Observer Of The Times (Newspaper) - October 8, 1821, London, Middlesex This Paper be to any part of the Orders will be received hv EDWARD and all and of til ci It ot Forei on accurate f OB tie state o toand other News tip tlie 1821 Price Retrospective Review containing Criticisms Analyses and Extracts useful and valuable Books in all from the Revival of Literature to the commencement of the present and We have long wished for an opportunity of no a which in every so highly deserving the attention of the We lve in such a reading we have so many and other periodical miscel 1 i f lames have such a quick succession ot events passing before ris at the same that we are really too much occupied to pay the homage which is due to the learned of past Those who mix much with the world are continually asked whe ther they have seen the last new volume of the new Tragedy or Romance perhaps even pestered to read because they have amused the idle hours of those who have nothing else to that un less they have have great they have little opportunity to recur to those treasures which have been in a obscured by the present system of so rapidly manufacturing something It was in some measure to counterbalance this evil that the work before us and it has been executed hi a masterly andinet with very considerable They have called atten tion of the public to many valuable productions of for mer times they have revived the memory of many undeservedly not been the means of their By their and carefully selected they have furnished a collection of specimens of the greater part of our English and other from the ear times of modern such as is nowhere to be found they have given abstracts of such works as are too bulky or too for general and of which an analysis may oftentimes be as and even more agreeable than the They what is interesting and valuable from books otherwise useless and opened their pages for the reception of bibliographical notices and com for original letters of celebrated men and for curious extracts from ancient Their criticism is of a they seek for the agreeable and their eye is not jaun diced by sect or nor their pens dipped in or partially like most of those who criticise living Many of the articles arc written In a very superior and eloquent and the they have treated upon are selected from every branch of They are too numerous for us to but we shall make an extract from one of which we think will be entertaining to all classes of our readers It is from the Adventures of Lazarillo dee a Spanish though translated into Eng is now but little His life was spent in and this history is a description of his Than his first the devil never hatched an archer or old had more by heart than all the blind men of for his guides was stingy and avaricious as he was Lazarillo was half starved to death by and obliged to exert his inge to portion ot his masters One of his expedients will be found in the ensuing At the blind old man used always to keep his wine in an which he set between his from whence I as often as I to move it slily to my after giving it a hearty return it to the place from whence it But my master being as cunning as I was and finding his draughts were after always held the mug by the That new precaution proved but a whet to my industry for by means of a one end of which I put into the I used to drink with more satisfaction and conveniency than before till the I hearing me rendered my darling machine by keeping one hand upon the mouth of i Used to as I then I could more easily nave dis with my shirt and exigency put me upon afresh invention of making a hole near the bottom of the stopping with a little at dinnertime I took the tap the and getting my head between the old mans received into my mouth the delicious juice with all the decency So that tee old not knowing to what he should impute the continual leakage of his used to swear and wishing both the wine and the pot were at the You wont accuse me any I hope cried J Of drink ing your after all the fine you have taken to prevent that he said not a word but feeling all about the he at last unluckily discovered the which cunningly dissembling nt that he let me till next day at not God of the old mans malicious but getting in between his according to my receiving into my mouth the distilling and pleasing myself with the success of my own my eyes but half the furious taking up the sweet but hard pot with both his flung it down again with all its force upen my face by the violence of which imagining the house had fallen upon my I lay sprawling without any sentiment or my fore and gushing out with and the x full of broken and broken pieces of the From that time forward I ever abominated the monstrous old in spite of all his flattering could easily observe how my punishment tickled the old rogues He washed my sores with and with a what quoth Lazarillo the thing that hurt now restores thee health 1 all his raillery could not make me change my For this Lazarillo afterwards took an of amply revenging blind greedy as he in comparison with the our heros next was The whole stock bf accessible to the