The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-02-28 00:00:00

By the Irish papers which arrived this morning, we
learn that the Special Commission is closed for the
present, and that the untried prisoners who are in ens.
toils fur Whiteboyirm, as it is called,• and who are
numerous, remain for the Assizes. The awful sentences
pass 4 upon the wretched multitude at Cork, have not
restrained the spirit of outrage in the neighbouring
cot.ntry. The houses of a Magistrate of Limerick, P
Manned, Esq. at Ballybrood, and of his brother, /
• S. Matomell, have been attacked, and are Char
00:1!"-.4a.'0•• Isreti wen um we am obi pail if tile pr
.may
consumed. The churches of Pinup
former, also, in are county of lialway, have Laren kr...
open and pillaged. A large stack of oak bark of very
considerable value, the property of William Thom
Wesel!, Esq. of Tervoe„ was maliciously burned al
Lratioe, in the county of Clare, within four nails. of
Limerick ; and several private bosses have been as-
saulted and plundered of arms, &e. After one of those
attempts, lbwever, on the house of Mr. Rose, near
Rathkealr, three of the depredators were apprekeaded
hy the Chief Magistrate of Police ; and several other
prance have been committed in other parts of the
tonotry for assaults and outrage*. Two of the
eu;gents have been shot dead by the military, near
Askeatou, in attempting to rescue a prisoner.

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NEW !NOLAND coerce 1101131, TIM 28.
Arrived from New York, the ship Orbit; left San-
-11) hunk the 4th instant.
In thl New York papers brought by .this convey-
ace, we have received a variety of intelligence,
which want a room compels us to postpose.—
Among the interesting articles is a copy of a De-
claration of the Deputies of the Province of Buenos
Arcs to the fleeted Congress of Rio de Is Plata,
vrterria they invite the other Deputies there assembled,
ai..ong other things, to form compacts offensive and de-
fecsive against the common enemy,—to maintain the
integrity of the provinces swains' all foreign powers-1
to appoint two agents, one a whom shall be engaged
in Europe and the other in America to promote the ac-
knowledgment of the independence of La Plats—and
to make provision fur a local representative Govern-
ment in each province, and for the assembling of a ge-
sieral Congress in future.

Paris papers have arrived tog's 26tL instant. The
news tLey contain from Greece is not of moment, but
the intelligence from Spain is both interesting and
agreeable. On the morning of the 14th, eke Kink
and the Royal Family proceeded from the palace, for
the purpose of closing the Session of the Cortes Ex-
traordinary ter the year 1821. An immense number
of•people thronged the line of the procession, and not
a voice was heard but that of acclamation. At the
entrance of their Chamber, the King was received by
a deputation of the Cortes, and on his arrival at his
place delivered a speech, which, as might be expected,
was a recapitulation of, and eulogists en, the severer
sets of the Session, at the head of which stands that
most important measure the territorial division of
Spain and the formation of the iwnal code. To this
address the President replied, and in his answer,
begins by reminding Ferdinand of the oath; which be
has taken to maintain a free constitntioli. He then
rens rapidly ever the various important objects which
the na-Cortes were bound to attend to—dwells, though
in general terms, on the difficulties which they had to
encounter, and congratulates the King and nation mil
their delivery, through the courage and prudence of the
Cortes, " freak a dreadful crisis, into 'which ssforts•

only
confessed

- camoty , ette•hed .
&fielders) that .._ .4' the rules of the prime.
seder which the treatment of Mr. HUNT IS illitilcd,
-he thought they pressed toe wee* ups* Mr. HUNT.
Mid hod mentioned the eiroolioliale to Me. Josties
litllT, Whe, however, reterodd le rules without any
alteration. Sir Terrorist taiidesetoox (the ether
voltokt for the courity).4denied that Mr. HunT.wite
pieced i• solitary confinement, and was easwerei by
Mr. BICNNIZT to the fellerwieg effeet—" The Bo-
aourable Boma (he said) bad caught held of the
shrews ' solitary: confieemest.' The Hodosesble Ba-
ronet appeared •to think that sothieg was **Mary
ereefineusent het foot walls and the receiving of food
through a wicket. That, however, was but • degree
'of solitary confinement : and If a man were to tie
must submit to insult, or remain within his set It
was not too much to call that also a degree of solitary
confiuemeut. He ventured to say that, except is 11.
chaster, there was no Oleos in England in which a
man confined fur a political offence was compelled to
associate with felons, and submit to solitary coafine-
meor. This, however, bad been accomplished at ll-
@tester by the regulations of time Megir rates. con-
firmed by the order of Mr. Justice Beer. He wished
for the production of these regolatiOns, is oohs that
,it might be seen whether he was borne out in his
opinion that they were the most arbitrary and
creel that could ever be devised by the most
arbitrary Magistrate, or the most arbitrary Judge."
Mr. Lt•riarto said, " he fully agreed with tire Hos;
Member for Shrewsbury (Mr. Bennet); thistle* mid'
picioa attached to the conduct of the Slagle/4M ive
Somerset, and that it would become them te min.
your to disprove the chagge against them. Ile reale,
not couch for the fact; but it had been published and'
not co•tredicted that one of the Magistrates, on ores-
bioo of the.late inquiry, hail bees heard to say • We
most defend our gaoler.' Yet tide gaoler. mot a
wretch discharged from the halloo, a defreederef the
miserable ohjrcts placed within his power. undone al
together as infamous in character as he was brutal in
conduct."—We feel it our duty to place three einem.
. stances before our readers. The persons siyaing the
Greenock petition have done a very wire, aid praise-
worthy deed. If persons imprisoned for prlitiewf
offences are to be placed at the mercy of Grroisru, orr
even of Magistrates, there can be so doubt they will
be treated in such manner as is calculated to satiate
the vengeance of their enemies, the Ministers i and to
deter others from opposing the week or wicked mew
sures of Governor-at. We are glad, also, to fed tbgl
Mr. Alderman Woos moved, that the evidence 'entail!
to the Report of the Committee for eusidring into the
state of the Ilebeeter Gaol sbeeld be estietedi Ood that 1
the motion was agreed to. We trust Illpenore
will produce such further =vary itsPqr ad; as
will bring the whole of this subject Wen
... 'talk
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eye.

