The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-05-19 00:00:00

TILE STATESMAN.

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THE STATESMAN.

LONDON:
TUESDAY, IItAT tO) 1812.

UREA nrut. EARTHQUAKE IN .SOUTH,AMERICA.

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ST. P11.R1028, MARTINIQUE) APRIL 19, 1812.
A most dreadful account was received hare yester-
day by the way of CONON that the city of Canteen
and the town of La Guyra were destroyed by an
earthquake on the 26th ultimo. Seventeen churches
are said to have fallen at Caraccas in a minute, and,
al it was Holy Thursday, they were no doubt full of
inhabitants. P&ivate buildiN;s, no doubt, also fell
in great numbers from such a shock-14,000 persons
are said to have perished there. At La Guy*. few,
houses are said to remain, and about 1400 persons
t
to have perished. The Congress and people e loy-
ed in the Federal Government were at Valet' . 11
believe and expect they have escaped this dreadful
visitation.

Whatever opinions may be entertained with regard j
• to the exultation of some individuals on accosnt of •
the demise of Mr. Placevsy we canuot help con-
sidering this at .a proof of the degraded state Of our
countrymen, and of their having WA. that generous
and manly spirit Which used to characterise Britons.
But while we view the matter in this light, we are
compelled to attribute this extraordinary change, to
the dreadful state of public affairs, broo,tht on by
the imbecility and profligacy of a succession of Mi.
ulster!, whose sole object has been to enrich them-
selves and their adherents, at the expence of the
• comfort and the improvement of the minds of the
lower classes of the community. The enormous
burdens which they have laid on the publiellhave re-
duced this portion of society to so abject and de- I
pendent a state, that the utmost efforts of the most
diligent industry are frequently not sufficient to
! supply a man and his family with even the tie-
' cessaries of life. The consciousness of this de-
!
! pendent state has, of course, rendered men less
industrious, and caused them to brood in gloomy
and sullen silence over their misfortunes; and to
listen with envy to the tales, told them by their
fathers, of the state of happy independence enjoyed
in their times; when every industrious man could
not only procure the means of living, but enjoy the
comforts of life as the fruits of his industry; and
Iwhen only the aged, the sick, and those who had met
with misfortunes, were compelled to seek for pm-.
dial relief. These considerations have excited in their
11 minds degree of hatred for those whom they consider
their oppressors ; and the constant habit of applying
to the parish for assistance, instead of trusting to
i their own exertions, has so deadened all sense of
shame, and destroyed the feelings of manly hide-
pendence in the lower orders of society, that though
i not living under an absolute arbitrary Government,
they arc degraded to a state of the most abject ser-
vility. It need scarcely be added, that the minds of
men, in such a state, have ever been found the mcst
destitute of the feelings of humanity, and prone to
applaud the commission of the most disgraceful
crimes. it follows, that the only method to suppress
this gaming mil, is to ameliorate the couditiosk of the ,
lower classes of the community ; to restore them to
that state of independence which every man Ought to
possess, of being able to support himself and family
by his own industry ; and though this, in the present
state of affairs, may be a difficult task, there is no
subject on which the attention of oar Legislators
! could be so usefully employed, nor on which the sal-
!
station of the country so materially depends.
Pamphlet, entitled A Letter to Edward Parry,a4c.
! on the Commercial Monopoly of the East India Com-
puny, has just been put into our hands, which we
have perused with great satisfaction ; and, as
1 the following passage is so clearly illustrative of ,
the topic we are discussing, we readily submit !
it to the consideration of our Readers

" Everyibing that we see in the situation of this
country indicates that it approaches some great cri-
sis. But nothing, in that situation, appears t 9 give
cause for more great and just alarm, than that kind
of discontent and ferment, apparently the prepara-
tion for change, which• exists in the.public mind.—
The great interests and population of this country
are commercial. As long as commerce flourished,
and the people were satisfied with their private af-
fhirs, there was no real danger from their political
I notions. Party-spirit Istight rue hi3ll, end violence

of expression be made use of, but people occupied
4ntlsfsctoelly with their private pursuits, will not
quit tendanger them to amend the affairs of the
conn.ry. It is otherwise when the private affairs of
individuals are generally ruinous, and present them
no prospect of satisfaction or comfort. The strong
current of private discontent then turns upon and
eedangers public affairs, and the minds of men aro
gradmally prepared to embrace and devote themselves
to ally change. Why Is It that I point out these
this*? It? to impress on the minds of the Govern-
ment, the situation in which they stand; and to
warn them of the danger of disappointing any just
expectation of the people, or of taking any measure
that would convince them that their joterests are net
attended to."

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By a ship from Ostend, and which left that port
on Saturday, intelligence has been received from
Paris to the 13th instant. It is asserted in one
of the letters from the French capital, by this oppor.
tunity, that BoIitA.PARTE had left that city for the
North on the 11th.
Yesterday at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council,
which was summoned by Lord CASTLEREAGH, was
held at the Foreign Office, which sat till past five
o'clock.
Neither Lord CASTLEREAGH, nor Earl CAmnr.v,
attended the Cabinet Councils which were held on
Sunday, Saturday, or Friday nights.
Mr. SUERIDAN arrived at• his house in Bruton-
street on Sunday night, from Stafford. The Stafford
Paper rfprosents his canvass at that place as having
secured to him the suffrages of the whole Borough,

without a single exception.
. Yesterday about three o'clock, the Sheriffs of Lon-
don and Middlesex had au audience of the PRINCE
REGENT, at Carlton House, to know his Royal
Highness's pleasure, when he would be pleased to
receive the Address of the Corporation of the City
of London, .upon *the assassination of Mr. PERCE-
VAL, when the PRINCE was pleased to appoint the
next Levee Day, which is expected to be next Fri-
day.

