The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-09-29 00:00:00

F . 1 THE ST ATF.S.MAN, THE QUEEN. TO THE ElliToH OF THE sTATESMAN. LE:TFR XX 11. a-- " At 'ghat ease • 1111111 t corrupt minds proettm k nit% es ns entriip! sa - tar against son !" HENRI , g tat. it.t%e tun a runic', that will Sirear— r9h. murder. and cunt/nit 'rite oldest sins the newest kind of w w. He happy. he will trouble )set pi more ; Fligland shall doable gild his treble guilt.- Ste,— The great national drama, miscalled the trial off the Queen, is now coming towards a conclusion; anal, as the fearfttl period approaches, no man of or dinary discernment, or ordinary humanity, can view' bet with feelings of aporehensi 111 l , what way be it. elrects. both in respect to our external relations and our internal peace. From some recent debates and official proceedings in the eity of London, I perceive that there are, iu that guar t--r. as well as' in other places. some fools who believe, and some knaves who affect to believe, that the inno cruet or gui'.t of her Majesty must depend upon the sentence of the (louse of Lords. The people, the whole mass of the people, who are finite as good. and, in this case at feast, as impartial judges of innocence and milt as the body of the Lords. have already pro. r.r.aced her innocent, judging from the e vidence of her persecutors only. By what species of necromancy, tic.n. will a sentence of the House of Lords be able to • , oniert into enilt that which WAS preVit.tilly 1)10- 110%11111'd to be innoc.nt by the rest oldie nation, upon the testimony of the witnesses of the very enemies of the accused. Stich ideas may indeed suit the meridian of Lord Castlereagh's intellects, or those of Dr. Phil lionfore. Theo. sapient Statesmen, upon the late meet in; of the House of Commons, declared that to acquit t:o- Queen upon the evidence of her ereviersonly, seas q uite es-pain, and of course unfair ! " Wait," say Cies* Senators of absolute wisdom and gravity, " until we hear the Counsel and the evidence in favour of her Majesty: for, who knows but they way prove the Queen guilty of thoee practices which her enemies have failed to substantiate:" This is the prcAse amount of their observations. The only reliance of these nise-acres, it seems, now is, that the innocence of the accused, which has been su euutpletely estab lished, to the satisfaction of the whole country and of 0:1 Europe, by the very evidence of her persecutors. no::: he .ti proved by her OWN Cosfasel, and her own These absurdities can pass for logic only at Whitehall or thesTreasnry. Is it any wander that, on those parts of the coati writ of &trope which are out absolutely subservient to the base folitics of the British Ministry, the finger of scorn should be pointed at Englishmen, as they pass along, for their supposed acquiescence in the persecu tion of the Queen ? How scandalous ! What barba rians! (Vvelle Sesaidele! timelier Belrbares! ) are the salutations with which the ears of Englishmen are greeted by their foreign neighhturs. Of the situ ation of the Eueli-lt traveller abroad, the Duke of ' Wellington may fo , na to himself a tuicet.ltly correct notion. " Behalf'," says the impartial fore' goer, ig norant of the attachment of the body of the people to hr:3lajcity. " with what fla 2 lti.•tts indignities these relapsed barbarians treat their Ifer.oir Queen Such, I:1 respect to the renewed series of conspiracies and persecutions against her Majesty, the Queen of the United Kindom of time Britain and Ireland, are the sehtiments of every man in the world who is not an Er.glish Buranghatonger. or has no alliliation with t .at race of beings: and foreigners, unacquainted with ths system by which these vermin and their vices varish, whilst the people and moral! decay, are una he accurately to distinguish between those persons. w'.o could lend themselves to such nefarious transac tl•ins and the great body of the British nation, or at least of such of them as travel uhroell. Alas! they little know how complet el y the Kin g , the Queen, an d. the people have hitherto been held in bondage by these upstart and trafficking knaves. Even foreigners, Lo.e.-evrr. 