The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-12-28 00:00:00

VERITAS.

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POTATOES. .
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Mouses, of raising men. to affluence, or depressing t ient in other means, May evade the foriviture of his
To Mr. WILLIAM COBVILT. Bailey. hem to a gaol, or a workhouse, is exercised by cer- licence by transferring it to a new men. This is the
Stn,—All your readers, with whom I have con-
WI; Individuals, subject lo no
+. other .coitroul than constant practice in divrich n here the !spit ipplica-
tbrir earn mills—to no othet• 01i-tuition than that of Lion of the licensing -power obtains. But in other
versed en the subject, in this northern part of .the ...,_.
terror own consciences. Is it tint strange that a diviricts, where dist.rderly 'worry ore upheld, and
island, are not a little surprised, that a men of 'your ewer over tte property or the su feet, so despotic,
1t • detest ones refesSO '
only II is
the e ect to throw
: hands of pert-oils of sufficient
general information and experience in life, should es to be denied by the Legislature tri.the first Judges the tenantcy into Ma
entertain such erroneous notions respecting the'nu- itt the land—as, by Magna Charts., to be prohibited interest to protect their in their licentes. The reliance
of the publican i 4 thus diverted from good conduct to
tritive quality of Potatoes. in the Sovereign himself, should be carelessly tossed
tuto the hands of such men se these licensers are of; good interest} In short, whatever ciotienience may
You attribute the favoorableorrpinion which pre-
be ocrn.ionally derivr4 from 444 "ineentroulable
tentimes seen to he? What more could be expected
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vails concerning that valuable root, to the influence from a Turkish Cadi, liforilah, or Bestrew, than the Secret tribunal in chastnbin s, I am yell convinced
of fashion ; and you maintain the works of MILTON
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it the confiscation of a man's property, withoutset. 6
- that it is infinitely outbilanced 4 flils
and of SHANSPEARN, being so generally read and ad- fertrr being found guilty of any crime, without his neral .use. Whenevor the
licences is used rightly, ic
being accused, without Its being stated that bp has mired, to that powerful influence. ,
:committed an offence w, used, on invited reason!, son9,ai
While, I do not mean to give any opinion ins the
•k Far bellfrom me to speak disreepeetfliiirtif the or, if the present lairs be'
merit of these performances, it being foreign to soy ,
•ssicio of a Justice of the Peace;—tic die real of publicans,. lee
present purpose, I am well aware that many !tn. Meier value than myself upon the charrefet.- What 4.11,A cent
ed : Opt let the pablicwti'
homes of nonsense, written on religious' did *Oh' ouso be more useful or admirable than the services of "11" Owl punished, lii
subjects, have, been much read, and praised in.tbe en enlightened, independent, and public-spirited to lam, not according to.
world, through the powerful influence of fashion; 'gentleman, gratuitously employed in the idministra. secret reasonf of individni..._
but I have never yet learned that fashion, powerful
Or of justice among his neighbours, unaltered by renSnos It Use sentspbominpkbiso
as it is, was ever able to im rt to an article of Inst of power, and unbiassed by (Arita& of 'personal and Dell may torture ^a sat' •
the essence of an:,Eoglishinse
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advantage? Bat justice, of the Peace are not all enjoy
food a nutritive quality which it did not possess, of this description; they art a nomerous body of his property and privileges eithoesdistuitarice *bile
16 Jet coesidered. independently of fashion ; and I am just going to Then, and like others, consist of good, bed, and in. unoffeeding against cite la sss, I'B4l
prove that Potatoes possess the above quality, in gdifferent. I believe they ore not always sought out innocent moil proved to be Oily.
much greater degree than you are willing to allow. for their eminent virtues and talents ; hut, about the i la jutticeaten, to the indirialeei '4E4 9r that tiea
'Metropolis at least, thetaselves seek the office in very ' memos portion of our .c.oantrymmi, comprising inn.
