The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-03-12 00:00:00

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The Sprit t piper. arrived late last nigist•with tina ,
following interesting intalligence:--
Malmo, MARC. 2.—" The session of the Codes
was opened yesterday with all the usual pomp. The
King delivered a speech which has produced the most
painful effect on the minds of the hearers. Conform-
ably to the constitution, M. Manuel, the President, im-
mediately answered the King's speech in vague and
rem& terms but as soon a. the King bad retired,
the Couat de Torreno rose to express his astonishment
and his grief, and to demand that, according to the
example of England and of France, a committee should
be appointed for the purpose of drawing up a new
answer to the King's speech. This deputy spoke with
much warmth and concluded with saying that it was
time that all Europe should know the real sentiments
of the Spaniards, and that the Cortes onzlit to embrace
this opportunity solemnly to declare that Spain was
no less disposed than Naples to respect the inde-
pendence of other nations, and to cause its own to be
re.pected, as well as its liberty.
"It was affirmed that the Ministers had taken no
part in drawing up the speech of the King. What
seems to confirm this assertion is, that they are them-
selves accused N it, and that in the evenig they were
all dismissed by'll..! Kinz's will, except the Minister
of the Marine. The portefenilles were provisionally
delivered to the Secretaries Ueneral of the depart-
ments, %who all gave in their resignation the following
morning.
" Violent agitation and uneasiness prevailed on the
•2d, and it was feared that some unhappy commotion
would take place the following day."

PENERAL or rim PRINCESS ELTZAIIIITII.—On Sa-
turday niorning, at a tooter past seven, the coffin was
put into a coach and six belonging to his Majesty, in
hich were two gentlemen of the Duke's household,
and set of for Windsor. Only one mourning coach
and s:‘ followed. '[he procession was escorted by a
&tacit:nem of the 10th Ilassars. The procession
reached Windsor Chapel shortly after tut) o'clock,
and the body was buried with the usual solemnities

