The Statesman. — London, England, 1819-12-13 00:00:00

PROTESTS. ....-- The =Mason who have signed the following protests derarve, and will have the thauks of every rellecting_ganiet. for the stand they make against a series of the most severe edicts ever offered to the Parliament of this or any other country. mons or LORDS, Sac. I. seerruns visa emu— reeves: nartinoN or Mowed to inert " with intent •to excite bib Kojesty's subjects to subvert by violeoce the Go venuesdt by law established." It wee resolved in Iles negative. llkessarnmov. lat. Became the mime of unkwhil li bels has, accenting to the pendia law, embrand various offences. Mlbeight_ 11111111110, as well their degrees of tiger, 6.011 the wilful and predetermined gunge tbn eelPel writer sad radiator, to the rieirdsdnee, end iometinies eve, to the inevitable *memo tithe p . arty who bee been deemed guilty by es in respect of his peaugary interest in tie podesidism. or his mere civil relation to the one pshisher; and it thereinto seems just and aoMmery, that where a discretionary punishment of isereased severity is to bean:led. it should be cosalodto that species of libel, which, both in its annual tendency, and in the motive of the publidiir, exhibits the highest do=of seefignity. Bemuse the most effectual, if not the only mode of amomplishleg this object, is to introduce into the statute, and consequently into the indict ment or tobrmadent proceeding upon it, a precise Minden of the erime which it is intended to pre treat by the edionan and alteration of the punish ment: By such mean alone can juries, in the first in *lgoe. bd .ippleed of the particular character of the eines iispelled to the defendant, or can the • Judge ban a ands vule-to distinguish the cases in which his discallarary power is to be exercised. •fistl,y o *wee without mush exact definition as bit boas. nistrlsil, le possible that Judges, as will as Jerks, may, apes dent ocesains, differ very widely se to the sminoloc of the word sedi lisoi, and thereby islroduce into the administra te. of a penal law an eneertabity which is at all OMB MI on, but which is particularly mischievous stilion the law is wary Hotwoi, Cowrie, was. Roseau, lasestowic. MISTO, Cansreaves, Gaosvasea. MOO. LACD6II,4“, Innen Teasurr. Jams+. ADC[ 11101011401111111111.1112.1.-4MILOTINT AGAINST 53:01111111111N T. ROMA to leave Get the word (Banished): • 14. was reserved in the negative. OMMISIMMT. • Ist. Became the introduction of banishment in I the present Bill seems to es a wanton and dangerous meat. That peeishment hes been hitherto 1 a wri nown to the law of Ragland, and on the present occasion there has beep no proof shown of its ne cessity, nor doe examination bad of its consequences. So malarial an hisontion on a system of images, statutes, and maxims, established without reference to may such punishment, may, by analogies and in ference 4 of law, affect the rights of the exiles sad their deseendstity in a manner not foreseen by the authors of the Bill, nor in the contemplation of the Legislature that enacts it. 2ndly. Because banishment, from its very nature a punishment of unequal severity in different cases, may be rendered doubly so by the favour or enmity attic Sovereigns, to whose dominions the exiles would most naturally resort. We doubt the justice of subjecting an Englithman. el en when convicted of a political offence against the Rulers of his own country, to the capricious will or arbitrary laws of a foreign Government ; and we question the policy of teaching men of active spirits and turbulent de signs., to look to foreign favour f tie: mitigation , of their lot, on the miscarriag e r,f their enterprires I at home. Observation of what k going on around u.--retlection on what his taken place in past times —strengthen these con-ider-tions. The present situation of Europe afFirds us no assurance that the power of one sovereign nisi). not he rendered sub- WI'S it tit to the ve: , ,:eance of another: and the his tory of free S:ates, modern as well as ancient, ad nietishes us, that nothing has a more direct ten dewy to ietreiluce foreign influence and foreign in terferecce iu the inku mil affairs of a country than the baiiisLustut of tate delingllCtitS. t.LA ROSILTN, 143111,11. Cowres, llsoroan, Januar, LAUDEILDA 1. . *I at• ST INS PASENG OF INS SSD/VOUS LIIIIL DILL. Moved that this Bill do pass. Dlyssiertssr, Cur the reasons assigrcil in the Protest on the Of t•nd reading of thi, %lie, because, feeling, as I (10, a just abhorrence ni the mischief of eirculuting blasphemous writings. 