Star. — London, England, 1817-01-18 00:00:00

its uoanimity, and he again assured the Meetiog no I aloft should be wanting on his part to unite all classes for the salvation of the country. The CHAIRMAN then gave the health of Mr. WAMIMAN, the steady, and the consistent friend of Reform. This toast was drank with shouts of up* probation. Mr. WAITHMAN said, he should, nn this.occasion, trouble the Company no further than to thank them for the honour they had done him. and to assure them that he would never relax in the efforts he had hitherto pursued, so long as he had health and strength to enable him to do so. Fle should now, with the per mission of the Chairman, propose a toast ; and in doing so, he she old give the company a test of his Dien political principles. The toast 1/3i, " The im mortal memory i.f Chalks James Fox."—This toast was done honour to in silence. The health of Join/ PIIILPOT CURRAN, Esq. was the. next toes:. This was drank with great applause. Mr. Colman thew rose, ai.d spoke to this effect : Mr. Chairman, and you. Ger.tlemen, be pleased to accept any most respectitil thanks for the honour you have done me; an honour pteculiarly gieat on an occasion awful as the present. On ordinal) , occa sions a superficial civility is sufficiently rewarded by an insolvent bow. But something more is 'necessary in return fur the introduction of nay name, at a mo trent when the liberty of England is in question. I come from a country which has no liberty to be proud of. and if 1 go back to it, it will be as to the waters of Babylon—to weep. You have been pleased. however, to give one toast—the Cause of Civil and Re ligious Libel ty all the World over. When you drank that toast, I felt my heart embrace the Negro-4 felt :olio that it sympathized with my own poor country. Ireland, if it heard that toast, would bless that se na° is prospect of your's. from which alone can gro.v our human existence—(4/0/ause.) I am en t esiastic for my countrymen, but my enthusiasm for them •is not surprising : my youth has been spent amongst them—my sympathy has been stretched for them--I might have sold myself at the market of corruption, and grown ioto pride, and wealth. and remorse, at their expense ; but I preferred to SU) below with them in their humiliatiort-i-to mourn their condition—to defend them if 1 could—to chide and rebuke them when a hold friend ought to do so. On their ueli..i. you for the generous sympathy whicia fiascos:sated that toast—you will not find them unworthy coadjutors in the vineyard of liberty.— I might he disposed, pethaps, to trespass too much on p.m indulgence, on a subject towards which my heart will never freeze—the subject which brought you togtther ; but the sentiments I entertain have been so much better expressed by the member who spoke List, my old friend, if he will allow ate mean bon so (Mr. Waithman), that I shall only dela', • them if 1 attempt to rub them over. They are sea - limetatit.which a longer life than he has yet-passod has raietted more firmly on my judgment. Theaw fat stalsject of our meeting is that policy which, by its melancholy results, we perceive has approached a crisis. •It is written in lan in this country—it has been written abroad in blood—(41/sestu).....I remem ber the American war--I ma not soul that lam old enough to have witnessed its climes and because I shall soon be removed from these scenes altogether. I saw then the graceku contempt ot buman rights. t heard the assertion that wen were represented when they were eat represented; they be haved to a tuition as a petty solicitor to a man when he enters kis appearance in a Coon in order that judg ment may proceed against him; the admonition ut Paoviainice ; the admonition of the waves, which **had interposed, was of 'no avail—(Appkera.)— • We displayed our antic force and mimic ferocity ;we &ladled the fire of liberty inAmerica. and at that blase was the spirit of France kindled. ,Let no man dare to say when fie weaves has web of policy, there is no Goo I Yes, there is; and by his law the crimes of man generate in their owu consequences thew own punishment.— (ifpirdaere.) The French Revolution began: the * French would have been at =with os. As a scan husk them was on , hi s in this country (C.hauvelin), he was kicked out. It will be tedious to read a clinical lecture on the pro tsof this disease: we bare brought it to an end. how;—As the most ignorant quack might have closed it—we hawse bottled up the infectioe.