The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-01-12 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN•

pest imporianeir M alreeting nritish interests in lite
Indian S,its. The Gnsereter of Fort Narib h
hes di.pleyed his characteristic energy and activity
slave his suite! in Sensatre, end has *Weedy en•
de.Teuied to extend the British lefleence •VIPT the
• hule of that seleehle and ratensise Island. We

claim all they ever had In thn•e ent,, althoegh man)
of them hare not had the Deteh flag lying for. Ilia

last fifty years. Is it not time they were checked ?
Their system is, in the first instance, to send a large
force to overawe and intimidate ibis natives, and
haring once got them in sign • deed, stodiamsty pee.
vent the togllab from ever afisr baying enwmuaic•-
tion with the port. It less merely owing to his pea
sition in Satinet?, that Governor Ramis bay bye*
enabled to know what they were doing in Palem-
bang. the possibility of his creasing the island over
the mountains had
presumed that their c2hduct has been equally disc
graceful at Ruoju *min.—Their object is to obtain
• despotic authority over all the Archipelago, and to
exclude she English from all trade at the independent
ports; and in order to effect this object, they in Ike
first instance sacrifice every unfortunate Prince who
was acknowledged by, and sttaclusd to, t►e English-.
The discoveries grad• by Governor RAT/LES in his
esprolition into the interior, in a •ioerelojieal and
botanical view, are nut less interesting than in a pea
Mini one.

lately erpsiwil wit. Headers of the encroachments
Isola oet,•.ciona of Mach commercial speculators in

lASI or the globe, but we con.
fitlontly arniripme that the which he has.
trkeu as Political Agent fnr the Archipelago, to
check the poorest ur Dutch acumination omit
orders 'hall have been mot eat from Europe, will
prove reciessl. Sumatra has hitherto been very
little knoen. The Earapeare establishments are

entirely on the coast—Europeans had never pens-
treed into the interinr—and, jeolging front the
takers establishments resintaierel by England, the
lvland itself was considered of but little valor.—
Nothing coold esceml the apathy, indifferettre, and
ignorance which prevail among Europeans respect-
ing the Island genrosllye All attempts to penetrate
into sloe interior sets reckoned desperate; no
European areuld embark in them. The population
of the Weiler were considered as avers, and the
solneetailto impassable, and jet the natives mould
still bolog dent, their gold and cassia, and camphor,
&c.fer which fwinates had from the wheat egos
Leen famous. The Governor felt there was bet one
alternative, and that we., to open the road by going

We have received, this morning, Charleston P.
pen to the 6th of December, bat they contain •o
thing'', Importance.

