The Statesman. — 1809-11-18 (London, England)

WELLINGTON. Arerthainpron—By Mr. PCECZTLL, made First Lord Of the  rrrawr% . -Oxfordrhi, c—By Lord FR ANCIS SPENCER, made a COlll mi..iotter of the Board of Controtal. Scarouromixi•--By CHARLES MANNERS SUTTON, Esq. made  Juke Piolvilc.ttr. Tiwrifin—Right Hee. Rice4aco RTIMIt. made Secretary  of Stair. E iabrr.h —By Mr. DoNDAS SAUNDERS, made President of toe d of Coattail. Doarnpatrict—By Joss Wit.sox CROKER, Esq. made Secroar) to the Admiralty. Queen's C..uat3—Hatt. Wa, WchLtst.mt PoLt, made Secretary of Slate is Irelard.  SUICIDE:—A young Lady, not more than 19 years of age, whose re.idence was a 'hurt di'tauce front Buckingham Gate, put a period to tier ex. istence by drowning herself in the Thames on Wed. nesday last. Her body was taken out of the wa. ter in ten minutes after the act had been coin. milted, but attempts to restore animation were fruitless. The young Slily was the d.tughter of a Gentleman of property, and the came of sui. cid.: was supposed to have origi...tted from preg. oanry. The I;ast•lndia Company, who formerly paid their freight in batik notes, hare resolved in future to make those payments by their bills at three  months. On Monday last six hundred soldiers belonging to the Duke of Brunsnick's corps were embarked at Yarmouth (Isl.. of %Vigil° in transports for Guertisq ; and on Wednesday 900 of the same corps embarked in transports at Cuwcs for the same island. One hundred and twenty horses belonging to the Itoyal Waggon Train march into Portsmouth to-morroe-, and embark for Portugal. A evenings since the premises of Mr. Lane, Gera ...I-street, Soho, were robbed of stocking pieces to the amount of .1001. Thursday night a Gentleman going along New. gite-street, was robbed of a valuable gold watch. Thursday night about eleven o'clock, as Mr. Si In h or, of Holly well.street, Shorrilitch, was returning home, he was accosted by a man in a sni.tek truck, near his own house, who knonktisl him down and robbed hint of a silver watch, with which he made his escape. ' We understand that Mr. NUCAt.t.tim's Lure Rouge, or The New and F:rtraordinary Red Book, noticed some time ago in this Paper, will appear before the end of the present month, which wilt contain a complete view of the Pensions in Great Britain anti Ireland. TM High Sheriff of the County of Glamorgan, JtaltlllAU 110111 PRAY, Esq. who is to present his County Address, in honour of his MAJFSTY has.. iug entered Into the fiftieth year of his Reign, we are informed has applied for the honour of Knighthood on the occasion. Should his application be attended to, it is presumed other Sheriffs ‘Ol, on application, have the like honour con. !erred on them. The financial system of the Corporation of Newcastle-upon-Tyne is at present under a close I investigation, by a number of intelligent Burgesses in behalf of their Brethren and the Public, who have been lung kept ignorant of the state of the Body Corporate. The neglected state of the Public Charities in that Town has, for some time past, been under the consideration of a patriotic Judiyid tal, n hose harmer exertions have been pro. olidi!ive of advantage to the poor, and through all‘t.e efforts the present investigation has been etTee:,.o, n hich, among other particulars, has brought before the Public another instance of the mismatu4vment of a well-endowed charity—the Ilospit.l the Virgin St. Mary in that Town— the miserable inhabitants of which, six in number, are only alowed the sum of .11. 10s. per annum for their .ithsistence, while the Corporation is giving a Reverend Vicar, though a non-resident, the sum or.fift.y pound! per annum for the name of .31,1der of the lloswital.  To rz EDITOR or THE  SI a—The Magistrates of lb :a-street are so zealous in their endeavours to preserve Twice and quietness in the New Tite.tvwc, that persons who nave exhibited placardr, which Mr. BaAmn has sworn *ere calculated to excite noise ant: tumult, have btxnt compelled to find bail in the sum of EIGHT HUNDRED POUNDS, fur their appearanci• at the Sessions. But how are the times altered since thu glorious days of KING WILLIAst, of blessed memory. A century back, the liberty of the subject was better protected. KIND WILLIAM 111, wlio owed mach to the exertions of the Prutestants, wished to reward their service., and in his reign, fur the protection of their religion, it was enacted, 1 !