The Statesman. — London, England, 1819-12-28 00:00:00

Were chargeable with the attempt to separate the rich ! i from the poor, or to ili% hie thc:•isclers from the.peoplo i of this country. lathe part whi.h he had Liniselfraken , , during these proceeditog.., he u its indienced by a nisi, to support the true inter -At and real' Icippiress of the I • people - , and to defend :heir lihei ties, as establishes' by ! ' law. lipoti this principle be consi4resl, that the tweet-, log •t Parliament alone, even if no such Hills had been passed, a great bler,ici:-. Before earl:storm uict,• they , had bearCof the kgsliry of such meetings as that of I Ilasebester, but no man in either House hail dared to : ' defeat or assert such a doctrine; it was heard of an' More. Liberty and Heath was a motto much in.isted , se in other places ; lie hoped, that as long as Englishmen i were Enzlishmen, the would prefer death to the sure I . Teodoro! their libert ies; but the liberty to which be • olloial, was not the liberty designated by black and i • Isis, or contained in the principles of Universal , and Annual Parliaments, He would confess dist had fears for the constitutional liberties of 4 Diligiallswee. before Parliament had met, bat since their , nsselleg, these fears had vanish-d, as he found that the goat majority of the people had confidesce in Parha- met. They were told that the Hills interfered with dm fight of petitioning, while, on the contrary, they pooloeted that right, by putting an end to these as semblies of intimidation, by which the right was Aimed. sod, iMelfect, proliiiiirl. The Bills to pre vest training and the possession of arms, were also trecemary, for the intention of the Meetieg at lbw ebester, Ind other simultaneous meetings, was to ;ob vert the constituted authorities, Private drilling was, in itself, an overt act of High Treason, and though the Hill of Rights recognised the possession of arms by the subject for his own defence, it also asserted the right of the Legislanare to interfere when they were its tended for other painless. He was no Whig, in the meaning of some Noble !Ards, but lie hoped be would will continue. as he had always dose, to act spun the sentiments of Loral Somers 'ma the principles of the Re volution. The truly greet men obis took the lead in that transaction, dlsplayeds fearful see for the Consti tution, and a determination not to go use inch farther than the necessities of the time required. They were new discussing a Hill with reference to tbe press, the im portance of which was such, that he could not give a si lent vote upon the subject. But while he admitted that the liberties of Englishmen were greatly promoted by the press, he was anxious that they slionl4 not be destroyed he the same power ; and he believes!, in his conscience, that the Atturnerlieneral could nut prosecute seditious anal blasphemous works with effect, without tbe assist ance of such Bills. The case was perfectly new. Darius; the time that he (the Lord Chancellor) had tilled the same office, waggon loads of papers were not v•ut through the-country to be distributed on the highways and introdnerd into the cottages. Hitt it was slated that the two cases ougheto be separated. They could not be separated--the case was one and the same—it was sedi tious blasphemy, or blasphemous *edition. Such were his consciencions opinions. He might possibly he wron,t; but as he thought it was not so, he knew enough of the people of Englani to be certain that they would do jus tice to his motives. The Rill was then read a second time, after which the House adjourned. . British Parliament; bet, sari tenant events; we may .itysk of its a'arm—and be assured, a general system of prtiti.niiog from the middle el , numerous, yet un connected with tumult—firm, yet dercirous--effeetual in its principles, yet moderate in its claims, would more alarm the Ministerial side of the House, and, I fear, one half of the Opposition—than all the assembled multi tudes —all the vehement sperr'hes—an•J all the ardent resolutious 1.4 the attire Reformers of the day. In spy next letter I *ill more particularly detail the principles on which this mole of petitioning may borrow equally effeettml on Parliament and uu the people. lam in the teinan time, Yours, Ike. • Ay Statute 13, Cherie" 11. chop. 3, lens deemed (An°. te, but late!.. !emitted cm. have ruled the tyrants frer of • LORD C.ISTLEREAGII-PAKLIRMENTARY Vt■ Ix. Rlik*OßM. T The fullowieg extract will give the public a view of the put opinions of Lord Castlereagh un Parliamentary Reform, with which it ras probably out before ac quainted : " That the noble Secretary for Foreign Affairs will op pose an rainier, is by no means likely, when we requiem her how zealous a friend he formerly was to the cause of Reform, and how strongly he pledged himself to promote it. not as his Lordship's seutituents will be twit on.lerstooll he reading his on n vi.irds, I shall beg. leave to cite the following