1 am persuuiled that the prevalence of such libels will not be diminished by the provisions of this Bin. Because I cc.r.sider, also, that in the present dis limbed and distracted state of the country, meuures of extreme severity are little calculated torus tore con fidence to an irritated and suffering people, and that the increased measure of punishment kir the repeti tion of the offence of " composing, pr:nting, or pub lishing" what are termed seditious libels, is incon sistent with the genuioe spirit of the English Com- Afitifition, sod inealcieut for the object which it Mawas to bays in view. By:01W. 0001.• WI. 0 4 Wiierter4 ........... 0 I dastmemy sad Jersey . 0 6 II . .... .... 0 = .......... 1 Slt• MS. 0 14011101 • • 0 Flawing . 1 Franca . .......... 0 0 0 Lisboa . iidea ................ THE STATESMAN. THE EDITOR. OF STATESMA 'TO HIS it is with a respeetlitle,Sasi shalrOlgarstto time, that the illditor of this Jowled who ga ' the *Serest contd.:Pence already ohms him is the Mere period 0 - his curt-labs, his jadgasest, his spirit, and Air home, be it. calmness. The Neap, cha. reeler sad assifienes principles of Tut: Sr.assecent csassot fail to have placed it high is tic esteems y* ill polities, renders. d more eligible allegation for! publishiag the Paper has long bees a desidera- I hos; it is at kagth obtained, Os a spot preferable to say in the neetropolis, viz. Ao. 194, STIL4AV where it will hare also the advantage of a ben:olio tips of iateresi with " Tits Darrow STATE:NAN." The circulation sad billkence of the hitter surrey into the Original SrArsemAN. MOM Se . crane Oa greedy to its coasequenee sad eireulatian, sad thereby throw a assesiderabk advantage aawag its advertisers. who, by this treat, hare, es it were, the bencfit of publication is two Newspapers, for the pries wily If one. 7114 s Readers o/ "Tas Sursamay" of this day win doubt he 'based to find it inhaled en • sea sod ese• kaowledgedly beautiful type:--is doing if whith. ii is hoped there rill be n• occasion to plead their pardon for deviating frets is salaams mod ieell•reeeioset axiom, by prestos:iv to them " ea old friend with is new ' ••• Maori& another Name appears in the impriat iff " Txs Sr.tresarts,' yet its eeitstasse reader will ail fail to find asvaince that the MOM NMI, the saws spirit, are breaked ~,to its pages.— .. swt umbra. - The ism ?wiri r:itt .:, , stiowses to direct the railed department. Is this stwerscat tie Liitor of " Tee Barnum tram. pec.v” also erge leave to macro. and assure his Feivads, :',at the rater ttStlgieft shall be reit, to the ratted veiospopers oriied has hitherto received their . epprebance, whin aitplied to " Txs BRITISH STAMM. MAN" J.'ilfet. 1 hose this ?ay :ressferred the eapporright of STAITSSA.IN" Nemrpaper (which was peoldiely assignei to we in the 'dove advertisement, 6g the EaverWes the late Mr. Lelelild..# to Mr. EINISIIT WAIIIBII, Pro proctor of tat " DRITISI STATRION.IA." These mere tria be hmoesjorth pahlished together, wader the Title " I.lo...Srlnts.v.vt," et the 011ie, jhensesty w ea ving i to tile Dottier STATESVAN, 194, Strand, opposite St. Clement's Ci meth. S. Pinar. Dee. 13th, 1819. &stemma Office, Salisbury Con % 9t Feb. ► 1619. We the undersignet:, Exact/teas of the late Mr: - liS-1 FULL Lovxm., Paorstrron of ••• TNZ STATIPPRAN' ud "t Costsmenore Nonmpapers, retnra our sincere nooks to those advertising Friends, whose liberal sop port and cocoa:ware( have largely atalriltated to the prosperity of these Journals. We ban the satistaelloa • to acquaist them. that we have sold the Cogyeigh! to Mr. gAMPION haat. a Gentleman highly "tabled for coot:meting those Papers, and ander whose auspices we are persuaded they will every day become more riesetu-1 leg of the notice and support 1111 ADVIIIITIIIIIIII tell the Feiner in general. We have a very sister, Oeuvre is stating, that the Sale of these Papers is rapidly inereas ins, end that they are perused by a very numerous and widely extended body of Riders. ALII. O,IILLOWAT, Engineer. Holborn. W. WSW, goistbaospten Buildings, Chaseerrlaste. If. San:lass, Doctors' Commons. The barging Letter of the Exeentors of the late Mr. Lovell, renders it unnecesury for me to ay mach of myself : but 1 hope I may be permitted to inform the advertising Friends of the Statesman and Constitution Newspapers, that their sale under my s arrintendenee since the Ist Jan. has greatly increased; and I promise a prompt and careful insertion of their favours, at the wort rrceiersre 'wale of charge, try. respectfully. Utis Feb. 