The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-01-23 00:00:00

*kick has not - A( the ._
ty of tha listiders ; time most over. be present to
(heir memories. Nothing short of total extermiaa-
ting of tie . People Can ever place these countries
spin in peaceable possession of Spain ; this is the
only hope remaining to her despicable fury. She
eollibirs at the same time, the contemptible character
of a mendicant far assistance to all the Courts of
Europe, tacitly acknowledging, that without this her
Colonies are lost; she is going about like the wolf,
with a bone in leer throat, but no one mill take com-
passion on the hateful monster."
(7'o be eontioued.)

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
ANAL, JAL r.--Sailed last night the Marsh,
Richteo, for Janiiica ; Barbadoes packet, Balaton,
for Barbodoes i • John and Ann, Rohinron, for
vanooha and have come hack this morning.—Came
down from the River the John, Vault, fot Jamaica;'.
Cocoas, Malrcer, fur Sierra Leone; and the Ocean,'
for Gibrallir.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. ft—Arrived the Eclipse,
Winter, from the Downs, for the Isle of France.
FALmoUTII, JAL 21.-4rrived the Prince Ernest
packet, with Meils frhm Lishob in eight dati.
LivenrooL, JAN. 21.—The Prince of Wales, of
London, was !monied by Cap[. Reid, of the Charles,
on the Ist lost , about 40 miles west of St. Mary's.
The moot was abailoned, dismasted, and seven feet
water in her bold—cargo mahogany.

TH4NKS TO THt LORD MAYOR'S CHAPLAIN.
.Mr. NAsst moved that the thanks of the Court be
gives to the Rev. John James Corry, for his sermon,
reegthed In St. Paul's, on the 11th of Jan. inst.
Mr. Dixon thought that the mover was hound in
reason to tell them at least the teat from which the
osnmon had been preached.
WAITIIIIAN had no doubt that the sermon
wee an excellent one, but no Alderman had been
present to hear it. Therefore, although the sermon
deserted thanks, the Net. Gentleman could not con-
sider the thanks of the Court worth any thing, both
becaose.they were the thanks of those who knew
nothing of the sermon, and because they had been
often given for sermons that sore not entitled to
that honour. The Court ought also to reflect that
their funds were now very low ; and to enquire tyke.
thee, in that siteation, it was proper to lay out 2001.
or 3001. a year for ammonses to attend sermons,
and for the expenee of printing them. In the present
instance there had been no summonses, and, there-
fore, the sermon could not be said to hare been
preached before that Corporation. Seventeen or
eighteen years ago, when Alderman Comhe made a
motion similar to the present, it was agreed, that
before thanks could' he voted the,bermon mast be
printed. These remarks he made, not in opliciAtioit
to the motion, but its order to show the acerbity of
some general regulation on the subject.—(/leer,
Mr. GltteelTllS objected that they had not‘been
summoned to hear the sermon, and that no mats
could vote thanks for a sermon which he bad neither
heard nor read.

After some further observations had hewn made on
the sohjeet, by the Lord Mayor, Mr. Dame, Mr.
Waithman, and Mr. Dairies, the motion was put.

• Mr. Gnirrunts insisted that the word thanks be
left out.— (A laugh was really paying a corn.
pliment to the preacher.—( Laughter.)—it was doing
bim an honi.ur to insist upon knowing the merits of
the sermon before thanks were given.
Mr. WILLIAMS thought the objection most reason.
able: he would not attach his religious, any more
than his political, opinions to the sleeve of another.
He would not therefore vote upon another's so-
thority.
Mr. Dixon, the Lord Mayor, and Mr. Dast4,
recommended the withdrawing of the motion, which
was accordingly done • and Mr. Griffiths' amend.
went, that the sermon he printed, was put.
Mr. Dump' thought this, too, should be with.
drawn. The Worthy Gentleman behind him (Mr.
Griffith.) had long enjoyed a monopoly of the trade
of moving thanks. When another ventured to enter
into the same line of bosiness--(a laugh)—be ob-
jected, because the sermon had not beet' printed.
The amendment was then agreed to.
DISTRESSEO SEAMEN._ _ _

