The Statesman. — London, England, 1819-07-16 00:00:00

IW Cni , '"- JUSFORM MERTING AT 81R311NG114.11. We Iwo repressor, OUT approbation of the Meet !no of the agerlosod Dart of ear coontryroon. If they are all to be conducted like this of which we are spooking, they cannot be no often called, nor too nanternotly 'needed. The volneles to freedom will be disappointed end reefoonded by the proceedings lost Monday In . this great wannfactsprisig tows, where it is seqsesilenshl, that two-thirds of Its ishabiteats ere sorely wronged by the present corrept system of the Gosernmont, Rod the Waste of these who are unhappily placed at It heed. Let these Wish de : epetk Ministers read the follewhsg Reeeletions, sad If they hese hearts which as foil, t►ey will be ap. palled et the woriersiahle froths which they contain, sad by the plata sad sossfosios logic is whkh.theee truths are told. .____ ___ RILSOLUTICHIL 8 WA.ns• As Inhabitoots .f Rhisiaihos lan Rot, is ibv Commons' Hooooof Par Moment, osylio. prompted's', is Gospel, ea t►.ir behalf, to tha laws t►q are required is absent., and the is,. they s respired ti pay. " And •horees the said lehsbitsats of Dirgriag. Ass Aim se anqrsestleagbie right to berg I, Perlin. tweet Reprtseatstiers, aot aterely of their awls end eppnietaest, bgt likewise in agasber, eorrespondloo shit the popelatioa of their compared with !kat of eke kindles,. " And whom' tit* said labehitaats of Binalag. bun conceive 'bat the Commons' Mote, howseiver dr fed* It be composed, end whether it oesht to be applied sato Of II Legislatorial Ropreeentethe of the Commons of the Heals, or el a Court of iedicatere hr r.dress of wrongs, is matters of election, tousl ing hlesben to gene dirndls, le boned to d o jasike oats or procure for time, the said Inhabitants of Itiresinshas a fell and complete redress of tho on. speekable 'Amoco sod injury they sustain, by res. Son of their wet brig repeteented le Parliament. " And whereas so prise* of oar lA. and Coe. sthetion Is mere certai• than this—that even what Parliament may do cootrary to Inman slits's, liber ties, and free cotton's, founded in thseternsl law of mature (which is the imasetable law of God), and at variance with tho Constitoilon of the realto, as in _.... .- itself an error and injustice incapable of validity, shall Ye boldest for etergbt. " Aed whereas this 'weed principle of freedom end justice steeds in effect recognised and declared by Parliament, i■ a■ Act of the 34th of Edward I. s. 4. c 4. he These words—' All clerks aid layout of oar land shall hare their laws, liberties, and free creams, as largely and wholly as they hare used to base the same at any time obeli they kid them best ; and if any Statutes have been made b♦ us, or our 'arrears, or any customs brought in contrary to t►ea', or any manger of Article contained in t'.i. preest Charter, we will mod grant, that such manna: of Statutes and customs shall become void and (res hot' ler evermore.' " Aid whereas Petition', although signed by s large properties of the coasmeeity, have sot ►itherto ' availed, it le therefore— " Resolved, Ist. That is the shakersl facts which the quarteltieg of ropes at Barnstaple, Peoryn, and Grempoesd hove brought to light, we bate a lively picture of the bribery sad abominatioes, which al most, if sot altogether, saherselly prevail le thou, duke of correptioe, esikd apes Boroughs. 61 Resolved, Id. That in an iefeneres messed's at Misfiles, to the depth of last winter, we et once see the detracting spirit, and the true means by which woprii , eipled Peers, as well as others Who are candi dates for the Peerage, have utmsmorphoesd open Boroughs lotto close Borseghs, (or the purpose of guilty ambition. " Resolved, 3d. That se loos es such unprincipled Peers, sad would. be- Peers, shell have at their absolute command, a great majority af the seats is the Com. mows' Hoes., which is aoshieg short of subversion of the Constitenee, It is manifest they will coolies* to defeat a Reform of that Houle, sum the injured People, determined on recovering their liberty, shall become's Immerses, end shall raise a voice too awful t o be tweed with contempt. 