—(4- p/aaee.) Have we done .any mare i—What have we don't—The Eat glorious circumstance for this maw took place at the time of our Revolution. Who we decided, that in the time of national tale- Mite, the suenareb should not cling for his defence to the base and scurvy tie of legitimacy.—(4/01ause.) Yin aicestoes saw what the monarch would be if be only could commit crime with impunity. They Thrusted that odious law. The last war was to re peek that repeat—to establish the principle, that the isatioa has no power to judge of right or wrong-a. ' that their decisions shall In set aside by a gang ol ddiptits,. who bare restored a faded—no I not a ' faded—an exhausted—mil not an exhausted—but a bloated, eztrayssated dynasty—merely because they bad a mind to do so.--.(llfrcii It is not that I have any sentiments of enmity to the timbers of the'Esecutive itt this country—they ate misguided, osisadvised, but they do not want good intentions ; but is there nothing alarming in itself, in else establishment of 150.000 Men t Where think -you this establishmeat was formed— : ia the Cabinet ,of Ss. James's Are you sure of that I Was it not at the Congress of Vienna t (ifoiaau.) We see its effeets, universal distress. universal beggas y. I have been shocked in your Arm* with what 1 had " ogres witnessed betore in this country—min, wail dressed. approach me, and, is the nuder-voice ut Buf feting and shame, beg me to give then: scarnethatig. Reniember one thing. It was the number of public mendicants in trance which caused the bosuns u: the itevOlution. When a man, aka) INN been accto ib no key s a bl e le i fi n d tomato support his family, dieus.bee4d, tbe 'tweaking which baud* hint is brokm, • and famine becomes the recruiting officey o w re b el _ ( iftfileare.) Let me retinal/ you of soothes thing, It cuustry does not fall to pieces is 4 SUOMrat butt WWI it begins to tall, like other falling bodies, • it &vends with a constantly incieasing vacity precipitation I How' tar are we from tee eat th HOW long will it take to - pass the 'pee which re swim . f lit you have bow 49,0uuet4teing nteu (you ere aat absurdly Minute to my catatlation) blueing wider want and oppression. , whit hood of allegi state remains tot them t The true bohd of allegiauce " is, when the subject feels that be derives blessings from it which he had better die than pare with.— But where is the John the Baptist ?. Where is the voice, heman or divine, which cao preach to the exasperation which famine and oppression produces I in the minds of men—(alrfiloure)—and I will even I add in English minds? You are not like the French Apes and dancers. You cannot pipe or shag amidst your misery, and then run from your little ordinary gambols into blood and cruelty. You are of a graver habit • Nature has made it more difficult to rouse you— but remember, that oppreuion will make even a wise man mad. You feel what your grievance is.-- bin what is the remedy t Neither Patient nor Doctor knows our evils ; we feel impending famine and the dread of a maim: y despotism. Military establishments are useful when raised to oppose our enemies—not to trample on our friends. But even in the streets now we see nothing but spurs and cockades, and whiskers and feathers. Fine birds of show ' but odious birds of prey in a country like yours. What has been done by this army ? It should almost seem that honour WAS no longer.a part of the professiens of a soldier. Faith has not been kept in any part of Europe.—. How have you behaved to Norway ? how to Poland, which has been treated almou as bad as Ireland ? how to Italy ? To aid rulers against the people, you were every where—to secure the people justice from their rulers, you were no where. Did the Blessed Virgin.lay you to sleep whole the horrors of the In-, quisition were metered ?—(itmettnue.)—My unfortu• nate country you prevailed on to sell her life, and when she'lay dead, instead of affording her decent rites of sepulture, you tied her corpse to what re mained *of vital representation iti this country, and yoti have been rewarded accordingly: You have not been haunted by ber ghost, but you have been rotting with her carcass. You have engaged in a war con. tray to the interests of your country t not one war . . . . . . . in a thousand is undertaken for the sake of national • -interests---they are stimulated by the courtly panders : to the passions of Princes. The war with America had never been popular in Ireland ; the war with France had never been popular there. I do not magnify the importance of Ireland; Gov knows the English blinistry had left it little to be proud of in the wAy ul wedith—but still the