The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-02-24 00:00:00

Committees bed been (muscled on erroneous staters
seats, and prayed that- their tordsMpe would ags.l
point a. Committee to itemise the- esverat
peterented to 168'1:fosse, adding that they woad.
knish evidence of the most incontrovertible cbsl
meter to sepport their assertions!! -Yalu, bat meet
ise-worthy effort to procure a legal and poi*
'Meetly for injuries' snits:tilled by any thing bit
such Reports. The Tribunal has sat, and deciding.
that there is no ground for complaint. Enquiry,
it .will now be said, is needless, for enquiry has been
had, sod the result is the conviction of thediscretioo,
mildness, &c. of his Majesty's Ministers. 44 dreit
is Diansh of the Ephelians!" This proof, however,
of Ministerial intim:ewe, will not satisfy the Pablic.
A Bill of Indemnity is actually. to be broeght in this
day epos the Report of last night, and to be reed a
second time on Friday ; bet if we can credit out eyes
or understandings, we cin perceive 'nothing in this,
ezposittoq to supply mateAsis for the defence of, s;
Bill of Indemnity, or any reason for the' snatcblegeti
ommeestre of ocarith aacept the otter went of any
Idler mem* of defence. De the trials, convic..'
tine., and incatioa of the Derbyshire Rietoss;
• nester In, jonotrOd:-Oilt"ii;iti kin (Wilt at
times persons might bojesisd to the Spy Sla-
lom, call for a Bail of lodem elty, or how cola
lath riots or their WOE supply the least pretest for
itittrrisonment without trial? Warrants, it is ad-
mitted by this Report, were issued against fifth-foor
persons; of those, ten were sever taken ; of the re-
maining forty-four, seven were discharged after es.
atniaatioa ; thirty-seven were imprisoned ; sad of
those, one (who is described in the Report as having
died in prison), we have reason to believe, was so
berror-strock at the appearance of an indeterminste
incarceration without trial, that be destroyed himself
hi York Jail. Merit is taken, because these un-
fortunate men were imprisoned upon oath. On whose
oath is not said. Now, if Ministers were unable to
judge of the propriety, or of the adequacy of the
evidence to ensure conviction.--and that not with re-
spect to one or two, but with respect to a large pro-i
portion of the Prisoners; bow can it be conceded that
they were competent to appreciate justly the evident*
open which they bad committed the whole to prison,.
Wkhout daring subsequently to bring them to trial?
The Roped in the Commons is expected to be
jade to-might.
• .1
French Papers to the elst instant have arrived.—
They are still wonderfully silent on the subject of the.
Dike of WetztuoTON's dangers. But some pointed
jokiest' getting into rhyme in Paris an the repotted
attempt. btarsitak NAcbOttALD Is eapectpd io make
the Repeat es the ReCreitaperst Project to' t) House
of Poore. The.:Roport the Deputies on the
10welet wilresoo Wouillsrl& *it Ghastlier, the Re.
petters being appointed. for •thit perpese. Tho
vial of BlettileAU, who has so strangely puzzled the
ROURSoII Courts by hii preteosions to the title of
Dauphin, has nearly reached its termioation. Oa
the 17th, the concluded by
moving, that poor MAvir:onittilst sentenced, as welt
as hit accomplices, Tovar.4l Mid Munson, to five
years' imprisonmeott, to be placed. at the disposal of
Government at the termination of that period, and
to pay a bee of 3000 (rants. On the 18th, Rau-
. matt baling chosen Or fauna so Advocate, and re.
fusing to defend himself, Counsel were heard in be.'
half of TonaLe sad Ritunzon, and the judgment'
of the Court was szed for the 19th. In the metal
tioilleeether caedidete for the honours of the Bova.]
~son title is said to haw attempted to play the same
Oat Oe. the 18th, a welt-dressed person, of a
very igirids mein, sad tall stature, apparently about.
30yeers of eget went into the Theilleries, and fot-;
lowharghe ma ots, who were carrying in the King's
dieser, bad Dearly got into the dining-ball before he
was stopped. ." He called himself CHAttLas of NA.
%tans, and insisted on speaking to the King. They
brought him before the Doke of BELLuxo, the Ge.
neral on del, who sent him to the Prefecture of Po-
lice, front whom he has since bees sent to Chafes-
ton, the Bedlam of Paris.

Arroonats from Madrid @siert, that a new and con!
siderable Expedition Is preparlas against the Sonth
American Independents, and hairs are confidently
expressed that the may and ill.constrocted ships
lately parebased from Hassle will restore the su-
premacy of the Spanish ftag on the seas ow swarming
with the Patriot cruisers.

A Mail from Flanders has also arrived. the
Premium Government has made a mew regulation,
according to which no *gavotte, will be admitted
into Prussia ‘y means of passports delivered or
signed by Consuls established io foreign countries;
and that be cannot pass the frontiers soless he be,
provided *kb a passport delivered or signed by the i
Legation of his Prussian Majesty residing in the
country from which he canes.

Letters k', been received from Bruns Ayres to
Ylit Member. Every thing is represented es being
is a most prosperous stale, the Finances of the wintry
had revived, and the present Admieistration wu in
theta!! confidence of the inhabitants.

