The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-12-25 00:00:00

TIDE STATESMAN.

COLONEL THORNTON'S WILL
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elf THE OUST Of PitIMILItt INSTADICt AT illus.
The Cdrirt; after having heard the respective pleadings of
tf .Tripper and Pithiest Debit,for Elizabeth, Oleow of
Colonel Thornton. Messrs. Plougonlin and ---.. for
M. Grille liestriarei, sub-goardian of the minor Thornton,
Ind M. Perrin de Serigny for the Executor Mr. Hiner
Curling, ogetber faith the conclusions of M. Berard de
Deglajerex, substituted for the King's Atmrney, and having
deliberated thereon in conformity to the lice. decide,
Thal vith retard to the principal demand of Mr. Curling,
het Cite will of Colonel Thornton mate he execsted—con-
sidering that on the 31st of Oabber 1816, the late Thomas
Mormon, an Englishman by birth and by family (who
since the year 1795 had ceased to exercise the funs.
'ions of Lieutenant Colonel in the second Regiment of
York Militia), pre...need himself bef ire the Mayor of
he Fifth Arrondissement of the City of Paris, and declared
o this &Incise,. see that he had established his domicile
in Paris three years since, and that it was his intention
always to remain in this kingdom with his family, there to
enjoy all civil anal political rights; that the 4tb December
following, the said Thomas Thornton addressed to the
Minister of Justice a petition, io order to obtain. of Isis
Majesty letters of naturalisation ; that Thomas Thornton
ifterwards renewed the declaration made at the Mansion
House of the Fifth Arrondissement, adding, that should
.is Majesty deign to comply with his wishes he would
*tampon into France the rest of his fortune, particularly
his stud, his collection of paintings, and Isis plate, which
alone he estimates at 200.000 francs ; that he had taken
J a lease the domain of Chambord for 15 years ; that he
desired to live among the number of the King's faithful
subjects; but in placing himself under the authority
of the Government and the laws of *France, he wished for
the enjoyment of the rights necessary to the preservation
of his fortune, and the river of in siting the contracts and
stipulations it might demand :—Considering that in con-
sequence of the solicitaiona of Colonel Thornton, it pleased
his Majesty to accord, on the 30th January 1917, letters to
this foreigner,to this effect: —T. Thornton horn in London,
sixty years of age, living in Patio, is admitted to es ablish
his domicile in France, there to enj• y all civil right so
long as lie shall continue to reside in it : Considering that
posterior to this Ordonnance, viz. on the 5111 of August
1817. Thomas Thornton pr'sented to his Majesty a new
petition, whose object was to solicit. according to his own
expressions, his naturalisation complete, anal his admission
.o all the political rights of a French subject, subjecting
himself before hand to all the duties and all the responsi•
bility of a Frenchman, as well towards his Majesty as
towards the s.a.e.' and at the bottom of which petition T.
Thornton takes the appellation of the most submissive, mote
devoted, and mese faithful snbject uf the King:
Considering that to his intention, often and energetically
expressed. of king Isis domicile in France, T. Thornton
joins the feet of really residing there until his decease in
the month of March 1923; and that having in 1818 made
I &journey to Ragland, when and whet. he made his will,
is which he mentions his too Frentit dwellings of Chem
Herd and Pont Is Roi at the same time nith his English.
residence of Falconer's Hell, in the parish of floythorp,
without pointing it out in any way as the place of his
dom:cile, the seat of his principal establishment, or the
cestre of his affairs:—Considering that posterior to this
journey. more than two yews of er the dote of
the will, in the month of Novemb-r 1820, T. 'Thornton
renewed Isis entreaty to the Minister of the interior
to be admitted to the parti. ipation of political rights
in cinaii•y of proprietor of the ancient Ma q iesate of
Posit le Rol. of which estate he even took took the tide
The has been one of tile mildest Christmas Days that and constantly attached it to his signature; all cies& uin-
