The Statesman. — London, England, 1819-08-20 00:00:00

thee most they be called sobjnts ?!!) The Procla mation then It+s turned out to be the quick match which, in the hoods of the boosbardters(the bonsbades praetor of Msochewer) has set ire to the com bestible materials, which hate been orcumulating for ears! and then, forsooth, the Ministerial mouth. pieces—the ratiocinators of the tltroith l'rcst Icy the whole to Mr. HUNT and CPPIETT'S twopenny parn• phlet. It would be wiser in them to say less of Mr. lilunT: we told them what they would make of him by their personal attacks and puerile Anse. They have wate►ed the soil in which this vignrees Pat►iot hes thriven, They have cultivated him and made him grow, and they are entitled to the harvest, and he will give it them. However fell the mind rosy be of the dismal oe eoreences at Manchester,there is very tittle of novelty to be said open them. The respoosibility must lie upon the Magistrates of the place. for the mischief they have brought on the neighbourhood and on their country. It will most assaredly remain a bar of re. preach upon the arms of England in the eyes of all foreigners and other nations. The mandate of Mi nisters even remold not attenuate their crime; be) we sincerely believe that they could not urge any thing of the kind in their esesse : for much as we have to lay al the doors of those Gentlemen silos have the sway of these realms in their hands, they are too conning to commit themselves in that manner. No : we believe these worthies will leave the Magistrates to their Ns for their over.rarns courage against their countrymen, as former Ministers left the greet uncle of General Bun to his, for his over cool condect towards the French. /ld therefore, if they have been rash enoegh to direct the military to make a charge upon the people before proclamation of the hint Act, and an hour elapsing after reading it, they have made themselves amenable to the laws as murderers, and if consicted of the deadly crime, will no doubt be left to suffer for it ; gm although nor ruling Statesmen hare done away the law of light to .4ppeal (probably foreseeing in stances where it might be used by lie friends of the slaughtered Patriots), yet will it be though; perhaps quite politic to allow the law to lake its course.— Saeribces are pertain political as well as in religious history. A very sensible and highly-gifted Correapondent,) ie a Letter in our front page, entitled " Taxa - non AND RAPILIBENTATION RECIPROC‘L," has, ha the course of his freitful contemplation, elicited from his mind an idea for which he d the highest distinction the country can give him. For elebnogh it is no sooner espoaed to the understanding of a man of common sense, than it Is eagerly embraced es a self-evident preposition, yet might it have lain buried or unexplored for an age longer in the pro fundity of a philosopher's or patriet's cogitating brain. We will not scruple to say, that it promises to be of mere reel benefit to man in society when put late real existence, than all the machinery of the steam-engine, or of other kinds which have been in vented doting the last and many preceding centuries. —lt seems to es to be that grand DESIOtRATUN which man in the social compact has been looking and sighing for ever since the adoption of a representative kind of Government. It is not going too far to say, that if pet in practice and effect (and that it will be so the improved state of the human mind firmly asserts as), it will act like a renovating principle to coon. fetid or neutralise the corrupting one in checking the natural abuse which would otherwise inevitably attend the growth of power, or its continuation In the seine hands. CONSTITUTIONAL! There can be no doubt of that. We hare a Constitution—we will insist upon its being brought into view (to the mind's eye at least) and into practice. It is founded an Freedom. Every thing which can magnify or secure that freedom to ell the People of Britain is the British Constitution. Thus is the blessing of Its tot being written in ink discovered ; foe if it bad been so chalked net; our corrupt and ponerful enemies of every description, Borouglnongere, Mi. misters, and Minirters' tools would all hate suited and have called upon os to show them the bond.