unfortunate adventurer was a rope of of which he was allowed one every four The priest exercised his skill in arithmetic so rigidly in the storeroom that Lazarillo never ex the allowance There were in which lie contrived to layin a good and that happened whenever there was a funeral in the so that it was his earnest morning and that God call unto his rest one of at lenst every And he When we went to carry the holy unction to any of the pa the priest needed not bid me the sick per I was of my own accord sufficiently inclined to do earnestly desiring not as the custom that he would dispose them according to his holy but that they might speedily be received into Paradise and if after that it happened that any body recovered Lord pardon me for it I wished them at the Devil with my heart with a thousand benedictions the corpse of those who peaceably left the and by their departure entitled me to a lusty There was an old antique in which the priest carefully deposited the for his own peculiar This he kept so fast locked and was so cunning that La with all his expedients could not for a long time circum vent a single morsel of To lie Letters from to the 9th of Sep tember present a distressing picture of the commer cial situation of the A vast number of failures have recently taken the consequences of which have completely suspended all One merchant is stated to have failed for two mil lions of one million of which was owing by to the The exchanges still continue on decline the last quotation of the exchange by these letters is 9 FORTUNES i ACQUIRED IN We are requested by an East India Friend to copy the follow ing letters from the Asiatic which we readily comply conceiving they will be interesting to our subject of fortunes rapidly made in India by the Civil Servants of the and rapidly squan dered in this was alluded to at the Court of Proprietors held under date the 4th July last I am in consequence induce to draw the attention Of the Proprietors of Stock the Directors of the to the present state of the Civil Service in India and to the means possessed by Civil Servants in these days acquiring must be admitted that fortunes in some former periods been acquired with In those times salaries were small emoluments undefined civil servants per mitted to trade their protection courted by wealthy and the rate of interest of money as high as two and three per per But do these exist Did enlightened policy of the Marquis adopted by the Jut the Public emoluments prohibit Civil Servants from in trade those in the commercial line occasionally and hasr not the establishment of Courts of combined with good reduced the rate of interest to less than six per cent These questions I be answered in the V The salaries of Civil Servants thus the only they now of acquiring by saving a portion of the in order to understand Aereal tV know when the I have now before me the the of many Civil of who are only Registers under salaries their a been so prudent during the first of residence ia rathe midst of much as to be free from to be able to commence his salary in the tenth in India it will not even then be that an independence can be rapidly acquired by beginning at to late and low rate of interest which prevailed for many years past or what is considered a fortune in can be acquired at I willingly that a moderate after a residence of thirty might certainly be secured by a Civil even under unpromising provided the of health remained with was the state of things I left India ten it continue so The Company have found it neces sary to abolish several of their Commercial Residencies five or on the I have also been made in the judicial and more are All the Civil thus thrown out of have been thrown back on the The Civil Service has alsof the chance of promotion to certain situations formerly held by Civil but now filled by of or not either in the Military or Civil Service there appears then a pro that promotion will be than it and that it may be fifteen or sixteen years before a Civil Servant attains a from I which he reckon on aty B t It would be difficult to fix any precise period at which Civil Servant should be deemed entitled to or to proportioned to his length of if promotion did not offer hut Ithink the will feel disposed to that from two or three devoted at Hertford at a great to the attainment of deemed the Expense of the outfit of a toyage of five with a protracted in the junior in give strong claims to remuneration at some fixed upon resent cale superior to a bare maintenance and that the present low rate of interest a very limited of acquiring an even when a from which a can be The establishment of a fund at Madras by the Civil Service to give annuities to Senior and the recent increase of the will be received as evidence of the opi the Civil Servants at that Presidency entertain of their The Servants could have no motive to subscribe to this fund if early promotion could be obtained without this assistance and senior Servants would not need to become subscriber an income could be rapidly acquired without It will I think be obvious to the that the advantages to