The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-05-20 00:00:00

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• His Majesty held a Privy Cassell. which at he a
-sheet time I ofterwomis t►e Reseeder of Lemke eras
admitted and .wade his Report to the Leg. is Cats
cil, of the twenty convicts capitally eonvktad at last
Sessioas at Justice Hall in the Old Bailey. wheo_eight
were ordered far 'elocution neat Wodnesslay ~Wag.
the remaining twelve were merited daring his Ma•
jesty's pleasure. 'Deluding 'Eleanor Shreeves. for set-
ting fire to her master's house. The Report uesupied
about three hears.
His Majesty gave audience to the Lord Chaecellsr,
the Earl of Harrewhy. the Marquess of Londonderry.
the Doke of Montrose, and the Earl of Cathcart. The
Court did not break up till near sena o'clock.
Yesterday their Royal Highnesses the Priam' and
Princess of Denmark received. for the first time ;dace
their arri►al. the visits of some Ambassadors sod their
Ladies ; among whom were Celine and Comoros Maas
ter, Baron and Baroness Weedier. Baron and Bareness
Stornheld, Count Mardelsiob,

The work of improvement goes on briskly at th•
Pavilion—it is said. t►at the Kiog has given up his
design of visiting the Foreign Courts this year—if ibis
be true. his Majesty's return to this place may be
much earlie► ties bas been g Ily saticipateti.—
(Sasses Advertiser.)

lu cessegnence of the idle reports whkh continue
to he circulated, we deem it nee aaaaa y again to state
that there is not the slightest foundation for the state-
ment of an intended marriage on the part of oar So-
vereign.—(Mo. sing Poet.)
BeCIALSIASTICAL PaostoTtems..—The new &elm&
twice, arrangements caused by the vacancies which
have recently occurred, were finally determined by the
Lord Lieutenant, at the audience on Thursday last.--
The following are the changes which will take place:
The Archbishop of Dublin (Beresford) is advanced to
the Primacy ; the Bishop of Raphne (Dr. Magee) will
be Archbishop of Dublin ; die Bishop of Down be-
comes Archbishop of Cashel; and Arebtleaeen Bisset
is to Bishop of Down.
The vacant Bishoprick (Raphoe) ranted by the pro-
million of Dr. 3lagee, is not yet tilled; we have reason
to believe that the Dean of St. Patrick's will be ad.
vaneed to that see.—(Drblie Morning Post.)
The Dublin Correspondent contradicts the account
of the death of the Bishop of Meatb, which we lately
cupled hom another Dublin Paper.
A county meeting has been summoned in Cheshire,
to be held this day, to Petition for Agriculturaille.
lief, the Redaction of Taxation, and a Reform in the
" Commons House of Parliament."
CONTRAST.—WhiIst OW poor Irish brethren are
smelly starving fur the wait of potato.% they are so
plentiful in this county, that on the last market day
at Bettina, they were sold for One Shilling per sack,
(of tea pecks.) mad retailed yesterday in Mausfiehl
market at Twee:plea per peck.--(NottiagAas Re.
view.)
The Tithe System has usually been the lawyer's
best friend in Ireland; but there is a point in wretch.
edness, which when it IS reaching. cats up litigation
by the roots. At the late Assisi% tyre of the best
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tie lawyers

an adventure,
201. Under a commutation of
could hardly be worse off.
EXTENT IN AlD.—Amidst the overwhelming di,.
tress to which this county, in common with every
other agricultural district in the kingdom, is at pre-
sent subjected, sod, is addition to its Insurrection
Act privations and extraordinary Police burdens, we
regret to learn, that government have thought proper
to issue an extent lo aid against the county for the re-
covery of • considerable sun due to the consoiiJated
fend, as advances for the making aid repair of roads,
litt. SCA. This is a dreadful visitation at the present
moment. If the gentry of the county who legislate
for its local taxation Cr. to blame, so is the govern.
meet, which ought Dot to have suffered arrears to ac-
cumulate crantrary to the wise provisions of the law
that authorises such advances to be made from the
Consolidated Fund. But the gentry will not be the
only sufferers. The farmer's stock and the peasant's
pig must termed these advances, to do which they bad
already contributed their full share in the better days
that are gone by
and Estate in Aid, the rents of the lAndowaare will
be the prioci offerers,
fur their distress will be
immediate and affliction without a remedy. We
shall only add, t the time is extremely unfavour-
able for enforcing such an odious measure, and ought
not to be chosen by either Government or local legis-
lators to redress their own wrongs at the expense of an
industrious but impoverished people. —(Leiaster Jour.)
Ma. FICIIISTANDIG.MT. Ferstandig, who, ourl
readers will remember, had been committed to the
House of Correction at Belfast, for proposing to deli-
ver a lecture on the mistranslation of the Old sod
New Testaments, and who had been re-loved by writ
of Habeas corpus, to the King's Bench, Dahlia, has
been liberated by the Chief Justice, and without ask.
lag any bail arhaterer. Mr. F. having thus triotophep
over the very injudiciously directed Magistracy of
Belfast. was requested to remain and lecture in Hab-
ib'. This invitation he, however, declined, and re-
turned to Belfast immediately, to keep his promise
with the public then. He has given two Lectures, and
" considering the nature of the subjects," says the'
Mahouts, • and the difficulty of following a Lecturer,
speaking four differsai languages of the East, his
audience on both sights was far greater than we could
bare expected. For all this, however, Mr. Fentan.
dig may say, " thanks to the errors of the religious fa.
italic. Had sot certain officious clergymen* taken
fright and run the Magistracy at me, I might have
passed through Belfast without being able to flatter
myself with a single auditor, in a Hebrew, Syriac,
Chaldaic and Greek Lecture; bet now such is tie
elasticity of public spirit, that if I lectured is High,
Hatch, 1 should have a respectable medieste I' " To
obtaia satisfaction for the personal injury he sustained
(having lain ten days io a disgusting and odious pri.
son) Mr. Ferstaadig, it appears, has brought his ac-
tion against Mr. Verner, the Sovereign of Belfast, for
false imprisonment; an stelae in which all the Ma-
gistracy, including the Barrister, who bad concurred
is the treatment, will no doubt, says The Is leArsaa,
feel themselves involved.