The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-04-03 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR.

Stn-r-Yes will, I am sure, insert, in a very prominent
part of your Paper,the following letter to the Editor of
the Matvietfield Coirier, which 1 have this moment
transmitted to him by post.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
C. WoLsat.ay.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE MACCUDIFIELD
COURIER.

Stn—A MarcleaffshiGerrierof the 19th of March has
been handed to we, containing an article beginning in
the following terms:—
" We understand that Sir Charles WolsHey inailr„
1101110 time ago, au Offer to novernment to (oil the coon-
try, spoof condition that the legal proceedings instituted
against him should be dropped."
This article, Sir, is as wicked as it is illiher,il. Wicked,
because, in the emphatic language of the late Lord El-
lenborough in the House of Lords, when he conceived
his character bail been attacked, it is " as Like as hell !"
Illiberal, considering the time you have chosen to publish
it. If your herrt, Sir, is not as black as the falsehood
you have 110 ba.elc inserted, at such a moment too! you
will be ashamed uf yourself.

- - -
I gym, Sir, yuur humble servant,
.Ifarcle C. WI.II.IELET.

iI.4.VC'H ES PER.

The public will be anxious to know what reception
the derision ut the Jury at lurk met with in Manches-
ter, wad war iutelligert correspunileut at that place ha.
'isabhmi rs Imegesti@heir curiosity—he writes thus:—
Xanchestse, .Burch 31. MO.

Sic —The verdict of theJnry, at York, in Mr. limit's
ease, produced here a most extraordinary sensation.
The intelligence reached the Police-office at 11«1t•-past
one o'clock on Tuesday atorniag ; where. and at the
house of the Doroughreeve, the Authorities of the town.
and a great many inhabitants, or rather their political
friend% were eSeetelfikel, to await the arrival of the
messenger. On the receipt of the intelligence of
(fluky, which nut any of them, I believe. expected. th. y
gave vent to their feelines in a way which perhaps it
would be dangerous perliesierly to describe. On nine-
tenths vi the inhabitants the news produced feelings of
sorrow and surprise. one anticipated, after reading
the evidence, lied the Judge's observations on the wit-
nesses for the prosecution, any thirg short of an ac-
quittal—Yesterday the defendants, With the exception
of Mr. Hunt, entered Manchester. amid many thousand
spectators; the horses were taken from the coads:4lsnil
the populace drew thews through the town. The temp; r
and talent displayed by Mr. Itnut during the trial. ferns
a subject of enteral admiration.
One of the sentinels on duty at the New Cross was, it
appears, shot at last night. all.l a 'rived of MR. is of-
fered, by placards upon the wails this morning. fur the
detection of the offender; but what object was Its he
answered by assassinating a harmless soldier on ditty,
it is didicult to conjecture. Alarming reports of a
rising amongst the people are prevalent at the Police-
office, and iu other parts lathe town, and the ietdict at
York is assumed as the CAW', of this dc.orration. What
degree of credit is flue to those rumours I cannot pretend
to determine. Adother report is. that some of the mili•
tary hare indicated a favourable dispositiou towards Mt.
Haat Bei his cause, and have in consequence been
placed under continement ; but on this subject I have
OD specific infoiniatlan: there appears. boa estr, to be a
great deal of agitation its the public mind, anti I think
something very unusual is on tht r
lours, truly.
Print& c4f Mt Leeds Mercury.

