The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-05-25 00:00:00

. ,

INGIS.YS OF lIRSSE•IIOMb.
BIRTH-DAY.
inner given by the Prince Reg- erit, at
.nse, on Friday, in honour of the Princess
irthorg'it Birth-day, there were present
gird Duchess of York, the Duke and De.
)ocester. the Princess Augusta, the Duke
the Prince and Princess of -Hesse-Ham.
herb • 'ltem-Sophia of Gloucester, Prince Ester.
hay, .8,,T0n Gerning, Baron O'Naghten, the Lord
Chamlwrlsin, the Lurd Steward, the .Marchioness of
juertfoid, the Marchioness of Cholmoodeley, Count
and Coeutess of Munster, several of the Foreign Am.
bassaders sod their Ladies, Amigo. After dingier the
the Princess of HesseAluts.
Duchess of Gloucester,
berg, and the Prioress Angosta, left Carlton.hoese,
and went to the Qoperr% Palace, to attend their Royal
• ii‘b,thet. The Princes* Aegusta remained with the
Queen, the Duchess of Gloucester and the Princess of
Dessellombuig, returned to Carlton.bouse. The
'Regent pre the entertaiument in the lower suite of
yearns.
Tho King's Guard mounted at S'. James's Palace
with the Sate Colours,; in honour of the day. At
fire o'clock in the afternoon, a barrel of beer was
Oven to the public iu the frost of St. James's Palace,
as 14 cusromAry. in the earning the tradesmen of
the Prioress illuminated their houses.

!CPS

Government yesterday received dispatches from
the e.lhound to the North Pole. They are
~tf Smeland, May 3. The oflicers and crews
stele all in es. tel,-tit health and spirits, and prim-
lug to prosecu.• their vi.y ago on the following day.
Tit Olive Branch. NII•MILIAN, of Belfast, bound
to London., put into
.Portsmoulla oil Friday, from
Jamaica, b) contrary wilitls; left Kingston on the
26in of Fehruary. When off the ilavennah, she
was spoke liv en independent privateer brig of 16
tins, from Buenos Ayres, ender America's colours,
which, ho:sever, she changed for an English ensign,
on seeing a Spinkh brig of war ; and immediately
give chase to the brig, and obliged her to seek pro-
tection under the guns of the forts.
account has been presented to the House of
Commons of the number of persons convicted of
cruises throughout England and Wales, of persons
acquitted, and of persons against whom no bills were
found, during the last seveii years. The general in-
ference front this document is the great incroase of
crintes duriug U:e period specifiml. In 0411, the
whole number of commitments is 5,337; its 1817, tied r
14,0(X); in 1811, the total number of persons con.
',ivied was 3,163; in 1817, 9,056. Convicted of bur-
glary. in 1811, 76; in 1817, 374. For crimes con-
nected with counterfeiting the coin of the r' alai, in
1811. 91; for the same in 1817, '203. For haying
Rank-cotes in possession, in 1811, 17 ; its
1817, 11'0.
Mr. LEYLAND has declined accepting the invite-
that of the indopetident Freemen of Liverpool to
stand aeaisist Mr. CANNING. The great jobber is
likely .16..-have a more powerful opponent. Report
speaks of a Requisition to the Earl of SEFTON (an
Irish Peer), whose health, we are happy to learn, is
now recovered beyond the most sanguine hopes of his
friends. It would indeed be a circumstance much to
he regretted should there net be found some candi-
date of unsullied public and private character to re-
deem the towel of Liverpool from the indelible
dis-
grace of returning such a man as Mr. CANNING.
The number of notes discovered by the Bank
to have been forged from the Ist of June, 1812. to
the 10th of April, 1818, distinguishing those from
11 to 201. and upwards, is one hundred and thirty
one thousand, three hundred and sixty-one. The
tom! •spence of prosecutions for forgeries, or titter-
ing forged notes, from the Ist of March, 1797, to
the Ist of April, 1818, amounts to the sum of
- 148,3701. 94. 3,1. 'rise nominal
value
of the Notes,
of which payment was r.-fisrd, from Ist. Jan. 1816,
to lUth April, 1818, is 73,7601. and the nominal va-
lue of fotged Notes paid by the Bank for the same
period, a toch was after welds recovered on the for-
geries being detected, emouisted only to 751.
To show the greet and elartiaing increase of forge-
ries of Bent of England Notes, since the time of the
suspension of their payments its specie, the whole es-
pence of their prosecutions in the year 1707, was
only about 1.5001., while its the first three months of
the present )ear, it amounted to the enormous •urn
of nineteen thousand, eight hundred and niacly
pounds!
The Marchioness of TATISTOCE, on Thursday
night, honoured the Surrey Theatre with her pa.
trunage. Among the fashionable parties we noticed
the Duke of LtiesTea, Lord IVILLIAIIt FITZ-
GERALD, Lord Kt:vs:me, Lord Prreitsuass, Lord
and Lsdy ilattitlxbro:s. &c. etc. On the two
preceding evenings. Lady I.:mass:Tit FAME, Earl
and Countess of BLEssiecTos, Lord Kral!, I..tdy
IY. W vise, and R number of other distinguished
parties, testified * high sense of. the entettaiumeut
they hail esperienced.
Three frigates, of 46 guns each, to be named the
Druid, Thisbe, and Nemesis, are ordered to be built
at Pembroke Dock -yard, its addition to those already
in hand, making in the whole, sixteen ships of differ-
ent classes now building and under orders to be built
at heat yard.
We perceive that
.fists is tint the Contractor for
she Lottery at present upon sale; hut we see that
the Scheme Isis beet' formed, its some measure, upon
the plan of the lest, for which lie was Contractor,
namely, by introducing a numerous List of Capitals.
This gicet, him a good field for his operations, as we
doubt-dot the greater past of these Capitals will (ds
vireo') go throogit Isis hands ; this appears too to be
the general opinion of those numerous adveutorers
whet daily visjt him.
On Sattivday, as Mr. Sharman and his partner,
Mr. Layton, ironmongers, of Greenwich, were
walking on Mr. Coulson's iron-wharf, Thames-street,
Mr. ',Won's font, whe is blind, came in convict
with a piece of iron, the consequence wits, his
hai-
held of Mr S.'tiarm, they both fell into the Tliantes.
r.'t.;lsernis is, in his fall, fell on a huge, and hreke
fill his sibs, he eas•takets to the Steel-yaril Coffee,
house, and died last night, leaving a wife mid I
children. Mr. Laytou did not receive soy Ibjury,
obi), a duckiug.

