The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-08-21 00:00:00

THE STATES MO.

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and an opportunity, so ardentty desired by every
is-
of his King and Country, was irretrievably lost. do some justice to a much-injured officer, by
def.
Ilritish officer, of active service against the enemies
fording him an :opportunity which he anxiously
sired, of being employed on active service against
Your Petitioner has further humbly to state, that of his •King and Country.S.'
the accumulated hardships under which he Was then I --alt
i the foreyioguiir
eirettniticiosaer has •
to lament, that the
au tfering,were aggravated by the avorced determinationopetied to him no pro-
oftspect of justice, or or eget; •seriing his 'cieutry in
his Colonel not to recommend him for promotion ;answer to that Mamorials lias.
his life. slt
that profession to which he hid dedicated
in his regiment. Thus shut out from all hope 'of .
now .orrly restraints for yoursPetititouer to throw him.:
advancement, and finding himself, not only tho victim .
;self upon the protection Of your Royal Iligluiess,
of injustice, but the innocent cause of inflicting itoyal Highness.'" gracious cou-1
ssattd to implore your.R
on others, by being rendered an obstacle to the pro- and unmerited hardship of I
notion of every, officer in the corps, junior to him-
sideratiou to the extreme
self, your Petitioner appealed to the justice of the his case, humbly requesting your Royal Highness's
Cninmelldcs-in-Chief. Unfortunately,
his Royal
,4adulgence toneecital, the tedious I
length of which -
Highness the Dike of York, who had been made ; was rendered unavoidable,.'by the number andvariety I
acquainted with your Petitioner's former wrongs lof the wrongs he had'besi made to suffer. .The un- I
S
'
• had at this period retired from the command of the gracious situation in which. your Petitioner was"
against his Royal
army, and he was succeeded by Sir David Duaidas. ' Placeds'in preferring
Highness the Duke of Cumberland, he has ever most i
Your Petitioner, therefore, in the mouth of July,
•
• 1809, laid his whole case before his Excellency, im-
deeply lamented; but he begs leave humbly t 6 ob.s;
ploring his gracious interference and protection ; but serve, that those complaints, which were uttered
instead of obtaining redress, your Petitioner saw his with the greatest reluctance, grew oat of the imps-
rious necessity he was under, of endeaviapring to
just chains to promotion effectually &fettled. Offi-
avert that ruin of all his military- prospects, which
cers from other regiments were introduced to fill up
the two Majnriti .s which were then vacant. To has since too fatally overtaken him.
:frustrate, if possible, .this fresh and flagrant loins- - Your Petitioner humbly appeals to your Royal
Highness in the full confidence, that the gracieits
tier, ag 'hist a similar attempt at which lie had been
exercise of the Royal Prerogative will not be with.
for a time protected by the late Commander in Chief,•
h . solicited in vain a short leave of absence ; but this held Irons a much-injured British Officer, who, by
indulgence was pertinaciously denied to him. The passing fourteen years of the'Primesof his life in thaw
tote rerenee of the Commander in Chief, Sir. barid. •services has rendered the pUrsuit.of airy other plik•i.
fession difficult, •if not impossible ; who has exhausts.
Da etas, in his favour, being withheld, and - liaiAng
ad, by the purchaSe of all. his commissions, a large I
no other prospect of redress, your Petitioner was re-pottiest of a' moderate fortune, the, greatest part of
d .red to i lie necessity of claiming from his Excellency;
whit* has been icreteievably sacrificed to his mili. '
an spplication of the 12th Section of the Articles of .
tary promotions ; who, when unjustly aspersed, in
War, wsich providss ac follows :—ac If any Officer '
vain called for the production of any charge inju-
shall thick himself wronged by his Colonel .or the :
i rious to his character, and has uniformly courted the
.Cenniaatliessollicer of nisi regiment, arid shall, up-
! most rigid investigation of his conduct ; and who,
ondu, applicetion made to him, be refused to be re.
when denied that military enquiry which he so
dressed, he may complain trethe General command-'; anxiously sought, readily produced the strongest arid
ins= ia esker our forces, in order. to obtain justice,
most respectable testimonials to his qualifications,
who is hereby required to examine into such corn- !
plaint, and either by himself or by our Secretary at •
i both for service and promotion.
ar, to make his report to us thereupon, in order' Under circumstances so oppressive and unprece.
to rev ire our further directions." : dented, your Petitioner humbly prays that your
Tne invaluable right so clearly vested in the offi-.' Royal Highness will be graciously pleased to take
scars of the army by the above cited sections of the )Lis case into consideration, and to extend to him that
Articles of War, was repeatedly urged by your Peti- Justice, the due and clement administration of which
tioner to Sir David Dundas,but, aftermuch d
0.. is at once the sacred privilege of Englishmeno and the
lay and evuion, his Excellency positively refused to i noblest attribute of supreme authority.