extract fruni the iteffint :Veers Letter, Jane I ;MI (N o. 5,5024 4. We are desired and authorised to inform the public.l through the medium of this paper, that at the t usu. mencement of the election for the coun:y of Down, on Saturday la.t, the following test (which, with the signa- Wei of the lion. Edward Ward and the Hon. Kid ert Stewart, is le ft at this office) was proposed h ) a very respretahle lientleman to three of the randidates: that the How Edward Ward and tier Ilan. Robert Stewart, signed the same as underneath, and that Lord Hills borough refused it:— " ' We will rigidly attend oar date in Parliament, and be governed by the instruction.' el' ear Lonstitnirms ; we wilt, ani out of the Ilutar , with all our abilities and iniueoce, protect the secrets of a Bill fur amending the rei.resentation of the people. .1 Bill for preventing Pensioners from sitting in Parliament, or such Placemen as 'cannot sit in the Bri tish lloase of Com 00000 ns. Bill fur limiting the ?nuttier of Place men and Pensioner% and the anuoint of Pensions; . 6 6 .% Hill fur presenting Resent:el/Akers fwou voting at ur interfering at Elections; PARI.I.I.IIEXTeiRI REFORM. TO THE EDITOR. Ora—One half of the couutry is in a state of agita tion, the other loweritig and discontented, and Ministers, by way of restoring quiet, drive the agitated to despera ties, and do nothing to remove discontent. Threatening as is the aspect of public affairs, there is at this moment an opening, which, if p J, will appease • part of the people, and satisfy the rest. I allude to )tr. Lainbton's recent notice of a motion. A fatality attends every act of Administration ; when they mean to suleluc, they only irritate. Traduced and insulted as the Radical Kee formers are, they have no source of influence but that of mere numbers and that the leading Whigs either cast or will do say thing tending to general harmony, may be touch doubted. One would sot call gentlemen stir surd, bat they may at least be deemed inconsistent, when they claim for the people the full liberty of public as sembly, and unreerieted speech, yet scout every measure for which the people meet sad speak. There is a fourth body of men in the kingdom, which only wants calling out, and all is well. That most numerous and respectable class in society which is above the labourer, bat below what is ordinarily termed the gentleman, has Can far little appeared on the stage of politics : it is high time it should exert itself, fur the fate of the king dom is in its Lands. Combined with that portion of the higher ranks which have yet presetved their integrity and judgment, its influence amidst contending factions mast be irresistible. Why persons of this description have of late taken so small a part in public affairs, is soon accounted for. They neither want talents nor in formation, nor a jest wale of public grievance; butt they a warned leaders; they were not in habits of public a political action, and they shrunk from proosinency of character. 'I hey were the most numerous in every tows, but nut die tint: there they were awed lit ionic neighbouring squire—a loyal ma., who honoured his King and obeyed, his King's Minister. Here Mr. Mayor was a dea'er in figs and raisins, and would not injure his trade by encouraging seditious meetings : in smother place, the " Quality" of the town—that is, three or four ball pay Oticers—three of four poor Hentlewien of family—three or font profrs 'Weal mem, who, by a great stretch of courtesy, were mhititted into the first an—three or four old widows, and three or four ul4l maids, mode • poimf of Ammo toirateiog err y Moog dialoyat—Thedispositioas of tbis OLDHAM I PIQUEST.— The Mmerheater % mil* c !ass aralwell doom); indeed could they he otherwise save—" The Jury . who were impenneled on the than they are?—Could mu:ern:um and taxation— celebrated Inquest on John Lees, of Oldham, being amid the denial of political rights, attach th ews to the pieerat sperm? 11414 it may be okr a . do net the very properly desi .. rou s of hissing the business de - s which ' orride ? Th e term according' to Pie law, on 'Wednesday AT tending to a crisis, trausmitted, by two of theieb94ly, a request to the independent man who Coroner, to afford them an opportnnity of deliver ''hanks to the Loy" mg their verdict. In this they state that the ori- J Lard Cffisitreettlt. ll ginal writ is still in force, and thp.t, therefore, the political conduct is duly of the Coroner will not be completed until he oh- late all past dim- 1 • t h eroi .,„ of a tavern, I resume and conclude the Inquest. The letter was q ui et ly pet i l i ou p as h a . j signed by seven; the other five, being publicans, qsaii4 their petitions-- • have refined, from motives of personal interest, al and the " Quality." though they have expreated a wish to be enabled Powible , mid as no' to give their opinion in the formal manner of the ".._attached ° only be law.