Star. — London, England, 1817-02-07 00:00:00

-5.4 ".. `• .~i 44) • • attl i • 1- Ar. _ . • _ _ _ -.---- ~> . _-" . . . • . Ff;.; 4 +llO., T • .1 . 4 .0 • •••• • FRIDAY ; FEBREARY 7, 1817. `~~~_, Ntl-.11071Z. 9342. , ~.;'_.. ~. PRICE FN. li. LDVAL AND INDEPENDENT LIVERY. * WEB ADDRESS of ilie LOYAL and INDE -1 PENDENT LIVERY of LONDON to HIS ROYAL H GHNESS THE PRINCE RI:GEN F, on the present Stu of t Affairs, hes fur SigiEll..!(• I avrrn, Sishopb peeirmr,and the London coin , !loose, I.t.dp,ate.hlll. Hy Order of :i.e Contnatfee, Lordnn, Feb 6, 10% A D. WEI CH Secreta-y. LONDON 'l'skt.• Eft N; y 41, Isl 7. AT a numeroni M of M ibltC !•1 ANTS, BANKERS,'i•RADERS, and ethers, INHABIT AN ef the CI I 'V of LONDON. held this day ; Sir RO DER. W IGR4 NI. Bart. in the Chair; It was moved by Ifittear Parrett, Esq. seconded by HENRI' t, Esq. and Restdved unanimously, Thu the forme:lig ',i.e .:ration be sit-peed.by this Meeting, and that the same do lie at t his H ouse i tgr.atteres: We, the eindereped Mercients, Bankers, Trailers. rid In ta'Si'PVTS of I.oadun, deem it to he incumbent on us to come t..ernrd 'FL h a declaration cel nor sentiments till the *present crisis if public affairs: We ate far from being insensible to the evils which at pre. Kitt affect every base of the community, more especially the Ir-ver orders; we are anxiously desiroili that every practicable _tint may he used tor tilrvia ing th.ir ellstres•es ; and we enter tain a engrave hope, that the embarraswnetits will which we toe to strugekerill, by the ere chic of a wise and 'enlightened yeity, be overcome ; and that the agticuivire, manulact Imes, and of the eakeettY, will, sat no diatam,yvvod, revive and •.•r;e11. We ate whiled it the "Ow. then v ehat nothing tee teed e"e en tetar# the arceimpileliment of our wishes and hopes,thasi esti enderednrs which have trcrisly been exerted with too much ,',-cite, by designing- and eviSsideided• men, u persuade the r4 te that a remedy Is to be iourd in measures which, under senors pretexts. would effect the eiverrhrow of the Constitu ter. In these entravouri may be traced the criminal excretes width bays lately disgraced she Metrispola and ether parts of the istpire; and the still more desperate and atrocious outrage whelp les recently been committed against flit %acted person of the Paces Regent,pn his itturn from opening Parliament, in the neectie of the functions of stir mitered Mosarch. " We cannot adequ i itely express our abhorrence of these ame n:airs, elicit, if not reptemeti, -must lead to scenes of anarchy leloodsleed,to. appaUhig to coat:tinplate ; and we feel it to be a w es , ' itnd tepestouwduty Anse terwto our country, to pledge • est wives hidiSithistlyand collectively, tosupport the just e x e rdiu t ai the aailtoritref (Merryman, iq maintain the Constitution** 17 um esiablislied, and to resist every attempt, whether of crate v ol e uir,ihat nhiy iiiicage against our civil liberty and c u r secii t i n eace:! .•/• •• . • • • ROBERT WIGR4,OI, Cliais wean. Thebeelaratlon - tell retain et this Howie, for,thipiatureis t rtik (artiste nide', and i•Lisi of khe Nantes i.tfbe Subscribers, becente far foe lbog, fui Utis mode'o Vubtieeitini, is I AV preparing for delivery. • t. • • • se. . CLERK 0# IHI Pitia'S'OEl.loE, LANCASHIRE. ' PRESTo?I,I)ECEMBER 23, 1816. PRESTON HOUSE OF CORRECTION. WANTED, a GOVER - NO)t, or GAOLER, fat the HOUSE of CON 4ECTION at PRES lON. ith Pepin. onions applinsioo hie the above.ollice. are to send es inumial.. to Wiitiog, of, tack character ai.d abilities to 'm eet the same, to the Office of the Civre of th e Prace, at PM- Otvernot will be allowed a Salary of .014 0 . , together' wok the ew of the ?Odd adjoining the Prison. All Fees and ( ;rituldet, at *that descriptientoever, are abolished ; and oat or the above salary the Cowper is to pay the 'rurality Doe rotiee will be given, by four GORSE,Adveniseineot' e 1 the day of tart dor. ' E. GOR SE, .*. Deputy Clerk of the Peace. • CLERIC ovrm PEACE winos. 