comply wills the requisition contained in that sec. ' And your Petitioner shall ever pray, &c.
lion ; and thus deprived your Petitioner of tho only Loudon, Auost 10, 1811. 11LS RI I."OBKIiTT.
remedy which the laws and constitution of the army
have provided for the protection of inferior offi-
cers, against the oppression and injustice of their
superiors.
Your Petitioner humbly submits that the provi-
sions of this law are ascertained, and notorious.—
By their inflexible and undeviating observance, (as
1 orlained by the legislature) the summary rigour and
seve i.y essential to military discipline, is corrected
and controlled—all arbitrary discretion is taken Irons
the Commander-in. Chief—and the vast and Unlimited
power of ultimate decision (ever considered too great
and da..gerous to be entrusted to a subject) is care-
fully, exclusively,
amt strictly, deposited with the
Crowe. Rut it is among the peculiar wrongs inflict-
ed on your Petitioner, that this essentially wise and
p ovident clause has, in his case, been violated.—
Shut out from every remedy given to him by the
Artie:es of Was, your Petitioner made his appeal to
the (louse of Cominmis ; that exalted ti itonnal, whose
high privilege and sacred duty it is to correct all wit.
fel or cotrupi abuses of delegated authority. But
flint Honourable douse, although it was pleased to
oiler his Petition to lie on the table, did not in its
visnl.vn see tit to institute any further proceedings on
your Petitioner's case.
IVhen your Petitioner found himself thus bereaved
of all hope of obtaining justice, according to cleanly
d..fined law and established military usage; ail inves-
tigation of his conduct denied to him, though his
character had been insidiously attacked by the most
mischievous, yet unfounded aspersions ; while the'.,,
only security against that military oppression, which l.
those calumnies were meant to cover, was unlais fully ;afs"
taken from him; it became no longer consistent 2fiTas
with that proud contideace, which every British Of- :
. nuary, ,
Ocer ought to feel ip the protection established by I .e.NeiV7wYl5.,.
law against the oppression of his superiors, that he ' 18D2, to pa, ,
should continue to hold a commission, subjecting 1)1,1'1' asn'isisn .
him (oldie debarred of those clearly ascertained ,e-11-1,70e-I;:iii* u
rights to which it gave him a claim the most sacred) : losses by the debtrUi
to an authority, which, though limited. and circum. I —The ualance "'I)
scribed in its nature, is thereby rendered arbitrary !,
xcitagi ilitretiosrL.liebteatu
and capricious. Amid your Petitioner felt it his bouts- ; February', 1807, to be pt.
for the Service of nano% er.
den duty to retire for a time from a situation, to all ..
•
the hardships -and difficulties of which he remained , 4'.:lBignu'r re.. I:du iilidlii‘ilareh 111•1
exposed, while injuriously deprivedof
.its most value : —indebted, about & public
-
i £52'2. Issued in January, 1812, to pa-
able privileges and comforts, by BAI Phillips, Sees, •
But your .
Petitioner humbly looks up to the wis- en for mi. airing nto the auto the
.t.
Blom and goodness el your Royal Highness, and re- the Election of J urats in Jersely;forcExt.p.
lies with confideuce stn that enlightened liberality,• ,
icti:isiipiz saids Cznii;iisnsiou.—lndebted ahem
whisa will itidalgently lead your Royal Highness 10.1. and .te,.e'sriber, 1511.elobepa"wyeegill'!1".";1 ft,
cast a connitterate A an- gracious regard towards a re- I . New
South Wale,.,— Indebted
aim"s
signatiattuslogicumlen
your,patitioner
liy
the
everi, ,f 43,013. laued.henwn.euly, likid,rtbd January,
amid unmerited circumstances of his • 0 ' 'tu tat enid wt ben
* lue
e".6ethins
and
very soupier .yeriwutents.—laidebted about • - 3,4
and unprecedented case. Ile advanced to that sc ' &Was) es. kat. issued between Sept. 1802, and
11- January, 1812,topay ' '
i.cillills tar the Support, Ate.
lice with the most reluctant feelings, and, eta the of feu ludeb about 15Q s
time he acc
1 ntlsPronieil it with the sincerest 4 ' "''' '4" 505- 10d; Amountsi'of A
profes- emends left unni.
lions, that 66 his zeal for his Majesty's service was --• •-a-s.or issues have
..,.,.;
pliabatett, that his attachment to the military pro.
fesiew was unalterable, and that he should joyfully
return to that standard from which he found himself
for a time impelled tq withdraw."
_ Your Petitioner anxiously availed himself of the
f rstopportupity, to chew that he was really actuated
by these
!loyal
sentiments. Upon the re-appointment of
his op!! Highness the Duke of York, to the OM-
valid of his Majesty's forces, he trusted that the
army would be again governed by established law,'
and well-ascertained regulations ; and that the deci
Sion of his Royal Highpess's predecessor; with respect
to your Petitioner's case, yould be annulled
dressed. That Illustrious p . " re;
minnow had, under his
former command, been graciously pleased to examine
into the
. complaints of your , and
occasions, to atipta him all the ' '4l!! ""
rebel that carcura.,
*faeces would permit. llama your hay
-toiler wag.
litspired.wha the tidiest confider ofobtaining '
fee, and lie rgroOn presented a _it"
easoriel to his Royal
Ili thness ', s. s "copy pf, which, with tkessubsequent off'
. pial correspondence, he here humbly begs lea
anues. That Memorial contained the raids hu -" 47 prayer
pt your Petitioner, " that his it e
* - • ' yid 1411e4S week,'