—Should the Coroner refute compliance with 7..... rnalbeat " u 'Y their wishes, we uuderttand that they intend to ' pus. re manes. ( Fre to am . Publish their opinion from the esidence they have • ' already heard. • prudence and spirit, wilt Mr. kinloch, of Kinloch, who was oittlawed on neither the natties of the Wedneaday, far not appearing td take his trial memo* before the public, ! were th e High Court of Jasticiary, on a charge of sanaatior in t flia "" t • sedition, left lidinburgh for the Continent the " get ,__ straway dlk possessed a landed estate in Perth indiffevratte pantie it t i s hsvp ar ia da ,„,%. shire of SAMS. a-year, which, it it said, he disposed had existeeee, eierr. oft Pro' bolls to bit el°Pemout• " A Bill for rendering the Servants of the l'rown of Ireland responsible fur the Expenditure of the Public Money ; A Bill to protect the personal Safety of the Sub ject against arbitrary and recessive flail, and against the stretching the power of Attachment beyond the limits of the Constitation ; and we will, as far as in us lies, prevent any renewal of the Police As. (Signed) "' KNWARD WARD. WRIIICRT " " la the Nees Letter, of the 13 me date, is an adver tisement, to the Electors of the County of ['sown, io wbicb the folios ing expressions are'used:— •.. We are embarked in a mach mere interesting and glorious caner than our suaaris as individual.-- we are calk,' firth as it.strtnuents is your bands to emancipate the coontrr. (Signed) " EDWARD WARP, "' RORIERT STIR ART." MAIPTH ESTER, bie. ?5. In conserenee of information received by the Magis trates, on 'I hursday last, they issued a warrant for the apprehension of certain individuals named in it, and en trusted the Lion of it to Mr. Nadia, who, with pro per assistants. seized the undermentioned nine delegates from neirthhuor , ng towns (who had met at the Sir Sid ney Smith piihlie-honse. in Port-street, Menehesr..r), an d conveyed them, escorted by a party of the 55th Regiment of Foot, to the New Baiky : Christopher RoHinson, from Darwen, a tailor. William Dolmen, from Blackburn, a weaver. James Lang, of Mount St. Ancoats, Manchester, a IrParer. Charles Whitvrortb, from Strayley.bridge, a school ' mantel . . Robert Randier, from Westhosighton, a schoolmaster. Richard Johnson, from ?baton, a elowmaker. John Blamer, from Padr•am, near Burnley, a cabinet maker. William Tootsll, an iii t Radical, who declined giving any satisfactory amnion of himself. Charles Mason, another itinerant Radical, who has been travelling throughout the disaffected districts. The whole of the above nine persons underwent a ri ve, examination yesterday Ise fore a Bench of Magni trees, and wet. • remanded until Slumlay. Two other person., named in the warrant, Name's Carter, a blacksmith, and lirorge Frew, a tailor, were apprehended yesterday its the New Dailey: Court, and remanded with the others. Carter had several bal lets and a dint on his person. LONDON: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1819. We have received Paris Papers of Thursday, Fri day, and Saturday. In the Chamber of Deputies, on Wednesday, M. Ternaux read the report of the Commission of Coo tributions, on the project of the provisional collec tion of six-twelfths of the taxes ; and stated, that the Commission proposed, as an amendment, that four-twelfths should be substituted for six. The discussion on this took place on Thursday, and the amendment was negatived. The Chamber ad ' remote parts of the kingdom. We witness no ri vahhips, jealousies, nor piques, among these worthies, to repel them from eac% other's embrace ; to incite them to traverse each other's projects and make them miscarry. If their different turns of mind should, upon any untoward occurrence, tend to set them at variance for a moment, (which we know to have happened more than once lately) they perhaps have sworn, upon a certain cabalistic signal, to join chorus in the song " Warms all, rogues all:' and the difference is immediately made up, and they appear as good friends agein, u were Mr. CANNING and Lord C'ASTi lIMAGH found to be, after a Sunday morning's pious lesson with (not prayer-books but) pistols in their hands. The PRINCR then, and his Miristers, may be considered now, what never before has been viewed or con templated in England, diming the reign of a good KING and a Wise ADMINISTRATION. and that is a PERMANENT and PERPETUAL COUNCIL. Although the a zertiors of Mini: ten with respect to financial measures did not rain so much cre dence as was anticipated, the price of Consols did nut MI on Friday lower than Ott in con sequence of the speculative burrs ►ot following up their advantage, the market rallied, and or at 08 to 1. There has bcon a few bargains done upon the Royal Exchange, both yestcrda . ,- and to-day, at those prices, and we arc rather in dined to think there may be a trilling improve ment, particularly as nothing can transpire vnith regard to finance to February next. FRENCH FINDS , SATUIDAY.