in the roy4l vault.
Teem. Coot.—On Tuesday last, at a Meeting o
the lurk Corporation, the Right Honorable the Lord
Ilavoi read a ktter which his Lordship had received
• from Mr. Clarkson, in favor of petitioning for a Re-
vision of the Criminal Code. Some little debate on
the subject succeeded; and Mr. Alderman Hothani
ultimately moved, That the Representatives of the
City of York he requested by that Meeting, to sup-
port any motion brought forward in the House of
commons which shall hare for its object such a Rini-
sine of the Criminal Code as may reduce the number
of human Sacrifice., and at the name time prevent an
increase of the Commission of Crime. Several intelli-
gent geotlemen in York, however, think the question
is deserving of greater a:tetition, and we rejoice hi
ear, have it in agitation to petition the House of Com.
mons on the subject.
Sir Fasects ill'aPETT.—The Members of the
Liverpool Concentric Society held an extraordinary'
Meeting on Saturday List, for the purpose of taking
into consideration an Address to Sir Francis Burdstt,
en the occasion of his inapriensesnate.
The proceedings in Parliament relative to the trans-
ference of the elective franchise from tirampound to
Leeds will render the following information acceptable
at this mouient. There are
In the Townolip of Leeds, ISt7houses. ire. above 100/.1-yeer.
the Out T..wnshipc
.4tt Ditto.
wlttila the Borough,
Total, —tit%
The annibei of voters, however, in rigid of this property,
would not perhaps exceed ; in some cases one pet-
iole is charged in duplicate and even in triplicate, for
property in tlifrerent parts of the borough ; females and
minors are also charged, and empty houses, though not
rated, appear iu the assessment book, from which this
inforaoittou. is derived, and swell the numbers. 01
boasts and lands, from 101. to 201. a year, there mar he
Pearly the same windier as from 201. upwards ; end of
those mailer 10/. a year rent, probably : how many
of these pay scot and lot we cannot say with any prea-
sion—prolkilsly about half the number.
We observe that (says the Birwia„h►TM Merevry)
it is the intention of the Friend, of Constitutional
Freedom, to dine toeether, in celebration of the ems*.
ripatiou of Naples, &r. at the Shakespeare Tavern
this tuier. We learn that a similar purpose is in
Cation at IVolverhainpton, Dudley, acrd W glop. Thine
ought to be a perfect unanimity among all classes on
this subject. If the iron sway of German Despotism
is to be extended over the fairest portion of Europe,
the freedom of England will be reserved only to be the
"last devoured." The bat auxiliaries of oar Com-
merce and of our political spirit, are fonnd in the free
and liberal States. 'I he very last intelligence which
we receivel from the north, contains the particulars of
50:115 fresh restrictions which will ansottot to a
erotsibition of one Colonial prodacc.—We Warn, sap'
51505 paper, that great exertions are making the
in I within by the public spirit of the people. to pro-
state anti aid a supply of military material for the
brave Neapolitans. When Bonaparte was playing the
same pore against Spain, as Francis 11. of Austria
is new, against Naples, the spirit of .tbe people of this
ejletry, and of the Gore ruinevt, made common cause
against the aggression of France. Bat "one man may
"eel a horse, and another may not look over the
hedge:' It is known that, during the late war, mus-
kets were manufactured in this town at the rate dons
per ',rivets. Such is the present defection of ensploy-
writ here, anti such the narrow and restricted profits
that competition has foresil on the market, that a am-
tract might now be made for 10,000 'muskets, of the
manufacture of this town, at the rate of 13s. 64. each!
and the order might be executed in little better than
a v elk!
Notarial, Kitten 9.—On Wednesday salwakir.
between the homes of three and five, three prisoners.
confined in the city gaol for capital offences, elected
their map* by making a bole through the wall of one
of the cells, into an adjoining cell, and from thell
into the fahe roof. They then made an aperture isibe
enter wall of the prisms satficieotly. large to seiMit
them tliettegh, and descended, by the assistance ado
Projecting buildings, into the yard of Mr. Castes, 111111‘
pester, to whom, for his conduct, greet praise is due.
Fortnnagely they were overheard, an alarm was ins•
mediately given, and the coverage, with the great es-
ertioa of his son sad a few of the police, aro*"
them befeer they had proceeded far. Too suit credit
eases* begins to the persons concerned for their de-
liberate yes rename conduct is securing the slender.

