The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-10-20 00:00:00

'Aft MAN

• Ile nit EDITOR OF rue STATESMAN.
:4411441,—As your's is almost the only Nihau, to
which the sincere friend to his country, and the im-
partial observer of its Government, can resort, to
make known his sentiments on the measures of its
_present Administration; I em persuaded you will
onreluctantly admit a few-strictures on the conduct
of those. Ministers whcimay betaid.to'bold, in a great
measure, the fate of this ill-governed realm in their,
hands.' To reed certain artikles in the Qom. terly
Review, end certain peragrapbs in the New Times, a
credulous, uninformed man might be led to believe'
flint this has the most flourishing and, hest governed
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empire in ihe wr,;ld i and that nonecould affirm other.
else but difippointedi discontented demagogues.—
Now to judge fairly of thoeltered condition of this
once flourishing klugdops, we haye only to apply the
sigoificant motto Ildoplectliy Sir Citilia4OPllEß WREN;
the great architect of Si./Paul's Cathedral, 6! Gees
comspice ;" for who can travel round Etsglandleitb..
out autfeting the most heart-rending utensil de bee;
holding the emaciated figures, the 'dieted "flow
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countenances of the manufacturing .and laitoetilar
classes of our fellow.creatures its the mint's two
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of Birmingham, Sheffield, Maischesteis Leetlsoite.
&c. A man who shoulti not have made seek • Met
or survey during the last 9.0 years, could edireerly per.
suede. Weisel( that he was within the tontines of
Great Britain. Well may 'your eacellently.
fprmed Correspondent, TIMOTHY TRItEIIAttSA p My'
that those who should be eansideted
dependent artists of linelnod, more resemble, at
she vvesetst time, the orets•hetl balms of other,
times and climes. Ho% long things can go on
co, it is impossible for the what of niankitel to
say ; but none but she weakest in understavviling cast
he so blind as not to see that they are in ton unnatural
state to he Issting. As in the great plot/use of Llntion,
we are told that the mortality was So Areal that the
living were enable to bury the dead; so ist the pro.
gross of the syster.; compleissed of, the misery is
Likely li' he so gleat„ that the ioduttrinus, the 14bn.
sinus, will not be able to support to .e iille and the
helpless !! What a contliti are We then in ?—To
what a dreidtut pass ere we nos silvesteind ?—Yet
to read the products of Ministerial and mate tar)
peon, unsespec.ing men, unaccustomed to c,.mpare
politics! causes with their effects, might he led to
believe that we were its the high road to augmented
fame and regenerated fortune. This is the curse of
the present age. These panders to corrupt Mini.
stets ate better qualified and better paisl;tor pro form-
tag their deadly and delusive functions than at any
previous period of our history. The Molts of Ad-
miralty, which were first intended to he appr.peisted
to the 'Wines, purposes of repsiring our Ship.., are
now applied to the base ones of cnveriog over the
defects of weak, or designs of wicked Miuisters.—
This is the fetal esigiett which intenstedestined to u rho
iese.J.kis,j.s one of Me -evils Of a free Press. The
s dityts-siblett shales the whole globe, still
breeds corruptions which destroy at times beaotlful
portions of it. Yet we would not forego its enliven.
iog beams for one hour. No ; but we ought not in
allow any meddling power to collect its rays into a
focus, en as to consume us its our caves, for the bene.
fit of en uninterrupted wide range for a few proud
i sons of the earth.
The stipendiaries complained of seem of late to
have increased in their vehemence, to have become
louder in their tone. The one of them, whom I be-
lieve has been nick-named " Doctor Slop," appears
desirous of changing it for Doctor Sulphur, tied not
unappropoistely, far he appears as a writer among
the worthy trio I have in my eye, as containing the
chief one of the three ingredients used in the compo-
sition of gunpowder. This saturnine confrere, is
well adapted to supply the charcoal pill of the come
position ; and the sparkling, shiniest; seethe in the Re-
view alluded to will well complete the cembustible
stnalgem. Thus it appears there will want nothing
but the busy meddling hand of the medical Minister
Os Secretary of State) to apply, in his Prnmethean
way, one single spark of fire or phosphorus, and the
esplosion takes place, and ofl we go.
But, to return to the subject of the increased vi-
gout of these defenders of the Ministerial measures
of late, I would just observe (for I fear I have al-
ready trespassed too much un your columns), what,
it is said, was done by that accomplished Minister,
Lord Situteuttax. who had his hired partizans for
defending his peace with America, as Lard BITE,
had for his with F'rance's.--The mercenary
and prostitute pens were too energetic by half;
they ascribed to the person of that Nobleman,
as well as to the merits or measures of his Administra-
tion, virtues to which he knew he ono in no respect
entitled ; whereby their hyperbolic praise threw more
ridicule than respect on his character. Ile consulted
therefore with a well-known 66 runner of Admini,tra-
Ono." at that time, how to moderate the fulsomeness
of their panegyrics, and which were particularly out-
rageous in paroxysms after their quarterly payments;
the worthy disciple of " JACK Itoalksort," as he
was facetiously called, and who Co ably filled the,
same post for Lord NORTH, advised Lord SHELBURNE
(the Malagrida of his political day) to authorise him
to pay his literary subsidies at shorter intervals than
heretofore, so that, as he foretold, there would be
more moderation and uniformity in the zeal and.
praises of those worthies, who are at all times ready
to let nut their well-practiced pens in making the
most venal Ministers appear the most immaculate of
men.—Verbum sat.
Your constant Reader,

