The Statesman. — London, England, 1819-08-27 00:00:00

PAPER.). - VA*la, Aro. e3.—The conferences at Carlsbad lie concluded. Whatever the nhject may base been which bed collected these Negociaters, en the part of almost Of the Power' of Forope, their Negotia tions are tetutioated, and the Prince do Metternkh will teat, Carl.had on the Ytlth, for the purpose of eeteruitog to Vienna after his Sovereign.—(Gweefle ale France.) We st• assited that Marshal Gnevinn St. Cyr, Minister of War, has sent in bit tesignatiuo to the Xing.—(Journitt des Debrds) On the representation of a tweln.drame, entitled The Battle of Peiliotra, at lleardesaa, on the 15th littlest, the circumstance of the hero of the piece, Charles XII., %pleating in the ensigns, of • con qwerie with •Itont we have the .',fortune to be en. temporary, eacited ctonsiderablit opposition in the pit, whit h, although It was cnnfieed In aitplaedings sad hisses, might hate lerl to serious conteqeences. Mr. liemble, the first English tragic actor, is at present at the waters of liagneres, In the Pyrenees. Ile will Hints return to Thoelnem, where he has re. eider' during the last year. Ile was present at all the rer•ni performances of Telma and Mademoiselle Georges. ESSAY os S LOPISM. AND EXI:IIPLIFICATION IN THE NEW TIMES. Tl.is is /be richest style of the Bstholic kind ; it not only allows the writer to be very doll bat very %tines ; it's most predominating medic-ace is the privilege which it bestows of contradicting by wimple that which you are engaged in establishing by pre cept ; for instance, soppy.. that POPS'S hero, after sinking into the purple current of Fleet-ditch, heJ walked into the London Coffee-hoese on Imitate. -.-. bill, without washing himself, and bad then rung the bell, and orderer, the waiter to turn out all the com pany into the street, becomes there was so offen sive smell, that would keen been a perfect si militude of the new School of (lithos. The heir of Slopism gave two splendid canopies of the new style, In his blasphemous caries of BONAPARTE for being an atheist ; and in that celebrated proposal of his, which be enforced with a logic no less placid and pion, to pet ell the People of France to death, in order to teach them humanity and fellow-feeling. Such excellent 'samples could not fail to "nits imi tation, and accordingly we And that the Courier and Poet have added a new bronzed border to their old pewter helmets, which they have found mightily useful in fending off the oaken cudgels, which have been so unsuccessfully applied to their broad fore heads. It is necessary to record, en passenl, one remark for the benefit of natural science. Ftssoura was of opinion, that • hero's skull should be all bone ; the trunk should be extended to those who consecrate themselves to Sloping'. Modern iestances have fully sod finally established, abet the success of t►e eoterpriser depends almost exclusively on the thickness of the bone in that pert of the human home. It is by this divine gift that the worthies before wentinsed have acquired, or rather retain. ed, that tree batbotic contempt for appearances and realities, by which they were enabled so ingeoeoesly to describe certain murders lately coma mitted,as the fruits of " endelneched loystly ;" and to halloo and yelp, as it were, over the 'spiting bodies. much as a jacketl may be supposed to behovo while the hyena is preparing his prey. Now any body can commit murder, bat it is not every body who cut unblushingly praise It ; that belongs only to the he. roes of the " New Sublime." These is, however, a flight of melons even beyend this: hitherto, whin certain great deeds of this kind have been done. the praise of them has been rather equivocal, and has seldom been bestowed until twelve Judges had determined whether the achievement were sot glorious enough to entitle the hero to a halter. — Bet mark what the new school has brought about for us : we a• base warders constnined now earns)) for the benefit of the public peac►, and a sanguina►y tumult set on font for the purpose of pteventing tint. Let us not wander too far from an illustration of an other species of morals, which has received potentia tion arid embellishment from the revival and improve ment of Slopiset. Not to mention the ease of theCirrgy. man who writes each pleasant, Christian•like mere lions against the Reformers in the Courier, because he went into the Crowe and Anchor, and heard them deprecating homicide, he being a followe► of one who mote than any abjured blood, we will recur to an instance of the manners of the Slop school which has taken place In that cele• bated organ of Slopism, the New Tinges of today. It is a letter to Sir F. Boansrr ; it is • remonstrance against the Baronet's celebrated letter, and the first ptrogreph admonishes him of the danger of thus en &atoning to throw down the Constitution, which, in that case