The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-08-26 00:00:00

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STANZAS
111 MtMOIT Ol ROBERT BLOOMFIELD, WHO DIED AS EBEFFORB,
BEDS, AUG. t 9, 1813, ACED 67 V .

(PROM A CORRESPONDIiNT)
Big breath the last long pap expired.
Hiv friends knelt round his death bed weeping;
That form, which once bright genius tired,
Is now a corpse and In silence sleeping.
The bell in his parish tower was toll'd,
The village peasants the ?Wines spread;
They praised the man that is stiff avid cold.
And sighed, when they whisper'd, " Ihoomrizt.D's
DEAD !"

A chaster minstrel.—a sweeter lyre, .
Never wakened joy, or melted sorrow;
He raised Britannia's virtues higher,
Gave night-sad hearts. Hope's lighter morrow.
The ' Milk Maid's song, at an early age,
For a merry May-morn be garlanded ;
Then his • Farmer's 80y,',--that youthful sage,
O'er the rural lands, he so blithely led.
His • Wild Flowers; eull'd from their pastoral beds, .
Surpassed the exotics by learning shaded •
For Nszun r had painted their beautiful heads,
What Nature paints, can never be faded.
His ' broken crutch' was a ballad of truth ;
His hourglass' quietly warned the living:
The Fakenham Ghost,' a sweet tale for youth ;
And The Widow Jones,' iust;uction
The Banks of the Wye,' descriptive and lone;
Telling legends of barons and castles grey ;
When CAM! NIA was girt in her feudal zone,
And maidens by knights were stolen away.
May-day with the Muses', lovelily beamed,
- The tenants met their landlord smiling:
I Andrew Hall,' to his wife repentant seemed;
The • Soldier,' retarn'd, past scenes beguiling.
Irind Hel.n. could sing, she could play and chat,
And her gentle heart with love was beating ;
She felt the quick pulse of her Lover pat,
When they kissed at parting, or meeting.
' Hazelwood Hall' invited the guests;
In turn we smiled, and in turn we grieved ;
So pure were the poet's domestic nests !
Like him the contented loved and lived.
As the name of Bunws in Scotia's clime,
Is deer to her song, by poesy's ties,
BL4OMPIELD, so dearly, shall flourish through time,
And bloom in the fields of his native skies.
MARIA PRIOR.

Islington Green, August 23, 1823.