66 itesolehl, 4th. That a number of Geotlemen in whom this Mimeos confide, tsarina stated, that there has now for a year soul a half past, hoes before the Public, NI of Kidd: and Liberties,' for ef fecting a Radical Reheat he the House of Commons, en the .imtle principles of voting for Itepiesentatives (which Is s cosnoion right) being osareited by all men of .stern age and mead mind, who have not for. felted the right by any trim.; the sates being given by ballot, sod the Representative Body being re• armed ones a year ; It is the eplaion of this Meet. log, that the said Billought to be adopted and passed intoa The (seeping Resolutions passed vosoimeesly.— After which the following Complaiet, Reineestrante, aid Petition was reed Neat follows the Remonstrance, which we chat. leap (as far ss it gees) against any thing of the kind ever paned by man. It is the veritable, and ought to be the en ectio.abli code of the Itionys or MAX in t►e Social Geared. If each proceedings as these do sot redoes the desired effect la • reasonable time, then ere we lost, as Lord Kiturs would say, beyond the merit of redempties, sod the sootier such portion el the earth is cleated of its inhabitants the better, that it may be peopled afresh with a better stock. " TO TIM HONOURABLE THE COMMON* OF THE. UNITED KINGDOM OF (TREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED. 44 TUE COMPLAINT, RILMONSTRANCI, AND PETITION Of TIM !XMAS/TA NTS Of 66 With the deepest allicilea, sod with a distort. tent it world be a crime to their reentry to divisive, your applicants observe that the complaints, which from time to time dumbest a los( course of years, bate been made by • cruelly aggrieved People, to former Ileum of Commons, teething the decays sad Corruption in the Represeotative breach of the L.. ghlatervototwithstaeding the truth of the fact', sad the inanity of the Wiese' evils thence resetting, bare not as yet seabed a Radical Reform of those fatal decays and corruption•. " Those stievaoces hawk, bees the subject of a essitseerslal discsoios for wands et 40 years, Ti AL STATESMAN, hive boon rondored both andenleblo end natoriool 1 . :4111 nile which bate thence •risen, hats been wen in the •hope of war% not merely saiteeessaryvbet hi; with ootioollsolotiNtyi owl With Whale ioht t• the public ielerests—or a „ succession Of socoasoits. %lona' lees, which bite Issidlausly abridged public liberty, es well as of as unceasing accsoulatian of oppressive Trays, unjustly howling private property. Puns an acutefrolinsof thausessapliested evils, ti• MI for e Radical Reform io the R;preqeotatiort of the Commons of the Reeks, signed sr we belle., by more thee s million of the aggrieved People, end epeoklog, is we believe, the testiments of , were presented to the last Commons' WAS*, bet present• eel in vain. Here your Complainsets beg leave to uU year attentien In a eirreasstance, •hirh mist ,sbear, and place in a strong light the lonrrid Hestia., the maestros, treatment which the Petitioners on test etession riperkneetl, awl iv Melt treallbe at re. wised all possible eggravation when It is recollected that titer prayed not for a yds'', dee to themselves alone, bit to the •hole •RSeteveJ nation. " The ciree•steoee alleded to Is this—tkt ie •atters teechlig the Elective of Members to scree for the Commons in ParHimont, poor Ilan. Homo dais, to be, anti ',etches the powers of • Count of Jedicat,ort, hieing missile jorisrlietioo. " Then occasional tribunals for trylog cootorted Elections. that for that lento of your Ilion. llooso (which has the permaseet power of emoting end deposit% them to ilso•act that port of the besi• ness) ere so fir from disproriog the Horses claim, alit they coolies end elecidele it. " Those unrest& aro ea other then selections of Members of its own body, to whom It commits the . . @incise of its jeticlicsl functions, and that it ob. tains the convenience of carry's* on sari.les trials at once, without loterraptiug its other proceedings. Its Elective Committees are, therefore, mere juridical representatives, or dainties by shoo it set., sod bit the acts ere its •un, is seen in this, that no .10. chino of an Dretion Coutoittay bath any ,d.ct until report►d to end confirmed by the Mole. " By the Statute ender *bleb those iribonsls are oothnrize,l, it less contrived to ennfer nn time Homo, "MO it n bad before. a kW sanction of its claim, to bat a Coed of Judicature, while lo this very sanction, the Statute both of necessity imposed on it not truly the atitihoter, bat tiro duties of sick