'it!l soon learn, frivol the fate which shortly awaits .their destructive usurpation, how wide is the difference between these locusts and the sound part of the nation. It hewn , to myself to be acquainted with many Vreigners; but 1 have never known a natty of any other country speak of the proceedings against her Ma. jeoy hut with the utmost horror, as, their injustice scandabois and abominable to a degree, which nothing but their too palliable existence could render at aii credible. For my own part, I should be sorry, whilst these u..farious proceedings are pending, to be obliged to trivCl in any (foreign civilized country, out of the jurisdiction of the Holy Alliance, where an account of born is read; fur, whilst the injuries of her Ma j,•..4 remain unrcdressed, and the authors of her uapereodented persecutions remain. unpunished, it cannot be otherwise than disgraceful to be known' to belong to a nation, in which such cruelties to wards a woman, and that woman a Quern, are suf fered to he pot even in a course of perpetration. I should set sou', 1w suspected of being Oliver, the Spy, ur a Manchester yeoman. as of nut being ready to pro . Sect her Majest.., at whatever risk, from the lawless aid unprincipled machination , ' of her enemies. This is the universal seutiment of those persons who do nut belong to the scum or dregs of this generous natiOn, front one estrensity of the empire to the other. The same feeling. as I have said, and I shall shortly li r ,' al " i ns t a nce r.f It, also► prITSSICS all eivilised fo • reigaers. Wo know, indeed, that the Oligarchy, and the Breen 'leg Administration, from habit, become *Body callous both to the ceisitres of their country men. and the contempt of strangers; and that nothing hut the dread of losing their places, pensions, or lives. eau have any effect tit turning them from their evil courses. It Is no t until ?coast opinion has at ' rained that intenseness, whirl ihreatens them with • WOO imminent calamity, that they can be impelled .• "ea to an appearance of justice . . This degree of his • tenseness, 1 verily believe, does, in suspect to.the pest serution of her Majesty. now exist; and will c ompel our inisruleri for once to abstain from wrong. Or to put their pieif tets,lf hot their:personal safety, to animist hazare.• *• An officer of rank in the British army‘ a MI in dependent awn, :dining , p at lon g ago, in a 'large y 4t Turin. happened to sit next to one of the G lZlZ l C l Miaisters at table. During aiinner, some Eng lishJouruals arrived, anal one of thou was tirst po litely handell to the s•rangers. It happened to be that notorious ministerial organ of demoralisation, The Currier the rollmop of which were, es usual, filleJ with matter, as false as it was filthy. apinst her Majesty. The honest :soldier, not dreaming that so many incredible lies could be deliberately, knowingly, and systematically issued, by a person oho nas so much of a scholar as to he able to write, (he had not heard of the service of plate emblazoned with the Royal Arms, which had been bestowed upon a certain person) expressed Isis rutwern that the Queen of Eut.flatul should have so degraded herself In the eyes of the people of Italy, and of foreign governments. The Ministers, smiling, observed,that they knew n athiog in that eonattry of her Majesty's conduct. that was not only correct. hut meritorious; that all the calumnies, whirls tilled the world. against her were first transtuitte.l in rubric from head quarters in London to their agettts abroad, to-ships gal, duly a t temented, by those cusissaties, to their em ployers at home ; by them eousennuicatrd, after revi sion and amendment to their liters: y organs in the, British capital : and by these reexported in their journals for the editieatien of all the Courts of Europe. This was known to the whole world, except ing to the people of Great Britain. It nas even noto rious that persons were stationed at tat erns and collee houses, frequented by strangers, in several of the great towns of Italy, whose sole ocrupation was to vilify and defame her Royal Highness to all travellers, but more especially to the English. The base calumnies, the trams' ndent lies, the utter imposs;hilities, thus hatched and ptopagated, are now before the world, in all their native deformity; anal it is in vain that the Beam of Lords have attempted, by the inurkery of a formal eae mivation of men, palpably of the most vulgar, ignorant. and mercenary description, to give the appearance of solemnity or of justice to the proceedings, %tisk!' they have so rashly and any. arrantably instituted. ARISTIDIFS. TO THE EDITOII Nl' STATES.II.43% Corpenter's Anus. Wieersess. Sept. W. IbdO. Situ—lto the let of March last, a breach took . place nailer the wall at the entrance of the basin of the New-Docks here, and immense sews have been slate sespendesl in order to repair the damage. Last