could only be re-erected "by the whitest gog bons of thousands of on fellow-subjects. Be this opo• your head sad theirs to answer." Al' ! ah ! If we mistake sot, as the Edinburgh Review said of the Poste, we po the elements of a new school of morals, the glory of which will reach over the whole ocean of futurity. This is beyond Bishop Braztzr ; if he hail heard of the affair which called forth Sir F. liceozres letter, m inting to his favourite system, he would have owned, that, in idea, murder had been committed, anti that the idea of Sir Firsocts's deounciation followed ns te►ally enough. This is better ; here we find that spilling blood illegally is not minder, bet that an) remonstrance or complaint against such doiugs, is as attempt to enbdie the Constitution, and that whitened TI t N, hTIVI ESN! AN. bones QM be necessary for beildittg it sp. This meat be revelation ; if the thing were proposed to " blind Inman mien," the answer would be thaiConwltatione avereseppesed 'ohs. agrtementstnede thateserder should not be done, and that to protest against smiler would be to sopped the Coestitation ; that such conduct did not make white bones necessary, hot on the con trary objected to their being whitened. We shall quote another paradox. " In reply ,to the quety, Can this he a Isnd of freedom: I reply yes, of too winch freedom, when infuriated enthusiasts like your self ( 4 manners, wroth the tripeman) shall be able thus to go on scattering firebrands into terry open door and window, till a funereal pyre shall he lighted to consume those libeflies."--.." I thought," said my Uncicraty,who was standing by,and heard then tclor thesipostrophising, " that the firing at the peopte's dews and bodies ►ad been all on the side of the M---r 1 . --y." 'the Doctor continued, as if nothing had been said, " thou liberties which we know nut how to value."—" Do you mean the liberties of the mili tary or the populace, the shooters or the shootees, us they seem to form very different and opposite consi derations?" My father said this chiefly for the sake of the legal joke, which, bad as it was, he valued as infinitely mere important than the Dodoes posi tion.—lle was right--fur excepting the dulness end barbarity of the subject, there was seldom any t►ing grave in the Doctor's discourse. The Doctor would conclude his sentence—" and which ell the blood of all the [lnflow's end MIT, will be enable to ft- tingaish." know they want to ettingeish them," roared oat the corporal, " just as the Pagans did my poor brother Tom in Portugal ; that's just the kind of cant they used there when they took the poor fellow sway any more ; and since that I never beer the word liberty in the mouth of a P--st, a Lawyer, or a wi—te, bet I tremble all over for fear snare panr fellow is going to be kidnapped and tottered, and sooner than suffer that"—lnt at was going on at a high rate—the Doctor's cheeks began to swell—he forgot 1 the remainder of the passage—for to do him justice he was merely quoting the woods of some scribe of vile obscurity—he would might!) , have got into a most destructive passion. My father expected no less, and my uncle Tos• prepared to whistle Lilli butler°, bat the chamber-maid came in to inform the Doctor that kit crocifit, skill, sad missal, together with the two bottles of Rhenish, were laid upon his bed-room table—he straits'sy retired to his devotion, and thence most probably to his pillow. 11,1' CTOCK9 rill , Ilia! OWL .199 ?Si 3 per Unit. Kee, 73§ 7? Iper Cele. C.11,;11i 71%1 HI 30 per t'ent. ll§ I per Gent. tU§ 901 90 ILessehree A 11).%1 r fIN 11'f1 .1l:h. 51. f Cent •avy 105 1011 i lotha Kan.,. 19 IR pos. lAong %nu. 19 9 16i Ntetay a.. 1101% Idis..2 P' p. theloomm 41 pill. In. :It :9 TYR STATA . 4'4•!'.4 N• TAIDAT, AeGUST 87, 1819. We are pleased with the following article in the Morning Chronicle of this day, and es the writer's sentiments are so congenial with those we base ez• prered, are flattered by it. After busing remarked on the temeraire condoct of !Ministers in certain mopeds, as relating to the os. vision which gale rise to Sir FRANCIS &NNWS letter, the Editor speaks of it as follows :--t , We toeless we ere utterly at a loss why this letter shoold base been selertrd. We has, perused it and reperesed li, and can find nothing is it which every honest man In the country ought not to be rood to own. Is it where the writer says that men were killed unarmed and unresisting; women too, disfigured, maimed, cut down, and trampled on by Dragoons 7—Why this bee been said by almost every person either in town or the country, who reported the proceedings of that melancholy day. Is it when he asks the Gen tlemen of England. if they will support or wink at such proceedings P—Where he tells them they mast join the general yoke, loudly demanding justice and redress, and head Public Meetings throughout the United Kingdom —Tbe Gentlemen of England will not stand tamely by ; and it would be • libel on them to suppose that they will net head Public Meetings `throughout the United Kingdom, dem andin g Mesta- Ration and redress. " We are mistaken, indeed, It sir Fa ISO% BUR.. Dm will receive this challenge of Ministers with any other then feelings of satisfaction. The cause fur which he bas to contend, is a tower of strength to Meet." THE FUNDS AT TWO O'CLOCK. Very little ea ri rr ion appear• in prices of Storks to-day, but farther informations of failures break nut. A nave is among the defaulters which will surprise the whale Public very much. The business most hies been badly managed, as we lure that be bad ball of the mines to rrc•ir•. 