voice of a nation was something, and thrbase apostatei who gcverned it,l thought it better to sell their country, and transfer their , voices to this:—(Mr. Curran commended the judg ment of Mr. Watchman as to the proper course to be followed in the attainment of Reform, and pro ceeded:J—There should be no spirit of acrimony in your proceedings. There are many persons 'of the highest honour in the louse of.Cosnmons..... There are in the direction of his Majesty's Councils —I do not know them—(but blessed are those, we are told, that-believe, though they have n-iit scen— e lapsh)—nuny excellent persons. When yon hold up the situatioq of the country to their view, they will have so much acquiescence as to say as Nathan said to David. 66 thou art the man,"—they most ac knowledge the justice of your picture. I cannot suppose that if your claims ere stated fairly and m 6. -. derately, they cannot have an effect.—When the people are Unrepresented beyond a certain point, the system is worse than do representation at all—(4p /Nam..)—The executive is not only without counter poise but %without apprehension. Those bribing and those bribed degeaerate into a profligate fraternity, drawing and re-cheering. without funds of their own, on the solvency of the country I The ruler is not ashamed and the betrayer h not afraid.—There is a kind of competition in vice. If one roan will keep within bounds ' another will be found to dress him self out iu all the ribbons of his prostitution. lam not for giving votes to the beggar on the bridge, nor for the constant tout of annual Parliaments, but for a substantive representation of the people—(Ater.)— In this cause I wish to see all distinguished persons colic forward to puU an oar. This society, I ant persdaded, still eet a good example ; it would thew the people that Parliamentary Reform does sot con sist in breaking windows, or getting drunk in the streets. It will rally every man of good sense and deceni feeling—behaving with respect even to those , who have done you wrong. Go on—and Goo give yi.o the success which, it it be not, blasphemous to say, you have merited be the noble principles of your co-operation— (Loudon/log sweiinuedapitlaws.) l'be healths of the Mover and Seconder of the Re solutions were drank,- who returned thanks. The utmost decorum and conviviality - prevailed in the meeting. Other toasts were drank, as, Trial by Jury—The Liberty of the Press—Success to the Cause of Society.—About ten o'clock the Chairman left' the Chair, and the greeter part tithe company separated. Yesterday was the last payment on the Lottery Contract, when the whole of the Tickets which re tnained in the Sank were delivered ; and as they only toosisted of 1500, ire should imagine that will not be esough_.to meet the demand that may be ex pected before Tuesday next, when the Lottery be. gins Drawing. HOLIDAY Paesenrs.—A complete Set of Ettiermis ins Oration futd aittemrs, which have been prepared at A very considerable expense, and calculated for the amusement of a Company of any number of persons, 1.611 be presented, gratis, by Swirr and Ce. to their Friends and Purchasers at their Offices, ever, day, until TUYADAY next. when the Lintel y begins drawing. Nur TUAiDAY.—The Friends and Customers of , Wxsn's Forrestal' °ices, 9, Cornhill, and 17. Ludgate bifeit, Are reSpertillily (Minded that on liwrday sent the Lottery will commence Drawinc; and that in consequence of the Lords of the Treasury having I apportioned 3700 Guineas for the Ira Drawls, and t 5 Guineas to each of theirst Stlelikutis —those who purchase before the above day will evi. thinly possess superior advantages. Itiorattosou, GOODLUCK. and Co. beg leave to re mind their Friends and the Public, that the present State Lottery begins Drawing Nom TUIPADAY and respectfully iolicit their favours at their (Aces, Cernhill and Charing Cross, where they have Bold, within the last few months, a Prize of 050,000 ; 2 Prizes of 25,000 Gutmann each ; 2of 4190,000 ; 2' of 010.000, BGC. RICRAKDiett, GOODLOCI4 and Co. wish to impress their Friends with the evediency of puichasing before Neer Tuisoavos on Tarni DAY, aadition to their chance of the CaPrrat.a of 20,000 Guineas, &c. the first SOO Numbers drawn Blanks. will receive 15 Guineas...lmb. EAST-INDIA DIRECTION. The Commiitee for conducting Me. Loarsovt's Election to the Seat now vacant in tha East-India Direction, have permission from the Most Noble tile Marquis of WELLest.EY, E.G. late Governor General of India, to publi,h the following Letter from his Lordship to Mr. WM:MN " Richmond, I6th January, 11117. ' " forts; I.waso to, Esq. " SlR—Although I should have been confident that your meri. torious and useful services in bridin had been sufficiently attested by the records of the Company, and that my judgment of your character and conduct must be apparelit from the mint authentic ducoments, I moor you that I am •always happy to bear every testimony in your favour which may feud to uhtalti just dist ac tion for you in this country, and to give the public the benafit of your additional s.,rvicea in the awaits of India. " It is a mere discharge of a public duty orb my part to declare that, during the whole period of my Governnient in India, I con sidered you to inaild.ii; the first rank of tire Civil Seivicr at Ben gal, as well on account of your experience, industry, talembs and attainments, as of your dear integrity, humane disposition, and excellent tcoprr. " The aftangtmentstwhlds It was my duty to accomplish at Lucknow, required meow resort to eatraordinary aid ; at that Court, on a very peculiai occasino, I then appointed you to the moat important and dented station lu the judicial department at Calcutta, ',Midi you tilled with such advantage to your own character, and to the public service, that I afterwards called on you to climate the arduoas duties of Chief Secretary to the Su preme Government. " In Mat difficult, labodous, and highlreonadontlal shuatinn, you coatinued during a edge of affairs which required every exer den la every department; awl it is an met of stns justice to bear testimony to your Itighly-usdul and able services at that period of same. • " In the showiest of ado Secretary to the Government, I left yoa, open my departure from India, retaining the deepeu sense of .the assistance which I had derived from you In the dis charge of the high tryst which I held in that country. The selection which was subsequently made of your name for the Supreme Council, was highly judicious, entirely conlormable to sty opinions, and has proved in . the greatest degree useful to the I Company, and to the Natiou. I " Haring pasted through such a coarse of public service and honour, principally under my Government na India, you are entitle.* 'to clan from ate every expression of gratitude for your past services, as well as of atitious hope for your sweets to any pursuit, of which the attainment may en able you to serve your Country again, with the same zeal, knowledge, and probity—with the same abUity and prudence-- which have already distinguished you in many severe trials of dificulty, labour, and danger. " Believe me to be, with the greatest regard and esteem, " tilt, your faithful and obliged Servant, (signed) " 'WELLESL.EY." (A true Copy, • J. Atizannaa.) FRENCH Pill'l..Ri.l ! ( ' e v r , , 1 , 1 I , . i • jO. Ol P . I 1 . . 1 , ,Ft .. t , . t - - RECEIVED THIS MORNING. CHAMBER OF PEERS. SITTING of TIOL 4Til OF JANUARY. The Order of the Dap called for the discussion of the Plan of Law upon the Organizationuf tLe Elec turah rollers- In place. of proceeding with that discussion, the Chamber decided that the Project should be remitted to the examination ot a Special Comodssion. The Members named for that Commission were Count Abrial, Count Clermont Tonnerre, the Duke of Ta rentum, the Count and Coma La tour-Ma übourg. 'The Chamber adjourned till Saturday the l&b. CHAMBIR OF DEM nas. SITTINU 0111 111111 I STII Or JANUAItr. e The Chamber opened at half-past twelve o'clock. M. Tar, Reporter of the Commission, charged with the examination of the Plaa of Law upon the Liberty of the Press, made the Report of the Constnissioo, and proposed the adoption of the Project. The Report will be printed and distributed, and the discussion will incceed that upon the Project of Individual Liberty. The Order of the Day called for the continuation of the discussion upon the Law of Individual Liberty. M. POKSIIIID-..." It is the duty of a Deputy who has passed the greatest part of his life in prisons, and in witnessing the Abuses of power, to declare himself against a la* which violates Individual Liberty. Ever, one of ns remembers the words of his Ma jesty ••• Tranquillity reigns throrghout the Kingdan.'