The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-08-25 00:00:00

/ .EZZ. ~.,. THE STATESMAN. Buckiogitam•hire.• 4ttr: It; 113] PRIG; tit TrocitS 8,11. ;.ei Cent. Red. !Ad pPt Ce.k. Com. 569 4 'per Cevt..7l 5 ;..n . Cem. Navylti STA LO D!/' - 1111)A AUG l's' - - -.- - -.. . • , BO N.lP4lttl. witted to his descendants ; and the 'dominion 4 the which .the peiThidAtf this sosetry were wont to treat —ese--- ... Hope of ilau..ver )4PoW (itl Shit_ case) havelteen the French people with contempq! . .end call theist TO W I 1.1.1 A M CotillnTT; ESQ. coolitied Ina portis. r ofi.the barren heatliti of West- slaves. This is alsethe groernd Of that resistance set flu,--In Your ninth Letter to Lord CASTLERRA‘n, plialin. Lot that llotme hereon it rejoice that the law op by oar ancestors to so many if our Kings.— which I t e mise read with no common feeling, is a pas- • was triurnphaet, Seiler i .130 .peeple of this country :lama' 11., Cnater.sM 1., ittcnano 11., &WARD 11., Sac" o.i which I will take leave to comment—not pray night and morning that the law of Eiigland may and Kim Joey, all wanted to substitute their own with a view to add any forte to your argument,. . 11 "°!"... ° 4 ° gi r m illa"OPilh to break the , backs of any.. arbitrary will iu the place of this communes sponsio, Kings or Ministers who shall (Late to X resale with it. or common will of the peop le. They would have . which is complete and irremistibie, but to indulge IV . •are void by fliturort,thut the_King eau do nothing ;wittiest England upon the very mime principles rnyeelf and the readers of the Srtie.s.e.tar in the re col. in the land except that which the law enables him that the But:wawa have governed Frac ce for Ctn.- tectlan of ceftalteltriilWlAabe fir ifiltrch . tteralteestfirs' to do--IYlAitildlerter tin Terris nisi id quad de furies, and will again govern it, if allotted to reign . , were ever ready to shed !kir. 0410, 'out which .U_lsf, poterf—whictuvand constitufitnuti maxim even there. This they *milli have done, if nor ancestors trust are yet d ear to t h e h earts ne many E„ g li a h men „ the courtly 131,Stksrozrx; himself has copied into hie would have permitted it ; but theirloyallA tkat is,. You say le the letter above mentioned, 66 If I am boo k . Yon, Ur: 'Coast:vs, remark, that there is their ittachttwut to the law, would not permit it.— . Ito law to authorise theAraThisporting a matt from the They preferred shedding the last drop of their blond right, in my opinions as to the law of this case, how I i ouni ., r oboson fur life, without a trial. I remark in defence of the Lot amid the Constitution.. Had are any of as to know that we are WO Hero is 4 I that there is la* aectiost it, and I quote this maxim these English Kings, ,_ I a th ese JAMEsES, CIiARLE4E.P, man transported without trial, without any . law to ro f Buactosr, re-echoed by 131,sclis t ura, that the iticitaens, Enwaaaa, and Joites lived in the Pre ' atithotize ths; id.' And if wit moo can be so treated I King can do nothing'but what the law allows him to sent times, they would have been the friends of their at hy not another maul It does not signify who the I do. Does the law allow the King to dispense with brothers the BOURBONS, and staunch upholders of • man Is, or what Chas been. In the eye of the law the Trial by Jury ? Have the peo ple of this coi Is. the ITT syltem.—Not one of them would have sub try driven the Manse . . Onae of ornelyr trom the Throne miffed to the will of the peOpte in the way that be Is a mere wren, who was in the county of Devon,because th ey would be masters o. tie lass , will omaeaure as d one — slot one of them would i f and 11 b d end u•ille Courier tells me, has been transported they now allow a dispensing powe r t o thei r sue. have voluistatily relinquished a Crowd as he t - orn that county beyond the seas without a trial:— censors? If the Ministers of Genece 111. can dic- did, in obedience to the wishes of a people, ar pense with the Trial by Jury i n an y c a s e , th e y a r e dently attached to him, but apprehensive of ruin Now if o n e ma tt can h e t rans p or t e d fr om thees t enty of D von why not - another ; why trot any man ?-- as absolute masters of the lives anti properties of the from the consequences of that attachment. To rescue : ' people of England as ever J %Dias I I desired to be France from the most powerful Confederacy that was Whi say more trial' previous to transportation?"