The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-08-14 00:00:00

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e:LAXIA ATORIMN,,JoiceiLISONM N 75%.
A jemmy, the* DerltrAkad Nettie/bona. has
Riven its opportoolty for some personal enquiries into
tas-fate ,of those who had virtue enough to deserve
the hotel of a Sidmoeth, en Oliver, soda Castle-
reagh. 'the grass hos clissed already opens the sor-
rows and the insults one., of the victims of Oliterian
treachery, and the petty vengeance of our " moral
Admiuistration!" Bitkin and Haynes are DEAD!
Their widows and astir orphans most breathe in di,-
tress mid misery " curses not loud hat deep," upon
their murderers. Both these men were prisoners in
Oaf joil—oamoly,. that of Lincole:—snil they both
declared that the cause of their death was to be
sought for in the unmerited confinement and the
treatment they received. Birkin was a strong
healthy Mao; and Haynes was rapidly recovering
from a slight indisposition, when the marauders
of
.aelbority seized upon them, and plunged them
into solitary and unwitoless;me cells ! Thus, with
the suicide of Riley, the Administration may
beast that it has rewarded THREE MEN with
DEATH! for being hottest—fur daring to point's a
virtes . which the authors of their misery bad not !
Hoar it, Lord Sidmoeth— Riley. Haynes, and Bit kin
ire DEAD 'their death, has been produced by the
prosthetic+n of the powers of an Ace, which was
igivitts to Nos, and not to destroy ! Come, and on the
.grave of your victims protest your innocence, and,
if you dire, ask ao outraged "Deity to record youe
plea. Come, and tell the widows and the orphans,
whom you have made so—comer, and tell them, if
hypocrisy coald carry its unseemly face so far, come
and tell them, that you have desi rot ed their husbands
and their fathers hi hod compassion so the ti,ate !
Tell the fatherless 411 the widow that it was neces-
sary to take frost (item the fatter, the s.ippiirter, mod
the friend. Otwie, kneel upon the corpses which
the earth lay cover, but can eeeer hide from 'our
view ; Cal, kneel upon theta, and Spin sweat test
they tier, traitors! Let the holy (tend Spies, and
the Worse employers of Spies cone and assemble
resold the mouldering mamba of.theit deluded dopes,
and consecrate the memory of their misdeeds. Col-
lect the bodies, and place them uncovored to the
public view on the shot of one of the new churchess,
rod dedicate it to repentance while there twit time.
The mind sickens at the contemplation of your 110.•
deeds—what will be your [Maass when Heaven
demands retribution, sod the hoer of delasioa le
rag by

CORFLAGRAIWIC
'On Wednesday sennielt, shoat eight e'eleck in
the emestag, the foa.cover at litgh Oekheas, about
a mile hoe Mansfield, was dbcoverest to be ea ire,
end, owing to its extreme dryness, burnt with the
greatest peseible rapidity. The light 'hone with the
most awful grandeur on the sorrousibug country,
the hills of which were covered with spectators.--
Several hundreds of people immediately repaired to rho
wet, and great anziety was betrayed for the *01'•
Needing valuable plautations beitalgia; to she Date
of Portland, which most have been burnt up hod it
not been for the strenuous ezertions of a great nem
her of men sod boys, who, by cutting doom and
clearing away the WM, fortanately cut eiliferther
communication, and about balf•past eleved'all woo-
coosidered safe. happily no accident occurred; as
was to be feared, from the great confusion, and nom.
ber of hatchets, &c. which were wed. About the
same time the valuable woods at Throsby Perk, the
seat of Earl Maurer., were also on fire, winch had
*wended a considerable distance, and, we are sorry
to add, was not extinguished at a late hour oo Thurs.
day evening.

