The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-09-14 00:00:00

101 I u.o, 4 ::t.o^Jmv.sw THE TEN -mow— Hoe:Majesty . received a tattnher tJ Aiftiiisef at BratidVishgrgh House yestertlay..and upon go s `former OCSa.ilar siva ha+ there been.such a yeet.eourisirse of people 3..etubled. Among the other Addresses sa • on e fr.ono the Seateen of tho in the Riser. and the novelty of the eircunistatice . seesieed to create a r epaltir effervescence throughout the day. nlong the whole line of road from Brandenluirgh Bowe to Blackwell. fetw•eett twelve arid one o'clock, Mr. !lame, M. P. tirrired at itrandetiburgh Mouse, in Lis private car riage. with the :11141re.s from " the Ladies of Edin burgh and its vicinity." lie was arrompanied by Northmore •tnd another lientleman. with an All -4l•r•= from a. tinniher of the inhabit.onts of tlie city of Exeter : and their carriage n•as followed by an open ba...ouclie, iu n hick was a Lady. arcompanied by two linttlettien. with an Address from the Ladies of Eseter." The next arrit al was Sir Gerard Noel and Mr. P. Idol Tr. 51. P. a itli the Coventry Milton o and they were al•nte.t immediately f follow rd by two Wink:new lOC.' an .1.11.1re4., f rom Ips w i c h. _ _ _ Ina few minute* after the arrival of these different perwwwes, her hlkitaty attended by her timber- S:r W. Cell and the Ilan. Keying Craven. Lady Anne lli. Alderman Wood. lac. took her ot3tion at the tipper end of the marble gallery. :tett ti:.- heaters of the Addresse% were severally intro th:resi. .Ifter the Addresses had been read to her Majesty, and she had been graciously pleased to answer the whole of them, her Majesty seated herself, and the Adlressers„ passing her individually, had the honour of kissing her kind. filer Majr•ts- twat gave audience to.a deputation front Spitaltields. These persons arrived in an ele gant open harouche with four horses, the drivers wearing jackets of yellow ' , atilt and large white favours. The object of their visit was to learn at what - time her Majesty would be pleased to receive the Address voted at a public meeting of the inhabitants of t!, e Spit i ltields district ; and her Majesty appointed Monday n.rst, at one o'clock. liv this time it was nearly three o'clock, and the continually increasing influx of pedestrians into with gave note of the near approach of the Address. - At the outer gates, leading into the ground.; of Bran tieriourzii litruse, a party of eight of the flow-street patroie had been stati..ned, in order to exclude the no t•.rious pickpockets, and other disorderly characters, and for some time they had -nrcee.led in aecotnplish ing.this; but u..w the pres.nre without became so excessive, that they were completely overpowered ; .the gatis flow open, and the multitude rushed iu an as.srwlieltning torten:. From 114:. time, fur nearly an hour, there was one coutiunal stream of people pressing forward into the g•ressads, and at length the head of ti n s Seamen's pro * cession made its appearance. They %were• preceded by a very &rent bawl of 'u playing '• Wort,' of Oak"; • , titl at the end of ever., verse three cheers were given along the whole line. After the music, were borne three banners of bine silk; one of them inscribed " The ,V,yi nsea 's .1141,e .e ;'• the second, " May 111:AvEN protect the loutve.it !" and the third, " Arm mi rieore,!" Then .came a person on borseleack, fa Mr. Stranger, we bp lime, an ocer is the East India Company's service) bearing in his hand the Address, and behind him fol ios...a upwards of there thousand seamen, f Jur abrea-t, and arm in arm ; every man wearing the • w'.itr cock.ide, and, every here and there, there floated ov.i the *column, nolo* Jacks, blue, white, and red et;sirns o' all sorts and size,. isc. &Lc. The procession passed on down the avenue; but it was soon found that the court-yard was incapable of containing a twentieth part of them ; and orders were given to admit them through the garden on to the lawn between the home and the river. This was at l.