The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-11-29 00:00:00

We can refer Mr. Williams to many instances of men, not
only untried, bat nnaccused, except by wretches who dare
sot meet them face to face, being shut tip for many
Orfonths, some even for years, from any intercourse with
friends and relatives. Public justice should be conducted
with all due regard to decorum; but we are not among
the enraber of those who affect to feel such deep sympathy
in behalf of men in the situation of the accused in this
instance. We do not say that Probert assisted to commit
the murder—bet what does he say of himself—that he
permitted the dead body to be concealed on his premises.
Pear for his own safety might have prevented any resist.
me at the moment ; but bow came he to be silent on the
follaning day? Are the public to be expected to feel
say great regard for an individual who uould lend himself
from arty motives short of the ties of blood and affection, to
the concealment ora murder? • We have no doubt that
justice will have a fair course. The Jury will decide accord•
in to the evidence produced. If they should not, the
Judge will represent the matter in the proper quarter.—
And the professional advisers of the prisoners will be much
better employed in attending to their professional duties,
than in wasting their time in attacks upon the press!

The Lord Chancellor went yesterday into his private room
again, notwithstanding both his and our dislike to it ; hut as
belt reported to have stayed bat ten minutes, no great barna
could be done. His Lordship enquired whether both parties
desired a private hearing, and was told there was only one
piny to the case. But had there been two, and both had con-
sented, we are at a loss to find, in their consent, any reason
for the Chancellor's agreement We have a perfect horror of
secret Courts. Suppose the accused and the accuser, in a ease
of robber!, of murder, were to consent to a private trial.
would a Judge be at liberty to grant it? And, if not, why
should it be done In other eases. In thie age, it is the more
accessary to take a stand agal.ist these secret: investigations,
because they are &ling Into fashion ; and every justice•
room in the kingdom may be converted into a little Star
Chamber. .

.Last night, at a quartet before eight o'clock, the King
arrived at his palace in Pall Mall, from his Palace at
Windsor.
It is tinder.tnod that his Majesty proposes to continue in
town for several days. The servants and baggage belong-
iv to his suite arrived in three carriages yesterday
morning. It is not quite certain that his Majesty, will
honour the Theatres with his presence during his reshience
in London. Great exertions are making to prepare St.l
James's Palace and its precincts for the King's reception.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester is expected'
at Sir Roger Greeley's, at Drakelow, on Monday the Ist
ef December; and on Wednesday the 3d, his Royal High-
seas direa and sleeps at Sir Charks Oakley's, Bart. at the
Palace in Lichfield. On Abe 4th, we understand, it is his
Royal Highness's intention to proceed to Crowns) Abbey,
de, seat of the Earl of Coventry.—(flerby Mercury.)
The mortality among the. French Officers in Spain begina to
mite st.spitiou. General Count d'Alembert dire( the first
week of the present month, and General Bourke was also
reported to be dead. Ti. C.60'114.44 of Cartbageine, at Carmine,
received a letter from Madrid, staling that Bourke was so HI
IM he was not expected to mein, and two days after the
sem of his death was current. Thy were both taken sud.
itn'y ill, and under present eirettemlunces, every tl.ing suspi-
lens is naturally laid hold of,
'EXTRACT OP • LETTER PROM PLYMOUTH, Nov. 26.
Till the arrival of our piper at Plymoeth, giving ths in.
feimation of tie-arrival there of General Mina, the cir-
sumstance was little known to the inhabitants. The
vessel being under strict quarantine will account for this
fart. As soon as we bad informed the population gene-
sally,icluiries as to when) he would be released, became
general ; and it being ascertained that Thursday at 12
eelock, was the hoer appointed for the General's lending
the town walls were instantly placarded, announcing the
Oise, and calling upon the inhabitants to " give him such
a welcome as became Englishmen." It is expected that
wk shall have a full attendance, as the feeling here for
Itilts's peculiar circumstances is tense and highly be-
teetiing. It is now understood, that Mina made his,,present
cseveyance to this kingdom, one of the articles of his
capitulation. ft is not in a French, but a Dutch brig,
that the General has arrived.

Msetto.—(From the Glasgow Coarier.)--" We some
lays aga noticed the arrival of Dr. Mackay from Mexico,
to which State it was asserted he had been sent upon a ape•
eial mission by our Government, and which the same report
stated had been attended with complete success. We have
meson to believe, from information obtained through chan-
cels on which we can rely, that these reports are perfectly
correct. The Doctor, we bear, has done his business,
negotiating a commercial treaty with Mexico in a most
campkte and satisfactory manner, and upon a basis that
will prove most satisfactory and beneficial to our merchauts.
Se close did the Doctor keep the object of his visit to
Mexico, that not a single individual there bad any idea of
ltis business, anti still less that it was of a public nature:—
Within these few days, a bill drawn for him while in Mexico
*Pans the treasury here, passed through the bands
eh commercial house in this city.iThe field for commerce
is Mexico is very great, and duties are, we hear, to be
lied at a moderate rate, and upon a sworn invoke value,
assn the United States.
DUBLIN CORPORATtON.—A curious as well as important
enbject was before the Com t of King's Bench yesterday
(Monday)—and one upon the decision of which will
depend, whither the Corporation of Dublin be entitled to
as income upon coals and shipping, which, ne are told on
good authority, amounts to nearly 15,0001, a, year.—
(Dublin &snit.: Post.)
We learn that the Duchess of Anhalt Bernburg, sister of
the Elector of Hesse, has terminated her days, in a violent
%neer- She escaped from MIMI. where she was closely
confined, to proceed by the way of Cassel, to Bernburg,
*bete she was taken out of a pond, ou the bank of which
&Paper was found, in which she states, in her own band-
*ming,
the motives of that last act.—This Princess was
endowed with estimable qualitimand cherished by all who
hew her. She had been, on her return from a journey
bito Italy, arrested during the night, in the village of
limn. GA' Hessian General, and some servants of the
"Wen, committed, or seconded this reprehensible, andpn
leery respect arbitraty. act. The Prussian Government
whose territory had been violated (the town of Bonn form-
,
tag Part of the Grand Duchy of the Rhine, subject to
rnietia), complained at Cassel. After long end warm
explanations, the Hessian General suffered a sort of dis-
tine, ; but the fate of the Princess, who had been carried
01 Under escort to Manaus, appears not to have been
ameliorated, since. WeseaPe
from it, she could find no other
"*acne than suicide.
Tea ARIEL—The 17th (Leicestenhirt) Regiment of
!Amery, which marched from Gosport, on the 12th inst.,
The Internee at Doncaster to-morrow, on its route to Hull..
17th Foot is ordered to replace the 65th Regiment.—
ath (2d York North Riding) Regiment of Infantry,
which marched from Hull, on the 14th inst., will arrive at
Edinburgh, on Wednesday next.—The 734 Regiment of
.017. which has been ordered to proceed from Scotland
In eland, by way of Portpatrick and Denaghadee, will be
replocsd at Edinburgh by the 65th Regiment.