can be remembered. The
only
one
wills
which
we
can eas e'which exclude the idea th t after his journey to
,0 fi,ing I,;„,lo,niejle in France : -4 onsi.lering that it te-
compare it. was that of the year before last ; when we England T. Thornton changed his mode. ion with regard
remarked, is oar Weekly Register of the Weather of that
p Add, that the day was so bribiant. mild, and dry, that it snits from these facts that the real doinis ile of Thonsas
woul•I Lave obtained particular notice bad a fine day been Thornton was in France, that it don not in any say am
a rarity, that seams. Onr thermometer, at one oclo, e p ar that he had the intention of abandoning this domicile
that day. however, reached no higher than 43 degrees • since he continued to reside in it until Lis demise : that
whereas this day, at the same boors it has risen' this Colonel Thorntos died tinder the empire of the Royal
to 50 yesterday, at the same hour it was at 43. Ordunnance of the 30th of Jannary 1:117:—Considering
end. al the corr. sponding time of the rear 1821, it was at that the necessary effect of this etrilonuance was to con-
for on 'l'. Thornton,
.an Engli\dainan now asturalizer
47. Bute hat has been most remarkable in the tempera.
tare of the present Christmas, was the mildness of the in France, the enjoyment of tl.e civil rights
preceding night. The lowest degree to which we found accorded by the French law t i the s abject, of
the mercury in our night thermometer had Bonk, in the " King, on the simple condition (which ea. cow.
inter vat between sunset yesterilay,and sun-rise this mornine, plied with by Thoroton)of residing in France: Considering
was only 45. This is a circumstance of extraordinarily that under the ancient, as unite the modern jurisprudence. the
rare occurrence in the winter months; but it will not ap• law of the domicile of the testator can and ought alone to govern
the ills of a will relative to real property si gated in the pool-
pear surprising when it is known that, at eleven o'clock lion., cmintry where the law Is iu force. togrther with all the
last nigh.. the mercury stood as high as 50 personal property dependent on the succession of the testator,
CLISIATI Of L0510021.--It is a circumstance not perhaps sal•hout distinction of the countries of different da.hinions in
generally known. that the temperature of the air in the which the personal property may he found at the nt.tmeot of
metropolis is raised by the artificial sources of heat exist- the decease; the perolinal property being suppos•d by a fictlot
thenh
it 7irnsgo nbeoefn the man
ing in it, no less than two degrees on the annu .1 mean raft tocertatt;
'Phloorewito
above that of its immediate vicinity. Mr. II ward has i inf latwhatC7oarosnei
fully established this fact, by a coinparison of a long hildomicile in Prance, in the fall exercise of these dee*,
Se' Ilse was, as all Frenchmen themselves are, b mnd by the French
ties of observations nude at Plaistow, tieratf srd, and laws; which laws, except in eases by them determined, er ,-
Tottenham green; (all within four miles of London.) sith hibit the entailing of property, and annul all dispositions to
those made at the apartments of the Royal Society in Lou-a' the effect of creating a west on condition of returning it to a
dun, and periodically recorded in the Philosophical Trans- tilLet person:—Consideriug. In fact, that Colonel Thor '-
actions. His explanation of the cans• s of this difference ton has in Ida mitten testament of th- 'id of Ovober,
is simple and convincing. " Whoever," I.e says, '• has 1818, charged his executors to remit to Diana, daughter of
tiler
his hands over the surface of the glass lore, wise-Priscilla Min,. at the period when this child shall have
ther in summer or winter, will have perceived bow tomb a•tained the age of 21 years, all his property ; that he de-
the little bodies of the collective multitudes of bees are ea- sires 11%010 er the death of this child his property shall
pable of heating the place that contains them.' But ths , pass to her chi Men, end calls them succesiively t. inherit.