You say that an acre of land in England yields, },
keepersttavere-keepers ale-house-keepers,l:e.rs hell
many instances, and make long and circuitous vier.
on an avenge; six tens of potatoes. 1 have known I ''is in rigard to the" interest of the community at large, I
• Hens to procure it. There are several Justices, the
an acre of land in the vicinity of Aberdeen, sat not 1 to hope for, a speedy emancipation of the
date of whose whole success in life is comas with Presome
of the best quality produce nearly 11 tons; the that. of their commissions. It is also very usual for publicans, by a recision of tlie licensing poem's, so
that they, in common with other Englishmen, may
_same acre, if sown with Wheat, would net heel
..tradeimen who have made fortunes by close, and, I
enjoy the protection Of the laws; that they arty
yielded one-fourth part of the human nouriihmog Lirill add coromendable attention to their shops„ when
know, that so long as they act well, no private moo
vein. i'retiring 'from their counters to country-houses and
which 11 tons of Potatoes tel ascertained, by
gentility, to desire the importance or office to be lice or cupidity ran divest them of their property and
rience, to afford here livelihood ; but. that if they do wreng, no private
tided to that of many.' But it is to be doubted
The boll of Potatoes is now sold, in this city, for
e‘bether the very. habits. which raise these gentry, in
influence can effectually defend them. Whet, so
135.; they are generally sold by measure, and not ;* pecuniary view, above their fellows, do not fro-
relieved from their present peculiar state .r,de.
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by weight; and the boll, on an average, may weig,is quently, in other respeFts, leave them lowermost,'
pendence and degradation, we may justly eipect to
5761bs ; the quartern loaf is at present bald for ga.. and peculiarly tusk them to discharge the duties of see this extensive class of tradesmen become as re.,
and wet ghs 41b. sos. fids.; 13s. will purchase 19
spectable as any other, and in no trade is iudividoet,
1 Justices of the Peace. The monotonous attentions
acquired by a thriving trade, leave little leisure for ' respectability more necessary to the good ardet &GA .
loaves, weighing nearly 851 to. ; now a labourer, or . comfort of the public. I am, &c.
the acquisition of liberal knowledge. The life-long
mechanic, in this place, with his wife and four chil-
,oigilence exercised in ekeing a profit out of every PUMA:OWL
drew, from four to twelve years of age, are comfort.
,kensacrion, has to undergo a great transmutation to . . .. .
ably subsisted about 40 days on 5761 bi. Potatoes, jesist the allurements of delicately-offered &dean- , MoItALITY or Tistx CITY OT Lox orse.-3111.4:pres
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for dinner and supper, with the addition of a lint 1 from those who seek the benefit of official civi-
fish, meal, milk, or beer; but often with nothing
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to shape their thoughts, words, end acts, to the
' save a little milk to the claildren.—No w, Sir, every ece;;.0.11111411" A- - In' owe ot their customers, are little &roared' to
nominal mother, in such a family, well knows, titisbe pure inductions,. and direct j.ediciel conclusions
were she to substitute the eblbs. of breed in plies which compose the tree dignityof the megisterial chit.
of the 67131b5. of Potatoes, her family would ',kW meter. In the event we see, that when gentlemen of
starved. • I this order are made into Justices, they too -often. be-
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This was so abundantly-evilest In the years 101111"11.• imiters, esellact7tingerrhevirhat airtgl47llll4"filligettles serve, they Ile has isseeVsimilsr loiniev...