be derived from the Civil Service of the Company in India are limited to the receipt of a salary liberal in most I readily and these are affected when promotion is the interest of money the means of remittance or a Civil or any part of his is prematurely on a count of ill to return to March BREVET ARMY observe in your Journal for September a letter from relative to Brevet Rank being extended to Field retired from the service of the Com My the subject of Brevet Rank being coincides with but I do not see why Captains on should be excluded for how many officers are there on the half pay of that owing to their being compelled by or to on the eve of promotion I have no doubt that on the will view it in the same light that I do and I cannot for a mo ment on a suggestion our honourable and worthy Brevet Rank will be refused by his Majesty to their who and bled in the same field with those who bear Kings Commissions I your very obedient A CAPTAIN ON THEi I September pursuance of of his Royal Highness the we have the honour to transmit for your information and the following Copy of a Memo randum which has received the sanction of his Majesty relative to the prices of commissions iu the together with the al in the differences between full and half COPY August Memorandum of the Prices of Commissions in the and alterations in the difference between Full and Half ROYAL REGIMENT OF Difference in Value between the several Commissions in sue i Sift ROBERT Gallant Officer became Cornet in a regiment of Dragoons ifl and few months together with Sir now commanding in India ani six other rescued tbe Emperor of when taken prisoner in from the hands of the This little band cut him as the Bailor and brought him away The importance of such a not only to the imme diate object of but to the allied y well be when we reflect on the advantage the French Republicans would have had the person of one of the first combined against j iFor this glorious exploit he and his bold rades Knighthood of the Order of Afterwards Sir Robert served in Egypt with thb greatest distinction and his history of that campaign shows like the he letters into the and could record with ease those exploits which he witnessed and In the war of the peninsula Sir Robert took a distin and if he save from Lord Wellingtons after the battle of Ta After that battle we were obliged to retreat with so much speed as to be under the necessity of abandoning our sick and As Lord Wel lington was Marshal Victor we believe it at the head rf B corps advanced through a view to cutoff his re treat ibut Sir with a small body of Por called the stopped Victor days in the Pass of and thus saved English This service has been thought too great not to excite the jealousy of the General who owed so much to it The General praised him in the Gagette as a good partisan and Sir Robert was not long employed in Sir and his imprisoned in after the restoration of for haying assisted the unfortunate Count Lavalette to escape from the whose life was doomed a sacrifice to satiate a cowardly and pitiful He was liberated before the his imprisonment had the French Government finding it impossible to coerce him to their Soon after his return to this country he was elected to trnst of Representative of the Bo rough bf Southwark and has constantly distinguish ed himself in Parliament as the enemy of peculation and the friend of and Retrenchment Our readers are well acquainted with the disinterested attachment of Sir Robert to our late unfortunate whom to her last home to have raised all the rancour of ministerial and led to his dismissal from military He is now in the hands of and it remains to be seen whether they will suffer their tried friend lose his property by an adherence to their or whether they will show the ministerial despots that their pitiful vengeance has been the means of placing him above their dastardly SPORTING At Newmarket first October meeting on the trial of were won by Lord e 8uK aud four Grand Duke Michael of with a cup of giveo by Imperial were woir bj Lord beating de and eighteen This race much than and were of which paid four of them being On the Newmarket Leger Makes of for were won by Lord Au beating by and four Lord Mb bwt Sardo Two to ono on A gold of by of for of all 6st 121b 7st Robin 8s4 51b 8st 21b Lord 8st alb Foxs 8st 91b 8 to 1 4 to Robin Fifty free for any to carry lib 8st 51b and Little 5yrold 4yrold Major Wilsons 4yrold 4yrold B to 1 on Little 4 The town plate of for 3yrold carrying Tib and Sst Lord Incantator Wester Duke of Titian Cuyp 5 to 1 Incantator 8 to 1 North Wuster of for Set 71b s Tanais brother to iSir Joshua by Aladdin 7 to 4 Tanais 2 to I brother to Sir The kings plate of for carrying lOgt 41b list and 12st 4yrold 4yrold Robin 4yrold His Royal Highness the Duke of Yorks 5yrold 7 to 2 Luss 11 to 8 Antiope 7 to 4 Robin MATCH FOB Two between Captain Hanson and six of the Club and five of all took on lues on at twentyone Inc were decided as CAPTAIN HANSONS Ford Captain Hanson Captain Gee Captain Marshall Captain Kean Captain Captain Cent r 1 9 i 5 pd Cornet S Lieutenant l Captain Major