The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-12-12 00:00:00

LAW AND JUSTICE.
7.11 THI IDITOIR MI 7112 STATIMIAN.
Ste—Law without jostles, is like a gentkulan
oat money : little respected.
There do►s not appear to he in law-cases a sufficient
sliotinclina between penalty, and damages. Penalty is
punishment for crime. Damages are an indemnification
fur losses sustained.
To elucidate this, 1 shall mention two case•, which
have recentlyoceurred. Two gentlemen differed in pa-
riah politics, with so much warmth, that their ililteretice
occasioned personal abuse, which ended in Ina spittiog
o• the other. This, in law. it appears, is an assault ;
%71. consequently, an action ensued, in the Court of
Common Pleas. The desi.ion of the Court was, that
one party shonld pay to the other one hundred and
dif,v pounds for the assault.
Sow.io thii Cu.. it was very proper, that the nne
whoc4intnitted the assault should receive penis/meal;
het the tine, if any were to be Varied, shonld go to the
hmg, or to the national parse. For, in this ease, no
one was injured, either in person or property, or elm-
teeter : therefore, no one could be entitled to damages.
To give daupoirer, ieaseh team meeld be eneeerapang
the crime. Many a person would be spit at for one
nnielra cod fifty pounds; and some might be disposed
to irritate another .to commit the act, to obtain the

wan.
The other ease is one which was tried in thetas:lt 'of
itieg's Benet, "king v. Anderson." In reality, it
was the Hamlet of Mile-end, against Anderson. He was
I.ltiirteit fee embenling several sums of weary, belong-
ing to the Hamlet. Is this cue, it was stated on the
trial, by Mr. Peppercorn, one of the most active gentle-
men in the Hamlet, that he believed (on his oath) that
I;te Hamlet hail lost, by Anderson, to the amount of one
thousand eight Litn.:4l4l pounds! The decision of the
Coed was, that he be four months imprisoned, and pay
a tine of three budded tonn,a to the King !
Now, inthis cue, the Hamlet bad sustained a serious
C•msecpently, one would think, it was entitled to
dimige•. One would naturally expect, that the three
hundred pintas would base been given to the Hamlet,
a, a cot spensation for its loss.
I out aware, that both these eases have been decided,
IT-cording to custom, and the rules of the Coati. But
the onestion with the public is, onght any obi custom
er form to itccontinued, aliens better can be substituted
in its stead?
to the two eases above stated, would there not appear
mouthing -mire ilitejestiee.if. in the first cam, the suns
et one ligatured and ql.y poundspenidtv, had. boots for-
/Weil to the King, frat the assudi. etithinltted on one 4
mt.whiftts • anaj,is di. sewed, instead of a periefiy
three Lttnalr:d renttat to the King, it should have been
dourest three bemired pounds to the Heaski f In the
..ne ea.,. there were no damages done; jet, one bin-
.lre.l red fifty ponmis wen 01103! In Mk Othrr, ram*
llicre tree damages done, perhaps, to the amount done
thm.stid eight hundred pounds, and yet, there re
Lola* recoVerl.ll T. S we.
Mile-end, Dec. 2, 1822.

