The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-11-29 00:00:00

have wormed their way into this glorious temple, who have wasted the:r strength ht hurling a miserable pebble at its gigantic towers, st ho bane vainly thought by eorering one of the smallest of its outworks with their cobwebs to shade it from the eternal glory of the approving Gods ; tell us no more of your Carlile's, 'our Davison's, and your wretched tribes of human ' insects who have dared to lift their puny arms against • it and heaven ! No, no, look here at its venerable anti once called immaculate supporters look here at its great high priests, the supposed links of communication between it and the skies ; behold in these the incendiaries, who arc destroying it;-- b-hold in them the emulators, the successors of Erostrates, setting fife, not to a temple of Diana, but to one whose builder and founder is God. Yes, gentlemen, if there ever was an act calculated for the fartherance of infidels, it is this of our Ministers, acting on the name and on the behalf of the bead of the Church. Shall they not be dismissed ? Amid all the contentions of parties, amid all the strife, which must and which ought to exist in a free state, amid the various criminations anti recriminations, with which they bespattered each other, all parties turned with delight to the excel lency of our Judicature, and the justice of our Judges. The nice and equitable distinction which the law had laid down between judge and jury, accuser and advo cate, between the investigation and decision of a rause, Isere the main grounds upon which the British public vaunt with perfect confidence on the impartiality of their courts ; what then ought to be the punishment of men who wouldyiestroy thisronfidence,—who would, to secure their own infamous designs, make tbe peo ple suspicious of the pure administration of their laws ? And what, I ask, is more likely to do this than the in troduction of the Bill? Accuser, advocate, jurors, sad judges, all blended together, and interested in destroying the unfortunate being who was placed be fore them. Let any man say that this statement is overcharged, or that this conclusion is not consequent epon the premises ! Englishmen were once proud of their national character ; they fought for it, they Wed fur it, they 4i Id for it; no nation once stood so high ! All Europe acknowledged their honor, their valor, and their virtue! What has this hill made us? The laughing stock of the c. orld ! A kingdom governed by a monarch whose Ministers are proving his wife's shame and his own ignominy. Look at the scene from whence 31inisters drew their stores to prove the allegations of this bill. They nobly disdained to go to any minor state, to any inferior people, to any unheralded untrophied country. No, no, they went to Italy! Italy, the land of the free, the proud, and !the brave ; Italy, once the colossal mistress of the world, Italy, A nation famed for sone and beauty's charms, Zealous, yet modest, Innocent free, Patient of toil, serene amidst alarms, Inflexible In faith, Invincible iu arms. Yet Italy was the great theatre choseu by our clas sical Ministers to exalt the character of cur people— the little island already immortalised in the pages of their Caesar, was to prove to his successors its advance meet iu knowledge, is policy and in virtue Yes, we nut only established a cominiesiou of gallant Colonels, locoed advocates, and incorrnptible judges, in that faii.ous country, but we introduced into onr own nation some of their wisest philosophers, their purest pa triots, and their sternest stoics. What was Mar cus Brutes to Majocchi ? Cicero to Sacchi ? Seneca o Carliui, or Caw to Cuchi ? Alas, nothing. Oh could these immortal men leave their high abodes to look down upon the pursuits of their successors would they not exclaim, " hail renowned Italy! hail thou classic clime,—since we left thee what a glorious advancement hast thou made; no longer employed in futile attempts to give liberty to the slave, philoso phy to the ignorant, and civilisation to the savage, thou East now arrived at a climax we never ventured to anti cipate. Cans; thou do a deed, great as was our valour, we never dared to do, assisting the sapient Coon. sellors of a little island to prove their queen an adul tress!" flood Ood ! For our uational honour,—for onr character with posterity, let us demand the dismissal of this shameless Administration. Need I refer you to the disgraceful scene in the house of Commons, as another effect of those vile measnres ? Need I tell you of the insult offered to your Representatives ? Yon know it. Need I tell you, after the unparal leled acts of oppression against the Queen; after trying her for imputed crimes committe , l sit years ago, from which she