The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-03-27 00:00:00

MR. BRO(IGIUM.

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1114 V4L INTELLIG E.

DeAL, Mitten 26.—Arrived the Diana, Tay, ,
from Leghorn,. and sailed for the River.—Pot back
by contrary wields, she Pbenis, Thompsontfor Is-
die ; Lard Cathcart, Brown, for Fort William ;
Wickenden, for St. Kitt's, sad remain in the
Downs with the rest of the outward-booed bet as
before.
Fist o'CLocs.—The triad. hes jest shifted from
the S.W. to the N., and the oetivard.bouod are pre-
paring to sail.
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 26.---Wa base had a heavy
gale of wind all this day from the S.W. to N.W.
which still continues, bat all the Alive in the Roods
hue hitherto rode in. safety...-Arrived the Preece
Regent, Barris, from London for Madras; Prince's
Charlotte, Lamb, from ditto, for orshi ant To-
bago; and Comet, —, for the
FALMOUTU, MARCH 24.—Arrived the Triem.
virate, Green, from Tarrsgnea for Geernswy.--By
the Princess Chsrlotte packet, from tie temitd
island, we learn that the Iris., was toaallirom Bar.
Woes far Liverpool, shoat the 16th or Ink of Fe-
bruary lest ; Lawns Cross, for Leaden,. siesAi
mil_ from St. Kitt's @boot With Fe.r.6114
WO.. Rowe, was to sail from Si. s 101:14110
•-ane Ist March.
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riztrest of a Letter from Kendal,. dated Monday
sight....-66 This day of great espectation has at length
arrived; arid, and, notwitbstandieg the prodigious
soocoerse from all parts, every thing, as was pre.
dicled by Mr. Broestram's party, hes passed with
perfect tranquillity. He was drawn above thirteen
miles by the people, from the borders of the twenty,
and the procession' was splendid beyond say thing
that had ever been seen bore. The dunneds who
tilled up she road and the streets, though animated
with an onesampled seal in the cause, coodected
themselves with exemplary decorum, and the whole
day afforded a remarkable contrast to the 11th of
February, when the Lowther party, disappointed of
any thing like a tolerably warm reception, showed
their spier by raising a riot. The most respectable
profess in the Independent nosegay, Mr. 11. a grand
dieser, which was most numerously attended. The
•day was snowy ; but this did not prevent the people
from remaining in the streets, while be addressed
them in a speech, of which it is to be hoped some
iecorrat may be transmitted. No time remains now
to add more, escept that the town and neighboerhood
Is still filled with handset people parading peaceably,
singing and Orlin, or congratulating ouch outer,
upon the day's proceedings, and looking forward to
-the certain triumph of their interesting readjust cause.
'fo.morrow Mr. Brougham begins his progress
through the principal places of the Comity, where
the people are to tweet hint from the more remote-dis-
tricts. Ile is to be in the two nerds on this side all
the week, and then to proceed to the opposite side,
which, it is 'opposed will occepy less time. It is
quite impossible to describe the spirit and devotion
to the Independent cause which every where prevails.
A more animating scene never was witnessed, nor
one more instructive to the Rulers of the Country
and to domineering Family Intleence."

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BURGII REk'OR.V. . .
, .
List of such of the Royal &trent 'of twoilista as
have, within these six months, openly eipneied the.
casts of Reform, and voted Resoletions condemning
the practice of self-election, with the total pepsin.
Hoe of each, according to the censer
.of 1811. It
shield he added, that this enumeration does net in.
clods the inhabitants without the Royalties of tbei
Boreegbs, who have no vote whatever in the govern.
ment of the towns, end n ho, in some cases, ost.nom• 1
her the inhabitants within the Royalties. i
Pepuhuion. Population.
Edinburgh 101,98; Dingwall 1.500
Glingow 100,749 Haddingtos 4.370
Aberdeen 21.639 Lauder 1,742
Dundee 29,616 1 Jedburgb 4.454
5 Perth 16.948 90 Forrrs 2,92.5
Dumfries 9.261 lemmas 1.312
Inverness 10.757 Lanark 5.667
Dunfermline 11.619 Anton 3,311
Montrose 11.955 %maw 5.709
10 Ayr 6,291 45 Wigton 1.711
Irvine 5,750 W bithora 1.93:)
1 r 907 Alierbrothock b,llO
Elgin 001 28 Peebles 2.485
Dysart 5,506
15 Vt. Andrew's 4,:1t1 Total Population 379,160
List of Royal Burghs which have not hitherto
moved in the cause of iteform.
Population. Population.
laverbervie 927 I Stirling . 5.820
Breebin 5,5J9 , Inverkeithing 41
X 1
Austrather, East, ? , an, I Dornock 2,81
Anwrotlwr. West, S ''''"` Tashi tali
5 Pittroweess LI% 25 Wick
Gina I.tiOu Kirkwall 1,715
Kilrenny 1,2 3 1 Dumbarton 3.121
Campbelton 7,807 Renfrew 9.105
- Rutherglea 3,329
9.966

