against my interest endeavouring) to better the
condition of my fellow-creatures. The
same conduct and motive I have long beheld and ad-
mired in the two great champions of Freedom, Sir
FitANCia ihipaVr and Major CAIIT*ItIGHT. This
is not a compliinetst, but a just and merited tribute
of my approbation to their well-tried north and ta-
lents. Though I have not the homier of personally
knowing the former, yet I have the fullest confideuce
in his integrity and seal ; with the latter I have bad
the pleasure of being acquainted thirty years. I
long ago defended the country with my purse and
person, together with that worthy citizeis•soldier,l
from the foreign for, and se now are desirous of '
rescuing it from the plundering grasp of its internal
enemy. But more of this at another time and in
another place.
The blow which pot me hors du combat (the whole
history of which %sill one day marvellously astound
the Public) was created and impelled by an infernal
sentiment uttered from the chief Seat of judicature;
it was not, in this instance, the seat of JusTicE.—
The sentiment was uttered by that tool of poser,
Lord M ANSvIELD (though once himself accused of
sedition), that " Teuth itself is a Libel, and the
greater the Truth the greater the Libel," After this
I published in the Argus Newspaper paragraph as
follows, viz. The People of England are ac-
cused by the Government writers of sedition, and a
disrsitioti to disobey the Ises, yet while it cannot
be said, that the House of Commons is composed indl:
vidually of the bona ide Rrptesentatives oft
titt :utter vsy the ',LIPS inspo,ed sly them as though
the Ilouse were so c.. tistr ;Wed." F,sr 11.0 the then
Attorney•General,Sir AUL 1118ALD 11.1cnONALD, was
set upon me, and reduced me from affluence to ad•
varsity ; and further, by the acerbity anti hostility of
Lord KENYON, 1 was imptisoned in the King's
Beech and Newgste, for a period longer in duration
than the celebrated war in Troy !! ! Can yoo be-
lieve then, Mr. LOVELL, that although I have been
silent, I have forgotten my wrongs? No, they
.and
the wrongs of marry others, will be spoken of
66 trumpet-tongued," when the proper moment
comes, mud then I will relate a history 'and Odra a
mystery, which will riot soon be forgotten. The I
reason, however, of my taking op the pen at this
moment, which, but for the particular occasion,
nitwit in the eyes of a few appear a precocious one, is
first, ;he denouement of the fraudulent farce which has
long been smiles in Threadneedle-street, of which
the following is the critique; and secondly, that
many of my dear friends, who formerly adjured me
to silence, now see as plainly as myself a necessity
for speaking out.
With hearty good wishes to the STATesscrer, the
only honest one I know, I remain your friend, &c.
lituounbury. Dec. 4. S. P.

ON THE BANK RESTRICTION ACT.
It has been truly bNitl, that the once healthy Can-
stittilion of Great Britain is now beset with nume-
rous ill., either of which, if ant soon remedied, will
be sufficient to destroy it. The National Debt is
one, the 'icor% Roles another; the third, the less
known, is not less 110110 US, via. the growing demand
for Tea from India, the investments for bayirg which
being almost wholly of the precious metals (chiefly
silver), inu,t tend to impoverish the country ; and
•‘ though last, not least in our esteem," is the Bank
Paper system, or rather surfeit. Of this momen-
tous and mischievous Act, I mean alone to treat in
wit place, Et this time.
Although every person in this kingdom feels the
ill effect of this measure, yet but few rightly under.
stand the cause of it, slid but few more can in any
way esplain the dire effect of it in all its beariugs;
and although it may he truly described as a cancer or
running sote on the body politic, and would inevi-
tably terminate in en euthassasie of the State itself, if
not timely remedied ; yet, as its operation is slow,
and nut traceable day by day, the Public have not
taken alarm sufficient to insist upon an immediate
incision of the morbid part, rather than let the whole
body perish.