a.+.?

-

'I'HP.

• -
;44111:4L INTELLIGENCE.
yesterdey the homeward-
•llessad hie the Rivet.—Came down from the River
and sailed, eke Ann, Layboorn, for Malta ; Re.
becca, Audrey, for St. Thomas; and Kingston,
Younei for Quehec.—Soiled for the Rivet the Speke,
Quinten, from Bengal; and to-day came down from
the River and sailed, the Victory, Braithwaite, for
Bombay : Waterloo, Hepburn; for Madras ; Re-
gent, Wellbank, for Batavia ; and Soccess; Parry, for
Liverpool.—Remain his Majesty's ships Northumber-
land and Severn.
PORTSIIMUTH, MAY et —Yesterday sailed his
Majesty's ship Sappho, for the Cape of Good itope;
and Grecian, on a croize.—Tn-day arrived the Iris,
Rerbert, from. the Cape of Good Hope, with the
crew of the Amsterdam, Dutch 71, lately wrecked
Beer the Cape; out 73 days.—Went out of harbour
the Vigilant.
PLYMOUTH, M.ty 23.—Arrived the Vengenr and
Rochfort, from Portsmouth.—Passed op Channel
the Hanover, from Jamaica for London.
Coat, MAY 19.—Arrived his Majesty's ship
Heron, Admiral Sir J. itoeley.—Sailed five trans-
`refs, with troops, for Cried+.
NORTH SMELTS, MAY 22.—The gailiot Anne.
Sophia, Evans, Master, of and•hound to Rostock,
laden with coal, in going to sea this morning got on
the Hend Sand ; the wind being easterly and a heavy
sea, on the flood title she filled with water ; a num-
ber of ballast•hesvers have been employed to throw
the cargo out of her, in hopes of satin; the vessel
from becoming a wreck.
RYE, MAY 24.—The schooner Henrietta, of Al-
tons, Geyken, Master, from Maleza, hound to Ham-
burgh, last from Dover, sprang a leak off Dun.
genes!. on Friday afternoon, and the Ciptain and
crew were obliged to quit her between fire and six
o'clock, she having newt ; she was taken possession
of by the smack Essex, of London, and the Argus
pilot cutter, of Deal, and towed on shore at Hastings
on Saturday last. Cargo taken out, consisting of wine
and fruit, the latter damaged.
LIVERPooL, MAY 23.—Arriverl the Thomas Gib-
bons, Brewer, from Savannah : the 26th of
April, in company with the M..trtgomery end Sally
for Liverpool ;on the 101 h of May, at half-pact nine
P. M. in lat. 45. lone. 38. 12. ran foul of the John.
Neck, from Liverpool to Quebec, when she imme..
diJtely f,)tortlered—crew saved. Al.o arrived. the
ICeres, Forsythe, from Charleston : d 25.11
lof April ; on the 30th, in lat. 37. 41. lon 63. 27.
spoke the Elizabeth, from Liver 1 pro, to Charleston
lon the 3d of May, in lat. 40. 19. long. 54. spoke the
1 Gibraltar, from Boston for South America; on tie
16th of May, in lat. 45. long. 36.53. spoke the lib,
from Leith to New York.

