The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-02-17 00:00:00

TUL LATE DISMISSAL?.

The late dismissals from the Lord Lieutenant's Court
haring originated in the attendance of tl e pieties con-
cerned at the second Meeting of the Beef Steak Club, at
Morrison's, on the anniversary of his Majesty's accession
to the throne, the following, which is a portion of the
li.t of toasts, and referentially MUSIC!' expounders, in-
dulged in on the occasion in question, may throw some
light on the umbrage ,aken :
" The Duke of York."—lsond applause.
" Tie Lord Lieutenant and Prosperity to Ireland."
"The Primate and Church of Ireland."—Loud ap-
plense.
" The health of the Marquess iVellesley."—Comic duet
from 11 Matrianonio Sec:11o.

The Attorney General and Irish Bar."—Langhing
Catch.
"The late Attorney (leneral."—Long and protracted
applause.
An absent Member of the Club, Earl Talbot." It is
impossible, says the Reporter, to convey to oar readers
the enthusiastic feeling excited by this toast. It ‘ram
drank with three musical cheers, and the plaudits lasted
some minutes.—Auld tang sync.
" The Exports of Ireland, esti asap those wAo would
subvert the Constitution be the Asst.—Now kilobits rink-
eth in the West."

It is reported that the Marquis IVelksley irshortly ex-
pected in England to attend to his duties in the House of
Lords. In his Lordship's appointment of the Lords Jus-
tices in Ireland who are to continct the strike of the Go-
vernment during his Lordship's absence, it is stated that
the Lord Chancellor fur Ireland, Earl Manners, has been
omitted.

The Dnke of York, it sprars, is not entirely rerovered
from his long and severe indisposition. His Royal High-
ness rides out daily in his close carriage, for about two
hours, and ozrasionally visits the PriOCeill Sophia. Hi.
lti)yal Highness's uredie..l geuiernen continue to attend

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(iteci*• trite Xstrtt,ngsrblt STAR OF FEJT. 0) •
The eNPOitthilla Of rating dads, VlLaren, Grierson,
and bd'eivan, which was tO.:Eave taken- place to-morrow
the 12th current, hssbien ri:apked, by the High Conrt
Justiciary, till Wednesday the 46tb. The inlerfereMe of
the (butt on this weasion was' idronsequenee of no an.
awes. having been received to an I'4oes/ion to the throne
for mercy, and which,was with reason.; atirihuted do-the
'weatber. About an hour 'after the Court hid come to thh.
decision. the Carlisle ,mal arrived in town, -bringing a
respite for all 'these unfortunate youths, by which the,
execulton of the setreace Is delayed for one utoti.h.
THE PAlll'lliNON.—Four poles ;have nice, erected Off
the Calton (lift, for the putpose of ettablinz the genie-
men interestid in this undartaldneto judie 9f the prober;
ble effect which this ghat buildintk will have upon the
neighbouring 'Observatory: r In deference to that *institu-
tion, the proposed site has '.been' 'Somewhat 'altered; and
the foundation stone now appear% to be /dared in' the cen-
tre of the west front, in place of the cett.re of the south
front; by which means the building has been thrown to a
greatet distance front the Observatory than tsar originally
Intended. We skall rot at present enter more fully twon
this subject, hop:mr that no ultima'e steps will be taken
~to the injury of the Astronomical Institution.
ka affair of a serious nature, and which Is likely to
be real in its consequence, occurred on Siturday
in a house of bad repute, sitnate on the South bridge --
A gentleman, having objection to the charges, received
a stab in the front of Ms body, aimed at hint wilt a
bl4nife, which entirely penetrate 1 the csrilage of the
third rib. lie was conveyed to the hop' Infirmary,
where, we regret to any, he still lies, in a very pricart-
on. s'a'e. • Yrsterdsy, the unforrunste gentleman nal
visited by the Crown Officer, for the impose Of receiving
his testimony ; when he po,ritiy..ly identified the landla-
dy of the Image as th- person win stabbed him. in this
he is corroborated by an eye witness of the ferocious
transaction. The woman, in her defence, accused 'per-
son who was present of being the perrtrstor of the
crime; and we understand that the latter, hit.elf, and
two other unfortunate females, were committed to aafe
custody.