17th hour/. Ism I NOTICE IS HEILEBY GIVEN; 'that the .Jaairgast doe Pea* fir the Canty of lAecastet amemi l Akin as eljeterstexek et Si ittestael deearei Sege: et the Pau, so be kelasn at the Cant Howe In Preston, on Tue.dii, tile Cite do/ .t February nest, si Oaten (Meek In the Fore seen, WU Bost s Ceesseaw dr Clealor of eke Hauer of Cortes- OW at Preetoll. GORSI4 (Um Camera.) Deploy Clerk of chi Peace. EAST filDIAt ROUSE, FEBRUARY 6. '',:•.. THE LATE OU ['RASE. The CRAMMAIi iMr. Reid) said, a little diffieulty Std occurred, ill contequence of a recent event. The Cottrt of Directors had - voted• an Address to the Prince Regent on his providential escape from the late attack upon his person. It had been ordered, that..the 'Chairman and Deputy Chairman should plitkilethe tkineVatfd it had hten intimated to them, the Paige Regent would receive it this die st 6a pa - stelae. He (the Chairman) was. •therefote. ''ed to leave the Court, to carry up..tbielkikkesSo „„vi iiiiiidne.Frinnd. the Deputy Chtialpene . ekls , , 'ae Aerie Xi:cites:tutees,. he mutt beg of otec - am 0 , alirftWilher Directors to. act as•ChOeniita.!sad ktpn7 Cbeirmai. • • . . ift:•'Ebitaass wished the Chairman and Deputy Cliiirinii to• oup *kb the Address to the Prince Ikegent, not only as the representatives of the Cowt 01 Directors, but as theorist the Proprietors also.— There never was an occasion on which it was more propet chit eery loyal man should express his feel. night and he doubted not an Address from the East India Company, who were Alen of education, would bebetter received than an Address signed by a parcel of uneducated men. It it were put to the vote, he vat confidenkevery hand would be held up in favour xf his proposition. He therefore would move, that the Proprietors- dineil4 be asked if it met with their approbation I' ' Mr. S. Drier 10.41te weirder. His worthy Friend (Mr. Lowndei) bp.as justified in much of what he bad stlid. by the litelevent, , bot he was of opinion Ibis was ' tit the moment for entertaining a motion like that I i tut brought forward, though he thought there would been impropriety in signing a declaration of the sen ntents of that Court on the subject before they se. crated. . Alter a few further observations from the two last _ A Dusacroa said, the usual course had been, after he Court of Directors had voted an Address to the :leen on anr particular occasion, to call a Cow t of 'rotgietory to take the same • proposition into their :wisisiamion.. . It was ultimately sgreed that the COurt should Peet, this diti; ' • . 1 • • - - . HAULYBURY COLIJEOI. ' kirs'ltexams presallord, a had bowtisa Oesuesce! / 1 4ii'Legislaton Of this conntiy for stlong,umer to. . AO an anomaly which had nat•fsiled to excite surprise and admiration of the *Odd, and .the Italia Company, a body of reetebaati, bad been ha through successive cenitSylea• 'the • ditililated: ol " to et as Vapire alwitys:Oste Wt :aiw isiOlit so immensely extended thatit could not tail•to move' the wonder of future histmians, as' it had already done that of contemporary 'writers. Possessed of, this immense territory, if there was onePoiol conneb tad with it more important than every-gib* it was that which related to the education of those youths whom they sent out to 'incise the authorityi with which the Company was inceitee felt that to quality them for the ditties they asifulol have to ipntorm, it was proper. that evert attention should be' paid to their education ; he meant not - Atively their literary, but also their moral and 'political tlucation. Before he entered into the histoty.of :the establish-, ment, which had been formed with - a vie* to give' eff.:ct to ideas like those lie bad just avowed ; before he entered into the merits of the H derisory lostitn lion, he thought it tig . ht to glance at some . ch the ob servations contained in - a pamphlet secently sent forth by a Learned Professor connected with4t,•Mr. Mal thus. This Gentleman had at different periods not held exactly the same lan*nage on Offs subject. At the time when his letters to Lord Grenville were written, it was plaits he Was master of the boys, but shat bad recently fallen from hie.pen peoveg but too clesuly that they had nose hetikehe.ehlfasesi tT him.