The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-12-11 00:00:00

THE STAtESMAN.

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LONDON:
!%194DAT LYININO, DECEMSER 11.

Vii:inia papers have this morning arrived to the
ilid Qurbec to the 11th alt.
it to FROM THE NORFOLK WATCHMAN.]

At ties moment we have advice that Queen's Town
on tire, art.l the calculation is, from the winds, that
the %hole of the town will be destroyed.

We r•rpy the following from the Board of the New
E is:And Coffee-house, Quebec, No►. 10.
t• Arrived ship Young Norval, from Liverpool;
brig Hope, from Belfast; brig Woodford, from Liver-
p., ; brig Braughtait, London, cleared for sea ; very
f. w vessels remained in port. Weather fine ; every
prospect of chips leaving the 20th inst. and probably
later.-

The contents of the Paris papers received since our
Ls., Are unimportant.
Parliament of Naples on the 16th nit., it
was proposed by a Member to change the name of
t:.at kingdom, and call it Tai✓ Kiagduns of Italy . This
being nb;ected to, the same Member proposed to call
it Sawthera Poly, a name that was also rejected.
Fiend' Fonds —Five per Cents. P.f. 15c. Bank
Actions, 1,420 f.

To reign over a free, enlightened, prosperous and
t:::ed people, mutt be the greatest glory to which am-
bition can aspire. With tl.e wealth and power, the
iateret.t and the energy f a which the English nation
is d.itinguisheil, it leaves nothing for a Kix() of
Britain to desire, but to conciliate the affections and to
develope the resources which are subject to his direction
and controul. On the accession of (Jawing the Third
to the throne of his ancestors, began the plan of ex-
b.h:ting a partial instead of a liberal and cotnprehen-
s.ve regard to the interests and the people of the em-
pire ; and at the commencement of .he reign of
tiaostis the Fourth, the same unhappy policy appetirs
to be pursued. " Divide, to govern," appears to be
the tipixiin now adopted ; and by placing on the tables
of Parliassent the fatal (keen Bag, the Ministers
t;:rew among the people the apple of discord. Many,
previous to this occurrence, were the grievances un-
der n hich the nation groaned, and loud were the com-
p!ainas which had been ascending from numerous and
various classes. It may have been the hope of the
infatuated Councillors of the KING, that by instituting
the proceedings against the Qrzee, of an interest
that was calculated to engross the attention and
the feelings of the nation, the grievances and com-
plaints of individual sufferers would be absorbed.'
An idea may have been entertained that the Bill of
Pains and Penalties would prove a tub to amuse the
whale. The experiment, however, has proved unfor•
innate. The people, to a man, mingled their private
feelings with the public wrongs directed against the
Q 1 Nee ; and a spirit of remonstrance, unparalleled in
strength, has been excited. As a large constituent
and leading portion of the community, the Court of
Common Conrail of the City of London presented
onSatarday t 'the King an Address and Petition, called
forth by the occasion. Most properly they represented
to his Autrey the unfortunate condition in which
the country was involved, and most manfully they sr-
reigned the measures, and the Ministers who had re-
duced it to such distress. In what manner their Re-
monstrance was received will be seen by the answer
they obtained. What a contrast to the flattering reply
vouchsafed to the University of Cambridge! The
words, though few, speak volumes. Want of room
prevents at present the comments to which they have
given rise. The occasions of referring to them will
be early, and unfortnnately, frequent.
Bean ICI ELICTION.—TOWN-HALL, DSC. 7, 18204
At the final close of the Poll, the numbers were— •
Sir Francis Slake. S74
J awes Balfour, Dui . 103
Majority for Me F. Blake•—• 11
The difficulties which have so long existed respect-
ing the issue of the new Bank of England notes, for
the prevention of forgery, are again, for the twentieth
time, said to he at length surmounted, and it is now
again confidently promised, that the next dividends
will he paid with them.
The defaulter, at the Stock-Exchange, who recently
led from England, has been arrested at Paris, and
the greatest part of the 15,0001. taken from his ban•
hers under a false prete.. c, recovered from him.
The Ocean, transport, arrived on Wednesday from
the Cape of hood Hope and St. Helena. She sailed
from the Cape 24th September. St. Helena I lth Oc-
tober, and Ascension 17th, and brought home mails
and dispatches. The Menai, Capt. F. Moresby, and
the Leveret, Capt. R. Shannon, were at the Cape.
The latter vessel arrived there the day before the
Ocean sailed. At St. Helena, the Vigo (Rear Admiral
Lambert) Capt. Brown; Heron, Capt. Harmer; Brans,
Capt. Sbepbanl, and the Red-wing, Capt Hann; also
the Abundance, store-ship. Bonaparte was well, but
continued to seclude himself as much as ever. Alfred
Johnson, Esq, agent victualler at the Cape of Rawl
•pe, and fansily, came passengers in the Ocean.

eiCCOUCHF;MENTejtheDUCHESSofCiARENCE.