'lBl9. PRICK OF "TcCl46 TIII6 DAT AT 01411, O'CLOCK. Bank Pion I India Stook a per Cent. Re 1. MI I Dittoßonds SP. 41. gs. dim. 3 per rent. Cons. Old Annuities 31 pe: tent. I Ly. Bills, td. Eli. IN. die. 4 p. r Cents. C3I Ditto Com. per Cele. 'Cris y Omoitou 4 dim I Long Ann. 17 5-161 111 Coos. for Ae. 074 651 lisp. 3 per Cent. A.! S. I Lott. Tktots £l9 1$ S. Plain. eVc ttattiOnan. LO N VON: xeNDAy, Di.czasmt I. ISM. Paris Papers to the loth arc received. After Royal Mass a Deputation Item the Chew. ber of Deputies atiended the King with the remelt of the votes for choosing a President. A Comma of Ministers took place afterwards, at which his Majesty presided, and at which the Marquiade La tour Maubourg was present. The baptism of Mademoiselle is to Ishii place the 16th of this mont.l, in the Chapel of the Tuileries, by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris. In the Extraordinary Sitting of the rench Aca demy, the Count de Voleey read his w F ork," Con sideraions on the Philosophic Study of Languages." end M. Lemercier a dramatic seem in vane. enti tled " Cato of Uttica." M. Blanpain, Director of the Royal Observatory of Marseilles, discovered, on the 213th November.! at five o'clock in the morning, a new Comet, but i which could not be distinguished by the raked eye. A second lieutenant of tho legion of the E V lossine of , in prrison at Calais, was conducted , ith Nor., to the citadel of Lisle, for being the cause of a duel. The Chamber of Deputies proceeded oa the Bth inst. to transact thu prolimiorsy busiseuo of the Session. M. Puy, the deplit) iron. the depatmeat et Vaudois, requested leave to reign, from the cir cumstance of ill-health. The letter, containing the request, was seat to the Minister of Home Affairs. Considerable altercation arose in the election of the bur Vice-Presidents. The number of Members who voted amounted to 194. It is a circumstance well deserving of remark, that there appears a concatenation in the course of the dreadful events, which have occurred dewing the last eight or ten mouths of great political agW Ration. It is also not lilts worthy of pollee, that When the great law (.11if Ts of the Crown are con templating an Act which is to deprive a British subject of a right or franchise, they contr:be to weave two objects or circumstances together which' are very dissimilar in themselves, but are made one by'a forced junction. This is strongly instanced t ie tie Bill brought into Parliament by Sir S. &JET UM, tor abolishing the Right of Appeal, which bad *Mt* nothing to do, in reason, with the " Wee ger of Battle," but with which it was coupled aid carried through Parliament, to the grief of the people, and the shame of the press ; tor, excepting TIM CHAMPION and TIM STATESMAN, seareely one London journal took the matter into consideration ; assuredly none treated it with due zeal. These two papers affirmed, at the time, that the nation would have to rue the effect of the abolition of this o nlitable and sacred right: it has done that, in the ntborised assassination and massacres at Man chester. Our prophetic great lawyers anticipated the insidious design of doing away the Right of Appeal, before the swords of the military sbould.be sharpened. Again, blasphemy and *edition have no common principle between them, and yet they are hashed up together to make one dish. A man who should once take it into his head to pro duce a book which would be called blasphemous, might still be loyal to the Government, whether the character and principle of that Government `were republican or monarchical. Again, the most vehement seditious writer against one or other of the above Governments, might have a strong aver sion, nevertheless, to produce any thing in print which should in the remotest manner be construed as blasphemous. All this, in our Attorney and So licitor General, is not frank and generous ; it ex hibits the workings rather of a cold sullen calcu lator and of a double defiler: in fact, it smacks more of the pettifogger than the honest lawyer. The Seditious Meetings Rill is to be read a third time la the House of C.)nnimous this day, sad we • we doubt but it will be hurried on with the wee voloesty as the other Bilis, for restraining