RUSSIAN ANIVOLOU
• Such is the title of a entail volt just istblislood by
Mr. Bowring, and which, in filling sly a literary
team, is perhaps one of the greatest curio:kits of the
season. The lovers of song . will, no dealt', be sur-
prised to hear that, notwithstandlag its teem Man
and despotic institutions, Russia boasts a catalogue at
bards, whose delicacy of sentiment and happy tore'
of thought, are not surpatsed by the most celebrated
elegiac and amatory poets of southern gurope. Mast
"edemas of the present collection claim a highet
merit, being distinguished by a pathos and sublimity
of coneeptien, that could scarcely be infected its
writers who must have necessarily labotred sedereollit
a variety of local disadvantages. Nearly all the so-
lections of Mr. Bowring are remarkable fora spirit of
rational piety, which might well be imitated by mote
than one living poet of oar own country. It is only
an act of justice to add that, the writers thus intro-
duced in an English dress, have in no instance sullied
their rhymes by any of those moral aberrations with
which some contemporary poets of the British school
are, we fear, but too justly charged.
The following lines written during a thunder storm,
are from the pen of Dmitrieu, and though far from
being the best in the volume, they tend in no inconsi-
derable degree to justify our praises:—
It thunders! sons of dust, in reverence be* !
Ancient of days! Thom speakest from shove:
Thv right hand wields the bolt of terror now:
That hand which scatters peace, and joy, and lose.
Almighty ! trembling like a timid child.
I hear thy IRO ful voice—alarmed—afraid—
I see the flashes of thy lightning wild.
And in the very grave would bide my brad!
Lord! what is man up to the sun he flies—
Or feebly wanders through earth's yak of dust :
There is he lost midst heaven's high mysteries,
And kere in error and in derkaess lost :
Beneath the storm-clouds, on life's raging sea,
Like a poor sailor—by the tempest tout
In s frail bark—the sport of destiny.
lie sleeps—and dashes on the f'o4‘} coast.
Thou breathest:—and th'uttedient storm is still :
Thou speakest ;—silent the submissise ware:
Mans shatter'd ship the rushing waters Ml,
And the husit'd billows roll across his genre.
Sourceless and endless God ! compared with Thee,
Life is a shadow }• momentary dream:
And time when view 'd through thy eternity.
Less than the note of morning's golden *beam.
Although our limits preclude the possibility of an
extended notice of the author's introduction, in which
lie discloses a considerable knowledge of the Russian
language and literature, we cannot help quoting the
concluding passage, illnstrative of the causes which
still retard the progress of letters and civilisation in
that inimense Empire.
" In this country (England) the spirit of informa-
tion, wherever elicited, rapidly spreads over and glows
in every link of the electrical chain of sosiety. lit
mounts aspiringly, if it have its origin among the less
privileged orders and it descends through all the
beautiful gradation of rank, when it has its birth it
the highrr circles : it I. diffusive 1 it is all-enlightenint
But in Russia, however bright the flame, it is pe
up, it cannot spread. The noble associates with the
noble; the slave herds with the slave; but man has
no communion with man. No spot is there, whether
swami to *Aerie* or virtue, in which the • Via until
poor' may meet together,' equalised though hut foe'
a moment, as if the common father were indeed ' the
Maker of all ,' and assuredly the Russian nation can
make no striking progress in civilisation till the
terrible barriers which so completely separate the
different ranks are destroyed. The million unin-
structed and unambitious, will, it is to he feared, be
1 .nc held in the fetters of vassalage. The personal
int .rests of the ruling few are too clearly, too fatally
opposed to the melioration of the subject many, to
allow any thing to be hoped for front these lords of
the soil. There are, it must be confessed, active
minds, generous energies at work, but where is their
influence seen ? To lead such an ininiense nation
through the different stages of improeement,sto rational
and permanent liberty, were indeed an object worthy
of the most aspiring, the most glorious ambition."
The biographical sketches which terrain ite the
volume willbe read with notess interest than the poetry :
they are drawn with eloquence autlespirit The author's
merit is greatly enhanced, if, as we are informed, he has
contrived to produce this work amidst the distractions
of a commercial life; and by a coincidence nut very
lasts il with poets of the present day, we understand the
publication of the anthology has been followed by a
pamphlet on political economy, hut more particularly
on the prohihitory restrictions recently established by
the Cortes of Spain, taken from the M.SS. of Jeremy
Bentham. We shall perhaps take another opportunity
of bringing the subject matter of it before our rea-,
derv. Meantime, in order that they may have a more
perfect notion of the Russian Muse, we shall present
the " roe." from Kostrov, to prove that the bards of
the North can be gay and animated, as well as mime

and serious.
The rose Is my favorite flower:
On Its tablets of crimson I swore,
That up to my last living hour
I never would dila of thee more.
I scarcely the rowed bad wade.
'Ere Zephyr, in Orelleasee play,
Oa his tight. alrypisioss move) 'd
Both tablet sad prosier away.