Yesterday norning, about half past six o'clock, the
Duchess ?f Clarence, we learn from the Court Circular,
was attacked with a slight indisposition. 1)r. Halli-
day, her Royal Highness's domestic physitian, was in
consequence called up. It being six weeks previous
to her expected accouchement, the indisposition,
at first, was not supposed to arise from the state
of her Royal Highness's pregnancy. At half-past ten
Sir Henry Halfurd was sent for, shortly after whose
arrival a premature labor was apprehended, and sir
llrilliam Knighton was sent for as the acconclieur.
Sir William arrived about half-past eleven o'clock,
when, it being finally ascertained that her Royal High-
ness's delivery would ensue, a number of Privy
Councillors were summoned to attend instanter, as is
customary at Royal births.
Soon after 5 o'clock in the afternoon, it was an-
nounced, that the Duchess was safely delivered of a
Princess, and both are well.

In a short time the following official notice was
issued, and signed by the medical gentlemen in at-
tendance upon her Royal Highness:—
" Ring's Palace, St. James's, Dec. 10, 1020.
half-past 3 o'clock, p. m.
" Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Chicane, was safely
delivered at five minutes past fire o'clock this alternouu, of
a female child.

•• Her Royal Highness Is as well as can be expected. The
infant Is born before its time, about six wee►r."
On account of the suddenness of this event, the
only Privy Councillors ',resent were, his Royal High-
ness the Duke of York, the Lord Chancellor, and Mr.
Canning ; the Archbishop of Canterbury and the
Bishop of London arrived so in after, as did several
others in the course of the evening. The birth was
communicated to the King without loss of time, and
his Majesty returned a letter of congratulation to his
Royal brother and sister, and it is understood, com-
manded, with the approbation of the Royal Duke and
Duchess, if it should be deemed advisable that an early
baptism should take place, that the infant Princess
should be named Elizabeth.

King's Palace. St. JAITIPS.i. half•paat ten o'clock p.m.
" Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Clarence it doing
remarkably well. The infant PrillerSi takes the breast. Iler
Royal Highness is a much stouter child born than these in
general born so early."

Tits Quccm.—The following letter has been re-
ceived by Mr. Pope, Chairman of the Committee ap-
pointed to manage the cavalcade which accompanied
her 31ajesty to St. Pant's:—
•' Lower Brook•strect. Titurgthly-night. Nov. 30.
" Uttert.Ext6:4l-11 ant honoured by the queen's roin-
mands to convey to you the repression of her Majesty's
sincere thanks for the attentions %shirts she received
from von, and all the gentlemen who composed the ca-
valcade which attended her to St. Paul's Cathedral yes-
terday.
" Her Majesty is anions that the sense which she en-
tertains 'of these attentions should be made known to
you in the most unequivocal manner; and reque4ts that
you will have the kindness to communicate thus testimo-
nial of it to the rest of the gentlemen who so obligingly
accompanied her on that occasion.
" I bare the honour to he,
" Gentlemen, your very obedient humble servant,
(Signed) "R. KIPPEL Ceivrv, Vice-Chamberlain.
"To the Gentlemen of the Committee Appointed for
regulating the cavalcade which aerompaeind ►ee
Majesty to St. Paul's Cathedral, on Wednesday,
the 211t1 of November, 1920."
His Majesty gave audiences to Viscount Sidmontli
and the Duke of Wellingtor.
Among the first advantages that will be derived by
humanity from the late revolution in the north side of
Hayti, and the death of Christoplie, is the liberation
of several victims, who, in the character of political
enemies of his late sable Majesty, have long dragged
a miserable existence in the dungeons of his death(
of Sans Souci, and who possibly had lost all hors of
ever again seeing the light of the sun. Thos, how-
ever. whom the climate has spared, will now be re-
stored to their relatives.

It is stated that a deputation from the soldiery
waited upon president Boyer, at Port-au-Prince, offer-
ing the aid of the military in a project of bringing all
the island under the sway of one Republican tiovern-
ment, of which he should remain the Chief. The
deputation was graciously received, and Boyer imme-
diately detached all his divposahle force into the ter-
ritory of the late King Christophe. It was calculated
that, with the revolted troops. the army would consist
of from 15,000 to tO,OOO men.