the liberty of. the subject. iflie one for preventing petrel Training to Anse, received the Royal /talent on Saturday. Would that a Bill or Bills could be brought into Parliament for tranqnillizing the mil lions of opt fellow-subjects in the United Kingdom, and securing to them what it is but reasonable they should enjoy: viz. the means of subsistence for their labour. To ...sure men in society of this, is the object of all governmeut ; and if by misrule or 'a less condemnable cause, the designs of men who have relinquished certain natural rights for the ad vantage of a social compact, have been frustrated, it behoves those in poWer. who witness the evils springing from such a state of things, immediately to set about correcting these errors and omissions. We arc glad to hear that a few Noblemen and Commoners, of patriotic distinction, who have not only protested in public against the too long perse vered-in measures of Ministers, but have also held an intercourse in private, are about resolving how beat to serve, and in that view, to save the country is the coming hour of peril. The importance of the measures now in progress thumb both Houses, and of the circumstances, true, tabs, or exaggerated, on which they have Pomaded, has lately engrossed our whole at lasPoo. It is time now to look a little about us, tali sleiteider what is passing in other countries. 1111141101 M oil is gioom and indecision. The fears of somptelts bare suspended for a while the full Eilsowelbs of their designs. The celebrated Mentz Consmiloien has not yet opened its sittings. The enamel in which its members were received, and the gettersl disgust and indignation of the people through every German state, have produced bene ficial results. The evil day, if not entirely averted, is at least put of; and new Conti - , ,tqg mi!ct sod new discussions take I,lsu, LL fore the minatioo that maketh" desperate can he completely set up. A pause has thus occurred, an awful pause, in the accomplishment of the dc.,tinies of Ger many. it is capable of much good and of much l ova. It may serve to enable Sovereigns, by in quiry soda calmer view of things, to ascertain that their true interests are inseparable from dowse of their people, and that free Constitutions, by set- I thog the claims and cleaning the rights of all, add to the real security of thrones. It may, on the other hand, be used to consolidate the league of 'Kings; to muster up their forces, and to aecunsulate a mass of military power capable of repressing for a time the very thought of resistance or revolution. We say for a time. because in whatever soil, or by 'whatever means deepens/a be erected, A can no - ) . , longer hope for protracted existeriw. Armies may establish, but cannot support it. Its life-blood was the ignorance of the people upon whom it preyed. Education has come, like a seraph from Hearn, and drained that source ; and the dawn of the morn ing is not more surely followed I:: the glories of noon, than the illumination of the tiortian mind, by the full and steady blare of coisrlif-yens! freedom. If from Germany we turn tow:•r , :s frames, we End her light obscured. She la!eL , moved is a radiant path, in all the strength :scanty r 4 reviving youth, feared by these who had trarrkd upon her, and admired where The had been bilteri. What can have so soon turned her from the wisdom and majesty of her course ptizillanimity gained a footing in her councils. If so, let bee know that the experiment which she is trying is still more dangerous than it is unnecessary. Her King has established a Charter, o hich has enatled her to enjoy true Constitutional libert:i. He Hu sworn to maintrin this Charter in its integrity, and Geis bound to keep that oath, not o-11 because it is a sacred obligation, but because if he, the Founder, assumes the power of retracting any of the grants which he has made, hissuccessors will think themselvesauthorised to refract Iht• whole. Frame will then have been deluded by a dream. The vi sion of a Constitution will have passed before her, bright with promises of peace, prosperity, and free. dom ; but on waking. the clank of chains will tell her that she is still a slave. What then mast en sue!—Let her twenty-five years of revolstioa speak. Let not their beacon flame in vain. It has hitherto been a terror and a desolation.