The new farce ca'lei Fish out of Water, had, the be-
ginning of last week, been announced for representation
on Saturday last. Circumstances oecasioned the perform-
ance to be postponed till this evening ; and of this due
notice had been given. Unfortunately, however, for the
reputation of a critic in a Sunday paper, the Reid John
Bull, (a northern critic we suppose,) the notice of the
postponement was unnoticed by him ; and his critique
which had. been written in anticipation, from the gift of
second sight, and for the sake of a few puns, was inserted,
as if the piece hail been actually exhibited. To obviate'
the injury which 'night be occasioned by the extensive cir-
culation of the paper in which the critique appeared, it is
necessary to Oat this explanation.
A new road, planned by his Majesty, will, it is said, itn-
mediately be made from opposite the long walk in IVindsor
Great Park, in a direct line through the garden of the late
Queen's Lodge. leaving the lower Lodge, adjoining the
stables, on the left, and will come in a parallel line with
the grand entrance into the Castle yard. The kitchen and
coffee room of the Lodge will come down in its course.
Teo elegant Lodges are to he erected, at the entrance into
the castle, and the other at the entrance of the garden, on
the road leading into Windsor. This new road is to he
erected in order to avoid going through the town and as-
cending the steep of the Castle Hill.
All the servants belonging to his late Majesty, occupy-
ing apartments in the Castle at Windsor, and over the
stables, by an order of the Lord Steward and Master of
Horse, were obliged to quit on the 15th inst.. in order that
the apartments may be applied for the reception of his Ma-
jesty's household domestics.
By the steam packet Rapid, which arrived yesterday in
36 hours from Rotterdam, Dutch papers of Saturday last
were received. On the preceding day a fire broke out at
Dordrecht, in a warehouse in which oil of vitriol, sulphur,
&c. were deposited. These substances rendered the pro.
grew of the flames alarming; but by great exertions the
fire was prevented from doing much injury beyond the
warehouse, which was completely destroyed.
fiIARRIAGES IN IRELAND.—The decision of Judges Bay-
ley and Holroyd in the trial for bigamy, reported in the
Morning Post of yesterday, by which decision all mar-
riages of Protestants in Ireland, by license, solemnized
in private dwellings, are declared ILLEGA L, and, therefore,
void, (the late English Marriage Act not extending to Ire-1
land,) has excited on this side of the Channel a most ex-
traordinary sensation. All marriages between Catholic
and Protestant, and.a very large proportion (perhaps the
greater number) of marriages generally are solemnized at
private dwellings in Ireland.- Surely it cannot be possible,
if these marriages ate illegal. that the Ministers who offi-
ciate have been all ignorant of the law, in a case of such
deep importance to those who pay them so well for the dis-
charge of their clerical duties. It will be found, we dare
say, notwithstan hog the decision of the English Judges,
that mere is some Irish law which legislates marriages so
contracted—if not, the bare reflection on the confusion and
breaking up of society, which must be the result, is as-
tounding, unless, indeed, that Parliament shall be called
together, to pass a retrospective law—that is, a law radically
vicious in principle, to save us from anarchy.
Marriages between Catholics and Dissenters are secured,
we believe, by a special Act of Parliament. It is the favour-
ed class whoin this instance are to he the sufferer. ; but,
we again express a hope, that some of our legal friends will
enable us to set the public mind at ease upon this subject,
by controverting the opinion of the English Judges, and
pointing out the particular Act which legalizes marriages
in lrelat .t, not solemnized in a Church.—(Ovialia Morn-
lag Post.)
Sunday last, as Lord Arthur Hill was proceeding from
Hillsborough to Dublin, the chaise in which his Lordship
travelled upset on the north road, at the entrance of this
town, in consequence of one of the forewheels coining off;
the driver, a lad about 17 years of age, fell under the
chaise, which it was found necessary to remove before he
could be extricated ; he was brought to the hospital, near
which the accident occurred, where a severe fracture which
he had suffered in one of his legs was reduced by Surgeon
'Pentland; and we understand lie is rapidly recovering.
Lord Arthur and his servant got out of the chaise window,
without having sustained any injury. His Lordship showed
the utmost anxiety on account of the accident to the post-
boy, and stood by whilst the operation of setting was per.
forming.—(Progheda Journal.)
We are sorry to state that Major Lovell Badeock, of the
14th Light Dragoons, met with a serious accident, by his
horse falling with him, when out exercising with part of the
I regiment at Frome, in Somersetshire, last Thursday, by which
be broke his collar bone, and was much bruited.
DELAYS ARE DANGLROCI.—A young woman from the
parish of St. Teeth, came to Catnelford on Friday last, in
order to purchase viands for her wedding dinner, which,
from her appearance, ought to have been eaten some months
before.—On her way home, feeling rather intUrisosed, she
called at the house of an acquaintance; and as at speedily
became manifest that the assistance of an accoacheur was
requisite, one was procured, when a tine boy was shortly
introduced to the company, to the great disappointment of
the mciher, whose wedding has necessarily been postponed
in consequence of his appearance.

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TO THE EDITOIIisOF THE STATESMAN.
London, August 2.5, 1823.
Staa-To counteract the projects of those who are ever
at work to serve their own interests, at the expense of those
of the community, is an imperious duty of every member
' of that community, and a duty that will be performed by
every one who has the least claim to honest priseples, or
the protection of that compact which is the cefrient of
civilized society. Every one has not indeed equal power
for the performance of this duty ; but whether one's power
is little or much, it ought to be duly exerted. ' Of all the
infamous tricks put into practice for the purpose of pander-
ing to sordid-desires, that to produce the enhancement of
the necessaries of life is the most infamous; because the
effects fall heaviest on the class which is least able to bear
them. For instance, should provisions at this moment ex-
perience a considerable enhancement, what is to become of
the poor labourers? The abject state to which they are
reduced, cannot he very easily described. Many of those
wretches, with large families, have no more than five or
six shillings per week, for the purchase of food and raiment
for their families and themselves; how then, are they to
grapple with an enhancement?
A certain description of persons well known to the pub-
lic (whether by their narrow or broad brims no matter) has
recently been very industrious in buzzing a report through-
out this metropolis, resifecting the state of the corn crops
in this kingdom. They have given a very unfavourable
account of those crops ; but especially of the wheat. We
are told that it has been much damaged by the late rains;
that the smut is much prevalent; consequently, thzre must
he extensive waste, together with deteriorated quality.
This is the account which has been industriously circulated
in the town. It is a barefated falsehood. But, a little
better than a week ago, 1 returned from a journey, in which
traversed many counties, both northern and western.
making minute observation of the corn crops; therefore 1
have knowledge of their stae at that pe-iod; whereby. I
solemnly declare, that 1 oever saw crops more healthy or
more abundant. They covered the land admirably; the
ear was excellent in every respect, and there would not be
the least lark of straw. Tull rains had not been in any
wise injurio..s; but, on the coon y, beneficial, as they hcil
assisted to ply lip the ear. IVith t to the Lean crop,
it was not so fine as the others ; hoWever, the crop of wheat
was incomparable. No smut, no tiv, no slug, no, nor any
thing pernicious to the produce. Even the rains that have
since taken place, cannot have done any damage; they,
without being heavy, have been
,accompanied with wind,
the tendency of which, has been to exhale the water, as
soon as it reached the ground. Shens4l the weather he
propitious to the reaping season, which is just at hand, the
country will have ample reason to rejoice at the bounty of
Providence; for it will be overflowing with every species of
Grain.