— le r •- . • • • • • - . he espersum liegune, the supremacy of the avail- ever formed against the independence.of,sa free Is would he like adding water to the sea to attempt Mika would be then st an end—for in that case the peteile, BONAPARTE sacrificed his own personal g'sitic ashliiional force to this argument. But Eng- hire would be cast down, mud brnOen.backed, and power and grandeur. The Allies declared that their li theme ought usurer to forget that one of the grand trodden under foot,instead of breaking the backs of its hostility was not against the French nation; but .01tieela or Mae.. Charts, rhea it was in force, was, •Plifilielits• Our ancestors have et er been ready to against him. Theycharged him with insetiableambition, . shed their blood for preserving the Government of he conflated that charge by a voluntary renunciation to bar the possibility - nraity man being punished in • law.. toinsure to themselves and their posterity this of his wer. "I s hev promised that they would not 'Thiel country without a trial, whether he were a nits inestimable benefit they e'stablisliiht Magna Cluts— Wet fete po in the domestic Government of Frame if elite of the country or not. The only difference in and when the perjured JOHN broke that Cha r ter, he were otil removed, he-abdicated, and than called]. this revert was, that if he were a native lie was to they deposed him and elected Lewis, a Frenclmmi, urine them as honourable men to fulfil these pro, . be ju , lgerl hy,twelte of his .neighbours, impartially for their King. Theirconduct on that' and similar mites. if the Allies were si .eere, the /question lax!' select-d • and if he were a foreigner, then was the occasions probes, that the gra n d o bje c t o f thei r at- between the vanity of one mar, and the . pence and tachment was their native laws, and lint their native happiness of el millions: BONAPARTE disdaieed to . judgement to be by A Jury, fO-if Englishmen, half fo. p • new's. They have gone to ilollßnd, end even to gratify a, selfish saltily on such conditions. He might reigoers; but: the ptelishment of any man without Germany, countries inhabited by people far less re- believe in the truth and honesty of the county, or he • • ^"wlaPv previous root ;ct ion of some crime, was, amid indeed fined, less polite any, liberal minded than the F r ench, ' might not; that signifies nothing to the main question. After an internsptlon of tw( is, a thing abhorrent t•s our Constitution, which is to seek for Kings, who would pay to their fees that The French uatiun contrived that the sacrifice they. arrivals f rom ,F r o m orr i . we • imperium Legran, the empire of law, in contradis. respect which their own British-born Princes did not asked of him would prove the salvation of the cows. papers of Monday shit' Tees& pay. I wonder where they would now go were the. try ; and he abdicated in deference to their o p inion ; but little to relieve public tinctien to tin , of force. The forty-eighth article of - 'same necessity to recur; were the same circumstances ' not his own. It has been confessed by our Ministers the once great Charter says, 66 to no man will weed!, Of h appen again witichjustieed the change made by our : that he was still master of great resources at the time "fiel points to which it is . delay, or refuse justice." It does not say to no - ancestors in 1688. What her given a legirimiste title to !of his first abdication, although Penis was taken ; of France is studiously concea, Englishman, but to no man ; and immediately follows. the Heine of Hanover would, I Presume, give a legiti. ; but at the period of the second, the Allies had. games that p r ey on th e b ow el ? a clause promising " safety and security" to a ll! mate title to another man, ander similar circumstances., : scarcely penetrated into France: his resources then • to i e bursting of an eruption of forei n merchants who were the owl fore ners I even though be were a .I.renclimen• Oar ancestors ! must have been far greater. It has been said that g- - • , y ig I did not give a preference to Geoacie I. because he • artifices were made use of to make BONAPARTE be- ; and the countless atrocities, then known amongst us; and it is added, that if was a Haaeveriatt, nor to WILLIAM lII.' because he : lieve that the Court 6( Vienna was favourable to the' . remorseless acts of