—Let it at last become a guide. We shall resume this Interesting and important subject, as soon as the pressure of home intelligeact will allow. There will be no Christmas recess. The House of Commons will only adjourn from Christmas ese until Monday the 27th. An adjonrnment for a month or three weeks will probably take place in the end of Juneary. A Writer in a slavish Paper bra the effrontery to say that the Earl .PITZWIT.7 !ADCS personal honour is concerned in the part he took at Yeek. Aye, so it is, but not in the way he would be*, nuate. His personal honour is ephanced' by what he has done ; for he has shown that his love ir his c o untry is paramount to es ery other censiden lion whatever. It is astonishing to observe how ready numerals unfeeling writers are to condemn pie who compose the meetings in the- nseeMilbhtaring die Viet.' as desperadoes, aiming it pfilage, and the Vire • of the wealthy in their Ineighbocrheed. poignant necessities ;:re risiid o.cr without imMNIOnt or pity. Surely, if any thing could Thhc eilislitsature . despernto and, mischievous, this lalalihreireed of his condition and enfferings would 101 , Cheek the freedom of the Prete' Why what is it emlesiens the Press to speak so freely Nhthisg but the unparalleled distress of the country. Lot ' don itself does not exhibit that eeeting picture: hut in some of the Northern counties, the poor people are actually famishing by inches. Rigorous punishments for political offences never yet obtained the object sought for. Laws teeming with vengeance, are like an overcharged piece ordnance, being dangerous to those who let then of It is very natural in those w.lin are anxious for the well doing of the country. to be warm and it ritable, perhaps indiscreetly so. on seeing peblie affiars proceed io so unpromising a way, and it is upon that ground, oo doubt, that the suggestion of many among the Southwark and Westminster Electors wiz/x.4 their Representatives to sec,ile altogether from the House of Commons. Tis k his MeMbers, however, can do much more good by being found at their post. They may prevent, by a well directed opposition, a great deal of confusion and mischief, which might otherwise arise from the enereasing timidity of a great portion of the Mem bers composing the House of Commons. The Courier of Saturday having flourished a note of triumph on the Training Bill having passed. desires his readers to remember, with all due grati tude, the hideous phantoms with which be has Sr the last six months disturbed their imaginations : lee detra them also to recollect how steadily 71t Chronicle and Times have denied his facts, sad latighid at his visions; concluding with--' We leave the inference to each man's fancy." This is as much as to say, " We have amused you leig with Action, and may now fairly draw upsa your fancy to moist es with an inference." Indeed, the columns of this Paper have so bounteoadv teemed with " thick coming fancies," " too wet& fur boys, too green for girls of nine," that we are not surprised at its being at length obliged to esd for a levy en masse of the creative powers. In reply to certain questions put to the reed body of mercliants at Liverpool, by Mr. NANSIIT TART, respecting the ad valorem duty proposed to be laid upon cottons on the Ist January, they haw recommended that this duty be done away with, and fat lieu of it there should be imposed a Axed dell of a halfpenny per lb. Ile East India cotton, mod a 'farthing per lb. on alr other sorts, except Wed India British Plantation cotton, which is to noose ite before, three-farthings per lb. It is expel that this arrangement will be adopted by do CHANCKLLOR of the ETCHRQCSR. An order was received at Sheerness last will. by the officers of his Majesty's OfilliallOP, Wand. guns mounted on the fortifications round the WI which arc lb and 41 pounders, and others that fa outside the gerrison walls (dismounted), to honk,* into garrison. Sir linNur BLACKWOOD stile ir. knr &Pl ° . relieve Admiral sir RumAmu hmo iu the vs maud of 'lnueorualee. • _} =I OI I th* e issA wA city Palish' very Ktr i an Ira tl tbs* &NW 3 — kigated R oat assist doors oh b so additi sire a reP lisoshold' ref , mei. blame (al fer gibe T Y ail. rows whom *ln vsesssarit so Petitio w idler yi Doc 14, pi, illy ..wry takes 6 triallY wloo. eal bottle r dollotin cli c , Amelia NM with•Ut degree ooss of lantlel:2 joie tmm the pro that th plAti) actions he reel kw. a ell his wish. I ~ .~ r ims ▪ r. woo 'drat a Wimp' Oat V it in+ It t , Coo 'Pawl Woe 1 4 ft h Edit (est moo tie 'E ir