— " is it so written," these Shylocks, these suitors of their fellow-creature'. lees and blood would have cried. But, no; our Constitution is indelibly written In the blood of our famed ancestors (and in this we prove, that if man has improved the arts and sciences be is himself degenerated). It is deposited in the hearts of the brave Patriots of England ; and its enemies must cot their way through their bodies (as the Local Yeoman Cavalry of Manchester have just cut their way through the ranks of unarmed men, women, and children, to get at Mr. Ilumv), ere they can despoil us of that political treasure. If this 44- (fleery had been fortunately laid open to the Patriots in 1770; if it had been asserted and insided upon (end none but the base, the selfish, the sophistical, •r the conceited can deny it), that any House of Commons, professing to represent the People of Bri tain, hail not the power to inflict a perpetual tag upet, such People, we bad not had an American war, which cost the blood and lives o r two m illi o ng of our fellow. creatures, sod _five tiondred million, of debt. We will do no more at present than refer our Readers to the letter itself, in which the 111.2. torn, uce_, _ thoogh simply attired, and modestly ; carries with it, the lineaments of the grandest perception that the imeginetine of man was ever stored with. Here is 1911Ittbini to buil% fof• • • ~ .%-rip•eft .6 ...I' Tr! E STA T ESN! AN, ward the timid /Vhig in the way of Reform, if he happen not to be a fl'roughmonger. As to the Tory, wu cannot expect his countenance or concur rence; be will cavil at the discovery, as the co gitation of the patriot eothosiest. Lords Lousnace end ST• Curatives, with all the Lowman and the Fctots, will be sere to vote against it as a frantic innovation—to whom the now better-informed Pen ple of this abused country, will say —" Stand aside, my Lords •ud Gentlemen of the Bross of Com mons, if you please—• little reason now, and less of trickery, we are come to oor senses, and will have dealings with even of sense only, and with honesty too, if we know it. Yoe Borough dealers, and yes Ser•sse, yoe Illasiasserta, you bateau! had 'warden it is postern." The Courier, the New Times, and the Morning foal, cannot surely say much against as for standing up for the Constitution—nor will they wen tare to deny that it is based upon Freedom, and con structed (ideally constrected) with the materials of Liberty. 66 DAM TO HURT Mitsos."—An event has se. coned which, as Macbeth says of sleep, is " Na. tire's second C 0.,,. ;" and as ern shell pronounce it, " the chief nourisher of life's feast :" for it is the serving up of Liierry to the great round table of the Brtlists Empire. We have then to congratolate our (leaders and the Public, upon the very hest meth°. rity, that the very first fruits of the recent military elecolion and civil murder of their conntrymen et Manchester, have been the cordial and spontenvoes , anion of Sir Fa 114C1I BURDETT with Major CART. WRIGHT and Sir CHARLIE% W01.411.V. 611 the mnst liberal principles of genuine patriotism and private friendship. Let as moreover trust that the harmony this reestablished among the IlknicAt.s, at the head of their associatinn„ will pervade the whole body tlitnegh all its ramifications, from COOSETT, 11UNT, CLLAIIT, Wout.rm SHERWIN', 1.1111.1L11, kr. fit. &e. to oho least of the nameless numbers who compose it ; end that each individual will vie with another its burying their discords in everlasting obli. skin, till all their enemies tremble at their union in favour of British rights sod liberties. It should eppeer that the Manchester enstiofac. toting Magirrates, or Magisterial Manufacturers, being disliked by the poor artificers and workmen from the ahriigiog their wages, have acted like the silly bard.hesrloil father, who said to his ill-treated s o n, " S.,Sir , yon don't lore me, 1111 ! Wby then you scoundrel, I'll flog you now, end repeat the Raping every morning, till you declare you do love my !" Eltract of a doter, doled Aiv-11•Charelle, Aog. 15:—so Since the ermine's between tl e Emperor Ahrtisinett and Ct er.tDOTTE his ener"ssed to se great a degree as to lease seareely any hope of a re coniiiittino. we are not a little curious In ascertain the policy England nil I.bl/11P, stinald the party among the Swedish Nobility who meditate the over- throw of BERNADOTTE receive aulmort awl corns. ment from Russia. The lid', in which the S wedish Monarch is regarded by the other Powers of Earope, is best shown by the fact, that he has already ad dressed himself to three different Courts in order to obtain the hand of a Prlucess for his too °scale, and has received a refusal from them all. These three Courts are, Pressia, Mecklenbargh-Schweriu, and lieser.Ctral." Letters from Frankfort of the 15th Inst. announce a popular tumult which begin on the receipt of similar intelligence from Wont:web, sod was, like this letter instance, directed principally against the Jews. Some acroanla greatly naggers.e the affair ; but the acts of violence were neither of long duration nor at tended with very serious consequences. Great alarm, however, 'listed among that class who had peculiarly become the objects of popular indignation. Eared from a letter, dated Genoa, Anwst 7. " It was repdrted at Constantinople, on 5.1. cit., that the San i•thcdlo, CaNNITAIIO, under the Russian Sag, w hich sailed from this port, 7th Jane, for Odes- I Fa, bad been sank by a pirate in the Archipelago, and the crew murdered." The following is en ettract of a letter from St. Priershorgh, dated 17th Jane:—" List night we bah a lire, stick threatened at one time to destroy the whole of the tallow warehouses ; but it was for. tunstely got out with the loss of three barks, sit ti g hte r ., and shout 1000 casks of tallow : 117 casks Were shipped by Messrs. TLIOUSON,I3O.IIAII, and Co. its one r f the lighters. Sir f; SORGE Ccccat a r sod Sir 11Y. 110T0 tw, iwn of the lords of the Admiralty, acenwipsniell by Rear Admiral Sir Jim• GORE, K. C. 8., Sir Miami. Srymor:ii. sod Sir Roar. Binr.ow, on Wednesday inspected his Nbijetly'll s!lip Claen Glendower, at Chatham, which trs►et hAs heen built and is fitting on an entire new construction by Livid. .1,10 Cues. lulu, for the Han. Captain SrorcEst, of the Gawp merle. _ The Count Caro D ItTRI l "FES yesterday vi.ited it Mirirt's llotel by their F. II ..st•••••ncies the Persian, French, Turkish, Russian, and Svdunitn Arnhstss• dors ; also by the Earl of LIVERPOOL, L ord CASTLE. lIVIGU, and the Earl of HARDWICRE. The following Notice proves the promptitude with which the sufferino of the Manchester People are attended to by those of the Metropolis:— KENNINGTON MEETING. We hive just learnt that the Committee for eon. ducting the \letting of the Non-represented Inhabit. ants of the County of Survey, intended In have been held on Mondry nest, on Kennington-common, have resolved to postpone it, and convene another Meet. ing instead, on ‘Vodnesday neat, in Smithfield. Pia. cards to that elect will be issued to-nsorron morning. To rot EDI7I'IK or rest STATESMAN. Sin, —While I am always reedy to apply to yner truly valuable Paper for my infolmation of political affairs at this critical period, I ern led to look at the Ministerial prints in order to see their remarks.— 'lsere is little necessity for me pointing oat the dif ferent sensations they produce, particularly in the disgraceful alluir of Manchester. Your leneoll7.es ag it tap the feelings that should inspireevery breast who has any degree of regard for Lienself or his fellow-countrymen, cannot fail to rouse the indiffe rent mind to a tense of defy. Who can read your account of the cruelties of the soldiery to the people assembled at Manchester, without indignation sod horror ? especially when we know the instigators are the same men who are appoluted to mit mercy with judgment. Who would have thought Englishmen so void of feeling, so that those very men who bad vo lunteered their services to protect their country, should begin by butchering those allied to them by all the ties of nature ; independent of that humanity that thould lilt the bosom of every being that assesses the title of man. I shudder at the Idea that such proceedings are to stain the pigs of history, et an epoch when, in point of civilisation, Britain stsnds so high moil the nations of Europe. Shall we leave nothing behind us to wi , • away the stain ? I tru.t we shall, by proving it is not the s;,irit of the Peo ple in general, hot only of a few in power, whose condect will only serve to urge us on, as it shows as in a still more glaring light or possible) the neces sity of Reform. Can we (AI to infinite the conduct of Mr. flume, et the S.nithfielil Meeting, and not have every reason to believe he would conduct himself with the tame pf0(1611) it MetiCheyter, if to proceed unmiulestril ? But 111,giorsry thit•ttei for r..amige on the men who never isjured them s .re thy' that of consulting the heat plan of etaablistii.e j wire in the land, and bring an of:ens hill .1 its b Atm a plea to apprehend Nlr. 11. 111.1 most do it at the very son. sent he was 11110,4 the propriety of keeping the , peace. My tory Mood runs r. , 1 , 1 to see the Ws!. I ferrate with which the Pines tel ties the account of their unjustly murdered countrymen; the account they take from the Star, of the treatment of Mr. 11. is enough to estate every man to the tuuse of Reform, so as that the reins of Government may be entrested to moo readier to heal than wound the People. The blood of those marty rs w alto have an gloriously fallen fur the cause of Lilerty, shall not discourage those who have survived thorn. No, it will only serve to make the. still indent to obtain their rights ; their motto being still the same—" Let us die as men tither than lire as slaves." The important crisis, I hope, is not far distant ; they hare taken the very step to hasten it ; let es j..in, rejoiriag, that though we suf fer at the present time, we may enjoy the fruit of our labour afterwards; if not, we leave to oar suc ceeding race that neatly purchased noble legacy— Freedum.—l am, Sir, your's, with respect, A. 9. LORD CASTLEREAIit eam• to town yesterday, Ind Miuisterial conferences have been held on the subject of the disturbed districts. The Marquis of Lomas( succeeds to the Green Ribenil, vacant by the death of Earl PAULETT ; end Lord Romany Kea is to be Secretary to the Order of the Thistle, in the room of Col. llcerru•se, deceased. We do not know whether it be in consequence of the great redaction in the navy, end the number of officers and seamen continually applying to the Ad. nairalty for relief, but horn some cause, we observe ft has been found necessary to alba a board to the walls of that building, Rising notice, that " ell per sons found begging there will he prosecuted." SETS:NTT-TWO THOUgAND POUNDS MEET Fate %Y. —The Slate Lottery finishes next Friday, on which day both the Prizes of £36,000 Console. and e'er) other Capital, most be drawn. Butt's Offices hate been most conspicuous for sale of great Capitals (a hether Money or Stock), as he has sold two out of three of the £30,600 Consols, the only £40,000 Console, and I £30,000, £20,000, besides having sold full half of all the £3o,t,'oomoney Priers. Tickets and Shams are on Sale et his Offices, 4, Corn. hill, sod 9, Chariog.cross, and by his Agents in the country. Rendall's opening dirtier in Chaneery.lane, on Tuesday, was attended by a select twisty of amateurs, fifty in number, end the claret flew copiously. The great Captain of the milling forces supported the Chair, and the steady sod tried patrician friends of Randall, to keep the game alive, offered to back Larkin, the Life Guardsman, for 100 guineas, igninst any man in the world, bar Cribb. Salton, the Kock, laid be was willing to fight any man, end Teske no bars, but he bed not the means of backing himself. A hundred was subscribed fur him in a few minute., end the match was made to fight no the 14th October. Betting to a considerable amount followed at cren, bat 3001. to 4001. was at the close offered upon the Guardsman. Twenty guineas aside was deposited. Coen Excatasacc. Arc. W.—The 'apply of Whew tat. wrack has Lem very small t trade r..ntiners heavy. althoweb few maples soul at Ist Manche'. pruer.—Feat Basler asp. pouts stir price of this day week s itaferkr Is. loam—Oats It. cheaper.—ln ether articles ao istterntiaa. liwiyuriren. Ate. 90.—Tbrre aa. a pad rorpl% of all kind of t utile at Illatlet mouit.g, at Mouthy pricet.•— Lamb d . The his.ttse.s in the Hay Moat, 1111101n4ng was it na.3ctrd sit last gnntatire ; Straw and Gov. r tb • some. The ;untried is a correct automat oolitic nembers sisal pile,. at Mattel : To slob the Offal, per stawe of Ulna. Seer ....es. 65. la Pa. 4J. I Head of Castle Mises* t tutees ...Is. iJ. to 6d. lam Veal ... Se. 01. to 6.. OJ. Oiler miff Lambs . 7,flJ Vbo Part . 6 , . 01. to 6t. 61. Calvm xD bs. Us. to ffirs •—•.• • • 11AT-111ARICET. flay ........ 41. W. thl. to it. Os- M aurer oa. tat. in ii. JOs. 04. straw ...• 1 1 . 33.. OO• M 41 ' 5 SIASSWHE IN MANCHESTER. "MYTHIC TROCIA3III . CAVALRY ♦ID THU MAGIC A l'..h:ir Alerting ies:l be held ii Ile Ciiinn hod Aerh r- T . 'Wand, nn tieteular, the 11. t test., 5., expre.s the opi nion of the British Public, epnn the retest enorl owe of the Yew. manry Cartery cud the 1114itiotrates, Fn disperOtig the Mar chewer Meetiatt for Refers. •• The Chair to be lek•n ✓ll T.. 1. Wvie:er, Primer, 73. Elea-suers." A private letter, daied Manchester, Tuesday night, informs os that Mr. Hunt coo:invert in prison. The bail which he offered on that day was rejecird by the ?•lagistrates. Ile proposed to lender fresh hail on Wminestlay. In tbe several blows made at him on the Listings by the Yeomanry, be has received only one stvere sabre wound. It is on the back of his r i t or iisrni, while warding off the blows. All was gear( iu hlsitchester on Tuesday night. O.ie of the charges for nigh Treasoa preferred egrinst Hum; in a Thaler) , Journal of last night, racer, that he rode iota fslasc4ester in an open car. tiirr ee UPPday, with Brikinnie on the dickey. - 14.0 7 .41, INTEL LIG HNC DEAL, Aco. 19.—Palse.1 by the back of 1611 Goothein sancl4, she Amelia, from Rotterdam fee New York.— ArriveJ sr d sailed for the River, the Venoi, Mattison, from the Soolls Seas. PORTSMOUTII 4 Ain. 19.--3 riled the Aletarnier, Serflen, for the I.le of France. PLYISOVTII, A cc. 18.—Arrived the Defence Ilan.. port, from Iron Jan, with ones , n for hi. M.jerty's ship Soperb; and the Margaret, IVllLlgoors, front Prince F.dearcPs I.lsnd : on the 31st of July. in Ist. 45. 33. loni. 5!. 18. spoke the Con.tars.i., front Plyistooth, with passengers n the 13st 1311. tat. 49. 47. long. 12. 59. spike the Menai, front Cardillo Qiebre, with passenger.. FALMOUTIt t Auc. 17.—Arrived off thie part the Jane, Dunalt;son, fri m Aliramichi fur Dartmouth, oot 28 de) s: spoke of Cape St. Mary the Margaret, Crook, from Dublin for (lieJec, with passengers, out seven seeks; and off S.illy the Garland, from Demerara. Costa* Acs. 19.—Arrived the Three Brothers. from Lisbon; she passed the It , y,rl yacht and slat. drnn about one o'clock yesterday, off St. Arran's ll►ad, carrying, press of sail, hoend In Plymouth. LIVERPOOL, Atm. 13.—Arrived of this port te• Lady Forbes, from Greenland. with 13 fivh. ADEUDEE'4, Acw. 13 —Arrived tho llx, BUM% from Greenland. wird seven fiss. Mu., Auu. the I..evisthan, Kitehe ingrain, (mar Oasis Straits, with 15 fish, 40 brat. , ; and Perm/Terence, from Greeniend, with three G hs U) holt,. %%HOMY. At u. 18.--Atrired the Mars, Johann, from G teeniest!, sith fire fith, to lens. CHARACTER or 11R. PIT7', PUBLISHED IN VII: MORN I S:: I' lOF aI.tRCII 19, IbJJ, 111 . MK. COLI.M10;;L. [FRO* 11/MUTT'S SILLTUICI Or POLITICAL CUAa *ACTS . fill, JUST PLIDLisIItO [Conde r 4 from our 1e,!.) 14 As a Minister of Finsoce, h. is still, es otter, the man of words end shltracti , nr, figures, Cus. tom-house Reports, imports, vs; outs, committer, and resents., all flourishing, all splendid. N-var was tech a prosperous errantry as Englald under Iris Ad• ministration. Let it to.o olj•cteol that tl.t agroccitere ref the country is, by the over.bslasice of commerce, and by various snit comities causes, in such a state, that the country bones as a pensioner fur bread on lts neighboors, and a bad season uniformly threaten' as with famine; this (it is replied) is owing to our prosperity. All prosperous nations ar• in great disc tress fur ford. Wilt prosperity, still golsersi phrases, enerofert el by one single jape * , n . single fa t of „ak national amelioration, of any one comfort enjoyed w here it was not enjoyed before, of any one class of `society bri;ming healthier, miser, or happier. 'Chet* are things, these are realities ; and these Mr. Pitt has neither the imagination to burly forth, our the sensi. I hility 13 feel for. When we bear the Minister's la. teats for finance so loudly trumpeted, we turn intone lents/Hy to his Poor Illi!l, to that acknowledged abortion, that unenswerable evidence of hie ipso. ranee respecting all the fundamental relatioes sad at tions of property, and of the 'Gehl onion. " As his reasoning., even so his eloqurn-e. One rhoracter pervades Ms whole being. Words on words, fiuely armed, end so deo/rashly canter:pent, that the whole beers the semblance a argument, and still keeps awake 6 sense of surprise ; but when all is done, nothing rememberable has been said ; no one philosophical remark, no one image, not even a pointed aphorism. Net a sentence of Mr. PITT'S hat ever bean quoted, or formed the favourite phrase of the day, a thing unersmpled in any man of mist reputation. The mere man of talent hears him with admiratioo, the mere man of genius with contempt; the philosopher neither admires nor contempt, but listens to him with a deep and solemn interest, trac ing, in the effects of his elorpaenre, the power of words and phrases, an] that peculiar ronstioetioe of human affairs in their present state, which sn enii. nervily favours this porter. The same character be. trays itself in his ii:ivals life; the same coldness lee realities, to images of realities, and to all whose es. !cellenee relites to reality. lie has patronised no i science, he has raised nor man of genius from obscu- I ; L ray ; ant counts HO fuse prime synth of Con among his Mends. From the same source !.e has HO attach ntent to female sncietr, no fondness for children, o• perceptions of besot) in national scenery ; but keie fund of t invisial indulgences, of that stimulation. which keeping ap the glow of self-important., and the sense of Internal power, gives feelings without the mediation of ideas. We are unable in deter mine whether it be more coonsolatury or humiliating to human nature, that so many completitite of event, sitestion, character, age, and capture, shoo:Id bet nee rrrrr y, in order to the production of a Mt. Pat.". Wednesday night es Mr. I. Ilyams, clothier, re. siding in she Nlinories, we+ returning home front Camberwell fair, he was attacked on the (nail, a considerable 'Hoarier. hey tint' the Elephant and eastlr, by three or four ruffians, who knocked him down; but a mob being assembled pry neer the spot listen. ing hit ballsd.singer, and the aims fearfel n!theie interference, one of them called out " a ring," tire lag the passengers to understand that it was a tight, shaft two Chess forcibly polled Mr. Hymns ep on their knees, notwithstandieg his ',peeled refusat t• fight. A Mild then knocked him down, end is taking him up sgain, his pretended second+ picked his pocket of kit witch end pocket book, cantata• log three 11. noire. and then decamped. It tct AG WWI Tint —llallten, the Nottingharn tonsbire warted 'ewers's! morning, at o bes out ri h m e t Y. o w hi r r i s C i r i :sit g r f m o ro i al , K s . n e r i i i r ll e e i t in: 4 s g h e o r 2 m n s :h e o s i l e Pi r t tr r a did nt hoer, eight sod-e-h..lr it e second, end eight the third, when he hllied f•esh and well, end ate t•ea r ., tily of mutton chops. He started spin in • quarter of an brew, end did 15 miles in the next two boors and he won the match cleverly %9 is boon and fifty. six slastec I. r 1 : 1 iF . i