rapine, wit they shall happen to be of a country at war with us, was a Dutchman. Nor was their object proximity , succession of his sop, and Ido not wonder at his horrors, which lay waste tis they shall be attached, but without ;Diary to their •Okiodred to the family, tote unhappily reigning—if : believing it, far Cetlehtlf bat had experienced that in- face of nature, di `isielli, bodies or goods, until it shall be known to our Cbieflit bad, they would not have gone to Ilinover, hut to ; term and ambition had more sway over the politics flames of revenge and air, reign France or Savoy. What then was their object ?, of that Court than. the ties of nature, and suc h a pro. Justice how the merchants of our land are treatedlout that devoted land. taw i It was to preserve in the country the ancient sbori. jest was calculated to gratify their interest and their i who shall be found in the country at war with us.' . .• . . . • tent! Government of LAW, .which they saw s plainly !ambition. Some people do h not scruple to say, that the character of the age in w! From heuce it is plain that no man, whether uative• could not be maintained Kitimat a:Chief Magistrate 'his abdication and his s urr ende r we r e the erects of be hid for ever ! But that is ! 'or alien, was to be subject to the discretion of the : who would be content to be' its simple eretwor ;tposillanimity) if not of cowardice; but such notions ! It appears the Cot:Minis:wpm Executive Power; but that ail who trod this free Soil ' who would, in a word, follow the rule laid down .do little credit to the understanding of those who u ~, nvernment to watch over - . were ,to enjoy the protection of English law. Pro-' by BRAETON, and do nothing in the land but : hold them. These people look no further than the seeding in your remarks you say,. * c Had an A tt n r: that which the law v.f the land allowed him to i tzterior display of power. 'They respected the force are one after another giving . - • 1 do. In short, the Smets were rejected, and the i they saw BomapAnrc wield, much more than the' gest. That Pollens's remm Parliament been passed to atehorite this deed, we , Ilanoveriasts received, because the one would not be 'lletoderation with which he used it. When the t h e i r wonte d effect, is nowi• • slight have criticised the act of Parliament,".—we might so restricted, and the others were. cout to receive ', Mightiest Sovereigns in Europe fled before him he ,porising policy has not yet is • s—lood!—wo might have criticised it with art extreme . the . Crown ender that condition rider that i was something in their estimation ; but to speak . degree of severity and j us ti ce ; ney , „, r oe s i,..,.' condition is it now held. I may hid slay, it at. frankly my seetimenta, lie did not stand so high in course to that engine which questioned the competency of Pediment to pass such I wsys was se held ; for though we bait, had many my esteem then, as he does now. The victory th a t plied an effectual counterpoif an het t for, is it not the fundamental law of this depositions, both before and since the Norman Con. he has lately obtained over himself is, in my idea, sol a te hi s un h a ppy coun t r y, hod; that an Aet of Parliament made contrar , quest, as it is vulgarly but falsely call e d, se t none the greatest of all his victories ; and he has mo r e re a - defence of their just rights ' y yto of them were the result o f un l aw f u l reb e lli on , b u t son to be proud of it, than of that influence which his • 'Magna Cltdrta shall be, ipso Jude, null and void?.. i were brought about for the mai n te na n c e o f l aw f u l con quer in g s wor d once gave hi m over th e d est i tt i es of that most horrible of all Aug, air. did not our virtuous ancestors for many ' authority. The Englishnationdid not by their Curope. Certainly he may be charged with abusing beyonet, and the will of to , gen ,,, nl i onn pour cut, tw i ce a year, t h e i r moat hi tter rigid adherence to the 00%ERNMENT or Law depose , that influence: but I feel regret itt accusing him of %visit!h' the Sovereigns who matedirtions against all men, of whatever rank and any of those Kings; for they were ad in it t ed t o that an error which he him se lf hi s h a d su ffi c i ent no bl e - Europe from the tyranny of . ' office on ccnitlitioe that they would govern by : ness of mind to avow ; and where is the mortal condition they might be, who should frame, P"' • law. This every King of Engla n d must sw ear to be f o und th a t w ou ld no t h ave been puzzled and `'f establishing in the capital t pose, or pass any law contrary to the great Charter to do at his Coronation; in consequence of which led astray amidst such • blaze of glory Still let it ; France. . of our liberties ?