proaortion of warmth which is induced in a city by the giving the preference to the sons over the daughters ; and,
population, most be far less considerable than that man- in d -faith of issue on their part, besmws his property ow
sting from fires, the greater part of which are kept up for . Andrew Barlow and his four nieces; all which deposis
tions are in direct opposition to the absolute prohibitions
the very purpose of preventing the sensation attending the '
'mope of heat from our homes. A temperature equal to contained in the 896th. article of the Ci.il Code :—Coo- ,
that of spin, is bootee maintained in the depth of winter, sidering thaeT. Thornton, at Vie same tiro • he constituted
in the included part of the atmosphere, which, as it escapes George Roupell and B. Curling his extent. r ,hail for obje t
from the houses, is constantly renewed. Another, and a execution of those to insure the dispositions prohibit. dby
more considerable portion of heated air, is constantly the law, and that thus they could not be executed :
pawed info the tams ,o mass from thechimnim to which, Considering that it is a principle in France, that there
lastly. we have to add the heat diffused in all directo is no interregnum, and that to the prineipal entail made by
from the fog
d. breweries. steam engines, and otherer the said testator falls with the others dependant on it, it
mannfeetories. and rulinary
tiro
OS Climate. becomes superfluous to put in possession the minor Thorn-
vol. F. 104, 1116 ) When oe consider that all these artificial ton, legitimate son and sole and only heir of the late nee.
Thornton :
sources of beat, with the exception of the domestic fires
With respect to damages
--
msges claimed by Mrs. Thornton, as
continue in fall operation throughout the summer, it should
awl," or the
seem that the excess of the London temperature must he R Minor
Considering that B. Curling,as executor of T. Thornton,
still greater in June than it is in January; but the fret is
might have thought himself under the obligation of de.
otherwise. The excess of the city temperature is greater
fending the last will of the deceased, and being a stranger
in winter, and at that periol seems to belong entirely to
to the French legislatioa, might have believed that lit was
the sights, which average three degrees and seven-tenths
doing his slaty:
while the heat of the days.
warmer than the country ;
le :
Considering that Mr. Culling himself is plaintiff in
owls', without doubt. to the interception of a portion of
the solar rays by a contont veil of smoke, falls, on a mean the °Wa C
moldering that it resales from the above examined
of years, about a third of a degree short of that on the
facts, thee the succession of Colonel Thornton was opened
open plain. .
at Paris, ahem he was domiciled, and that it is to its Iris
' " CHRISTMAS 130IINO."--Tbe housekeepers in and banal, that it belongs to take cognizance of the contests•
around the metropolis are cautioned against a set of men Lions that may arise with regard to the acid succession :
who go about in the assumed character of Bow-street For these mums, the Court &clan a sell and void the.
jeatrol, soliciting Christmas Boxes. It is proper that it Will of Col. Thornton of the 2d October, 1818, which coor
should be known sorb persons are impostors, and that the diva. e Messrs. Roupell and Curling his executors, under
Bow-street Fa•rol are strictly 'prohibited from soliciting charte of entail.:
Christmas Boxes, and are liable to be dismii4ed_their !Pastes. cons trendy. the demands of Mr. Curling, as
situation if it be known that they do so. executor, inadinissible • and condemns bias in costs, in
On Friday morning, the reflection of the sun from an which are comprised
limo of former judgments.
attic window of the Mitre in this town, glanced directly
upon the note-hook of Mr. Justice Park, which prevented
his writing, and compelled his Lordship to send an officer
to request the shadow might be closed. A wag hearing
this order given. said Isis Lordship had been much annoyed
by unpleasant reflections —(ilaidstone Gazette)
A detachment of the 34th (or Cumberland) Regi-
ment of Foot, arrived oa 'ftwanlay at Windsor, fre.n Wool.
wicb.

