The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-08-16 00:00:00

CASTLEREAGH'S CUTTING HIS THROAT.

The extraordinary conduct of the Coroner upon
dile occasion seems to form a sort of match for the
boiling It a recent case. indeed. in OHM respects
than one, the two cases bear no slight resemblance to
each other in some of the 'absolutist cirenmetannee.

But. we scruple not to say, that, if the Report (pith-
Hebei' in all the newspapers) be eorrect, the Coroner
listed unlawfully. We do not say, that the report is
Correct ; we hope it is not ; for, if it be, the Coroner.
who is a sort of Judge, be it remembered, was guilty
of • gross breach of duty ix shameful!, setting him-
self against the /CO. Hie charge to the Jury, if iruly
reported, was mahout/1d ; and we. as freeholders of
Neat, shall think it our duty. when per/loosest mats,
to take the steps. with regird to this tastier.
which that ditty points oat. Any of- the king's sob-
jects have a right to step forward in this case ; sad
we hope that others will, who have more time thas we
have ; but, if nobody else do, we will, anise Mr. Can-
Tan, the Coroner, contradict the Report through/ those
same channels that have conveyed it to the public.
Our charge is agalest the reported conduct of this
high officer. The report may be false ; and we Mope
it is; but, it is gone forth to the world ; a most bare-
faced deflaxee of the law has been recorded in !print.
It may serve as an example, if not censurs4 and dealt
with seriously ; and, we are resolved so to deal it. The
Register of to morrow fully states the Ice (tithe ease,
a statement which is too long for us to repeat bete.
We have been—no. no! we bare ;rat been sur-
prised, that the sewepapers. who have been circulatiog
these reports, have offered no cotamentery•on the. pert
that we have just spoken of. Some of them may
have not perceiied the scandalous breach of the law,
that they were reporting; but, some of them must have
perceived it; for it was as flagrant as it would be is
one of the Judges to tell a Jury, that to stop a man
on the highway, knock him down, and take his money
from him is slot rubbery. In the whole cour'se of our
ob ion, we never met with any thing so barefuced,
in the conduct of any Judge, as this report represents
the conduct of this Coroner to have been; and, we
repeat, that. if the report be not publicly riittradicted
by authority of the Coroner himself, we ourselves
will bring the matter forward ia a regular and legal
way.
In thia.ease, as ia the case of the Rish.op and the
Soldier, it is the impartial admieiatratioo of justice
that we have principally in view. Our feelings are,
indeed, those of hostility towards the memory of the
deceased, and those of abhorrence of the deed in the
one cue, and of contempt for the cowardice in the
other case. But, the main subject of our anxiety is,
that impartiality should take place, wherever the law
is to be applied; for, without impartialltr there is no
justice. Of all the spectacles that Gun has to look
down upon and to be pleased with amongst his crea-
tures, a Court, where Justice holds the balance fairly
is, is our minds, the most worthy of aim ; Red
for this very sufficient reason, that here it is whereat!,
the low as well as the high, are sure to obtain their
due. This is the great regulator and adjuster of the
affairs of men living in a community. Its effects on
men, therefore, are greater than the effects of all other
things in the world put together. It is in its very na-
ture venerable; and, in this country. gluon 14.!thers.
not excepting America', it has bees held in yen ration ;
land, sorrowful indeed will it be. if this veneration
should cease.

flow careful ought we all to be, then ; and how
doubly careful, all persons in authority, to do nothing
and to suffer nothing to he done, to degrade this
branch of our really holy institutions! ft is mockery
to talk of liberty without impartial and even venerated
Cowls of Justice. Alen will endure, and patiently
and wisely endure. many inconvirneee, many priva-
tions of rights that affect them, but distantly and in
the mass; but, here you come home to their indivi-
dual bosanu, here their parses, their inheritances, their
' reputations. and their very bodies are at stake; and
he must knew little indeed of human nature, who
does not know mach more deeply • man is stung by
a mockery of law aid justice than he is by being sub-
jected to open and irresistible tyranny.
Governments sometimes arrive at that point, when
the Courts most abandon their impartielity in order
to support the Government. But, of what the cad
of this abandonment is, Lord Ct.aaas wax has given us
an instance. lie ascribes the rebellion against
CUARLIS the FIRST principally to unjust conduct of
the Judges and Courts. " That," says be, " bad
" always heretofore been held sacred ; .but, when men
" found, that justice bail quitted her sanctuary ; when

"they found that there was ao safety for them even
• Mere; they then despaired of all other means of re-
." dress, and kw to arms." The precise wurals we
do not vouch fort but the substance Ins always been
fresh in our minds ; and we sincerely wish it were al-
ways fresh in the minds of alt those to whom it more
particularly belongs to think of the awful truths that
it c ys.