—Further, Sir, is it not evident the people swear allegiance to him; but the Saxon be remembered, thatif, like ALEXANDER, he sig hed ' In addition , to. the confirm, 0, 1 th e R e p r esentatives of the People are sent to law PP, that the King must shear first ; and also after fresh coequests, it was not for the sake of con. ' f r esh troops c o ntin u in g t o pe al it says, that the people are not bound by th e i r oat h si g ni n g to e n dl ess c a pti v i ty th e M onarc h s h e con- ' Parliament for the express purpose of maintainingplete by their virtuous exempt to the King unless the King keeps his tothein. This quered. those liberties ; and that the People never did give, is the language of the Con s tituti on , an d it i s moreover Aft er h av i ng thus frankl y avowed that I hold bear, the plans of the Congret or meant to give, any authority to those Delegates -the langeage of justice and c o mm on sense . It f o l.' 13oxaraterc in the highest esteem and vene r ati on f or ittlP 6 ^ ll- and destruction- of for the purpose of subverting or infringing them ? lowa, that if a King breaks this compact lie deposes , that very conduct which has lowered him in some . iii that the very germs of civi consequently, if they should pass an Act having himself: by his - own act lie abdicates, that is, he re. - folks's imbecile, it will be proper that I sh ou ld say dependence, it is a n n ounce d tiounces his Royal office and authority, by doing take /do so. It is because the principle on which he I • such a tendency, it would be a manifest viola what is incompatible therewith—mid hence the old has acted is exactly the same as that which sonsti- 1 . . Lord ver y basis English Cons t itut io n. troops of that worthy and Legitimate Sovereigns, FEW tion of the trust confided to them. All this neght 0 hiah the Rev. SAMUEL Jonesots and lutes the . have passed the Bidassoa, at lime been said, and justly said, by honest men, sii : ssim ' SOMERS revived at the time of the Revolution, that . We have seen by the foregoing remarks that liberty friends to the Constituthm and their country, op. 4. h e aa e e lthe something more than a King by law, consists. in Government by La w . A n d we h ave also ' deavours to ravag Sovereign I e the plains •• fnigning such an act. Yoe go on—" There woold ma k es hi mse lf no Ki ng at all." In fact, this doctrine seen that law derives its sanctity n e t f rom t h e f orce ' is fit path for their means, h e f t ' according to report, t done. then hsve been law for what is said to have been is as o ! d as the Salmi law, which p os itive' ) d ec l ares , of the stetted, but from being th e expression o done. As things steed there appears to be no law that if a King will not govern by yew , bestial! not even Common Will. "They are ori(y lies (says HooKEIt), for ie"—No, Mr. Coearrv , there is-no law for it ; bear the name of King, n i x numew Regis in Ect Ewa. which the consent of the peo p le make h." sucA councils to those of the regenerat, i t i s a l aw l ess act. y our r emark is, indeed, very stabil: and that this notion was common among the sentiment which perfectly agrees with the co'nmunis ! Of the effect produced or but Sir, permit - lioglith after the Norma n a cc es s i on i s o b v i ous , not spool° of littacTost, and which Sir Witaadtat JONES - F r a nce by the efforts of the Go, j u st, itist their. is no 14 u: for it ; tee to •II t on, taut there is law against it. Law ! ' only from the depositions before adverted to, but, has well expressed in his admi r able Od e: of suds vital (wee and efficncy, that it has foiled also from the reply of the Prior of Clerkeitwell to ! ee Ant Sovereign Law, that Stat e . collected Win." spirit of resistance to th ese mr and triumphed over several of oar Kings . An old ilrsoty 111., who intendin g t o i nt i m id ate hi m, said, ! Now it was the will of the State th a t made Boma- whatever is said. writer emphatically o bserves , that "no man ever i 64 What !am not I your King?"