The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-01-15 00:00:00

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Lair Hoe. .GBORGIi NOSE.
This giant plece.holder paid the debt of eaten, ht.
• yas esti et Citroens, en Tuesday ateroing.
-ger woe menthe, beeillei • a Inky HI state of itteltli,
hos which Moadtailifirige afforded elo rtamieellele
hope of hii recovery. He was, we Wm, little`
short .f eighty. He was a Gentian's of
'standee
informatioo, •and et Ossetian espevismat in all ate.
4,l4l6.lo,6staeciali aim& official *objects; ho rose from
besets", merit* tiodialestry alone to twee of dm most
'iterative and important offices in the Stele. lii was.
Tresouror of the navy,President of the Board of
. Trade, Clerk of Parliament, Keeps' of the Records:
in the Receipt side of the Bachequer, sae of the
Lords of his Majesty's Privy Council, as Elder Bro.
titer of the Tiinity.hoose, Verderer of the New Fe-,
fee, Hants.' and Member of Parliament's, the town.
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of Christchercb. fie was a native of. Obi Meares
(Kincerdieeshire), and was first a Stems* and at-
, terwarth a Parser in the Royal Navy. 'At tee emir
period of his life his arithmetical taimita.eed estes,,.
sive financial knowledge recommended Ifs to the par..
. ticolar attention of the Boarief Shelberiseleflervrards.
Marqeis of Lansdiowne), who was thee first Lord.
of the Pessary, sea he was soon after appointed.
• one of tie secretaries to the Tresiery, bet resigned,
on the formadon of the Admittistrethea of Leal
Worth and Sin. Fes.. On the eobeeteest eleettlect
to the Premiership of his Maid and outrank, William
Pitt, Int was again appointed Nee of the Secretaries!
to too Treasury, and condoned es eveler is that
Format Mutation for many years. On the retirement
from wifice of Mr. Pitt and his itmeediete. political
adherents. Me. Rom resigned his situatioa, end was
almeily after wised& swers'of the Privy Commit. He
was sobsequesttly, me she egoism of Mr. Pitt to o&.,
dine d the Paymegters-Geseral of the forces ; and
on the dirsodasien ..f too Whig Admieistration from
power, in WM, Mr. Rose was appointed Tteaserer
of the Navy, which office he held to the tinte,of his'
death. Latterly. the Important Mee of President
of the Board of Trtele,was chiefly Wooled by the
Right Hon. f rediticklitsbiason:Tbs lourotieo tits.
Mien el Clerk of Parlientiot was several peers Mom
conferred ate Mr.lßoets (rlthithe reversion to his
eWest son, Geo. IL Rose, 800. M.P. for Soothamp.
ton, and now Minister to the Conn of Berlin), as
an ulterior -provision.
The other ,situations abeve-mentioeed, of which
that of President of the Hord of Trade, that of
Verde'', of the New Forest, sod the Keepership of
the Records,become vacant by hil demise.
As Clelk of Parliamint. Mr. Rote will, of course,
be succeeded by hfs son ;
.as President of the Board
of Trade, by Mr. liohinsm.l •, . and as Timisorer of
the Nary, prilbably by tbißight Hon. Charles Ar-
buthnot.
. The general Opinion is, that 'Me. Rose amassed
great wealth, though he alwayedeciared the contrary.
,His income by places held by hint'seif and his' sous
was immense• ,as may be seen by the Red Book.
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The Earl of Eliminate Is appointed GOMA°,
and Commander-i!t-Chief of. Canada, in the room of
' • Sir -Jon!. %cauterise, Who retires. Sir Jetais
litsteT,lt is said, is to seemed Lord DALtiqgtus, at
Halifax:
- Mr MADOCEII. one of the Members for Boeleto,
" has, for tome days past, ham canvassing that Borough.
This is the fifth time of his offering himself for that
piece, and he has been mill more eeccessfel iso his
' • canvass than before. Sit Bones Hums also coo.
sleets kis canvass very secresafelly in the County of
Lincoln: Last week. says a letter from Boston of
• the 12th inst. Sir Rosen visited Spilsby. Alford)
Louth, Waittileet, norm:aide, Ste. ; this week he is
gone to Barton, Brig, Ceister, &c. lie has beet) at
this place. end the sooth of the calmly ; be now, by
the advice of Lord Miveoe (who has been canvassing
some parts of the county for him), poblicly addresses
the freeholders, which seems to de *tab good. It isl
no small proof of Sir ROURT Hettos's Popelarity
and the general estimation if his patriotic principles,
to state that his hopes and espectations ware first
• created and• are now suppotted principally by free-
holders in the middle reeks of society, and froan their
bombers, and from his popular character) his secrets
may be considered as insisted almost to a certainty
• without the aid of the higher orders.
AtesissicwrAilON or Dulltait.—On Sunday even-
ing, NI tcrr A st. Amen° Tairaos, Esq. arrived in Dot-
ham, when a few of his old friends (freemen) availed
themselves of that opportunity of waiting upon him
privately, and soliciting him to come forward as a
• Candidate to represent that City at the approach:
ing 'general Election. Ile nneqeivosally expressed
Ibis determination to obey their call—a Regd.
sition was immediately drawn out, to which a wee&
ber of signatures were attached, that be shield meet
them at the 'roan-halt, nn Tuesday nest, to take the
subject lure comideration. It is eapected by thav
freemen that ithe city will he canvassed immediately.
Thus there Will be five Candidates to contest the City
of Durham for liv o spats; and from all our farmer dz.
penance of the spirit of the freemen, we may milk'.
pate the emancipation of that City from Ministerial
thraldom.
Covitiorr-OAROeItTIicATRE.-77sePeing of Ihmostr,
a three act Dram's, Altered from the French by C.
Krim% was performed last night. .t Miss O'NEILL
appeared for the first time in the part of Bertha.
Though this excellent actress might have taken
higher ground, we are happy to greet her in a new
character; she confines her talents, we think, within
too limited a range, as if she doubted the extent et,
her posers, or feared to risk the well.earned foam
she has acquired. Bertha, thoegh not the most strike,
log feature of the Play, contains two scenes se.
ceptible of great power end pathos; one in the pris
son with Duriael, jest before he is led out to este.
cation ; the other where she remains, erroneously,
under the impression that his sentence has bees
carried into effect, and is roused teem a trance of
horror* by the entrance of Derimel himself, need;
almost miraculously, from his impending fate, ky
tLe interposition of St. Franc, hit father. • To theset
O'Nrim. gave ell the effect that attends some'
of the meat celebrated passages in her Belridera. The
Play was well performed throughout, and was an-'
saanced for repetition on Monday evening.

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