Mr. lusts Cactow stated, that the Report of the
Committee on this interesting subject was not ready
to be presented, and gave notice that it should be
presented nest Court-day.
•
FELLOWSHIP PORTERS.
Mr. WArrumAu said, that he presented a Petition
from a very respectable class of citizens. The Fellow-
ship Porters complained that they paid one penny
oat of every shilling they earned for certain leases
belonging to the Company ; that this contribution
amounted to 5,0001. a year, but that they derived
from these looses only 3.281.• i the rest of the money
was appropriated by their Linters under various pre-
tences. From tisii abuse they now prayed In be re-
lieved. He moved that the 'Petition be referred to
some Committee.
It was agreed that it should be referred to the
Committee for General Purposes.
IRISH SOCIETY.
Mr. SLADE, from the Irish Society, was heiird in
in respect to some orders of the Court'for that Society
to deliver in a brief statement of their.occounts an-
nually, and upon which they bad taken the opinion
of Counsel, when several Members objecting to any
proceeding being had upon a verbal communication,
the usual and regular practice being only to receive
documents in writing, no motion was grounded
thereon.

STATE OF THE CITY PRISONS.
Mr. WAITIIMAN said, that it bad appeared to his,
to be important to draw the attention of the Coin
to the subject of the present state of the City Prisons,.l
with a view of obtaining some of that iutormatioo.l
which it had been hoped the differeet Committees, to 1
whom it had been referred, would have furnished be-
fore this time.. Having read the valuable publica-
tion of Mr. Bennett, be was induced to ask whether
any Report,. was to be expected, as If he were to un-
derstand the tseptive, he should bring forward some
motion to this effect on the nest Court-day.
•
After some conversation with regard. to the citron,-
stances which bad retarded the production of the lte.
port, it was moved by Mr. WAITIIIKAN, and Quaid,
that the Committee of Impovemonts be directectto
report to the Court their proceedings with lewd
to the New Prison in Whitecruss-street, an account
of the expeoes attending it, with the present state
and condition of the Prison.
A similar Resolution was then. passed, requiring
information from the Committee of City rands as to
the present condition of Newgste.
Some conversation afterwards took place relative
to the suspension of the table and entertainment,
usually enjoyed by the Lord Mayor's officers ittil at.;
tendants, at the Old Bailey, during the Sessions,
which it was generally agreed ought to be restored,
and charged to the espenceof the Chief Magistrate,
who was so liberally enabled to support the dignity
of his office.
The loan MAYOR declared the vacancy of one of
the Marshalmen by the death of Mr. Daniel Cork:
Wright, and it was referred to the Committee for Ge-
neral Purposes to consider its respect of the age and
if the candidates.
We have to announce each of Mr.
Hanwell, of Chancery-lau a red that he
went on Wednesday therms° on a visit of condo-
lence to a friend at Newington Betts, and on his re-
too, about nine o'clock, ire passing Use Magdalen
Asylum, in Blackfriars-roads he dropped down and
instantly mired.