•n;,rth achieved ; and Mr. Stranger was admitted into the house to present the Address; after which her ejesty apppcared on the balcony of the centre win owl-, attended by Mr. Alderman Wood, Lack .tune Ham:lton, Mr. Craven, Sir W. Sir Berard Noel, ►ltr. l'. Moore, and seweral other Gentlemen, occupying the adjoining balconies. The seamen had in the mean time marshalled themselves into an irregular kind of hollow squares extending quite from the mansion tee the !mulls of the river ; their flags, ensigns, ke. bring avelv.ged and displayed at intertals. On the river were a number of pleasure boats, tilled with well drersed people; and the opposite shore fur a consider li - able distance was lined with spectators. When /tar Majesty first appeared ou the balcony rive tremendous cheers were given, and her Majesty', ark•uowlcdgerl the salutation by repeatedly bowing. Slee ►ben put into the hand of Mr. Alderman Wood the following answer to the Address, which she desired him to read aloud. A dead silence ensued; and the Alderman proceeded to read, and almost every sen tence was received with loud bursas:— '• A British seaman is another name for downright sincerity and plainspoken troth. A British seaman al. ways says what he thinks, and is what he seems. A British seaman never deserts his flag, and never aban- dons bis companion in distress. " A British seaman is generous to his enemy, but be • is never faithless to his friend. ilia heart is nut tickle and inconstant, like the element on which be moves, or the winds which tills the sails of his ship. The word of a British seamAn is as sure a. his bond. His veracity is incorruptible. I n the late examination before the House of Lords, let the evidence of the two British Naval °facers who were brought forward by my accusers, he compared with the misrepresentations, ambiguities, and eiptivu . rating perjuries of the other witnesses, and the honest character of a British Sailor will be truly resplendent in the contrast with that mass of infamy. " A British sailor is generous to excess, and brave even to a fault. There is no extremity of distress in ' which be will not share his last shilling with histfriestds and often even with his fog; nor are there any circum stances in which he will not prefer della! to 4.iagniee ; and every evil nudes the sun to cowArdier. ' that these ate the . .. • ; • •ip • • -• When I had long been conrioced that these ate the ordinary characteristics of Width seamen, it may be t emtil y co a a n ce A iszd re , sa that al a in nd the highest so degree g i r r a o t m i- puch a respectable assesn ae Klage of British statues in the county et !Middlesex. i ft I'4k STAtr.SMAN. " I and not surprised the British Seathen, who are a' titcy are brave, should I'o.l for nit '41,4 should be iudignact at my wrongs. The t wrongs and sufferings of a woman, and that wusioau a Queen. must make a deep impression on their generous hearpd. " It is only the base and the cewarolly that can tamely acdriesce in injustice and inhoun inity ; and i am fully coin ince,' that insulted greatness. or depressed rani:, can nowlieri'• liond a surer refuge, or more steady prober ' tiny), than in the sailors awl soldiers of this country. " As the Queen t unsurt of England, my sphere of usefulness is small, and my means of benetitting the community circumscribed, but as far as Lir power • or my influence extends, all classes will ever hind in me ; :1 sincere friend to their liberties anti a zealous advocate for their rights." • I 00000 osliately after the reading the answer, her Ma jesty withdrew amidst reiterated cheering, and the ' crowd begun to depart; but it was not till long after six &dock that the grounds were entirely cleared. The sailors returned to town in small parties, withomt any regnlarity of march, and the public houses on the road were all crowded to an overgrow with them. Through out the whole of the boisiness of the day, however, they conducted themselves st respectably; and, for th'e most part, they were very clean and decent, and in many instances quite gay in their appearance. We understand that they belonged] so the Merchant-service, properly so railed, including a few 31en-of-liars' own; and that a idmilar deputation from the Whitehaven,fee. folks is still in agitation. An Address was presented from the ladies of Edin burgh, to which Address her Majesty returned the • following grits-ions :••••• " I have long known, and, in severul instances, have experienced, that the Females of Scotland are inferior to none in the culture of their minds, in the purity of their principles, and in the steadiness of their attach ments. This Address, therefore• from so many respell able rharacters of my own sex. in the capital of Cale donia, has afforded nee more than ordinary satisfaction. " In ney progress. through life, it has 'been my first object to retain my own self-respect, withoet w hide, integrity can have no strong hold upon the heart. .My next desire has been to be esteemed her those who are themselves estimable; and whose approhation, while it is regulated by the judgment, is spontaneous and un bought. If I possess the good opinion of this better portion of the community, I WU indifferent to the vile herd of venal traducers, or to that corrupt part