The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-08-18 00:00:00

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POETRY.
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ti* itEibjllo Til E .IfA MOUS. OR /TrOilrilli ON THit
.11,124.0 E REGENTtILETTII9.: TO 'LORD WELIANCL
TON:
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*hen Eaglailiti Reuel. int be on,
The great Lord's pride to flitter
• • bar lordlini Ctitlei to a Mita,
Ills Essay strait bespatter.
they, at his Wallows; to‘diy
And sheer at his 'Etranwit
• l'bot he sendi oat Mt Etiglaad's Stalf;
For BONAPARTE'S destruction.
• And most religiously I bore,
To hear of its arriving,
lit time with Marna' SOVIT to eoplj
Nita and !Wanly driving.
kings have the privilege to *rite,
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Withdut graininatic qualms t
'Twits tbas King DAVID did eadite,
When he compered his Psalms. •
Shall then our itic,mer,•-4Divta's self.
In month, and in prosing,
Endure the squibs each Critic elf;
Thrdws oat at his comilosing.

following It a'
of the Sentence of the
doert-Martial, held IteqhYltehill, •on the 21st and
22d of June, 1813, for the:trial of Sir John Earner;
of the Royal East Lyndon; Millais, on charges pre.
(erred against him by Captain T. B. V; Symes, of the
said regiment :.;-•;
The Court having duly weighed and'ronsidered.
the evidence adduced on the prosecution,- as well as
what has been offered in defence, are of opinion,
that Colonel Sir John Earner is—Nei Guilts of be-
having in a scandalotts, infamous manner, such as.is
unbecoming the character of di) Officer and a Gentle--
man, in, any one•ef the articles of the charge as pre-
ferred • against him by Captain T. B. V. Symes, and
do therefore acquit him thereof.
" With respect to the first article, the Court are-
of opinion, that Colonel Sir John Earner did duly
lanyard the letter alluded tO, in the regular official
*an nor. • ' •
-." With respect to the thltd, fourth, fifth, and sixth
articles, the Court are of opinion,, that although the
acts as detailed have beers proved, yet that the con-
duct of Colonel Sir John Earner does not appear
able to the imputations therein ascribed to it, though,
at the same time, with reference to the sixth article/
the Court cannot hut express their regret, that Col,
Sir.J. Earner should have been led to use altrun- ,
warded expressions. •
." With respect to the seventh article, the Court
'ere of opinion, that no proof has been adduced of
Si.r:Jolnirraniees having ordered the attendwo;
of Capt. Symes, with the view of rendering him
(Capt..Symes) amenable to military law, from the an,
• suers he should then give ; or of his (Col. Sir John
Eamer's)•then and there using exulting exclamations,
expressive that he had so committed him.
" The Court, however, cannot conclude their
„finding without remarking, that the conduct of Capt.
Symes, as far as it has been brought before the Court,
doewnot seem to have been dictated by motives of
good for the service."
I am to acquaint you, that his Royal Iligness was
pleased, in the name and on the behalf of his-Ma-
jesty, to approve and confirm the finding and Sew;
tence of the Court.
I lam further to acquaint you, under all the cir-
I cumstances of the case, as they appear upon ,the fare
jof the proceedings, and which hav, apparently led to
the observation of. the Court, 6. That the conduct of
the Prosecutor .dnes not seem to have been dictated
by motives for the hood of the Service,' the lYnce
Regent was pleased to command, that it sllould be
intimated to-Captain Symes, that, as he appears in
41re charge he ventured to prefer against his Colonel,
to have been actuated by a spirit of insubordination,
-at variance with every principle of discipline find
duty from a subordinate officer, his Royal Highness
has no farther occasion for his services in the Royal
East London Regiment of Militia. .
(Signed) " :FREDERICK,
46 Lieut.-Gen. Sir 11. Barran), &e. Commander iu I

ioasOrt

TILE Guinovs RETREAT.