MR. BELZONI.

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Cape Coast Castle, Oct. 22. 1823.
The brig Swinger arrived here on the evening of the
15th ; Captain Fillmore came passenger in her to join tb.
Bann. but finding that the late Commodore, Sir Robert
Mends, was deceased, he hoisted his broad pendant on
board the Owen Glendower. as Commander of the squadron.
The Swinger touched at Teneriffe on her passage out. and
brought from thence Mr. Belzoni, for the purpose of prose.
Wing his travels in the interior of Africa. It was Mr.
Brhont's intention to have landed at the Island of St. Jar-,
to endeavour to proceed thence to the river Gambia, a d
from there to commence his route, but on the arrival oft e
Swinger at St. Jago, finding there was no chance of a
vessel to convey him to the Gambia, he determined of.
coming farther south.
Cape Coast, October 23.
Mr. Belzoni embarked in It a Majesty's brig Swinger,
this morning, to be conveyed to the river Benin, where h.
bas decided on setting out from. He hes with him only
one man, who is a native of 11401111SL Mr. B. has assumed
the Moorish costume. which does not ill become him, have
ing five or six mon'hs' beard, and must whim. We sincere
ly hope that this enterprising traveller way succeed in the
grand object of exploring the Nii.e., but we fear he will
encounter numberless difficulties, as he takes an entirely
new Mate.

KEEPINO CHRISTMAS.
--munte— , •
The piper of "The World" (No. 101), thus hum-
ruonsly laments the decay of the old hospitable customs at
Christmas :
" Our ancestors consideredCbristmas in the (Inutile light
of a holy cotontemorstion, and a cheerful festival, and
accordingly distinguished it by devotion, by vacatioa from
botsiner, by merriment, and hospitality. They seemed
eagerly bent to make themselves, and every one about them
happy ; with what palatinel zeal did they wish one another
a merry Christmas! anti what an otnistion would it have
been thought, to have concluded a letter without the Com•
plimenis of rhe season! The great hall resounded with
the tumultuous joys of servants and tenants, and the gam-
bols they played served as amusement to the Lord of the
mansion, and his family, who, by encouraging every art
conducive to mirth end entertainment, endeavoured to
soft. n the rigour of the season, and u.itigate the influence
of winter. What a fond of delight was the choosing of
I Kini and Queen upon Twelfth Night! and how greatly
ought we to regret the use of minced pies, which, besides
the idea of merry-raking inseparable rom them, were
always considered as the test of schismatics. How rep.
Isrly were they swa'lowe.l by the orviodos, to the utter
confusion of all fanatical remains! If a eonntry gentlermin
should be so unfortunate in this age, as to be under a
suspicion of la •resy, where will he find so easy • method
of acquitting himself, as by the ordeal of plumb per.
ridge."
The ctritom of singing Christmas Carols, and the mid.
night perform ince of the Waits, are thus prettily described
by a modern poet :
Now too Is heard
The hapless cripp e, tuning through' the streets
His Carol new; and oft, amid the gloom
Of midnight hours, prevail th' accustomed sounds
Of withrful Waits, whose hgrslony (composed
Of hautboy, organ, violin, aid fl .te,
Aad various other instruments of mirth),
Is meant to celeb late the coining time.

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Luat night, ',wont half guild five cielock. as a poor boy wa,
standing at tbe window of a eookshop in liolbora. some *WOW
in running by pushed bin. through the window, and dreadfuty
eat his heads •••11 face with the glass so stuck that it is lb,
opinion o Mr. Wi hams, surgeon, of firey'e inn lane, that he-
will lose the sig t .f to •ei • both of his
the
It Hospital.
the poor buy had sot beim•• w!ek out of the London
from the effect cit a contusion in his bead by the falling of a tile
in lb.. gals of wield a fcrtdibht ago.