Craven Hotel, CritllTlNbtreCi, Strand, NOV. `27, 1811. •
SIR,—As I feel great anxiety respecting the Yeti?
tion to the Prince Regent, which 1 had the honour
Ao transmit to you on the I.lth August last, and which
you were pleased to assure me should be laid before
his Royal flightless without,delay, I take the liberty
of requesting you will have the goodness to inform
me, whether his Royal Highness has graciously con-
descended to make any communication to you ou the
subject of that Petition.
I have the honour to he, Sir,
Your most obedient humble servanti
HENttY /00[ElA
To the Right Hun. R. Ryder, &c. &c.

Whitehall, Nov. 30,1814...
Sta,-1 am directed by Mr. secretary Ryder, to
acquaint you, th:it your Petition has been laid Wore
his Royal Highness the.Priace Regent, and thlit his
Royal Highness has not been pleased to signify any
commands titereupon.
_

I am, Sir,
Your most obedient humble servant, •
J. ISLCKLIT.

H. Fobketts Ebq. Craven 11..te1, Sttaild.

' TWELFTH MILITARY REPORT..

From this Report we give the following extract,
to spew the improvident, not to say corrupt and cri.
minali manner in which the Public Money is en.
trusted into such hands as those of Mr. Ciiisinery.
A Summary STATEIENT of the DEBT .due to the Public
fr•on Mr. Chinnery, under wvcral Reads of Money re-
ceived by him; su far as Lae same can at present be :beer-
tained :
£110,50. Issued between April. 1792. and sia•••
nuary, 181'2, for his '..‘lajesty s Special Service.—
Ile may be considered as Indebted, about - £4,200 0 0
aE41,117 Issued between June,÷76/1, snelstary, -
.1802, to pay Bills drawn from Abroad on account
of his Rural Ilig4fess the Duke of Cumberland.
—liidebtrll, 'about 886 7 10
X 11,400. Issued inJaue, 1800, to satify Claims for •
basses by the destruction of Salps from Mogadore.
—The Balance really due from the Accountant
cannot, therefore, be fairly taken at more than 960-19
£110,393 Its. Issard between October, 1805, and
February, 180 i, to tie paid to Conot Muus.er,
• for the Service of Hanoi er.—lnal..bted, about 5,000 0 0I
428,00 J. Issued in March . 1611. and June follow- • •
big, for re...building public Edifices at Trinidad.
—lndebted, about - 2,350
£.5-2`2. Issued in January, 1812, to pay Bills drain
by S. M. Phillips, Seevesury to the Commission-
en for enquirin into the LAWS, &c. relative to
J the Election of urats in Jersey, for Expeaces at-
tending said COMMiSSiOU•—ludebted about 150 Si..•
X49:1,396 Its. 4d. Issued betweeu August, 1797. • • "
and November, 1811. to pay Bills drawn from -
New South Wales.—lndebted about LOW
.2643,033. Issued betweeu July, 1801, rtbd January,
.• j
,• 481 i, 4to•ho paid to Sheriffs for Convictions and 1
Overpayments.—ledebted about • - • • ' 30,11° ;0 -0
.€460,103 W. 10d. Issued between Sept. 180% tad
January, 1812. to pay Bills for the Support, &c. '
of Cunviets.-Indebted about 15Q 11
X 7,842 19s. 10d. Amounts of Demand! left (law
tistied, and fur the payment whereof Issues have