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soon elket that period,
short time, for the city of
occasion, of which we know,
le the political world.
TUISICAL Fumn.—Yesterday
the Seventh Anniversary Pblic Diane; of the Covent
Garden Theatrical Fund was celebrated in the Free-
masons' Tavern, Great Queen-street,--his Royal Digit-
sees the Duke of York, in the Chair. The nanabeem
present were about 300; among whom we bliittid
the Earls of (Mangan and Belfast, Lord Blesinten,
two Sir Jobe Doylet, Messrs. Calvert, Rausabottobs.
Arc. After tiiemenal loyal aed patriotic toasts bad bees
drunk, Mr. Fawcett, the Treasurer, is an able and
eloquent 'parch, described the object of the Fund, and
the manner in which that object had bee. carried
into execution. Twenty-two families, be aid, had re-
ceived relief in the coarse of the last twelve months,,
He stared that his Majesty had honoured the yaw
' with a subscription of one hundred guineas, and Hat
the total ;tweet of subscriptions received that day
emanated to 12001.

It was stated by Mr. Robins, who Wonted thank.'
on " Prosperity to the Drurplaoe Theatrical Pend"
being drank, that the utmost eordiality sabsisted be-
tween the two Theatres, with mice' to the two Cita-
ritable Institntions.

A number of excellent songs were sung in the
coarse of the evening, by M . Emery. Brwitihnrst,
Lc.; and the Echo Sung, sang by Miss Haßantle, from
the gallery, was warmly encored.
His Royal Highness quilted the room at half-past
eleven o'clock, when the Chair was taken by Lord
Blesiaton. The utmost conviviality prevailed through-
out the tocsin.
MMICITY Seam.—YesterdAy the Annual Meet-
ing of the above Society was held at the Thatched
House T a , St. James's-sweet, which was nume-
rously and respectably attended. The Duke of Yoek
being unable to attend, the Bishop of London took
'the ChM:. The Report, whlch was very Voluminous,
was read, stating that the number of applicants daring
the current year had greatly decreased, which was in
a great measure attribatcd to an admirable system
adopted by the Society's officers, who had engaged
a wharf at Paddington canal, for the purpose of em-
ploying able-bodied mendicants in breaking stones
for the road, at which they could earn from It. 94.
to 2a. 6d. per slay. During the time they were in this
employment, they were supplied with provisions at a
cheap rate, and the surplus of their earnit.gs farmed
• fund for their use when they though proper to leave.
Th. Report set forth, that daring the first six weeks
357 were sent to work, out of whom 196 absconds.
and had since been beard of.

At the Old Bailey this !morning, James Rdrep was
found guilty of robbing Mr. J. iliddloton, in the
Strand, on the 15th of August, IS2O, whilst
Mr. Sheriff Parkins was taking the Middlesex Ad-
dress I. the late Qopea. For this offence one
Wm. Sidney Smith, it will be remembered, was tried,
found guilty, and unfenced to be hanged ; bet 'annul
is consequence of the representation of lir. Sherif
Forking, who sew the whole transaction.
.111esiey aftersooa the body of a ♦sung• sea. app
nnsy about twenty, woe found in time Regent's Canal,
at Liatehouse, and was ml to the beoe•huese to
be owned. He was shabbily attired, is 4 appeared to
hare been about a link la the water.

lbouring steed upon the bank of a Vivet;-;;I tbsre-r-wasa bei"'"ease'ecrh' jellisarttifiCtcenir aoyi his ow
owi
crick, F. small aperture in the wall of air. Howes cell, a little
yolks ago, we are informed, hi
her, Mr, elevated above the surface of the-water. it was bete that. tin order to hie it,
hatch of ttsatida 11110. by taltiog a hoot, tb WOW was !Wain, of dm Strand. to be
lOW ind beleltemonaismas via Rio
Dlr. Gaits, we .-Siliiisseltt it
believe. peeler
.'
aid Kil- and thus only could be 'buds ,thitusolaustabuotipm.
aka; is ririalarat. far a abor
a broken It was coafessed by hi r. Dicuttreetn(lamt Kite ilettebin jahoeg ; the only occasjop
k 44 very '6" tik cast of of B"eenet, and at " that he ever appeared is the p
Thomas Nimbler.) that when be saw the rides of tbe prises. Corny CIARDR)I TllliVill