escaped, by the providence of God, for I know of no skill in man that could have defeated so in tricate a conspiracy,—after refusing her a list of wit nesses; after appointing a Secret Committee to blast her character; after considering the House in which she was tried as a Court of Law, and nut as a Court of Law precisely, as each might injure her; after exhaust ing all the venom of perjury, malice and injustice on her devoted bead ; and, after all have failed, need I toll you they have left her helpless, houseless. and Illbila”14411111. in the laud ? Need I tell you, that while titled suppleness is receiving its anneal ffionsands from the pockets of the people. your Queen is left destitute, a regal pauper, a Sovereign Insolvent? Is there any thing baser, or blacker, to add to this catalogue. Can you thiuk it possible they have resolved not yet to terminate this infamous inquiry ? Shall these men remain in office ? Let us, however, acknowledge the Ali nisters to havesonse virtue. Do they not nobly persevere, notwithstanding the collected voice of the nation is againsttlieni. Is not this:praiseworthy? Do they not with a stoical firmness banish from their bosoms all foolish compunction and compassion as to the result of their measures? Is not this commendable? Let us give them their doe. But there is one thing they are tinpossee sed of, they want the noble virtue of ambition—high, fervent. glorious. ambition. They have shewn no ob jectios to plunging into war. but , then their war was a compound of tricks, of mercenaries, of bribing other essontrier to fight their own battles, of promising free constitutions when they intended despotic govern meats. Why did not they at once declare their inten tion, and march sword in baud against the liberties of the world, making the earth one scene of desola tion, and they telling the wretched te.nsoant :they had given them peace ? You know pie, you know my views do not extendjsalf so far as many of yours ; many of you know that Irglory in heloaginic to the White of Bog. lead; you know ihat our moitstious Enemy is eatreaels behind the sevenfold gates of Thebes; that it Ism THE STATESMAN coiled up its en.mnaus length within the very centre of the citadel, that it possesses the malignity of the serpent, the ferocity of the titer, and the strength of the elephant; will this leviathan fall before the single n'isupported attacks of a Hohliouse, a Bartlett, a Bennett, or a Bedford? No, no, if it is destroyed it will be by the noblest band of patriots that ever graced our isle; and I call upon your talented repre sentatives; with them, in concert to plan, in concert t • execute, in concert tufight, in concert to conquer, and in concert to triumph! (To he continued). THE COSFRRENCES WITH THE DEAN AND CILIPTER OF ST. P,llll.'S. Upon the notification of her Majesty's intention to attend St. Paul's Cathedral, and the subsequent Re solutions of the Court of t7otinaton Council, a Com- I tuittee of the Corporation was appointed to confer with the Dean and Chapter upon the mode of order- I ing and conducting the necessary arrangements, and to take the proper steps fur preserving the peace of the City, The Committee were accordingly introduced to Dr. Hughes, the Dean himself bring from ton n. They were received with every mark of politeness aid re spect by the Rev. Doctor, but it was soon discoverable that his authority was exceedingly limited, and con twitted by the higher •ers, by whose orders, it should seem, be was restrained from agreeing to any one of the ceseutial regulations or arrangements the Committee proposed. It was the wish of the Committee, that the admis sion to the Cathedral sl Id be by tickets only; but though this arrangement is generally adopted upon all public occasions at the Cathedral, Dr. Hughes's instructions un this head were peremptory, that the doors should be thrown open as upon ordinary ncca sions; yet, notwithstanding this utter neglect of all proper precaution, the Committee were given to un derstand, that the Lord Mayor and Corporation would be looked to as responsible for any injury the Cathe dral might sustain. The Consmittee, with the Lord Mayor at their head, urged the utter impossibility of se. wring ordi r and tranquillity if this determination was a. he Id to ; that the indiscriminate admission of all iotrudeis upon such an occasion, seas nut only highly indecorous and improper, but calculated to insure and promote the confusion, proft s.ed to he dreaded, and declared, that under such ciri umstances, they would not be respon sible fur any consequences that might occur. After much discussion, it was at length agreed that every member t.t . the Corporation should have a ticket of admission for himself and one other person ; that' the members of the Committee, about thirty in num!, ber, should be allowed two tickets each ; and thatl 2000 respectable househl lees, sworn in as special constables, should be admitted into the Cathedral for the purpose of forn inz a line to keep off the crowd, and preserve a clear passage fur her Majesty to proceed to the sent pre; meal fur her. The regular notices ..vere accordingly issued, lurking the Miaow to lend thensselvaa as special constables for the occa sion; and Mr. Al lerinsu Wood attended at the Ouild hall, yesterday, for the Purpose of swearing them in. At a suhsequent interview with Dr.linglies, which took plat e yesterday ii.orning, fresh dtificulties arose the permission of an extra ticket to the members of the Committee was revoked, and it was intimated that the Centtnittee would not be suffered to appear with wands, as it was the wish of the Dean and Chapter that there should be rothing like a procession. Se veral respectable ladies, to the number of 170, were desirous of being permitted to receive her Majesty from her entry into the Cathedral, but the proposition was immediately objected to by the representative of the Dean, as wholly improper and inadmissible. The use of wands was strongly contended for by the Committee, as proper and necessary marks of au thority, without which it was hopeless for them to at tempt to regulate a body of two thousand con stables, who sr' add bare no means of knowing to whose directions they wete to conform. The *need suer of respectab'e fetnales upon such an occasion, and for the purpose proposed, it was observed, mast be most gratif3ing to her Majesty, and, under proper ar rangements could he productive of se confusion or disorder. In vain, however, was all argument or observation on the pate of the C 'ttee ; the Rev. Doctor had received his instructions, from which it was evident he hail no authority to depart; and at the breaking op of the conference, it was the general understanding, that the Loud Mayor and the Committee, finding ail their efforts to effect a proper arrangement useless, would relinquish all responsibility with regard to the internal arrangements of the Cathedral, and direct their attention solely to the previous attendance on her Majesty, and the preservation of the peace daring her entry and return through the city. The committee met again in the evening at the Chiilsikalls the Lord Mayor and Dr. Hughes ; were p esen;, hnt at ten o'clock, when they ►roke up, no essential alteration hail been obtained, except the permission to the Committee to use wands, upon their assuranee that they should be used only to preserve the pear•, and a. t in any ceremonial. Dr. Hughes expressed every willingness so hit part to accede to the wishes of the Committee; but frankly confessed be was acting under higher powers Asa the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's. The accidents which arise from the imprudent, and disobedience of servants, have never been more addict ingly esemplifird than in the late destruction of a lovely child, the son of Robert Lightfoot, Req. of Quality-court, Chancery-lase. The servants had posi tive orders not to employ vitriol fur the purpose of cleaning fenders, kr. and no doubt was esters:shed of their bring pnactnally obeyed. The boaskaahl, how ever, had secretly procured it, and early one morning the nurse having left the hey for on. inereent to her care, he drank A snidest quantity of that met Wive poison as to feeder all the efforts of art esevailisy to rare him. Though medics' a. simian woe infeedi itely obtained, sod every menu of Mb( Mink the [ dose proved fatal, and a Ilse boy. sigotsee overarm 444, was ie two short days, and Is the fell** et health. snatched away in this Meet horrible moms fres the arm saad hopes of its most dieted paresis. 11100 W vreß AT LONDON BRIDGE TO•IVORPOW. Moralei, V inln.after9.—k:teniug. 3 MIA. after la. PRICE OF STOCKS TII Rink Stock 414 3 per Cent. Red. 41Aff S per Celt.. Con. 139 ii per Cent. riti per Cents. 861 I pref. Navy 103fi 6 per Cent. Script Graz Ann. 171 13-16 D.Vi AT ONE O'CLOCK. Imp. 3 per Cent. Ann. India Stock Ditto Ronda 9si. WM. pm. Old Annuities Es. Bills 9d. 3'. h. pm. Owens' I dia. Cen. for Aeet 70 6Q Lott. Tickets —4. ebe ttattliman. 111111/11111 STATISIIIAN IS INCOI 6TAT63111•14." will " 11l . 4. LONDON: • WIDNEADAT EVENING. NOVEMISR 29. THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO ST. PAUL'S. STRAND, Qmarier post TWO o'clock. The Procession is at th smo•nent on its returr, passing oer Office in the greatest order and regularity. Her Majesty's carriage is open ; the cavalcade is proceeding at a (rick and uninterrupted pace, and forming a spectacle the most sublime that can be imagined. Th„ enthusiasm of the multitude now assembled in g . Clement's t;hurrh•yard, excited by the appearance of her Majesty, is warm and lona beyond description. This day, which had been anticipated with mita isn by all who could rejoice at the triumph of the siost injured and exalted woman in the kingdom, and with malevolence by such as had, from weakness or front naseness, lent their countenance to injustice and oppression, will Inng continue memorable in the an nals of Great Britain. A discarded wife, and in sulted Qualm, long suffering under a series of un usual persecutions, and recently escaping from a most formidable consp:racy, has, after the exam ple of her illustrious relatives on every oc casion that demanded distinguished acknowledg ment, proceeded to return public thanks in the chief Temple of the Empire, for the deliverance that Heaven had vouchsafed to her. In proceeding thus in public, and with solemn ceremony, to render unto GOO the homage that was due, she has testified at the same time that respect for the people, who under Goa, from the unprecedented and impressive mariner is which they have expressed their sense of the proceed ings against her, have co-operated with other legal means as the most effective instruments of her deliver ance. The fall conviction which the people had re ceived other innocence and bee amiction, under all the horrid charges that were brought against her In a former persecution, prepared them for those extraor diner and matiinted deisoutrstioes et—iseliag aad energy they have exhibited in the various stages of her recent trial. The moment she reached the British shore to face her accusers, the magnanimity and spirit she evinced, the noble disdain with which she had re jected the temptations proposed to prevent her arrival. and the frankness with which she threw herself upon the country for protection, elicited in the highest tone the congenial sentiments of a brave and generous peo ple. From the commencement of her proven towards London from Dover, up to her return this day to her home, from the Cathedral of St. Paul's, the people have manifested toward• her Winter so invincible and en thusiastic attachment beyond example sad above all praise. At nine o'clock this morning, the Qcsav entered I her carriage at Brandenburgh House. No style could be more simple, or better suited to the solemnity of the occasion, than that in which her Majesty appeared. All snperfinons personal show and attendance on her part were avoided. She was accompanied in her state carriage only by Lady Ann Hamilton, and followed but by one of her Vice-Chamberlains, in one of her chariots. At the Broadway, Hammersmith, the es:ort of gentlemen on horseback, appointed to attend her, awaited her ap proach. That escort was composed of gentlemen of Ham mersmith and the neighbouring villages, marshalled four abreast, with white rosettes on their bosoms, and on the manes of their horses, and amounting to at least two thousand. They then preceeded her MAJESTY'S carriage in excellent order, attended by several bands of trumpets, and were met by the whole population of the adjacent country, who densely thronged the road r dsroagh Kensisgtos and Knightsbridge. Much as this vicinity has been accustomed to be occasionally crowded since the residence of the Qcsaw at Hammer smith, this day surpassed every other, in the multi tales collected to testify to her MAJESTY their loyalty and love. Warm as was their seal, it was manifested with a deference and decorum moot becoming and at footing; while her Ma.travr returned their expressions of respect with every token of benignant and grateful acknowledgmest. Though the weather Lad been highly favourable, comeidering the season of the year, her Maaassit's earrings wait Awed, and continued in that state is all her progress as St. Paul's. (Miser Ituarry's arrival at Hyde Park Corner, the other escorts of gentWsnea who bad alsartablesi in Hyde Park. took the lead in the smoked% that of Hay market, kr. retiring into the vast. 'These were formed into two divisions, each *waggling et allow two thee soot owe; Sir Resent Inmost and lie. Home at wailed. On each aide el lee ilonser's oerriago. elrell.P41111•COR1111111, awe orteiraentiv. At lisioirisk-Cirrier sais'apiosAsagia Mika di pas* aka bad unigtO ilia* at the pteeliest hoar; awl three weieligeetie tie . * the ethet de-1 pntations; according as they reached the grocad. line continued uninterruptedly along Piceadillv, 3 , , down St James's-street t.s St. .Idus .s's Palace, lisped with an innumerable display of Mustier, ia • fags, and enlivened by various bands of music, the national airs of '• Rule Britannia," and, t• B r i t ,,, Strike flume.'' The view of the 'reticle, and of the cavalcade, from the neighboorhood of the Patt er , Hotel, was extremely striking and imposi Ig, prerr where through this part of the rout... the assemit:E, of the people was immense, and the tokens of reo t d most cordial. ST. JAMBS'S STREET. As it was known that the prorresion wouli through this street, every preparation was nude 40 6; hand to accommodate the curious with places hu t whicl► to gratify their anxious desire to witness tt e specta.•le. Not the windows alone, but the roofs of the houses were occupied at an early hoar by mt. dressed persons of all ages and sexes; and here, as well as in other parts of the metropolis, the shop s we 11 all shut up, all thoughts of business were laiti aside, and the demeanour and equntenanees of all in'i• a 41 the inward satisfaction which filled their breeqs, 'hewed that this was to be a day of rest, of calash. umph, and of joy. The coop d' util, which this stores presented, viewed either from the top in PieeadillT,w from the bottom, near the Palace, was 'Ay and strikise in the extreme. Deputations from the various trades and benefit and other societies, bearing the di:retest banners, gags, and devices, incident to each, were as. 'enabled in this street, ■nd ranged at short intervals's one side of the carriage road, to the number of near!c 250. The silken flags and banners of all coloorl, tints ranged side by side, and glittering in the air, produced a most imposing and magaificent effect. The procession reached the head of St. Jatues'setteet ahout 10 o'cl,ock, and her Majesty's carriage Ira, bailed by all present with the most enthusiutie de. monstratiuns of joy. PALL-MALL. This fashionable part of the town exhibited in eon mon with its neighbours, the most lively marks of* satisfaction. The windows and loots of the hewn were all throngee. by individeats of the most respects. ble and fashionable appearance. The carriage-nod en either side was lined ulth vehicles of divers dr. scriptions, but principally with carriages and desists ! . vehicles, the major part filled with females of rask . There were also many carriages and post-chaises sits four horses from the country, the animals and drivers adorned with sprigs of laurel and white favours. Tk vehicles and.crowd immediately opposite and adjoin* eariree-howse were very nagstrows. The carious gallery, forming the Ingot the colimade at the cerat 1 1 of Pall-Mall,had a very gratifying and lively springer being completely filled with spectators. A great of Regent-street, facing "the Oust House, win pillars," also evinced the same symptoms of ear -1 Bess to see her Majesty pass. Immediately be the "House" itself was stationed a branch great body of the standard bearers, who contrived parade ■p and down is the course of the use • the arrival of the cavalcade. The guards who came relieve their brother sentries wen loudly and god naturedly cheered by the multitude. On the prof" sion passing, the tesidEnre of the Ring, cert. IS et pressioas of feeling too well understood to need de cription, involuntarily escaped t' a throats of the oie.- tators. Here some slight confusion prevailed, owing to the immense numbers who had assembled. Eves 61 widespreading avenue of White-Hall wat *bootedr clunked up with people ; and the intense anxiety of every one to get a view of her Majesty, created s degree of pressu►e at this point, which, for sane time, excited serious apprehensions of danger. AM the passing of the procession, however, tint began gradually to thin, and no accident of queues appeared to have occurred. TN[ STRAND. The first body of gentlemen on horseback toted the Strand at a quarter past skive. The 'promo of the bosses in this part was literally that of a fur sass of life. Tho bosses were covered, asmi ere►! window gadded with lured!, ...Wig! 1%../ML Jr * 4 her Majesty's progtess was she greeted wide ore expressive symptoms of attichmeat ; and so oiler could the eye feast upon a were &soling &Oaf i& beas4 and fashion. The fairest hands, " with Marti in them," held oat the white emblems td and waved them triumphantly in the air. Tit brightest eyes sparkled with, joys,, sad derivea ditioaal lustre from the gladdealog emodoa dicb the occasion kindled to every heart. Yd .e there no temeltemas apprehension of feelieg t I k . solemnity of her Majesty's shamble seemed B.loo' every breast, sad to restrain all approsek to eislsee , eves in the most tumble attendasts apse the Per e ''' Alt the regret felt sad expressed was, that her*" jesty could not he sees. But a 1 were ready Si 24114* . t ledge the peopriety of set 'salami 1 4 ootweed rit'r open each an oce4sion. The tuner frlTOnt ems"' *WOW of sympathy sad attachment were 1 04 ,a every direction. M God preserve her." " D' 46 . this lath like relit." G. Heaves Mess the 430. -I' asst be Insorent." sad similar 0 4P matinss aeoompankd her Ilfeloely'll Pur ee thiesegVtitilsieopiais. An she st.eelb lhedief 16" I I P $ I