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SCHOOL

RTII.EAST DISTRICT
SOCIRTE . •
Yesterdara Public Meeting was hem at the City
of London Tavern, for the formation, in the North-
east Districts...C.oe Metropolis, of. a-School Society,
on the Plan of the British-and Foreign- School Insti-
tution; his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex in
the Chair, supported by .the Right Rev. the Lord
Bishop of Noswieu;asToirsa Llama, Esq. M.P.and
several other distinguished characters.
His Royal Highest., on taking the Chair, said,
that his presence in it that day showed the interest he
felt in their object, as be laboured under an Wins-
position, which, were not the call so strong, would
have compelled him to remain at borne.---(Applause.)
Mr. WiLikt.cet opened th• business or the day.
On the sebject of education, be said, there was now
but one opinion, and the only consideration fortu-
nately was, how that opinion could be best promoted.
He then etplaiwed the more immediate business of the
present Meeting, which was to form a complete survey
of the North.east District of London, and establish
therein a school or schools, on the British and Fo.
reign Plan. Ile-forcibly urged the necessity of en.
desvouring, as much as possible, to identify the poorer
classes themselves in the undertaking, and take from
them whatever trivial pecuniary assistance they could
atoll. He eptered much at large into ;he present
flourishing siluatimi of *the parent Institetion, of
which he was-Treaserer, and the greet dissemination
of education it had caused all over the world. In Ire.
land it was proceedieg rapidly ; in France it was
spreading every where through the efforts of the Go-
•vernment of that counts), ; in Spain, where their ex-
pectatioes were not sanguine, something was yet doing.
Prince Esterhaty, the Duke of Sate-Weimar, and
other Princes, had taken a lively interest in RS progress
in Germany. In the East and West Indies, the same
happy prospect bad bven opened. In America,
here hitherto it was only known by books, its in.
hence was felt so strongly, that the most encourag-
ing prospects were held oat for practical instructors
to settle in that continent. In Africa it was also es.
tending ; and in the Settlement of Sierra Leone, more
than 1,000 14.1 now been instructed. From Chris.
tophe, at Hayti, the most flattering communication
had been received through- his Minister, Count Limo-
.natle, who had received ass instructor for their schools
from this country, who in his letter expressed the
anxiety of Isis master, " for the propagation of human
knowledge, leaving every person fie* to serve the Al-
mighty in his o.in manner."—(Grcut appltrusc.)—lle
hoped, that, whatever Orally existed between this
Society and the National one, as a rivalry to do
good—though he thought they had to complain of
the efforts of some mess, from the Episcopacy down
to the Churchwarden, who had used unworthy efforts
on the 'occasion; even parochial bounty was, he knew,
denied to some of the poor who would not send their
'children to the National Schools. The-Worthy Gen-
tlemen concluded by paying a just tribute to the ef-
, forts of the Dukes of Kent and Sussex, who, as well
ast their Ro)al Father, bad been the steady friends
of this Invitation in its struggling days, and by pro.
posmg a Resolution for the formatiou of the new
4oCal Rogiety.
-• -MY.; Ervato• seconded this motion in an eloquent

speech. -
The Rev. 11. F. BERNA un,in proposing the second
Resolution, enforced the necessity of active exertions
in furtherance of the interests of the New Install.
tiou. Iu this be was seconded by the Reverend Mr.
HARPER.

