The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-10-11 00:00:00

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

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Nlittsstotma, Oct. 10.—Arrireil Hi Tortoise
itoeis. of 'liar, from Danti't ; and Delphine, from
fiarre.—Seiled the Orlando ilonpof *tar, and Tho-
isms Grenville, Patterson, for eniall4
FALKOUTII, Ocl. 8.-AerliPd 110 Amottenii hilt
Pohakon, from Virginia.-41.41 th. Prorldpiree. for
St. Michael's; Thom*, for .Lisbion ; mid Countess
of Chicketter, for Ifolillearl:

nARWICIii 9L.r. 10.—Arfil* the 144 Pitreati
Packet, atitb tl Mall from itallalhargh!..
• •Pt.Tmotrtit, OCT. A rrif4 fhn Phree Felencts4
li.oherti; Thetis bad Jane, from Si. i!efersburgh
.Eleantsea, froth gwinemunde ; Coreatand 1 Rut
Indianian, entwetd-bound ; Roby it, frhm Memel,
and Constant gun-brig, from a cruito.—S94d the
Pheasant sloop of war, and Laity Borrlit;4,n, for
Trinidad.

It is true that, at the vast disteince at SI. tides.,
we shall not only see nothing but hear nothing; not I
will the myriads, end tens and hundreds of myriads,
Th A
Report of at joint Committee of th. Council mud As-
of his friends in France, hear any thing of him ;of, R e rifigua Journal of the 31st ult. &means thd
his health, his situation, Sr his treatment. But this 8 uglily, appointed to Nee into constderv;„ the
is nee of the peculiarcharacteristic evils of this ea. ' present distressed state of that Colony, 6 arising
bounded punishment without trial. .
from
coire.tse w
. to
n f al. 9
1 . the total suspension of all eernmefet.l inter.
For., as Sir IVireram BLACKSTONE his 'desirably
o muerte', notwvesselsitarrivihsiandg iegrom all
the 1. .ited
the tatifleatitin at."
of t'se
said, in speaking of the Habeas Corpus, which our
great and wise ancestors termed the great point, the iraeroTurteiantnY,,t Phereaceith.le'—yrTerhoen,C:Ziislthe:,l;:lbesillita.:;:peeeradi
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one point, thinking that, when they had secured as the sentiments of both tinkles, and trainteetted to
dust, they had secured every thing, es some bare, the Mother-Coentry, as the best memd of ob. ,i• Inc
relief. 'they complain that in consequence of t • .. re.
thought" (and assuredly so every English, ever free;
sent state of things.,•the only inietcourn they tee en.
iierehriterizeohhothue,
man ought to think,) " that unjust attacks, even
albolneddto
of fit.
Iw3airththotbloemUewni,tefdrogintatwesh
upon property or lire, at the arbitrary will of the
moden of communication, the expeeces of the necessity Magistrate, are less dangerous to the Common.
i wealth than such as are made upon personal supplies amount to" treble the sum f.r c Inch they
i 66 liberty. I could be landed direct from the United elates. The
byter from them to his Ho-
i To bereave a man of lifer or by violence to . Committee, therefore, resolve that a espy of. their re-
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1 accompaniedw the President and-Spestker,
clotioos be transmitted
bya joint let
ornmander-in-Chief, 66 me
confiscate his estate, without accusation or trial,
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would be such a gross and notorious act of despotism Moor the
request-
!as mast at once convey the alarm of tyranny through- ' ing him to represent to hit. Majesty's J oternment
net the kingdom. But confinement of the person the great less and inconvenience- which the inhabit-
by secretly hurrying him where his sufferings are sn. ants of Antigua sustain from such an exclusien of
known or forgotten, is a less public, a less striking, American vessels from their ports ; and, at the same
will please to grant such speedy egad_ effe,etual relief
tile e, !earthly to pray that his Majesty's Government
and therefore a more dangerous en gine of arbitrary
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Government." i as may soit the extreme urgency and itatalship of the
! Ile then says, that it may be sometimes necessary ease." .
to do this ; and, therefore, that Parliament is en- ! Yesterday a Court of Aldermen was held at Gaild.
trusted by the Constitution with such a power ; hell, at whichthe LORD MAYOR presided. IVILia tat
Lewis, Flirt. being reported as having paid his find
which he compares with the dictatorial power granted
by the Senate of Rome in extreme emergencies. , into the Chamber to he excnied.soralog the Offlce of
Now, it is difficult to believe that there almost Sheriff, a Common Hell was appointed for to-mor.
row, for the election of another person In his stead;
ever can be such a necessity. In the present instancet to serve with Thomas Btu, E4q. The Chamber.
who would gravely declare that it would have been lain presented an account of the maples of the Or.
dangerous for BONAPARTE to have remained on board plians' Fund, which was read, and the sons of
17,3001. was ordered to be paid of and annihilated,
the Bellerophon, or lit the town of Plymnuthr until
and six months notice given to the parties interested,
Parliament, if it were just and fitting, wete* to be
We understand that the very extensive Code of
proposed as a question, whether each power should ,
signals, which was presented to the Adatirally by
beaaeraised as has been ""ekiwil without Par"' . Sir HOME POPIIAM, is likely to be intmedietel, edere•
meat, and without law, till Parliament should be A : it has undergone a very minute etantinevlon by
assembled, and determine on the place, the circa's. I Committee of FlageOecrell ••vhscw 'Moll it has
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stances, and the nature of the detention, if any ?—.: been printed.
Was it respectful. as it just to the law, to the. Co- i A new telegraph has .also been sehmilled to Co.
stitution, to the person and the rights of NAPOLEON, vernment; we believe by the same Oticer, which,
from its simplicity and comprehensiveness, 'ls most
to remove him f-ora the Bellerophon in order. to send