The Managers of the Haymarket Theatre had an-
nounced, for some time, the popular Faroe of Killing
we Murckr, for performance on Friday night : an.
order, prohibiting its performance under that title,
was received from the Vice-Chamberlain, and it is
for the future to be called-Buskin and Ravi. .

At tho Haymarket last night Mrs. WILLIAMS, from
the Dublin Theatre, made her first appearance
The Prize. She possesses no great power of voice;
nor much musical execution ; but her comedy is arch
and easy, her eye expressive, and her manners grace.
ful. She will be a great acquisition to the Theatre. •
Drury-lane Theatre is going on with a rapidity that
has no parallel even in the extraordinary exertions of
the rival Theatre, and the subscription for complet-
ing it fully keeps pace with the just expectations of
the Committee. The roof has b4en on several weeks,
aid the staircases and several painting-rooms are
quite complete—yet there .remain five long months
befbre the contract binds them to be ready for repre-
sentation : it is, however, now more than probable,
it will open as originally proposed on the Ist of Oc-
tober. A plan is about to be submitted to the renters
by a very large shareholder, which it cannot be
doubted will be cheerfully assented to by all. Each
subscriber of an old 5001. share (of which there are
300) is to take one new share of 1001. only, and by
this trifling individual subscription, a sum of 30,0001.
will be immediately 'raised, and which is fully com-
petent to all the 'present views of the Committee.—
This may be worthy of the serious attention of those
who have till now delayed placing their names with
the long and distinguished list of the " Drury-lane
Proprietary."
Yesterday being Whit-Monday, the different So- i
cieties walked through the town in procession, with
flags and bands of music, to take their annual din-
ner. The St. Mary-le-bone Union Society, amount-
ing to two hundrend and eighty-six, dined at Cum.
berland Gardens, and returned home about eight
o'clock in the same order of 'regularity in which they
set out.
The American Boy, only seven years old, whom
we mentioned some time since, as having twonderful
faculty at calculation, without having recourse to
figure, is arrived in town with his father. He can
neither read nor write, but will calculate how many
minutes in a week, a month, &c. almost instantane-
ously, or will calculate any thing else equally dilli-
cult, either with respect to money, or whatever those
who examine him chuse. On Saturday he astonished

several Gentlemen in the city by his calculations,
and when he answers their questions, he plays with
1 the bell-rope, or any thing else that attracts his no-
I tice. He has been put to school, but is dull to learn)
tend ie ether respects, eaceptiag calculatiee; rather
t stupid. He has five fingers on each hand, which his
father has also.
In consequence of a reward of 9301. otfe.red fur the apprehtin.
lion of the noted robber Bulger, he was taken into custody on
. Tuesday sc'nnight. A fair one with whom lie resided is sup-
• posed to have acted the part of a Delilah on the occasion. When
the Officers entered the room in which t. was, be seized a large
horse pistol and presented it, swearing he should sell his life as
dear as posible; but luckily both for him and his pursuers, pre-
caution had been taken to snake the powder sufficiently wet to
prevent its taking fire; and an enormous brass bluoderbuss (now
I identified as alienated property), wits which be likewise
took aim, was perfectly harmless trout the same cause ; his fair
friend probably wishing to prevent hint from adding murder to
the list of his crimes: be immediately betook himself to his
• sword, anti several desperate wounds were giveu and received
i before he could be brought to surrender. It is said be has
turned King's evidence, and the gang, of which he was the
:leader, will be now completely extirpated.—(Dublin Paper.)
On Thursdayse'nnightan Irquest was taken at Lincoln, by
Mr. John Drary, Coroner, on the body of a poor woman of
the name of Fish, who was crashed to death the preceding day
by the sudden fall of some earth in a stone-pit. The eircunt-
Starters attending the death of this unfortunate woman were pt.
enliarly distressing. It appeared from the evidence given be-
t fore the Coroner, that the husband of the deceased, a poor and
infirm old labourer, had undertaken to till up the stone-pit,
which is near Lincoln, for a guinea, and that *had been three
weeks at labour daily without completing. his task, when '
rife accompanied him un Wanesdav morning to assist him ill'
hie undertaking. The old man was busily employed, When,
about three o'cliosk in the afternoon, some labourers who were
at work sear the spot ealkd out to that he bad had a
rare carve Mr lie old man, being very deal, bad oat beard
the noise occasioped by the ('alit of db earth, although it hap-
mg aerated b 7 iled within a fethe erseW _yards ofh mod was. 0 e bias ; bat ae ked runad ea be-
m too
V _ be expected,
exceedingly dummied as Wedillt hig gylfe ea/Ird out im-
mediately tar asthtanor, and the poor creature was extricatesi
after some time ; but alw wm mods btfare4r. 00 Ike died ia a
few bours afterward. VerOct—Aestiteatal Dade,
fr.t.

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