SHIPPINO INTELUGENCE

Deo., Dec. H.—Arrived this day and sailed for the
River tine Suffolk, Allison. from (Inchon; the Hannah.
lAxen. from St. John's. New Brunswick ; the Creole,
(ram nantb u c o. ahoot 3 e.m. the Hannah;
Lamb. for Bombay.—Passed through the Down, this
7th. is dot of outward-bound vessels from Ramsgate
• fio;rietwir.-i-Winol E S.E.
POSTIS9#7II, Uec. 11.—Arrived His Majesty's Ship
Minder; kon-Ivrdtti and Ann, froinVakncts.—Saltest
flis Majesty's Ship Phonon, fir Plymouth ; also the
ehule:of the outward boned, 55 in number, for their
44-rem destinations.—Wind E.
Dec.lo.—The cargo of the Princess of.
'Weire,lately arrived herein distress, commenced to he
transhipped on board the Brig Jane, to be conveyed to
London.—Calan.
F ttsrocYn. Dec. 10.-Sailad the Lady tonics Packet,
for America ; the George the Third, for Jamaica and
oleirs.---Wind N.
liauwicw, Dac. 11.—Arrived the henry Fending
Packet, With mails for Cuxhaven —The Ann, of. Los-
don, was seen yesterday °ear the Cutler Sands withont
a rudder, anti steered by a stoszk 1 eie'hts not come in
here.
The Feeder, Ekstrom. frith( Intisitnn tri Dettenburt,
yo striven nn shore et Lerwick, 19th ult., and filletilwith
aster : crew saved.
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Mr. Cheeks flankland. of the Foreign Office, who is
lunched to the British Embassy in Russia, arrived yes-
terday morning in Dawning-street, with important dis-
patches from St. Petershorgh, which he delivered im-
thrdiately to Mr. Secretary Canning.
Nearly every day since his Majesty left town the Cs,.
Linet has been occupied in diseuesieg a matter of the
aormoot importance to the State, which the wishes of the
personage in the ronntry have forced on its
o onsido.ration, We have long known the extreme
no.siety in a partiewler quarter. to endeavors- to perpe-
lostr in his owe immediate descent all the bonbon and
looties, centering in his illustriolis person.—The failure
).ss been is,pposiert to arise partly Irons certain political
rex: raints,ttsP wisdom of which we have alai airs, indeed
aptestioneaL To remove, then, what is deemed by the
yie...-ona;•e most deeply concerned, an obstacle. through
f.ouroted safely in prejudice, and to induce Minis-
ao.rs to endeavocr, by the implied sanction of al the in-
/I aenee attached to their offices, to p upon Podia-
'Lent to alter by future enactment this bar to personal
ralificjaion, has, we anolerstand, been the cause of all
bow meetings, awl where so many doubts soil scruples
es to the policy of this momentous change, have been
stared, especially by some, the coarse of whose whole
hue has trees hardly ever to decide, the difficnlty in
I.r4,ltueinc unanimity may be supposed to hive been
Arras indeed. Should Ministers relax, and with their
subserviency glee in to the ardent wishes of
Liu, In .st interested; "a high-horn beauty of the Court,
tat!! of youth, grace, and every accomplishment, both of
nos. I and person, is tho utject to be made most happy.
—( Chrota,k)
secounts arrived in town yesterday from Norfolk.
we Learn, Csat Lady Ann Coke is hourly expected to be
ee...wd.
At a mating of Magistrate*, held not along since in
-Creememnalsire, a ver respectable fernier was summoned
)..fore • Ils. na for k Bing game on the manor of one of the
than sitting M ocistrates. and convicted in the penalty of
W. The f wooer pleaded very hard against the comm-
. lint'. hot all in vale; be then stated Gast be had an in.
tornststion to lay against a respectable person then pre-
sent. Ile was revisited to lay it on oath ; be did so, and
hall the aforesaid. Magistrate convicted in the penalty
of 10/. for killing game, be having neglected to Pin out
Ls err tificate.
Toosterolay. a Court of Directors was 1161 at the Bust
la.lis lionse, when Cul. Alexander Weikel, took the
aural oaths on luring eppointed Governor of Saint
Wean. The fallowing Captains were sworn into the
command of their respective ships, viz. :—Capt. Wan.
bluebell, Bridgewater, consigned to St. Helena, Bono-
bay, and China ; Captain Richard Alsayer, Waterloo
Consigned to Bombay and Coins.
Orders have been received at Chatham Dockyard. to
bring forward for service, the Prince Regent, Meas.
Captain W. Parry is appointed to the command, with a
complement of 139 officers snot men. She is to he
titled for the fag of Vice Admiral Sir Benjamin Hal-
lowell.