, Zsulting I Mount on Pegasus's back,
For Parnassus I'm off in a burry;
• . Impatient I spur the poetical hack,
0, verse ismj whip, which with vigour
To the fame of the liiight 81r J-11 M—T. •
from Alicant hastened this hero so
With full twenty thousand brave fellows;
•":"'. "Mach number our fathers often' havitold,
Would have beet thrice as many gay Frenehmenli
' Which tales would with vanity swell mi.
,Now onward they sailed, 'twas a glorioet sight,
The voyage accomplished with Speed :
They leaded and toot Col de Wirt guei's height,
Besieged Tairagona, ne'er doubting they might,
In the ultimate project succeed.
But Marshal Svelter, 0 ! disheartening name,
For title was all he could boast:
With six or eigth thousand French soldieis be dune—
On the hills he lit tires—the spread of his fame,
The reports of his numbers, and sight of his flame,
Scared the brave British Chief from the coast.
Our soldiers and tailors first thought 'twas in fun,
Or some scheme the bold foe to defeat
Our hero already such laurels had won,
Said " the Spaniards can't move, so they'd much better
run,
For 'tis folly to stay to be brat. •
" So get you on board, boys, as fast as you can,
" (hank you year ardour to slide ;"
And the' none have discover'd the depth of his plan,
Brace Sir J—e got them off without losing a man,
Though he 10't all his gulls—a mere trifle !
Du', strange to relate, Admirakli7---u. steorei
" For such conduct he ought to be broke;"
And this honest tar's heart it was riv'd to the core,
For that Englishmen running away is a bore,
And losing their cannon no joke!! l
Coventry-street.

J. B. B

ON THE GRAND ILLUMINATION.

ASS MRS.

—Nom-
LEWES. M. 16.

To GOD, first be praise, then to Man be assigned,
The glory to Victory due;
And may Englishmen henceforth unite, in one mind,
To their KING and their Country be true.
But, just vengeance on those who our treasure and blood
Dave wasted, and hacer'd our Rights;
And insultingly tell us they rule for our good,
Whilst they feed a starv'd People with Lights.
A DETESTER OF FALSE LIGHTS.

CROWN SUM.

Hannah Knight was indicted for secreting a letter, I
put into the office at Mayfield, for the purpose to be
forwarded by the post.
Mr. Stevens, a shopkeeper. at Mayfield, Sussex,
said he put four half bank-notes into a letter, for
the purpose of sending them to Londop. He carried
the letter himself to the Royal Oak, which was the
receiving-house, and laid .it down upon the table,
together with a peony. Tbe' Prisoner, who was a
servant maid, Wai.in the 'kitchen, together with her
mistress and two .children. The letter did not reach
its destination, and, in fact, was missed that day.
By the evidence of the lad who carried the letters to
Uckfield, and of the mistress of the Royal Oak, it
appears that they had but three letters to 'Send, and
therefore when they went to make up the bag, .the
one was missed immediate'y. The Prisoner was
asked whether she had seen the-letter, or had re-
moved it from the dresser ? She said she had put it
and the penny into the drawer. -The penny • was
found,- but the letter was not. The loss of the letter
caused some enquiry, and a few days afterwards the
Prisatiei told the ostler that he would find some
money in his box. lie said, how could• it get there,
far it was locked, and he had the key ? She replied
that she had put it-there, under the lid. He did not,
however, find it. Again, in a day or two. after-
wards, she desired him to get some one to let her
r down the well in the yard, for that there was money
at the bottom. At last, after some_ delay, it was
thought proper to send a person down the well, and
a man of the name of Broker went down in the j
j bucket, and at the bottom he found the letter torn,I
and the halves of the notes which it had inclosed.
These being produced to Mr. Stevens, he identified
the letter and the half notes.