Asa set-off for the advantage said to ban been
gained by the Royalists, and celebrated In Metlee
with illuminations, it is now confidently reported
that General Oswego, With 400 men, was captared.
by Beenos Ayres &risers, in the South Sent oft his

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any op to Talcipasso. Ptevious'aecooom had been
re:oo6d, that it was lb. loteatioo df the fAllaYieeroir
to semi op the above officer, id order to attempt a
secooktlme the conquest of Chili ; though in doing
this, be was obliged to leave the Peruvian Capital
with ally a garrison of 600 men.
By the Leeward Island Mail ertiveci tetterday,
[44th Letters from Trinidad to Ist Jsnsaryi end from
~liogastem to 18th December, it appears trite that a
battle had been fought between Gonerel teller/land
,tbe Reyalists.though, as uteihilltifietter have greatly
serrated their sootalle•

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The Blood-money System, which has emitted so
'mach honk, is not yet, we regret to perceive, at ao
end, though molt humane efforts are malting in end
out of revilement to check this, perhaps, wont of
pll cruses.—Tile Reader will find kr seethes column
of oar Paper the particelars of another discovery of
Vdeliberate deprie'', in this department of guilt, and
et the rationale arrest of the punishment, it is be.
•of two victims to thie nefarious system. It
was by the penetration and active benevoleeee of
Aldermen WOOD that theatrecioutectllatakebt 1014
took place some time ago between the Polite Officers
(Druck, Pelham, and Potter), for the conviction of
three poor Irishmen for coining', was discovered and
defeated—it is also before Mr. WOOO, as the Chair-
moo of the Parliamentary Committee for enquiry in.
to the stele of Newgate, that the new sad appalling
revelation has been made. W. have e'ery reason to
• belie,* the account, which we give as-folly lithe kn.
penance of the subject demands, is froin an authentic
source. If then this sanguinary practice of. mini,-
ping perilous to guilt and to death is so widely and
remorselessly persevered in, bow it it that we read
of the extension of the Royal mercy to Convicted
blood-hounds of this class,--to villains covered
with the most inhuman terpitade ?—The best
feelings of the public have been shocked and
outraged at the pardon given to the wretches who
were convicted by a Jury of this infernal crime.—
!f there were any palliative circumstances in the cases
of these men, unknown to the Juries who tried them,'
and te the Public, whose w and approved their verdicts,
. they-ought to be explained and made public. With.
out such explanation, horror and alarm will continue
to pervade all ranks and classes of the community.
Those men have been convicted of crimes which have
no
,parallel in the black catalogue of human guilt—
and these man are deemed prppec objects of Mercy,
and deserviog of especial. favour and protection !
whilst the persons who stand up for the rights of the
People, and the perky of the constltatioual laws, are
subjected to fetters antlimprisonment !

The Paiuce REGENT and Decline of GLoucesTen
relweesdlo L. doe ow lenday referring from Windsor.
• Yesterday, about three o'clock, her MASIISTY, ac-
companied by the Princesses AUGUSTA and ELIZA..
arrived at the Queen's Palace from Windsor,
where they were received by the' Duke or CLAINNCE
1 and the Duchess of Gtouuestau. The Dukes of
YORK and Susses soon after- paid their respects.te
their Royal Mother and sisters. The Duchess of
-You= abe arrived in town from °attends.
Yesterday, the Prince of Hesse•Heateuao received
vhiks from the Archbishop of CANTEIMURY, the
Dike of CLARENCE, Bishop Of LONDON, Viscount
CASTLEREAGII, EarISPENCER,Und Earl WHITWORTII;
and tis Serene Highness afterwards pad some visite.
'• At four o'clock he went to the Queen's Palace to
visit her MAJESTY and the Prinellisnt Auouvre end
EIINAIRTH. In tke evening he dined with the
hihrsieis Of HIRT/ORD, where be met the PRINCE
URGENT.
• Yesterday, dispatches were received at FAIT' BA.
--eitunse's otilce from Sir HUDSON Low*, at St. Ile-
Awn.

The Duke if CLARenCE has received on Savant
of the death if the gallant Captain FITZCLARENCE,
his eldest son.
A rumour was circulated yesterday morning ell
over towil,Ablit her MAJESTYIeati been taken and.
denly ill in the night. Nay, some accounts went
further. These reports were soon proved to be to-
-Silly void of foundation; and shoot. three o'clock bet
.141AJESTraltne to town, and will remain till after the
Drawing-room.
• We are requested to state, that the name of the
'Foremen of the Grand Jury, whose presentment we
Oslo yesterday, is TUOINAS GLOVER, tint Jens
G Loves. •
'A silted !Isla of an earthquake was felt tut wdek
teem out side of the county of Lincoln to the Whorl;
and @Mewled 'across Iloldernees. It is singular to'
ramerk, iheethie is the second shock which hes been
esperieseed in that coesty within the specs of twelve
, months.. In some pieces the noise was aid a buttery
of cannon was discharged. In Ifoldernees it rum,
bled the clattering of carts and waggons driven with
great haste along the road.
It would appear that Btsn's Tickets and Sheres.in
the present Lottery, are travelling' after die Iftlies
.40 sold in the last ; for not only is the demand at his
ogees is Luedoe great, Devoid all precedent, but.
his Agents throughout the kingdom are equally
busy. The Lottery will begin Drawing on Wednes•
day, the 4th of Neat Mouth, on which day nearly
5000 Tickets Will be drawn, etch Number deciding
its own fate, end no other. By the arrangement
made, ten Capitals out of the one hundred, whit%
the Scheme contains, must be dteon in 'the first ten
senates, 'idolise of what the chance of the Wheel
may aftertarde bring forth. This natotally accounts
for the eagerness of adventurers to mike their per.
chases before the Drawing commences, test the whole
of the Three Prises of £30,000 should be drawn the
Iritsit Day.
One of the Prisoners as the list tot trial et tht
Old- Dailey, yesterday made an attempt to cut his
throat in the morels* hs Newgete,-bet he was pre-
vented from completing his purpose. Ilia" trial is
Postponed until coat Session.