The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-01-07 00:00:00

. TTII STATESMAN.

" SEVILLE, Nov. 28.
ORDER OF THE DAY TO THE ARMY OF ARRAGON.
Dated Camp of Murviedro. Oct. 23, 1811.
" %Lomas !—The General Chief, BLAKE, availing him-
self of the great power with which, as Presideut of the insur-
rectional Junta, he was invested, succeeded in collecting front
various points of Spain, an army of 30,053 infantry and 2000
Wise; on the gslh, in the morning, he gdvauced and attacked
com-
; you did not calculate the manner of the enemy ; our
plete victory has again preyed to Spain the valour of the Army
of Arragoa ; wo have taken 450 J crisoners, 212 Officers. among
which are 40 els
Colon or Lieutenant-Colonels, and Generals
Cleo and ---- ; we have taken 16 pieces of artillery. The
Army knows with pleasure that the victory of Saguia= caned
the capitulation of the fortress and fort of the said place. At that
instant 2,500 men defiled by the breach, among which werande ts
50 o
Brigadiers and eighty superior Officers, 220 artillerymen,
miners, who remain prisoners ocwar. Considerable magazines,
19 pieces of artillery, and 6 flags fell in our power.
(Signed) SUCHET."
(Conciso, Dec. 12.)

" CADIZ, Dec. 20.
" We are assured that the partizan,' Don JULIAN SANCPIEB has
obtained considerable advantages in Castile, and succed in
taking a large convoy after having been in considerable danger."
—( Redactor General, Dec. 40.)

I e had not obtained a full copy of the Speech to
both Houses of Parliament when our Paper was
sent to press. We shall be able, we trust, to give
it in a Second Editien.—The following, we believe,
may be relied on as an accurate sketch of its con-

tents :-
‘6 The Speech begins by stating, that his Roya,
Highness the PRINCE REGENT has ordered to be laid
before Parliament the Report just made by her MA-
JESTY'S Council to the Privy Council, respecting the
state of his MAJESTY'S health ; from which report
the melancholy fact appears of his NlAJE,re's conti-
nued illness; which lamented circumstance imposes
the necessity of a new arrangement, for the more
permanent discharge of the Royal Functions, while
every provision should be made for the preservation
if the dignity and comfort of his MAJESTY, and for
his easy resumption of the Royal authority, in case
of his hiAsestY's wished-for recovery.
" It congratulates the country on the conquest of
the important colony of Java, so essential to the se-
curity of the British Empire in India, and which
may become still more interesting when the ap-
proaching renewal of the East India Company's
Charter is taken into consideration.
" In looking to the seat of war in Spain and Por-
tugal, there is nothing to damp the hope of the ulti,
mate success of that glorious contest. The spirit of
resistance in the people, and the activity of the Gue-
rillas, continue unabated and unrelaxed, notwith-
standing the partial successes that have been gained
by the enemy; and every thing may still be expected
from a cordial and well-combined co-operation of the
Guerillas with the regular forces. By mutually as-
sisting each other, much may be done ; but their se-
parate exertions will be of little avail. The affair
of Arroyo der Molloy* was vast brilliant and com-
plete, and has tended much to the security of that
part of the Peninsula.
" The negociations with America are confirmed,
and have already succeeded in adjusting the question
of the Chesapeake; and an anxious desire is enter-
tained to settle, in the same amicable manner, the
other points in question, consistently with the mari-
time rights of Great Britain.
64 With respect to Ireland, the Speech alludes only
to the state of her finances, which it is recommended
to Parliament to use their best endeavours to con-
tinue to Improve.
" Reference is also made to the state of the harvest,
any deficiency of which, it is hoped the wisdom of
Parliament will provide for.
'• The Speech concludes with an acknowledgment
of the difficulties with which we are surrounded ; dif-
ficulties which his FLOTAL lifftNi.sr hill exert
every power entrusted to his hands, not only to sur-
mount, but to maintain, unimpaired, the honour, the
glory, and the prosperity of his MA.' ores faithful
people."