• EYTON AND WELLINGTON.
BRITANNIA and FORTUNE assembled one day,
Their performances each to procbslus p
The former would WELLINGTON'S talents display,
While FORTUNE extoll'd EYTON'S fame.
The dispute running high—Dame JUSTICE appear'd,
With a pleasing and complacent mite,
And declar'd as their talents alike she rever'd,
Iler scales should hang pendant between.
But EYTON, not thinking this measure the best,
'Twits agreed 'without further delay,
That the point of contention at present should rest,
• -And he prov'd by the NRXT DRAWING DAY •.
* The LOTTERY will DRAW 17th of SEPTEMBER,
1813.
Tickets nod Shares are selling by EYTON, Stock Broker,
at his Lucky Offices,,2, Cornhill; and IS, Coventry-street.

Mahradir, an Indian story, of the beginning of
the nineteenth century, was published this day, with
some Observations on the present State of the Bri-
tish Empire, and chiefly of its Finance ; by S.
GounLitsc, 40, Suffolk-street, Charing-cross; sold
also. by Chapple, 66, Pall Mall.
BARON DE CRtstu AND DIDEROT.—The Me.
moires, Llistcriques Litternires, et Anecdotiques, dss
Baron de Gns.vm et Drumlin., are at length pub-
lished, and will be read with great pleasure. M. de
Guistm, who was a German by birth, owed his in-
troduction into good society at Paris to the capacity
in which he traveled, of Governer to the children
of 'Count Seeromoetra. His esti Hest intimacy among
the wits and philosophers of the day, was with JEAN
JAQUES ROUSSE.KU ; and through him he became ac-
quainted with DIDEROT, Baron HOLNACIII and the
principal Authors of the Encyclopedie. These con-
nections, aided by what his biographer calls " la
souplesse de son esprit," were not long in opening to
him " tine carriere brillante." During several years,
he was employed as Secretary to the late Duke of
OR LE USS, and was applied to by several of .the Ger.
man Princes to transmit to them, in the way of free
and lively correspondence, all the literary and phi-
losophic gossip of Paris. From the mass of infor.
mation and amusement which this miscellaneous cur.
respondence contained, the present Work has been
drawn, at the express recommendation of the Quar-
terly Reviewers. It forms, as these distinguished
critics justly predicted, " a magazine of good sense,
lively anecdote, spirited criticism, and laughable
whim, such as no collection of ana, or table-talk,
that we are acquainted with, exceeds, or even rivals.
On Wednesday last, a singular and melancholy
catastrophe occurred on the Point, Portsmouth. A
I young, lad named Barker, with another about his
Ford has left his training place in Herts, for the own age, was employed io hoisting into a loft a bun-
neighbourhood of the seat of combat in Kent. die of swords; Barker stood below; the swords
Hamner is also on the move towards the spot, from , were hauled up, and his companion not being strong
•IYettirifham. Much money was yesterday betted at enough to take them in at the door, let them fall,
evincel. this event. The battle will be fought on and one of the swords (impelled by the weight of
.fiandby text. -the bundle) entered a little in front of the shoulder-
-Vox se, the Miter of the Aurora, has been ap- bone, penetrated the lungs, and struck int his
pointed a Brigadier-General in the American sersiee. heart. The blood gushed from the wound as hum a
The illipointment *as cousrmed by the Senate by a fountain : be spoke but twice, merely
majority of 10 to 15. 1 sister, and expired in three minutes.

The Prisoner was found Guilty.
James Newcombe and .Michael M'Gellick were in-
dicted for a robbery on the highway, and forcibly
taking from Edward Chapman, a watch, frock)
waistcoat, hat, and trowsers.
' The Prosecutor stated, that on the 16th of June
he was going over the South Downs, near Lewes,
when he met the two Prisoners, who were•soldiers,
but they had no plates in their caps. They stopped
him, and, drawing their bayonets, threatened to
run him through if he did not• stop. They then
made him strip off his clothes, and took them from
him—one of them giving his trowsers in exchange.
The next morning he went. to the barracks, and love
up the clothes they hnd left with him. It was dis.
covered that the two Prisoners had deserted, an da
iterjeant was sent in pursuit of them. They were
laWnedittely apprehended.
° The Jury found them Guilty.

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