Yesterday. el three tit lort„ soother Cabin*. CnOW
CH 11 no held at Laid CA.TLeitraiiies hoe,* in St
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himself. His eaterptis• was crowned with seeress.
Lie penetrated tete the interior is three different
directiose—to she soothward island of Negritos,
the ingettant provinces occupied by a people railed
the Pasaummahs--to the North's ard to Mmangcabon,
the for-famed capital of the Malay Empire--ard in.
land of Deuce°len, across the Island to Pakmbang.
The result has bees the discovery of a mine of
wealth—a coestry highly reltleated. and aborted.
log in melees metals. The Passetsmahs are an
athletic fine race of men, es superior to the people on
the 'toast as it is possible to courceire ; they aro
agricultural and numerous.--At Menangcabou
be was gratified with a population sad country folly
equal to any part of Jews. Within the space of
twenty writes the population does not fall short of a '
million. In short, it is the r cc's opinion,
that, with a little
le enemata' me jutter re.
Glit
sources ato be found is Soe the Hritish
meld hero derived from Java. Dot mach remains
to be dose. A Central Goverament most b.
established ; the whole Island must be brought Redo
caramel ; sad the avenues of cammihre, now closed
up, se-opened. Oar [loaders aro aware, that
Priesimitaboo was the place whence all the gold
that pm Milano the same of the Golden Cho/moose,
was carried, sad that yp opessig“otle with that
mostry we shell Sod 4 VIM 4•441.44 oar 84"ifie-
sores, awe Is Mitre receive what so mast want
ntemy ; which, Oder misting rireernstasces, will
be more profitable time colloidal produce.
These Mammies ham not, kooruer, beau made
wittiest great personal risk sad retiree. The
coustry could only be explored on foot—ementains
6,000 feet high were to be crossed, mod rocks, pre-
cipices, sad forests, to be trammed. For Inas,
nights the party had se shelter bet the leaves
they could collect after their day's jammer, end
their joerales were seldom less than from twenty to
thirty miles a day over the very worst roads that
ever mere passed. In this expedition the Governor
was scoompsaled by Lady Rama. She was
occasionelly tarried en a man's back, but ge-
nerally walked, as the roads were too bed to
admit of her bring curried in a chair. Dieter
AasoLo, Physician and Naturalist, fell a sacrifice
to the fatigue, and died of a violent fever. Dr
lioasnum, who accompanied the Governor to
Mesangcabon, ma., an the 12th of August, the
date of our Iva intelligence from Fort Marlborough,
dangerously ill, with a dysentery, bet we hope his
life wilt be spared to carry home the Important
estimative he has made, both in Java and Seamus.
As this was the first appearance of lite European
authority is the interior, lady RAIPFLU was the
meat peaceable standard the party could hoist. It I
was impossible for the natives to consider their ob-
ject
warlike, when the Governor proceeded seamed,
sod confided his olio to their hospitality.
They found the country beastifel and magnificent.
Sr TOOMAIII STAMFORD RA vrr.cl has thrown the trade
.pen, asd reformed all the establishamputs. Treaties
have bets now twined into with the Princes of Me-
someabon, and it only monies for the Ilrittsh Go.
vernment to upheld led support the system he has
cossmerterd upon.

Jillani,..sq•are, in ennlPti of the Noble Viscount
contingent/ indispoaoil, so as not to be able to Mewl
at the Foreign Mire. The Colwell sat till shoot
bye o'clock. The deliberations of the Council were

onderstoott to be arratlieseols for the mooting of

Parliament.

Letters received from Amsterdam yesterday stet•
the insaneness of tho fog there, on the evening of
Tsesday preceding Christmas day, and besides she
mischief done to the shipping, no less than eighty
soots perished Wit* water, between the boors of
sit and twelve o'clock at Right. Lights anJ ropes
were of on avail.

According to eccoonls from St. Domingo, of the
28th of Noteambet, the flaytian squadron were ar.
bialy engaged in h of printeers, one of +kith
had captured a vessel from Baltimore, sod killed every
person nn board.
The B.nk, after fell enquiry and meters delibere-
tiro., hare, crone in th► n14(1111088 of *mistime the
holm of CAMPIItLL, BOWDEN, and Co., which woo
obliged on Fluky, to stop its meson's. The firm,
therefore, resumed it's hoairtess immediately. A•

. -
(hire o'clock in the eft th• tieterteioetion a:

the Bonk Direttoes ass made known on to. onbjectt
The tlocision nes, is above lotions ed, favoorable f
the hank highly/Impels indocod„ on a oar* minute ie.
weteigotion of tar complicated comoorns of tb.irm. to
lend slut sesistanest regoired. He andorstorsd that
30 respectable rserclionis of tie city of London bets
come forward se secorities to the assastAl

odeft, 'forming se aggregate sera a 150. ' 0001. 1r Wit
it the liew orteenees; and slats ober peleateeht has
Men rendered to the &tenant of 50,0001. mere.—
These WON with the fends in hand, enable the house
to prnervd in its esesi mercantile cows.. It would
be dillicolt to cnisvey an ides of the impression pro.
dared on 'Chong• by this agreeable intelligence.
The fine. C PsecT i. about to prnroed to Corry,
having been appointed Treasurer of the Itepelalic of
the lonian Island..
Mr. Cola, of Ifolkham, was teat week prelontori
by a friend with one of the native tip of the arctic
regions.