The Guise! Ah in that cause is contained an
" Wad of woes." The pristine cause was the es•
pensive war, the prodigal the repeated war on the
Continent. This disposition to renewed war of the
most disastrous or berthensome nature, was excited
aud fomented by the merchants and bankers of
London, end who will most assuredly, under retri-
lautfory and final justice, be the first and greatest sof-
(ems by its ultimate effects... Proximate,: self-
interest rather than temote national advantage
prompted these capitalists to throw up their hats in
the sir, when assembled at Merchant Taylor's Hall.
in exultation at the resolution for war. They had
profited from the former war by a concurrence of
furtunete or forteitous circemstances, and they did
not look far enough into things to foresee that the

gams direr los commercial country, must et length
end I",tbe blur) or amino of that tonst_r) to ibis re:
sped they ?ere trofy. Gartheginiaa. No Metter, war
ihtti bewailed* II trade of instant prolll to the is.
pi fallout, hoes The moment of the profligate Lord
3010aTtl's entering into it against Awoke. Here it
ias that money made Money, and the loans, with
thttravegant interest and dooceurs, and premieres d(
Lotted{, 'rickety, and ilonoveS open Scrip, occasioned
'the hurtles of that War Minister to be %wrought
ebb the distinguished of those gentry. Great wale
of spode were wanted too for exportation, not onl
to pey our own troops, but also to subsidize the
German Princes, who let their troops by battalions,
or tether sold them at se much per head, to fight-
' our biotin. Quarrels in which those petty Sore..
reign', those proprietors of human bodies, hid no
more to do, or to apprehend, as et the head af. die.;
tent and continental States, than with the sumptuary
laws of the Emperor of CHINA. To distinguish things
and alts by their proper names (and he is a coward,'
fordo?e a stale who does not); if this was not bloc&
motel, I know not what is. Well, this money,
the persons who used it call it what they please; wall
~,trod in specie (Ole wary German prefers hard)
cash to paper ill his dealing.). and- the-Dttuatmoune,
and lie Hoaxer, with other Bankers, but especially+
the BKNK, furnishethit at a per ceniage, and what weal
infamous in many, and irelsoitable in the Minister,'
It in sums of vast magnitude nut of Me country,'
althoagh forbidden by the constitutional laws of.ths
realm, sales.; provided for by express Act of l'or.
liament. For this illegal art the Premier promised
and obtained for his particepscriminislNDKMNlTY ;
and this he was as able to do, and theywere as ready
to coofide in, as though it were an individual act of
his ohs' Obe Minister for the time, being the /ultimo
inobrle of that vast end powerful pachinel the !louse,
of Commons. As a question en parranr, was there
then no occasion for a Ittf..rm in that maid Douse.
called the Representatives of the l'eople, hot bring,
in feet, the instrument or tool of the Premier ?
SRecie for exportation, whether foreign or British,
being 'eepeetedly wanted and 1)10,1 targely for, the Bonk
was tempt.d to part with almost the w!-ole it pl/4.
sensed, and thereby was makiog a profit upon two
capitals instead of one ; for honestly, and by its ow a
rosislitution, It should have but OUP, the hellion er
specie which they nuelit to have hail iii their cotri.rs,i
being intended by their ('ha. ter at a apenrits for their
paper hi circulation. Uri although the Bank was lien
ble to forfeit its Charter, had the (alerts of its
bein.- publicly known, yet ss tb,,oh egfectilli
had nut manifested therisettes, on account of
timely peace with America, and trade wonderfully
reviving so esto bring back an iota ,= • f wealth, this
grist Company of Merchants escaped that discovery
whiob would assuredly have happened aid hostilities
been protracted match longer.
In three years after the French Revolutionary
War, every one knows what dill happen. The ser-
eity of the Bank to the Minister, 1 was going to
say, bat it could not be denominated servility, since
Its speculating Directors woold not servilely have
(alien into the views of the Monate*, if profit, two-
fold profit, bad tint been held op to them ; profit on
the specie exported, and profit from their paper Its the
increased per ceetage or agency, paying the nation's
debtors at their counters, though with what niight
be deemed the nation's money, since Mr. PITT'S Go-
wernment had given it legal currency. The conspira-
w therefore of the Beak with the Minister, is the
"rrt+pPt WM. for such -a proceeding, end this con.
spirery it is, thst has entailed one of the worst of
6sztorses on this commercial empire. A curse, which
9tritiling Witte timely blessing of a Reformation in
-that corrupt system which occasioned it, can ienteve.
The proceedings of this politico-trading Company, di.
wetted by the avaricious and anti-patriotic views of
its Governors and Directors, have poisoned all
the channels of trade, foreign and domestic.—
They have made the existence of the hardy
peasant and indefatigable aitizan painful and
precarious, although these are the best and most
useful members of the community, ss being
the most tiecessery to the well-being of every State.
By the vicarious raise of the Bank paper, from its
more or less superfluous abundance, or from the
hazard of its getieineness and mystery in the proof
of it, the bread may he said to diminish in the hit'-
ha •idinen's baud as he raises the morsel to his mouth ! ! !