—" Y es ," re pli e d PARTE ElltilPgllr—itot for his sak e - ro t is grat i fy ! The death of L —AREOOTERE yet wrestled with the Law of England, hut that it • the Pri o r, 64 whilst you govern according to law, but ' his perennial vanity—but for the sake and the welfare Jacobins in this • ' . 9 of the French ss.stion ; and when that welfare : dwell with the most ferocious ts country, not eventually broke kit back." The book (allude to is no longer." re re.. leas stained" for ever the sai n t, : Turner'. Banker's Case, a hook of authority, writ. I have thrown these remarks together, in order to ' quired his abdication, it 'Was his d u ty, as we ll as hi s ten in the lime or co 4RIES li. The writer had just explain the spirit of our ancestors—to show that • highest glory, to obey. Some people there are who b .- - seen Lord ' , ir tt %realm 4;restle with thelaw; and though their patriotism and their loyalty consisted i n an i n . : thi n k no thi ng of this heroic act 4 because they set no ~France a theme of universal that wicked Mieister dared to say, when sitting as a vineible attachment to the law. How strangely value on the principles of our Constit • moon. Th e y not to have been followed J A ge i ii .he lii 4 h Commission Court at York, that i sometimes words are perverted from their right call it pusillanimity; but with me it is ' the higheot sequences, Which might, .per, " the little fio,Ter of the KING mil heavier than the sense! - Loyalty now means an attachment to the proof of niagssanimity.—it is a proof with me that , .•. • • l o in s of the LAw," )et the Lew eventually broke his person of the Prince ; but it is derived from any Bow teAstre possesses moral courage i prehendol.,. Grounds for aft n as high a . back; b y-the by, ' , no punishment was ever morejust (law), and anciently meant an attachment to th e Law degree as he does personal bravery.—lt is a prom • - , nut to be manifested, and midi titan Svitarrino's, though it did no t b ecome an d c ons tit ut i on , Let us hope that the British 11a. with me that his ambition is Dotof that selfish kind ' seturity are deemed necessary Citeeies to inflict it, who suffered, its his tarn, an titan *ill always have sufficient loyalty to contemn which only seeks alnan's own gratification , and la ; Allies. It is noticed, theta gr excess of punishment. Th ere was law i n ab un d ance th e conduct o f tho se w h o id it -is ringe the la w , e ven in justly d enom i na t e d a v i ce ; h ut that • • of that no. , co n ti nue t o a r r i ve in Paris •ft for Cifaitt.s.s's deposition, but none for his de- the treatment of an enemy 1 The people w o uld, in- ble and laudable species which prompts a great mind , capitation. This learned and eloquent wr it er h a d d ee d, be dive s ted of common sense, if they did not to desire distinctiun only as the due reward L o ire. Many of these soldi, of pub. ; . just seen Citaairs and his two Ministers, LA U D an d see th a t by suffering the law to be infriaged against lie service, and is properly .e 'd tssemselwes . with the slew army onst ered, not as el STRAFFORD, wrestle with the law, and had beheld an alien, they establish • precedent for in infringe- vice, but as a virtue.—f willadd , - a r i rt i te t h at w i ll I mingling witb"the citizens. TI the Court, conformable, indeed, to what it had been i :went against themselves, be its own rew ar d , g cheerin th e g loom of captivity; is stated to prevail in the arm , in former reigns, as that of RiCRARL. 11. EDWARD H. I I must again refer to litiacvcor, in order to show with the divine rays of self con Joint, &c.; but lie died before that grand con. what this law is, which c o u s tit u t es the very essence of people again th er e are, w I gratulation. So me ! g reat num b er ' of Ise o L ft . eers as t in wou,kl Have had Bum t. I diet which brought about the Revolution.