.ret

G. G.
• Both these Noblemen lived in that elegant inansion
Berkeley-square, now culled Lan,down•bowe. It «as our-
. hard by Lord SIigLDUK N (afterward,: Marquis of LAIC!
DOWN) of the Bort of Ilitnn, which gave fit!! bi the /*purl that
it via, built by our peace and bought by another I

We understand it is the determination of Govern-
ment• to superannuate all Revenue Officers Above 70
years of age, an a liberal superannuation, similar to
that lately given to Officers in the Preventive Service.
Oti Sunday one of the Portsmouth c•iaebes, leav-
ing town lie,ivily laden with passengers and luggage,
broke down in the Borough, owing to the alletree of
the fore•carriage breaking.

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7 ti thiratittMoint sae made ori Satottlay respecting
the arrival df Royalist Comat'l,..ionera turn Peru.
and the object of their Mi..sioto. toe Courier list
night gave a moat eqoivocal coesiradictiou. 1• dib I,
it is requesterl to contradict this pasagr,eph, arid acH
serts that no Such persinis hasp reached London:
It is therefore inclined to dna!), the wh-le of the
statement respecting the cotillact of the ** hitistirvy.
lily or chief Inhabitants of Lioia."—" We thilik it
right," says our Government cotemporary, " in
noticing that paragraph, to COrrel 1h! impression
used by the Chronicle (Anat the capture of Chili)
as one of the provinces which' constitute that king.
dont, remained in the .entire occupation of the
R,oydi troops, as late as the end sit. May Jest. lAL
Conception., to which we allude, is occepiea by 2:4:-/O
Spanish troop!, acting aa.Guerrillas, and corerine
the frontier., of thi„arit7Of Vie Vic-royalty along rho
Rier Miele. Gernstal"osorio is not a prisoner in the
bandi of the Insurgents, as has been industrinacr
.retrproed in this MatioPulls, but is actually in cool.
ma
~ of •Talqubionio, Id. the Kingd.trn of Chili."—
IF;y oweeer, turtle oaf that the fact on Which the
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tjellriera iteg*er b knifes' Is totally incest root and that
the news fernish to hip by,the Commissioners ar.
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awed ;to Landow, is not se tete as shat we gaa• to the
'PultliC a month ago. 4liostl%. 27th Of.Niss, a tie..
ia'Ainoo/ of Royaliata did: indeed I‘llU!'fri,no their
lurking place of Talquhana,, ender oho cum:nand of
Colonel BuinoSs, hut, it will Joe remembeiol, they
seqoall destroyed or' taken, and their Cum %.atider
kiirm at Parrar, the official details of which are
61.4 June 1. PlOlll that time the Royalists ham
been confined to Talqobsito,. a small neck of land
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ptljecting into the. sea, not eight miles broad, aod
'lls-rt, by accoueti from Romios Ayres, of 1q b j.ily,
anircotresponillni ,aates from Santiago, vies all the
land the Spaniard., at. shit ;nicht!, possessed tio.Ciiii,
and they have since foil the iscendency at seal The
whole of the Gourterlf quibble ,therefore disappears,
and the facts which gave rise to' it sttworliuOtkotru-
versed. 1 ,• • r •:-.‘ 4
The report respecting °omens! o,otio being in the
hands of the loosurgeott, utigitooted .io the akteorisatt
Papers.
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PP Sitiolisy fill4nnight, n eery numerous partz of
the
.ftirsside of Westmorland lodep.oulonge Kai. a
dinner to Mr. Broughatii„ut the King's Arms, k• AO,
is honour of the glorious struggle as the Iwo c.osieat
at Appleb), to regain those rights which the House of
Lowther base usurped during the last ib yearn.
Mr. Brougham arrived 'privately at Mr. Wake-
Grill's, at S,ltgeoick, the earning previous to the