Mr. Gown, in a few days, will leave Behan for
London to attend his Parliamentary ditties; he gives
'fusee dinner on Thursday nest.
The late Sir JOHN COURTENAT THROCKNORTON,
Bart. is succeeded in his title and estates by his bro.
Cher Gomm, who mounted the name and arms of
COUNTER AY, slily in 1792, baying from his mother
inherited the estate of Mollard, is Devonshire.
MATH OF 1.01111 HARTLANtI.—On the 4th inst.
died, at Stroliestoown.hosse, county of Roscommon.
in the Blot year of his age, the Right lion. Mtuutcv.
Lord Baron II snri.oto. Ilia Lordship was married,
in 1765, to the II•tos. CATHAKINT Moose, daughter
• Sl 11.11FX Lord Mousrr-Ctsnu, end is survivell
by her Ladyship, by whom be has left issue. the
Bon. Majnr.Goneral Tuns ss Motleys, now Lord
ARTLAttn, iietit.-Colonel of the 9th Dragoons;
the lion. Major-General STrrH►N Matron, Lieot..
Colonel of the 7th Drown Gaud; ; and the lion.
■nd Rev. MAIJMICE MAHON, one of the Prettoudariso
of St. Patrick's Cubed'''.
LtvEnroox JAN. 9.—l'ut back the Swift, --,
for the Brasile, with loss of foretop-mast, and leaky.
—The George, Wellsford, soiled the 94 inn. for Ma-
ranhao. has alto pot lock with less of oaten-most
and jib-boom.—The Hamilton, Gashed, from Naples
to Liverpool, is on shore in Formby Channel.
IfoLuttto, .1 sm. 10.—The brig Ranger, of Len.
don, Kidd, from Belfast to London, ran on shore
last night at the S. E. part of this bay, having lest
her boats and every thing earths sink the night be-
fore ; sbe now lies clear of the reeks. but in a most
dangerous siteatinn. It is expected most of the
cargo will be saved.
NORTH Slll [LP', JAN. 9.—The Robert sod Jsnet,
of and for Ssnderlonol from Amsterdam, was seized
of Matti, by the Swallow cutter, and sent into
this perti baviog co:wooled amongst her cargo les.
spit its, and tobacco. The sloop Isabella, Watt, of
Leith, was run on beard by Use Ranger of Shields,
in coming into this harbour, and received unlade's-
big damage.
MARGATE, JAN. I.—The Lord Eldon, from
London to India, has brought op again in Pan Saud
Ilnle.—Sailed an not ward-bound fodiassen for the
Downs.—The ship Wellington, of Whitby, from
India, has been on shore on the Tones Seed, sod
pot hark into our Ronde.—A brig. stated to be the
Abooos, of Yarmouth, from Leghorn, went on
shore this movnitag on Forroess Reek, but got off
again the evinivog tide, and is at secher in the lower
put of the Roods.

As might be 'spectra, h• Is at issue with the Dalai
in many essential points ; the Governor has per-
sonally promoted spinst the pretensions end princi-
ples en obich the Dutch ■et.
If Ministers would bet tore their attention to the
'aloe of these islands, they %meld see the importance
to Great Dahlia of the struggle be is making.
Every oat most know ender what eireowstanees
the Detch obtained the Convention of 1814, in
contemplation of • onion between the Onuses of
Ihnover and Grew. fled they not been too
that Convention might still byre stood
unmodified; lmt by grasping at ton much, we
heist* they will now receive • complete check.—
By list Convention it is stated, sit colonies iteAsi•
in po len of the Ditch on the lot et Jiweary,
IS(13, eft to MOM Nil with ibis, they

BANE FORGBRUCS.