DREADFUL OCCURRENCE.—Yesterday afternoon
itisgrueful scene occurred in the Church of St. Mar-
garet, Westminster. To explain the matter, it is Ism
ceisary to observe that the situation of Afternoon Lem
eater bed become vacant by the promotion of Mr.
Stevens (formerly Chaplain of the House of Coosissoos)
to the Deanery of Rochester. Six clergymen were can-
didate+ to succeed biro, and at the election last week the
Rev. Mr. Saunders, of St. Ann's, Blackfriars, was the
successful candidate by a large insjority. The Rev. Dr.
Fynes, Prebend of Westminster, and Rector of St. Mar-
fleet's, has refused te him, with the concurrence of she
churchwardens, the use of the pulpit, on the ground that
Mr. Saunders is one of that description of cle
called earthodistical. Yesterday afternoon the =
was crowded to excess. Mr. Saunders was refined the
use of the vestry, and Mr. Rodber, the morning preacher,
approached the pulpit to preach. Instantly loud hisses,
yells, groans, and cries of .• Shame, shame," proeeeded
from a great somber of persons standing in the sues of
the church: a horrible confusion and alarm eased:
numbers sought their safety by getting over the rails,
particularly women and children, and taking refuge
literally at the altar. The beadles apprehended two of
the rioters, after much contest. The prayer before the
sermon, and the commencement of the sermon itself, were
interrupted in a manner for which we know of no paral-
lel, except the sceses at Covent-garden playhouse during
what were called the 0. P. rows. Any thing more dis-
graceful, and more revolting to pious minds, can scarcely
be conceived thee this dreadful transformation of this
house of Ood into a theatre, exhibiting some of tie worst
features of a contested popular election.

Oa Tuesday evening last, Vickery, one of the Bow--
street oilicert. arrived in York, in quest of Franklin
and, early the following morning, proceeded in a post-
chaise. accompanied by Leeman, oat of one pollee•
eaters, to Poeklington ; at which place a strict
search was made for bin, but we are sorry to add that
it was made is val.. Pocklingtoa is .the seigkhout-
hood of his former residence. an4l;he is well known in
York, having bees I. the 1;0.4 of paying it as eoco.
*ions' visit bat for what purpose we know not.
( York Herald).

COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.

Mr. V xxxxx wore, from the Liverpool %Gatti, of whom
the town have heard so much since the mention made of him
by Mr. KkAN, in his celebrated letter. made his appearance
on these boards on Saturday night in the character of Kiay
Lear, We mast not calculate the merit of tasseling upon the
degree of applause which accompanied his first night's per-
formance; otherwise we should have little else to do than
to pronounce it as the acme of perfection; for seldom have
we seen an audience so liberal even to enthusiasm, as that
of lest night. But it often happens, and particularly with
an actor of celebrity, like Mr. VAhDFNIIOFV, that the larger
portion of the theatre, on a first night, is filled %%Aft/ends.
We hese reason to suspect the fact upon this occasion.
from the indiscriminate profusion with which the favor
of the audience was heaped upon his exertions. Iligh
commendation, hoarier. is due to the st)le in which
he supported this most arduous character. Powerful genius
was stamped upon its general conception; and although we
were far from satisfied with the manner of its execution in
many parts, )et there were sonic evidently moulded by the
master-hand of experience and sound judgment. The feeble-
ness of age was carried to a degree of decrepitate which
we cannot deem consistent with the madness of Lear. In
his calm moments it was highly elective ; but madness gives
hint new vigour, and revises those energies which Imre bees
passing to extinction. Mr. V ANDI %MOT never considered
this difference ; for even whets killing the ruffians in defence
of Cornelia. the wielding of his sword would scar. ely
bate displaced a feather in its tout e. Mr. KEAN.s
fault consisted in an opposite excess, without discriminating
whether a cause existed to arouse his torpid energies. It
mattered not to him whether Lear were mod or sane ; glue
wished to make a favorite point, away went the restrai-,t of
age, and all his physical powers were instantly brought
into action. In this respect, Mr. VAsiaystiorr has au ad-
vantage In the general keeping of the character. Hut where
were those soul-moving touches which lit IN would scatter
upon the affection, the gratitude, and the more tender feel-
ings of the old King's heart ! e could not discover the
most distant approach to them. The recognition of Cornelia
was absolutely powerless, if the comparison was instituted.
We think the second act of Nit.. V Vs DlK‘llorl.ll Lear decidedly
the best part of his performance. l: is voice, we hope, was vest
much disgaiserLas it was not unfreirentlj disagreeable. It is li
impossible to judge of his personal or natural qualities in
this character, and we shall therefore reserve the notice
which is regular upon that subject. for anothisr uceasios.
Mr. Vagoasnorr was called for after the fall of the curtain.
and he came forward to announce the tragedy for repetition
this evening, amidst the must tumultuous applause.