The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-11-23 00:00:00

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TIIR COURT.
Yesterlav, aSout half past 12 o'clock, his MA.
SESI'Y arrive I ill bit travelling carriage from
Wildtor, cs,:.•rttitl by a party or Light Hone, at
the queen'4 mt., where he .was reixivetl by
the Unites of Yuna, CIJNIZIILAND, and CAN.
Moat.

Solis after two o'clock his MAJESTY held a pri-
wAte Lover, which was attended by
The Arelibiihup of Couderhary. the Lid ManceLiar. the
I.urd Privy Seal, the First Lonl of the Treaitery-and Chaneel-
-I,ir of the Exchequer; the three Secretaries of State; the
Fitt/11,1rd ~f the Admiralty; th, Consuimuier in Chief; the
Judge Advocate ' • the Duke of Ilfrotrose; Earl Ifarrnishy ;
Lords Soinervilleand ileationeld (gild stick); Sirs S. Giotto-
rel. C. Hamilton, 1% William., J. Honifray. and R. Wilson ;
fletserah*Orr, Macleod. awl 1)e Wattevale; Captain Par-
• ter. R. N. ; art Jlr. Willem.

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The following had the honour of being pre:
svnted to his MAJESTY
Jere ifomfray, of Landal Rms., 4herilr of the County of
Clainorgan, by llr. Ryder, upon which *occasion he received
the honour of tioighthotri.
Sir Robert 'Wilam, up's., hi" return (min4l.
Sir Charles l!amillon, upon his int poiatuvent to a Coloneicy
of Marine 4.
Capt. Peter Parker. Royal Navy, by Lord Mulgrave.
Rear-.Altniral Sir Thomas William", upon hi" promotion.
Major-General Orr, upon hi; promotion.
Major-General Nlacleod, anon his promotion.
Majne-General De Watteville, upon his promotion.
His MAJESTY gave audiences to Mr. PERM.
the rust of the Cabinet Ministers present,
and Mr. M. Sarrox, the Judge Advocate, who
laid before his MAJESTY the proceedings of some
Courts Martial.

A licle before six o'clock, his MAJESTY set of
on his return for Windsor.