— He might appeal on . this:AwbOect-from Mr. Malthus tu.Mr. Malthus; (tom Philip Drunk to Philip Sober, in support of what lie (Mr. Jackson) should have occasion to advance . lie denied the justice • of the remarks which Mr. Malthus had made on what had fallen from him (Mr. Jackson) on the propriety of punishing the boys, and on their wear ing caps and gowns. Mr. Malthus had repre. seined to have said, that those who could not learn should be . ffigged and made to feel the consequences of their incapacity, and this sentiment, he added, appeared to halite been received with loud applause in that Count.. aid: he (Mr. Jackson) ex pressed such a sentiment, or had that Cow; applauded it, he wis of opinion it would have redoond.ed little to their credit. It had ever been tar from his wish to punish thluse whom nature had afflicted with inabi lity to ..cquite learning, but when he had totted that the young Gentlemen at Haleybury determined for themselves what they would. and what they would not learn, he had then said, if they . reload to iival themselves of the opportunities open to-them fur gaining knowledge, that in that case they ought to be made to feel for their - negligence. He UMt. Malthus) had thought the dres&ii used at the niversities, to mark the different degrees of pro ficiency in iiterattue, ridiculous, where they could give no such distinction. 'the question on the pro priety of retaining these, he thought Mr. Malthus hinted( had-set at rest, in describing their use tohe; to ;oaken more easy to recognize those who were dpity of any outrage than it would otherwise be. He nar& be ;are; sed if 'the Hertford students Allem. selves were nut among the petitiopers for doing alify with.the present dress; since M. .Itl4ithot had bew, 'pleisettlti say; that that costume Wfirelvillitingulshed 'the tradeia.learningin othek places,tai base Fein eiParly foii i dect, to, howl, the mlslies af -1 fordislAt. lbe detaCtioo Widawdort • - Jackson) • had said en the subject, of , the imps and gowns, Would not, he was inclined„ t to think; be dis ' apptoved of . by that Court, wben li ths7 hkollectei that in-1800 they had ordered the uqtform which hid beM adopted by their naval servanti, to be altoge tjtm.changed, because it bad so nearly resembled. shit of the Royal Navy, as to give s ome offence to 'the ()thee'', in tie King's service. He deice:tied at length on the motives of Lord Wellesley, in forming an establishment in India for the education of the Company's servants, and contrasted his regulations with those which had latterly been adopted by the ,College Council. That Council, he contended, had thorn the Court of all that authority and interference what - . fogs:gird the instruction oitheir servants, wirlith Lord .Welleilei bib eiiAli4 thedvio'exerellse. lie showed diet Lord Wellesley' had - wired that his plan wool4;sost the Company nothing, and thii Was the atlsAr he,(LOrd•Welleslei) bad thong . tit! . ..kibi, soff.lsoust4Cd give , 4. if he must address Rd* of isits,l hp, :wished to- knOW ouster tiispein popock ilsillinge, and pence, to goielfe:Cheir In obedience to the will or thecinn pasn• y, tfrai distinguislied Chat:Atter; Though deeply af .tected by the dectiain. width bad beets come to on the question, respecting the estatilishmeot be bai folioed, ,had felt it to be his duty: fo'read, in the face of la menting Asia, the Decree of Abolition sent out by ;that Gout. *Hiving performed this dignified act of robedience, the Noble Lord bad - ventured to intercede for, the sufferers, and had 'desired that the young ' Gentlemen, who had beeh .bruught to the College from all parts of India; might be allowed to finish their next term; and that the tutors who had been seduced into the service of the. Company, might be in some degree indemnified for the sacrifices they had made. A l it while he asked this of their justice and humanity, the Noble Lordlacladded, he tuew what it was to obey ; and if it Sias theii *ill, that that which be recommended should not be granted, their 'deci sion should be immediately abed upon. 'flue Sub lime institution of Lord Wellesley was abolished; nod three years after the Proprietbrs• were called to gether to take into consideration the expediency of forming that Establishment which was the subject of the present discussion. He thin read the Resolutions Of the Court, in which they had gollOised themselves the happiest effects from esublisluggin England a urinary for the instruction of yoirthtto'be sect out to India. He rapidly described *hat followed, and criti- Cisesl the systeni under whith the College was at pa lest reghlated,'which was such , that that COurt had. .491 power to remove one • of their own- Processors without tbespocurrence of the Bishop of trAdint. ak6ompletheil oa the contemptuous. en*Vnisilit "Orbs 4 the .?.dies and Gentlemen of tht.e.edri of "PriOrietpro l .t.. had been spoken of in the piefltplifet