dinner, to the di:appointment of many of the lithe.
hiranti, who intended t• have drawn him into the
too 11.
At half.pnat elrven eclork he era. escorted from
!;edgeeick by a great conCrasfie of ;rotators, nevem-
parrir-d b) the Kendal binl of music plqing, end
colours dying. and alightad et the Inn, where, he
ul was received by n party of friends. The people as-
1110Mhirtfl wailed patiently for Mr. Brouobutn's op-
peewee, at the window, alitrougts ft P rain continued
pouring drown in torrents ; Mr. B. having appeared,
arldrea.m) them by asking that in the first plane, he
was proud its seeing them again at Kendal; in the
Second, he should meet their antagonio; (the I..rivr.
( there) at Appleby, the very first opportunity that
i occurred, when the t.prond trial would tell whether
i their cause should prosper Or not ; and if that.shoold
I nol, he would try them again and again after that,
? and ten limes DtPf if found necessirl, and he was
ieirared.—(Chcers.)—lt was truly gratsfylog.to him
. and every friend to the cause—the gaud cause in
which he as one was engaged—to see atill ridging
that same warm spirit; that same zeal and confidence
in every breast which at first animated and cheered
them in the outset ; and he trusted that it wouldsca
continue until they had finally accomplished their in.
dependence.
Mr. Brougham retired amidst the applause and
warmest wishea of the assembled pe,rple.
At half.past three a very nuttieruuS party (amongst
whom were many respectable yeomanry) sat down
to dinner, John Wakefield, Eig. in the Chair, when
a number of loyal and patriotic toasts were given.
Several Res.rlutions were adopted on the occasion,
to the effect " That the Grand Association, formed
at Appleby, be immediately adopted at Kendal,
for sr-curing the independence of the two sister
counties," kc.

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A vessel is fitting out at itochrfort to proceed to
China. to convoy some Chinese to Cayenne, for the
purpose of cultivating tea there.
SOUTHWARK-BRIDGE. —ln the erection of this
work, it appears as if an attempt bad been made to
prevent the natural effect of heat upon iron, that is, to
prevent its espauding ; for where the spandril' cuter
the mationry of the abutments and piers, they are
wedged in light with iron wedges, from the bottom to
the top : the rat nsequence is; that on esponsinn taking
place. a very. equal strain and injurious effect is the
consetrence for the radius of the introits of the arch
being 3llleet, and of the eatrado about 6,600, and
both being confined between abutments, yet con-
nected together, locking them as two separate and
distinct arches,
.it becomes evident that the latter
would require t , lie in the cent re, for every degree of
heat, consigle -more than the former, but cannot
without lifti ,or parsing from it by fracture. To
avoid this; which it is somewhat extraordinary was
not guarded sgainstin'the first instance, the masons
are now employed night end day in the tedious opera.
lion of working Away the' oile work at the back of
the wedges, in tretlet to &move t' a n.
Sunday evening ibbut 10'0't lock', as a middle-aged
Gentleman warranting stork w get e.str Pet , carry.
Og a child in as armt, a hey very genteelly dressed,
Ind apparently not mote thin lit years ofd. cruse op
to him, and snatched kis 'erch,'"itith which he ran
away with great speed along GlltipOr:street.t.Sonse
persons who witnessed the act, followed old' all
possible haste, and at the door of the Compter;l4 was
taken into custody. The watch was Weld ottife
Milt
on the ground ; and he was lodged in the Conipkitr.
Malmo, SEPT. 19.-- Arrived the Alrianie
packet, with a Mail, &c. from Gottebborgh.