. WAIL INTF CLIO ?CNC&
DIAL, 1 %lg. 11 +Me esperieseed great part et
lest eight, and the early part of this 'morning, sprang
weather, blowing bard at intervals, from W.S.W.
daring which the Vansittsrt lodiasaa brake the
ring of her anchor, mid issediately let to another,
*bleb she is sew dale, by all welt. The Elbe.
Byl, free Para to Leaden, also lest se anchor sad
cable, seri bag been sepplied with another.—Ar.
rived the Orleat, Galilee, heat Patois', sad sailed
far 11611. . .

TO THR EDITOR OP THE
Sin,—About three weeks ego I sent late a shop
to purchase one of those two-peony pamphlets which
bear evidence of the Liberty of the Press. I told the
seller that I had not money saltiest to pay it with,
useless he gave •me change fee a Otte Posed Note.—
He said that be had no silver, bet geoid seed his
bey to endeavour to proves cheep. The bey west
—reformed with my Note, and I left the shop. Bo-
fors I had got fifty yards, I found that I had three
shillings in silver and de-pewee of half-poste is my
pocket. This I had utterly forgetter.
Now, Sir, had I Men a Weser Is Lowden with
tattered clothes, and had the boy substilited a
Forged Note In place of my good one, by hie ewe
ar from imposition practised epos him by
any sae from when be had requested change, what
might have bees the conmsqwence ? I had asserted
!hut I had so sausey to pay for a two.pestsy pm-
Ole', and let I had three shilling* and sis-pence
in silver and copper, Is my pocket. TM shop was
fell of people to witness against me. In this case it
would not bare been necessary that tire boy should
here been a cheat. Ile called at shops and taverns.
Osse might had exchanged the Ned by a sleight of
band trick ; another might have detected the forgery.
A similar practice of passing bed silver, by hackney-
coachmen, At. before the issue of the new whinge,
"pot be fresh is the memory of your Headers. Per.
bens, even In Giber respects honiarrable oleo,
mousey,ha did I
il df, as they said, Yesterday hying Plow Mon.loy, the ford Mayor
set then 'crept, In psis
they bad taken it for good Who then , summoned • Court of Atilerso•n. •ccording ld eaMiest
can depend upon both the honesty end the ;urinary csdn't to "(44" the P14".".114"tsf the 16116.1"
of the sewers' IVards of the Cit y, when nether a novel
of a shop-boy ? The Note, for instanee, I. offered chcommunee pine. 0.. the !nil wet.
at the bar of a pet-house; it is passed Armtek lbe brook Ward, over which the leered Mayne •
hands of a smoking Bleb who return it, or ettedwr, losing called in, Mr. Alderman Waishasen preeestol
as may beat please doe High klightiseespe. is tall a Petition signed by Mr. Citshon sod Mr. Smith, two
respectable inhabitant, 4 Ward, complainisg o
aboations of life there are fair and airtight men; bps i
persist an improper condeset that
on the sort of kis Lard.f
there are men so poor, (deedless, and unknown, es
ship, ist the Wardmot• held en St.Toomas's•day last,