a Coact ; for if it base the perm, it most also have the responsibility of I Court of Jedicatoro. The law being in England the ',presto arbiter of parry man's life, liberty, and properly, Courts of Judicature most at ill times be open to she so ject. sod the law most be drily administered thetedo. The emphatic words of Magog Cholla, spoken in the Firms's of the King, ire these : vs will not deny or defer to soy man leitLer Justice or Right. —Blacks I. 141. " neon your Remonstrsots are authorised in mis leading, that an English Court of Joel:more, when duly appealed to for justice. hsth no option. either to toy or net to trs an is.ue, no choice by which it east either deny or defer to injured tight In legal remedy ; nor to withh hi from s. ch as are rofforing under any dreadful grievance, their yr.•per rightfol redress. $6 DliCfetiOtlier rearms, I hsrietyrislic of despo tism its.h ever be• rt nornlisr, batefel to that free mind and high spirit of ErselanA—An English Curt of Jedicatere cannot, like an Asiatic Prater, trills with a visitor. by saying, 4 go tht way for this time, Iwhen I have a convenient season, 1 will send for thee.' _ _ 66 Neither is an English Court of Judicature pri. rileged to substitute its own will for law, its win co • price for the Constitution, awn less to prefer the corrupt interests of i.s own members, or of their pa. Irons, to the undoubted rights and liberties, the per manent interests of the whole nation. " If any mailer of expediency retold embark, the shutting against the People, all ether Courts of Judi cature, in o►der that fora more sure protection, se ►xclurive soil obsolete jurisdiction, *Wield be con (erred on any single Court, in which were wilted the *Wiest with the lexislsiive toortiour, we an e l an. ordinary confidence must add to the obligation of promptness and tirlelity, in the redress of pleasures, l an increase of metal force, ten times too fold. But should she b►trayed People gad that a lines* of Com mons hod clandestinely obtained the powers of se ezclusivejeditature ever their elections; not to pro tect, hut to rinslsee them—not to rend asunder, het to diet the battlel chains of an eriotecratic oligarchy ; not to defeat, but to give elect to the most virulent treason by which their country was ever violated; It is for your lloooorable Ilnese to ruminate on what might be the consequeace of such a con viction in the politic mind. How therefore t►e late House of Commons, either as cloturing the office end attributes of a Court - of Jedicatere, or the character of a faithful R••preseatative of the Commons, mid be capable, in contempt of the Constitution, ht breech of duty, in violation of jug. lice. in defiance of right, and la treachery to public freedom, net merely of turning a deaf ear to an aggrieved People, applying for redress of a wrong producing unspeakable miseries; but likewise ofjeln ing in aggravating that wrong, and adding to those miseries, by a system of terror sad oetrsgeous per secede* for perpetrating the tyranny and all its hor rid evils,—•an only be understood by those who knew that the Hoes* slid not Represent the Com mons of the Realm; bet too preponderating *veal, consisted of swiping oppressors and their corrupt accomplices, who, being judges in their own cause, acted as such men (with a lest of pillage io their hearts, and sobridled pewee in their beads), never fail to act. " Your Complainants have not been enolowneat of that georrelliag of ropes, in Barnstaple, Penryn, Cemellord, and Grampound, which hails recently caused the disgusting wickedness and the grovelling depravity practised in returning Members to your lionoureble Home to attract attention ; nor can they omit to remonstrate against the course which has thereon been taken, as utterly inadequate to core, or I even palliate, the moral disease, and its direful conse quence to the State. 