— The Minister of Finance, in presenting the Budget, spoke ist the state sense. The Minister of the Interior would not have proposed the Law upon Elections, if there had betel any indications of troubles. All is tranquillity, and yet extraordinary Measures are de manded I 'Calera then no tither remedy than that of retrograding towards despotism ? Shall we not re member the resignation with which the French na tion has supported her misfortunes ? Sh.lll we pre sume evil rather than good, by again deptiving ter a whole year such a generou; nation of the Charter ? Instead of alleviating, shall we perpetuate her mai*. fortunes ? ' 10 Since aII is tranquillity in the kindom. duel Liberty ought nut to be suspended upon vague declarations and chimerical tears; to allow such a measure, there would be need of alarming circum stances and imminent peril. The Chaster is not at our disposition,. we have not the power of changing it as we please. Let us not deceive ourselves. Let not the borders of the Seine become to us as the ,sueams of Lethe. %%lost has ever resulted irons such ; measures? The overthrow of all Constitutions, in. numerable prisons, and thousands of 4ili-es des cachet, and moral degradation aniseed at such a pitch, that the spy boasted of his employ as much as if it had been one of the twist honourable offices. They boast of the ameliorations of this new law. What are they; The individual. who knows o n ly by the warrant that he is arrested, is to be informed by the Attorney. General of the motives of that arrest. Delivered up to a secret interrogator ; taken Irons his parents, his friends, and his Counsel ; left to himself -to compose a Memorial ; debarred of his natural Judges, of be• mg confronted with his .denunciator, and dragged from prison to prison: and, to complete the whole, put face to face with a slanderous cAtunniator. As for Ministerial responsibilit y, it is always an Mission.— In consequence of the Law of the bf October, _ 1815, 17110. persons were accused of treason and plop.; and now the very act of their being set at liberty proves that there was sso foundation for the charges. Let ns then renounce this violent regime, w 1 ich makes the ordinary laws fall into disuse, by laws of exception. A single word from the mouth of out Sovereign has been able to rally thousands of French men. Such is the natural effect of confidence.— Let us not discourage this universal confidence. I . vote for the rejection of the• Projyct.n . M. FIGAROI•46' Since I cannot be found in oppo- • sition to the true interests of My enttntry, and s'ca the proposed Project tends to the strengtheeing et the throne, I will not share in the opinion of that es magogue, who said-4 Ler the Colnlet perish rae e, than a single principle of the Constituion ehenld b e injured: As far me, I think it better to vinlete A principle than to expose the safety of France. We e d,* volt desire once mete to encour age uni aithful sttb:ecti? Do you desire that another 20th of &Lech should come, and stit in iv. the people of France, sleeping in the most pernicious security ? It was thes impunity, it WAS the clemency of our Monarzh which called l' e factious to raise their heeds ! They did telt dissem ble their guilty hypes—France 4:41 en the point if , being again torn asunder, when the lAve of the e ( pi of October saved her. I anew that the ameliorati e e of the public spirit admits of temperire the rieo- e of the leve, but not yet to repeal it. Are ye t re e e e oppose this law convinced that petty exists no longer in France ? —that factions are crushed--that slee t tranquillity can nn tenger be menaced ? And what moment do you select for your opposition to thelaw? The moment when our treaties with the Ake; oblige us to increase the taxes. and when we stand iteneed of the means of credit; how will yen fir& these means if you make enemies to the Government, and sleep while, the factious watch. You ought t • adopt the project. as the modificatfons offer every guarantee which can be desired." M. Seuenteit" All France desires the mainte nance of Individual Liberty AS the reward et her sa. orifices. The repose tit families calk for it. but there still exist inquietudee Ttue—but must they be made to ceese by extraordinary measures ? His Majesty's Ministers say the Government is gfrong. li it is se, what necessity for this law ? It is weak Gayest . , meats only that resort to. such laws. The Reporter has spoken of a neighbouring people which bid often been obliged to have recourse to the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act- But he ought to have told you with what solemnity tt is wok place, and only when the security of the State was menecol ; but, at the 64111 C time, they carefully avo;(1 any res:ric tions of the Liberty of the Press, in allowing it every latitude, even against the Govern:neut. This larr will destroy the credit which is endeavoured to be estAbltshed, by persuading foreigners that France is not tranquil." M. Fru c DE LA Bouema —" The project of law does net attack our fundamental law. It is Ina severe . than that of the 29th of °ocher. It gives more guarantee. II it is a dread to the bad, it gives confidence to the good. I concittele for she adoption of the latieexcept some amendments :which I propose to submit to the Chamber. This prciject is in the in terest cif the King aod of tlo Ct.arter." ' M. Da Vuo.eer..