Yesterday the Cabinet Ministers dined with Mr.
R>; hen, for the first time since his appointment to
be Secretary of State for the home Department, at
his house in Great George-street.
Yesterday the Archbishop of. C% NT n BURY, af-
'ter attending his MAJISTY, went to his seat, at
Addington, to dinner.
The Meeting of Parliament, fur tiro dispatch of
business, it is said, will certainly tike place before
the stOth of January.
The Lords of Trade yesterday refined the grant.
ing of further licences for thesailing of ships to the
port of Emden, without assigning reasoti for this
sudden and unexpected determination. •
Goverioneut persevere in their precious project
at hlilforil. M. BaßßALtreq's appointment will be
revoked—true—but a Naval Officer, a Store.•
keeper, and the usual train, hale been appointed,
and will of course enjoy liberal salaries.
. Mr. CAN appeared as an humble pedestrian
is the park yesterday, at the time his MAJESTY
waa proceeding to Buckingham House, while Lord
Liveupool. was capering along on a spirited
charger, to he in time for the Levee. The carica.
tures of " In and out of place" was admirably il.
lustrated, by the apps..arance of the ei-decant
Scc.ctary, and the place-preserving Earl.
Mr. Putervar. h. .s granted the Chiltern Hun.
tired; to Sir GEOUGZ It .WLEY, to enable him to
stand fur Abingdon, in the room of GLO. KNAPP,
Esq. because Sir Timonium Menai:re, being
Sheriff of the county, could not stand. Sir 'l'. is
to stand for Malmsbury:
A Russian Gentleman arrived in town yesterday
frten Guttenberg, which he left on the 1511$
slant, at which time 200.11ips had just sailed from
that bathour laden with Baltic pr,Kluce.
The nasal infirmity of the Gentleman in the
Pit, un Tuesday night, proved contagious, for
many persons were immediately affected•by it, and
in due tinie it gave way to other sounds of annoy-
ance, but they also proceeded entirely from hu.
man organs. The accident, it seems, was occa.
tinned by some rags in the seven-shillings pigeon.
hole:, who contrived to throw upwards of a pound
of strong snuff over the people in the pit !
Letters were received yesterday from Oporto to
the date of the itt instant. Their advert, with
some expressions of uneasiness, to the defineeless
state of the north of Portugal.
Some of the werchants of Tonningen are sus.
rcted .of having prepared and contributed to the
captnre and condemnation of vessels trading to that
pet. They are taken, after they have delivered
their cargoes, by privateers fitted nut fur that
purpose; and as the proofs of the illicit commerce
are in the hands of the owners of the privateers,
there is little difficulty in obtaining condemnation.
It is reoertell that ten thousand troops, cavalry
and infantry, with a large detachment of the wag-
gon train, are to be immediately embarked for
Portugal. If this be correct, the design that was
lately. entertained, to bring away the British Army
from:the P•ainsula, must have since been aban-
doned: But it is possible, that these troops may
be destined for Corfu or fur Guadeloupe ; in ei-
the, case the Expedition may cal! at Portugal.
For some time past, various persons have made
1 their business to attend all the markets in Lun-
dal and its ens irons, to purchase guineas, half
guineas, and seven.shilling pieces, which, no
doubt, are sent to a foreign market in neutral
ships. This trade produces great profits, and is
said to be carried on to a considerable extent at
Flushing. Should it continue long, the scarcity
of gold coinage will be much more severely felt
than it has yet been.
Last week the Executors of the late Archbishop
of Duette paid into theStamp.Office, in that city,
one thousand seven hundred and thirty-three
pounds, six shillings, and eight-pence, for duty
upon the lut will and testament of his Grace. He
is said to have died worth nearly four hundred
thousand pounds. Tfie bulk of his property de-
scends to his son, the Earl of NottNA PITON.
The late Sir PHILIP STEVENS was 52 years at
the Admiralty, w here he gave the greatest satisfac-
tion to all persons who had business to transact
with him. By his death his pension of 1,5001.
per annum falls into the public purse.
A desperate gang of house-breakers have re-
cently infested the neighbourhood of Hatfield, in
the county of Herts. During the last week they
broke into several houses, amongst which were
three belonging to Lady Sum), Mr. Thwart:lt,
Mr. (levee, Ike. They carried off a considerable
n amber of articles. We lint's an immediate and
i :neat search will be nude to apprehend these
i'-4htly depredators, andthereby relieve the
co tory from their burglarieos practicA.

I NTE LUG ENG E.
• COURT OF CHANCERY.
Wednesday, November 24.
BRIJ MN GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment this
day, en the application made a Short time since,
to remove the Rev. Peter Curzon from the Mas-
tership of the Bruton Free Grammar School in
Sumersoshire, upon alleged grounds of miscuu-
duct. The facts of the cue having been taken
into the consideration of his Lordship, he refused
the prayer of the application.

COURT OF KING'S MRCS.

Wednesday, November 22.
TUE KING V. SHELDON.

Mr. Tommy said, that this was the ease in which
he had obtained a writ of Habeas Corpus, directed
to Captain Sheldon, commanding him to bring
into Court the body of Elizabeth Moorehouse, an
infant, wh• was tinder his can•, for the purpose
of hot being delivered to her father. The parties
were now in attendance; if the Court should call
them in they would appear.
Mr. GARROW.—" I du not think it will be ne-
cessary to trouble the Court uitli the appearance
of the parties, or with hearing any thing further
of this business. I understund from Mr. Top-
ping, out of Court this morning, tkat it would
not be necessary blieause the youug wow 4e-ter.
livered into the care of her father."

Mr. Torrtro.—" The parties are brought up
here, and she is delivered to her father; I do not
know whether it be necessary that the act of de.
livering over to her father should be dune in
Court. I have no wish fur its if it be not ne.
eatery."
Mr. GARlollb—gg Out of delicacy to the feel.
legs of the parties, I wished to pass by the cere-
mony of the delivery over of the party in Court.
They have the security of the custody being with
the father."

Mr. Justice La BLANC.—" You have a right
to have the writ obeyed in open Court, Mr. Top.
ping."
Mr. G.tuttow.—" I understood from Mr.
Topping this morning, out of Court, he had no
wish to bring this young woman into Court, but
that she might be delivered over to her father out
of Court."