• Tun WESTURR.—An immense quantity of snow fell in
this part of the kingdom on Friday last, and added fea-ful-
ly to the desolate appearance of :he consury. Since our last,
very few mails from any quarter, and none from Loudon,
arrived here until Sunday. On Salt I day, the large and acute
icicles, suspended ft mu the copings of th, houses, Sena.
ed to threaten instant death to whoever shoold have the
temerity to walk beneath them • On Sunday a gradusl
thaw commenced, and has continued in operation to this
elate. Th. occasional descent of large tissues of snow
front the rt )fs of houses, has rendered it prwlen: for foot
passengers to take .he middle of the ro id. In Nicholion-
%tree% a lady was struck to the ground by one of these
dangordas ddlodgatents, a.,il she was lifted up almost in-
sensible. The progress of the thaw is this morning ac-
celerated by a hue shutter of rain. The atmosphere is
temperate for the season.
There is at present no communitation with Fife beyond
the immediate shores of the Frith. The snow between
Innerkeithing and Kinross is in Borne places upwards of
20 feet de..p. Loch Lomond was froien so as to bear on
Wednesday morning, and Inch Alurrin was accessible
over the ice.

Mr. (1. Rennie of Fantassr, wishing to come to Edin-
burgh, adopted a novel and very eWectital mode of provi-
diny a passavfor Ltiruself through the snow. He ordered
-that 14 fitliti4lo4o should be brought out and driven
before hint to this city, where they sere sold to good ad-
vantage.
By a person who arrived here from the north on Sunday
we learn that, up to Monday last, the snow was no: two
inches deep in Rannoch, Breadalhane, and Athol. On
passing the line of 'he Grampian hills, the traveller found
the snow become very deep, an much so, that the direct
toad from Perth to Bunkeld was impassablel even to foot
passengers. Four north mails got as far as Kinross on
Wednesday Several coaches (both mail and stage) are
stuck in tfi? snow between the Ferries and Kinros ; stone
were completely buried, and the tops of others only were
to be seen. (Treat numbers of people were at work open-
ing the communication, which was nearly completed on
Wednesday, but Thursday's storm made it worse than
b fore.

On Snntir.y, all the vessels which had been driven up
the Frith in the late gales set sail, to the number of about
200; the day was fine, and each a numerous fleet of ell
descriptions of vessels, sweeping down the Frith with all
their sails wt, presented a singularly striking spectarle.
It appears by a letter received from the North, by a geutle.
man trims Norwich, that the shipping on the Sunderland
coast have eltifered sevriely,l4 being reported to be on shore,
from Hartlepool to the Tees, wily &mut five miles ; but
few lives have ben lost. The life boat wa; the means of
saving many. One s'ap was driven through the pier at
Sunierletid; the extremity of which is built with wood.
By another letter to the same gentleman,it anpears that
the snow storm. which lasted four days, td, by the high
Winds, matte drifts from three to four yards deep. Near
Searbro', on the estate of Abraham Raulinson, Esq a
mass of snow fell npon &cottage, forced th • ro 4.hrough,
and killed a poor man, his wife, and three children. A
snow plough, drawn by twelve horses, and assisted by
twenty men, was employed in removing the obstruction,
to make the roach passable fir the mails, 5:.c. No com-
munication hail 'taken place between York and Neweas-
tie for a week, and the inns in the neighbourhood
of these ;dates hare been filed with travellers, oot know-'
ing which way to steer. The snow between Durham and
Sunderlanl is 30 feet deep, and the mails from those towns
have not been able to remit either place for four days.
Villages situated very near the coal pits have not bad the
means of gaining sufficient fuel, and many fait.ilies have
Beverly felt both cold and hunger from ihis eseen ca-
lamity. The mails from Newcastle to the North had 15
horses attached to them.

WEATIIER.—The weather here for the most part of
the week has been much more temperate and steady,
than could have been expected from the extraordinary
quantity of snow that had overwlielinevl the country, es-
pecially to the northward of Newcastle. At Edinburgh,
it is said, the fall has been greater than aviy experienced
there since the year 1793; and even in Curnu all it has
.beemerlually extraordinary, being in some places be-
tween eight and ten feet deep. Oa the melting of this
mass, some serious disturbance was to be looked for in
the atmosphere as well as on the surf see of the earth ;
and accordingly, on Friday we bad several violent gusts
of wind, accompanied with hail and rain. In a shower
that fell at 2 o'clock, in the north west environs of
town, the hail stones were as large as horse beaus. The
most extraordinary shower, however, of which we have
lately had arcount, is a shower of snow, which, ac.
cording to the Jamaica Gazette, fell on the 13th of Dee.
last, at Annotto Bay in that island. In that climate,
such a phenomenon is unprecedented in the memory of
man. The quantity of rain fallen here since Saturday
last is 6-tenth: of an inch.
Strand, Feb. 13.