to be suable to procure any owe to speak to their char i for the electinn eight discreet and proper pumas to
reeler ; and )et their moral clouted soy, perhaps. be , typo...you the said Ward In Commen Cease, *snag,
rfelly equal is that of a deal.r is genuine OF in waltd- that one of the sal Petitioned propeurl another 0111.
bertet •el Porter reel or in invitation Tea. I dictate, sod isrteodsti to hay, preprowel fear taste; bet
I observe that another art of poor creatures are ID that hi. Lordship eau penvisoa
be brought forward on Wednesday nest, on charges in know urise,her he In .sornlnetion,
of Dank-nose Fnrgery. Have these men Counsel ;has she Candidate thoir,ts, where.
to defend them ? 1150, he will sorely attend to this spoil the Isnril May r biotin nowsinatios.
view of the subject the Note Moe bees token I That the Petitioners cone oa•hro le,r4lship bed pet
OW of the Prienner's po ** ess ion, and if Ike Priboncr / nn sech gentians to any other Candidate, nor was It
do pot acknowledge TR AT, on which he if indided, to his duty. That they again persisted in nominating
be the some which-he uttered, it coal require better the said person as a Candidate, committing that tho
eridence then that of a G. ocer:s or lleberdaihec's office was a poonpßifisory one, and as he hail been re.
Errand-runner, to coorisre a RIAIONING JURY,: colony proposed anti seconded. his I.3rdship had as
Mar the Nolefird uttered had not been exchanged for ; asthotity to reject him. The Petition further stated,
adather."— I am, Sir, your obedient Savant, , lost one in pai.icelar of the persons retained, was
Jaa. ti. 149. D. g. ant duly qualified, for as there stated, and
enatendOel that the whole proceeding*. were innater
illegal, that the elude, *as therefore veil, sad
concluded with praying that a new election shael
be made, and that they n.ight be bard by there
niers. their Counsel, Solicitors, and Aped, sad
to adduce evidence to prose the allegations tasteless&
in their Petition.
Mr. Alderman ItialTttxltr moved that the raid
Petition he taken into consideration at the neat Coed
of Aldermen, sod that the parties shall have Notice
thereof.
Mr Gibbons, one of the Petitioned, desired to
know whether the business would be takes lute
consideration at the nett Court, and whether they
should have notice, in pretest his being at the es.
pence of Cosmosl and witnesses. at an eneertalsty ?
The Loan MAYni replied, all be could say week
that it would be laid before the nest Court, sad he
should think that • sufficient notice.
Mr. Alderman WAITIIIMAN oh ;I, that the Ii
titian was of a very llntiOof nature ; it complained of
the violation of the dittos of I.:lnnen. if the alle.
(rations were tree, the Ward would be enrepreselted,
or Hither, what was worse, misrepresented: for
hole could the Corporation act under sack circum-
stances, for the same thing might happen is several
Wards?
It was et length agreed that the Petition shield be
takes into consideration at the nest Cunt, sad that
the parties should have notice thereof.