't The infamy that ►as been thus accid►ntelly vs pawl, is by no mass confined to a few vile outs of iniquity ; it is the characteristic of all those sinks of cot !optima called open boroughs. And although in those called close, the depravity assumes another shape, and wears another garb, yet there it is still mote malignant towards nor democratic freedom, in amid as ell dose borne despotism, Is unmated aristocratic usurpation, onositigatod hostility to pub. Ile liberey. I • " TO odorless and bo►rid mass ohm,/ epee Borniwili are wade close ►ate boos receitly eases• pliliud at lichnier, where, to the reprisals of this., in which Iris Ike, hark bun exhibited a tpectacie ■ast inflames sod most brutal; but truly c►irsctsr. lain' tho deadly borough contagion, w►ic► as a de solatory pettilence, threatems to sweep from t►e land all moral healt►, all freedom, and every vestige of the manly virtues of a free People. The prircipal proprietor in that town (w►n, is 1801, was voted inespabla of r►present's, Wheeler, because of his gross bribery sad corruption) was not, it seems, satisfied with ►aring on that occasion reduced the •amber of Electors, by having polled down about a l hundred ►ouses, and drives tito wretc►ed house. ►olders t►us disfranchised, by ►eing paupers, iota s great •wort•►osae, which ha had prepared for t►e Immo*, ; for the said proprietor did again lately, at an inclement season, namely, in January last, cause to be ejected from he said work-hour, and termed into the street, all she said peepers, regardless of age, ;adroit'', or helpless latency, being 163 bursas beings; and tiros he henceforth hoped to raids a redden tyrant over the desolation be bad made, that he aright, by his sovereign will, as lord and master of a depopolated Borough, appoint two of the Members of your Honourable Hesse, then to sit, and tots as the deputies of his despotism. " The head which sickens not at ibis tale of bar. barity, which throbs set with ludignation at this bretcliiy, and which revolts not at Ibis Setsuic mode of forging the worst IRA in the gelling chain of our thraldom, must be as sniveling as the monster him- I „ We grope theta is not Saab a heart in your Ito. mulishly !loose. " It is put a getitiort &Hoven landlord and teasel, bet bet fetes enpsintipled •tarpon, cad the wronged Commons of the Reel., that we cell t. the recell.t. 'inn of y eat Illnaserable Mass Ibislleb.atereara ;for therein, as a faithful mirror, may bo seen raveled the ire; lunge of a widespread cOn•piracy, operating he a deadly crime against the life of the State • a crime no other than that of a premeditated, srdel, and even active taeason : to the proof of which as collation yogi Complainants solicit the serious atten tion of ,oar Honooratile Noose. " Treason is the ei.latioe of Sovereigely. " In the English Constitution there ere three ale• fleet species of S ignty, stariely—that of the Nation ; that of the Parliament ; end that the King. The definition of Someigety is in its having, in rela tion to Its object or objects, erg impeder. " The objects of the nation ere self-presetestion, freedom, and happinets ; its Seistreignty is origleal, underfeed, inherent, and necessarily absolote. The nation accordingly willed, adopted, and ordsieed a Constitution, with its organisation of necessary As thorities for the rnynegonsest of its affsin ; or, le other words, for its gowernmeat, to the ends of its o•n p atlon, freedom, and happiness. The Sever ivy of the Pediment is not original, bet dependant ; not et:derived, bat a deputation ; not inherent, bet conferred ; not absolute, beta trust ; ' a treat limited for the service of the Bathe, to the following ends and ol jeets, namely, to the perform , ing, as occe•fon may regeire, Continuities's; Legis j for controlling Executive Pewee in all hod.. penmen's sod ran.ifications ; and for officiating is general as conservator of the Constitutive, as Pro tector of the People against illegal power,tty tidies,- ing those grievances • hid none olso will or can rm. dress. _ " In these saffien of Government, the Putnam having no sup/rice, is Severeigo. 44 Th , sovervignry of the Keil is still more limit ed, being confined to 'torching the emotive some. Al of the State, in which basin; no superior, be is of course &nervily,. " Hut the sovereignty of Parliament being divid ed between the King, a few lords, and the Cons mons Hoerr, which last ought to represent the en tire nation, with the reception only of the King and than few Lords, it is evident that the Com mons' liner, in respect of the life of the State, is the most vital organ and the very heed of its legislative sovereignty. " It is, therefore, manifest, that whoever stab. this heart—this vital orris of the nation's freedom, by personally slurping a single seat in your Hos. Hover, or by piecing