The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-01-31 00:00:00

A CHALLENGE.

We assert our belief that we exceed, by some scores,
the Old Times in numb& Of papers published. We
over the eroding/amity a bet on the subject. An eyea
bet of a haat:Fred posuls, that the STATESMAN exceeds
the Old Tinsu In number of papers published. Any of
the :r radios Company who may choeeo to saki the bet,
will fins us ready to nsehe it, at any dme, in the most
regular and firm manner. We should prefer snaking the
bet with " the Ree. Amor Broglie, of Eastbourne, and
" wigana his *ifs, uotwillutanding her cooerture."

LORD SUFFIELD AND CO.
quite of oar readers have asked. what Admiral it caw
• bee beer, who met this Lord in a Barn, and there (to
• the great scandal of the Owls and Rats) uttered their
nonsense aboutfirat principles of government. We are
a happy people in most respects; but, singularly happy
' in possessing multitudes of great commanders by sea as
well as by land. Oar common sailors and soldiers are
by no means so very numerous; but, in number of eons-
winders we beat all the nations of the earth united.—
We have more than two Admirals for every one ship of
the line! There is a nation! Let the world thew us, i f
it can, two hundred and slaty admirals!—One of these
nor Admirals was Admiral Lakin, who moved the reso-
lotions in the liole.and-Corner Meeting, held in the
Barn at Cromer. This Admiral is a nephew of the late
Or. Windham, and he has a brother pretty well off in
the Warlfsce and other posts.-11 is curious to observe,
that the Admiral, while he was "resolving," that the
county petition was "fraudulent and revolutionary,"
and was also resolving to " diminish the interest of the
Debt, or to tan the funds ;" it is curioas. that while
the Admiral was doing this. he did apt resolve to reduce
his owe huff pay, or any of the pay of his,brother!—
Yet, surely, these must be reduced, before any honest
man can propose to touch a shilling of the interest of
the fundholder.—Must of our readers never, we believe,
heard of this Admiral before; and it would, perhaps.
been full as well for him, if they had not beard of him
now. The Admiral told-tbeAleetiog (in the barn) that
LisoklAneeki wawa Rgformeribed t» irks*, sad that he
(our Admiral) we. a IP'kig and no Reformer! Very
proper associates; Yet, the Admiral, who is a Whig
and no Reformer, MOVED a set of Resolutions, one of
which declared Reform to be absolutely necessary to pre-
vent restoletion!.,—And these arythe people who tpeet to
reprobate Me Oltilittretltioist—Sueb are the enemies
of that document! The Pittites are foolish enough ;
tut we seldom find them such stark fools as these.

MURDER !! !
COMMITTED BY NEWSPAPERS.

Sins enormous have the London Newspapers com-
mitted : but absolute murder we do not know that they
Lave been in the habit of committing, until of late. The
following, however, is a little instance of what they can
do in this way. We will give the account as we find it
In the Morning Ckronicle : id then we will take the
liberty to make a few rimer • upon it r
Cononaa's lenvarra.—+" Saturday an inquisition was
" taken before J. W. Uftwin, Esq. Coroner, at the Pitt's
" Hood, Tyson-street,Setbnal-green. en the body of JosepA
:Moses, Esq. well known as a stock broker in the city. The
" decessed.who was of the Jewish persuasion,had transacted
" considerable business in Vanish Securities, the fail in ;he
" prices of which had greatly embarrassed him. The Jury
having viewed the body, Mrs. Moses, the wife of the de-
" ceased, was examined, who stated that her husband had
" been for more than three week in a state of mind the most
" distressing that could possibly be conceived, which she
" attributed to his losses in funded property s daring each
" day for that period he lead been in a melancholy state, and
" at nights could not sleep, but frequently got oat of his bed
" and traversed the room for half an hoar together, and by
" his sighs and groans convinced her that his mental suffer-
" Inge were very great. Friday morning last, after a very
" restless night. the deceased rose from his bed about seven
" o'clock, end went down stairs, and during the absence of
" the servants, be suspended Unwell' by a nerd from a sta.
" pie, which was reshaped in the wall of the kitchen. After
" he had Mini about eve minutes, be was discovered and
" cut down; his face was discoloured, and he appeared life-
less. There was no breathing motion of the body or per-
" ceptiblepulsation. Medical aid was immediately called
" in, but every exertion to restore animation proved mac-
" cesstul. Mrs. M. was convinced that the deceased was
" insane at the time be pet an end to his existence.—Tsrdict
" —insanity."
If the Jury bad known all the circumstances of this
case, we have no hesitation in saying that they would
bare returned a verdict very different from that which
we here find. We do not accuse our friend, the Chrosti•
cle, of wilful and premeditated murder ; but that this
unfortunate Esquire, who was a stock broker, of the
s' Jewish persuasion", was killed by our friend and his
fellow labourers, there can be no more doubt than there
could be a lloubt:of hie having " suspended.' himself by
a cord. For, how stands the fact ? Here is an Esquire
who bangs himself; here is the' squire's' wife that proves