THERVOUTER.
1 , 1 II AAAAA CM.
o'clock. o'clock. at night.
Feb. —,-
9, S•• . • 40 44 - 43 29,72 Fair
10, hi. .. 43 43 41 ,23 kale
11, 1' 43 31 ' 47 ,43 Showery
12, W SO 30 \ 43 ,40 I Cloudy
13, Th. • • 33 45 40 ,70 ! Fair
14, F..... 42 49 33 .47 ! Showery
113, 8 • 38 $8 —• ,97 I Rain

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pica 14 Fair. 16.—Came down from the River last
end sailed, the Ihilllint,'Clark, for St. Lucia, aau to
W.:Bator/43ra*, for Jamaica. = Wititl N.H.—Came down
from..the river thim mo7teug, the Wellitigtori, Alcn, fur
and sailed aithihe whole of the ontwa4 boutvl
for; theiraiferent clestina
•Powrssiotrre, Psi. Lk—Sailed the Psi., bale}' & for
Gle rey
twelterT'Nerfiltk,Ai, for Ala•lres and tleittar; Jblto
Poppjettell; for Madeira and Jamaica; Christina, Nan-
' soi; forlirjgo; 'rebus O. Ballenee, fur firenaig„—frelt. 16.
--Arrived the Lady tamphell, tiethaM; from illi6corn4
for lifadras.Witsd N.

141Plit.riefotti, Pnn. 14 and 15.—SailedhisXtr's ship
Tarar fir Smith America; Lady Arabella .c.ket fur.
Lisbon; Lord Hobart Packer, for Jaitiairai,lllenehe,ster
'f itelcet, for 'the Mediterranean; tirnenWirh, Thom.ppon,
for tbeiSeno Seat";•and the Orate, for Saint Micha h.
•-• Pr.ltatou'rn,' Fie. !S.—Arrived the Pollo4ts (ruin Ber-
"'tett, hilltat, bound for St. WT., ont j weeks, pit into
.thiepoit hr peat distred.—Sailed the whole of ;be out-
ward bopnd vessele.—Wind N.B. v

torlltT OF SESSION (noun. invisioN) Fee.

IPOZ MAULS, Ma. P. tilt HON. RU. RAIISAY MAUI:II,OV

PAit3illt F.

This wa. a cause of considerable interest, and the Court
was crowded io exces..

Mr. Commute stated the rase fur the pursuer. lie Paid
his client was the eldest son and h-ir of the hen. defender.
who povmsse I an estate p tying a rent of upwards of 20,000‘
a tear: that his client hal come of age,
anti was an ensign in a retitncnt of the fine. His full ptr
amounted to 9ltt., and his father gate him an additioluil
allowance of 11tof. But he contended this sun; of .19111.
was not sufficient to enable him to support a rails suited
to hi u exa`ted ei;uatiou in society, and therefore hit ac-
tion eoni'luded for an aliment of ihaiol. a-yemr ; which
was equal to the aliment received by the defender himself
while his father possess-d the estates of Panmnre. The
learned gentleman referred to various law anthoritin and
decisions in support of his claim.
Aar. J. A. Ate far the defender, seed; that he
hilly admitted his cli nt's liabiTy to aliment the pnrineri
bat contended, the eltucesialluded to did not apply, in 's.
ich as in them no alimrit bad been given .o the claim-
ant at all. But in this rase aliment hail been givel by
his client to an extent which he conceived to be atteptate
to his son's support es an ensign : that, in this o?lnitin,
he was supported by that of the late .Sr: Moore, wins
hut!, in eve, y case, when he. was Col. of a regiment, advised
the parents i-f his subalterns only to allow them certain
stuns an addition to their regimental pay : that the opinion
of that distinguished Orneril was, that an ensistn shield eni-
lv have 21W)!. a year 'additional ; that in this opium his
client concurred; and in doing so he acted upon the best
Pelitt;.ts of what was most conducive to the future prds-
peens of his son in pursuing the honourable life he had
chosen.

Mr. Cranstoun and Mr. Monrreiff have still to be hear]
previous to the decision of this interesting aie.

On the 10th ins'. council were heard in the idy
Court, on a motion by Mr. Douglas Cheap'', to disturis
the action brought opinst him by Mr. Jones Gibion,
f.,r libellous matter contained i o the late Beacon.--
Counsel for the pursuer having been heard in reply, dig
Court of Wednes lay Last-deeided, that this was a case
wiltblistgbt to be sent to a jury. that it might be satis-
factmily settled whether Mr. Cheepe was or was not the
author of the libel.—Motion dlackarged.—(Ediniurgi
Star.)