ilis Royal Highness the Duke of CustazetANn,
Viscount NEWARK, alsd MASTERTON Lnt, Esq. the
T'ru'e cos under the will of the late Sir Jour JOUN-
STONE, Bait. met yesterday, at two o'clock, at
Cumberland-house, St. James's, and remained in
consultation for two hours. This was the first meet-
ing of the Trustees, it being deferred till Mr. URE'S
arrival ficim ;Cotten& We understand that the ar-
rangements of the Burghs of Weymouth and Mel-
co ern Regis, which return four Members to Parlia-
ment, is entirely coulided to the Trustees by the
will of the deceased:.
Capt. Lewis Sitteneann is appointed to the com-
mand of his' Majesty's ship Victory, pro temporc,
Capt. D.:mAISESQ being absent on. Admiralty leave.
The Address to the, PaiNcE REGENT, in the House
of Lords, will be moved by the Karl of SHAMS.
BURY, and seconded by Lord BERNARD.
Mr. SFIF.RIOAN had a long. conference yesterday
with the PRINCE ItzGENT, at Carlton House.
There is a report that Sir FRANCIS BURDETT in-
tends to move an Amendment on the Address in the
House of CaMmons this day.
The first object of the attention of Parliament will
of course be the settlement of the Roval Household,
and the estabishment of a permanent Regency.
The warrants for the quarterly dividends have been
received by the Bankers, and the payments to them
sad the public in general, will commence to-morrow
at the Bank.
Mr. Hoare TooKE has recently had a relapse, but
has ri covered, and is in a wonderful state of health,
considering his advanced age, and the- frequent
shocks of, his disorder.
Sir THOMAS PLOMER will recover a considerable
portion of his money out of the hands of Mr.
WALSH'S Assignees, having been able to identify
several Bank-notes, to a considerable amount* that
were paid Oil draft w favour of WA141.1 at his
Milkers. ,

IPPI

. 1. •

Paris Journals to the 3d instant, arrived yester-
day. They contain some farther details of the me-
lancholy effects of the late storm on the Dutch coast.
Marshals NEY and OunlNor arrived at Paris on the
Ist instant.
Two ships yesterday arrived from Ostend, which
bring accounts from the French coast to Saturday
last. A strong persuasion prevails in France, that
there is a treaty on the tapis between that Empire
and the American Republic. The principal difficulty
alleged is, that the claims of the United States under
the Rambouillet D'cree, must be settled prior to any
amicable arrangement of this nature.
Government has resolved to grant no import li-
cences in future from any port without the Baltic,
except to such vessels as shall have previously ex-
ported from this country M. for each ton, by admea.
surement, in British manufactures or colonial pro-
duce. This order does not affect France, Holland,
or the White Seas.
The Martha, Maxwell, from Quebec, was taken,
and carried into Calais on the 21st ult.
' An American Messenger has been conveyed to the
out port by a cartel from Morlaix, but ho had not
made his appearance in London yesterday afternoon.
A 'vessel, arrived from the Dutch coast, brings
intelligence, that, including ships of war, fifteen
vessels perished off the Texel.
We add with much pleasure, that the Baltic con-
voy, consisting of about forty ships, has arrived in
safety off the coast of Norfolk.
Six vessels have arrived from the coast of Holland,
ladon principally with cheese and butter.
A ship from the toast of Valencia is arrived at
Falmouth, after a passage of forty-three days. Of
course she brings nothing new.
General Loison is appointed Commandant. of the
25th military division at Maestricht, in the room of
General Demo:maxi.
We are sorry to state, that the pleasing intelligence
thai the St. George, 98, had passed Yarmouth, is un-
founded. Hopes of her safety are, however, still in.
dulged, as a notice was posted yesterday at Li.os-u's,
that accounts were received that two Russian Masters
of merchantmen had seen her five or six days since,
far to the northward, with tine weather.
The Officers of the Hero, who perished in her,
were :
Captain J. N. Newman ; Lieutenants James Wileov,
Allen Meadway, John Mitchell, John Norton, Charted D. Hit-
chefs ; Mr. John M. Leake, ponce; John Merritt, gunner; W.
B. Watson, boatswain; Mr. Thomas Merray, carpenter.
The Officers of the Royal Marines on board the
hero, were Captain THOMAS lIIIILurs, Second Lieu-
tenants HENRY HURT, and WILLIAM WARD. •
On Tuesday, Mr. WILLIAMS, the Secretary of the
Bank of Ireland, communicated at the Stock Ex-
change, Dublin, that an extension of time had been
given to the Proprietors of Scrip Receipts of the
Loan of 1811, for the repayment of the sums ad-
vanced by the Bank, viz.—
One third of the advance to be paid on the ld of February.
One third Ditto, Ditto, 3d March.
Doc third Ditto, Ditto), 3d April.
The last instalment of 151. per cent. duo oa the 3d I,
January, to be paid by the Proprietors.
Is it not an extraordinary ciacumstance, that no
Magistrate or Police Officer should have thought of
directing a search of theprivy belonging to the house
where IFilliamc lodged, till so long a lapse of time
after the self-destruction of that sanguinary monster?
A servant maid, at a house in Beaufort-buildings,
Strand, was found dead in her bed, yesterday morn-
ing. She is supposed to have died in a fit.
NOTTINGHAM, JAN. 4.—On Friday 'night last two
frames were broken in Pleasant-row, in this town,—
One more, we understand, has since been broken in
Milk-street, and three others in other parts of the
town. In many villages in this county, and on the
borders of Derbyshire, the terror and alarm of the in-
habitants is such, occasioned by the late nocturnal
attacks on the property of peaceable individuals, that
they are afraid to go to bed at nights ; and it has
been deemed necessary to keep watch alternately,
for the protection of their property.
A serious- accident happened near Alconbury, on
Saturday last :—As two ladies (Mrs. Grimshaw and
daughter, who were going to Wakefield) were tra-
velling post, the reins broke whilst the driver was
attempting to pull the horses up, when going faster
than he' wished, which so alarmed the ladies, that
both jumped out,. and, melancholy to relate, in their
fall, one fractured her 104 dreadfully, and the other
was very seriously bin red. They are now under
surgical assistance, at the Wheat-sheaf, at Alcoa-
bury Mil.
Statement of Duties paid by the Di-tilleries in
Great Britain for the last seven years, from sth Jan.
ISO 4, to sth Jan. 1811 :-
sth Jansary,llBo4, to Sta January, 1803 .02,322,309 7 Pi
sth January, 1805, to sth January, 1807 i 2,3.5,884 17
bth January, 1806, to sth Jaauary, 1807 2,113,869 10 .7
sth January, 1807, to sth January, 1804 2,701,563 12 .211
sth January, 18 t 4, to sth January, 1809 2,737,804 14 V
sth Jaauary, 1809, to sth January, 1810 '2,056,079 16 73
sth January, 1810, to January, 1811 2;127,916 J 5.;
it should be mentioned to the credit of the Chuich-
wardens of St. Anne's, Sohe, that they have had
many hundred bills printed, containing an account
of the intended robbery in Bury-street, St. James's,
for the purpose of having them circulated all over
the Parish, in order to warn servants against the
danger of imprudent confidence, which might end in
the ruin, and possibly in the murder of themselves
and their masters and mistresses. We add also, with
much pleasure, that Mr. BROOKES, of the Strand.,
has; at his own expense, adopted sa
districtme meaof the
sure,
not only to be circulated through the
Savoy, but to be transmitted to the Churchwardens
of every parish throughout the Metropolis. Such
acts of public spirit deserve to be recorded, in kis-
tice to the individuals, as well as to spread the influ-
ence of good example. '
On Christmas eve, an honest industrous man,
The Rev. Dr. LEE, of Peebles, is appointed .
Richard Dwyer, mill-wright, of Bansha, .was way-
lessor of Church History in St. Mary's College, in
laid on his return home from Tipperary, by some
the
raer,r. TUniiROTTER.
University of St. Andrew's vacant by the death
execrable villains, as yet undiscovered, and murder-
ed with horrid barbarity; the skull was fractured in
of
lit is a fact little known, that the PRINCE has had
several places apparently by blows of a stone-ham-
to pay rent and fates, public and parochial, tor
suer, he was stabbed through the throat with a
harp sword or bayonet. This wicked murder was Carlton rent
amounting, la the course of 30
to above 100,0001. excluiive of property tax,
• perpetrated very close •to the village of Banslia, , year hit is a Royal Palace.
at so early an hour as seven o'clock in the evening, though
se thereabouts. A Coroner's Inquest was holden onl On the eighth of December, at fifty-five minutes
-the body, before Mr. Davoreu, the Coroner, and after eleven, P. M. a shock of an earthquake, which
the strictest inquiry made by him and the Jury, with I, lasted three
fortuna sly did no damage. , was felt at VeAt Maucorme,
eu . in
the assistance of two very active Magistrates, And. France.
I
L.yan and P. A. Butler, Esqrs. but, vai are sorry to I berg the shocks of an
eartheathquake were also me e'y
siy, without effect.--(Cionmel Herald.) felt ; and at Causbad evening of the leth.
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Mr. POLE'S ECONOMY and GRATITUDE