of the nation, who praise or blame nut as themselves condemn or approve, hilt as higher authorities command. The praise or thee blame of siteh persons, who is always to be purchased in the market of infamy, is a matter of little moment ; for venality is egitally c ..mptible, whether it deals n panegyric or invertive. The reasons whirls are employed to annul ma mar riapv, leave a tendency to resider every nuptial Oldies lion fluctuating, and insecure. The permanence of the institution u until thus he made to depend inure on fedi suction Man un priariplc. ".1s far, therefore, as this Bill of Pains and Penalties may hereafter be employed! as a precedent, it 'mist be injurious to the mural interests of the community. I am glad that the discriminating and intelligent Females of Scotland are beginning to view the oplestion tw,ler this aspect: and to regard the experiment of a new mode of divorce, that is iodating in the House of Lords, . as full of peril to the nation. " The more the good sense of all (lasses of the eon s . I mmoity and of both sexes is exercised on the present attempt to anntil'my marriage, and to effect new degra dation, the more they will be convinced that, Warm-iv-on I attempt shouhl be successful, it must he hazardous in I the extreme to the moral and political interests of the people, to the personal comfort of individuals, and to the general welfare of the roinninnity." Ili Majes:y returned the full , string answer to the Address or the Females of Exeter "The Female ledialeitank of the ancient City of Ex eter, and its vicinity. leave exeiteel m}• rot-dial regard for this affectionate Adelres.e. The charges that have berm brotteviet apinst me are so utterly fake, that I cannot conceive it pweiilele for any trifinnal, however constituted. to he N., unmindful oldie saereql obligations of truth and justice, as to tiled use guilty, with respect to allegations, in support of which no proof has been adduced. "lam happy to find that the people of England eon. eider my triumph over my enemies as necessary to the security of their rights &nil the establishment of their liberties. _ " I should not feel the intrepidity of innocence, or tho consciousness of rectitude, if I did not despise the base libels by which I have been occasionally assailed. As far as my own internal tranquility is concerned, those libels have never rallied the serenity of my breast, nur caused MP a moment of uneasiness. " I am too strong in the hardilimal of integrity to be easily vanquished by any of the shafts which malice may extract from its quiver to aim at my heart. Where a free press allows different opinions to strive fur the mas tery, and the conflict between truth and falsehood is un restrained, falsehood must ultimately yield to the force of truth." Her Majesty returned the following Answer to the Male inhabitants of Exeter ileneral information and enlightened sentiments are well known to characterise the inhabitants of the City of Exeter, and its vicinity. This affectionate Address proves, that with cultivated minds they unite feeling hearts ; and that to those sympathies %thick are the or naments of human nature, this y add that love of liberty, without which man, instead of an intellectual being, aspiring to the Mavens. is only a servile reptile, crawling upon the earth. The lore of liberty is what, more than any thing else, ennobles man. It adds dig nity to his countenance ; it may be read in his eyes ; it is visible in his attitude ; it is palpable in his steps. It manifests itself in all he says or dues. In the social state, it is the palm of excellence : without it man dege nerates into an inferior animal ; and with it he mounts 1 1 to higher regions of civilized excellence. " It is Liberty which gis es such an energy to the pro ductive powers of man, as soon converts a iieoat into a l garden. It gives a luxuriance to sterility, it imparts a soft verdure to the rocky soil, and under it• bland influ ence the land of vapour anal fog assumes the serenity of a happy clime. It is Liberty which softens the asperi ties of human intercourse, it smooths off the abrupt rug-, gedness of the social scheme. It does not, for it can- i not make the inequalities of life to disappear; but it causes them to be be unfelt. Where Liberty prevails the labourer smiles, and the poor man looks as erect as the rich. Where Liberty prevails no man toils iii I Ain. land the disparity of conditions operates only as au en- ' couragement to superior activity. Liberty makes the greatest addition to the stock of, • general happiness; as under a free government, not ;only no man labours in vain, but the labour