Itotimy 3.544 i
10 luverary 1,111 30 -unokur
IBauf 3.600 Norsk Berwick
Cullen 1,070 Nair.
Kildare 863 Linlithgow
lilurntisinnd 1.931 Selkirk
15 Kirkcaldy 9,747 35 kirkcodhright
Kiagbura 2,2 4 Locinakbro
Copy 4,75 s New Galloway
Forfar 5,651 138 Straaraer
Cuirosi 1,611
40 Queeusferry 5S Total Populating 101,233
As the above list is interesting in a statistical poin
of view, from its containing an account of the po.
polation of the different Royal Burghs in this pert
of the kingdom, we shall add an additional list Of
some other principal towns, no Royal Burgh:,
with tbtit population, according to the same census.
Population. I Population
19,907 3,7,
19.012
4,949
10,148
5,096
SS 5
3.116
3.300
4.4•$
9.131
6.453
9,946

Paisky
Greene, k
Iscon
Kilmarnock
A lloa
Clot twosome
Port Glasgow
Crief
MA,
Melrose
Hamilton
May bole

Brills
Siewartos

1 Dente
Peterhead
St. Viotti'
Fa%kl. k
St. Niaian's
helium Stewart
Kiatage
Stuftelbargb
, lialkeith
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WiSSIWIS.S IRK SIOSIONS.

2.446
2a61
2,392
659
1,923

Clii
9,999
7,696
4.1447
4.214
6.599
4,709

Yesterday. the above Sessions commenced, before
Was. Wyrsos, Esq. the Chairman, and a nemeroas
Bench of Magistrates. After the Grand Jury were
sworn, the Chairman addressed them, ea& expressed
his satisfaction that none of the cases I. come before
them were of a very flagrant oaten. He suggested
the propriety of their considering the capital cases
first, in order to have them ready for the Judges at
the Old B•iley, on Wednesday morning.
The cases tried yesterday were of ne importance.

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Qn Wednesday morning, a young Me of very re.
ipectable connexions, was killed in • coyest, by a
man named Price. The affair beg_en in the public.
bonus called Hillier's terry, near Walthari4tow, and
tbe patties having agreed on their rereads, corn.
usenced a fight in regular round
ves i, when the anforte.
y
sate man, since deceased, gan, saing he could
fight no longer. His second, however, insisted on
his continuing the battle; and 'holding him up, bid
his antagonist strike, when a blow was bit somewhere
about the stomach, which killed him on the spot..
TIPPERARY Minn.—Mr. Justice Der,:in his
Address to the Grand Jury, said, be bad ato'cb satis-
faction in considering the e,emperitive tranquillity
of the county. He paid many compliments to the
activity and co.operstion of the Magistrates, and the
mercy end moderation with which they had used the
high poweis committed to their charge. If the Ro-
man Catholic Clergy, who bad so great a portion of
the population under their care, as well as the Clergy
of all other descriptions, would es* their influence,
meet crime might be stilled ; and Gentlemen might
form Corps or Associations for the prevention of
violence, where there was reason to apprehend to.
melt. Ile felt much pleasure, however, that no re.'
ligioes or political feuds elided; yet was serpriaed'
'to Jed more than two hundred prisoners en the Ca.
leader : among these, however, tberd were many eu-
der trivial.ch.trges. a matter which should be avoided
as ouch es possible by the Magistracy, where boil
weld at all he. obtained. It was fortunate that in a,
prison so crowded, there were no case of fever, a fact
which, at thiS time reflected a great deal of credit on
the persons engaged is its siperistesdescs,

THE STATESMAN.

