The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-09-15 00:00:00

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JUBILEE. . :
which are hourly pressing on de ;ass of. the
—1 !Peons of England—lv this a season of Joy .2
It is impossible to withhold one admiration of
--a time of public rejoicing 7-.. a moment for
the ingenious arguments that have appeared in
triumphing ?....for what are we to rejoice or tri-
some of the Daily Prints, to show the propriety of
umph ?---whereis to be found beyond the precincts
ie Jubilee, so seasonably commenced by thezzi.sx of Lluyirs....Loinbard.street—the Royal Le-
en of Gotham.
4 . change-..and the palaces or ephemeral Contrac-
, 4 Mr. JAL FLETCIIIII, of Pall Nall, has in-
tors---Pensioners..‘antl the whole host of Blood-
teemed the public, through the channel of the
suckers—cause of triumph 2 Is it to be found in
(Mob's Post of this morning, that " on the
the Scheldt, in Portugal, in Germany, or in the
44 25th of Oct. 1419, was fought the battle of '
hit of Householders no longer able to pay taxes?
Agincourt."—This is a very good argument for the
—A season of fasting, humiliation, and mourn.
annual celebration of that day ; but we are at a .
mg would, at this awful crisis, be much more
loss to comprehend how it applies to the end
rational, appropriate, and congenial with the soh.
of the 49th year of the reign of his present
timents of those who fret—the PEOPLE of
MAJESTY.
46 The 50th year of the King's reign ought to ENGLAND.
be dear to every-Briton," says Mr. FLarcinstl,
" for in the 50th year of iluxuy 111. in 1265,
" the people were called to a share of the Legis.
" lature ; in that year was seen the first dawn of
" the !louse of Commons." Very true-wand
•in the year 1809, was seen the humiliating spec-
tacle of that very House of Commons refusing to
lass a vote of censure on Lord Castlereagh.eitid
,Co. on an accusation of trafficking in scats. In-
deed, Mr. FLETCHER, the an,ll,,gy is happily
conceived! ! !---and the Committee of the
City Illuminati, amongst %hum are so many
M. P.'s, will doubtless avail themselves of
this really striking argument. Mr. FLETCHER
then, after referring to Leviticus, informs us,
that " the Divine Mercy in the celebration of this
16 festival was eminently exemplified—the captive,-
" the slave, the poor, the friendlebv, the op.
44 pressed" (vide the Assessed and Income Tux)
44 had real cease to rejoice?
A constant reader of The Morning Herald, in li
-a letter to the Editor of that respectable Print,
is surprised " that in a Christian country, where
" the Bible is the most common book in the lan.
*44 guage, there should be so many people who are
" so lamentably ignorant of its contents as not to
" have a correct idea of a Jubilee, or at what
66 time it ought to take place." .
We beg leave, to remark, that this Gentleman
is ander &slight mistake in assuming that the Ju.
bike commanded by the-City Iluminati, has the
slightest reference to the religious ceremony of thile
native commanded in the Old Testament. At bail
we have not yet discovered, in the advertisementi
of the said Illuminati, any symptoms by vs hich
the analogy is discoverable. The Jubilee of
the Jews was evidently for the purpose of
itictilcating the doctrine of forgiveness, and the
general relief of the people. Of the Jubilee of
Cie City Illuminati, all that we know 'I., that
there will be a great deal of very excellent eating
and drinking on the 45th of October. The al..'
tempt of the tallow-holders and oil-Merchank
has failed—the public will not swallow that.
hoax--they will be content' to swallow the
good things at Merchant Taylors' Hall. We
have heard nothing of the release of debtors or{
prisoners, wliich were necessary, though perhaps
truing, circumstances in the observance of tills
ceremony. On dart subject the Merchants andßank.
1
en are silent —and we apprehend that the creditors
of the Banking House that has unfortunately de-
clared its inability to go on, will not receive the
slightest indulgence from any of the Illuminati
who concur in the txpediencyof a J übilee. The truth
is, that a hibike, in the sense in which 'it is now
commanded, has nothing to do with the religious'.
Ceremonies either of the Jews, or those of 1 he•
Christians established by the. Popes—and littlest!,
if it had, the celebration every 49th year becomes
as indispensible cosniition, which we have hitherto
hs England most lamentably and Culpably ne4-
lected. The only reference which it bears to that
of the Jews, .is in the derivation of the word.—
Every one knows, or may know, by referring to.
tioseson se BAILEY, that Jubilee means a season
offesticity,rrjnieing, and triumph. The Nostra.
dolt of toe word in BAILEY, frout the celebrated Dr..,
S OTH, 64 0 Jubilee of Neason,", we admit to be
totally inapplicable to the Jubilee of the City IS-
lisminati. In holland; when a married pair base
'ived together '25 years, the accomplishment of
that period is celebrated on the last day of the
25th year by a Jubilee, there termed a silver
tanking. Those who have the happiness to
piss together a period of fifty years, repast
the .fubike by a Festival termed Golden
Ito:tiding. Celebrations of the completion of
ciprtain portions of time arc, in like manner cos.
i tomery, not only on the Continent of &trope,
hut in other parts of the world—but to celebrate
a Guide's Wedding at the expiration of the 49th
year would be like presenting a bill of classmate
at two months dice, on the last day of .the
first month. Mr. Jews FEETCIIIIII end " Tint