The Lord Bishop of Nonwicit rose, and was re.
ceived with loud and reiterated applause. He said,
that he rose with peculiar satisfaction to make the
motion which had been just put into his hand, and
when he stated to the Meeting that it was intended
to convey an acknowledgment to their Hoye' High.
nesses the Hakes of Kent and Susses for their ct 0.
stint support of public benevolence, he wps sure
they would agree to it with the same satisfaction he
felt at submitting it to their approbation.—(Grcat
applause.)—Before he sat down, he would trouble
the Meeting with a few words on the business of the
day. It had been very properly said, that there was
now no necessity of dwelling on the object of the
Meeting, with a view to inculcate into any males
mind the necessity of a general diffusion of education
opposition to such all opinion had now bap.
pity ceased. In looking at this subject, be could
conceal the deep feeling of regret he had felt at pe.
*rasing, a day or two ago, in one of the Peblic
Prints, an account of the state of Newgati, 'hawing
the alarming prevalence of juvenile depravity, w here
four children were in irons, mud under sentence of
death, one of them not more than nine years of age.
This was a fact calling for the immediate attention
of all good men—lhe evil called for the application
of an immediate remedy, and he knew of none bet
the spreading of the Institution then before, them—
he knew of no other way but by the careful and ac-
tive Or
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' fused into *the minds of the People, and seek would .
be always found the result of a universal system of.
education. An allusion hod been made to the
Bond System of Education, which was ermined, to
those of the Eatablished Church. In looking.st that
Institution, and at the British and Foreigner... be
would mot scruple this day, in the face yt the Pub•
lie, to avow his decided preference to the latter-
(Great *Awe) —arid to assert iti better claim to.
4besppellatios of National than the one which bad
it, however meritorioes were its objects. He begged
to be unequivocally understood as appredatingl the
merits of the National System, and of being ready' Ws
de all in bis power to promote it; but, at the same' .
time, be would not conceal his preform* fuelifie
system, betaete it bed nothieg of 'edition la late
'plan or character.—(iipplause.)--.He ardently whited'
piesperity to both, and to the one he "mild sejeil
whoa it spoke of the other," Go, thou, and do lift&
wise."—(Applarse.)—They had' the gresteit ibitcr4.*
easement from Royal patronage, particularly eerrill
that of their Royal Chairman and MI Royal lirottres‘
who were the snbject of the Resolution be held in'
his hand, and whose universal attention te every use-
ful and charitable Institution, had been long melt
deeply acknowledged by every well-thinking beisir
is this enlightened netropolit.--(Greuf ripplause.),
, GEORGE Mrs°, E4q. M.P. seconded this motion,
lid concurred in the tribute it paid to these Matti-
ous characters.
His Royal Highness the Duke of SUSSEX. in re.
turning thanks, esprestied the great platters be felt
et finding hie. name associated with his Royal
Brother's in the motion which had just been so flat-
teringly carried. His Hon. Friend near him (Mre
Byng), had just said, that he thoogbt the lower
clasSes of society in this country were more vicitiet
than the same class ekewhere. This, his Royal
Highness would deny. Ile was indeed free to admit
that here there was • more numerous list of cried..
oats; but the reason of it was, that here the Ism
takes cilia:ante of a far greater -portion of minor
offences than tho laws of other States resider penal—
end in this alone the difference consisted.—it was
the policy of this country honestly to expos* a crimp.
oral, while in others they concealed them.—(4p-
plause.)—As to the cause of education. he was saw.
led it must universally triumph ; and, said his Royal
Highness, in conclusion, " it shrill triumph, arid ti,;‘
is the only arbitrary word I shall ever use."—(Greta
Anduuse.) . ..1
The Rev. ItowLAmO lIILL rose to move. she
Thanks of the Meeting to the Marquis of Tavistock.
It had been well said, that where educetion prevailed,
Sobriety and industry flourished---where it was not
found, barbarism blackened the surface of society, if
that could be called 'index where every matt resigned
himself to his own passions and depraved appetites.
As to the state of crime in this country., heow&laid
wet say much—though he could hardly' avoLl touch.
ing open a measure which had agitated. ceollictieg
politicians, he meant the Suspension of the Habeas
Corpus Act. If this was intended by Ministers as
a means of removing the evils of the coutitiy,. 01 be
would say its answer was, that the espediesit appear.
e 1 as rational as to burn London to exterminate tho
bugs.—( Loud laughter.) --het the People, he would
say, be educated, and then the few Ignorant dema-
gogues that lay at the bottom of society mey.rove
about unnoticed and forgotten. Indeed, in poiut of
personal convenience, the Government Ought t o dor&
• little more to the education of Me People ;
for it would save theme great deal ;of the trouble
they are obliged to take, if they assisted effectively
in promoting the general diffusion of knowledge, and
then,
bean, withloto govern the blessing m
iheofseles.
Govd,thelire Noblepoori eelies wouldat
be e
near him, the good Bishop of Norwich, was a better
friend to the Established Church than any of thew
who pretended to be the loudest beaters in its sup..
port—(Applause)—he took a true slew of tire best
iifterests of society, makilie most perfect view of the
somod doctrines of COlllisnity, which, es a Pester,
it was his.duty to inculcate.—( Loud applasoso.)-114,
forgot to tell them what, perhaps. they. all 'mew...
(A laugh)—thst the Marquis of Tavistock, to whom
he was about to move thanks, was the heir apparel
to the Duke:of Bedford—a member of that illustrious
House of gusset!, st from generatioe to genera.
tion Englishmen wee/ ht to revere as tlerberedi•
tory depository of 'patriotism and virtue. Titer* was
no fear of any Institution while it could boast such
patrons as this.—(Greut applause booed per.
dons of the Royal Chairman, who was en *twiny to
long speeches, for making this long sort of a abort
speech.—(torch laughter and applause.)
Mr. MACKENZIE seconded this solaria, which was
unanimously carried.
Th. ROYAL CUM MAN read • letter from the Mar.
quit orlavistock, lamenting his unavoidable absence
from the Meeting, but enclosing bis subscription of
`2ol.—(Applause.)
Severs{ other Resolutions for appointing the differ.
institution s thee several.