of every individual is most prolific in its result. It causes a su perftnity in the materials of enjoyment, fur the labour of a free nun is always twice as productive as that of the slave. “ In early life I caught the lore of Liberty, and I con sider it as the best boon aiuongst the gifts of Heaven to mankind. " Though] was placed in circumstance which tend to obstruct the avenues to truth, yet truth always hail a free iaccess to my ear and I trust to my heart. Hence, I soon ieardt that mankind bad rights independent of Sore reigns ; and all the power which Scvereigns exercise,' is only a trust for the common nod. These notions. which were implanted in my mind in early life, have ar qeired strength with increasing years ; and hence, per haps, I exhibit the singular spectacle of a Queen Con sort contending for the rights of the nation against the enactments of power. The attempt to crush me has an object far heyotul that of illy individual immolation. The blow is aimed directly at the Qnrrn, but the real ob ject is to prepare the neck of the nation for the yoke of servitude. " In the question between me and my adversaries I have never ceased to regard my own rights as the pro perty of the nation, and hence I have defended them with wore pertinacity than I might have done if I had. I viewed them only as a part of my own personal enjoy i ment. If the generous Roman was to consider himself as create , ' not for his own individual gratification, but ' for the happiness of his species, surely suds a sentiment ought not to he a dead letter, but a living priuciple in the bosom of a Christian Sovereign." Her blajesty returned the following Answvr to the Address from the I uliabitants of St. Sid well, Exeter:--- " I gratefully accept this affectionate Address from the Inhabitants of the Manor and Parish of St. Sidwoill, in the City of Exeter. I consider myself acting in the presence of the Universal Father, and I endeavour to measure my happiness more by conformity to His will, than by any variable compliance with individual incli nation. Whatever may have been my personal afflic tions, I consider them designed either for the benefit of others, or for my own ultimate advantage. Hence that Power, whose afflicting- dispensations have caused many torturing pang in my heart, and many a sorrowful hoar in mr life, is the object of my devout trust and a 7 bumble adoration. " In all trials! place a firm reliance on Ilia goodness, without whose permission nut a sparrow falls to the ground." Iler I:i . j.ssty returned the followin:,7 most gracious answer to the Ipswich Addre-s " The Inhabitants ..f Ipswich awl its %idnity. merit DIV cordial thanks for this gratifying testinimiy of their affertionate retard. " I am happy to find that the invasion of my rights is so gener a I I y considered as an attack upon the rights of the subject, and that the security of our national liber ties is thought to he entlangereil by the present uncon stitutional procedure in the House of lairds. " But though the principles of liberty have been so grossly outratred in the conduct of in.r adversaries, I trust that those principles have still too firm a hold on the hearts of Englishmen, to be readily shaken by the menaces ut tyranny. " The spirit of Liberty cannot he extinct in that coun try which contains the ashes of , o many of the generous mid the brave who sate died in its detente. " The tienius uf I.ilwrty niLlit still invoke, and net invoke in vain, sorb spirits as once animated the bosoms of a Hampden, a Russell, and a Sidney. The diffusian of knowledge has trailed to !nubility men of this noble stamp, and to make then, abound in every class of the tttttt Unity. sloe of the effects of buressed knowledge must be an in.reased love of liberty; and the more knowledge is generalised, the more it must extend the conviction that liberty is connected with the best in (crests of mankind. Without iiherty all these principles of individual enterprise and of general activity would be paralyzed, which so much enlarge the circle of pri t•ate enjoyment, and so much augment the sources of national prosperity." The following is the Answer to the Address from the Inhabitants. ultlie Borough of Malnisbury lain much obliged by this affectionate Address from the Inhabitants of the ancient Borough of 1611110)1u,-. •` In the conspiracy that was directed against my ho nour anti my l►fe, in Itso6. I felt that integrity was streegili, and innocence security. lam not at all dis mayed by the present conspiracy, though it is supported by the arm of overwhelitlitiz power. Vast as are its resources, and formidable as is if. , o;:triCtPr, I am con vinced that it mill experience the fate of presetting simi lar attempts, and disgrace only the actors in this drama of malignity and injustice. " When nay enemies find their exertions as abortive in the present,. as in the former conspiracies. I trust that I shall experience an evening of rep>•.se after such a lung day of storms. If lam to enjoy this blessing, my heart, tells me that it will be principally owing to the generous sympathies of Englishmen.'