IN IRELAND.

About two years ago the deficiency of the revenue became so
considerable in the Window and Hearth Tax, as to induce Go-
vernment to appoint thirty-two (a fine batch) Super-visors of
Hearths, who were to travel through the several counties in Ire-
land. However, it has latterly appeared that many of the gen-
tlemen so appointed, from the splendour of their equipage, be-
came Super-minors, and not Supervisor:, of come the evil in-
creased instead of being diminished; so that the '2OOl. per annum,
paid to these Knight-errants, has not proved as beneficial as uas
expected, if any advantage, but that or providing for a young
corps, was intended. As it is an old saying, " Give a tinker a
pot or a saucepan to stop a hole, and he is sure to make it larger ;"
so it is with our State Tinker, for It is now considered neers,slry
(at lead convenient to do so) to have four Provincial I,!sprLt, , -
Generals, of Hearth Money Collectors Books appointed; ...-,nd,
as they mud be Gentlemen, a large salary is a mates- of coerce,
and SFOI. per annum each, with one guinea a-day travelling es-
penees, is to he their reward. So much for oconorny at this p 2.
rind of " Growing Prosperity."—And now for the objects of the
1 Secretary's bounty: The public are already acquainted with
that celebrated rho, I hand writer, %situ was recommended a.ssueli
to the Catholic Committee, by one of the Proprietors of that
llndependent and Impartial Print, the. Hibernian Journal, Cap-

ta:CHaddleston; and the public are also la possrilou a the

tats proved by that " gentleman." of the uncommon care that
s taken of the motouscripb, gives by him foe insertion in the
Hibernian Journal, aud which were particular/8 attended to by

a relation of one of the proprict.grs, how, in order to thew
that Mr. 1131 e is not ungrateful for post favours, he has ap.
pointed Captain Iluddlemon and Counsel/or E. 13. Farsirsimoot,
as two of tte inspector-Generals of Hearths t while many ho-
nest, industrious, and worthy nteu, and men of information, are
dragging out a miserable existence fur some YO and 10 years, on
the liberal salary of sixty or eighty pounds per ammo. But
per:taps they were flat note-takers, or keepers of manuscripts.

PUBLICANS.