The PARISH or BETIIN9L.GREEN.

The day after his conviction. Mr. Merenron trans.
twitted the following letter to the Churchwardens/Ind
()fewer' of the parish of St. Matthew, B:thoal.
green :

' 13etlinal.green, M,iy 19.
" GENTLEVIttt,—I bog to acquisint you, that I
shall, on account of Mr. Robert Wrightson and
others, trustees of the Poor's Rate of the parish of
St. Matthew, Bethnal-green, pay into the Bank the
sum of 9251. Is. 3d., being the sum charged in my
account, as Treasurer of the said Rate, in 1813, un-
der the head of D4llll and Crossland's bib, and that
1 or my Solicitor will attend for that purpose at the
Drawing-01fice in the Bank to-morrow, at half.past
12 o'clock precisely.-1 am your obeMdientlt servant,
rCERON."
The money was paid into the Bank, and Mr.
Merceron further offered to give up the situations he
held in the parish, and to pay the costs attending the
recent prosecutions, upon the condition that hi. Pro.
socutors would not noose the Court for judgment.—
We understand that it was proposed by some that a
compromise should be entered into, and that, as the
parish had been annually at great losses through some
channel or other, w hich it would not be difficult to
guess, at 10,0001. might set it something to rights, •nd
the judgment of the Court might not be invoked if
the culprit showed proofs of a penitent heart. The
result of the application was, however, an on•
qualified refusal. The parish are determined to make
an example, and on Thursday or Friday nest the
business will be done. The whole detection of the
system that had been carried on so much to the pre.
judice of the parish, arose from the activity Jr the
Rev. Mr. King, Rector of St. Matthew.

Saturday, as Mr. Taylor, street-keeper of Lom-
bard-street, was conveying a mitt to Ow Compter,
for picking pockets, a companion of the Prisoner's
tripped him up, and dislocated bis collar-bone. Tile
WO both escaped.
Letters from Germany state. that a German Co-
lony has been founded in the Brazils, near the River
Macon. Each colonist receives gratuitously from 50
to 100 arpents of land. A town is to be built, to be
called Leopoldinia, in honour of the Archtlultess
Lacipotorfic, now Princes. Rove! of the Brazils.
The ile;,.irture of the Prince and Princess of
IlEssz-linstuoutta, which had been positively tired
for to n ttio father of the Prince having
deferred sin intended iturney for the sake of receiv-
ii.g the interesting co.iple, is now indefinitely pusti
I potted.

•-•11OP•--

ig*2og2=
TOB PRll‘
At the dii
Caritan-hrsnsi
of ifesso-1;44
the Deice and
chess of Glot
of Claretir•,
hergsliwPtil