Mr. Rosenburgh arrived is town yesterday after-
noon in a post chaise and four with despatches from
his Majesty.
Conjecture and resells are entremeils-bray in pro-
viding a successor to Lord Londonderry. The Royal
will is no more respected in the imaginary arrange.
mints, than if his Majesty bad neither en taitiolioe
nor a veto in the affair. Among the 'Arsons thus un-
ceremoniously introduced in office are the Duke of
Wellington, the late Marquess's brother, the Anahas.
sailor at Vienna. and the Marquess of Hastings if he
can arri►e in time from India. The Duke of Wel-
lington is pitched upon by speculation as a Represen-
tative of England at the projected Congress, because
be is supposed to be more conversant than any other
person with the transactions which have taken place
between the Allied Powers after and since the GI; of
Bonaparte. The Ambassador at Vienna is proposed,
probably because be is the late Minister's brother, and is
praised as p ing all the capacity, the knowledge,
and the sppliatioa necessary to conduct the depart-
ment of Foreign Affairs. Tlee Morgues, of /Listings
is mentioned, in connection with the same situation,
from the feeling, which is undirstood to prevail to-
wards him in the highest quarter, should he reach
England within a sufficiently early period.
Earl Bathurst arrived in Cowl on Wednes lay, from
his seat at Cirencester, in Glencesterahire, and had
an interview with the Earl of Liverpool, and also yes-
terday.
Yesterday Lord Grenville had an interview with
Earl Bathurst, at the Colonial Office.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer left tows f.r
Blackheath, n Wethisliay insist

'ATE MAN:

MR KING'S VOYAGE TO SCOTLAND.

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IZTRACT OP A PRIVATZ LITTICR 711011 NULL. Al/0. 13.

" Any agreeable itifarmattoa et our excellent Mo.
nareh being acceptable to his people, ailow me to
state, that yesterday at half-past twelve r the Comp-
troller of the Port of Hull, in the Revenue cutter Dee,
commanded by ?Jr. Meadow, fortunately fell in with,
nearly close to Flambre Head, the Royal yacht,
towed by a ream ship and another in company, with
a fair wind, going at a great rate, and gays the King
a Royal salute; the whole head and coast were lined
with spectators, the weather being mast favourable."
SITRACT OF A FRSVATI LETTER /MOM NVICASTLE, TOES-
DAY MORNING.
" The King pasted Tynemouth at tea o'cloek last
night. His Majesty's yacht was in tow of the two
steam boats, and there was only another vessel with
them- 'The rest of the squadron had not been seen.
The Master of a collier, who brings the intelligence,
says, that his Majesty lay off Scarboro' for about an
hour yesterday afternoon. Ile passed Tynemeath
'at the distance of ten or twelve miles, and would na-
turally keep off the land, for the purpose of avoiding
the Staples (a dangerous part of the coast) in the night.
Though the wind is N.W. at sea, no doubt is emer-
tained but his Majesty will reach Edinburgh is good
time to-day.
THE KING'S ARRIVAL AT BERWICK.
(MOM TYx PIORXIVIO VARALD).
It gives us much pleasure to announce the safe
arrival of his Majesty,—not at ' Auld Reikie,' as the
Scotch call Edinbargh, hut at the tows which
formerly separated the dominions of the Kings
of England from the Kings of Scotland—namely,
the ancient town of Iterwick-upon-Tweed. The
Royal George, on board of which was his Ma.
jesty, together with the ocoldron, on passing that
port, encountered a smart gale. The skips, however.
ventarld to go onwards; but it coming onto blow
extremely fresh, it was deemed prudent by the Com-
mander to put about and to make the best of his way
back to that harbour. The squadron remained there
the whole of the day. His Majesty did not land. This
unexpected occurrence had caused great bustle in the
town sod the neighbourhood, and, as might natu-
rally he supposed, great delight to the isbabitaats,
who were flocking from all quarters to embark in
boats, to have the pl f seeing their King.
His Majesty was in excellent health and spirits, and
appeared to be highly delighted with the enthusi-
astic reception he had met with in that part of his do-
minions.