• snrrE OF surrit Ai!ERIC.I. -.1N..-- By an article from the l'orren di Oronoco of the 17th of June, we i►acr been furnished with chat may be considered the official declaration of the sentiments of the Patriot government at Angusmra, on the poli tical changes in Spain, and i n ► t h e oiler to which they were expected to give rise, from the Royalist Chief, Murillo, of a negoriation for the cessation of hostili ties. In that article the Patriot Government conclude by expressly derlarinl,•, that " it appears inspracti tableohe extensive territory of Grath America can never expect to reach that state of felicity whisk na ture appears to have intended, by any other means than actual and unequivocal independence." _ _ Since the publication of that arCele, the offer of Nlorill44 has in effect been made. Bc later accounts fr Angostura, dated July 11th, it appear-4, that on the night of the 7th, a Commissary, svott by 11106 arrived at that place, with devatches to the Congress of Venezuela, now assembled at linayana, in which he stated, that he had made the same connounication to Bolivar, the President of the Republic, and the Vice- President of Cundinamarca. lie proposes an armistice preparatory to a negociation, for which purpose he has nominated two persons to treat with the Congress. (In the 10th the Congress tom to consider the proposal, an 3, with open doors, it was unanimously resolved, that thr acknowledgement ofthe absolute independence of the Republic, could be the only basis of nego- • riation. 3 A CAVTION.—On Saturday nsorniug last, Mr. Clifton Raker, youngest son of 31. Baker, surgeon, lines Ditton, went oat with hi• gun in company with another young gentleman. On stepping user a ditch •be saw a snake, and on giving it two bleu s with the butt-end of his gun a sprig of the hedge is supposed to have caught the trigger : the gun went off, and lodged the whole charge of shut in his left side. lie was taken to the nearest public-house, and every assistance from the medical gentlemen round the neighbourhood afforded him, but be died late on the same ecening. MELANCOOLT Acctoasty.—Tuesdav evening, a young lady, of the name of Ritchett, on a visit to 3lrs. Blooms field, of Hatch-plate, Larreiwth, accompanied that Lady and a party of friends to Ilse Cubitrg Thesatre a on their return, Miss Richett being left in the parlour alone, leer shrieks alarmed the house, and on the servant going in, her clothes were on Are, and her hair therapy - blunt off her head. The servant promptly threw a table cloth she had in her hand aroun d h er , hn t the safer", who is 17 years ola, is not expected to survive. The fire must have "alit a Innalin frock in front, as the lower part' WAS not burnt. 41 A FOR TIM ST.lTEs.v.ix TO MY NEIGHBOUR. " In proportion as guilt is more enormona, it onkt to bs ascertained by stronger evldenee."—Jonaims. Stu,—The advocates for the Will of Pains ar•l Penalties against her Ilajenty. having dosed case as to evidence in solpport of their allegationt, i t remains now for the British people, the wtettliYe thonzh inv.ilmitary plaintiffs in this can‘e, to apn. e . date the merits of the various actors in this jaciili.,l drama, and endeavour to give it some deteraiiaite appellation, intelligible to the historian who may hap to record the cireuniftances in the annals of :Li country. This ha • been alternately denominated by tbe Noble Personages who have discussed the subject, an Q 4O , matuns, e.straorslimary, and unt , soal ease, and the pre. ceedings have been designated a prosertaium: but wile• thee by reason of such proceedings having be en co , ducted without the aid of law, or light of reason, d e term perseeation or prosrriptioa would not have hem t appropriate, a future generation may determine ; fur my own part, I am as much at a loss to give d iem a definition, as the Attorney-lieneral of the A t op was to declare who were his clients. Not that I con sider his embarrassment very surprising, seeing that the Ifou.se of Commons, the representative body of the people, bad, by declining to receive proffered evi dence, given him no warrant or instructions t, pro secute; but it most strike every unprejudiced miad is an uncommon case where neither the plaintiff kneas his own witnesses, nor the attorney for the prosecativa bis own employers. The Right Honourable the first Lord of the Treasury has informed us, that the object of the Bill is to vphoid the hoitesar o/ the rower!, and public juoire must bz• satisfied. It will be necessary, therefore, ts consider how far 1 the honour of the State has bees so injured, as to I call in this manner for public justice, and to examine 1 whether an atonement has nut already hen sufficireiy t made, if any wrong has been done. It requires no extraordinary degree of petspicail to perceive, that the incident which constitutes the I Queen's craimg sin, and which has so griered the 1 eac, k spirit of the hierarchy, and the exquisite me ! Witty of the aristocracy, is, that her Majesty, against all rules of fashionaide etiquette, has thought Fru. I per to become her own archetype in exercising acts 1 of kindness towards her donsostic. ; and so i ma gtl the Queen must be branded and persecute-11 became i Ilse has been a munificent benefactress to one, rim however meritorious he might be, had not the lick Ito bear the motto " eerie .:elite regihess." For this 1 1 she is to be degraded by a Bill of Pains and Penaltiis ex poet facto, on the evidence of a Non nei rieorde:!! Now the Bill of Bights, made the second yearof the . " glurious Revolution," provides, um row/ sad I an astral psaiehmfas shall sot be Wieder OS tie sub ; jest : and does not the Bill against her Majesty, is defiance of the Bill of Rights, sins at the iallirtioa of i a cruel and an a,:•treal punishment, if degradation of rank, loss of honour and reputatien, the dearest earthly blessings of the feeling and heel:tura mind, be my punishment at all But why, I would ask, is this adeletivnal penalty to be inflicted on the Queen, even if she were guilty of any offence? Is it because her enemies hare sot drunk deep enough of vengeance ? Are they sot satisfied with the coup el. gra •e, but must delight is beholding the protracted convulsions of their victim? The constant language of our legal tribunals. from time immemorial, has been, that it is contrary to the genius and spirit of the English law, to suffer any ore to be tried twice for the same offence, in a criminal way ; how much snore adverse then is it to intlirt punishment tic ice upon a delinquent. And Las nut the Queen, in violation also of this law, and of Maps Charts, been punished by degradation, the worst that malignity reds! devise, 'mutely, that of !wing pro claimed unworthy of ecclesiastical benediction. and all this without trial, or proof of delinquency ? Am Magna Charts, the Bill of Rights, and the tandisg law nothing ? Are the fastidious notl .ns of people d fashion, who seldom see the mid-day sun, to supersede the principles of right reason, and bear the stamp of British intellect? Can say fellow countrymen, who reputation for benevolence, honour, and justice, ins been widely extended over the civilized world, ire much, that a Briton's breast is supposed in be tie sanctuary of every humane and gentle iirtue,--cat they, I say, feel otherwise than indignant at the WI (foisted upon them) of plaintiffs, in a Bill to demi a Queen, who has done them no wrung of which tiel have any consciousness, or if she had, has sire)! suffered an excessive, an ameeenal paulsionent ? Let it he remembered, that by Magos Charm" 1 one ran he punished without the judgment of his equals, and according to the Law of the Land; dui by the Bill of Rights no one can be subjected to end and reeves/ pneisittneut ; that the law declares tiel uo criminal shall be tried trice: for the same Wts '. and consequently shall out be trice raisin,: sot then compare with these powerful injunetiosts, dm' ci T. cumstattee of her Majesty having been excluded troy' the prayers of the Church,from the Prutestaet }:s10 Church No s —condemned *wheat& without a trisl h wander about the world tinder as Ecclesiastical Ali' therua (which iu some ages of the Chunk would WI caved her Lnesitsbk destruction), a severity of 1 0 " reeding unknown to the British Laws or Cuastiteties being repugnant to Christian ebuity, and sun eay cruel, but unparalleled in ferocity. HAM gals g the evidence which you have heard, consider thee' clarations which ban been made, that the Hill is esi! to uphold the bosom of the country, and mot for an other purpose, and then putting your bawl um Ps' heart as a honest man, say if you can, that this cost is properly your own, and that the promoters of the Bill are " all, all Aorloarerble sera." Doctors' Contemn, Sept. If. CASSIUS. ■ II i . i I.ll \ i • • l 4 I .