been made to the Accountant at various periods,
to pay Treasury Salaries, Allowances, and
Tradesmen's Bills, chvgeable on. the Fee Fund.
—lndebted 7,842 19 1.0
£4l 14s •,:d; Ditto, for Stationery and fur Cons'
amnion Plate for New South Wales. -Indebted 221 14
£78,512 Bs. 424. Received between July, 1791,
and March, 1812, fur Pees of suppressed Offices.
—lndebted about 24,650 • 0 0
On the various !sines, for the Civil Establishment
of New SmittiVales.—lndebted, about 19,tMJ 0 0
Do. for the Civil Establishment of the Bahamas.—
Indebzerl about - 2.700 0 0
An A CCOU N'l' of the steps taken for the recovery of the Pebt
due to the Pulslic from Mr. thinner., and the Probible
amount°, the Ellects applicable in liquidation of the same.'
Fstents have bren 'issued into Middlesex and Essex, tleing the
only Conn. ie. in which any "property of Mr. Chianery has helm
discovered ; under which all his property, real and rrsonali
has been totted by Inquisition, and seined luks hie Majesty i
hands, as fol/ows, .via.— •°! • ;
Freehold *Gude the CortntyAfiddlOsett wo,padisidod
third parts of a Ffeettutd Moslem,* tad Prerni•ies Its Viat‘stteeti
in the Parfaits! St. Ilartioan-tle.Firkid. • for ts• oefrirt of 99
Yerjr- HAM at - of

. .
The Mike part, feraber. - wflithe Freehold and Leasehold pro-
pert, in Middles's& is likewlime cut feet to an Annuity or on•
hundred and tarty-he pounds, to Mrs. Elizabeth Dove* Tresi
lion, fatter life.
Mrs. Margaret Chinnery has also a claim of Dower upon near
Iy the whole of the Freehold property, One field of ,sd,pout ilv.
acres, at-Swards:one, is claimed by James Preston, s'q. who h
also prosecuting hid claim in the Court of gleheq§er.
These Claiois have prevented au Order helot obtained fron '
the Court of Exchequer, forth* sale of Me real Kstate ; and no
der the circumstances before stated, it is quite impossible to form 4
anv reasonable conjecture as to the val•te of it. 1
Personal Property in the Counties of Middlesex NM Fleet;
Amount of suodry Goods and Cbatteldsold, and . -,.. .e ... -....4
Debts recovered - - ZIEIMi 14 "T'
This will be reduced by the Sheriff's poundage anlioxpeaces
of sole.
Probable Amount of outstanding Debts, and of •
Goods and Chattels remaining unsold - £1.9111 41 9
Hood of Sureties?
For the once of Agent for? Alexr. Davison, E. • ... '. £lOOO
I New South Wales .. S John Feowicke, F.A. deceased 100.0
For the Mice of Receiver Henry Holland, Esq. deceased 104
of Fees of suppressed John l'figgiesworth. Esq. de
018ces .... . . . ceased .
For the office of Agent for? The iaMe •,._ • • - • • WM
the Bahamas ... 5 Pasco Greofe//, Seq. ... lOW
Notice has been given to the several Parties who are Hsi%
and to the Representativei of those who are dead, of the skint
! of the Crown upon them; bnt the uoliquidated state of ,:r.
1 Gbinnery's accounts has hitherto rendered it impossible to take
any legal measure. fur enforcing payment against his Sureties.
Liticuln's Ism, June 24, NU.. IL C. LITCHFIELD.