The steam packets availed themselves of the acci-
dental circumstance to take a fresh supply of coals,
and the ships generally were melds, en additios to
their stock of provisions. It was expected that the
squadron would get under weigh on Wednesday morn-
ing early, and that his Majesty would arrive I. Leith
on Wednesday, in the middle of the day. During his
Majesty's voyage all along the want. the most enthu-
siastic affection prevailed anon ail ranks of people.
'Whenever the egnadroa approached Dear 'sough to
any town or every boat put off with well
dressed visitors to salute his Majesty; io many In-
stances the Royal George was completely isnot:tided
and beset by boat-loads of people eager to show
their attachment. The Kieg. is his usual kind
manner, returni-1 by bows and smiles the joyous
greetings of his visitors. At Scarboro', the Mayor in
his robes, with the Corportioo, pat off in a boat with
an Address to his Majesty, but as the Royal George
was goingwith great velocity, the Address was obliged
to be banded up alongside, attached to the end of a
long stick. The circumstance, however, caused souls
litle merriment among the sailors. There were great
numbers of boats put off at the stone time from Bear-
bro', filled with the respectable people of the town, as
well as with its fashionable visitants.
Our letters left his Majesty mad the squadron on
Tuesday night, at nine o'clock, in the harbour of Ber-
wick. Ills Majesty war in excelleat health. and so ac-
cident bad occurred, though the concourse of people,
passing to and from the town to the squadron, had been
very great during the whole of the day.

EXPECTATION OF TIIE KING'S ARRIVAL AT

LEITH.

(EXTRACT OP A PRIVATE LITTER, MONDAY EICUT
O'CLOCK P. M.)

The arrival of his Majesty is ntonsentarily expered,
and every eye is anxiously looking out for the Royal
squadron. An ingenious device baa been contrived ,
at Leith, for the purpose of enabling his Majesty to I
land there with facility, in the event of his n'.t proceed-
fair to a more retired quarter. A machine with a gra-
dual ascent has been so formed as to float with the flux
and reflux of the tide, still maintaining its equipoise;
and one extremity of it descends within a convenient,
distance for his Majesty to step upon it, from his hoe
or yacht, while the other is connected with a platform
(Inaba pier head. The machine itself is covered with
scarlet cloth, and has a railing on each side. Nothing
could Lave been better.contrived, whether with a view
to safe.y or comfort.

(EDINSIAIOU STA:I OPPICI, TUESDAY' 4 O'CLOCK, P. M )
Up to this hour, there is nu appearance of his Ma-
jesty and t►e [Loyal squadron at the ninth of the
Frith. The Regent Schooner has been cruising dur-
ing the whole of the night and this forenoon, between
lociikeith and the BASS. COMlllttniCatillZ with other
vessels stationed in more remote position+, so that the
arrival of the King in the Frith can be communicated
by signal in a kw minutes.
Aro. l3.—The bustle throughout Edinburgh from
an early hour this morning was extremely interesting:
the news of yesterday announcing bia Majesty's de-
parture front London last Saturday produced a gr:at
sensation, and several pleasure yachts sailed down the
Frith of Forth in the sanguine expevtatiou of meeting
the royal squadron, a steens-hnat also sailed for a simi•
gar purpose, and was filled with ladies and gentlenteo,
who returned in the course of the evening, atter scce►al
hours' sailing, but without experiencing the gratitica-
lion they had hoped for. The favourable state of wind
rand weather in the course of the last evening and night,
gave almost a certain pre age of the speedy arrival of
his Majesty. Soon after day break this merging the
Calton Hill, Salisbury Craws, and the Castle Hill,
presented large ►odius of observers, who mingled
among the soldiers sad artillery, sad with tele-

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scopes ansionsly surveyed the expanse of ma Wild
them, in the expectation of seeing' the great objets lir
their curiosity. But all these hig:ily wrought home
Were disappointed. About seven o'clock the wind nail
round and blew a perfect gale, so as to render it its.
possible for any vessel to bear up in the Frith of For..
This disappointment was still further augmented at the
o'clock by intelligence from the lookmat cruisers studio%
e.l along the shore from St. Abb's-head, that at !list
hour there was no appearance from the mast head of te
Royal squadron. As the news of yesterday farst.et
every reason to expect the grand entry of the King ths
day, the greatest disappointment prevailed, and as the
gale still Mows fresh, it is quite impossible, and it is
said even with the aid of a steam boat, to make heat) rp
the Frith this day.
A rite-lanck of unexanspled site was shot at /1„
charm-house on Tuesday, for the use of his
It has been Ewen and approved of by Sir Wililea
Curtis, who is at present the principal object of e.
traction in Edinburgh. The worthy baronet prides
the streets in a frocktoat, white frostier-,
foraging cap. lie takes a part with Sir Walter tirni
is all the arraegee.uit for securing as alacwia.,.4
hospitable reception for kis Majesty.