therein by force, freed, or corruption, any other usurper, is undeniably guilty of treason in therein violating the sovereignty of the People. " It ninetiatily follows, that every evert set for despotically, crittopily, or by intimidstloo violating the freedom of election for influencing seen a mg& vote, in returning a Member to your Iroinerable House, is as incipient act of treeson. " For the Stasis of your Hesourable Hone, hav ing so inclusive juridical authority is all matters of election, it is argued, shot if the Courts of Law were permitted to take cognition of them, then the Lords, as having by appeal a fins! jurisdiction, might some. times ultimately obtain a power over those elections ; so both the liberty of the Commons, and the iede pendenceof their House might Le endangered. •' Bat as the repetition, the property, sad the lives of the People are constitatieually under the pro tection of Juries, in the ordisary Courts, it were con trary to reason to toggles that the goodness nr bold ness of a few votes at se elective, might not be safely left in see► bands ; considoing this, seder rational pommies., en appeal to the Lords, once is a ten. tory, were not to be ezpected, and indeed might be forb;rldes by Statute. " 11 hen, ►owever, this pretence of such a shadowy danger is found in the mouths of those who cannot be ignorant of the Interior's feet, that licitly five hun dred of the seats in your HoeouraLle House are actually usurped by Lords, and world-be•Lorrle ; a sourpatinn which,ss it should seem, bath completely subverted our once free Government, sod revels donned it into an Oliesreby, It were as unnecessary as impossible to egress the feelings of your Com plainants on an hypocrisy so disgusting, or rather an effrontery so unparalleled, especially whore sorb pre tence prrc.eds from the lips of criminal rearms lbeniselera. " The fact of the eserpalon being notorious, and the treason of it twin as eedertiable as twine's,' ear Complainants cannot bet remonstrate aisi%st snot floaroirage Hasse Isting, in the corns el filmstrip'', Porn Rod Granipoood, proceeded as if she con. 'Wed criminals bad beee‘eilly„ of ...sly • minor of. fesa,Nstkpatolkeh*Witaw•Nen a pulpt& pa ttio.ipa if ilete in t e *Wm vevaaetup Tauatox. •+ Nut cam gyp r etusieeets refral i from an es• pension of theta In tidied, that whether ynor do moerable BOW claim tie sacred office of a Court of iedicatere, ..t 'he sacred character of a Represents. site of the Commutes of the IC dm. or both, it is be. vend all probability of a d.. 00, an lediapen•tble duty incontheet on it —vet to tau per end t la. • illa Si infernal conaoit.ci, dicta-II) o r etating i• &rut) , the freedom and soseseign•s of I 1 e °wino ; but t .tally to eradicate the treasuesblo atorpatioo of the file ceospirato rt. " Seeing, !weever, that the 'istentrr rf the Stale contioles le rays with enalittd 'indents, fl.resten lag a ettastrreplie the most to al, while yet a.. ..uta Member of pier lineourahla Bins, his hitherto pro. posed any manta in the nature of • complete rime. dy ; this omission on their part, considering they are OAS in somber, is en 03.i.sioe awfully atasmie4 ; and your Complainants bops ii will plead their own ape logy for the libetty of segeostitig that in their bumble judgment, year Ilooostable Mose sai4ht Lid a fall 'said aCCitele delineation of soeb a measure In lie diet of a 1111, which previous to the last Se•sioe of the lest Parliament was. and coming's to ha sold in London, entitled-- A Billet &gists aid Liberties, . by Meier Cartwright.' " In that draft of a Bill, as it seems Is your Complainants, ate clearly shown the ties principles 1 of Repreomtation, as well as the m.ules of ricoly applying them; and a correct theory of Nig...ion, top.lier with a sati•fsetory delineation of all tee nee century details in practice, for ewe/rise ellicieney, traoquillity, and fiefdom ; the pl.. being easy of emotion, bevies., according to dm simplicity ans. tore. The Bill spoken of demonstrates that the choke aed morn of an retire Commons' Hesse may be accomplished in Goa and the same day, and that the business of electioe, instead of eshillting, as en der err present shorking system it doe. exhibit, all that is t Ideas, degrading, and disgusting, world naves sorely be conducted as bedtime a sir. d wise peo ple, in lb* performser• of