We always conceived that the restrictions on Publicans were,
minChtlY i
subjects them
hempectotilhicaarylyysefivneerse, foarndselliinsagoaneglwassmoufeshpairiststhaort
a tumbler of punch on Sunday ; or in the course of the week.
after a stated moment. We always looked upon it. in no other
light, than as farming a nursery for the infamous and degradicg
trade of informers—the very name of which is so offensive to
every ear a hot bed of perjury, and contempt for that sacred
bond of Society, an oath ; a procreator of ill-blood, irreconcile-
able rancour and revenge, and internal dissension, fatal to well-
regulated and peaceful Society. Let any one who doubts this
to the extent stated, go to the Police Magistrates' Offices
occasionally, and if he does not entirely coincide with us, after
hearing the numerous informations that ire daily sworn there,
we shall give up our assertions. There he shall see the
unfortunate widow crying and wringing her hands, at the
stern mandate that subjects her to five'pounds for selling spirits
after twelve o'clock, perhaps to the very man who now appears
as evidence against her, and who extorted it from her by protes-
tations of his integrity, and his great distress and want of it at
the time! Ile shall see her fined for part of a tumbler of punch
being found a minute after twelve o'clock, before a man who is
either so intoxicated, or so obstinately unaccommodating, that
nothing hut main force can effect its removal ; and although satis-
factory proof be given that every attempt was made iu vain to
get him uut of the house ! Ile shall see the publican sentenced to
pay this heavy penalty for selling a glass of spirits on Sunday, to
a wretch who feigned sickness, or practised some other base stra-
tagem to assail his humanity, when nothing else could succeed
I.
Ile shall see the most scaadalaus and shocking contests; the most
disgusting swearing about a few minutes, in order to establish
the fact of spirits or punch being seen on a table after twelve
o'clock T in abort, he shall bear witness sir ankh sepses as a
make him strongly doubt whether any good'effects arising from
these restrictions, are not counterbalanced by the formidable
evils introduced in consequence. Now, if a man is intoxicated,
and it is approaching the fatal hour, how can a publican
keep him ? Ile knows the difficulty of persuading him to re-
frain from drinking more; and if he is so seen by an informer,
the penalty is levied. The publican therefore is compelled to turn
him oat into the street, w here his life may be forfeited. To suppose
that publicans have a greater portion of humanity than others,
would be a monstrous absurdity ; and yet we expect theirs
forfeit five pounds, where, pettier, ourselves would
would not lose five shillings. The prohibition for seltuig spirits oa
the Sabbath, however well meant in its origin, is a hardship most
uncommonly severe in its effects. That being the day when
every person sagaged in business has leisure to spend a convivial
hour, would naturally be the most profitable of all to the publi-
cans. Yet, by a law most singularly cruel or perverted, he is
deprived of the advantage, although subject to a heavy licence.,
upon the punctual payment of which his privilege to carry on
business depends I Let not our meaning be misrepresented by
the malicious tongue of calumny. We wish it to he clearly un-
derstood. that we consider it not only proper, but absolutely in-
dispensable, that the sale of spirits should be under Magisterial
controul. We likewise think it proper, that in a Christian
country, the observance of the Sabbath should be duly enforced.
We also deem it right, that public-houses should he closed at a
seasonable hour; and that a limitation to the time for selling
spirits should be fixed. All these things we admit; but at the
same time we insist, that the original intention of such regula-
tions are entirely lost; and only now serve either the basest, or
uujustifiably partial purposes. Will any one, for instanee,says
that although none but the better and respectable sort of tavern
public-houses, where the lower orders are not entertained, are
allowed to sell spirits on the Sabbath—will any one, we ask, be
hardy or foolish enough to assert, that the meanest wretch can-
not buy spirits on that day if he has the money ? No—the fact
is too well known :—there are always houses, numerous houses,
Use owners of which, either keeping the informer in fee, or
trusting to their own discrimination, vend spirits, in all
forms, in defiance of these lIALUTARV laws, while the los
confident or adventurous lose the most advantageous chance
the whet(' week presents! Much alterations and amend-
ments are also wanted in the regulations as to fining for
selling spirits after twelve at night. From what we have already
said, we think it unnecessary to dwell on that part of our subject
here; as we think they w 01 immediately present-themselves to
the view of those, to whom these observations are particularly
addressed. To conclude—as the very best laws that can be de-
vised in the course of time, become defective and require im-
provement, we conceive, and respectfully submit to the con-
sideration of our Police Magistrates, the urgent necessity of a
revision of the present taws respec ing the retailing of ;pirifs ;
and to cause (for they can do it) such amendments, as way Gehl
their original spirit and intent, which has been rendered con,-
pletety nsgatory by the gradual progress of corruption and nth,
ilication. _

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