THE STATESMAN.

LONDON:
inset; iambs? 21, IRIS.

the news of Mr. Fa rtsa's return from America
spread through the city, a gloom was observed to
settle ;woo every countenance, extressive of tits
deepest regret, and which bespoke that the heart
anticipated a serious train of eves as the conse.
quence. A confused association of ideas immedi.
ately impressed upon the tablet of the mind—tvar--
',famine—death ;—witb these words were connected
the names of the late Ceti/MELLOR of the Exam
onto;
.that of the adootwe Mt. sTrf ;
Rrpg,t, Lout Cur. LEILEAOI9 14, in(libtlitt,iy, h,„
whole groop of 'Wainer. who supported t. pa,
verse sniasures Of the former In the ilonse of 4 Oa
MODE: Were our House of Commons! what ,;
sutnesto be ; thit is, did it consist of the real
honour/Ale representatives of the people, our hearts
would not .now have been palpitating at the conse.
quinces which mod result from a war with America;
and that a war with that country will take Place, the
subfeined letter from our Conespondent it Falmouth,
;which we received by this morning's post, leans
bat tittle doubt:—
go. FALMOUTH, Ana. 18.
.His Majesty's ship .6.41 a-ate, 20 gum, Captain
arrived of this port this evening, free: lialifax, from whale"
she sailed on the VW silt, with Mr. Forme, Colonel Bxscur
(Consotktenaral), acid their suites, from America. Mr.
sittmes. Secactary to Mr. FRstaa, *Hied froin the Atalthe,
and immediately went olfor London, ip a post-chaise and foot.
It is reported that his Majesty's ketch' Gleaner had arrived g
from England, en iier way to the Upited States. Mr.
Forma having retired to Halifax previous to the arrival of the
49,519 4 11 Gleaner into that port, of ron•se received his dispatches there,

Statement of the Bales 'e of Public Money in the bands of
Mr. Chinnery, as Agent for the Civil 14stablishnient ofNetv
South Wales, on rM July, 1808; taken from his Account
delivered into this Office, for audit, qa the 16th Juue last,
fur the year ending 31st December, 100/, and from docu-
ments Which he has since transmitted to this (Mee.
Balance of Account to 31st De- £ a. d, a. 4.
cember, ldel, as stated by the
_ Accountant - - 111,014 12 8
Dedue Amount of Warrant. dated •
27th Ike. 1110 ti, With whicb he
wa.s surcharged in Account to
Slit Dec. 1605, the same being •
, included in the above Balance IA 11 --/ •
Remains indebted - 28,334 I
Charged pursuant to Mr. Harrison's Letter dated
the bth June, leo7, Amount of two Bills of
Exchange • for value of tioverlanent Cattle'
viz.
First Bill - £1,050
Second Bin 1110
—:- 2,194 0 0
•
Total indebted . £23,114 1* 3
Deduct Payments stated by Mr, £. s. d.
Chinnery to have been made
before the 22t1 July, 1808 5,920 4 di
Outstanding claims, as stated by
Mr. Chinnery 71081 17 101
Stopped at the
Exchequer, 435 M 810
for Property ,
Duty
Received back
by hlr.Chin-
pery from 2,988 14 0
persons hav-
big claims. j

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