a pious ditty to their country. Nor could it be con.idered as the least recommenda ties of that Bill, that while the outer natives oil both sides of the Atlantic, are at tl.is estibtetted epoch, osoloosly improving their civil inaisotions. sow ably to their tespectiae attainments in po!itical boom , . ledge, especial l ! in reference to rriorseosseispo ; Ilse adoptioe of the Bill in gamins, by rho Parlilment of Engles& wool.l by one and the same act ',mob*, from the reproach of a lament•ble degenerscy, and place her one* more at the htal of I.,tions, for the science aed the practise of bre, of jest. tied wise Goa• loresoot, sole cause of prow-My end toippioers. " Your Complainants, ltroonostrauts, sad Pea. Mows, therefore claiming on behalf of themselves and their countrymen, their full birthright liberty, sad girolettioe spinet any empetatio's 'her -from, or say abridgesest thereof whatsoever, st diteshieu of ignosatit, corrupt, or tyranuicel auto, 'murkily pray, yogi. Ilosourable House will speedily pass lots) a law some Bill for securing the N Won's Rights sod Liberties, a hich sh-11 at least be oat inferior to that to which Mort have alluded." r The foltowing Rs:missions were then proposed l ead passed seanimously " Resolvesl, stii. That the Complaint, Rmeens strauce, sod Pv•iiinii. which has beeu read, is adopt ed as the act of this Meeting. " Resolved, 6th. That for patting nn a new sod equitable jou, their jest and se'lenieble light la a fell enjoy repot of 6. stewed LAWS, WIER- Ti ES, sod FREE CUSTOMS' of their roomette. as ' largely and wholly' as they Goghs In be e•jsry eel, • tie said Ishabitants of Buressoghem *ill no. forth.. frith proceed to elect one Gewleasen, in ohm they can con 6 or, es their Legivietorial Attorney mod Re eresentative, in whore pelvis, they 491 try she flees tion of their Right to Parliententery Repressoole:i se ; and who shall be Instructed to claim en their behalf, admission into the Costumes' House. as a Member hereof. And in the event of his being acknowledged and received as their It.presesisaive arc/144'141y, then sod there to use his inmost todeavoert 'awards emits* equal and complete :gestic* to the Coalmi ne s f the Realm unsrei.sily, by seceriag be them as Annul Election of begislaterial Representatives, tie be elected by ballot. " Resulted, 7th. That Sir Charles Wolseley, of Wolseley, in the county of Stallard, Bart is elected Legislatorial Attorney and Representative of the Is habitants of Dlrminghans, Isstrected end Neighs, ea their behalf, by letter to the Right Ronoterable the Speaker of the !loose of Commons, admiselue into that Home as a Member thereof ; as well es I. cow musicale es the occasion ile• present and the ism,- distely foregoing Resolve of this Meeting, to be by the said Speaker laid before the Reese. "Resolved, Sib. That our said respeciedßepresam taller, in the event of his being admitted as sash, to a seat is the I.:omegas' Bow, is hereby instrected to move for the adoption of the aletessid Bill of Rights and Liberties; bet in a contrary event, to provide a proper usesascript draught of the ,set., and use his utmost eadeayserslor hart* it proposed is Nan. sent by some other Member. " Resolved, 9th. That a Depsietion consisting d the Chairmso and such pershos as he may think proper, do wait upon Sir Cherie. Wolseley, with the Resolutions appoint* him to removal the inhabitants of Birmingham in Parliament ; and that Major Cart. aright hid Mr. Wooler he requested to a.:compesy the Deputation to join their phloem' entirely to in duce his compliance with the withes of Ibis Meeting.'" We have not time to say more at Ftetent nn this interesting sstjoct, out of revert to which. we hese been obliged to make other °ejects give way. WI trust that the pare Constitetion %1 spirit of the shove Itivrolusinnsand Remonstrance will ‘ierfaderhermaleg Mwropolitaii Myron( on Wednesday neat, and them the railing and +cunt% of 'sqib,' . end co/replies will be harmless. BARNS LEY k ifV) It V JuLr According !o preri s.ss smoke, • Pal•gir Reform Mnetissg loss IteNl hese tlis .t.niott. oc Mat - I Grosse. The w•wtwt of p-ssons was out. ouNly *visited at •ia to sight ttt.wsand, • n saw bet b, no Min./ as ■irr t Imo liv.n oliret o . l l lawn it 11 knosit ti•• Wroth , ' ..td ill .a.• •djse 6.11 plecti its thickly inhabited, clime, by hurt ism's;