Cornet Lieutenant Captain Major 400 525 DRAGOON GUARDS ANO Cornet Lieutenant Captain Major i 350 Ensign Lieutenant with the rank of with the rank of Colonel i 850 700 AND RIFLE Second Lieutenant 500 First Lieutenant MARCHING REGIMENTS OF Ensign 453 Lieutenant Captain Major 700 250 value between Full and Major Captain Lieutenant 632 0 0 3 13 0 0 4 4 919 511 365 We have the honour to Your most obedient The Officer John of and Peter Cameron of were indicted for and Peter super visor of excise in while in the of his Two people appeared at the the one a young man in the Highland the other a young who called them and Peter but who were not the persons libelled in the The mo that a warrant should be granted for committing them to prison Ion a charge of high contempt of was granted The diet gor and Cameron pro loco it and John was The two persons calling and Cameron were accordingly committed to and have we undergone in which they de that the indictments were left at their and that although innocent of the charges they had been advised in consequence to attend at the They were recommitted for further TUB that among the Gentlemen who along with Sir William the Lord Advocate for were the the Law Officer next in authority to the Lord Advocate Sir Colin one of tbe Clerks of the Court of Session John one of the Ministers of and leader of the Ministerial pany in the Church of Scotland of the Lord President of the Court of Session Sheriff of Perthshire Sir William the preceding brother of Lord of the Judges of the Court of Session and The discovery of this band said to have compromised the safety of the greatest man ef country if report be one of those who had been grossly calumniated in the had thought proper to make such a demand upon Sir Walter as he could only be prevented from answering in a similar hos tile spirit by the interference of a common friend A meeting of the Faculty of it is take to consider what steps they ought to take to testify their disapprobation of the conduct such of the Members of their body as have been parties to the The interference of the be justified by the example by the present Lord President of the Court of of the Hope who is a subscriber to the bond when Lord moved either the expulsion or censure we forget which of John for being the conductor of a Paper commenced at under tbe title of the Scott killed 18 17 16 U 14 IS 12 103 Alt Hamlet kilted 19 Foreman 16 Cell Meredith Jones Marshall Nelson U 10 99 FOOT running which excited the most lively for a wager of twenty took place on day in between two young men of well known pedestrian who were designated for the the one jack and the other Tall At seven o clock they met at the from whence they proceeded to where the ground 150 was Before the betting was rather in favour of Jack whose ability as a runner has known when both were the high and known bottom of Tall completely turned and betting then be came 5 and 6 to 4 in his Thy started precisely at twenty minutes past and kept abreast for eighty when Jack Spiggot began to lose became 8 to to and at last 20 to and anv as every stride threw him Tall Boy eventually won the beating poor Jack upwards of nine amidst the acclamations of the winning A singular race was run on Monday usar Chatham for a considerable between a brokenwinded blood horse belonging to a gentleman at Goldhurst and a an old the property of a Chatham coach The horses were matched to run eiht times over the a mile and a quarter At the odds were in favour of the blood horse the took and kept it nine when the jockey of the blood horse put it to its and won fn the true Newmarket The ten miles were run in rather less than 27 BOXING AT the close of Egham on those of milling sports had a two gallantly contested which kept the amateurs till The first fora between J tbe Kingston and Solly the fighting Bedford se the aud Peter Saunders picked up The best but Nash has many hidden qualifications S a aJd won it in six The battle was fought between as good little men unknown to the prize ever Firstrate with unmuzzled order of the They were known as and The latter won The between Carter and Cox will take place on the 21st of next for one hundred guineas on a twelve foot stage TWt within 200 miles of On a man of the name of David longing to suddenly eft Uu corpse was found in the at the on Sunday He has left a wife and to deplore Sim had been to a Society on Friday and one bf the private watchmen at the heard thing like a groan the same in the same direction the mans hat the next At the the watch man fancied the noise to proceed from the groaning of acme of the watchdogs in the ABK OB Friday a private letter was received by one of the Constituents of Sir that he should not je able to reach before Sir Robert also addressed a letter to his friends in requesting them to forego the plan of a which if Wilson did not alter their idea of tbe propriety of a dictated as well by their sense of what was due to as to injured Repre The doors of the Town Hall were thrown open after twelve when the Electors in large bodies began to Before one the and every leading waa completely