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Lamb ...M. al-.4ala. 01.. Piga. .

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THE STATESMAN.
doimentiorst Adv. IMellaSab sing. WilitTere COMMON COUNCIL, JAN. et
1.1 it possible that the Colo tor..tbe drosdful TITS NORTIJ
berhsrities comusiffill.by the Weal. csa - This belog the first Coed held since the election
their subjects ? There is no part of that country of masbers. it iris very nomerossly attended.
Yesterday'a p
Ipikkb“ not borne trifiggeyAt des.loiss cruel- THA'N KS TO THt LORD MAYOR'S CHAPLAIN. . .

wow co nu wiser 907 Lou' sly tier b.. I v.we a"... mw— Officers
eiffusion of education-among the lower classes, ent for the new Ineeitnikin *ere th" seefesi'"
this growing/nil. mould be 'traction, snet.— and adopted. :. zris-', ,
ti'not no!, be repeated, • yeestion.of doebtfe asks of the Meeting were then voted to dm
Ration, wlietitet education be or be sot coed 'Estee for his Conduct in the Chair.
to order or good morals in society. No ma yap Highness contribeted 51. to the fond..
toil so bereft of his senses as to make the sub- nstitetion ; the Bishop of Norwich 31. ass.
nee y, the same amount be gives to the National
t nutter of argument. Well had the Legislature
iilosylvania some years ago laid down the whole- Seh"de•
'nazis* that it *as fur better to prevent crimes Several other sums were subscribed by the Ladies,
who formed a large part of the newton company
to pettish them, and that to inform and reform
;trent race was better than to punish and ester- present.
teit. They h ractical esample of the
*sof so beuev in the State, present. iiAcKNST CocAas.—The driver of No. 654 was
a body oft Christians, me of the yesterday summoned to appear at Worship-street,
distinguished . d that d*Wdressed for extorting sispeuce more than his legal fare. The
(Mr. Wm. Allen, Society of Friends). coachman pleaded gaily, attributing his coedect to
body, by educating r youth, had done more i 'relict of the distance. The Magistrate told him
form the morals of mankind than all the Go. t Act of Parliament empowered him to impose a
mists on earth had do by gibbets and acts. It t ' of 31. and not less than 10s., but as he plead.
been asserted, and is - out reason, that no ty, and espressed contrition, he wneld only
rrnment had a legal e Bict capital punish. . - 0 the lowest penalty.—Convicted in the pe-
nnon its subjects, u taken the proper n i A '4 ' . and costs.
ito instruct the lower the moral nature . " PIAJ4OI. Jas. 23.—A ease "apply of Was a s
eir duties.— (Applause.) y had been well M , now, node very heavy, mot n. voriosion in
price. or Barley as b. reduction of 4s.—ls Oats, Peas'
red to the case of Scotland. Fielding, who had : and or arikki,„ositermi„,
'any years efficiently presided at the Bow-street,::
SMITHFIELD MARKET, Jaw. SI
e, bad once told a friend of his (theilashop's) •
f i. Toth* the Ofal, pee anneal NW.
in the comae of a very long period, he had neve , 41.,- g., 44, to 4,. 4d. I Hum ed Gate ibis day ,
ght before him, in his Magisterial capacity, more ..4. 01. so hi. 411. Resat 'U. 511 J
slit Scotchnien. Such was the state of edecatioe --2116 01 two Gs. 6‘. abseP mid limb* 9144
Port ...4a. at. to ss. 64. Calvet
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