Oh Heavens, how long is this to continue ? The
words of CICLRO, on CATAI.I NE'S conspitscy, rise
in the indignant mind of every thinking, honest
Briton, and he exclaims—" Quarqtra tandem
abinere palientia 'rostra! !
In my own mind, the measure of indigeatiorr has
long been full to the brim; it has, however, now
been made to ton over by a most dishonest anti
wicked idea which has been publicly thrown out by
one of flue Bank advocates ; no doubt with a view
to feel the public pulse upon the sly occasion.—
Though Joint BULL is characteristically Alenomi.
noted a great fool, yet a portion of his family will
no doubt be clear-sighted enough to discern through
ha flimsy veil, the fraudulent design of this specula-
tive body of money-changers. it is no less than
this, as appears by the report of the Times, a few
days ago. A Mr. WRAY, anxious for the interest
of the Bank (its honour is oat of the question), pro-
poses that it should lessen the quantity of its circa•
biting notes by taking them up when gold is of a
certain or Mint price, viz. at par, but that whets
gold is above that price, an AG IO should be paid to
the Bank by these who exchange paper for gold!!
—lime is au honest proposition truly. Do all the
affirmations end boastings of Mr. MANNING in the
House of Commons, of the readiness and desire of
the Bank to pay in specie, come to this at lan ? Surely
the Directors of the Batik of I.:aglowd must think
their countrymen the most besotted People in the
universe if they put up with such usage.
This is indeed the sharper's way of gaming—
" head I win; tail you lose." So that Bank
paper is to fall to a discount, if gold should be high
in price; but to bear Ito premium or profit shoold
that metal be ever so low !!! If the new advocate
or pleader for the Bank has not be-strayed the vol.
tnre's Debt, I know not what is foul, nor what is

fair.
But with these ambitious and ataricinas gentry,
who figure in this manner. we suppose. as with
Suaitz-rasaes witches) lu Macbeth, " Fair is foul
and foal is fair."

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I. P.

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THE Pit ESEIVT SYSTEM or rin BANK9
AND ITS PROSECU IiONS fOtt FORGI.B Y.
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, The Indictmentsy all run that the
for
forger
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crime
ero was
a6ndmCthoitmtepad ••
ey
owfitthheinl3l:kt of Fd'aergi'lluid'i.'Lhe
Bat the witnesses on the part or the Bank, their own
Solicitors, Searcher', and Inspectors of Note', as
universally swear, that the proaecution is instituted
in order to protect, not the Bark, but Me l'obtic:
and it is certain that, whomsoever the Note may have
beet dragon with the intention to defined, the Bank.
is the only party that cohort and will not b. defraud-
ed; for it will not pay the forged :'vote to the iii.
nocent bolder of it.
There is another inconsistency id the present syse
tern, which was detected on the late triad*. Thd
Bank, by knowing its. own Notes, and being under
emorbligatioa to pay forged ones, can sustain 00 loss,
bute r i suchnd inudtidossuads,
ldousas I
sin, ? bys t
lilt:aysilsolal)neexdage,beyrasotinione icbadliiteidd utahle,
Public: yet, when the lospector of the Bank Wan
required by the Jury, on Willianis's trial, to declare,
how he knewa forged from a real Note, the quell.
lion was resisted on the pArsciple thrlt, !' it would
lead so great inconvenience if she IhnivitegibAbligra
to declare the private works by whiclattecetiO de-
termine on the gestuineuen of its Notes" By this
doctrine, then, it followsrtillitt iudisiduals, who sire
the genuineness of Notes, are
aki:pnrnini,tieg7risiired in
ariceof marks hy which the true
can be distingolaheal from the false; and the Bank,
who are not obliged to pay the false ones, retain to
themselves the esclcsive faculty of discerning thee,.
An to the diCttiM, of general theoretn upon which
tiro taws aw,iiist forger? we founded, baittlei that
we are a crimmercial count: t', mud therefore•forgere .
ought to be hanomi ; the Wiwi, of 0,44 illoorem has
' long Veil si•owit end proved. ii,illarid was oticeas
Icommercial a•coatory as Faieta ad, ant! jet never es-
i ecuted for forgery. The I,lJillteis of England are a
highly goinwerel..l body. aid yet ace. they, as such,
n.it,t grievously adverse to tetlic,iog capiaal purtish•
inset 041 all . 7iterif!); 1 and are 11.1111 emertiog them.
selves warmly forahe repeal of la wa su sanguinary.
