The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-11-18 00:00:00

VACANT' SEATS IN PARLIAMENT.

The following scats ia Parliament are not► va.
cant :
,I6ingdoa—lty the death of Croucc K% A rt., gsq.
BuckinglianttUre —By the Marquis of TtrcttE !LLD saceeed-

jpgihe Duke Of PORTLAND.
Came!ford—fiv I.nrd HsNitir Pcryr succeeding the Mar-

citti4 of LutsnowNE.
Cot kernsuid.4—By Lord LowttiEß, made a Lord of the Ad-

_
:niralty.
Drourich—By S:10t/DVI BARNE, Esq. made a Lord of the

Treasure.
Du. hene—liv Ricataart Eq. wade Secretary

to the Treasury.
carport Huts—By Lord PA LSI VISTO !11, Mae Secretary at

•
War.
Ditto—By Ph. Airrittra Wct.Last.sv, created Viacount

WELLINGTON.
Arerthainpron—By Mr. PCECZTLL, made First Lord Of the

rrrawr% .
-Oxfordrhi, c—By Lord FR ANCIS SPENCER, made a COlll-

mi..iotter of the Board of Controtal.
Scarouromixi•--By CHARLES MANNERS SUTTON, Esq. made

Juke Piolvilc.ttr.
Tiwrifin—Right Hee. Rice4aco RTIMIt. made Secretary

of Stair.
E iabrr.h —By Mr. DoNDAS SAUNDERS, made President of
toe d of Coattail.
Doarnpatrict—By Joss Wit.sox CROKER, Esq. made Se-
croar) to the Admiralty.
Queen's C..uat3—Hatt. Wa, WchLtst.mt PoLt, made Se-
cretary of Slate is Irelard.

SUICIDE:—A young Lady, not more than 19
years of age, whose re.idence was a 'hurt di'tauce
front Buckingham Gate, put a period to tier ex.
istence by drowning herself in the Thames on Wed.
nesday last. Her body was taken out of the wa.
ter in ten minutes after the act had been coin.
milted, but attempts to restore animation were
fruitless. The young Slily was the d.tughter of
a Gentleman of property, and the came of sui.
cid.: was supposed to have origi...tted from preg.
oanry.
The I;ast•lndia Company, who formerly paid
their freight in batik notes, hare resolved in fu-
ture to make those payments by their bills at three

months.
On Monday last six hundred soldiers belonging
to the Duke of Brunsnick's corps were embarked
at Yarmouth (Isl.. of %Vigil° in transports for
Guertisq ; and on Wednesday 900 of the same
corps embarked in transports at Cuwcs for the
same island.
One hundred and twenty horses belonging to
the Itoyal Waggon Train march into Portsmouth
to-morroe-, and embark for Portugal.
A evenings since the premises of Mr. Lane,
Gera ...I-street, Soho, were robbed of stocking
pieces to the amount of .1001.
Thursday night a Gentleman going along New.
gite-street, was robbed of a valuable gold watch.
Thursday night about eleven o'clock, as Mr.
Si In h or, of Holly well.street, Shorrilitch, was
returning home, he was accosted by a man in a
sni.tek truck, near his own house, who knonktisl
him down and robbed hint of a silver watch, with
which he made his escape. '
We understand that Mr. NUCAt.t.tim's Lure
Rouge, or The New and F:rtraordinary Red
Book, noticed some time ago in this Paper, will
appear before the end of the present month, which
wilt contain a complete view of the Pensions in
Great Britain anti Ireland.
TM High Sheriff of the County of Glamorgan,
JtaltlllAU 110111 PRAY, Esq. who is to present his
County Address, in honour of his MAJFSTY has..
iug entered Into the fiftieth year of his Reign, we
are informed has applied for the honour of
Knighthood on the occasion. Should his appli-
cation be attended to, it is presumed other Sheriffs
‘Ol, on application, have the like honour con.
!erred on them.
The financial system of the Corporation of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne is at present under a close I
investigation, by a number of intelligent Burgesses
in behalf of their Brethren and the Public, who
have been lung kept ignorant of the state of the
Body Corporate. The neglected state of the Pub-
lic Charities in that Town has, for some time past,
been under the consideration of a patriotic Judi-
yid tal, n hose harmer exertions have been pro.
olidi!ive of advantage to the poor, and through
all‘t.e efforts the present investigation has been
etTee:,.o, n hich, among other particulars, has
brought before the Public another instance of the
mismatu4vment of a well-endowed charity—the
Ilospit.l the Virgin St. Mary in that Town—
the miserable inhabitants of which, six in number,
are only alowed the sum of .11. 10s. per annum for
their .ithsistence, while the Corporation is giving
a Reverend Vicar, though a non-resident, the
sum or.fift.y pound! per annum for the name of
.31,1der of the lloswital.