—Five per cents. I Ira. 110 c. ; Bank Actions, 1.645 fn. This morning we received New York papers to the 98th alt. from which the followiag are extracts: [raox TIM NV. TOOK 110111111MICIAL OP TES ?liw o► TIME SPANIPR TRlRATT.—Estract of a letter from Mr. Hackley, American Consul, dated at Madrid, 10th Oct. and brought by the Ilornet :—" The Treaty was again presented by our Minister to the Duke San Fernando, now 3linister of State ; it has not been ratified, nor will it be ratified." EMIT FLORIDI,.—A letter, dated at Pensacola, 14th Oct., comnennieates the followiag iatelligeoce:—The Governor has given orders to fortify Barrancas. Three or foor new breast-works are erecting. All the troops hare gone to the works; 40 troops only remain in this garrison. By an arrival from the fipanish Maine in 311 days, we learn that a battle had lately been fought at Cocoon's, between General Get-model and the Royalists, i■ which about Patriots were killed and wosadd. The Royalists had about 4 or WO killed, wounded, and taken prisoners. The Patriots took possession of Cs.coatar, awl it was es' toed that Marairabo would also be taken, as they were on their march thither. Santa Martha was about Wag evatuated be the Royalists, as vessels bad goats there for the purpose of transporting the in ' habitants. We are not sorry to see Mr. C'svNnec feel the weight of The Times upon his Lack. His col league, Lord CASTLEREAGH, may pity him as being tied up to the triangles. Tin. Editor of that Paper lashes him in a proper style. The poor doctor, as the culprit used to call Lord Sinmourn, i t wi b . : l 3 l pu' s w irri. nis d fi l isen T b : , has t ; Ilt w ie m nd t e re h at ti t t ie o s i o r t rn i ; e :: 31 h r ospital, i t a e nd xt . i i 3 l o l L n ; r : the sou of Dr. ADDINGTON will pro b ably use a substitute for the briny fluid, walls. applied to the scarification of the at-o'-urine-Cobb. 'Ms instru ment, like the tout of the Lisbon Ambassailor*.i teastituenU at Liverpool. is also comprised of" three dales three." Bat the best of all it, that The Courier, the busy bottle-bolder in the Mac. gets a " memorable" trimr:ing fur nothing at all but being the promoter of linsinest. 1 his will be a " memorable" lesson for the poor Courier, who is no more able to cope with the Timis (ash, the sail Tinges! will he exclaim) than Bverehorse, because be could take a great deal of beating, was able to contend with Slack or Brosightiri, tile two grand pugilists of his day. Extract of a private letter from Pars:—The London Ministerial Press, forgetting that all Europe has her eyes on England, has exaggerated infinitely the camps 'of alarm, in ecumenism" of wt.ieh ail England relents Europe as on the eve of a revolu tion. They withdraw their capital in the English funds, and the terror has extended to the native holders;: and as these Gentlemen never willingly suffer capital to be idle, then looked, and found the French finds offer a degree of stability and ad vantage not be found elsewhere. (In Monday one house alone received orders from England totiorch ate Stock to the amount of 600,0001.; and if the pre sent conduct of the English Government and its press goes on a little longer, there will not be a shilling of foreign capital left in the Engliei funds. Advices from the Havannah state, that it had rained. without intermission, from the 12th to the 28th of October; diming the whole time tininess was almost entirely susp ended. fin severe a storm, in the *oath of October has not been known there within 20 years. The harbour, it is said, continues I very sickly. The trial of M. Wi!mer, Editor of The Utopia ICazeite, came on before the Court of Amite at Am ' sterdam, on the 16th inst. He is said to have made an energetic defence. The public prosecutor demanded that he should be sentenced to the bus • ! tinado, and to five years' imprisonment in a Hcuse of Correction, in virtue of the law of the 6th of March, 181 a The Court, however, acquitted M. Wilmer, and there is no appeal from its decision. The Coldstream Regiment of Guards mounted duty on the parade in St. James's Park, on Saturday morning, in their new deaths. The appearance of long tailed coats, which is the principle new feature in them, attracted considerable notice The General Committee of the Proprietors of Drury-lane Theatre have nominated Mr. Caleraft, Col. Douglas, Mr. Robins, Mr. Souse, and Sir 'l'. 'Murton, to be the Sub-Committee for the year ea sel*. A Special Meeting of the Proprietors will be held on the 4th of next month, to molder of the propriety of this nomination. Monday, a celebrated character was brought to eimgew, in a post-chaise from Paisley. He has teem assisting for some lime ; but was apprehended in Paisley selbag seditious pamphlets. This Ra dical is Josses M'Donal'l, who was tried at last spring circuit, charged with house-breaking at Port Glasgow. He fainted at the termination of his Counsel's address to the Jury, and eseUted great commieseration, being a decent lookind man. He escaped by a verdict of foot Protest. Step helm been a dealer in base cobs, ors country rainier at fairs, in which character be was" at home;" there has • scarcely been a house breaking or theft of any I ex tent, a part, at least, of the produce of which has , not peeled throisgh his hands in the way of reset. 