blocked Precisely Alderm ui and others connected with the came into th were received with the loudest marks of approbation Black then and proposed that George take thj This carried Chairman ax his for the honour done although he thought It bnb of considering th men had to dei 1 have wished the Requi sition that had been presented to the High Bailiff had i complied for the thai officer have ranch diminished any danger that might have been They all knew it had been and they were now only by haying the grant of tho Hall by of tiie Lord Thay must as it and tonguetied by the operation of the six Acts he therefore trusted every Gentl unan would deliver his opinions with mode and confine his observations to the immediate of the sooie from Wood and Ihe were read to the without questioning Mi tire to from we cannot but view with great late exercise of it in the person of and gallant Wilson nor can w but feel that the advice given by his confidential advisers to that wan intended to punish an oppose r of their and a supporter of late than for the benefit of public service nor can we consider that advice upon to be just without an opportunity been given Tor as It to deprive Sir Wilson for which he paid upwards of Fire Thousand and after having rendered the moat eminent services t for nearly twentyfive in the most eventful period of our hi in order to forth the opinions of Electors of of the magnanimity and inde of Sir Robert and of in every t is that a Public tion immediately entered i in order to him the pecuniary the late measure is calculated to and to prove to the world that and of England eve i In arbitrary and will support an injured and highminded it highly expedient to Invite a Public Meeting of the Independent Citizens of and Noblemen and Gentlemen of the Country as may feel to attend soon a i possible for the purpose of furthering tho object of the a Committee consisting of the following be now i in order to carry the above Reso into Alderman Arrow D Whiting and that Hall be m nested to act he following Banking Houses be requested to receive and Williams and Ransom and and Sir and Borough Bank and that Jt be requested to act the thanks of this Meeting be respectfully offered to the High Honourable John Thomas Lord Mayor of the City of for his in granting per mission to the ors of Southwark to use the Town after Bailiff had to call or sanction Public jf The following letter was read to tho meeting by Alderman WoodH To the Gentleman assembled at the Three Tuns I have at the meeting undi t received the resolutions which were passed r your Impressed with the most grateful such a proud memorial of your I must intreat you to cancel the to a pecuniary and arrangements I have no doubt of will alford me ample means to counteract inconveniences to which mji family might otherwise be by a confiscation of my military and of the capital vested in the commis I I assure no fear that your would prove any shackle on that independence of which it is now more than ever necessary for your interests I should bi it I could without an abuse of your generous friendship permit the proposed sacrificed in my fa I I 1 With a grateful sense of I Your obedient A Letter was read from the Editor of the commu the receipt of him to the amount of Tlie Resolutions were then read the thanks of this Meeting be given to the Editor of the for his important made this and for thn patriotic exertions made in that behalf of Sir the this Meeting be given to tbe Editors of the and other Independent for their exertions in the same The following lei ter from a spirited Magistrate of the county of by the Chairman and read to the Meeting from the newspapers that the distin Robert is dismissed the without a or lie are proceeding 1 gentleman quest you to enter pose j Tenan accuser and finding that 4 he pub o indemnify that patriotic and on the may I re ny name for fifty pounds for the pur Your verv obedient BARBER TJie Resolutions Sir Robert Wils TO THE was British You have read another post to p Charge and Trial I will not insull when tlie opportunity but it is my duty the obligations whi as well as I Paris wero agreed to ui has addressed the following Letter to kis ELECTORS OF An in his has removed me from tie for my condemnation and I cannot s without assuring you that my deman instantly by a request to suspend your for defence has not been as vet offered declare to that I am fully to all in every a regard for your ny with Your obedient Thursday night at 12 a party of armed ruffians broke into the Bridewell of Croom evidently for in the absence of the who is at present attending the as forced open a window iii the rere of the was strongly se cured with iron they into the where a and having covered her with a tkey proceeded to break open a large chest which levy in the and took thereout 50 Guineas 20 and 4Bank notes each to prevent pre placed a watch over Kennedys wife in her Notice the outrage was immediately given to Henry whoi proceeded to the spot a party of and made every possible search in that and the but without The Duke of York has refused to grant to Wilson the which he