COVENT 0 A ROM 4.IIATRE.
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A new Trigefiyomititled The flegilMret, was performed
for the first lime last night. before • eroyrded audience. It
Is attributed to the pen of Mr. StitilL, and being constructed
for the most part on the German model, it contains many si-
Mations of that terrific kind, which are calculated to produce
strong emotion, while they afford matter of exception to the
opponents of the school itself. The distress of the piece
arose principally from the filial virtue of the hero, Adolphos
Peliguiac (Mr. MACSKADs). %Cho, to screen his father from
punishment of a murder, committed Is the violence of pas-
sion. aggravated by insult, exposes his own reputation to
the stain, and is led as a convict to a prison In Orleans.
kefore this mitiforinne had befallen him, he was attached to
Margaret Romost (Miss Krctv). who retiree, after their
separation. to a cottage lo the neighbourhood of Orleans.
with her Whet., (Hr. It . .) Here strain the virtue of
011ial devotion is manifested, and the fair Margaret resolves
MS marry Count MouteiUe (Mr. Yarns), in order to
I deliver her (attar from pecuniary distress. This she does
seder the persuasion that Adolphus had deserted her. It is
just on the eve of the intended nuptials that her unhappy
lover first hears of her intention to become the wife of ano-
ther. He resolves to witness the ceremony. and hating won
lbe guard, to whose ears he is intrusted, by saving the life
of his child. he' obtains his permission Is repair to Use
dwelt Here he bee an interview with Margaret, orime an
explanation takes place ; her agitation betrays St-r wen* to
the father and the Coast, his disguise is to:n off by the et-
teodants, and site is upbraided with an attachment fora con-
vitt and a murderer. Margaret boldly resists the imputa-
tion of guilt thus rest upon her loser, but Moabite, after
procuring his condemnation to death, determines that sits
Shall behold the brand upon his Sr.. as he p to even-
floc His wish is in that respect accomplished, and the
wretched Adolphus, though implored by Margaret with the
tenderest entreaties to avow his innocence, is prohibited
from doing so by the obligation of an oath. She is then
abandoned by her father, upon which, in a state of despair;
she follows her lover to the scene where he Is about to Cur.
render his life. In the mean tine the father of Adolphus ar-
rites at Orle.ins in a dying state in search of his son; they
meet at the place of execution ; but just as the son is shoat
to suffer the father dies, having previously confessed himself
to be the criminal. The sentence of Ade/phut is of course
recalled, and instead of perishing on the licaffold, he is
restored to the arms of Margaret. This brief out-
line, which er..!•tsees only a few of the leading fea-
tures of the story, will be suecient to thaw that the in•
eidents are strongly marked, and that what is called
stage effect has not been anattended to is their conception
and arrangement. There are some inconsistencies in the
conduct of the fable. But perhaps the chief objection to
which he Drama is liable will be found to consist In the
ivy of narrative and description, which. however well
eadesited, has always a heavy cleat en the stage. It is Imo
mdloil!le to speak too highly of Mr. MA.CilluAisell added.
lore and despair, were the great passloas be had to.
deaerlbe, arid ha .daheritted tham 'faithfully and forcibly.-,
ilils powers were .strongly pat forth in taunting his rival.,
and the manner In which he declared his innoceuee at last,
was in the highest degree pathetic. The character of Mar-
garet, which was assigned to Miss F. H. KeLLY, had also
the advantage of being admirably perforated. We doubt
whettity she did not exert herself rather too much In the
istamenclog scene to express the deep grief under width she
t• hut the spirit with which she defended the chg.
water of her lover, was as inepreSslve. Is one tune of elects-
lion, as the tender anxiety With width she enectereged him
Ito announce his innocence was in another. Her declare-
tion—that though she did not love him,, she would die for
him—produced a sensation in which emery beset partici-
pated. The other charmless were well supported, but we
'have not time to particularise. A very pleasing melody
slid ithyten, the musk of which was composed by Mr. O.
Reeve, mete introdueed with good effeet, end the whole was
.reeear:lity received and loudly applauded at the end, thoagit
-I wlthoiil,tbe mixture of a few dissentient solar*.