night, the wind being N.W. with but a stualerate breeze, another beach was nearly at the same place, (although there is a slam of grooved &mai, tosisieil piles right in front.) which retailers nugatory every thing that had heen dune. lu looking at the great national, and wissislerfully evpensive unslertakingt! the wet docks at this place, it is highly incumbent on those elowerned to chew that these blows are not in consequence of any keg ..el or treat of jP.I:(»Aeal, but casualties which hounan still and foresight e mail not have prevent.d. The es..aratiett. by the blow of IM Ist of March, having left a complete volume lie-1 tween the piles, I haze had opportstuities of taking •• deliberate view of the piles nailer the wall, wear Silty fret deep, by passing between them, and ass of opinion that the ithwie and sole cense of breach is, the piles nut being strove the depth they ought. Many of thesis, in fact, whirls aught to be in the ground, are to be seen with the iron :•Itoes us, several feet oat of g ttttt nil ; and what with rlaiatt one day aid wag -101: unuther. the work, if there hr not some altera tion in the s' 'Millet of it, is likely to last till dooms day.—lt is proper to ultsrrve that the %%bole of the work is done by contract. If you will have the goodness to admit these mod ments of a plain ne•chanie of Sheerness, in your Inde pendent and patriotic Paper, von will oblige myself and the coilitant readers sit Tux STAvesmas here. and ea courage oc to write, in a few days, more fully on the subject of ;big letter. I am, with sentiments of sineere respect, Tour's, S:c. J.IM. N. . _ [e:1034 TUC JAMAICA PA 1.1:11%./ The fallowing is an extract of the Order of the Day ismeil by : Officers and Soldiers:—You have seen the happy ors' compli•hinent of the expectations I held out to von at the beginning of the rata' aign, and von hiker been witness to the progress whirl' has been made by , the arms of the Itepnblic in so short a time. The prop's.. of the province of Cartlia glom came forward in a glorious winner, and as liv an electric moventent to assist o. in the expulsion of the oppressors who were ty raotsi•i fig trrer their propery, their persons, and their Oilieers and Soldiers! Every thing. invites you to gather .he laurels which vietory and the complete li berty of them• provins•es held out to von. Such a path of glory ?sever bef , re presented itself to the Soldiers. Preserve the good conduit, cut Is sia stri a nil valonr, which has 10.therto digtingnished ati:l - throerurDbut If Carthaom s and Santa Inrtha n ill restore yon 'in peace to y.sor 11 44444 es, to enjoy the everlasting hedeac lions whh.ls the people Irestiiiv on their deliverers. • • H e ad-imariers. Estanistilo...bil PM. 'I he port letter received yesterday from Falmouth, states, on the information of a geittleman who came as prienger in the Prince Firnest packet from Lis bon, and which lett on the I Fith instant, that the Con stitutional army, from Oporto and the northern pro vince., Was expected to eater the eapital on the fol lowing day, and that no rrsistance was anticipated. The Aurora. Hatch, has arrived in Torbay. She sailed from Oporto, at three o'clock in the morn ing of the I4et lost., at which time the Mita had quitted Oporto teljoin the army then merest against Lisbott, They previously published a Proclo sustion entwes.ire of gratitude Sir the good order pre served from the time they bad governed, and recoil*. mending . a itetttiontance Otthe like conduct, and oho- i dience to the orders of the Junta (three members) left at Oporto. The Constitatlemal troops consisted of near 30,000 own. Al quiet sit-Oporto when the Aurora sailed, and business rising on usual. By a Proelamationisseed by tiese'Den, Liewtessot lievurttor of tlibraltor, received yesterday Mlle iited place, it would redoWthat the-contagious digest... Midst has a' long *Meted Spain broil! toosehting loafer* ful ravages. In conaespience.persollis comsfug Ns tit infected district are not admitted into the prelim* until after the rrforniance of a certain quarantine. E ICING. Cowan, SarT. 2;, u. s. w.