Abundance will of itself cense a great depression of prices;
yet, perhaps below the point they arrived at I set year. If
the contraction of the currency has not had its full effect,
there will be another cause to send the prices still low•r.—
When the currency of a country is contracted, its full effect
does not take place immediately; nor can any one foretel
the precise period. The prices decline gradually, though
nut tin2erceptibly, till they find their level, where they will
remain, should no other cause be in operation. Besides, are
we sure that there will be no farther contraction of the
currency? flax an adequate quantity of paper been with-
drawn from the circulation ? What would he the conse-
quences, if a run should be made on the banks ? These are
important qnestions. The people now have the matter in
their own hands; and a little time will slaw us the
result.

It is not difficult to perceive, that the speculators are rather
In a critical position. Just before the commencement of the
Invasion of Spain by France, they being of opinion that our
Government would assist the Spaniards, and believing that
war and high prices were twin brothers, began to buy up the
corn in this kingdom, so that in a little time there was but a
small quantity in the possession of the farmers. Having got
the corn into their own hands, they have supplied the markets
according to their selfish views. Prices hate in consequence
been hoisted to a comparatively enormous pitch, at which they
have been kept to the present moment. These high prices have
not proved to be of any utility to the Agriculturists; on ti.e
contrary, they will ultimately produce mach evil. The specu-
lators, however, have overshot their mark. They have with-
held the corn to too protracted a period. Bringing their hoards
to market immediately would have the effect of lowering the
prices so rapidly, that great loss would be the result. Keep-
ing the boards back till the new corn mikes its appearance in
the market, will drive the prices still more rapidly down, ac-
companied by an immense sacrifice. In either use, the pros-
pect is far from being agreeable. It is for thespeculators them-
selves to make the choice. Perhaps of the two evils the least
will be chosen. W. M.

CROPS AND HARVEST.
—mar—

The sickle and scythe were last week pretty generally'
applied to our downish crops, and though the weather,
daring the week, was for the most part wet, wheat, bailey,
and oats were got rep and carried. We saw a sample of
barley, in very good condition, which bad been housed by
Mr. iiodle, of A ifristou ; and his neighbour, Mr. Jenner,
of Winton Street, sent oats to the stack.—.-(Sueser Adver-
liser.)
A neighbouring farmer, who pushed his harvest with
more than ordinary alacrity, made three wheat stacks on
last Saturday se'ainight, but they heated to a degree that
compelled him to open and turn two of them on the follow-
ing Monilay.—(l6icl.)
We bear front the South of Devon that the corn in that
district, is about an average crop, but little is yet ripe.—
Some hay yet remains unsaved, and a great part of that
which is put :3gether, will be only fit for the dunghill.—
The apples are not so large and fair as they were last year,
but a peat deal of cider will be made : rough cider now
sells at,from 20s. to 255. per hogshead.--(Sherborne Mer-
cury.)
Some few fields of corn have already been cut in this
neighboni hood, but we can scarcely anticipate the coin-
mencement of harvest generally before the first of Septem-
be,. The crops are not heavy nor have the long continued
rains prodneed that bulk of straw which in a warm min•
mer woalil have been the natural consequence.—(York
Chronicle.)
The harvest has commenced under favourable auspices
at Burley, near this town, where a tine field of wheat is
now standing in the sheaf.—ln several of the southern
counties, the reapers arc busily employed.—(Leeds Mer-
cury.)
On the 12th inst. a field of barley was c it near St. Rees, an-
other at Fox-houses, near Whiteliaven. These are the first
beginnings of harvest in that part of the country ; the crops
are generally of good quality, though about three weeks later
than last year.
We feel happy in stating that a complete and beneficial
change of the weather took place on Sunday last, and has
since continued. Some partial showers have taken piece dur-
ing the week, but not such as to he productive of inconve-
nience, much less retard the advancement of the hitrvest..
Dunt.tm. Avower 23.—The weather has been comparatively
fine since Sunday last. This day has been a most delightful
harvestday. The corn fields almost universally begin to as-
sume a yellowish appearance; in several places, fields of
wheat and oats seem to indicate a near approach to ripeness.—
Early next week, reaping wheat and oats is expecteit tooona •
mence in. several places ; in the latter end of next week, many
people will be using the sickle.
By a letter from a Correspondent near Fraserbargb, we
learn, that on Monday morning last he began barley ►sar-
vest on a field of eight acr?s, with a good crop. He adds.
"So mach for early soiling ; I sowed it on the 13:11 of
March, and do no! think I shall cut another sheaf fur three
or four weeks, however good the weather may be; nor will
there be general harvest here, for four or five weeks.—
(Edinburgh Slar.)
A field of barley, belonging' to Mr. John NPFarlane, of
(Jartrenicb, pariah of Port, Perthshire, was in full ear on