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, PaLIMAN LOAN or ISIS, CON7BACTSD BT MR W.V.
Ikkritecnti.p Losnow.--The hal/Indy dividend of
this Loan fang due on Wednesday. the Ist of January
next, will be paid oo that, and every succeeding day. be-
tween the hours of ten and two. at the Counting-hoese
of Mr. N. IIL. Rothschilst. in New-court, St. Surithio's-
lane.—N.B. The Dividend warrants must be left one
day for inspection—via.: those presented on the Slat of
December will, therefore, be paid on the let of January,
and so in continuance.
On Tuesday evening last. died at his residents at
Walton, tbeiight Hen. Charles Kart of Tankervilir,
Baron Ossalston, Ste. &e. He is succeeded in his titles
and estates ty his son,Charles AuguMat, Lord Ossulston,
member for Berwick-upon-Tweed.
DZATI4 or LJstT. SWAINS.—It is with much TOW
cern we announce the death of Lieutenant Swayers ;
since he received the wound, he. has had the best pro.
feleinetal aid, hot to no effect, as be languished in the
Emu eserociatiog pain until three o'clock vesterday
Fawning, when be expired. Mr. O'Brien. one of the Co-
roners, has proceeded to Middleton to hold an inqrtest.
The Members of the Barrytnore Cavalry are on the alert
to apprehend 111`Cartiry. Lieutenant Swayne was in-
terred this morning at eight o'clock. The Jury hare
returned a verdict of wilful murder against M•Larthe.
who, it was reported to-day, has been taken in the neigh-
bourhood of Tallow.—(Cork Mercantile Chronicle.)
TROTTING kliatcw.—Yeiterday morning, at nine o'clock,
a trotting match took place on the Haekhey-road for fifty
guineas, between a grey horse, the property of Mr. Kean.,
and a black horse, the properly of Mr. Kent. They were to
tort tagainetaaelt other for one boar, at the expiration of
which time, the black hawse won, hating don* IS miles in the

hour.
SPARRINO.IIIIery Holt, a man whose prowess in the
prize-ring has always been admired, and whnse civility out
of it is proverbial, took his benefit at the Fives'-court. but
the melancholy catastrophe which had betel the unfortunate
Hickman, threw a damp upon the sports. Torre was no
setting-to of any note. Joshua Hudson showed. bnt Shelton
did not. The latter has received the most severe punish.
wield, and he has proved himself a very brave man. The
lucky hit which won him the fight was on the temple of Hud-
son, the one on the body not takiag the effect a spectator
would have supposed. It has been stated that neither could
answer io time, but Shelton was led to the scratch, or rather
held up at it beyond his time; and. as we stated yesterday.
• meeting was held spun that subject, but the address of
Hudson yesterday has set that matter at rest.
Hudson mounted the stage with his head tied up, much
queered in the ogles, and addressed the spectators la nearly
the following words:—
" It has been talked about whether Shelton was entitled to
the stake money, and my friends are too honeerable to be
mean, and they have told One to say, that Shelton skull have
themoney. lam ready, and so is wormy, to light Shelton
again 'for UM and be may name his own time."
' Voicareo IN STARIORDSUIRS.—There is a puma() vol.
eano, near the Bradley iron works in Staffordshire.—
The tract of ground is situated by the road side front
Birmingham and Wolverhampton, about half way be-
tween Wedneabury and Bilston. It is mentioned by
Plots, in his Natural Histury of Staffordshire, as being
on tire in 1686, when he wrote, and he says it was not
then known how long it had been on fire. It then oc-
cupied a apace of I L acres; but its ravages h:tve since
extended above one mile and a half is eitretne length,
and one mile in breadth. Whether the fire orieinate
from acciii.-nt, or from the sitlplinr contained in the py-
rates, is not known ; but probably it arose from the lat-
ter cause, as at many coal mines the small coal has ta-
ken tiro on being exposed to the air. Abotit 6 years ago,
it penetrated through the tleors:of some houses ; it
produced great alarm by appearing in the night, and
four of the houses were taken don n. It exhibits a red
heat in this situation, and the smoke has forced its way
through a bed of cioders,4o fret in height. On the
South, it is led by beds of sand, which cover the
coal foundation in that part; and on the North east it
is impeded by enltivation. At first view, • stranger
might suppose himself in a volcanic region. The exte-
rior view of the strata, enclosed by the falling in of the
ground, presents a surface blacked by the action of fire,
and exhibiting most of the porphyrittc and trappeeu co-
lours,in pafeeftion.