of 'be Learne4 Professor to which he had before' ad ireited. Mr. SlaAue had said et him, thin be (Or. i)aekson) must be profoundly ignorant of thervel.jeat. ~oilhwbich be was speaking; or be woof& oot:.,bilo llifOosid the yotreg Gentlemen now in Hertford college, were destined to weigh teas, or mea,ure ,haltis of muslin, when the fact was; every once(' them was intended to be i Statesman. He (Mr. Jackeon) did not know that trade; which was the Company's staff of existence, whi to be treated so lightlyi and he did not think it too /ouch to assume, that all these young Gentlemen were at once to become Magi:. Oates and Stateamen without passing through those gradations of service which could aline qualify them foe higher offices. The resolution of the Court on founding the Seminary for the instruction of their servants in England, to which he had before referred, and in which they had pfomised themselves the hap mut effects from sending them out well read in the laws and constitution of their cohntry—that resolu lion, he maintained,. furnished a kufficient refutation of the insinuations thrown out against the Court,. as if they were not able t o app r eciate the importance of ' learning, sitd were desirous of sending out raw un educated boys to India. The resolution just men tioned, had been passed five years after the institu tion of Lord Wellesley's College, and three years ,after its abolition : he (Mr. Jackson) had indeed, on that occasion, taken . two objections, but not on the 'expense—not on the pounds, dialing:, and pence, which it would cod them to educate their servants, but he had objected first to exposing them to thou dangers and temptations which were likely to prove fatal to both body and mind, when youths were sent out between the ages of sixteen and nineteen to India, and be had objected to sending them out at such an age, before the Court had looked the question of co lonization in the face. It was at that period of life that the most ardent friendships were formed, and, not tinier quently, between the ages of sixteen and nineteen, a still more exalted sentiment invaded the youthful breast. From that moment. wherever the wanderer might go, lie would only lorik forward with hope to the period when he might revisit his native country.' 'though his body might be borne from Pole to.L'ule, his heart remained at home, and his every desire:pointed to that moment when.. returned with independence, he might be able to say to the mistress of his affections, so Behold the proofs of my fidelity." He strongly iosistei, that while colonization in ihilia was discouraged. he did not mean to speak against colonization, ter it might be well if, at the present moment,. we could remove 100,000 'fami lies from this country to some genial climate. where they might be enabled to maintain themselves with greater ease; but this lie did say, that till the question of Colonization laid been fairly looked in the late, they ought not to send out youths of ax teen years of . age : A few months after the Results 'Simi be had referred to had been carried, the plan was eliengid, mid that which was to have been a school, it' wag thought better to convert ioto a university.— Ile acquitted every Gentleman who favoured this cliiinge of entertaining any but the most honourable motives. Those who advised this, had thought it Sireuld be bitter than the school which had been pro posed. • They could not fereue. what would rwcos-1- 'kik could mot anticipaa those events which were new unhappily on record. Dr. Henley had thought he s)sould prefer a Professorship. and the plan had beset* filtered so as to meet his views. The deities of the'erofeisorships amounted to little more than these, the holder: of them received ilisJo per annum—resi ded in very pleasant apartments—had a most boun toltd table to go to—aud read two lectures a week, each ot• which might occupy ab iut two hours.