that the fall in the prices of Spanish "securities" caused
him to hang himself; nod here are we ready to prove
upon our oaths that our friend, the Chronicle, from
its repeated and incessant averments that there would
be no War between France and Spain, must
naturally, and almost necessarily, have prevented this
Esquire from getting rid of his Securities in time ; and
must, by such, its conduct, have produced the death of
the said Esquire. We do nut impute evil in►ention to
otar ftiond The Chronicle; and we must confess that the
rest of our contemporaries were guilty in the same wea-
ver, and nearly in the same degree. Oar friend, Lowe.
ver, was certainly the most conspicuous offender; for,
it armed most positively that Europe had been saved
by Mr. CANNING, who tad thrown his adieud over the
Peninsula. Therefore, a laic share of the killing o

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.THE NORFOLK PETITION.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

TO tRE rinTai OP TIM SiATESMAN.
Sin;—The Norfolk Petition bas eicited; of course, I
large shaie of the public attention. Some abuse tk4
Petition—some the author of it—and others abbr. the
County for passing it. It is not at all surprising, lsit
the Clergi should be angry with it, for when was it ever
known that they sacrificed any thing for the..public
Cmod? It was the Order of Priests that put Jest's
hrist to death, and perhaps some of the same order.
would pat him to death again, were he on earth, "4
Were he to propose the abolition of Tythes.. taut, as
•
every man who proposes the abolition of T+thes has
both law and religion, too; on his side, it is clear be
cannot be wrong in entertaining that proposition, united
it is wrong to be on the side of the law and religion.—,
It is perfectly ridiculous to suppose for a moment that
the Clergy have any other right over the Tythes thaw
What the law bas given them; and what the law has
given,,the law can take away. But it is not said that
the Ise would take it away ;only that such a proposition
is a very proper one for the consideration of a Reformed
Parliament. A Reformed Parliament might entertain a
different opinion in some respects ; for example, it might
think that instead of a part of the Tythea, the whole
should be &Wished ; and instead of appropriating any
part to the liquidation of the Debt, it mstthink that
the Debt ought to be liquidated by other means. What
Mi. Cobbett proposed was, that there should be a Re.
darns in the Commons House, in order that the Reformed
House should take certain 'objects into consideration;
which subjects he thought would relieve the esistin 'e d
distresses; he proposed them ; the County ado '
theM. Any man is at liberty to propose ; aid the ee•
holders may accept or reject. How absurd then, it is;
to abuse Mr. Cobbett, for doing only what every other
man is at liberty to do. Such abuse can only originate
in that species of malignity which dertrois the wide-
Standing.
As to that part of the Petition *Lich preys " To
suspend by law, for one year, all distraint, fat rent," &e.
nothing can in my
.!udgment be more juit et huntame.
It is a most cruel and horrible system that it going oti
at preient. It most at all times be humane to tolltrlvi
a system of cruelty and injustice. The Petition eel;
prays to *impend for a time, not to abolish fpr Orr. It
is equally beneficial to Tenant and Landlords If the
Landlord should ask, how if I receive no rear ails Ito
discharge my obligations ?—the aniwer is. limit a
provision made for that in " suspending, for the samo.
period. all processes arising out of mortgage, bond, an.
nutty, or other contract affecting house or land."
The whole of the Petition is admirable. lidos& espial
credit to the bead and the heart of the sedor of it •
and the Freeholders of Norfolk bate shown that the;
know how to appreciate what is good. The Rewind-else
of Mr. Thurtell were only adapted for children end
the half.wise. There is nothing new, nothing uieful,
nothing pointed about them. They are mere slop. suit-
able for weak digestions, but the men of Norfolk wanted
something strong and nutritioni. Are men to greet
more and snore tame, and spiritless, in proportion as
their distresses increase ; distresses too that ere purpose-
ly ibdicied by the base and the corrupt ? The Free•
holders of Norfolk have not done thernseltes so much
honour by supporting the l'etition, as they would have
disgraced themselves by rejecting it.
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Tour's, Ste.
Um FoaDeass, Juan.