A return match of cricket was played on Kenning.
ton-common on Wednesday last, between the Gen-
tlemen of the Saturday's Kennington Club, and the
Gentlemen of the Blackheath Club, when the latter
Gentlemen won easy, having five wicke,a to go
down, when they were declared the winners.
The earthquakes now prevalent nn the Continent
are supposed to denote the approsching C..egreas of
the Sovereigns, a meeting generally attended with
dislocation of territories.
Wednesday seittnight in esplosinn so• k place in
Wsßlend colliery, Newcastle, by which one man and
two boys were killed, and another man 4 _angerno.ly
burnt. The accident arose from the Sena • tio held
the " Davy" falling with it, and injuring the lamp.
The escessi.e heat recently experienced, says a
Paris Paper, has given rise to several meterological
observatione of some interest. It is remarkable that
the heat has been nearly equal throughout Europe
under all latitudes. 'Die thermometer, at Rome,
at Berlin. at Madrid; at Vienna, at Marseilles, and
st linndon being very nearly at the same height.
Wednesday night, about II o'clock, as Captain
FertIMICSO was going along Piccadilly, near Coventry.
' House, be was stopped by a well.dressed man. who
accosted him by name, and was entering into con.
gyration, when three others came round the Cap.
teen and healed him. and robbed him of a valuable
gold chronimeter and appendages, and bin pocket.
book, containing Bank of England notes to the
imount of 7fil.
Wednesday night, as Mr. Ellis, a pilot, was pro.
seeding along Tooley.street, he was su 'delay stir.
rounded by a gang of five or sin fellows, who hustled
him, and robbed him of his pocket-books which cone.
Seined several Bank-notes, his Pilot's Warrant, and'
Ist her documents.
Tuesday, Mr. Abbott, coach.maker, in the Rent.
Aimed, sent a scan, named George Drukin, who bad
been nearly two years in his service, with a 201.
Banknote to take up a Bill of &change which lay
,at a house in Stanhope-street ; the man did not re.
tern, and the nest day an application was made for
(payment by the holder of the bill, and it was then
discolored that he bad absconded with the money.
1 Coate Excn A vidit, Ave. 14.—A Wile supply of %Silent, at
Illoodny's prices.—Oats ta. eheoper.--lo Barley, Peas, old,
odor onldes to alserotian.
SMITHFIELD MARKET, Atte. 14.
1.0 sink thy Oral, per stone of tam.
Seel ... 9s. 1111. so 4s. 104 1 Heed of Cattle Ms day s
Minos ..4s. 04. to ss.
N. peso,
stew ....ss. Od. so ss. 6e. Sheep and Lambs ....... 9,1
Pork —.ss. 04. m ss. rid. Calves 5llll
Lamb....ss. Ott. to 6s. 04. Pies
NAY-MARKET.
Day ...... 61. Os. Ml.
to tn M. Ss. 04.
Clover .... 51. Os. rid. 91. O. Od.
to 21. 10.. W.
BMW .... A. Os. ltd.