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•
Calendar contains the tonnes of In of
wisich the following is a bri, f abstract :
Lbw charged with arson ; 2 murder : 24 hightt iv rub-
bery ; 1:o bstrglary; 43 uttering and lesion! possession
Of (urged notes ; burst-straling ; fll pc ulf•:uccs;
3 manslaughter; I admitsisterine uulaw fat oaths; 2
malicious crating ; I athni iis poison : 1 perjury ;
I larceny I Itigawr and 1 lutwvaird birth.
It is a most singular circureettancr, that out of so large
a calendar, more than one-third uf the whole number
thouhl be charged w 4411 of mer% agairst the Bank of
Eagload—there bring no fewer than fusty-three prison-
ers charged either with uttering forged notes or unlaw-
folly basing them in their possessiost. Elet ea of these
unfortunate persous have been eai.itally convicted, and
received sentence of death, of whom three are likely to
be left for execution. To ruty-one cumicted of masa -
hal Possession, have been sentenced to I I year,' trans-
portation. His Lordship, in paszing srtatoiee of • oath
upon those who hail beets capitally cutivirted, observed,
list neither lenity nor severity seemed to have miry
✓ifted in diminishing the pernicious traffic which it was
I the inhergitto of these prosecutions to repress. It s
indeed, that this traffic is
near was so large a narrater of perzons tba'g©d with
I this offence at any former Assize.
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True bills have heen found against nine of the persons
charged with political offence*, in which is inciudcd Air.
Ku:p lit. Against the Arlen u'hrrs charred with sitiii-
Lit offences, DU bills were preferred before the grand
Jury, anil they were discharged by proclamation.
in addition to the eleven. prisoners convicted of of-
fences agaiiist the Rank of Fogland, thireen have been
convicted of highway robhery—five of burglary—four
of horse, sheep, and cattle stealing: and vtir of murder.
snaking the ti hole number of capital convictions up to
this period thirty-four. There still remain four capital
cases for trial, too of which are very serious—arson and
poisoning.

Lord Whine nod Lord Belgrav ate elected floH
serum. sad Deputy tiovernier ut the *Hank of Scotland,
fur the ensuing t ear.
An lintuisiti ssss was taken on Saturday eveninz, at the
Cooper's Arms, Chick-lane, West Smithfield, before
THOMAS SHILTON, /Mi. om.r, on the body of
John Jones,. aged tifty-n.ine ye:,rs; who put a period
to his own existence, by strangling himself. The de-
teased was a painter, and 1 feed at the Hole in
the Wall, Baldwiu's Gardens lie had a joh to dv for a
gentleman in Fleet-street, !urn whom he received up-
wards of 5/ to purchase paint. and Leine much addicted
to drinking, he spent the money. tin last Thursday
evening he c.inir to the hunts- aunt Lowrance in Chick-
lane, a cotillion lodgingdniue, he asked the landlady
what she would charge I • for a bed fur the night ;he
was told it he slept two in a bed he would pay sixpence,
hut jibe slept by himself he would be charged one shil-
ling. Pte said he wished to sleep alone and have a too el
to himself, with which hr tidl} J. c.
to bed early in the evenina ; the following morning, at
eleven o'clock, be not makintt his appearance, the sec-
, vast was sent to awake him, when on opening. the door
of the room in which lie slept, be tins found vantling
behind the dour inclined forst:ad, a small toad tict
ratted his neck, the other cord being made fast to a
shelf which hung against the wall. Ile was inttstli-
stele cut dna n, and Mr. liti:ri.wes, a surgeon, residii g
in Smithfield. was called iu, who applied the usual re-
medies, hut without effect. The decease I was subject to
temporary tits of derangement. The Jive, under all
the etreuinstanees, returned a verdict. "'disc the 41.c-
-erased's death was noted by his own ac!, in strangling
Ishmael."

N.ll ..41.. INTRLLIGENCR.

PLTROVTIL, APRIL 1.--Arrived the Generns Planter..
Hart, from Fiume; Arethnu, Nations, from ditto; cad
Caroline transport from Guernsey, with troops.
Fit.morts. M*aca 31.—Arrived the Frinress Eliza,
kerb packetfrom the Mediterranean—sailed from Uibral.
tar Itsth March; Two Brothers, Hull, from Drama. in
17 days ; and the Oeneral Stark, Caulfield, from Rotter-
dam for Isle of Mayo.
Livantoot., Masco 31.—Arrived the Martha. Jny.
from Wilmington; Geiser') Washington, Layeock, from
Amsterdam ; Edward liyans, Lewis, from illarenbans;
Union. Ord, from ditto; Colombine. Thompson. frost!
Prrnand.uco ; Ilero, Urquhart, from Baltic; Fridge', •
White, from IN•merara ; John, —; and A mbrooke,
Winsen, from Lisbon ; Hubert Steward, --, from Sr.
!Ilichaels ; and Dumfries, Carter, from Oibraltar.