To rz EDITOR or THE

SI a—The Magistrates of lb :a-street are so zea-
lous in their endeavours to preserve Twice and
quietness in the New Tite.tvwc, that persons who
nave exhibited placardr, which Mr. BaAmn
has sworn *ere calculated to excite noise ant: tu-
mult, have btxnt compelled to find bail in the sum
of EIGHT HUNDRED POUNDS, fur their appearanci•
at the Sessions. But how are the times altered
since thu glorious days of KING WILLIAst, of
blessed memory. A century back, the liberty of
the subject was better protected. KIND WIL-
LIAM 111, wlio owed mach to the exertions of
the Prutestants, wished to reward their service.,
and in his reign, fur the protection of their reli-
gion, it was enacted, 1 !VIII. and Mare, c. 18.
s. 19 :

" That if any person shall willingly, and of purpose. ma-
" licioutly, ur contemptuously, come icto any calAssirat, or
" parish c.starclt, chapel, ur other congregation, permitted by
" the said Act. and disquiet or disturb the same, fir misuse
" any proacAcr or 'rattier, such pertkm-, upou proof bet re
" any Justice of the Pewee, by Iwo or wore milkiest nit-
" tosses, shall Bud two sureties to be humid by recognizance
" in the pearl sum of Firrir rot:Nos, ani on default of
"• such sureties, shall be committed to .prisou, there to re-
" main till the twat General, or Quarter Sessiorst I and upon
" coo r tertos of the said offence, at the said fle..eral, or
" Quarter SC•SiOns, shall suffer the pain and penalty of
" Ttrzsertr POUNDS."

To what, then, can we attribute the estraordi.
nary conduct of MODERN MAnisTRATcs, wrha de.
mand such excessive bail from persons who have
merely acted according to the customary usage of
the audience in the TuLtritz ?! ! What legal jus-
tification have they for considering the making a
noise in Covent-Garden Theatre more criminal
than disturbing public worship in St. Paul's, ur
lVestminster Cathedral
Middle Temple.

I NIPARTI A LIT Y.

A barbarous murder was lately committed near
Ballinrobe, in Ireland ; the circumstances are as
follow :—A mendicant in sailor's dress came into
that town, from Castlebar, seemingly deprived of
the use of one hand,- accompanied by his wife and
a chill of five weeks uld, soliciting charity. In
the evening, about nine o'clock, they left town
to return to a village in the neighbourhood, to
which there is a bye-road leading. Shortly after
they had left the high road, the man (whose
name is Michael Sweetly) entered into an alterca-
tion with his wife, and stabbed her in the left
side of her belly, near the navel, acid inflicted a
wound sufficiently large to allow her bowels to
fall oat. After he had given the wound, he re.
turned to the nearest house oft the road that he
had passed, and mentioned that two men had at-
tempted to violate his wife, and being unable to
succetxt, murdered her. A number of people
immediately gathered to where thu woman was,
and considering the conduct of the man very sus-
picious, they looked fur him fur the purpose of
secori..g bins. hi.sdiug that he had made off, he was
pursued by the Rev. Mr. Shanty, the priest of the
town (who happened to be going by at the time),
a Serjeant of the South M iyo Militia, and several
other venous, arid secured. Thu poor woman
was brought into town alive, and continued so
until about four o'clock next morning, when she
expired. Hefore she died she was asked concern.
ing her murderer, and site declared it was her
husband who stabbed her, and said she would
not acknowiege it, but she apprehends:ll he
might swear against some innocent pet son. lle
has since acknowledged his guilt, and says he was
actuated by jealousy.
Considerable ieconvenience was lately experi-
enced in the city of Cork, in consequence of the
Dublin mail nut having arrived its course. It has
been accounted fur in the following extraordinary
manner :-.-

" The mail which left Dublin last Monday
evening fur Cork, being unsually large, the
guards were unable to get it into the mail-boot,
and were obliged to fasten it on the top of the
coach. Oa Tuesday night, in passing Kilworth
mountain, the lamps were extinguished by the
want of air, owing to the density of the fog, and
the ropes having given way, the mail fell off un.
perceived. Oa Wednesday morning when Mr.
Anderson, of Fermuy, learnt the circumstance,
he immediately got a large military force, to take
the necessary measures of precaution and inquiry.
After a very fatiguing march in scouring a great
tract of country, tho bag was found in a quarry,
near Mitchelstown, unopened, amd brought to the
post office here yesterday."
Last Sunday sem al carriages, with pri.
goners, arrived at the Ilead (Mice of Police
in • Dublin. The Magistrates of that Office
dispatched, on tho preceding night, sonic
.gent peace officers, with warrants to arrest many
persons in the county of Meath, concerned in va-
rious felonies, and for putting to death ono of
their own party, who had amassed a large sum of
money by plunder, and who the robbers were fear.
ful would approve in case he should be taken pri-
soner. The entire of the warrants were executed,
and the rubbers arrested at Whitelau, near Bet.
lewstowts. A party of the military surrounded
the residence of the robbers, while the Magistrates
and Peace Officers entered and arrested the whole,
and discovered a large cave, wherein•tho principal
of the ging, Pat. Coogan, lay concealed.
Shipments of linens, damask, and large gran.
titles of Irish calicoes, have taken place to Rio
Janeiro and Dzinerara, during this month, front
Belfast, and also of linens and calicoes to New
York, but by no means in such large quantities
as usual to the latter place.
Flax is gradually declining in price. Last
month best Petcrsburgh was at 1151. so 1121. per
ton, in Liverpool. It afterwards fell to 1061. and
was still lower in London—down to 1001. per
tun. This mouth the price, after some fluctua.
tion, is sinking in England, owing to the large
arrivals from the Baltic. In consequence, the
price of has in Ireland has been considerably de-
pressed. In Newry and Armagh the sale is very
dull on market days, and the holders of the stock
in the warehouses are very willing to sell. They
remember the failure of the attempt at monopoly
last year, and the consequent losses which some
had sustained. The quality of the new flax ap-
pears much superior to the growth of the two last
years.— (Cork Paper.)