The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-05-28 00:00:00

1E STATESMAN.

WESTBILY PHILANIWIWPIC

In oar paper of yesterday, we edtiewil the bsefl
which will take place to-morrow sight, at Coontirer•
des Theatre, in aid of the Panels of the W . Pu -
Laornaoric I Mel ITCTION ; but our limits did net per
mit us to go into the salujert at that length which ite
treat utility deserves. We spoke of the scenika
which Is provided by the rules of the Society, for the
proper application of Its Feuds. The following oral&
means employed for that purpose ; and it will be seen.
that they scarcely admit of the porsiluility of a fraud be-
ing practised upon the Institution :—The Member who
presents a petition in behalf of any unfortunate ob-
ject, vouches for his general kaereloiere of the case,
sad Isis belief of the statement contained is the pe-
tition. Two persons, as ilttis connected as possible
with thepreseeter of the petition. arc then appointed,
who separately, and without communication with each
other, visit the petitioner—judge, from their owl ob-
servation, of his real situation—and make the strict-
est inquiry into his circumstances and character.
After a nomparison of their report with the allege-
doss in the petition, the Society decide on the el.im
of the petitioner, and the measure of relief.—
Such is the simple and effective mechanism of the
checks upon fraud. which is provided by this excel-
lent Society. Its principal object has hitherto
bees. to afford temporary relief to the deserring
Poor 1. and- the two (*Bowleg eases will show the
greatness of the valve of its labours r—" A Clerk
is a Merchant's counting-house was 'Slated with
an !IWO.' of nom/ months dentioa. Ho had
raised himself by his merit from a very subordinate
sheath's, and his (deeds. who were poor and had
been mod; intitb.ed to his kindness, were usable to
render him the least assistance. His employer gene-
rously afforded him eossiderable relief, and for seve-
ral weeks almost maintained him and his little fa-
mily; but his affairs then called him abroad, and the
poor fellow was ahandoeed to disease and penury.—
When health slowly returned, he had no clothing in
which he could apply for, or undertake a new employ-
ment; nor bad be a friend to give or lead him a shil
ling. Tha benevolence of tiro Western Philaethropie
lastitotiou provided him with decent appeal ; his
geed character soon procured him a comfortable 'feta-
ties ; and he lives, a respectable tradesman, to bless
that philauforopy by which he was an timely and ef-
fectually succoured.
" A carpenter in a small way of business was, during
several mouths, the victim of disease. His wife, worn
out by the incessant fatigue to which her affectionate
attention to her husband exposed her, at length shared
his indisposition, sad wu likewise confined to her
bed. His eldest child sank under accumulated
society and 'sheer. He had no coaaexioas—tro
friends. The little pitting* which Industry and eco-
nomy had provided rapidly wasted. His clothes, his
(straiten, then disappeared ; and wbrn heaven bless-
ed him with returning health, be had simply his
working teals remaining. Boger to rescue those
whom be loved from the misfornmes which pressed se
heavily upon them, he hired blamelf an a jmaneyseaa
-long before he was capable of the regulate surdas.—
Ifir strength non failed ,—his pallet of straw. for bed
belied none. sgala received him; sad his working
oesrleovelskb he had. analeasig—rolelntd.u.the oleos
et fates honest livelihood. wen pledged to teed his
etude% family. Youth and a good emastitatioa mice
more triumphed. He rose from his pallet, aid eagerly
sought for employment, but, without friends, without
tools, and without the smallest coin to procure them,
he sought in vain; and he afterwards honestly con-
fessed to the visitors from tie Western Institution that
be had formed the desperate resolution of ping ea
the high-way, sad expoeiag himself to ea ignotaisioutu
death to preserve those who were dear to him. At
this critical moment his case became haws to the
Society. He was enabled to redeem his tools (rein
pledge; be returned exultingly to his accustomed
work; by unreisittiag industry he gradually extrica-
ted himself from all his difficalties, and be is now ao
active supporter of that charity which rescued
him from calamity and perdition."—The Records
of this Institution doomed with *purify inter-
esting eases. But we need not extend our state-
ments farther The generous heart will here Cud
sufficient motive to aid the feeds of this Society ; and
the Benefit we have announced will afford opportunity
for those to throw in their mite, to whom it may
sot be lest to become regular subscribers.—
We hare interested ourselves much, we confess, in
the welfare of this Institution; but our readers will
see it is one of singular merit, as we have before
stated.