(SITIICT OF • PAIVATI LIITTit /lOW ULM. TZEIJiT
• trzettso )
. It is apprehended that his Majesty has fooad it ri?.
y to pet into some more convenient harbour, to
the eastward. as It blew a very heavy gale about few
o'nlock this morning, and the wind is now gain, cs:
favourable. with an exceedingly rough sea. Theintr.
head of this place is crowded with spectators, inflOY of
whom have been here since yeeterdar, anxiett:t
seeking for his Majesty's arrival. Should he load .t
any other port. they will experience a dins.
pointment. The different vessels lying bete at pr•
sent, have their streamers Boating. sad every ILA:
is prepared to. receive his Majesty will all dee W-
ooer. Devices for the illrmination are Asti
to the Custom House, consisting of St. Aedreit
Cross. Thistle, awl Imperial Crown, with the iestrip
tion. Hail, Sentla'a King !" A black board. stock
up in the frost of the Hospital for Seamen, MIN%
la large letters. cut out of the wood, the bloat, hat b.
nest tribute of " Welcome, George." The Prevost sf
Perth has arrived in grand state. attended by eameof tbt
minor civic functionaries of his tows, fee the penny
of offering their loyal congratulations to his Maj-cr
on hie arrival is Scotland. They claim precedents iI
the Corporate body if Glasgow, and the Perth part
urges them to insist open it.
At Leith the preparations are on a most sirens'.
scale. The whole rasp of the pier has been comfort•
ably fitted up with seats, that will accosiwidate tot
'homed spectators. who will have a complete view of
the ceremonial of his Majesty's leaving his Kepi
yacht... board his State barge, until his landing at
the draw-bridge, opposite to St. Bernard-street. Then
are also numerous scaffolds erected aloeg the lies At
Procession. A triansphal arch is preparing, near tit
place of landing. and another in Coostitatieta-etrr.
The seats on the pier will be guarded by military ales'
the whale line, eo re entirely to prevent confosiee rr
accident. Tk• triumphal are.b. opposite the pip
where the King is expected to land, might serve fir
any thin bat that which it is kneaded I. Taproom
Underneath a clammy emblem, more like a nigitos
than a Crow., it exhibits the following iascriptiost
—" Scotland hails with joy the visit of her Kiss.'
The other a eh is better designed, and mere la eia•
ratter with the purpose. it stands farther ea to.
wards Edinburgb, and is a wood.. *traders
tastefully festooned with gross foliage, havlitg es be
one side a ship completely rigged, and is the afar
the representation of an anchor. as emblems of us
mercer. Over a gallery sear the barrier. wihhce b.,
M.,jes.y is•te receive the keys of the City, and which is
intended for the accommodation of the Lord Provost's
family, the words, " We come to Welcome our Kisg,"
are written in large characters.
(Though the King with his squidros, as we lieu
stated in anothei• pert of oar paver, was at anchor. se
Tuesday night, Is the harbour of Berwick spot
Tweed, the tinware of the anxious folks it 1.-ith
Edinburgh had. it appears, from the foilowiez lotted
represented hie Majesty, as havin landed that aftet•
noon at Dunbar

(Extract ofa letter from Edinburgh Turley after.
loon.)
It is reported that the Royal Sqqadroa arrived $f
the coast of Dunbar at two o'clock this monist,
where it is still lying, not toeing able to mire forest&
from the wrong westerly gale. Lest his Maj•ttf
should be °Aged to land them one of the Royal ett•
riages bad been despatched by Lord Melville. 1""
are also loamy of the East Lothian Gentr► waiiisgis
their carriages.—A scaffolding, capable of costaisief
400 people, has been erected at Mosselborgh.
(EXTRACT OF ANOTISR LETTER FROli EDINBURG& 1"S•
DAT, TWO O'CLOCK, T.X.)

I hate just Ward that Lis Majesty islasdel et Dell
bar, and is at this moment a: the residence of de
Earl id Lauderdale. A trp..rt •.ys. that the (Whim
been notified by the So.i, itn. tisnaral to the tio
here! Assembly, who are 0.. w met for the Ise"
pone of drawin; up an Address :o his Majery—:
Dunbar is east of this city, at the distaax
—bout thirty wiles; soil it ma Alajeety has laniet
there, lie will most likely are a at Dalkeith is tk
course of tomorrow, if ttot trtis eteuinic. ;Vise;
resi.les at present with Lord Mettriile, at the Col.,
hat will fix his abode at Dallettt. a,. soon as his )r
jesty attires Lere.

Til n't

P.S. It it now irate.) that h;•., 31.ne-t'
ha• actually landed at ihicb.,,.••!•l %%tit !.e at Dalian
PAlace tonight. The Doh:. • t tl.wutlton ha' this I,
went proceeded in MP coati, an toor on the NAV"
muds Dalkeith.

PREPARATIONS FOR THF. KINGS RECEPTPA
AT EDINBURGH.
[FROM THE SOINBCRGH STAR PP TUKSVAT.]
PROCESSION OP Trig KNIGHT !MISCH 10 IBS

ACCIDiNr.
Yesterday mercies., the Knight Marisehal procrti-
ed is State frogs Hulyrood Palace to Has Castle. to
ceive the Scottish Regalia. sod to convey the sioe
Hulyrood, those to grace with these regal emblems tif
presence of the Sing.