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'Ara' D. TME LONDON IMPERIAL FIRE CoMPANT.
This rase excited peculiar interest, and the Ovid
*es crowded to excess, in consiquenee of the Dle:'
forulers.,being a London Insurance Company. Thk
etc-,e had been litigated for some time before `
toot
Ccurt of Session, wins directed the follosiVaseo
•o he fried, via. Ist, Is there reasonable voltrefree lk
rel the policy of !awake, it 'of V•po
hlgi
'haviug sustained • lose on the
North-West Cherch,"piitihtlitgon,ind'
sock
ne the inh eteeells therein''.ceismlned, be!the
' . Ore which leek Plebe ou'thle fleeingo the 2bth of
' December, 1441,. 'or iltoist that iiine,,te theestent
of the' atm. lingered' by • the pOII4 ? 9dly,:bid ibe
• )).,ysayr 1n lits4teirns commit ariy Tra•d, per4erygi psi
alrmation, in 'support thereof, Vettlt intent to &Gaga
519 Company?
VRAIICiS JerfIRAY, Esq. opeined.the.cere In. s most
eimiralde opeethlor the plaintiff. co4rira him-
Self astonished hi the estreme tit see,thr; Jury to.dsy;
for, till he ebsere'ed the. Crown, lawyers . array ed in,
',lull force whist him,:he could not pfssitilyltelievit
_that lb. Cimpeny would' hive' been in
Vested as to persist, in pripos• lag 'the Nei sod' timtits'
ebbs claims of his Client ; but it only affurdedlifse
more proof Of uneomrhon obitioer'y of setae ltrile
idnels. In 143. Mi. brew. llrr
.Pll4ntiff, a vittfc
tipectehle tinonanefectereAlWGleegew, effected aw
itioureoce In the 'London Insurance-
office Coaspany, etifOitgoierly. peiri the premiums.'
The partieehr. bfe.,prlley were 2:001. for the
1a,41:5,591-:,f4.11t0 Stock in trade and other,
'atensils as japwin'eeririftereveteree, making
On Christmas trey, tint the premiers sera dstriae.
41d, sod as sin part cif the hoot, seas' at 'ell seem
pa a dwelling house, and the fire bid take*. plekel
after the tern bad left their work, the ileaperlegi
element pined such power befoxe 'tieing
that the house was consumed, soil very littleilsidetto
nothing at ell, of lb. stock was saSed. Soon diet
this, a person, by order of the Plaintiff, untie OOl4
cation to !Ili. fogfe, is Itutcleesin-siteel, Mese*,
agent for the Cornell, for payment of the mow'
of the policy, she Plaintiff being °nein al the time.
Mr Drew did not titled 'to gite a statement of 14,1
loss, as Mr. B. the agent of the London Compabe,l
required. TII.O person who built the house, and Mr.
1144Calturn. cmeesurer (serveyor), Web gem in va.
Inations of the tenement, the tourer at more the*
2201.. the letter at 2761. In addition to .frhis, Nfr
Drew Rave fn Li. account of loss, to whirl, he made
effidatit, and whirls ass in lota estm: In making',
this Affidavit he never was tohl by the swot, that
this prevented hint correcting ant misisikes, though
he had sworn to its eccurary, 44 errors esrepted "
Ile was afterwards told a more specific account "as
neeessary, and he did so. Between the two there
was this difference, that there sere four dczert more
tee trays in the first account than were in the serood.
this was
,moss then ' made up by a number, of
dick dial plates, showing thereby that be .gel not
the slightest intention to rob or ,defraud the Com-
pany. They, however, disputed the account, on'
writ It the Pursuer (Plaintiff) begged, that 'recording
to their own tern's of insurance the case Might be
referred to erbitrotion. but to his astortishment be
was told, thdt this part of the policy was not appli-
cable to his case. The Company, before vianiissing
a tingle witness in the mph)) meat Drew,
set up a deleoce against the Plaintiff. 6'. The dots
thug and pragmatical fellutei cd cockneys, who pry'
into the affairs of every peblic office,." had ihought
this was a very good oppottittiti of bringing this
poor Scotsmen into a fine scrape, in consequence of
his correcting his accounts. In coricliiiion, the
Learned Coutssel, with his usual good humour and
Ingenuity, contended that the letter sent from the
imperial Fire Office to the Plaintiff in Glasgow, was
infinitely more insolent then any thing which had
ever issued from the Imperial Cabinet of St. Cloud.
The evidence 'was then addaked 'in support of the
Pursuer's claim, by which it appeared that his whole
• error consisted in mistaking four dozen of clock diet
plates for four dozen of trays. On Itils mistake the
London Imperial Insurance Office pleaded that lie
bad been guilty of false swearing, and was therefore
Illed daMages.. The Jodr of the Court