ALIAIIESTEIL P,

A FOUNDLING HOSPITAL.

Ma. EDITOII,--it is some years since my attention
was called by the perusal of the Public Papers to a
subject which I consider of deep public interest—the
frequency of the crime of infanticide, and the con.
sequent sacrifices of the lives of the unhappy mothers,
mostly in the flower of youth, to the offended laws
of their country.
I am confident that a very slight reflection will
Mosinee the most censorious, that the case of such
Ironies has infinitely stronger claims upon our pity
than our abhorrence. Yielding, L need not say to
what artifices, to what promise's to what false sp.
pearatices of well-dissembled love, they find them-
selves, when likely to become mothers, deserted,
perhaps despised, and insulted into the bargain, by
thote whom they bad fondly considered as the fathers
'ef their future offspring. By our existing code of
maitals, the loss of chastity in a female is branded es
*mime met lobo forgiven ; and wherever it becomes
iafatlibly subjects her to the reprobation
of her own sex, and the sneers of tiers. That per.
sane im;sobordinate stations, whose prospects hi life
end entirely op.their good character, should risk
MICA for its preservation, onset appear surprising ;
`lily, am even of opinion, that those minds in
which the fear of shame is so strong as to triumph
over maternel tenderness itself, cannot by any means
be thoroughly depraved, bet must possess qualities
which, under more auspicious (circumstances, might;
have rendered them ornaments of society. It has
therefore given me great pleasure to observe, that of
late years Juries have seemed solicitous to allow the
unfortunate wretches charged with the murder et
their illegitimate offspring, all the latitude that con be
given when the evidence does not amount to abeelege
proof. •
That the crime of infanticide is not coofined to
those cases which come before the Public, there is
bet too much reason to apprehend. How indeed
could it be otherivise in a country where feast* chas-
tity so highly prised, and where no effectual steps
have rot bets taken to rescue from shame the unfor-
tunate individuals who here been seduced I. Nissen-
dm that jewel ? As far as I know, there eaists is
the whole island of Great Britain, with a population
of twelve or thirteen millions, bet one FOIISDLISO
green.. Witbeit intending in tbs slightest de-
re* to reflect epos the constitution or economy of
this establislimest, I cannot help observing be*
widely it deviates from Abe original -plan of .the
founders, who designed It to receive and Inedistein
exposed and deserted ehiltirre- -or as the Memorial