ikely to supercede all otter telegraphs. The Duke
him off by money shi ; to be alarmed,
i and to end* iet YORK has ordered some to be made for the use of
i the law, and its apprehended protection of hint, dud the army. ,
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the investigation of this great question ; end to take - .ns ..sru.to ED Meernecter.—We are authnrited
such hurried care that, whatever Parliament might :to state the following extraordinary occurrence that
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detertniue, this heroic visitant should be deprived at took place on the 4th instant, in neweinieh, near
Dublin :—A Police Magistrete, in his sociable jaunt.
least of all immediate benefit ; and suffer, at all
ing-car, retiring from hislosgisteriel evocations to his
events, exile, apparently hopeless elite, and hurl. country villa, near Cullenswood, between two and
sonment beyond the seas? : I three o'clock, was seen in -the act of. threatening,
And this engine, more dangerous to the m iime- Kith his hand and head, some person on the road or
pity and to freedom then if it struck the life of the ,pathrway. • Mr. Alsop, who lives in that neighbour.
I hood, was on•the path conversing with another Gen.
individual, this very engine, Ministers, after having
when they heard. the Magiterate call nut in
prorogued Parliament when they tweeted an oppor. I tieman'
• a most violent manner to his driver to step. Ile got
lenity, by capture, to use it (for they'knew them" It out of his car, ran along the road, collared a poor
. selves too well, and urn ton little, to have much inoffenrive ono, who was quietly leading a horse and
hope that BONAPARTE Mould voluntarily put himself cart, knocked the man's head against the horse's
In their power)—this engine, Ministers, unless they head, and against the shaft of the cart, and asked
him, '6"Do you know, you villain, who [ am ?"
will face the Act of Habeas Corpus, and all its sane- .
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lions and all its terrors, without any shelter what-' No, answered the poor trembling man.---" Don'tyou Lwow lam a Magistrate ?"—Mr. Alateeetepped
. ever, must be obliged to ask Parliament to inclem- forward, end said, " If you are a :Magistrate, you
' nify them for having used, and to enable, them to are acting very unlike one. Utilised the poor mast ;
continue to use. Will Parliament do this ? 0 ugh( what has he been guilty of, that he should receive such
Parliament to do this ? Can Parliament do this with- ' treatment ?"—The Magistrate let him go, saying,
out the highest breach of the Constitution ; .without 44
he was not at the side of the road he should he."
violating those nights and securities which it is their " You must mistake, Sir," was the reply; " he is
especial duty to maintain and fortify ? . . going on the right side, and you, 4ir, ate going on
the wrong."—" 'lon dare you interfere ?"said the
And let it be remembered, that this would be to be
done, not against a subject, not against a persons who, Alaxisrtal.'• 6' Because I see the man is right, and
being resiunl among us, had offended any of our laws; you are wrong," replied the other -.-*" Teen you
are an impertinent officious scoundrel," observed the
but against a person who came with honour arid senera.
lion to those la ws,who has incorporated their best prin. Magistrate.—" You lie, you swaggering bellying
ciples into his own immortal Code; who has establish-
rascal," was the reply.—The 'Magistrate then rant
ed a penal system of unrivalled mildness, precision,
back the settle ground, and mounted his tar, not to hien
and clearness, under which the securities now vin-
a triumphal one.—(Deilin Evening Poo.)
lated against himself are completely established ; who' A. laugheble accident, though "'Atilt:led wait eonsi.
came to honour those laws, and to pass his life under &rattle lon to the party, occurred erg Monday in
their protection; but whom Ministers refused to re.. Hinde-street, Manchestet-square. :I wo men who,
ceive with even the momentary courtesy of permitting were employed to carry a large lonkinegises, stop.
him to set his foot on our hospitable shore; and pad where a showman Was 'exhibiting Mr. Leech
over whom. therefore, disclaiming all relation , and his family to a gaping multitude, they put downs
of benefit to him, they were hound to have disclaim- ' the glass and placed it securely against the iron rail.
ed all penal relation, all afflictive coercive power; ing on the opporitit aide of the street, covered over
which yet, for ezercising unbeendedly against him, with a sheet, whilst they went forward and stood 'in
it is considered by some as i thing of course that they . tip-toe behind' the crowd, attentively enjoying the
should ask for parliamentary ratification against him, exhibition ; in the mean time some mischievous boys
and indemnity to themselves! 1 who were at play threw up'the sheet and left the elisa
Examinees I—lt is utterly without foandalien, exposed ;at the same mnetent a fine he-rat, which
generally trans sneer the hit, s; emitted from the eppoe
without all precedent, and without the shadow of
site Mews, went up to the glass, and seeing as he
principle-I—this deed of your Ministers. And any
fancied another goat In the elan, he retired back a
suffering, any loss, which the power of man, or the
visitation of Heaven, might inflict would, he better few pates, and rearing on his hind legs darted fore
than that, by silent acquiescence, .we should fix such ward with ail his might and made a desperate Plana
an evil as this on the English name and Consritetieno , et hie supposed antagonist, going hesd and shoulders
, through the glass. The crowd deserted Mr. Puncb
and on our posterity for ever. . Tout's, &c. I and his family, and joined in a general laugh at the
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QtrEl. Win. mischance of the two unfortunate on;

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