Po ewe RD,' iSS Or VIII SiAlkONe—All a proof of t►e
forwardness of the present season, it is worth remark•
ins, that peas were 7s. 6.1. a peck, on Friday last, the
24th. It has rarely happosed. (we believe. but sate
or twice within the last 28 years.) t►at they ware sold
so cheap, on say day in May. The only earlier in-
stance we recollect. was is the very forward seams of
1794. In the wet May of 1817, we fisd. on looking
over the files of oar paper. that on the 31st they were
lUs.* quart.
Proofs of the milldam of the season, says a Scotch
paper, end forward state of the crops, say be sees in
every quarter d Perth. On Captain Mound's
proper'y at Barnhill, very her clover. 'boot two feet
la length. is daily rut, and sent into the Perth market.
We, yesterd4y, saw some stalks of barley is the ear,
which had been polled in a field at tits Maim's.
The whole of the field is in as equally forwent state,
the crop averaging is height frost 20 inches to two
feet.

Rem u Facvs.-11r. Flower. of Ridge. is
the parish of Chilanark, had a field of wheat in ear eta
the 12th inst.. and it was is fall bloom*. Soaday. the
19th. kir. Davis. of Chilmark, had also wheat is ear
ea Sunday the 19th.—(Salidery Piper.)
There is as almost renal, prospect of a great
crop of apple this year in the western parts of Eng-
land.
DISTOIDANCIS IN MONXOOIIIIIIIII6.-•-•We have
meek pleasure is having it In our power to ieform oar
readers. from good authority. that the ferment which
for weeks peat has existed its the mining aid snaenfat
tering districts is the interior of the comity, is sob-
sidisg, and that on Monday last, the roes employed in
the several departments of Illaenafon Works, to the
number (at least) of SOO, returned to their respeetive
employments. Others. we are informed. are disposed
to follow their good example...(ns Cambrian.)

For SOIDS UN pass mesh diaaathiartios a, u -en
•xpresaed by the *unwell and crews of the tre>wi• pill-
/10,441 in rovryloor coals frost Wales to Hark, and re-
tilrOinC with cargoes of copper ore; in consumer* of
tjatermination ruing to by the romper entopsbior to
redlce the rate of freight h for. poi 1 for tbeir
ore, and by general. content, they refry". d to take on
board soy ore unless at the (miler prig.. 'Phis the '
companies ranged to give, and it nmoher of ettpeh
have been laid op at Dayie In ti.e etpeetatinn thetite
necessity of supplying their works in Web a with re
would compel their employers to reectie from their pur-
pose of reducing the freight. Seeing so prospect of
speedy tern:dead°a of the dispnte, the masters of
some of the verutels preferred taking in cargoes of
ore at the price offered, to remaining longer at Dayle,
or sailing in ballast. Accordingly, two cargoes were
shipped, bat the crews of the other vends resolved
that Dam who Led violated the general agreement
should sot Lail, and on Monday lest they took effec-
tual measures to carry tht it design into execution, by
forcibly dismantling the vessels which were shoot to
leave the port. The Rev. Mr. Ilockin, of ?hillock,
awl the other magistrates near the place, after endea-
vouring in vain to convince the refractory seamen of
the Illegality of their conduct, and Whig that the
civil power, though reinforced by a number of aped."
constahles, was wholly incompetent to cope with the
deters, applied to the officers of two troops of Yet,-
' money who reside in the neighbourhood, to call oat
their mem, and an express was despatched to this town
for a party of the First Royal Dragoons now eta-
dosed in our barracks. The express arrived on Tues-
day evening, and a party immediately proceeded to
Hoyle. The appearance of this force effectnally awed
the rioters, who became sensible of the imporilhillly
of suctessfoll opposition; the vessels which bad taken
cargoes were speedily refitted and proceeded en their
voyage without molestation, and though it has not
beet judged prudent to withdraw the troops, so far-
ther attempts at disturbance have taken place.—(West
Briton.)