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- preheated is Om It ince bee It wet first lotortiMffld
, -...e..- ---
rt't ' more precisely espressos it preventing Ike erne.
, . - dere of poor miserabk Infants tit .their birth, out
TO THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF GRRAt saivireking de &Milan ciliboo 4 espnsing tam-
BRITAIN AND IRELAND, IN PARLIAMENT Ali' gam Wools to perish in the streets. how IstadOa
SEMBLED. • create the Inatitation meat bete this object, even for
Tag IPATITION Of TINE lIISASITANTS OP lIIANCReII. die ■lasintiatios of the sestropelis alone, molt bean-
TAR, IN Tee COUNTY of LANCANTIA, CONTAIN= litif•ats whets it it Uwe. that AO anlidsh•v Of Anatol%
admitted genitally does set, spoons arareget Pawed
in A PUBLIC *tette° MILD AT I'ANCIIIIIII4 01
admitted
.THE STU DAY Of NIA=O, ISIS, fifty. The priociple of seleedoe, which is. the GO-
ealiary retook of coalaiwg the imeitta of the thesis,'
Snowtvn,—That ell the pretest lad past calami- within each • harrow cempeeso-ethe obligations MI
this and pecuniary safeties's of your Petitiosers, posed oe mothers who viola so 0140 fee their lois**
arise from the onmeeemes, prolonged, and hiCGICA. a share ef those bemelits, to withal sad febenk tort
1 lably espensive sod every way mimeos wets, iste strict traandestioe by tier Committee of lietereeral
whisk this coentry has wantonlrend wickedly beta ant 111000fIlf totally Width te the piefessedaltiett if
plunged by • Boreftli.ineligering Oligarchy; not the Insdintioe. . •
Ihearalle they were either necessary or calculated to A Fosediieg Halmitalt which Shall elketeally
promote the genteel geed of the People, bet to pretest " the owitiets of poor onanntlble Infante lit
promote their own sordid, splash Whereat. Tibet in their birth, andsffim, Whams* -.Ostia of impedes
.46oseleeneo of their preplaidersoce is the two them to "milk din.ffitil esoliti4.4 OM imitate Is pls.
'o6'4 Verileinent, meastrees have been taken to elide that aliAmeblarime.lisiog who eisitteh• his saw
• the prim of the produce of the land, and to use alike es diegood and on thetall. In Wee**
...eqettstry .of the land itself, to the manifest hi. mum be ease edid.a.like the.air tied kilt of hateta-g-'
vary of itlir,great land proprietors excepted. 'that ladisciiminoteli•t• all who weed theero-rated.ssitb
14000 she seme•itrileeitre it hat crime to *ass, that tittle oesprietea little essminfidee. • They most. be
twirwerekereterw carried es by Loans, instead of espy if times le every pert, eve, hi the remotest dip;
Tacos ;-altirnegli our industrious population have, trial at the tiegdoer. °divine' the good weep
during he wets, produced every thing which the plishei will be but partial:
*sr required and consumed: in arms. ammunition, Let me eat here be met with the *mourn* that
Ps, Ist. the cenieq•ence of which Loan System, will possibly rico! tns riser-fastidious morellos; that
beievrtailed upon -the nation an annual demand of the facilities ellatiled by a plin of this ditesive na. •
frens43 to 48 millions of posed', for the en of the tent would *pewees a preoliner to vice--since theca
refiabekiers.
- is scarcely • charitable elimination to which the et-
, 'bet these exeenive evils ahendantly prove that jectios would INK equally apply'
est national affairs are partially managed, to the Though las sot not prepared hi enter into the
benefit of the great land and fund proprietors : and derails of any digested plan for effeerisig this import-
to 'the ruin of all the remaining population of the ant purpose, yet I beg leave, through the rardiem of
kingdom. That your Petitioners are fully convinced your columns, to make • solemn appeal en the "-
that all these enormous evils have arisen from the door of our Legislature, and to the henevolerit feel-
very partial sad unequal manner in which the stool- togs of those who have so often raised Weir nicest
nal Representatives of the People are appointed, and employed their pens, earned . their enregies, and
they are the more confirmed in this opinion, by the opened their purses in the sacred cause of hanianity.
various arts practised by the Borotightecogera Bed The hearts that can sympathise in the wrongs of the
their agents, against all radical Reform. seffering onto, in the distress of the imprisoned
debtor, in the afflictions of unmerited indigence and
That when the Boroughmongers and their detest-
destitatioN, will shred" not be closed'against the fee.
able Agents could no longer defend their iniqeitoss
ble cries of helpless infants, the obconscioorevirlenees,
cause by argument, they procured the Sospension of . • •
and the moment victims of parental guilt or indurate-
Abe Habeas Corpus Act, that they might have the
don.
power of shutting op in dungeon', lowly one who
To cart,. into effect e *theme so extensite as that
bad the sagacity to see, and the patriotism to exhibit
which I propose, would of course far 'greed the
their diabolical schemes.—That from these motives
of the powers of private associations or setactiptions. Ao.
alone, your Petitioners are convinced many
cording to my view of things, the advantages wkith,
more intelligent and virtuous part of the eornetenity