—The weather here, at pre. veld; is extremely inauspicious. The King continues to r take his aquatic ex.mrsions daily, either up or down Channel as the wind permits ; and though it has blown a gale from the west nearly the whole of this day, and I has been both wet and cold, his Majesty proceeded to Portsmouth this morning at ten o'clock, for the per pose of receiving an Address from the Loyal Inhabi tants of that town. ..t twelve o'clock the guns in the batteries of Portsmouth announced that the Royal squa dron hove in sight, and in a few minutes, the whole Beet, with the Royal yacht, anchored at Splthead, each ' ship returning the salitt:•s which were received from the shore. Expecting this honour from his Majesty, the townsmen hail prepared an Address to the King, which was presented by a deputation to his Majesty, on board the Royal George, and real by George tiarratt, Esq. on whom. his Majesty, after lie returned an answer to the Address, conferred the honour of Knighthood. At six o'clock his Majesty received the following officers to thinner : Admiral Sir tleorge Campbell, as Admiral of the Port; Captains Hollis, Raggett, Briggs, Vernou, Mar ryatt and Lloyd, Captains in the Port; Captains Sir C. Pair. Sir C. Berard, Fisher. Montague and Alingar Captains it; the Royal &padres ; Commissioner Henry liarrett, R. N.. Lieutenant tiosernor Loring, R. N., Captain Ross, R. N.. and Major-General Williams, R.N. It is said his Majesty leaves this for Brighton or Lon . don on Saturday next. TB E fet'EE.V. ---•••411r- - We all recolie:t with what promptitude Majoeci, the Italian shi;imaster, and his mate, deposed that they had seen Bergatiti and the (Peen sitting on a en. on the deck of the vessel, and kis.ing one another. A British Lieutenant, in a coffee-room at Leith, reading this part of the evidence, suddenly started up, and, with the honest emotion peculiar to a British tar, exclaimed. "It is all 4 41-41 lie: 1 was on board the Macre the whole time the Queen was there, and d—d a gun was On ..:^ck of the vessel at all, nor indeed on hoard of her, except a very small swivel, which was stationed aloft." 'This honest fellow set out a few slays ago, to London, as one of the Queen's witnesses.—(roue Mercrry.) Mr. Henry, since his arrival at Milan, has sent to Log , land 15 witnesses whom he considers necessary to the Queen's defence. Ile has also sent home the small car • riage in common use in Italy, capable of only holding two persons, by one of whom it is driven, anti in which 1 it has been charged as an offence of the Queen for tra ' veiling with Bergand. IWe understand that a requisition most numerously and respectably signed (by MO individuals) was on i Wednesday presented ro the churchwardens of St. Mary, Newington, Surrey, fur the purpose of calling a vestry meeting, to consider the propriety of presenting an I Address to her Majesty, which it is expected will be I attended by thousands, as ninety - ni ue out of a hundred are most hearty in the cause. i At drilling:lt, on the 23.1 inst., the incorporated trades of that town unanimously agreed to address her Majesty ! the Qtteen ; and Joseph Home, Esq., M.P. for Montruse, has received the Address to present, which lie will do ! OU Monthly next. i si r R. Wilson has been requested to present the A. 1,1,,..• of the male inhabitants of Bristol. Mr:Abler 'man Wood has been specially desired to present that of , the Female Inhabitants of the same city. 1 Last week a meeting of the householders and inba , bitants of the town of Alsergavenny was convened, : when an Address was voted t o the Q ueen, and si g ned , by upwards of 500 persons.—(llercford Jomrocil.) l The inhabitants of Brighton are very h surprised at the tloalits entertained of their loyalty. On the con trary, they say, they are extremely loyal —they are all either for the King or the Queen. Qt:EEN'!. Pi. yrs ---.1 numeroas and respectable meeting of the inhabitants of Dover was held at th. Bull-ina Assembly-room, uu Friday evening last, to take into etitisi.leration the propriety of raising sub scriptions (not exceeding one shilling each person) for the purpose of assisting in the purchase of a ser vice of plate to be presented to her most gracious Ma jesty the Que.m, and of cu-operating with the COM MIMI,. in Landon, ;Is well as the public at large, in evincin' their respectful homage to her Majesty, their unabated sympathy on account of her past and present sulerings, and their ins easing attachment to her Royal person. '1 he object of the meeting having been ntiauimonsly agreed to, it was determined to invite the attendance of all persons on Friday next, at seven o'clock in the evening, at the said inn, when proper : -reeeitriewsielii hvitropoeed end sti verdant, if *greeds°. Kgsnst., Seer. 211—An Address to the Queen, from the inhabitants of Kendal and its vicinity, having been agreed upon by a l'ommittee, and simply announced by an advertisement, was signed, without any solicitation, by upwards of 