JUBILRE IN .IRELAND.

-siomp-
-1 The Corporation of Dublin seem resulted to
outdo their brethren of Gotham—the following
Resolutions have been pastil tit a Pao Asse:nbly :
At a Post .issembly of the Lord Mayor, {tr. of the City
of Dublin. held nn Thursday, the 7th day of Sept. inst. I$UB,
the following Resolutions were unanimously a;.,.rei ri to : .
" Whereas it is as much the tinier. !;-, it is the dogeof tble.
Awembly, to comma with all h 6 Majesty's loyal aril Imo*
subject- to testify by every means in theirwer the grati-
tude they fee: to Divine Providence for hay an Litigant' so
Main
happily estended the Ilk of our most erne ins Sovereign,
that we ore nosy able to celebrate a .luttllee for the comple-
.ion of the 49th year front his Accession :o the Throue.
" ltesolved, therefore That the loyal Corporation of this
City will, oe the 45th October next, attend In state in Christ
Church, to return thanks to ALMIGHTY Gots fur the bless-
togs we have so long enjoy ed, and to pray bis bounteous coo-
tiosaoce of We same.
" Revolved, That we will celebrate that day by a Gs Sao
Daunts at the Rotunda.
" Resolved, That we call on all our fellow citizens to ma-
ear and manifest their loyalty by illuminationc, houtires, and
t r:uhpareacies. ,
" Resolved, That a grand Fire Work be displayed in Ste-
pitetes-green on this occasion.
" Re *bed, That the Corporation do recommend to the
public, that a subscription he opeiwd for the purpose of torso-
in: an P.questrian Statue to George Ow Third.
" Resolved, That the Lord Mayor he required to Inform
the Lord Lieutenant and Archbishop of Dublin of throe uor
Res..lutions, and in the name of the Cm pray concurrence."
We trust that the Illuminati of Loudon will
not confine their demonstrations of joy to a titer.'
cram and copious litutionr, with " three times
three."

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.

'• Fixsul‘a, Faintir, SEPT. 8, 1509.