HINT TO ma " CONSTITUTIONAL ASBOCIATION."—In
the neighbourhood of the principal theatres, is a house for
the sale of Hot Alder Wine, which is recommended to the
cognizance of that laudable association which watcher
over the politics and morals of " the lower orders of So-
ciety." It is not, however, en aceount of th.• nature of its
liquor, or of the chat utter of its customers, or of the cou-
versatian carriisl on it, that the place is poitred oat;
though none of these may be no better than they shoali
be. It is on account of its tendency to bring, as the Lam-
yers would say, " our Kingly government into contain, .r
The house is known by the name oi." the Four Georee'v.7
and four portraits, to represent one four kings of that
name, present themselves, a icordiegly, at the window.
But what caricatures! his sufficient for any ens to see them
who has seen the features of the Hovel personages on their
coin% to be convince I by the style of the figures of the se-
ditiously degradiog design. But this is not all. Beneath
the several portraits ate certain woids which, taken to.re-
ther, seem as if they were simply intended to indieat., the
articles sold in the house, but which, when taken separate-
ly. as they are placed under the several portraits, will
be found to bear a pointed personal application, of a
very disrespectful kind, to the characters of the res-
pective Sovereigns beneath which they are exhibited. The
tollowing are the several libels here denounced :—Benrath
the cane ittire of George I. the of the name, " Hot
ilider Wine." Linda- that of George 11. whose head is
covere I with a flowing reddish coloured wig, " Ginger
Be' r." Beneath the fair visage, and brown win, of
(leorge I 11. " White and grown; and under the Cist of
our stately majestic Sovereig•-,nothiog more n r less than
" Spruce !!!"
HORRIBLE MURDER.—Ott Monday Its.' (10th inst.) an
inquest was held at the Lou -e of Thomas Wright, labourer,
iu Farcet-fen, near Pon I s•bridge, by Thomas Atkinson,
gent., coroner for the hundre I of Norman-cross, upon the
body ofAnn, the wife of the said 'Thomas Wright, who
was murdered be.weea five ~a! six o'clo.ik on the same
morning. It appeared 'hit the unfortenate woman, hav-
ing an infElt l I wecks old in her arms, was, during a
paroxysm of mental dirang-nsent on the part of her has-
batul; dragged by him to the house-door, and there had
her throat cut wiz). a case-knife from ear to ear ! After
committing the horrid deekthe min took up the infant
from beside the body of its mother, and laid it io its
cradle covered a lilt blood. He than called to a young
man, a relation, who a as sleeping in an upper room of the •
house, desirir g h:w to take care of the children ; am!
immediately the murderer ran away; but during the in-
vestigation by the inquest, he was found in a barn not far
oft where lie quietly surrendered himself, The unfortu-,
nate man, about six weeks since, made a similar attempt,
upon his own lifer, and I always before the shocking
outrage on Monday morning, manifested the greatest et%
frction for the uhfortunate victim of the inaanity with.
which he undoubtedly was aftlictiid. The jury, agree-
ably to their imperative duty in such a rase, returned a
verdict of "Wilful murder." and the coroner committed.
the wretched man to Huntingdon gaol, where be will be
properly treated in his melancholy situation. He.is
about 32 years of age, anti his stile was a few years older.
He was employed as farming man to Mr. Clarke, of
Yaxley.—(S aiqfurd )tfercury.)
A pugilistic conies: on the night of Mr. Harvey's treat
at Colchester, between two fr.nitrien of that borough, is
likely to bring to light, `. the Id.iden things of darkness,'
One of the champions accused lila opponent of hiving.
murdered a Mr. Holt, miller, of Lextleu, and rubbed laitts
of AIL upwards of 30 years ago. Both 11)! userrove hear,
are committed. The body of Mr. Holt wis (mind in *
sack, in the river. The accuser declares that be held the
sack whilst the other putio tke body.—(Noricids Mer-
cury.)
bmtrnrist.oblAettier, FIR. 17.—Although this morn-
ing's market was not so well supplied a' on former Mon-
days, yet there OBS a sulficieney for the trade. Of-Oisen,
there has a moderate qaamity, but of Sir,. p, the nutub..rs
were rat..er shirt. beef of good quality, umiutains last
market day's prices, but the inferior eur:s are heavy shie.
Mutton is somewhat dearer.

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