'f he Courier soya, the the Smithfield Meeting ler. urinated in pear., as might have been "forded, be. caase—whar mold his readers goed to have been the douse, the fuel cagey, if he had not fatly et dit —it rev heraose," in the first place, only the losest rohble were congregated together !!!" All, the poor Coorier ; he seems to lose, sun hintrel not only out of his breath, hot also oat of his very wits. Of 0ut 5e11...4, we should like to are a few of the hi;hcst rabble try their hands at a Meeting to Coll4llil of the ►est nay of obtaining a Reform, without which fern ti.kev Ovce, the *bolo nsiion will become as &teat a laeghing stock to other Natious Is the courier is bingeing to its owo. A letter reached foam 'llk morning from Mr.llfurer. It is dated on Tuesday. and addressed to one of his political friends. De .tares that he continue.; to en. in, the heat health, and is in the highest Spirit,. lie 11. looks (mimed with confidence to the molt of the investigation into his confirm,. lie expresses the Oeuvre he has felt st hearing of the Crown and Anchor Meeting, though he had not seen any report of it. lie was wounded on being taken into custody on the memorable Ifith of Amos , • but he scorns to describe bow mach he has ouffereci. lie spends hit time, on the whole, much more agreeably, ender the restraints arising from his confinement, them he ever anticipated he should be able to do. De advises his Mend to rest enured that there does not mist the least 'mood for the charges on pretence of which he is imprisoned. Ile concludes relying on ample separation from his prnsegefors, provided the empire of the laws be maintained; and in the event of any indemnification Ming wooded to his Magisterial op. pressers, no man can doubt the new@ of the sway to which Englishmen are in future to he autijectert— In souther letter from Mr. Dour, of the same date, he awes, that a Field Officer oo balf.pay, re ;dent in Manchester, performed the heroic deed of aiming several blows at his life with a bludgeon, when he was •st custody and piaioned by the constable," M . liuwr is finally committed. We beard a remote of it yesterday before oar Paper went to press, bet not having then sofficient authority for onnoencine it, and not Wog willies to give an account of so por tentous a measure on alight or equivocal authority, we forbore to mike it knorro. The PO4 of to-day confirms our own account ; Mr. !lust is to be pat on his trial for High Treason, and we may, without exaggeration say, that the event of his case will de termine the actual value of all the free parts of oar amestittition. If corruption gets a verdict then, we must petters our necks for a yoke more galling than PHARAOH laid on the children of Israel. It is said that the speculations among the dealers ie artificial money were not so great or numerous as daring the last two manilla. Money for coral euarion never was more in 'quest or paid better in terest. We are not willing to mention a Rink'''. name, bet we presume the manner in which it is spoken of, in the late transactions regarding the Omnium. mast infallibly lessen his erdioary and more respectable business. It is said that Dr. WATtO/1, SS Chairman of the late Meeting in Smithfield, has written to Ithlor CARTWRIGHT concerning the opinion which the, Major had prottoutrced on the irespediency of that Meeting at present. As events have happened, no doubt can be entsrtained that the Meeting has been productive of benefitisl effects. It his eeeee d still more fully and satisfactorily to demonstrate the peaceful end orderly disposition of the mass of the Ponple; for stately, if ever a Meeting was convened soder circumstances of estraordinary irritation, such as of all others were most likely to have given she to some irregular espressiims of popular indigna tion, it was the Meetirs4 oo Wednesday list. What ran the calumoiat rya of the 's lover orders" say now ? In one part of England the People assemble in the most lawful and peaceable manner, cowling purposely to avoid imputations of hostile designs without any mesas' of self-defence. They ate brutally slaeghtered. As infuriated hotly of military ride over them and