the 20th of June. a circumstance unparalleled in that quar-
ter—perhaps in the north of Scotland.
The corn harvest has become general in the Cast. Wete.
and Southern parts of this county. A small breadth ,of
wheat and some few oats have been carted, of which we at ,
present hear nd complaints. It will be 14 days at least be-
fore the wheat is ripe in the northern parts of the county.
and much of the barley is still green. There appears
plenty of labourers, and no want of employ.—(Colchester
Gazette.)
A field of about four acres of barley was cut down upon
the 18th inst. at West Anstritther, the property of Mr.
Johnston, banker, St. Andrew's. The crop is weighty, and
of excellent quality. A sample was shown in the market
at St. Andrew's, on Monday last.
The harvest prospects engage an anxious attention, from
the very unfavourable state of the weather for a consider-
able time back. The two or three last flays, although not
steadily fair, have had warns intervals of sunshine, which,
accompanied by occasional breezes, In some q!egree repair
the injuries of a rainy season. The country looks extremely
I well, and the crops present a rich and flourishing appear-
ance; but there is too much reason to apprehend that the
wheats have suffered essentially from the nxtreine wetness
of the weather during the last fortnight. The produce, we
rather fear, will rate below an average crop.—(Kilke.t"y
Moderator)Huta. —lhe rains on Thursday last, and the repeste t
showers since, have thrown down more or le.s the heavy
crops of wheat in this district, consevently the holders
demanded an advance of 2.. to 3s. per quarter.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT TATTERS IL'S.—At c. 25.

DONCASTER ST. LEGER STAKES.

I 5 to 8 agst Tinker—lo to 1 agst Rosanne-10 to 1 nit Taos
ered—lo to I agst Sherwood—ll to I agst Claude Lrirraine..--
-IS to 1 agst Barefoot—li to I sgst Petals Royal-25 to 1 agst
Comte d'Artois-33 to I agst Lisette filly-33 to 1 agst Colum-
bus-40 to 1 agst Isabella.
HEREFORD RACES.—FRIDAY.
(LAST DAT.)
City Plate of Fifty Pounds.
Mr. Williams's eh. m. Leah, aged, 90. ♦lb 1 3 3 1
Mr. Day's b. m. Vietori4e, aged. 9.t.... ...... 2 I 2
Mr. C. Robinson's Gas, 5 yrs old, Sst. 7lb 9 I 9 3

A better race than till; has been but seldom, if ever, record-
ed in the history of Sporting. The contest in the fir3t heat be
tween Gas and Leah was won merely by the tip of the nose ; by
many it was considered a dead heat; but Gas being the pro-
perty of the Noble Steward, he decided in favour of Leah.
The second heat was won after a severe contest, by half a
head.

The third heat was won by Victorine : the Sportsmen pee-
sent, one and all. declared there was never a better contested
beat, and only won by half a head.
The fourth heat %VI'S desperate between Gas. Victnrine, and
Leah, and won with difficulty by Leah, ahout half a Icegtet.
A Handicap Sweepstakes of Five Sovereigns each, with Thirty
tibvereigns added.
Mr. Williams's ch. m. Leah, aged, 9st 1
Mr. Day's b. f. S yrs old, 7st.2lb

Leah won this also in good style, it being the fifth he..t she
had won this day. '
The Sweepstakes of Sts each, with 25 srs added by the ()j-
-eers. r.r horses, &c. r.ot thorough bred, belonging to the lier •-
fordshira Cavalry, was won by Me. John Wa,ker'a bl. rr
Tenbury Lass,; yrs old, llst. 91b. beating three others, in two
heats.