have been arrested and throw/new° prism, : deprived etelasively of the preseriatinn .of numberless lives,
might be anticipated from a GINERAL INsTITUTioN
also of nee), comfort of life, use that of food—their
use FOUNDLING', are of such immense public ha-
attachment to their families and friends torn in themade a NATIoSA
most wanton and creel manner—their families P4111°009" to authorise ha being LI
concern. Let then the espences of carrying It lute
agnuised by every species of suffering—their wield prove
the first Instance
betray, theses sot to such a degree as might be can•
roost infamous and unjust oranner—and all their be•
cowed, be defrayed out of the fends of the milieu ;
geese and constrictions entirely deranged.
or should Orsesiturbent deem its insects inadequate
Your Petitioners therefore pray, that your Ho. to the whale demand,
let a ceetaie portion of the
n
-;parable House will net p..s:l pill of Indemnity- fear litter; net of lima the great sol J /
otit. api,
to screen those Ministers, Magistrates, and other gitimsle children hate bithertri'viieee maintained,h.--
Agents, who have so wantonly and wickedly aboard set apart for this purpose, and the deficiency sap.
plied by the National Eschequer. If howeeter, Go.
those discretionary powers which your Ilonoerible
!loose had reposed in them, by suspending the Habeas vernsoeot should revile to interfere in the whims.
Corpus Act, and farther poly that your Honourable perhaps Ike system might be most simplified k.
v.:
Hesse will tolerant its power, and use its utmost in- graftingr - it upon' that 'of the poet Largos. Thus it
might be unwed, the suitable apartments sheold be
lonics to put the People at large into the possession
of equally eod annually electing the Members of prepared in each poor house, or erected, if necessary,
your Honourable Hoes*, or else esenerate your Po. got the
g admission of foundlings. Here they might
titioners and ad other non-electors from the payment remain till of a certain age, under the are of sock
of tales, and yoor Petitioners shall ever pray, Ac. of the female peepers as are best qualified for the
Signed on behalf of the Meeting, office; end to ensure kind treason, and dee attr rt.
JAMES WitOk, Chairman. don on the part of these nurses, a gratuity might be
awarded to them for each child on its removal to the
general hospital for the district or county. Here"(
may be permitted to hinttlist the intercepted barracks
which are yet standing could scarcely be 'applied to are
better use than the of district hoapi.els; as the pre.
' deft of these which hotelmen sold has been extreme-
ly trilling, sod the cost of buildings eteetedespressly.
for the perms meet be very Considerable.
The law at pretest &dere' illegitimate Intents to
be the children of nobody—ay proposal is that they
' may be declared the children of the State. Let the
boys, from the moment of their admission into the
district or county hospital, be educated as such; let
it be impressed upon their tender winds that they are
destined for the service of their country ; let the in-
struction given them be coesoesut with this object ;
sad above all, let particular care be takes to Jarboe
them deeply with the divine troths of the Christian
religion. A surgery will thos be provided in a Short
time for the supply of oar army sod navy, skids
will in a great measure **period, the oecessity for
the large bandies paid by Government to retrains
for the fernier, and the odious system of impress: send
for the latter. such elements it is easy to coo.
cehe that It meet pnctant amelioration most he ef-
fected le beiti,depittnients of the service, which have
hitherto bees contildiered, and bet toe justly, as re-
ceptacles for .the scam sod iir.scooriag of society 2
and there is every reason to espied, that by pantiles
the plan of education here proposed, a general im-
provement of morals might be produced in all those
places with which our seamen and soldiers bate meet
frequent intercourse.
I need scarcely enumerate the ways in which the;
girls may be disposed of. A considerable number,whem
of sufficient age, would of coarse be employed he
the dilfereot Institutions for Friendlier throughout
the kingdom ; many might be provishod fee as domes.
tics in the various Government establishiblets ; and
it is not toe mach to especethat, after receiving as
education which would qualify digs to be morel m-
eant., they would be sought after as each by families
of every class. • -
Of the practicability of tech a scheme there can, I
think, be no doebt—of its utility bet one minion.--
That these crude hints may have the elect of rowing
the attention of persons distinguished for rank, bi-
ked:, influence, and wealth, to the arnsideration et
the best coarse to be 'perused for realising ifirlaseefits
and of leading to steps Calculated to protean:Diet de-
sirable end, is the.erdest with of one whose iiiebest .
ambition it is to contribute his bensider mite triennia
eenderiag his country the most vineries-arid the inlet
hew', as it is the sevo.t free rod the most puree/fa
es ;be rocs of the earth.
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