1,300 individuals, in the short space of two days, which (considering the limited population. and the s ignatures being all taken on the same roll of parchment) is not surpassed by any town in the king dom. The knot-sledge having got abroad that Mr. Brougham worth! privately pass through Kendal on Monday last, Sept. 21 thousands of the population went is meet hint, accompanied by a hand of music, who en like buiteered their services. Not knowing the hour, the :1 pie waited five hours on the high road ; and, on Mr. ghans's approach. insisted on taking the horse s his carriage, which was only prey. •Ited by the F Setaret entreaty of that geetiesan, sail the drivers spot • 1 ring the horses throwgh. On Mr. Ilrenghsan's arriving 1 411 - the hawse of J. Wakefield, Rog.. the hanker, he was re. Iblvell with three times three heartfelt cheers. The land then played the popular air of " Hod save the Wing," and eepeeted the tune with a Ileeminksitemarla it the end of each stunts, which is underNeseilletest M it Oki save the Queen ;" the previneisP air of " Matt plows, Sr the ledependenoe of Westreoefeld ;" • 4 &dr As p net ro i t ud ' Dei blir a! s wh i so n si ti ; g . W . a e sii a t il llt t t h . " Broe mftr possea gh (l sue n l "fr efest r. r. morrimpd pei iows) ft eed a . "N ot a lle . Bossism did net Address tat minleitade. I 1., o . 1 . ADDRESSES TO HER M.LIESTY. The following is her Nlajesty's answer to the Address presented yesterday from the inhabitant householders of the parish of St. Luke : I return my unfeigned thank. to the inhabitants of the parish of . St. Luke, in the 'lmlay of Middlesex, for this loyal and affectionate :Ithlreas. I have but little power of henelitting the generons and enlightened people of these realms ; lint the little that I have shall ever be exercised to the hest of my j 0,1,,. ment in support of the most salutary institution.. t : intellectual culture that adds most dignity to man; ; ,„ 4 which, while it abstracts him from the grossness ran hers him wore capable of liberty. I shall ever fel it a ditty to give every possible enetiotragenwht to beneficent establishments in which the vonong leart the elements of knowledge, and imbibe the priswipies of virtue. The evi,lenre, oft% hicli my enemies have availed them selves to criminate my character. reflects more disgrace upon them than upon me. The turpitade of perjured test' •is ignominious to the accuser, rather than to the a ccused. I would willingly resign all my rights and privileges for the benefit of the people, or for the interests of li berty ; but ought I, with patient acquiesceace, to suffer them to he taken front me only in order that my wirer saries may the more easily infringe the rights of the nation, and promote the purposes of tyranny? I feel no higher ambition than that of promoting the public good ; and the nation have h.ol several cools ineing proofs I that a sordid avarice is not among the imperfections of my character. The constitutional liberties of the people hare. within a few years, experienced numerous restraims, h u t • ! Ito , restraints have still left us such a portion of the liberty of the press as has not only most soweessially defend' me against my enemies, but has excited owls a .Limit ill the nation as appears to angle the must favourable etre serences to the public weal. Floe liberty of the press is that vital flame that has p r eserved the c o n s titution in the worst times, awl under the domination of the most worthless fact:wt. Political liberty has little to fear while the press is free ; but if the free agency of the mind. throng!' the medium of the press, should ever he destroyed, the people have nothinL left but to how the neck, and to bend the knee, at the shrine of arbitrary power. The following is her 31ajesty's answer to the Fe male Address : The female inhabitants of time parish of St. Lu!oe, in the county of Middlesex, are requested to accept me cordial acknowledgments fur tins affectionate tribute of loyalty and attachment. 