and 1783, that had you resided in this city, and paid ore apt to discharge on the heads of pelt* in their to persons carrying stireetisliebitusers ~
particular attention to the circumstances and mode tit power, the *oppressed pride of half a rehtety, in OMR% aid• wheeling bovF(Has on tha-P°v•
life of the labouring classes, lam inclined to think yobs gown's so course and heavy, is lA' be scarcely in. The good' effects of these regolatioes bate,
would have never lifted your pen in hostility spinet &treble. Power, we know, II dee? most harshly been experienced, and evidence has :bomb
Potatoes. The wages of labourers here, in the *Ad repelsively exercised by ant who hare long , given of the efficacy of the present PO,litst L
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surety slaves,and who are newly Inflated by office. observed with a dee degree of activity. The
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cheapest times, does not permit them to live on tome To such 1. t..• unit ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY men of the different Wards, too, have ettdee
and batter, slices of baron, lumps of plumb-padding, oxercioed in Ewing osur the
property of its Ward. inspection, and each VW, leo 444 fop-44i
i and joints of roast beef ; but accustomed to, and gangs ought not gybe committed bare been dismissed, and More active_sobititu
contented with, more frugal fare, they are not beg. It may be said (het their power is Sot Wholly ab. vided. It is to be hoped a similar. regard
garly in their appearance, nor assisted by solote, that the law has not left suffererittiestitute ; sefety of this greet town may be manilas*
TIll•11. , for if the licensers act corruptly, they are liable to Magistracy of other districts. •• ;
a criminal information. This, however, is little THILATRES.—Tiai new Pantomimes at both
At the above periods, from a deficiency of crops, more than a nominalprotection. It sometimes Therepeated Inight with,' *
may .Theatres were lest
oatmeal and Potatoes were very scarce, of an info• effect purpose, of retribution, but it wilt not restore , Increased success ; mind each promises to ban a long
aor quality, and comparatively much dearer than' a sequestrated property. For the first object, a half and prosperous run. . .
' the quartern loaf baked from door imported from ruined man cannot be expected to devote the wreck I 11011 ET Moon.—lt was the custom of the higher'
England; and poor families, being compelled by no- of his means in a law suit with a Bench of Justices. : order of reutones, an ancient people who inhabited
Wchave, indeed, smile few instances in which this the northern parts of Germany, to drink Mead, Of
cessity to take the loaf in lieu of oatmeal and Pots- :
• course has been taken, and in which has' Me liegl* beverage made • h
justice 1 I en, a with honey, for thirty
toes, found themselves precisely in the same sitiatlOn ! reached the Justices. Thus in " The King v. Wit. , days.after every wedding. From this custom comes
as the crew of a vessel in a long voyage, reduced to llama and Davis, E. 2, George III." the defendants the expression " to spend the Honey Moon."—
half allowance. .1 threatened to ruin such alehouse keepers as voted ~ATTILAr King of Hungary, drank so freely of this
Children nourished in the manner above described, for a Member of Parliament contrary to their direr- liquor on his wedding day, that he was found sta-
and breakfasted on oatmeal pottage with milk, the
tion' by taking away their licenses ; and this threat focated at night, and with him expired the empire of
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:they afterwards carried into effect: Here, and in the Huns.
usual breakfast for children of all ranks is Scotland, ! torso similar cases, the corrupt motive was so clearly , Friday, the 15th instant, a melancholy and fatal
are neither pot bellied, pale faced, pony sized, nor' proved, that the complainants succeeded, and the accident occurred in Norwich, from the dangerous
weakly; hot generally healthy, vigorous, well , Justices were punished; but so many applications of and too prevalent practice of breaking horses in the
limbed, and goodly looking ; many of the stem ,
test i enema! and the leading licensers are so was driving in a cart, took fright, and gallop • ' *
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well aware of the precautions necessary to secure through Ber.street, unfortunately knocked down a •
you would be proud to see in the dank companies of themselves from committal, that although, in some girl named Fiddeman, having an infant Sister in her
your own regiment. , , , •Illvisions, it may be as visible as the sun at noon arms. The latter was killed on the spit!; and the
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The price of Potatoes in the City of London,' day, and be declared b) inferior agents, that a man's former had_her skull so dreadfully fractured that pass 1'
compared to that of breed affords, no, criterion for procarin a new licence, or preserving an old one, of tie brain escaped through the wound. The opt- 0
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deciding the question.—Potatoes do uot grow . 'lli •lo ltb dealing(with a certein brewer or ratio* of trepanning was immediately performed on
' frit seller, the *sit doing can seldom be proved at the poor girl, and she is still alive, though bet slight
street:, and being a belky And heavy ;article, She -,
source. Facts yielding a reasonable inference hopes remain of her recovery. Two other children
price is much enhanced by the e: once of carriage, ma__
ybo notorious, but not exist in a targible shape were knocked down by the SEW horse, and mecht
&c. and consequently the use of that root may against the principals—they have onlyto decide in , broiled.