not entiL . ages ,
of Session saw at once through this objection and ia•
stonily repelled It, bat at the same time sent the iists.o
tits of the rase Jury. The Defeodatits adeskisto
the justice Of the policy, the kite of ?trowel,' 460-
OP valuations Which tied taken place, and they also
acknowledged that itn. file wati•mccitlental.
• 'Pte SoLICITOaXais ER A ( Stf: je Wedderbete)
In difencr, 'coMpriiitted 4 the Wily in witicii'kue
• Cooneyl for she other side had treet4 Clientsok
Ile olngerved tbrilit'riere rare Tit this desettptioti•
Fire Insurance Companies, 111144 t. PktlYs 1111°'"
&bust& and in this iatatapi, Sat had SO flies tit. *0
the case. lie treated lama 004 else Jot, UFO'
there had been a gross overcharge,: mod that the most.'
wf the furniture and stack bad been transfpfed to the
Plaintiff by a former pithier as of girs seilsta, being.
quite old sod out or flphion.
The SOLIt roat•GE/1 Elul. :completely fiileo in his
proof for the L)rfetadoots, though be ,pot is several
written Invoices to rote the got* wire ovficharod.
ilsataT Cocaevax, Esq. made a most loseniuss
reply. He censured in the moat seta, terms One
conduct of the London Impesialluaarause Compooyt,
and contended they bad sited. most usgerforettaly,,
and in fact awn improperly bit ilift.spalch
was loudly applauded,
Lord Git.t.ssa the presidingdied,
accuracy samosa." up, the oridessgp. iio. hvld k stmajpl.l
disputably the law, that Fire-oiftros *elf
adhere to thrLyery terms of their pubel.Pgraoßs vise'
iusurvditt theirs 'these were sat ;Os soy gm,. bolsi"
titer kostes by 1,14 yolk • iirt9P,lii ,allied
lorimiiterrev, fro were ',kik cW 141
woeld be it oncs in end ID Mast" Mae", mgeptrief
their lodes from leeemascc-olllges. U. coaceised a
his duty to may, titimt when e forriplajipkria"l!.°l/
snalabied hif,.rfts :rho etishweg poßser was • nut
• bound to give ti tide Wird " lepis
ev @ice, bet spay t.stalooryf eyOrklicf."' • 4,4
-affidavit or wiser *!pats. There "weeisi to trails. WS,
too kind of stilety aliatetqr for plitnn,:fllo !t*OrTil
in Firesolecel„ if Ifga otideamtwe* to *
called for,.
,fts it iintegelk?liiiij li.llokg.rtlys
i.ower of moo Itsmtitoret to lc IPA , .
IT legal *Proof. Agt JVY haw hfivirrtallis#o
tferi Anis sad be JOU deice" ipiiiVbe.:4s

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