.
rlve n'aeek.—Qeito medoralt.--Rmlin Ihi est.

-Pe

BRIG illeNclair, It.

ward-bound East and West Indlawns. kr all well.
Wressoueu, JAN. I I.—Dering the gale of lost
eight the sloop William, Kedaor. of Piyotooth or
Saleembe, from St. Michael's to Portsmouth, eat
drives' on shore on Portlookigeth. IA the Captain,
Matt, sod one omen dtemsed. The only person
saved is a by, son of the natio. Greatest part et
the cargo a:peeled to be sawed.
PORTSMOUTH. JAR.I4 the John Inglis,
11.1 leg, from India for Logsdon. —ll has blows a
heavyset* of eked from S. t. W.S. W. all day, and
still emotion's; at times very ►ray 'goalie. milli
t►eader and lightning.—The ships is the Roads hate
tot yards and topmast doom, and •pperestly ride
its Refety.
PISZANCIti Jan. 9.--Arrleed the Mary, RsddetM
too, from Si. Michael's for Leodeo, with Sauey.

PAVILION INTELLIGIINCII.
This day ee'onight the favourableness of the wee.
(her intloced she Regent to take an maestri., airier/
in public. ills Royal Highness, attended by one
footmen, passed from the stable.estrance its Cksrch.
street, throttles the New.reed, up North.stren, and
onward in the west, sod relented by the Cliff route,
towards four o'clock. The moot ref ectiesate Wets-
tines that him in all quartets.
Lord &awe:l, for his teen 'eidetic*. left the
Pater. this day. The Marquis of Salisbury arrived.
Mr. Nush, the architect, also came in on Teensy.
On Friday, as early as stilt' o'clock in the sword.
ing, the Doke of Yolk returned to the Pavilion, end
was on the *ley.", the Marine Parade, end other
parts of the town, define the morning. The Royal
I)eke was habited in sables. His health appeared
remarkably good.
About half-past throe o'clock In the oilman, the
Hanoverian Ambassador, Ceent Monster, came in;
and at shoot three quarters pest seven o'clock, the
Prince Regent, unaccompanied in his travelling ear.
risge, ',horned to the Pavilion, where he took din.
now immediately after with the Commander-in.Chier,
avid the immediate suite of the Palace.
His Royal Highness's short absents hence was bet
patiially known. The lag, the denotement of his
presence, on the toner of the parish church, was
flying on Thursday.
The Austrian Archduke Maximilian, and smite,
Count Pslmella, Lord Beresford, Sit W. Compeer.,
M. De Neumann, &c. arrived at the Palace on
Saturday.
Divine Service, In the presence of the Royal Bro.
tiers, and the collective body of pulses residents,
was performed by the Bishop of Esser, *soloed in
the responses by the Rev. F. W. Blomberg, yes.
terdey.
As late as midnight on Friday, a rosits.looking
fellow, habited es a seaman, presented himself at
the door of the Marquis of Cholmoadeley, in Marl-
borough-row, and within the Palace encloser', under
the pretence of asking alum He was reminded of
the enseesonableness of the hoer, sad desired to
quit the place, by a eereent belonging to the been.
bold. He coesmontly did remove from that
hone, bet it was merely to descend the area of
a snood belonging t• *teethe, Nobleman of the
Palace. Here, however, he was presently followed
by the active end sturdy porter, Wright, who ie.
atantly secured, and gate him In coated, to the sen-
tinels at the Pavilion gate, -until the petrel could be
sent for to take charge of him. At this juncture, three
of the petrol happened to be passing; the man, con.
sequently, was turned user to there, and who, en
levying him, observed, that they were then in quest
of a man answering his description, for descending
the areas of several other bosses, et me earlier pert
44 the night. lle will undergo an eausisatior at
the Beech, at the Town.ltall, this day.

This .using the following wale6efe►e were
executed before the Debtore.doer. at Newgate ;
Willies Tina, for bullock monis ; Stephen Mareeee
IM yardman, for the robbe►y at Curies-town ; sad
/fillies Keigkl, for highway robbery.

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COURT or ALDKRAMN.

Tat RECICNTOUTRAGEIII EIyNBLIRGIL

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY.

Tbersday the Court met. The Loss Justice Cutest
addressed the Lord Advocate stating, that the Casa
had heard with honor the el:sicking and disgreceist
precedent which had taken piece on the streets of this
city, on Wedoesday, Dec.3o, last, en the Densities(
the elecetios of Robert Johnston. The Court. be.
fore they fell themselves disposed to interfere, wished
to know what was the result of may investigetioa his
Lordship had instituted is cosseqsence
The Loan A nVOCATE stated, that having Weird et
the proceeding, nest morale( he had ordered the Pre.
curator Fiscal to apply to the %millet the County to
investigate minutely into the wholecireemstances,and
that investigatios was gain on, althoogh not yet so
complete as to enable him to lay it before the Court.
lie had also applied to the Magistrates of Edinburgh
for a statement of the proceedings, which had Monier.
&shed, bet was not complete to be hid before the
Court. His Lordship said ho agreed entirely with the
Court as to the shocking and disgrsesfsi procedure
which bad taken place, open reading the account of
which, la the public prints, he was very mach hurt
I indeed. His Lordship, however, was happy to state,
i that the Magistrates of Edinburgh had no camera
with the step which was taken to bleed the usfortts.
sate a.am ! Nolte of the Magistrates were present
upon the occasion, and the person who did so, with
the view of ascertaining whether Ito was dead oe
slice, received no orders to do so from any of the
Magistrates. His Lordship teak this public oppor.
fealty of stating this, end assured their LordsiOpe
that every information sheoW he laid Wove them.
The Loeb Justice CLCRIL —The Coast eertainly
espects, op Leen Advocate, the tallest iseeetigatieit
ea this palest subject.