Mr. Broadhurst's match. to drive to Reading. and
to carry fourteen awns in a single horse chaise, in
three hours and ten minutes, for lOU guineas, proved
a failure. He did half the distance (twenty miles) is
one hour and twesty-nis• minutes, without drawing,
but after which the horse proceeded at a losing pace,
and was pulled up at the twenty-eighth milt.
Dawson, the navigator, who had a turs-up at gp•
sole races, is matched for 25 guineas, to fight Harry
Ford, the Wiltshire man, in Berkshire, this morning.
Ford is the favourite.
Saturday. between one and two o'clock, a tremendous
sterns of hail took place at Kensington, by which the
destruction of property has bon immense, anal most of
the houses deluged frets top to bottom. The Kensing-
ton Lace Masufactory had almost the whole of the win-
dows broken, sad it was with difficulty the work•people
escaped from the broken glass and pieces of ire, thaw of
which measured three inches In circumference, and
which were /yin about is all directions, to the destruc•
tion of a large quantity of valuable lace. Sorb was the
aKsaislatios of ice in the gutters of the buildings, that
it wth not wholly melted till Sunday evening. Is the
garden aniseed, some of the trees were stripped as if it
was 'islet I and*. sweeping together the leaves neat
uthesisg, sparrows were found under thous killed. At
Malthisn's Nursery, 1200 squares of glass were demo-
lished, and the destruction of valuable plants is incalcu-
lable. fir &noisome- Paises-gssdesna. Lififi wares
were destroyed. At a nursery bear Trafalger-plecft the
damage is estimated at three hundred pounds, besides
numereas other instasees of its destructive effects.
Oe Tuesday last, and daring the late spring tides, in
consequence of the beg caimans of the weather, the
sea was so very transparent on the 'oast of Sussex, that
objects were rendered many feet nailer water more per-
ceptible than the oldest huh Tided ever recollects to have
sees them before. Several sasebets and cutlasses were
observed at a part called the Leone, off Bulverhitke, up-
wards of a quarter of a mile from the high water mark 3
and two pieces of brass cannon were Ulm up, one of
which, from its weight. sold for three or four pounds,
supposed to have been thrown overheard, or swerved in
the valtile. from a rasa of war. wrecked on the spot more
than &twittery ago. Mr. Edmund., a respectable man,
'mei), the oldest pontos in Hastings. remembers having
beard el • vessel or free ship lest la that situation. Three
or four &damn have likewise been found.

Mr. Barnard Weddeley, of the Henspetead-reed, died
es Saturday night from the injuries he sestaised is bay-
leg his gig tuned over on his return from Epsom races
on Ibursday. 'The accident was occasioned by the
chaise getting foal of another at the foot of %%reunite.
star Bridge, when both were overturned. Mr. Wake-
ley was taken op seamless, besides having his collar-
bone broke. His wife and eon, who were with him,
*seeped unhurt.
Saturday evening, a respectable lady, the wife of a
Solicitor, residing is Whiteehapel, left home in conse-
quence of some domestic quarrel much agitated. and
rambled as far u the easel at Bow Common, into which
she precipitated herself, bat being espied by some per-
sena she was got out, and conveyed in a state of insensi.
Why to the workhouse, when she was promptly attend-
ed by a surgeon, by whose exertions she was so far two-
vered,as to be able to speak, bat after lingering till
Sunday morning she expired.
A person of respectable connections has been com-
mitted to Shrewsbury gaol, on suspicion of being
conversed with the mother in the murder of an illegi-
timate child near Oserestry.