not be so economical in the Metropolis as in' the silence, and their derision cannot be
,guestioned.— i Arrairr A! SUICIDE.—A imp. named Settee,
. !Their impunity, and the public loss, are included in the wire ors tradesman,io Ewer-street, St. Saviour's,
Look at Ireland, Mr. Coseerr, the land
country. o „ • 'of; - the simple rule,they that are not bound to show rca. attempted' to put a period to her existence on dbrist.•
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'sone for what they do, and from what they do there mas day morning, cutting her throat In a shock.
Potatoes, where they are the principal nourishment !is no „man big meaner. She was taken to St. Saviour's work+
of the great mass of the popolatiockand say, if'yon i Now this system of secret derision. I contend, is house, where she continues in a. most dangerous
can, that they are a debilitating, degrading, and hi. es false to policy as it is inequitable in principle:— state; pecuniary distress is the reason assigned for
, sufficient food for men. Were not many of the The proper sod of punishment is example; but how committing this desperate act.
supplied where forfeiture is indicted, but no , An extraordinarlburglary was committed at Stan.'
victors at Waterloo fed on Potatoes ; heed can you is this ,
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~1 offence hnputed r—where sufferer is set adrift on way, Essex, on Thursday night last. The brew.
say, that because from their infancy they
were L: the world, crying out, that untried, unimpeached, house of Mr. D. Cowlin, of Brick Stables Farm, was
on what you are pleased to denominate a cased, aria
, end unconscious of a misdeed, he is mulcted of his broken open, and a large breoing copper, together
worse than useless, root, that they were destitute of all, and banished from his house, and the exercise with a washing copper, stolen therefrom, with which
courage, or unable to handle. a musket, or wield Aof his calling. Is not.tho lesson of justice here in- the thieves effectually made their escape, withomt
sabre ? No, no, Mr. Commrr, all thee* tMnge ire. vetted, and proof furnished that no innocetice is se. alarming the family.
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'against you • they as stubborn puts, War bid do. care from the hand of oppression ;ether than that 1 We are requested by Mrs SMILAX ,ante Secretary
fiance to all speculative coniradidiOns ; sad-Clearly, punishment pursues the guilty alone. ,of the Eagle Insurance Company, to , that Po.
demoastrate, by the most convincing of 'all evidence Prom contemplating the bad effects
of this despo. licies expiring at Chastain may be renewed within
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—the evidence of experience and of facti, that you thin I have turned, 'hl search of 'some good ones, 15 days from that period, * Bieber in Cola or pee
greatly err its • deprecialiag that very vocial, drat rosy be compassed hy it—but in vain ; consider- Haymarket, where Annuities are granted and per.
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economical whoiefiami; -
I and nutritious rod—lhe int it likely, that public houses may sometimes chased,
be- and every descoltion of Life and Fire ilo.
Potato,. -, , . , come so disorderly as to reqiiirOpsedier means than surauce effected on the .most equitable term ...sow..
Premises I
am, Se, yew very bumble servant, theme of a legal prosecution, to put a stop to them ;N.B. An allowance for Rest of destroyed --
YUUTSS. the ensiry has been wide, 'whethir the ticeising by lire as,heretofore. •t
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sent LORD M AYOII his taken the most _
steps toward the loppressies of the scenes .riot
sad disorder, which have heretofore on too litany pc.
casions disgraced the streets of the ausirepotis within
bisjutlatliation. and to remora those oahoucos
Were been so loaf, most criminally, teleferati He
b published a Proclamation, calling opea ati big
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lanced by t 1 ill's of its ke-
the peeer • of. ' withholding
it might with eintt)..a.ffect be
and wOhhutfotir4Nallsal;
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a aue.fi piinciplek, but it is
Won's birth:- ight to enjoy