—( d latish.) When these Piotessorsliips were obtaihed, other improvements were found to be wanting. When the Gentleman was made a Knight, he wanted a large, house, and when the Knight became a Lord, he required a larger one still. Hertford Castle did very well for their school, and this they had on lease for awenty one Yeats; but when the Professors canter it - Was hinnd at it would be much better that, in stead of a teals of the Castle. they should have a nice freehold of theif own. The expense, it was said. would 'be'''Citily £57,000. The College, was , then beat; 10, , bit •4 its appendages, had coi;ohemwp, le iraidinf • .. ;OW. ' 1a 1806, the estakilielpment-et. Haleybky tall the externals of .a nuiNexOnto.bo wanted theis i eart and soul. In 18418, atlinsawettion broke oar. so great ant so desperate, that it WS% in the language.of the Ptotessors, outrageous, and. not Merely an installer of insebordination. In 1809, when the subject INS& hicideocilly brought before the Court, when they had to discus *question concern ins the Military fldsuokoi.Acialiscosnb, one Muter there had been able' so effira.inore titan all the Prefers sod at Haleibuty,Jor against that seminary not one fair' coniplaint hadlieen urged.. He bad on that os. colon ass esi if 'it were puppet thiwporentsahoulal be hinger compelled to send their children to the hia: leyhui y Establishment l and deelesed himself against thit'compulsion. The Cullege,Council were bound telapoirt the Suite of the likstablidiment twice &year, but the construction which they had put upon this like vi'as i that' they were not oiled upon to say any thing ifthe conduct of the young gentlemen. They gate accounts of the expense incurred, and of the proficiency of the students, but did not. touch on any other matters ii their Reports. For a time, there• fore, every thing had appeared to be going en wed. This indeed might perhaps still be contended. for the . complaisant Professor bad gone so tar as to speak of a rebellion iis ifie College as a matter of coogratula dun. He - (Mr. Jackson) from the information lea had received. bad .fairmeely moved a Resolution is favour of the conduitors cruse College; but in 1810. be had deplored the insubordination which bad pre-' wailed, and, Ow reasernbeiedinniself, bad threatened if such stetsie,wrre repeated; to move foe the expul sion of thaLmincipal actors in th em, betheyarlar they might -' woo: there was a complete rneolution— . 'a I,ettect "ursine of the sudoirity of tile Profetwure-: He thin tors notice of the present constitationot the Establitherient.' At present the. Professors might ex pel enrstailent, and the part" expelled could only *multi the *oishopi in a case where the construe cion Pit opens thc law . might be called in question. the itudents might be expelled tor not attending chapel—for not attending prayers—for net attend: ing hall ; and those so expelled it was not in the phiatr of Directors or Praptietors to restore.—. The appellant jurisdiction was withdrawn from that Court. I's sovereign power was taken from it, ainee it could not chew mercy, and the atithoriay formerly 'theirs, mai no more. They were now Pt themerer of their Piefessors, who addressed Mehl, 111 langiereei airailar to that which they used in their pamphlets. and took a ton e oho : , it ventured up an by the Go. tremor-GA:et:A of India, would cause him tohealioi missed. Formerly, when a youth was appointed to a writetship in India, while he remained in•Englaect, • no person was so great, its his estimation, as a Ware ter of the East India Company. Now they were accuitonied to view Directors and Proprietors, as persons entitled to little or no consideratior. It was to the Professors that they were taualit to look sip to • for favour, for if expelled by them for not attrroli..g• Chapel or Prayers, though the dawnings of a Wel lington, or the genius of a Wellesley, should begin is appear, the youth thus degraded could never again enter the service of the East India Company.— (Hear, freer.)-1n eases where the youth who had . committed . odeaCe cosh/ net be dhesietedri . /action was made from those' who friun theii 104; • were most to be suseected, and if' they were uhatle • to clear themselves, .sic if they would net give up the loffender, they were liable Lobe rusticated or expelled. He could wish to know if the Statute which jostifsed this mode of proceeding had CM:mated from as English heart ? He knew of nothing that could br • • compared to it, but the desolating laws of suave 44' the Roman Generals, who, half ravages, halt heroes, . preferred decimating their aoldiers. to trying them ; because it was easier to decapit ste , every .firiath 11111,1 aban to do justice. He set forth the evil coesetuccees ' of 'rusticating the Students, and objected-to tbe pe a nishment which the Clergym s of the College had it in their power to infl ct for irregularities,.witich seats isf the Laity would be of opinion ought -tohe su - ~severely visited. Ha went on to stew, that by the Report of Decettbee, 1815, it appeared the Studente• - .