The Albinia, (ruin Bombay, with Sir Evan Neiman on
board, tailed fr.ato the Cape of num' Hope on the 26th
of January, fin London.
MAL, Arum 'l.—Arrived, yesterday, the •Fortnne,
Anderson, front Mrisina.—Catue down from the River
the Arno, Procter; and Elizabeth and Ann, for Quebec;
Penelope, Clark, fur Soo,' Carolina: and Brnsta, for the
rrane.in Irrivell, today, an I sailed for the
River, the Nancy, Dolling, trout l'emerara ; Seneca,
Bell, from .Mogadore • Niliolsonn, Cairns, front Deme-
rara: Rose, Whittingliam, from Madeira; and Unison,
front Sierra Leone.— ('awe down from the River the
Eweretta and Zealous, for Montreal ; Mangles, for
New South Wale.; Resolution and Antelope, for
liibralt tr ; Sir James Kemp, Mary Ann, Triton,
I.abella, and northland, fur Quebec; Wa.-
ter!oo, her Jamaica; Amelia, for Malta; Pomona. fur
the Canory 'slangs; Highland Lad, for !latleira ; Con-
gress, fur St. Kitt's; Comet, fur Norfolk (Viginia);
Norfolk Hero, fur Nliramielli ; Borden, for Honduras:
and Catherine. Co.

DOCCH, APRIL I.—Arrived the Plymm;th, Clii
from Shield., ith her anchor broken, bulwarks and
rigging damak•.l, having run against the tier in
entering.
HARWICH, APRIL 2 —Arrived the Beaufoy and Lord
Nelson picketl, from Cuxhaven ; and Jane, ditto, front
tiottenburgli, a:1 air Ca:tlerragh
packet, for Holland ; and Earl Leicr:ter. ditto, for Cux-
haven, earl, with a mail.

PORT9)IOtTH. PHIL `2.—Arrivcd ycAerday his Ma-
jesty's ship Sl•elrwater, from Havat:n.th, last from
Charleston, w;th ...peek; Aftmon, Stewart, from Cepha-
lonia; and Princess Boyal, Arkhty, from Sierra Leone.
Arrived to-day the Cato, Norton, from London for An-
tigua ; Thames. Pack, from ditto for New York ; Buck-
inghamshire, law, from ditto fur China ; and Star
transport, from ditto for, the Cape.—Passail by the Go-
vernor Bartow-., Wilson. from Denicrara.

31.1RKEY'S.

Coen :PAIL 3.- although the apply of
Wheat to day w.ot mach smaller than might be expected
from nut having had any market sitter Wedaesslav, yet
the trade was exceedingly heavy, and front Is..tu per
gunge etreepeet esti'. 4" irragiCileel"
prime quality from Psalm vebT * , try were •
gat off early in the snivelling at hit Mostiay's prices.—
fine Barley sold on full 'rims as on this thy
week; but the middling. qn:ilitirn met heavy sale at a
decline of Is. per quarter, h.tving a tolerably large ar-
rival from Norfolk.—Oats are Is. per quarter lower. the
supply being very ronsider.thle.—ln Beaus and Peas
there is no alter:mon.

Foreip Wheat tiii
Fine Ditto
Eigtiah Wheat
R tie Ditto

';r^ Ply

19 48

Ditt •
Tick Etr3ni.
014 Ditto I)
!intuit Ditto
Fecil Qv,
Ps.qatot• I)itto tti 00
Ditto
Fin., Ditto
Fins. Flour

w Ditto
/tie
Barley 26 4u
Flue biro U
Mall OS 74

Fine Ditto
%nit,• Peas (WWII) 41 4',
:%e Ditto

!•Jecomil
Pipe Stet!, per Isst 34 35

SMITHFIELD, APRIL 3. —There was a middling supply
of all kind of Cattle and Sheep this morning at market.
in consequence of wl.i. li the prices nre much lower
than last week's market-, alto on account of the demand
not toeing so great as per last week.—Mutton has also
fallen in ptice.—Veal awl Pbrf: nut ea high as last
market-day.

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(TO %ink the ono: per stone or Sibs.)
Reef , . 44. 0.1. to Ss. 111. CAT SLY AT !RAREST.
Mutton . 4%. I. to bq. 81. Betel, I 9OIW
Veal . . b... (Id. to fie. 6.1. CLlves
Pork . . 54.1 M to Os (3d. Sheep &e. . . . 19.100
Lamb . . 7s. (1.1. tt, ts. 6.1. , Pigs tad

Ilki‘l \BRIT.-nig market remains in price as per
last market-day.—ln Straw and Clover no alteration.
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Straw