Lord ELLEMBOROUGII.—" As the writ is
turnable here, we ought to have the rerformance
of an obedience to it in Court. It is a writ which
protects the liberty of the subject, and due and
formal, as well u substantial obedience to it
ought to be executed. We, as guardians of the
freedom of the subject, must see that the writ is
properly obeyed. Call the parties into Court."
Upon which Captain Sheldon caine into Court
witli the young woman, followed by her father.
The writ of Habeas Corpus was then produced
and the return read as follows:--
" I, the within-named J. Sheldon, in obedience
to the writ of Habeas Corpus to Inc directed, do
certify, that the within-named Elizabeth Moore.
house, did of her own free-will conic to reside
with me; and I
do further certify that no forest
restraint. or coercion, bath brew laid on her by
me, or by any body, while she so resided with
me, but that she hath continually been, and now
is, at liberty to go away to any person she may
think proper."
Lord Et.t.exaoßOUGU.":" Is her father here ?"
Mr. GARROW.—" Yes, my Lord, she comes
here indeed in the possession of her father."

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Lord ELLEMBOROUGH.-66 Let her be delivered
up to her father."
This was dune immediately. Ile took her by
her hand, trembled, and wept ; and then the par-
ties withdrew.

As they were going out, Lord ELLexsoitouGit
said, " She is not t he molested in going home
with her father. The Court will watch over and

see to effectual execution of this wilt. if any
one should offer to interrupt the father a:id
daughter in their way home, the Court will visit
that offence as it should be visited.—What age is
she ?"

Mr. TOPPING.—" Fifteen, my Lord."
LrrEnenor. IZIOTERS.

This day nine persons were brought into Court
to receive judgment ulr,,n a charge of having
otously and violently assem!)led in the town of
Liverpool, and there rescued from the custody of,
an officer on the impress service, a young man of
the name of Crossley, a mariner, who had been
impressed there.
The defendants let judgment go against them by
default ; and the Attorney-General in praying
judgment against them, observed, that be was must
sorry to say,.that, within these twelve hours, his
peofessional and official duty was called to the
consideration of a most alarming disturbance, that
had recently occurri4 in the very same quarter of
the kingdom : he tnerc•fiire trusted that their Lord-
ships would mark offences of this description with
exemplary •punishment.
Mr. CLA RILE, Deputy Recorder of Liverpool,
then addressed the Court on behalf of the Wen.
dams, in mitiotion.
Justice LE Bic then proceeded to pass
sentence. His Lordship stated, that the public
welfareirendered both iiidisriisable and legal the
impressing of men for the naval service. The
law of the land recognized it in times when the
necessities of the State required it, and it must he
protected. The prisoners must have known that
they were committing acts in open violation of the
la w,but nothing short of bloodshed at the time could
deter them ; but fortunately thal was not resorted
to. It was truly said, observed the Learned
Judge, that "even right should not be asserted by
wrong meatis.” But most unfortunately there pre.
►ail in some places opinioes to the contrary. It
LI is necessary to remo►e such erioneuns notions.—
We du not live itl limes wheo this Court should
pass over offuaces of this sort with a slight poi.
iiishrnent, when the sprit of intubordination is
abroad, and when every thing wrung ottempted
to be enforced by violence and riot; the teugwr of
the limes is such as would 'wake it culpable
the Court to pass over such au offence as this)

lightly ; for the . public must learn (if their
own good sense has not already informed them
of it) that a Court of Criminal Jurisdiction
must nut treat such subjects lightly, an.l that
however turbulent persons may succeed fur a
while, in their attempts to compel what is wrong
to he redressed by violence—or even to compel
what they may think to be right, the arm of the
law will be long enough to reach them; anti how-
ever punishment may be delayed, at- la>t they will
be sure to óe punished: It is not by compulsion
that even that which is lawful should be exacted;
and it certainly is not safe that the thing n hick is
unlawful should, by compulsion, be enforced.
These were considerations that in the present
crisis actuated the Court, and influenced by them,
the sentence upon the Defendants was, " That
they, and each. of them, should be confined in the
Castle of Lancaster for one year."
The obvious tendency of his Lorthhili's obser.
vations may be clearly uu
PRIIONERS FOR. DEBT.
Mr. WIOLICY moved, that a person, whom he
named, now a. prisoner for debt in :Os Majesty's
prisoo of the Fleet, should be brought up by writ
of Habeas Corpus, for the purpose a being
charged in execution in that Court, and thereby
removed from the custody of the Warden to that
of the Marshal of the King's Bench Prison.
This motion was opposed. Mr. Barry stated,
that the Prisoner wits'already in execution at the
same Plaintiff's suit, fur the same identical sutn
of money, having been taken upon a writ of
.capias ad satisfaciendum by the Sheriff of
Middlesex, in whose custody being, a detain-
er was lodged against him by another Plain.
tiff, *hose action was in the Common Pleas.—
The Prisoner was therefore brought before a
Judge of that Court, and by him committed to the
Fleet, whither he went in execution upon the first
writ of Ca. Sa. whereon he was tint asrested. It
was therefore wholly unnecessary to charge him a
second time in execution ; the more especially as
the Defendant, having the rules of the Fleet. the
ohject of removing him cui.ld not be to answer any
purpose of substant►al justice, but to vex and ha.
rass him.