• Wage incapable of :parsing the Osiental Larguagass, ‘• • • yet the Professors were so indulgent as to perthYt them sago out, nutwithstanding they were thui defi cient. This was the result of that system wh&h had been adopted, and which had cost• the c inntry ,000. The reports made lately, since this•rab ject had been brought into discussion, bad been very liar arable ; but there had bean an insurrection la 1816, and the septa' of last May stated the Students to have made great progress in the Oriental Lan pages, but to have wine back in European Liu rature. which was not sa highly' appreciated by she Students as formerly ; but the last crass a all, it was said, did not wish to go back, and the greater portion of the youths of the College were disposed to a cer tain extent (it did not say to what extent) to give their attention to something or other ! The Court was thus in effect congratulated on the total Alan alonment of all study at the College. • irtsema sone., meats brought him tcrthis quettion-A*l IheConeiri answer the ends which the Court had proposed's() itself from the Institution ? He thought it slat now, from the insubordination which had pr. vAdeci, and this, he contended, arose from the great error of put ting children of 15 or 16 yeas of age in the slasatia n of men. He shewed that there hid been three in surrections in the list fix years, and that in 1815 there had been one transcending all - the rear, in which the boys beat the servants of the Collt.ge, and to such a dangerous height did the disturbance ri.r. that The Professors thought it tater to lock themselves in their apartments than to go out to ,tx„aastulate with their pupils. If any proof were emoting of the bad conduct of the Students, it would be forms in the LearnedltProfessoi's defence of the Establishment.- -The language he had held was this, from my own knoulege, I eau say, the Students are more hen from the Wirer (He was speaking of children of asateenlearead aspv)—" of wine, won't*, gaming. bunting, relinwand:altoeting, than the graduates .the Univemities." He (Mr. Malthus) considered these boys to be less addicted to wa n e and women _than the graduates of the Univevii y, who were,- per haps. Getaleasen twenty-five years of age. Taking this to be proved, he would still ask if the Establish mem had answered the purposes . which the Court had in . - view, when it was instittiteal? He woulal 'also ask it parents were compelled to send their chil dren to the Universities? It was known this was not the cot e but they were forced to send them to Hen ionise give up the hopes of fortune winch they had lounded on the prospect of their going to India.— Them they were compelled to renounce if they would nut send their sons to a place, of which ell :h it could be said in its defence, was, that Ole Students were more free nom the vices- jest enumerated than:.the gradiewes sit the Universities. The Ladies and Geri clones of that Court,. who were sneered at Sr , thew taking mime interest in the morals of their children, and in the appropriation of their money. lied a eight to complain of Make things. It he had a son; he would send him to a public school tilt he was sixteen • or seventeen years of age; he would then give hint two years at the Universities, and one to scatty Orien tal Literature, an d i re should then send him - out .1:1 accomplished man, so fixed in his morals and in his habits, that he would be sure to git forward vetoer than it he had been sent oat at an earlier age.— Nearly the whole expense of the HAleybory s 'can blisloment, anwunting to' 18 thousand pounds an &malty, might be saved, by leaving parents to edu cate their children up to any igitten standard of pi. ficiency, whereverabey might weltr sending there.- - Learned Protestossetoust still be ref tined to j idge of their Acquirements, and he knew cf none hart to take upon themselves this task than those who were already in theiserviceet the Conipany. The wita.e ' at the sums which he had named therefore cuuld not be saved, as these Gentlemen must he liberally reus..- aerated I for while he wianed the Court tai be ti parents, he lan anxious that they should be iiba:4l A