Sandal', Jae. 1823.
P. S. 1 congratulate Mr. Cobbett os his sweet at
Hereford, for it appears he was really successful, not-
withstanding the unmanlY opposition by met with. Thu
persobal abuse he received, was the highest eOmplimomt
that could be paid to the intrinsic merits of the Petitiori
he proposed. But if there be any fore' or weight in
abuse. it ought to have been directed against the Free-
holdeni of Norfolk, who have made that Petition their
owl. After being eartied by lite* andid by Ow
Sheri/ of din Count/. it was no longer life Cobbett's
Petition. but their Petition who approved of it Sad
passed it. As to Mr. Smythies is particular he teemed
to admire the Petition very mach, but did not like that
it should emanate from the pen and lips of Mr. Cobbett.
He did not like that Mr: Cobbett should bare the honor
of being the author and proposer of it.—The Devil ad-
mired and loved the beautiful garden of Eden, but could
not endure the thought that Adam should lire in it, and
enjoy it.
When Freeholders are assembled together at County
I Meetings, they are not met there to.gratify personal mi
lice, or to redect upon the character of any individual
who eboses to be present. It is sentiment and opinion,
and facts and arguments, that they are interested le,
and not prejudices, and envy, and malignity against
persons. If a petition were to fall through a hole in
the ceiling without any name sexed to it, and if that
petition were really calculated in its own nature to re-
move any 'listing evil, who would be so foolish and sn
besotted as to reject it ? In this light every proposition
should be considered. It is net the author of it, bet
the *slurs of it that we should look to. It signifies
loathing whether it come from the lips of a map, or is
flied out of the bafrel of a gun. Truth and falsehood ex-
ist independently of homsn being, and to suffer pre-
judices against persons to prevent us from adopting&
good measure, is the same as to shut our eyes against
the light of the San.

Dees, JAN. 30.—Artived last night and to-day, aed lOW
for the river, the Cossack, from Malegs ; Mary, Watson.
from Seville; Lord Castlereagh, Roe, from Catopeaohy ;
Ratclitr, Liddley, from South Seas ; and some others, per-
denten unknown. Came down from the river to-day, the
Swallow. Ross. for Calcutta; Indian, Gibson, for South
Seas; Britannia, Leake, for Madras ; John, Poppiewel!,
for Madeira and Jamaica ; Tobago, Bargrle, for Grenada •
and remain with the outward bound as per last.—Wind
Poftvssiouvit. JAN. 30.—Sailed the hlargeretha, Spezel-
burg. for Ainsterdam.—Wlnd S.S.W.
Pzvmot.ru. JAN. 19.—Attired the Flower. Pa from
from
St. Michael's, in IS days. with loss of sails, &c. ?be mas-
ter reports that on the Ist Inst. a tremendous barrios* canto
past St. Michael's, daring which all the vessels *ere were
blown out to sta. end only %hod anchored when tile Flower
sailed. The brig Regent. Coulson, was wrecked oat the
island. Crew saved.—Wlnd W.
FALMOVTR, Jaw it—Arrived yesterday *Margoess
Salisbury Packet, from St. Thomas's; Henry, Quick, front
Smyroa4 in 66 days film Hambro', with Joao of sails, bul-
warks, and stacchoone, leaky: and to-dsy, the Mercury,
Lissy, from Gibraltar. Sailed the Meddle, Mary, Har-
mony, Ann, and Elizabeth, Duke Wellingon.Rapid, Mary,
(Hoskin) Quebec Packet, Olive Branch, Wellington, Tritoe.
Richmond, Three Sisters. Hussey, Fiesnor. Grace, Atsi-
does, Venus, and Nautilus, all for London.--Wind S.S.W.
The William. Mackay, from Liverpool, to Limerick, was
totally wrecked near Polo' Li nes, 25th inst.—Crew saved-