:.
FAKRINGDOPI WITHOUT.
•
Yesterday a Wardmote was held In St. bride's
Morels, Fleet-strut (Mr. Alderman 'Wahiawa le
Ate Chair), for the purpose of electing a it and pre.
per person to MI the office of Corelllea Coencilasso
o(sbe Ward for the remainder of the year, in the roam
of Mr. Waithmen. The Lord Mayor's precept hav-
ing been read,
Alderman WAITIIKAS said, they OM called to
emcee a very saleable and important peisilege. I
had been customary, and no doubt was proper, in!
those who had held that situation before him, .to es—
press their opinion as to 'the utility and importance
of returning such persons to monad them in the
Corporation, with a due attention to their Consti-
tuents' interests. Bat in that Ward, more especially,
be knew that any such admonition was more a thing
of custom than of necessity. They were well aware
of the important duties snitched to the office of their
Representatives in the. Corporation. They kitew
that the City of London gave the tone to the whole
country ; and that, therefore, it was their defy to
return such men es were likely to uphold the chi.
racier and consequence of the City. This was the
more necessary as the Corporation of London bad
more thin once preserved the Constitution of the
country, and might be coifed on seals hide the same.
Besides an attention to these *rest poilliel duties re-
quired from a Common Colincitemile. lbw Worthy
Alderman enumerated all tie various `total doles
attached to that situations. e bed said this more as
a matter of form. and to resided them of the import-
, ,
aoce rd the duty they were about to discharge, than
to' instruct theta in it. The name of Mr. G. Clarke,
Clive and Contention, isd been banded to him as
being a fit and proper person for them to choose, and
he was ready to hear any other Gentleman put is no-
mination.
Mr. flames then proposed Mr. R. Taylor, Cl..
I seri sod Stationer, and espreesid his conviction that
If they did Mr. T. the honour to elect biro, be would
discharge the duties of his station to their entire sa-
tisfaction.
Mr. Coma seconded the nomination. U. hoped
the Worthy Alderman, on whom they bad at last
conferred the well-earned rewards due to his tried
services, would long continue to preside over them.
Nothing distiegoished fre'men from slaves, so mach
as the surdas of the elective franchise. That en-
abled them to hold their heads erect, aird show that
i they were not the tools of an overbearing aristo.
cracy. The °tiaras of London stood in a very high
and proud siteatiew. Though Ministers had for a
time suspended their liberties, yet the acquittals of
Hone for his Parodies, had shown that the cartes of
freedom always moved in an inverse ratio to the
wishes of its enemies. Beside', she victories gained
by the !Wends of the People, at the late General
Declines, had placed the citatory in thelliehest pint
of view. Let that Werilmote, then, be on its guard,
not to return • man to the Common Council who
would insist in polling the country down from the
proud eminence it had attained to. It was perhaps
easier to describe what • man was not, than to tell
what he was. He would therefore say, that Mr.
Taylor was not e friend of the present Ministers,
nor of lauded nthiberst Represieutation ; he was net a
friend to keeping up a large Standing Army in time of
peace., to crush our own liberties, and those of
Europe; nor was he a friend to Oliver, Cashes,
mod others, the protegees of Ministers ; bat he was
• friend to political, chit, sod religious libdrties ;
and of rational end constitutional Reform.
Mr.Ccettni, the first Candidate pot ki nomination,
then came forward, and said, that, as Mr. Tayise's
principles and kis were she same, be should dotage
for the protent, and offer himself to their notice at
she end of she year.
Mr. Taylor's name was then put to the show of
Ilan 1, and his election declared to be unanimous.—
Sns ti of his friends Limo intimated that he is now in
Ireland, and consequently could not morn them
shacks for the honour which bad jest beets conferred
open him.
The Deputy of the Ward, then Moved a Vote of
Thanks to Alderman %Mean, for his upright coo-
duct in the Chair that day, which was carried maul.
mouldy.
Me. COATIs said, he might be out of order, bat
he was sore he was within the bounds of propriety,
ss hen he proposed a Vote of Thank' to their Worthy
Alderman, for the manly, independent, and consti.
tutional course he bad all along pursued; and for the
great and valuable services he bad rendered to the
City of London. and the country at large.
Mr. Wrii.Lirms seconded this motion, in doing
which, he pronounced' just eulogises on the Worthy
Alderman. It was proper, he said, for men, when
they found themselves pursuing a serum of error, to
alter their track. Their Worthy Aldermen bad never
had any occasion to change his, as he started at an
early period of life, in the true and constitutional
road. He (Mr. W.) was convinced, that if their Wor-
thy Alderman's principles had been pursued by Mini-
ster', the People would wirer have been, as they now
were, bowed down by excessive titillation, net would
they have suffered in themselves, or in some of their
friends, by being imprisoned without a cease, or dis-
charged withoot a trial.
The motion was carried neat. con.
Mr. Alderman WAtTatIAW then came forward,
amidst load applause. lie said that he had received
too many proofs of their kindness to require the ono
offered to him on the prevent occasion, to convince
him that his political conduct had met with their apple-
betion. Those marks of esteem would tend to mi-
.,
mutate others to pursue the same line of conduct. In
reviewing his past life, he found that he might on
many occasions have advocated their cease with more
ability, bet he was not conscious that he bad ever
shrunk from discharging his duty. He congrotaltited
them upon the choice they had made ; he was con.
winced, from his observation of Mr. Taylor's conduct,
that that Gentleman would serve them faithfully.
The Wardmote was then dissolved.

PAILTRIDOM—As a proof of the strength and
number of Partridges this goo summer has produced,
there are at this time 22 birds of a covey full no the
sing, in a field belonging to Mr. Shawl a Fanner,
fear mites from Wades's Mill, Hurts; and Ina kid
within half a oils of It than is another coley of
`Widen.