de. stroy men. *omen, and cbildien The laws are openly and outrageously violated by those who are specially appointed to administer them All the safeguards of life and liberty are rudely met. thrown. What was natotally to have been expected ender such circumstances? That the nest time the People felt determined to meet In a similar way, to WORIBRII together on the removal of public grievances, they would go prepared to resist any attack that l eight he meditated upon them. It was even to be dreaded that they might have gone further. A prongs., manes multitude, unknow• to each other, and cow*. quently incapable of estimating the character of those who might bate addressed it, or circulated false alarms through it, might have been in. cited to acts of violence which every sincere Ro. l former most hairs deplored. It is she part of a Oise and prudent man not unnec ee 'ly to risk mischief. The absence of Mr. IlusT, and his absence too from such a close! altogether altered the general question of the propriety of persisting in the Meeting after the public isotice of it had been given ender circumstances precisely the f those under which it was held. We confess, therefore, that we are surprised, ; that Dr. should now attempt to Wimp!) WI, the SCUM of his experiment, or presume to censure so venerable and veteran a patiint, for the honest pression of his opinion on a public question. In consequence OM application from Mr. Manors to loud Sinew:tit, his Lordship bas granted that Gentleman two days further to determine whether he, will give up the original address of Sir F. BURDETT Ito the Doctor, of Westminster, in order to enable ' the Crown Lawyers to prosecute him. We take this opportently of staling, the account which appeared in another Evening Paper of yesterday, and w bkh has been copied into I of the Morning Papers, is quite incorrect in all its material (Weirs. The qoestions ascribed to the ATTORNEY.GENER tr. Were not only never put by him to Mr. Bimii', hot are wholly unsuitable with the etiquette observed on such occsaions; neither did Mr. BROOKS make any of the replies there reported. Oar Readers have not yet been informed that thole ems a Reporter on the ground at the Manchester Meeting, engaged for a Ministerial Paper of onto. &My, who had rather worse lath than Ms. TT As, the Reporter for the limes. The first Gentleman ac loony received a wound from a sable, as we are credibly informed, six inches in length, from one of the " undebauched" Yeomanry, and is aow suderiog dreadfully from it. We are glad to learn that Mr. Dinar, haying been held to-bail for selling a publication 'effecting to she Manchester Yeomanry, intends to conduct his own defence. Its the course of it, he is determined to, gr. into an examination of the question at issue between the Government and the People ; the trial will, there fore, most probably, occepy the Court for a day or two; for the sake of Ibe coautry and the Coustitation we pray for his success. The brilliant sad overflowing house with which Mr. MATHEWS wash roomed at our Theatre on Mon day evening, combi led with the solicitations of his 'tinsels, have Wogs I that Gentleman to anomalies a to idden if his Tr;) to f' rig.--(Leeds Mercury.) If prosecutions sef this nr titer person hoes 6. ef. 6res of the boon MA WOK end the Arroussc-fi vm L. Ar.enulit alterle nature of thing', and d away established fact+, then would the conduct o.f Gcterna sent hate some policy, 11414.:gh ta , justice, in its rat sent m . Appet's to the probity and Rand sense of Jurio. (fairly calved tocei her, no foul play, 3$ formed) ), cannot but render ess.”ltial service to the cause of liberty. The prosecolina Sir F. liln• DETT, 11001,11 bat which we do hope, out of /NITA to ti.e character of Gloat Britain io the eyes of natives is well as foreighert, is hot to. .opted on, is a l.iatul resort. Its probahlP ant is misunderstood ta) our embroileit an ! mem rrrrr Pd Nlinirter‘. We see nothing in Lis letter which en i dignont lf,itnn inklit not trite on leurning the een. duct of the mit and iti4 ke4l diegislrlry of Nlanthe•• ter towards the poor il.fenceless assembled it •fulmoi '1 the plare, slavgl.tere.l awl wenn led by tb•ir military, instead of being soothed in 111,4 rev‘es. —Hear .bat the Militia E.:ening rust call eu this occasion : a Paper which any he considered as th• impertl won of the People's sentiments and opi. adorn in that part of the United K ngdum. A Paper w►ich is crass. lied for not being too hasty i r giving its own opinion, bet wailing till farts and the cii. cemstences connected with any important event, ■re well enquired intro, befog, it pronounces iisjudgmont thereon. la its leading article is commence* thus— SrATF OF ENalii.ANO. " All other subjects sink into absolute indifference when compared to the news which has been tec•igell from Engload during the last four or five days. That a conjs