Of this opinion was the Court, adding, that the
Plaintiff had already all he could desire ; fur tho
return to any writ of Ilabeas Corpus woul,l show
him in custody in execution, to make the Warden
as much liable for an escape (if -such a thing
should crer happen) as a Conswititur from that
Court could make the Marshal, and so it would
be vice versa in the Common Pleas.—Rule re.
fused.

A French periodical Work observes—" The
English speak no longer of Spain, and dare not
venture to talk of Flushing, where only 300
men, they say, now die weekly. It appears,
that it is endeavoured to render the people of
London insensible to this melancholy situation of
things, and that the scenes of Cuvent-garden
Theatre afford a kind of relaxation, which is
found very convenient for diverting the mind of
John Bull. We are ignorant of the result .of
these burlesque demonstrations of civil liberty,
and these coarse displeys of stational spirit which
set every thing in a lame, merely to determine
whether Madame Catalani shall have the price she
demands for songs ; whether the Theatre shall be
open or shut; whether Mr. Kemble and his fa-
mily shall or shall not be ruined ? It is to decide
this important dispute that heavy blows are dis.
tributcd in the Pit, and that Noble Lords mingle
among the champions•of both parties."
Yesterday two mad women appeared in the
Court of Exchequer at the same time. One of
them, Mary Davis, the Welch woman, presented
her papers to the Barons, and exclaimed, " it is
very hard—they have forged my name, and robbnl
me of 17,0001." She at the same instant dis-
played her tattered gown, and was proceeding to
describe tho rough treatment she had received in
pursuit of what she termed justice, when the
ushers of the Court interfered, and compelled her
to bc•silent.—The other female, who was a tall
woman, wearing a red cloak, next made an out-
cry for her property. Her looks and actions
menaced the °dicers of Court, and when she
was ordered to remain quiet, she said that abcdid
not mind the law or the Judges, for the world bad
done her all the mischief it could do. It is ra-
ther strange that the Police dues not prevent
these unhappy lunatics from constantly annoying
the Courts of Law. Surely they might be passed
to poor-houses.
Letters and Papers have been received from
Norfolk in Virgi.iir, and from Boston, in New
England, to the date of the 16th ult. By some
of these it appears, that the President was nut
expected to arrive in Washington until the '3oth of
that month ; it is mentioned as the general opi-
nion, that Congress would insist on the ratifica-
tion of the treaty with Mr. EasetNe, before any
diplomatic conference would be entered epee with
Mr. JACKSON. Nu doubt was entertained but
that the Non-intercourse Act would he enforced
with the utmost vigour towards this country, MI.
tit it should be superseded by some amicable ar-
rangement. The return of the Violet, in ballast,
confirms this representation.
A few days since a slater, named Kerns, fell
from a brewery, in Dcogloe.la, and was unfortu-
nately killed on the spot. lie was the only► sup-
port of an aged mother, a wife, and young fa.
wily. So reduced were they by this calamity,
that they lost even the hope of deriving any bene-
fit from the sustenance his industry had provided
for the severity of the approaching winter ; but
no sooner were their neighbours informed of their
situation, than bet weeu sixty and a hundred per-
sons from Crooked-street, DroCieda, repaired to
the field where their little crop was, and in a few
hours not only dug their ipotatoes, but by a little
subscription amongst themselees, paid the rent of
the ground and dwelling, and conveyed the win.
ter's support home to the cottage of this disconso.
late family.

The Marquis of Sumer'', house, in Cleve-
land-square, is preparing for the reception of the
family, who are expected in town this wel.k, to be
present at Lord Levesom Gowsn's marriage with
Lady HAftillat CATINDIiii.