Large islands of iremietkitee seen so fir lgoutli as
:he West Inoies. A.very. eitest;ive one •as seen in
1
tee oeightuarrheitil of she B hams Islaride4 sithAihootai
rise to a very great aensotion.
.. M outlay aright, Sir. 11. Mroions
liitgetsiodir'etig.
Tri:tto' liitotthe
i onl..pvgerr,:" lin is in she employ of
i an.l San, f ilk -ine•ctistos rind dyers, ia the It:timer
roads, returoing hams. from the
,eity2 ehtre..ire.had
'Welted 181. 174. Gd. tort want Bried'sislaici, a
fellow pirriorsed his arms behied„ cud two stilted
robbed him of the whole sum.
Fi ital.—Monday alienation a flirt broke oil in the
workshop of Mr. Cotiely, carpenter, in Evelyn.
buildioes, Oafoid-st,eet. It appear• that a fi.• had
been incautiously left alight in the e • k shop whilst
the nom *eat home to (limier, and ntitch communi-
cated to some paw-dust and shusiriga on the floor. A.
Gentleman who was reading at his window saw 034
Males issuing out and in.med!ately gave an Warm.—
The parish engine arrived in a few minutes afterwards,
and succeeded in Stopping the progress of the filmes.
Another tire broke out in the shop of Mr. Foriest,
shoemaker, No. 1, Wigmore-street, which dest.6yed
a considerable putt of the interior.
A gang of robbers beset she shop of Mr. Jainesi
of Eltliam-place, Kent-road, on Monday night.—
Mr. fames was cautioned by a neighbour, and corn-
ing suddenly upon them, detected one of the party in
the act of Inkiog out a pane of glass from the shop
window. Ile had cut away the window.trame with a
knife. Mr... James kept fast hold of the Prisoner until
an officer nrtived.
The coach-house of Sir Thos. Wilson, Stamford-
street, Blackfrisrs•road, was broke open on Mon-
day night, anti plundered of some valuable harness,
and a coachman's hol.cost.
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MAIL COACCuredRuBsERV.--Yeiter;sey I ilr get
and John Lee 011'e cnarged by Jeliii.Fuantan, a
constable of Sr. Giles's, at hlarlboroagh. oreet
Office, tinder the following circomoances :—Fuza
man stated, that between severs and eight o'clock
the precediog evening, as he was going slang lkoatia
street, St. Giles: s, he saw J. Lee behind a mail-
tioliCis going down towards Holborn, einleavouring to
pull some ',wets - out of the hoot ; witness and his
brother followed, and when the Prisoeer juinped
down, he seizes' him by the throat. The Coach
those on, and the Prisoner threw the parcel awsy
At this moment a loud whistle was heard, and
about twenty thieves, at the head of whom was.the
other Prisoner, rushed upon *hoes!, whom the beat
most unmercifully, and knocked his bio:her down.
The Prisoner had a large clasp knife which he elides.
.soured to open, bat the light from a shop window
discovered the danger to witness, who instantly
wrenched the knife from his hold. ‘l'ith great diffie
celty lit forced him into a shop, the other villains
beating him all the time, and from thence be convey-
ed him to the watch.house. In the liatiarim some of
she others got off with the parcel,-"1►ot the other
Prisoner was taken into custody. Witoesa anti
his brother searched the lodgings of she Prison-
ers, and found a crow-bar concealed in the bed,
and about a dog• it skeleton keys. Two knives
of a peculiar shape which were found on the
Prisoners were produced; the blades were about
four inches long, very thick, and on the whole cala
culated for the worst of purposes. The Prisoners
said, they touched the coach try
they knew nothing further of tl:e matter. They are
" accident," but
both connected wish a most eatensive of horse stealers,
who have carried on their depredations iu Berkshite
to en alarming estent.—Committed.
CORN EXcliAscE, DEC. 9.—Although there testa
been no fresh arrivals since Monday, the quantity of
Wheat left over from that day's supply was more
than sufficient for ihis morning's demand, for the
sales were exceedingly heavy, and prices almost on-
minal.—The quantity of English Barley on sale was
rather small, yet liPviag but few buyers Monday's
prices were with difficulty obtained.—Oats were also
dull sale at Monday's prices.—ln other articles there
was no alteration.
Yesterday C. Thompson was fined 201. at the
Thames Police-office, which being unable to pay,
he was sent to the House of Correctinti for tit month+,
for selling a dog to Mr. Payne', a botcher. at Briztorr,
which he afterwards re-s.ild to Mr. Whitbread, a
clieese•meoger, at Wapping.

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