has been predicted by f•firal we know, but few meld base supposed that the lint utert act against the peaci of the community would be committed by the Constituted Ainhoritiee st Manchester. Yet the fact is too broad—the circumstances of too s.ubhorit • character to he denied. It is quite notorious tint the Reformers conducted themselves *nil exemplary peoprien —it is quite manifest that Mr. lit:ST, at the time of his siren, dsl not utter one inflammatory Cr seditious expression—that the people,men and izonicn, assem bled without one defensive or ultntsive weapons —that the Riot Act, if read at all. was read in a corner —that there is no persor. except the Stagistraiel,•hro can be priuluced, who breed it read—that Mr. llama, anti Iriscorrysiiintis. soOted themselves to be arrested without offering theorettost resistioNs. All these facts are incontrovertible. The %Is:line:id Prints may quib ble sod potter and lie, !sot they cannot rail the sea' off the bond. It is written lo Dross. It is equally argues tionable, that after the 'nett of the Chairmse, and his immediate friends, the Yeomen, tratitenint-•1 (ielitletrtra I . made a charge upon the defenceless and unreoiotkg multitude—that they cel them down, men, women, and children, riAltt and left—that they rod, nicer the giouad its itittittph, end Mizell the opium :polio, a few Caps of Littes'y, arid same b‘tr• &um banners. It is tree, that more than a bionic..l per sons were killed and wounded —that 31r. Wye, and his etiwiptitione. were with brick Nits and 'Otos, when they went being briseght op before the Nlegistrates, and that they escaped being murdered by a miracle. All these are facts which cannot be denied. They may b. , Unified by the Ministerial Pistils, and they sr. junifirrtlooith chat effect we shell not pretend to say—but the facts, as we bare stated them, are in. contrutertible. " It further appears, that on th• riming of Mon. day, in conseq of some manifestations of riot, the military were ordered to lire, and did fire, and did kill and wound o I persons. Oo Tuesrlsy, Manchester is represented as being to a state of cam main* tranquillity, but a serious disturbance, as stated in our last, had recurred at Macclesfield. Oa Wednesday the town was alarmed by similar reports from Stockport and it y ten. Fires were lighted in the adjacent hills, and every mart in M inchestre and the iteighbooring Hundreds, were ordered by the Magi!. tracy to preserve the peace of the country at his peril. Thursday the Writ-band Ward Billets put into action. We bare similar nerve from the disturbed districts on Friday, and it appears that on Saturday a Dope's. lion of she Military end Civil Authorities of the place loaf arrived in London to 'splint and justify their conduct to the Genet nment. Accordingly w• are told that a Cabinet Council was construed in the forenoon of that day—that the Attortnx• G ad Sotto - roil-GENES 41.11 were ordered to attend.— The result of this insastigation we are not yet made act - lanned with ; bet if we may heti'', that repro sentation of the Courier, the locsl Authorities succeeded completely in their Unification. We should feel much indicted to doubt this amnion.— We do artily believe that this unlitert ebullition will not be sanctioned by the Witisters of the Crown. lii this we coincide in opinion with the Times, a Journal as inimical to Mr. lit:HT sad the Reformers as the Courier itself. 'lt is more than a week, says that Journal, ' since we We assured f ro m Lancashire, that Goveinment suggested to the Magistracy, the propriety of letting the People meet, gm . Titled their rg or , clitigg did not ioterrept the pub lie tranquillity. phis is a big' ly glatifsing circum stance, and one spots the audientirity of which we are much disposed to rely ; since it Is, we are reedy to acknowledge, co 000 o tent *ids the general temper and character of the leading Minarets of Administra• nen.' " The above facts and reasoning will, se doubt, hare their doe effect upon the People itf nd, eh* will naturally syntpatbise with all the distressert, and will compassionate the F a r e o f t h ose who b ate b ees so bsitniously tteatrd. Nlittitters have been tee precipitate in thcir approval of what was done—they heard bat on. side el the question—let them revoke their applause, and hear the other site—better he late is rectifying an error, than leave it unrectified (or ever. The spilling trf human blood is a trans action which heaven and earth call oat for enquities inter. Prosecuting fir Fe ixcis BURDETT will SOS restore the dead to life, nor stanch the blood of enr healed entries in the surviving wounded. The present LORD MAYOR May trely mot of his popularity at this time. it is most certain, that he has been more talked of all riser the kingdom, within the last few weeks, than was the case with the great BECILINRD, who to coltishly gated the Civic Chair. t