As an instance of the interest that hail been taken
in America in the proceedings *Oast the Queen, we
find it aanosacsd in a late New York paper, that an
Italian yenitlimaa would deliver an *rodeo is the
Sargemee Ball of that city, in vindication of his na-
dve 011011tTy, from the gross assertions made upon it
by the friends of the Queen of England.
11.1.11/CllOlll Off •111 ALDIII2I.OI FOR Tili WARD Or
11111,11—thelpfill closed ea Saturday at four o'clock.
Tim Lord Mayor was eeeapied daring the r usainder
of the stigmas la bowleg the argumeats of Counsel
upon the adaabralhility et several votes which were
wagered ; flan the late beer of the afternoon, sad
for other memos, his Lordship said he Awaid eft ire
Weir the poU books and declare the lumbers seta
Monday aberaooa, The gross 'sobers polled wen,
however, stated w be,
For Mr. Garrott R7
For Sheriff Williams. lll

Ilajertty for Mr. Osman 6
As it is said that a aerating will be demanded, she
ultimately ambers may be declared noels lees fir
either party. The eauditates hate reserrek.siseir
speeches mail the aumben shall have been

TIM WIATESIMAN,

iIIYvVARKST 711114TRE.

Erase dm_ improviag taste of the age, oat Metro-
politan Theatres have an been renovated in a style of
elegance and splendour that rivals the most boasted
diaplays of France er Italy. In the Winter Theatres, a
spirit it satiation impelled the projectors to form their
artangemeats on a scale of magnificence which the pub-
lic as well GO the proprietors have had reason to regret.
Those Houses are confessedly too large to afford the an-
diesees the perfect gratifications of sight or sound ; bat
in the construction of the Sausaser Theatre, in the Hay-
market, this exec.", we are glad to find, is designed
to be avoided. Whatever is necessary to encrease
accommodatio* in the boxes and seats, sad in the
lobbies and staircases:, appears to have been diligently
studied, while equal care has been taken not to
asgaseat the size of the interior to the injury of
any of the essential requisites. The building is
already in a forward state, though some additional fonds
are wanting to defray the whole expense of the erection.
To raise this sum, which is not calculated et more than
12,0001., the proprietors, we find from their advertise-
meat; propose to grant rent charges of tit. per annum
for each 250/. subscribed, for a term of twenty years,
with a privilege of admission, transferable annually,
which, if sold, would readily produce Si. per season more.
From the advantageous nature of the offers held out to
subscribers, we have tin doubt the rim required will
speedily be raised, especially, as this sum will be the
FIRST and oNtv char:re on the Theatre, except the
resod-rent reserved to the Crown, and as the Theatre
itself rests for security ea a Royal Patent.