" We yesterday received the iaformati.in, that the French,
In considerable force, had entered South Derelaud. They
were .stoervial by same odour ships to more in the mast VR-
pouring manner. their ads:owed p:trty of toailleurs not suffer-
ing nay covering, ditch, or he,* to pass them without Of -
iug. wilder the aft cued conceit, that some English troops
were concentell, although they never tint a foot upon that
island until they were fcly convinced that the u hole of oar
force bads:aster passed over into 11'alcheren, or were di`44l/-
barked at Satz. They, however, made prisoners of a Mid-
shipman's boat's crew of the Illood-hound gun-brig. who
had incautiously gone on shore to procure some regetnhlei.
This Intelligence has made no change Ia the disposition of the
troops which were destined for borne, as this morning the
654 regiment and Colonel Coe unan es cares, embarked or
board tl manor-N. From the 'masher rtf sick bet.s.egiug to
both battalions, an hisspltal ship site provided for each.
Colonel Cochnme's corps, which on Its being enthwiled at.
the Isle of Wight, in Angus, last, consisted of :09 effective,
(milord at this moment muster WO effective men. T:te
detachment of the .7130 Highlanders, which fanned the
consliarent pan of Colonel Cot tta.e r i bllt.th.m, lM sit&
fered considerably from disease. It is extraordinary that-
slur atz the »bole period when the army were subject to the'
Krt.:vest privations, there were scarce any sick, but when or-
d.-re.' into comparatively comfortahle quarfers, disease ad.-
valued with the most nlr.r ning rapidity. ire hare at length
re., Tend a supply of modieinet from Enfield. los
swill tot
perhaps at first view credit it, but I assure you most faith-
fully, that I, myself, bare seen the diseased and sick lying in
the street! bete, and on t.te stairs and passages, n it bout beds or
way other esrverln that trteir regimental (loathing, and that
to offes.sive from the ittahility of th i.e unhappy soffeects, that
nothing bat mortality could he expected Indeed our :bests,
for thes.• lasi seeks, daily present to the eye uu other view
but the removal of the dying and the dead. The greatest rite-
dtrinal sin' was in the *Hick of hark, so necessary to impede
the progres: of fever and -alleviate the paroxysms of ague,
' the two p o•valeot disorder' here The chemists of miJete•
burgh, the great medicinal depot of South Holland, said,
orkeellepplied to for this medicine, that it re: or.-ing, to our own
Act of Petrtiament that they could not supply us.

" The diwase h.'rc ad,Yts the liver nod the brain ; 1 was
informed b) the Surgeonvwf the 361 h, who had opened one
of the bodies. that he found the rill violently intilmeil, and
a great elan' of Muter about the EMIT. Hut 1 tou-t (top,
as 1 racy myself ill, from thinking on this deplorable sobject.
" Siv,r o'clock in the Esening.—Thegun.brir and gun-bouts
are coming dont. from Fort Lilln, and I ttodertantkell i4ea
of destroying the navigation of the Scheldt. is also abandon-
ed. to their passage down the river, on •teempeivas mate
to annoy them from some horscariillery of the metal. whieb
folio vred them atom the .1) Les on the right bank of the Sebald..
but were forted to Mite as soon as oar bomb.' took :4 favour-
hie position to throw wise shells aramogit than, It kick they

did edttoally.
I a :Wrf,
afOrrai bl 0 Whit 414* nitre-floc ei:osaiid of MY
K:wrisad, old be bad it in orders .)rt•terd:r.o.(wttif A view of
pircitewiiitt At' arrival of any forrii,n shipi;:j11111. Nu tir+>el
aitoald be allowed to cuter
,kitis port, without a litroti fruit
the S'ecertut a y.of State. *oil ham either of did I.antl or
Sea Comiann.lers in CN A" .

Yestekley afternotitf a, Cahioet Council wal
held at askirttgidt Ul
it as •thOuglitt froth. the legit positions of Ro-
mask-atad $E la Spain, Chit a battle: between
thorn.eblild scarce.ly be avoided. Nett has with
Isms fifteen thousand men; the number of Rosie-
male army •has been very highly stated, but we
have learnt-it to place little eolititleace iu such
cnuaberation, • •
The inveititurc of his Excellency Lieutenant.
General Bsettwrrit ‘94/11 the insignia of the Most
Honourable Order of the Bath, which hook place
at Fart It,iy-ifi, Alarlitiicise, on the nit way
conducted int a splendid and dignili..il manner hy
Sir A. COCII RA Nr, Campa•aan'of the Or.
der, and Itepreson:ative of thu Sovereign on the
bccasion, assisted by many priticiral officers of the
envy and navy, Invited fur the purpose.

CONSTANT ILBADIM," i 0 apply :OS such an oc-
casion to soy ono I the Ceta•itteo of the 11.
leatimati, we upprelisied that thiir answer would
be, that of the vicious Preacher, who sweom.
aseadrd to his flock his deariee, nut his practice.
The whole of this JEWlee is a trick of Ministers,
through the medium of their satellites, to divert the
attention 01 the people from the calainities
of the oatioo--aod the miseries mod eppretrisris