--6' With use std of the disposi tions of the temporary law of the 29::i of October, the Police has become a power erely colossal il France. To-day it demands the renewel of nree dispositiens, upon which rests its extraetdinary exie. ence. Individual Liberty, consecrated by the Cheo ter. has been suspended in 1815—ea period very ditio rent from the present. The Allied troops then teel. pied a part of France—our army was disorganised— we were at a violent and terrible crisis. Toere then was need of extraordinary measures ; but now tle Government has already caused a great number el the causes of admit to disappear. The camp:nisei of our situation then with the present one, locos that this project ought not to be tadoptid." M. de Vieetea here entered into a refutation of the : arguments ueed in defence of the Project. '6 What (said he) is it moderating a law to substitute lode& :lite expressions which will admit of every interprt ta. tion ?" Having discussed the other dispositions of the law, the orates concluded in these words, o I ' vote for the rejection of the IA w : reserving for me .self, it the principle is adopted, to propose an amend ment proper to lessen the'dangers of its execution." M. DLIVERGIER DE HAURANNE.—" before the cloth of March, the respect for individual liberty proceeded even to imprudence. Passions and old hatreds were lapin renewed. The law proposed removes all etch evils. The power of arrest, which had been confided to 4 crated tit functionaries, will only be confided to the two Ministers of the King. I vote tor the ado?. tion ot the Project." M. CASTEL BAJAC compared the circumstanees in . which the law ( t the 29th of October was furreee, wish those of the present time, and euncluded %sell this comparison, that the proposed law was as uselto •nd dengerous as the other was us,lul and IIvCCSVIty. He concluded by voting against the Preject. M. BLANQUAKT BAIILLEUL &tended tIIC Priett, sad justified it from the reproaches wh'cli lied ;:eta adduced. He declared is favour of it on the ground that its evil consequences were parried by tilt: reseon sibility of Ministers. . The Chamber separated at half-past four. Adjourned till to morrow. SITTING OP TUE 14TH J.kwvAttv. The discussion on the Plan of L a w, regereing dividual Liberty, was resumed. M. M. BECOPPY, Commissary of Ile King ; CA MILLI JOURDAN. Rost? be COLLAUO. And Val ZIN nv GARTIUIPI spoke in favour of ere plan ; :eel 'el. Nl• SALASSaar, Joss BOAVVoIo, and Le lioviteoeeete agaimt it. . M. BILCQUEE urged many new reasons tor centi fusing the suspension laid down in tee Itepert of u.e Commissioner. M. CAutt.ut Jouttuaw was lieat.d with great :17. plause.-0 The King," he said, 64 by die Cli, , r;r, and the Acts which had confirmed it, had dare :nor: lot Civil Liberty than all his predece•sors toget!ter.' s Ftenclimcp," he added, 6. you see the State a things—you know your King ; give him the romet ot acting-..permit bias to save you." M. LA iIOI.IIIDOSNAVE I in oppo s ing the Prejee% fibunded particularly ou the resells or the previou, law of 1813. He said that 1700 Persons arrested, and since released : and of course that ti•Stf 17170 innocent individuals had been arrested on lab' charges, or 170 t.) guilty had been imptudtutly rt• stored to ' , betty. The hltrasrea *if roma, in refutation of ele Azle ment of M. la Buterklonnage, laid on the table it lit of all tht indilltduals who haJ been arrested ia soft." ut the law of last year, fawn wliitli it appearesl their ituntber had never exceeded 35‘). The discussion was adjourne-d tiil next day. PARIS, JANUARY is. A Royal Ordinance has just heel' issued declati,.. that all judicial proceedings which may have plaice during the three 1110I1L115 ef usurpation, lik rr sa. there made !sty's, is so, verr,- wrier often on of r told only but, s:ric- every ; larr to be ce is law Rivet gives ption rpm e in. fosi• ober, a-re :b.r. ed— then r tLe er el rieet CAS f ihe Vh.it deli. rr Is of 41 I m+- end- r. ll 20th !del Nett ;lids I to lop- -1 in ,v.th Lo.t ss 4fy. jeer, :era and ror- CA- ; SI. AIL ti. ' t;.e tr. ° 0: ;OP la% 000,, 6?r; rale • rt• tee lie Igor if;r: