The Statesman. — London, England, 1819-08-21 00:00:00

111 E STAT It'SNI A N lI,IYot of tall his words or *ewe.; and I think that all arhica• by raid to nee oboist. , at present he kept a arrrot $n Anaa•ira, unties. his Niko, or his be. reesiry of Sim, should ja•dae prop*, to rsnino it. This I do gas. that the foregoing i• Ma htijiisty`a aneatiing, Os them anderap.oml it, and his own swordtail nearly us can recoil- ct them. The King then a.kerl me whether I came last from crane..? sad upon me enetreritleist the alisrmatise, be put on an air of fausili•rity, and smiling, or 'other beithinc. said. 6 ' there is me opinion among some rosple that SOS are lint the Sono o u tw ard o f s it your country men to the manners of France." I was Ser• 1111.4 111 this, because I thought it en indiscretion, and a ,latent fr.ret his dignity. 1 wee a little ern. ~,,,,, ert, but t imminineil not to deny the t l utis 4. Sine hli4el, nor lese• him to Infer from it any at tartiment to Eriptland„ on the other. I threw it If sit 'loch gravity es I could. and assumed an sir taf eve's, . sett a rove of devotion, as far ma was &cow. awl seid—•• T'st nlinlnn, Sir. fs nin s•iit APr I must avow to your Wiese,' I have nn attachowit hot to my own country." The King re• plied as yoii k as !Itilleleg, " an honest man will newer M.. soy oth•r." Th• li,; , rt then •Siel 4 word nr ton to the Secretary wtorlt hying between them, 1 did not hear, and th.n Nutt.' rotted and towed tome, as lice.. foamy • i,ll all Kitir• sod P , incre, when they give the „j inn ; in reti r e . I rpl 'pd. gimping backwards. es is the etiquette. and wishing my last rererence at the door of she chamber, 1 went my way ; Iti• Master of the Ceremonies joined me the moment of my rowing not of the King" rloret,rntlrecompani•ti One thr. , vgh all the apartments, down to my car slag., I stages of servants. Gentlemen porters, and under porters, uniting out like thunder, es I ei•el along. " Mr. Adams's servants, Mr. Adams's earrisee," &c. I have been thus minute in these deigns, because they may be awful to ethers lisitsieritir to know. The conversation with the Kite, I s ho o t., no r da r e t o withhold from Congress, who will form their owe judgment of it. I may possibly 'spec( from it a re- Offence here less painful then I once 'greeted, be cause so meshed an attention from the King will silence many grumblers; bet we can infer nothing from all this concerning the success of my mission. Titer. is a train of other ceremonies to go through in presentations to the gotten, sad visits to sad fmns Ministers sod Ambassadors, which will take up Mach time, and interropt ma in sky endravners le ob. Min ill thst I have et heart, the objects of my in erections. Thus it is that the essence of things is lost in ceremony in every country of Europe; we must submit to what we cannot alter. Patience Is the wily remedy. - With great and sincere esteem, I have the honour to be. deer Sir, your most obedient And humble Servant, JOIIN ADAMS. his Ere ;!eae• olm Jo. El. Secretary Gt . tam LA' the Dep J t r rereiga Atria. N.l NClllt TEA MEETING,. it! is 'lseult I ethic by degrees develop 4 • cont. restleri ~ f voila shi-h ere very appalling when t au; pt..so.rtievt). The rancorous Wood which 1••••lattt) •t• ••••• ktiorrii in have entertained for • nowighusioti•g rtopolec•, ris .it likely formed the gi•t•f ovoid.. *Maiden*. them, oith aerie, disligist, twin the work of massacre. All our screen's from Ow place mention this unnatural feeling as • chief tease, and plainly prove that it was tot. . tiled with those wretched slaves of wrath. here is a state for the mollies Lancashire to be thrown shin I The tradesmen and gentry opining the blood of OW poor neighhoors oat el spite ; end that, too, lo the midst of a district, the inhabitants of which ere known le be most powerfel end resolute when connected in a body I The immediate effect is jest what might have been reseed ; the Courier's to. tours of the " undehaeched loyalty" of these wretched bontieides already gives way to suspicions of danger from the reeeetsent of a meltitode so (fitfully constiteted, so inhumanly outraged. This Is always the case. Cruelty is cowardly. The maw. teem was t• do wonders in coring the spirit of se dition ; and before the breath is cool in which this feigning folly was poured oat, detached Meet. logs of the discontented are aottoonced, sod the Courier's C fffff pondeets inform their employer, Ott • feeds) re-action is 'speed ; that some of them have been seen engaged in military ester. cites, and some have been beard to say, that they were taken unawares, bet that the neat time they would come armed. There is, however, no more reason for the dread which is now entertained of po. :War vengeance, than the., was for the vindictive fury aith which the assault was conducted. The district is naturally agitated; the People mutt neces sarily be deeply stung with resentment ; but they are not thirsty for blood, like their proud and Insolent su;letiors; they are not in • harry for retaliation; they know that the law has yet to operate, and, as the Tiin:t has well hinted, the gallows having been it:Tei.!p , l for murder among other crimes, some of Ittea,ilGS may yet Gaffer in the legal way. The neighbourhood of Manchester is represented es being full of busy clusters, who are engaged In Discourse and controversy 'boot the sleets just past. There is an appettrence of earnestness and rellezion among the laboering classes, which the manufacturers and housekeepers deem dangerous. They forebode new and varied mischiefs, end their fears are so great that they bare caused orders to be forwarded for more regular troops. Tito only coarse by which this spirit of eatesiness can be allayed, is for the country to meet is ail its Corporations, and adwdress —• • -- it.auwatranees. if neesnary, to O 11111 004, or Eseeutive Power , upon the subject, sad for the Go. vernsent thereupon to disavow its countenance of ilia 'slighter, and lead its whole Whence to the Wit, conviction, and ponishment of the perpetrators.-- This Is the plan 11%41 Westminster is ■bout to adopt. TM preliminoty strp• are ',solved on this day at the Ctea• and Anchor; and we ate pretty Ulf. the Isturtoan generally will follow lb. 'sample of West• miitater ia what so materially COMMIS& the reputation of the whole empire. •• V trrhester, Wean,'/ay F.:realm. 8 °Tiara. sl Nothing of particular importance has transpired sines I wrote you yesterday. A deathlike stillness pervades this town, which looks more like a place besieged than the once busy capital of the first mono factoring district in the world. Tranquillity has been re-est•bliahed, bet much I fear not on the most secure basis. Every body is under fearful appreheosine that the state of extreme exasperation into which the populace have been universally thrown by the melancholy events of Monday, and which they are continually indicating in a hendred ominous war, may yet born forth in a manner too sofa to be contemplated. The Authorities here do not conceal their ,fears; they feel that their situation now is even worse than it •a+.-- Orders, I understand, from an authority out which I can rely, have bete sent off in different directi..ns for mote regular troops. Vet where these troops are to be 'pared from I know not, fur according to every manna which has reached es here, all the towns resod about as, Stockport, Marcle.field, 0 d. him, dc.'. are even in a worse stets titan we are.— In fact, it Is from taihoul that carry one dreads seat; for, nist•iihstanding the bola of yesterday. la mutiny ass she part at the country people, fa. I 'owed as they are sure to be by the mess of the people of Manchester, is an event which the 010.1 t reasonable and reflecting allow to be bet too pro bable. " Neither Mr. Hunt nor any of his fellow-pd. I Slallefe have as yet been brought ap for a second i examination ; I understand thst Mr. hunt sent e strong repre.etnation through the keeper of the O NO to ti e Magistra t tes to be admitted to give bail ; bet that no answer, either negatively oraffitusatively, has yet been made to it. Indeed it is yet to be known whether the offence which be is charged with is a bailable one or not. The hi.otiers are all coo -1 fined io separate cells, and are not suffered to have 557 coututooitation with each other. The esamia elution will, I understand, certainly take place te lentrfner. . I a'On enquiring at the I n fi rmar y , I am happy to Ind that there has not been any fatther addition till the number of thedead; bat many are still le a eel dangerous state frets their isciends. " Thur.] ty aloodor, Ekren seetwelr. acid this by a Gentleman who is jest lea wing help by the Mail. I have wothina farther so add to the shove. All is apparently still quiet ; bat it is impos•ible to avoid assimilating the condition of 'Mills here to the 'Cot of Nancy, in the early part of the French Itevolati, E ut•' STOCKS TOr Sink '..l.)ek 3 per ce.ti Red. 7/14k per fen' fm.• 7IIISif 31 per (1e4%. glib pet Cent. WO DAY Ar 1111 E alCistacn. 5 per C.ist. •a• tale la IClji Isdu Hoed. 111 18 pr. Long Ann 19 3 16i Earkiripier HO. par 2 Ps. lliespu , 411 P Arc. TH) BTAT6S.VIAN. SATURDAY, AUGUST 41, 111s9. M.tscnversit, that ever.te-be.famed spot for pru dence and prows., is at this moment in the condi. lion of a fevered patient, who baying wearied every limb by the esacerbation of a delirium, lies in a state of anxious repose, but is without sleep. The motives for the conduct of the Magistrates and the military least and will be solemnly enqsired into. We bass ee yet not beard the Coroner's name eseetioned. , The ease cannot be ranked antler the head of scar se civil wes. The cause rif every violent death that Me taken place enlist to be investigated aod pro. *minced upon without delay. The defenders of Mag isterial outra g e ask, whether these impetuous Gentlemen and their equally valorous Yeomen were to bate waited till mischief was done before they ordered theettack upon the men, women, sad children—to which we say, without besitation,yet. w hots does the country belong? Not to a hand fad of rich manufeetering Justices of the Peace, but to the People et large who inhabit it. If, indeed, t's assembled multitude bad come srmed with muskets or bludgeons, the case might have been different. A eetessporary 'miter, favourable to the views of Re. form, has suggested the propriety, and even hints at the necessity of 'meting armed to discuss the nature of and remedy for our grievances. We are, however, not easily to be persuaded of ouch a serious rape. ileney.—Nothing but the cruel orders of a rash Manchester Magistracy, and a too ready obedience to legion of Cheshire prestos Chevaliers—so ready head that one email them ass soliorsed on the Best pit to— . The venernas kuiAlet was fuse the saddle area., Bit 'lass ske fault of famine, eel bss owo.'• The Romans never went on any public business, such as elections, without arm, ; but since the discovery and adoption of a Representative Government or L eg ialatere, we coo happily dispense with that for midable preparation fur appointing our governors and goardiatis. The soft arts however which have now grown out of the ameliorated means of election. have mud to acid !bat benefit to t6A loel le thl iroy of choosing their la w.makers ; end for cop own honest and frank opinion, we would rather see oar countrymen fake arms than lake bribes in the elect• ing of Members of Patlustnent. Baling aloes s had something of the Spartan in oat disposition, we would gladly eschattee much of the coortiers' bias dishnsents, which woos and wins the populace to their ruin, for some of that roughness and sternness which di•tingwished the King of that fierce and war like People. Seeing too the slavery which our too long persevered-in system has entailed upon Buitsin, by the immense ma of property it has thrown into a few proprietors hands, property of a descrip tion to give them undue and unjust privileges over their fellow-mien ; such as one man holding three Boroughs and sending six Meatbera to Parliament himself ! while all London sends but fuer ! —We cannot bet read without some emotion of the means Larcuscus took to destroy all invidious distinction , of his country, by making an equal and impartial division of the lan•t among the members of the Commonwealth. We shall. pettier, have the CoLtity park give twigs? on this nrc•sioti, end cry out lirpublrean Agra. ian Law, kc.! ! Ni.t mst ler—ws shell dselare •gain sod again, that we eon slier the li.pub.ocau part of our Constitution Use best, the sirouge.t, and the limiest part of the whole. Me have no objection to bleed with it the principles of the ancient inatitution., the modern l advantsges of Monarchy and Aristocracy; hut then the due proportion of each, •u as to maintain a just , libraiton of poser, should he observed, that weeny not be 'linked by a . ul etahondsnce of that which is theoght so good. Hosing then made our confession and deriseation, that though rumbaed with Cont. monwealin ptincie les, we would contentedly lies under a nailed order of Government, tech as nets ought to by, 1. e. a compcutud of Ile. narchy, Aristocracy, sod Democracy. or Repub. licaoism; we may be allowed, Nis hoped, antionted at, to say, that we admire soups( the Decrees of that I great Peloposiesian lawgiver wettest spoken of, such a. his bsoishiag !usury, and encouraging the useful arts in its stead : and since it has plea.ed Cie hank ■nd the Goveroment to banish the precious metals float inadverteucy in gluing way to motives cf self. embitios and 'mite against the Fteoc►, we could wish to forbid the me of their substitute paper, and al. low and enforce, as iltnSpattati did, the introdectioo of heavy brass and iron coin. This proceeding, labia I in these days an scarcely be comprehended, did, nevertheless, remise all temptation to the dishonest, sod left eves, indtritleal without the fears of robbery and ainleoce : hat it did more than all that, for it made corn cheap, whereby all the people were 1 amply fed,and in such a may as to femme all invidious diatinctioas hers eru tie rich and poor. A disarm. tion which has created most of the revoletious that i have befallen polished States, end will, if not speedily attended to, wagon one mote spry shortly. llow did these " life and property" men abyss the French for late excesses committed doting their He ft:lllation ; sod yet there was not a scene throughout the *hole tragedy half so revolting to humanity, and so digtaceful to all law, as the proceedings at Mau. cheater, moil a portion of the very •• isle and pro perty" folks. The French put to death, no doubt, those whofellunder the lawsof the new order of things, whether it was the Marquis es ULINCIIELAND for Otis apeciea of treason against the r►public, or a sans eutulie for selling assignats lot gold, w Lich was another, the couvicied sulfated equally : it was a speedy not a creel death : no charging with cavalry a seised similitude of men, women, and children : no allowing a captive or prisoner to be struck by a constitute er gaoler as has been done in the case of Mr. Mort: the offeudet's band, could it have been so cowardly and base, would have bees cut off on the spot fur the outrage. An I•tvaest, it seems, has been held at Manches ter, by Mr. Altana, the Coroner, on the bodies of Jolty Asnwontit, CHARLES FIELD, and JOIII AD %Ns, when the Jury give • 'verdict of Accidental Death!: We learn, from the temporary seat of Royalty,: wrFat does sumo bonus, to the place, and to its re. I sidents, viz. that two sabscriptinns have been pro. posed among the intorbitssits and visitors of Brighton; owe for the relief of the humble victims of the late orients at Manchester ; and the other to enable the parties aggsieved, to bring the question of right, and of damages, before a Jory at Westminster..f has is the way, and the best vigor , soften down show lapel Pies which keep the pour from approaching the rich, and for shading of those painfol distinctions wealth anti sessors and the needy and the helpless. The Editor of the well-condoned Journal of Brighton, after depinting the %offerings of the thew. studs of poor poop', congtegated at Manchester, and especially commiserating with the wounded in the dreadful alitall of the military, es every humane man is wont to do, moires, es every peblic writer and politician ought, what can Mite provoked the Magistracy to such caresses? Ile searches in vain for the case, hot sensibly and feelingly con. chides: — s ' The staljert, in every paint of view, is most afflicting. We s ympathise sincerely in the sort row it will cause his !loyal Highness the I'•IT4CS RTGENT.—The kingdom is in a most sgitsted state. Mild, conciliatory pleasures con alone restore it to &anal:lo.-0f this we are as firmly consiuced as that the sun is the source of light and heat to this distracted glotme.' "—lf his Ito %I HIGUNISS should be affected to the talent ibis loyal writer sop • poses, the Public will not be long without cape rimming a proof of that primal tl,sporition, No time eget to be lost. .MANCHRS TR R MASS ACRE. This day. at 1.1 o'clock, a sere num•rncs log assembled at the Crown aid Archer, iu c .otte. l queo ce o f the iteq.l; Minn which we pu'•lished )es• Imlay. At vise, At.jir Carter'.. r, blr. %Veinier, Mt. Wecliugton, and the other Gentlemer of the Committee, *roved the room amidst loud opplania. Mr. IVtIOI.CR sa'd, the importance Uf in raj res. sios d Ow public opinion on the circa:utilisers which eaneld ocrury•tie attention of the M.,e.10g was so ',wilt, Ufa Ihe ctoveners of it had j 0.4,4 it proper not to eiony it one Milan., in order to procure the attendance of some of those elm, by presiding over it, he woald not say, mail :rode, it really more impel mat, bet ho, (forri ft Pif • Val li.h. ell tepototkn might, io 11001. degfve, add to st-ergrect it twos calcolosed to i.rodoc, its Or pol.lic wind. It was sloe ihit the never•failirg and venerable Mead of his coontry, Major Cartotight, was present ; bat from his advanced age he pegged, on this occasion, to be allaa►d to decline the Is 1110111' of prasitling over them. It aas R 'quested that Mr. Watidiiltoa r.uld d..e.arge that dal), and thereon) Mr. Wools, pro. Nosed him. Th• creation havi ,, e Leen pot and carried semi. osru•ly. Avni,tiroN toi lat,d on the table. HO @MOW th. Meetin4 lis.t he %US quite willing to accept the honourable post to which they had rifled him. Ile should be actuated by the oft! 'der, audi allerent portent. Ile contested that in this enlightened age he never expected a necessity would bare been created for such e Alerting. Ile trusted their language, on the ec• casino, would be temperate, sober, and worthy of the increased stock of popular knowledge. He would not dilate on the recent events at Mae. cheater; solVe it that be should say, that in Awe. girl, where 44) year, ago he bad witoeued a Item. luting, such scenes had wet been exhibited. lie had, indeed, witnessed fear revelations, and sever before did he know an instance of Magistrates. who by their of.ice are the conservators of the public peace, caliio4 en the military to butcher defenceless multitudes of arts end' women.—( Lord applause.) -- l i lie conetoded by imp easing on them the propriety ef their language being firm, crassly, end becoming the tons of Hampden, Sydney, and Russell.—( Ap. plause.) ' M. Worms than advanced. Ile avowed the( he never anticipated such events as those they were call ed together to pronounce their opinion upon would have occurred. Under the present System, bed es it ia,he was not prepared to expect that the blood-hounds of Corruption would have been let loose, and the cry of havoc raised, as it had been, at the late massacre of the Reformers of Lancashire. Ile did nut repose that t".ere ral•ted a heart solliciently malign.* conscience sotilrieutly seared to plan the etecetion olio etrereinee ■ rietign. Hat that a can -!•ve of fiends should have delbera.ed for da)s together, arranging the ptepart• tions for such, treed v, ;a coolly and composedly, es if they had been engsgen in superintending a drawl tic re bestial, was a horribly reality, at which he still 'WA aghast with surprise. Unable to force the Reformers to outrage, their enemitm, under the mask glair, had committed the most violent outrage ever recorded in the history - of the blackest despotisms. If it were possible to doubt the facts be would fairly rebate tie subscribe his belief that they bad b e e n perpetrated. I was a manacle so wantonly wicked,thet art term could topp'y the means of tittering the indignation he felt. Mr. Woolyn thrn adverted to the cirtmer.tances out of which the late Manchester Meeting hid grows. Formerly the Whigs and Tories divided the country between them. Now, the People had formed • patty for themselves, they only used the regular and legitis mete weapons of argument and enquiry. Since the Re. formers bad taken the lead, none of those infamous excesses hail been committed which once rendered the cry of Church and King" as destructive as that French one of " A la Lantore !" The Noting was going on when we west to Press. •• Naito OdaPod slide Rinse was Doming." If oar Rearms had taken fur his tear the disturb• ed districts in the North, how much advantage might have beta produced in his witnessing the distress felt by so many . poor creatures. Some have said, "it might hese endangered his Parses;' bet no, t• Ther,'s a Disiaity doh hedge a King." It will he interesting to prose whet has been st unted, viz. that handcuffs were used to convey Mr. 110 NT to prison. Bad es we deem the midget of tlne Civil Authority of the place, end meanly es we think of their empty ;slide, in displaying a power beyond all law and teem, ; yet we cutout persuade *avulses folly to rely on this inte!ligeeee: if it were tree what a contemptible eet of blegistrates they most be, well knowing that their Poisoner would notren way. le• deed, if they possessed as much common tornatt as ihey showed of cruel arrogance, they "geoid hove .ishetli him to run away. That step woulcrsiate afforded that a jest title to vaunt over him. The Artillery Company is COMAIS(OI44I to be a under ° arms on their ground on Monday Inetwiels t 1 o'clock, M. T , in consequence of the selvaged Re form Meeting taking place, 11% Igo advertioed, et Kentringtota.sommon. 'lke Duke of Susses it their Coin I. A CAUTION TO BATIIING.---A youth of 14 years nt eltr's the Inn or Mts. Roberts, of Streethaut.com. men, unhappily lost bit life, s few days sgo, by sesn.itrior ton loner in the caller. The circul..ine ‘l2l so checked by the cola:Rea of the eatrormi!itra that the revulsion of blend to the Lew nccasionod his death. Bat what renders this fathily cslsmity Alin more sheeting is, that his fond mother caotierred her giddy Son not to venture in the waver 104, having a short time Waste complained of the ele ct of too long bathing. He disobeyed the inj snotiow of his ;men', and the:eh/ ender.tl le. Cr;4tT'Orsbly disconsolate ! V' i