Sitoortico.—The resort to the shooting in the Highlands .
greater this season than for several years past: the principal
inns of this place have been constantly crowded with travellers
during the summer, and latterly to such excess, that many La-
dies and Gentlemen have been compelled to put up with the
accommodation of houses of lesser note.—(bererness Journal
PEDICSTRIANISM.-I.loyd, the pedestrian, after walking 31
miles In bad weather on the Edgware-road, undertook to dv
one mile in teu minutes which he completed with ease il9j
minutes.

ROWING livrcn.—Yesterday being very fine. brought fort`t
immense numbers to witness the Rowing Match for a Silver
Cup and Cover, to be rowed for try• six pair of oars, all lands-
men, but amateurs of aquatic sports. The Gap was given by
a Nobleman of high rank, who wishes to promote a Cluh to
support the watermen, who suffer materially from the erection
of additional bridges across the Thames. The competitors
were as follow :

Men. Colour. Men. Cola:r.
H. Archer... Pink. Thos. Higgins Oran;e.
F. O'Niel ..... ...Ditto. G. Conway Dittl.
J. Barnesby... ••Light Blue. C. Moore. Yellow.
F. 11ugu5........Ditt0. E.Brown .....Ditto.
R. Anderson... —Scarlet. J. Griffith Greed.
M. Barnett Ditto. E. Jones Div°.
At three o'clock the first three pair of oars started from eta
centre arch of Waterloo Bridge, rowed round Westminster
Bridge, returned by the North shore to Black friars Bridge, and
back again to the place from whence they started. 'rite other
three pairs of o.irs started at four o'clock, and went the sant"
course; but at six o'clock the successful candidates, the it•.l
and Pink, started for the grand Prize, it was w.•I1 cotiteited,
but the Red came in first, and consequently won it.

A most dreadful accident occurred at Swim fleet, near
Howden, on Saturday last, at the house of Air. Irelln I.
during his absence at Howden Market. Whilst the serva tt
maid was in the kitchen the two children came in, the eld-
est a tine boy about nine years of age, the other a girl ahaat
four ; they were very desirous that the servant shunt.' hod
them some bones to make them some apple scoops, but this
perhaps not being convenient at the time, she refused ; the
children continued their anxious rev. st (but. alas.in vain!)
the servant in order to deter them, threatened to shoot tt:e
boy, and went into another room and fetched a gnu, whi.•tt
she to ice pulled the trigger, consequently thought it was
not loaded ; however, dreadful to relate, when she prevnted
it at the boy, it unfortunately went olf and killed him dead
on the spot, taking away nearly the whole of his throat.
and so near as to burn the trill on his neck. It appeare I,
that the last time the gun was used, the printing was
taken ou., and the lock was left with the cork and 1)43
down.

Thos. Bradley, a post boy, in the employ of Mr. flipyr-
son,-ef Hampton Court, was found dead on Wimbledon
Common, on Friday night last. The deceased was returns
ing from London with a pair of horses, and it is supposed
that, in decending the hill, which leads to the Baldfac:rl
Stag, the horse on which he rode fell, and, falling on i:s
rider, killed him on the spot. One of the banes, which
were found near him, had its knees broken, its head very
much lacerated, and bore other 'narks of having had a
lent fall.

CORONER'S IwgreErs.—Yeaterdav afternoon an Inqueq
was held at the house of Mr. Coats, No. 35, Bernard.street,
Russell-square, on the body of his servant, Elizabeth
Sheppard, aged 23.—From the evidence of Mrs. Coats, it
appeared that on Friday evening last the deceased went
down stairs into the kitchen in good health and spirits; about
two hours afterwards Mrs. Coats went down stairs and
found her lying senseless on the floor, with a consider-
able quantity of blood around; a surgeto instantly at-
tendeu, and he pronounced her quite dead, havied died
of apoplexy; the blood was in consequence of the fall
from her nose. Verdict—" Died by the Visitation of God."
Another inquest was held before the same Curon,r, at
the Guy Earl of Warwick, Belton Strevt, Long Acre, on
:he body of a female infant child unknown. From the
evidence of a person who found the child, it appeared th
be was employed to clear sway the soil and dirt fro
one of the wretched Courts leadint out of Church Street

St. tiles'; in so doing he laid hold of the d.eeased thil
and had it conveyed to the workhouse. The surgeon
the Infirmary pronounced it a lull grown c'.7l‘l, but w
unable to may whether it had been born alive vrithont fir
opening the body.

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