POST OFFICE OF GREAT BRITAIN
"—amino—
The tieneral POst•Office of Great Britain, OW of leelati
forming g distinct establishment, extends its
_jurisdiction
to all matte!, connected with the posts over England Atli
Scotland, ibe American end West Whiff colonies and
islands, and all the British dependenciei, except the
Indies and Southern possessioni.
Deputy and Sub deputy postmatiters are established in
all the towns and most of the large villages threngliont
the kingdom ; their duty is to receive led dispitch the
mails, to distribute the letters in their several deliveries, •
to collect the postage thereon; and to remit the lame, at
stated periods, to the chief other in London. To give
efficacy to the numerous regulationi for the peeliessance
of this service, and to enforce the "lecithin of the earlons
contracts for the conveyance of the mail, by earthier, '
horse, or foot, there are seven riding esiteyerl appointed
for England, aid two for Scotland, who •ptesTill each
over a particular district, and superintend Is person its • -
post arrangements; congantiy comensieathir with the
Office in London, from which, for, their fitias and
experience in Post-office business, they are usually selectee.
The number of Deputy Postmasters is England who
keep account with the chief office eteeeds 600, and in
Scotland 200.
The establishment in London consists of the Ovieral and
Twopenny Post : in the former the principal officers •ten
those of the Secretaryo he Foreign, Inland, the Account Ant
General's, the Receiver General's, and various saber& nat.,
departments. Besides the chief office., there are ttpw•lr.,•;
of 60 receiving houses open in different parts of the town
fur General Post Fetters.
The camber of Officers is 175 ; Messengers and Porte-s
33; Letter Carriers. 203 ; Mail Guards, 270. The mail couch cc
travel about 13,000 miles a day, for which the Costrawori
receive upon an average lid. per mile. Th. flambee of mai
coaches out of London is 22, and those which are engap..l
in the cross road communication 43. The first mail co .en.
started for Bristol on the 2d of August. 1784, aed in line
coaches of this kind wen in general nee.
In the district of the Twopenny Po.t, which extends
above ten miles round Lond in, there are 140 Receiving
Houses ; the number of Officers, is 48, and of Letter
Carriers 359.
GROSS AND NET REVENUE OF Tlll POST °IMF/ FOR TIM Titer
ENDING JAN. 5, 1103.
General Post office of London . Z 1,606.197
Twopenny Post di.to
10 00,789
Scotland . .......
b4,ts4
Ireland79l

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1,942,930
Expeuces • 607.64

Leaving a net Revenue of Z1A45,914

SESSIONAL PAPERS.-1011BIONS.

The printing of the Papers, ordered by the House of
Commons, daring the list Session, is just completed by
Mr. Hansard, the printer of the Lower House. The Ninth
Report on Charities (occupying 900 pages, and being only
a little more bulky than the eight preceding Reports on
the same subject !) was the last Document delivered, an t
that was regularly circulated yesterday. The Report re-
spearing "Irish Population Returns" was ordered, and is
to progress fur printing; but it cannot be completed till
nest Session—The volumes of the Papers for the last Set-
, soon are not not so numerous as were those of the two pre.
' ceding Sessions—the voluminous character of which Papers
j we noticed at the time.
The Papers presented during the last Seision, and now
printed constitute nineteen folio volumes ! The three first
volumes are entirely occupied w'r If " Bills"—or the legir-
!wive labours of the Session. Three folio volumes of ne.v
Laws for one Session ! The thee, next volumes are filled
aitis " Reports from Committees," and the five succeeding
ones with " Reports from Commissioners •," so that eight
of those cumbrous Menses are stored with Reports only'.
The four following voItIOSIII are I .den wills Finance and
other acre oats. Then there arc three volumes containm z•
Papers relative to " Ireland"—" But India Com paoy,"
" Burning of Hindoo Widows, &c." sad " Slave frade ;"
a volume being set apart, end well fi11..1 with each of those
sunjects. But the last volume of all—namely, the nine-
teenth volume, aod.that volume which makes the witreteentls
century so memorable, is crammed witb -• Papers presen.e.l
bY Mr. Secretary Ceasing. by command of his Majesty,
relating to Spain, France, and Portugal," and the Negoci-
' aliens respecting them. The e .r • also in the sante volume.
Papers presented by command of his Majevy torching
the " Slave Trade" (besides a trreceding volume on that
subject) the" State tot Ireland," &c. There is also '0 nem!
laghl to the whole nineteen volumes prepered by J. 15 il,
Esq. of the Journals' Office, as well as a table or contents
for each volume.
One Ilaindred .' public General Acts,"—that Is, iudepen
den:ly of "private ' acts, in the cootie of last ession te-
ceired the Rojal Assent.