11l Tuesday last. the London mail was overturned at the foot ed a bill between 31aneheeter aril Nude— ' field, in consequence of the horses taking fright (helm; I.pm:tied by a party of lancers). They 'started on Ptie i side; sad thepoult being slippy, threw the each al it Winer. me coachman. guar& and three soWiers the realism pescipitued over the bridge, aid had a fast of at lust thirty feet s the guard broke his kg and 1 of the soldiers is such hart; the others were a verily ' braised. The mail was turwartit d in a I base sad for I t the oaths prod only a areatei-sar beefiest. It has been the wonder of many, and thole not I ill-informed politicians, that our Cabinet has held, and does hold together, notwithstanding the ye riety of incidents which bare occurred, and might have been suppeAed capable of shaking it to pieces. Examine the Ilemberkapet, as always is wished should be the case effth delinquents, spies, and conspirator evidences, and one might imagine they ais 6 never con long held together, nor Le united spin; is circumstance has given rise at times to t expectation of a speedy separation of its component parts. What then has prevented the accustomed loppings off from this unpropitious and umightly body, according to the accustomed current of human affairs 1 'the fact seems as much a prodigy to many as that the teeth of a man, or the hairs on his bead, which are by nature de ciduous, should remain with bin. to the extreniest age. In short, the Cabinet Council of Britain may be almost declared permanent and endless! What is this great power of attraction ! Why, the greatest in the moral world—common and self-interest, common and self-peril, and common and self-pre servation. They say, or seem to say, with Sir Pertinar ligegrothauf, in the Mart of he World, " if we don't stand by one another, none will stand by us." It is true, and surprised we are that their common enemies, Terri and Justice, have not broken into their artificial little phalanx, and dis persed or audhilated them. They have also lured it drawn the 4111GLT4T within their lines and ranks. Woad et sessonging sentiments of benevolence he'Shamed el that Prince towards his subjects, I, now distressed beyond all example in the history et the country, they have instilled suspicion into it, ea if a spontaneous burst of disaffection had sbewn itself among the people, without rhyme or reason, sad thereby they have induced him to treat their very first rights end franchises with an inat tention, and, as may be said of the Petition• of the Common Council of the City of Loudon, with derision. These meb have ingratiated themselves with their master, by convincing him .bat upon all occasions they are willing to lead a hand to encrease his power, and be has not yet discerned that the only motive for their doing , so is, that they may share in, or partake of the benefit of that authority, for the furtherance of their ! own amblings deigns and base projects. If they were to be viewed as powerful men from their talents, or as honourable men from the uprightness of their sentiments ; if the Cabinet had been so composed, we might reasonably have expected a cheap le some degree salutary though partial. The fouotain would have been less offensive and cor rupt, by pouring some fresh waters lath it : but as it is, its stagnancy threaten deefructles to poll gal life and libtriy, wherever mottorell over fM ishiss which kept their persons down • state of the country, evidently ti lee thrum lenders in every prifin coociliation to violence. Dot t al Addison+ for an example—to my for kilo happy distinction —a Hat of po chalked oat to them, which will sib- ruffles. Let ties' quietly meet in thee quietly diacass their optideas, quietly rent for reform, and quietly transmit in spite 011ie 'Squire, the Mayor, am Let 'their petitions be as shots as pa mentor passible; twenty assess cal to tilde ;•---tlie dentate stomach of Pa Tthista crumbs of parebnent ; a whoa* r hTheo. petitions, properly directed, This method. adopted with preen ovoid all iodiVidoil odium, as slither prailloisers' sot their aotaben win cases lid that it will oohs a powerful seats sad forcibly support Yr. Lesahlover o doillittel. Partin/Oat, It is said ; is is opiiries: this is apt freN either of all or iliac goreraiag body which int 1 1111111116‘ THE STATES' . in Ole meet Peat et the greened In- creases earaeily l kto the iejustice of Wives- t ors. Wheat*, Mete ty el ten, or see, have ruled 4 Win a State, when ibegieeple f. he content, the tyrants 0 Our reseed to feel eseure. We will not folk of the Jeer of a it°, I Debits .. 4 Waterford (N. R. 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