The Statesman. — 1823-10-27 (London, England)

THE STATESMAN  TO THE EDITOR.  [IRON " THI IRIAL JOHN DULL']  Er lona def ftes."—Deieription at the Alms' 004.0% ldeWerth•  Sta,—There is a subject of moment, which I take the present opportunity of communicating for your pages, and the general utility of citizens. To any person who takes his walks round this increasing Metropolis, and who observes, as he loiters among the decaying and old buildings, it will strike him of the many neat and comfortahle Alms Houses, which smoke their domestic time away from the business of life, and " the busy buts of men.' In those Alms Houses, perhaps, hundreds of men and women, who were well educated, industrieourly employed, and highly respected, but whose misfortunes, of every shade, prevented them from accumulating wealth, have spent tranquil years and left the turbulent world full of age without a groan.— unless for the return of some prodigal son, who, in the blossom of hope, was the first cause of the flight of success. and the sting in an affectionate parent's anguished bosom. How, Mr. Editor, do I wish, that this generous practice of bequeathing sums of money for ever ; and freehold asylums with sufficient comfort attainable, to protect our on. fortunate fella* creatures from indigence and wretchedness, were as sedulously cultivated as it wee in the last and anterior century. The reyolution of property is essential. i ' Amid the various speculations of trade, the incidental fluctuations of property, the elucidating discoveries of sciaoce, and the progress of art ; some persons neressaridy become rich ; others, poor. The brightest gold in the purse of gain, is that which relieve, the beaten spirit, and makes the virtuous heart beat with gratitude to the giver, and Heaven. Of Wlll4 use. Sir, is it to be the amasser of millions, sod yet not the benevolent dispenser of huodrads.— The pride of posthinnons fame, which misers inherit, to he thought worth dying for so much mom than other misers, is vain and cruel,insemuch as it hath robbed the possessor of the milk of human kitidaass, and deprived the worthy of the good Which they milt lit Mrs done in their sphere of a-lion. A fortune which it lost at a pebbling table, and which robe thennlileinan of his dignity and. resources, is eqnslly won by a wmtbleib desperado; whose end is miserable, and desponding suicide. But, Sir, to the dreg. of fashion, and to the wortislessadventureraf-foltrand crime, I do not .appeal—l am writing to the man of reflection; he. who ,bas warmed his interests in flie genial sun of virtue. and .therefore.the happy Inheritor of well .begotten means ; he, . who, however prosperous at this moment„inay be influenced by the change of Forteee's wheel, and be reduced from affluence, unseenly and unavoidably. Let him open his 1 !wart and his hand—let him, while it is in his power and ditty, raise the pleasant street-Iff houses, with its long walks of gardens and reteetsting•ihsfew of trees--let ',kin, say to his fickle 1at1y....' Portant.; 'now; I ate thy faviniiite,• .1. will prevent thy 4artice injuvinp me _snit my eons and ,daughters of want.' —fa-morrow. my ships may be sunk in this tempest—my storehouses • consumed In the farner-erey.i imbue he visited by peittileneefaOd me frienddllown ewer. Then Fortune, thou wilt shun my totch. .;•1117 wife wilt condemn my Insecurity, my offspring will elqtqm itneyhip,i bitterness,•and Watts nity-;4fibe. then, *Gould 1;;Iike the -ailitieri of old. wish and zealously. desire thiet'skludVbity dent mind had provided a calm spot tar a tyfineini.nel oT heart,to look retrospectively on the past and trwaquillisiog k'the present, Wear gently eat of time, and soar swiftly into. 'eteruisfe , Il •:-. r.f-o, ~.liudgeoult& Inkatehti Pnarrthe peer enema.... • • • •. '", . hose 'stole sulmiskieuee on time sista deklu4o X. r. Z.  Yesterday his .Majesty's ship Geom.. B.4..C.PteiWitd• ward Brace. C. 8., was ordered to be uomplwirtel to her war M.mmlinersot (700 men), and proceed pat pf the harbour.— She was accordingly full meowed this day, from the Queen Charlotte end A;bioo, aid ip a few days she. will he ready to proceed to eas: •.ItL undeistood .that .ako Is going on an experirweital'craise is the Atlantic, to eagertelaJbA.csalities of a round stern line, qf stile ship ; but tit& she sad the Bemis, 74,.5ir Tbormitt.inugetone, Bart.. Which le grit into Plysnoutli will revioissly take the 7tb. ,regiesent to the West "n Attie. The Ude:anti, regiments, It is' Understood, are-afari.to be, sent out as a reinforcement to Bre iroopi in the. pres‘• tedip islands.--(Kampehire irckeroph.). . . 'l/111 latior'Poele 'retie wis suit to have been the pattern 04,0i/with satt.who gave all his income in altos to the .poor.brothren wf hie faith. It seam-bay died worth 12,000 erowns per annum, besides 130,000,crownein moveable's:. -Thisiethe way a nation. i when coder bigotryl'a tithpince44 is kept in poverty amelanserf:-'-1 .'• ; .• A Gssotge Oman .ppepfng, friars' Road last tketratchavau (tog his hour bell, erelalmed','"A rah, isty.Appe, your bell would keep mearoakeOf *fey la thiipart of the town, ure enough.' • a •  • At a ?Onion dialer held at the Horns, in Mfr./ringbolt-shire' were Lord ./kerburat. Sir James Doe, Squire Heil,' .Ir. bock-hale. Mr, num/Men, Mr.. Haat, M.jur Falcon,, Mr. Forater, Captain Park, Mr. Comrse, sad Doctor Hauacirwell.. At the ball, were Mrs. Lamb, Mrs. Parsley, Mrs. Bunter, Mrs. Foote, Miss Dance, Miss Quick, bliss Runter, Miss Tittertoo, Lady Legge, and the Honourable Miss Ste/is.  Account of Inquests taken by Thome Stirling, Esq. Coroner for one part of tha county of Middlesex, front the quarter ending tith of June last, to the Quarter eliding 18th of October instant.  Verdicts •