LOUTII COURSING NIEE riNG, Tucso&T, Dec. Id,

►os THI CVPS.
Mr. Hawaii's Hercules best Mr. Hoskines Crow dower.
Mr. C caper's Maiden beat Mr. Fisher's Felix.
C .1. Hlwhirst's Clarissa beat Mr. Ete's Aly.
Mr. G. Chapila's Uratitade beat Mr. R. Chaplin's Orinhi:

?JR rug MOST SKLEPSTALISS.
Mr. Chaplin's Violet beat Mt. Fisher's Fairy.
Mr. Eve's Helen beat Mr. Hoskins's Cervantes,

FOR SUR SECOND RSV/. RESTS/CRS.
Mr. Hassell's Intender beat Mr. Cooper's Chance.
Mr. Hoskins' Cou►ier beet Mr. Eve's Prince.
Prince lost this course in consequence of laming himself.

MATCHES.
Mr. liessall's Hamlet beat Mr. Cooper's ilsobful.
Mr. Fisher's Frolic apt Mr. Eve's Duchess—undealdod.
Col. Elfish Cayenae beat Mr. Eve's Lady.
Mr. Fisher's Scion beat me. Chap'lo's Grace.
Mr. libaplin's Duchess against Mr. Hoskins's Claudins—aa
decided.
Mr. Hassell's Hero beat Mr. G. Chaplin's Gamesters
Mr. liassali's i4udibras beat Mr. Cnoplin's Gallant.
Mr. Hassall's Hasty brat Mr. Hoskins' Corlulacui.

THURSDAY. D a•atee 14.
FOR TUC CUPS.
Mr. 0. Militia's Gratitude bold Mr. Cooper's Mald,..r.
Mr. Hasselea Hercules beat Col. Rttaldrat's Clarissa. •
DECIIII4O DS STCIII POR Tilt FIRST swr.arstagars.
Mi. Eva's Ilelewbeat Mr. Cbspit,i's
DIMMING WITCH son TIM SICOSIS SMIUSPSTAIII4II.
Mr. Hassall's Hilanda beat Mr. Ho-kia.'aCuurter.

FOR Till 'man swisrosass.
Mr. Meredith's Myttir best Mr. Hoskins' Co!china.
Mr. Hassalt's Hermit beat Mr. Wing's Holm
ta ATONES.
Mr. Fisher's Felix bast Mr. Chaplin's Granby.
Mr. Hoskins' Champion boat Mr. libaptin's Dothess.
Mr. Hoskins' Crow dowDAer neat Mr.
Y, Use linaplio's Duras.
ATUR. tti.

DECIDING MATES eon THE CUPS.
Mr. Hass*ll's H restos be, t Mr. G. Cosylilt's Gratitude,
Mr. Hamall's Hercules woo the Cup, and Mr. O. ChapHi*
Gratitude the Goblet.
nactuis• MEICIS TAO TIMID SW SSSSS JAM
Mr. Hassan', Hermit birat Mr. Meredith's hi) Itte.
SIETCGIES.
C Eishirst's Cayenne apt Mr. Win.'s Juliet.
Mr. Eves Duchess agst Mr. Fisher's Frolic.
Mr. It. Claaplia's Grizzle eget Mr. Hansa'', Highlyer.
Mr. H. Chaplia's Fly eget Mr. VlCiog's Harriet.
Mr. It. Chrp.id's Lily apt Mr. Hassall's Hushbras.
Mr. Hassaies Hero apt Mr. Whig's 11r1+11.
Mr. G. Cbaplia'sUallsat agst Mr. Fisher's Fel.
Mr. Hoskias's Glorious seat Mr. Fisher'sSoiran.
The above end several 00/If adobes were not rue,
11111800 of the onfevoarabiestMe et the weather.

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