FIRE.-11105TON. (New Extmaxo,) Jast• 30.—A fire
broke out last evening in Broad-street, No. —, occupied
as a dwelling-house and grocery, by Mr. Farrell, which
together with the furniture, &c. were consorter'. The
flames had made great progress before discovered by the
family. The other numbers of the block, it was thought
woula be sated—the fire continued o hen this paper went
to press.
nosten Daffy .4drerli!fr Ofre, Jet. V.
The fire mentioned in toolar's paper, in Broad-street,
was attended with the most atilicting consequences ; five
LUIVEIII heinp, three adults and two children, fell a prey
to the lames I and one woman jumped from the fourth
story window and died about two hours after. A lad
about 1.1 years of age. (son of Patrick Jackson and wife,,
who perished in the dames) fortunately escaped by de-
scending the spout front the fourth story.—Mrs. Taylor,
who afterwards jumped oat and was killed, assiste►i the
lad in getting hold of the spout. The tire took in a
room in the third story, occupied by M r. Connelly, hair.
cutter and quillonanufactorer, who lost a large amount
of stock. Mr. C. was absent at the time. In conse-
quence of the substances used in manufacturing, as well
as the stock, hoeing very combustible, and their having
been on fire some time before discovered, the unfartn•
sate persona alsoveomeotiosed, who lived in rooms over
"bead, were unable to effect their escape.
The house was rented principally by foreigners. and
various reports are circulated as to the number of the in-
mates, but the Coroner says he has been unable to ascer-
tain that more than 13 lived there.
"suite Sri i1T1..--CLO?MILL. MARCH 3 —We have
been favoured with a manuscript communication from
a high quarter, touching a subject very important to
t •te Agricultnral and Commercial interests of Ireland,
via. :
Illemostaanyst.—lotx two, FER. 27.—1 n commits
nication with the Earl of Liverpool, Lord Castlereagh,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Grant—
Lord Liverreil inlowel..thm.leash Norobeta, shot she'
Order of the "Mani of Excise of the 2.2 d of July last
would be restelotied,'and instead thereof, a Minute of
the Board of Treasury should issue to permit Irish
Spirits from the Importer to the Consumer, subject to
the Law as it stood by the Act of Union : That he
would send to the ('hail man a Copy of the case laid
before the Law Officers of the Crown : and that in any
Trial instituted to try the Question at Law, the Trea-
surer would instruct the Board of Excise of Ireland to
bear the expence; that if a suit should be instituted,
no Act passed subsequent to the Act of Union should
mutton! the decision, but rest on the construction of
the Act of Union alone.--((loknerl .Iderriisre.)
Counstirocs ANDS( CCMLFI'L lICMANITT.—WATIR-
FORD. M slice 7.--I.ast Saturday, as two men belong-
ing to the Fteeling packet, Captain Roberts, were
rowing a boat from the pier at Dunmore to the large
strand in front of the Hotel, the boat capsized ; one of
the men fell out, the other remained with the boat,
but could afford no assistance to his companion, as
both oars fell into the water. The poor fellow obo
was thrown out, must inevitably have perished, had
not James Murphy, Esq., (eldest son of Luke Murphy,
of Dusenore, Esq.) instantly, and at the most instill-
, sent risk of his own life, stripped and swam a dire
1 lance of between three and four hundred yards to his
assistance. Mr. Murphy succeeded in getting him on
*e oars, but from the exhausted state the man was in,
be was soon washed off and sunk. Afters considerable
Chair he rose to the surface, just whwe Mr. Murphy
was. With blind of instinct, the sailor seized his de-
liverer by the neck, and ento used his legs about his
body, so as to prevent all further exertion. Both
seemed' ready to sink, whets, at the critical moment,
spectators from the shore had just succeeded in launch-
log and manning a boat for their relief. The relief
was every way effectual, the satisfaction complete.
Bivalves, Ilaucti 9.--NIIELANCNOLT ACCIDENT.-
lOa Monday creasing as one of the men belonging to
the Orecian, tevenue se.ooner, was on the look-omit for
ma:glare, on the beach, near Black Rock, on the
Sussex coast, he was alarmed by something falling
from Om cliff, which he supposed to be chalk ; but,
in a few minutes, bearing groans, he proceeded to the
spot from whence they apparently issued. and dis-
covered a man of the name of Prudence, a journey-
man coach-maker, of this town, lying its a shock'dag state,
kis head being severely bruised, and his thigh Woe
literally forced through the fleshy part of his hip, his
dog standing over him. lie procured immediate as-
sistance, and conveyed the unfortunate sufferer to the
public-boson, at Black Rock ; where he lingered till
one o'clock is Wednesday 'morning, and thee expired
io the greatest agony. The ill-fated was left the
*ore house at seven o'clock, in a state of sobriety,
notwithstanding which, owing to the darkness of the
swain, be wandered from the road, and fell over the
cliff, to the depth of upwards of '7O feet. A • s:oner's
Wiriest sat on the body on Tburoday.—Verdict--ac-
'Wood death.
The Lock. of South Shields, in *staring. Shields
berbeer es Thersday. ran fest of the ileramokbyer,
aid carried away her saaliesait. broke the Illiio4llllN
sisst-erows4sess. and siaiavtay. mis violist& lit.
MO Williams and Ana. Pietas. was run feel of on
l'heroday In Shields harbest, by the Plantar, Vegas,
sod readied deleage.
illea Seeeseek, tinhorn, Maw Nemo* to Dablia, was
empaly wracked, near Wezieed, es the
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