'Those females, who have been mothers, anti can esti mate the force of maternal affections, ran best appre ciate the pangs which I feel when my only child was forcibly torn from nty embrace, and rendered an alien (room Hoy society. What mother could calmly *equines in such privations, or patiently endure such wrongs The highest eminenee in the ascent of %eelsl life is often the region of torpur and selfishness, where the affections are benumbed, and a sort of sluggish apathy is incrusted round the heart. But I may appeal not only to uunserous acts, but to the general tissue of my life, for the proof that the Universal Father has min gled in my temperament no ordinary portion of the benevolent sympathies. I have never antlered the high station which I occupied to chill my ar,lour or to para lyse my will in the practice of beuevolence: that prac tice has cheered the gloom of my solitude, and relieved the listnessuess of my worse than widowed hours. I claim no merit for masa kindness which inch's:lion prompted me to perform, and in the performance at which I found the purest delight awl the sweetest oasis faction. But, if tny natoral temperament were more than usually sensitive and affectionate, time andahle fe males w ho have subscribed this address will clearly un derstand that the cruelties which I have experienced must have been felt with double poignancy. My nearest anti dearest relatives have vanished in the shades of death. The loss, at least, of tone of them, has 'eft a dreary vacancy in my heart, which no other earthly endearment can supply. Tlesse fond caresses which once united the mother and the child ran en more be mine: But, instead of indulging in u navailing regrets, I will henceforth endeavour to supply the place of the kindred affections by the patriotic ; to regard time people of these realms as my children; to make their happiness my pursuit ; and to consider their augmented liberties as my highest exaltation. The following is her Majesty's answer to the Ad dress of the Journeymen Mecloatoil s, /sac. of Kettering, Northamptonshire:— 1 I gratefully aireept the loyal and streetions'e %air, as tram the Journeymen Mechanics and the Inhabitants of the TJe n of Kettering. I should not have called for an open trial, if I had not been emiseions that my innocence 'wild endure the strie , egt scrutiny ; and though re) enemies, instead of grantint: Inv request• have offered tee the shadow rather than the sut • stance of a trial, in a sort of anomalous procedure' which is at oneejudicial and les . ..tatter ; yet. even Ns inquorial tribunal ot . my adversaries has not ronvicted me of any one aberration from Integrity. If I could have been convicted by any testimony, my enemies have not wanted witnesses who could most accurately recollect what they did not Laos. and most conveniently forget what th e y did. Yet, though I hare been assailed b) a large mass of well pampered false ' hoods, tnongh my enemies have had Cie m eans of getting any evidence manufactured that might suit their p ur p ose, and of drilling the witnesses into a perfeet subserviency to their views, they have added one more to the number of ex isting proofs, that though It Is possible. In particular hull vidusls, to overcome the renitency of falsehood. it is mot rosy to vanquish the native force Of ,Jrn 41. 436 fur s as I her.e h- therto passed through this trial of fi re, not a irate of niv heed has received any harm. My adversaries may omit their teeth in all the impotency of rag e: m y triumph has be gan in their shame, it will end in their remorse. A Deputation from the male anti female inhabitants of the parish of St. Lake went in procession to Bran denim rgh !louse, yesterday, to present an Address to her Majesty. The protassainn consisted of fifty-two open IN.- Toilettes and four; more than twenty of which wee tilled with well-dressed WOMPO. Perhaps this pageant being somewhat unexpected yesterday, there were but few sr - Woes either on time road or at Prandenhergh House. The hells at Hammersmith, however, were ritsgiog mer rily throughout the day ; and guns were fired at titter svia floss the beaks of the river, in the neighbonrloote l of her Majesty's demesise. Her Majesty received the deputation in the meal state. and merle a gracious reply to their address, after which they had the honour of kissing hands. We understand the inhabitants .of Christ-churc h .. Surrey, delivered a requisition, very numerously ro respectably signed, to the churchwardens- on Mature'. ' last, requesting them to call a meeting of the parishios• era; os as early Jay, for the pmpose of addressing her Mablety ; hat ware informed yesterday, that ander a late Act of 'Parttime:3f, the.sth Oro. lit. rap. St. fur reuelatin 4rarisis Vemaise , .. it is impost:4l4 A* ahmerrherat.irtsa creargally consent; such usertiniOtoil 1 ,1. 1 ,16 .6 " . .. (:,!;taiiiiiiistirt, attienalitithlut::stotobeassor, !u m 's: l . 7 l44( i tr u le iir i ) sh h al:: .. w a de d , oeueo_ l , sad it is eupected tbrturetng will be olte . ot i the largest ever held in the parish. I