The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-11-19 00:00:00

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Sir C. Wellesley passettbrough Lichfield on Wed-
.ndse night last, on his Ivey front Abingdon to Wolles-
Tor Hall.. Lis imprisonment, expired op that day,—,
The tenants. at Wollesley, and the iuliabithmts of she
neighbourhood, paid their respects to him sjk go ca.
lowing day, and hailed with pleasure his return
ernongst them. Bonfires, leanings, and Ciller di-
roonstrations of jay, were exhibited at Rugeley, and
the villages adjacent.—(Staffordshire Advertiser.)
among the visitors at the hospitable mansion of
T. nr. Coke, Esq. enjoying the diversion of shooting,
are--his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, the
pokes of Norfolk and Bedford, Marquess of Tavis- ,
vck, the Earl of Albemarle, Viscount Althorp, Lords'
?went and Lynedock, the Honourable G. Annoy, Sir
B. Ferguson, Colonel Keppel, and other distinguished
personages. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sus-
sex was expected during this week.
The Annual Dinner given by Mr. Sparkes, of the
Wine Vaults, corner of Wardour-street. Oxford-street,
to his friends, recently took place. The Company
consisted principally ofPublicans and of Gentlemen con-
nected with the great breweries and distilleries of the
metropolis. The object of this dinner has hitherto
been merely to promote good fellowship and convi-
viality, but on this occasion more serious and import-
out topics were brought on the tapis, owing, we pre-
sume, ts the extraordinary circumstance of a LIEVT.•
coon. having been somehow introduced to' take the
chair. We understand that the gallant Lieut.-Col.
travelled post from Treoisrich, expressly for the pur-
pose, though not a few of the company were asto-
nished to see Lim there, wondering what possible con-
aesion this a:nphibious soldier could have with the
gemiemen present. The disinterested and philanthropic
aotivcs of the Lieut.-Col. were, however, soon ex-
plained by himself. When the cloth was removed,
be stated that, actuated by a strong and ardent desire
that the children of the great body of the Publicans
of the metropolis should receive a classical education, ,
was to be fitted to shine at the bar, and that their
parents should be comfortably provided for in old age,
be had sccron foot a plan by which these desirable ob-
jects might be attained at the smallest possible ex-
pense; and, further, that that expense would be very
considerably lessened, add the whole project brought
to perfection, merely by their discontinuing their pre-
sea evening newspaper, and taking the Lieut.-Col.'s
in its stead, and also recommending their friends to do
the same! ! The company seemed highly pleased
with the eccentric eloquence of the Lieut.-Col., and
much taken with the delightful prospect which be
held out to their distant view. They separated at an
early hour and in high good humour.
Saturday night's Gazette contains his MAJESTY'S
Order in Council, that the Parliament be prorogued
from the 29th instant to the 3d of January. The
Gazette contains besides a Proclamation, relative to a
new issue of Farthings. They are ordered to be cur-
rent and received as lawful money, provided that no
person shall be obliged to take more of such pieces, in
my one payment, than shall be of the value of sixpence.
There appears no alteration in the impression or in-
scription, except what relates to the distinguishing
somber of his MAJESTY'S name. The Gazette contains
also, a numerous list of Mltttnvy promotions and Re-
titemenes, chiefly resulting ffom the redectlont bow
carrying on by the Commander-in-Chief.
In the list of Military promotion, in Saturday's
Gazette, is the son of Sir Francis Burdett, who has
been promoted to a Captaincy in the 79th Regiment of
Font; and among the recent naval appointments, the
Portsmouth paper mentions that of Mr. " Champion"
llymoke to be a midshipman of the Liffey.
IN GEORGE REX'S BANXRUPTCY.•••••This Bankrupt,
abo was committed to York Castle in September last,
for not answering satisfactorily to the Commissioners,
was again brought before them the week before last,
and after a further examination, of five days, was re-
committed to the Castle. This Bankruptcy is likely
b be a subject of serious enquiry, and has already
been attended with several incidents not very common.
The acting Commissioners are Meters. Shepherd, Eng-
Lnd, and Foster: it miy therefore be truly said, that
George Rex has been committed to prison by England,
cautioned by two of our great Law Authorities. viz.
Shepherd's Thuchstone, and Foster's Crown Law.
PRINCE EUGENIC BEAUIIARNOIS.A letter from
Paris gives the following account of a recent visit of
' this personage to the French metropolis :
. " I observe that not one of the Paris Journals has
%sliced the short stay recently made by the Duke de
Lichtenberg (Prince Eugene), in this capital. Only
*French paper, Le Courier de 14oss a de Midi,.
has informed its readers of it, by designating the
Paw, without naming him. The Prince, in fact,
same to Paris for three days, by consent of the King,
is confer with General Bertrand upon the testamentary
bequests of Bonaparte. He maintained the most
strict incognito. With respect to the will of Napi-
lion, it is said, that besides the legacy of 18 millions
in favour of M. de Montholon, width' has Sion noticed
in the English papers, it bequeaths three iMilloiss to
his Valet de chatobre, Marchand ; 32 million's to Ber-
trand and the Prince Eugene; and. finally.: 44 mil-
lions to his son. It is further affirmek.thAt he: ea-
commends to his adopted son never di' iiMPIIMI'mod-'
deice of Malmaison, in which hipasted'iltlolll an-
ther Josephine the only happy period' of'hiss.liii.ni, v.
MwritmoUs OCCURRINcg 1N The 'lteoll-filißleeM
uttott.-dtbe Etoilc of Tuesday contalisitli 6404
Walital explanation of the strange storrnotieate piti"
latt:o." We yesterday announced At "deilattilaitao
abash in the Bois-de-Boulogne. irks affair tray de-
toured by the Sieur Moithe, bottle tot '-olf the
Crown Forest. at the Royal Path ottiii'Mtirribekisw
.4111 e. To-day, urged by remorse, ttsit.StetlelllMlse
',retie letter, whfch he himself delifririd:tb theirreet
themaberlain ; he acknowledges,lit ' thie • lettee; llin.i
his Inv:declaration was false; thit4le- hlisiat b
Placed in the coppice a double-barrelled tenbOeilid
lith tartatpefout buck-abet, esgetbe? iiiith IC* Imllt-
*Ned lay:himself four days ,befoie: Tbsh nrinitovet,
it was himself whofired a pistol nearidabeViih teak
sad then invented the story he aftentimedir told. '' Hs
adds. that In hoped by this stn itatiOlemoistrate a
high "Wien of his loyalty, tad 11wittnitb .1
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of the King's Attegney-Gennele: • '''' i'-•.. . '
We understand that Mr. -Komi • ii•Eitiginl; OM ' ii.
'but period at the New Theatre-Boyd, Ilawkiltslaiii•
••{Dailiallovniag Poet.) • • ; ',-,' , --
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