— , our free Government. La w , says he, is the com. PARTE ma i nta i n the 1 unwitting to serve un d er th e b a contest to them lest,. end, w hen' • The last man who wrestled with the law of England ' molt will of the eoromoohy. Lax est eontmuois all means failed, Inketi I • us quietai front.p*.istol I Marshal- Pisy has undergo/ was Jaws 11., and a hard struggle it was whether : spontio republics. When a minis punished in Eng- Now, hail he done this, he would . ' . '-.."7 have.tuelltied i u interrogatories, and th e r u il ari .the -King or the law should be uppermost. The law, la nd it is by the common wilt, and net by the my opittion, the aspersions that Ism beeu. ' ilinviever, prevailed, and J 1 glkg lost his dispenaing . ap of the Prince, es was the case dui. upon him here in Faigheitt he ' ' throw* hint. Morevictims air:talked 0! w re greepp itot -lid his Cretan together. lied Jamas been hog the reign of those Booations'whom we liars re- been taken to represeist le ' . lone `LAT 02 ea Mumma, and i oo u .a tualsof lit side Ise with the law, in the case ef . the Seven stored in Fritter, and who never - will teat seat till ambition.' Such men regard only the .....,,,,,,,.„, ° ,, 4 fallen intcat he hands of the Philli I' s Ines, mold Noe been 3lasterof the law, and by they ISt* retarded to th e old principles of their Go. of their own selfish pessions, i c tu f b - ",..r iti ""Pl" ° V master of the lives and properties of the sernmenl• This is what constitutes-the theorem* obtain that, di e , „„ t ~,, brave . men,..."...! tint I.4""ei bete sent•to Saari:whit ti I under int- for want o f officer of Police, and the latter laud; e hich power be would have trans. between liberty sod slavery. —This is the ground on real fortit u d e . As be:LtraitTL has acted , he has I Ihik . auLanne and cent to Dente l in discovered an intrinsic great the diJcient did not common' loss of that dignity take it We have no example in out fiat as that recently made II: Hooch will—the only thing declaration made by ALiaco were everted 64 by the appt. for he did not dare le do ii other. (mint. that the royal potter of the people ; but it comes Notary renunciation of po' opinion. I apprehend that temporary with linMAPAltieE, hi, conduct, but I very mi other King of Engfend w would It here been to, this had. a been granted to perw many respects, seem to brea immortal Patriot.—l Amite Art: - • • 'Malts Whom ....86tortifiurgh • " • 0 '' ilamburgt. 0 I a }Hiner 1 ...... Malta oti*lver, pre' 'Power sod his atble to &Teo' Li tit..quPtsco opte of Enf.:l 164111111111. ellssotiof4rm.tlantdx ° , • tticate it, neither . I away. ~ our history o f suck .. to the t that a itin (inches it go i ob n tu t n ! prattoe 11 1 otheriiiie." If ere rs a ✓ was subordi.n te to es very far short of k Wet in nbotitoilee f o tt t if ALettiT2 had E,fie aoutd 114 ,i)prc tucti doulit whethe r roattil. fl oor r 0 1.,,„ 'nation Jr a fre e 4 , 1 , L Toon, whole Cowijr; area the the spirit in . , be. I'OlO7llY Uta k • • .. • • -. . • . Surge ............... ' l l tirgt , ........... t 4 • • ..... ..... . ...... . 4 .• • DAY AT 044 4. 44. Ann 14/ I , !dui bond. SI 4 Excbouret 44614 4 thonnun &Alan. Ca Ace. 55ii 7•ESMAN • ON: ST '25, 1815. . wo days to the erten I him received the p r ; Amin) , last. Th ey tN .1 awskety en the mou s 'i directe4l. The realm : 1 icealed. But the Lo a Of France, and threat 1 of the most dreadfult e t I. the eseassinatinns,t with all their concetait that couetry, stai n m i Titivation, and feed reign not the lessth oppy for the world. which we live, could! . 1 impossible. loners appointed by a the issues of the "'tea up their charges is its .a onstrances should fail sae surprising. flit t t• induced bins to base . t alone would-Anse ise to (he evils which , and armed millionth and .propertiss; agent vi laws, the law ef tit the ferocious commit, . went • forth to deliver hl . one man; seem debirsa ai cud in every proem. II tIA P' •tnatlons we have had el '4l l oar into France, to cow fn Iples and the chainithei ass of Vienna for thew!). it the French empire, a oh ril liberty and mental in. MI I that the Spaniards, la of enlightened ally of lb RDINAND the abhorred, and are adding their m s of France, - and mak th to the capital, wltreit to add the benefit ofd In [aerators of Europe! on the public mind it I Government to crush el multiplied evils, nothil sae :, on which the gamic' raw in Ministeriall pl• us pleasure, and 16 0 ly robe of Lows, hit regret ; but it IMO by any of those eon• erheps, have been farm, however, rood" ditional_ precautions for 'y by the troops a sit treat ,number of seisi er. from the army of lb' hers are -incorporating 1 ty, and others are al'" The most perfect order , n y of the Loire, but ti ire said to have left if, banner of the Eiffg• ;one some preparstnti re is already crying co of. The patriotic Pot:• rinakroltaU, hare tdsri Matinee. The forma .. the escort ore Euss il er has been arresfei 't in.charge of a