The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-04-28 00:00:00

I vir"" -.- rlz..lYal.,,(ctt.ajAttc '/)!ltir-t7-%;11'.-tx Tht Ztatelltalto i 7r ~"~ Per t .,,g . • • 47 t.11:1 _ • ..111 :\ %-; •• ' .'1 LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1820. • ..--_____ Rio• 4703. " The Cause for which HA3fPDEN fell in the Field. and SYDNEY died on the Scaffold ."' Pima Sul* PINCE REFUIIE FUR THE DESTITUTE. The SPEAKER then read the King's Speech, f.ir which see the report of the debate in the House of, Lords. As soon as the Speaker had finished reading the Speech, himself that these subjects should be considered in a new reign, as the House were precluded how enter taining them during the life of his Majesty, with iu the first instance, a bargain had been made. He therefore gave this general notice, that be would bring the question before the House, thusigh it would be infinitely more agreeable to him if dune by the Right 'Hon. (gentleman, so as not w disturb the harmony which all Deemed so desirous of preserving.— Adjourned. TRIALS FOR HIGH TRRASON. OLD BAILEY, APRIL 17. The Cum Jcvracts of the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, together with Baron Itscosens, and Mr. Justice liteitanosors, misused the Coonskins* nine o'clock. They were aecosepsaied des Lox* MAYOR, the SHIRO7II, the Common Saitscasr, and AOIIIIIIISILIT DOMAN INVITTOIIND, Of C01111I•ND Or eta OVAL 11111101,11t$11 TUN DUKE of YORK, PILBSIDIO4I% iIIIBTHIRTERNTH ANNIVERSARY DINNER I will be at the City of London Tavern, Blshopsgate i.net. on MONDAY, the Ist of May, ISM. His ROYAL HIUNINEBB in the Chair. Tasawasa.—Edward Forster, Esq. STE WIRDII. qutkt lion.Ead of Liverpool L. A. Goldschmidt. Esq. mild Hon. Rob. Peel, M.P. George Harrison. Esq. *r J. D. Lubbock, flirt. Rev. J. Iferdman, A.M. and Samuel Bosanquet, F. 41. M.D. T. r. Radon. F.sq. M.P. Samuel Hoare. jun. Erg. Ilear, th ee. R. 49. M.P. William Morgan. Esq. A n d re w Edge, Eq. Thomas Roberts, Esq. T. ti. klasourt. Esq. M.P. Isaac Holly. Esq. it. P. Glyn. Esq. James Soper. Esq. Dinner at Sim o'clock precisely. Tiehets, Bittern Shillings each, may be had of the Trea surer, Stewards. deeretery. and Collectors ; at the Bar of tae 'Myers; and at the Refuge, In Mstelmeppeed saved' Horton. Minor the Isatitation Arts sew (lead In the tear 10110, v itro bate neva adolittacll3B4 Fable/es, sad 358 Males. and a offered for their return from rice and migery tot irtue and ~..sfort. A refuge alter , .in they are withdrawn fr o m the iditt ul t ire. ate taaght to resmasce their former habits. to kurttie industrioe. entploymeat. to form resolutions of n ot or .. mation. and to heeome honest and sinuous members of 40- eon?, ig now afforded to a constant succession of MTh Young Persons of earl set, who would other* ire be et ?used to all the bitter consequences of want and crime. ROBERT CROSBY, Sec. M. Holton-square. I.IIPRRIAL PARLI:IMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, TIBURSDAY.. Avan. 2;. At ten minutes before two o'clock this day hi% M a . lestv arrived in 4tate at the House of Lords, and im mediately afterwards took his seat on the Throne. The Imperial Crown of the Resin, was not carried ; tad the Principality of Wales having now merged the Crown, that distinct symbol of royalty no ioager has place. Cis Majesty wore his large mili tary hat, with the lofty plume. The Usher of the Black Rod was then sent to corn mai tbe attendance of the House of Commons In the Rase of Peers. The Speakrr instantly obeyed the summons, and presented Mundt' at the bar, attended by about 100 Illrabers. At two o'clock precisely the Kiug commenced the following Speech : "Mr Leans axe OneTt.tatex-1 hove taken the ear liest oceasioa of assembling you here, atter hosing recurred to t h e sense of my people. • In mosengyon persowelly for the first time since the death of my beloved Father. lam anxious to assure you that Isbell always continue to imitate his great example in unceasing antedista to the public interests. end in paternal solicitude he.thisrillase immlispgiasis eg -all giasses iiy I.l.ievel " I have received trout Porelga Powers renewed asen maces of their trierelly disposition, and of their earnest desire to cultivate nit., the relations of peace and amity. •• Cleaviaxas or ma House or Col4l6o:4l—The esti mow for the pressed year will be laid before you, .• They hate been framed upon principles of strict econo my ; but it is to me tra•ter of the deepest regret that the state of dm coustry has not allowed me to dispense with those additions So our military forte which I announced at the aemaseueestent of the last Session of Parliament. -The first object to which your attention will be directed is the provision to be made for the support of the Civil Go moment, add of the honour and dignity of the Crows. "I lease entirely at your disposal my interest In the held diary measure anJ I cannot deny myself the gratification of detarlrig, that so far from desiring any arrangement which might lead to the imposition of new burdens upon my Maple, or even might diminish. on my Recreant, the amount of the redactions incident to my accession to the Throne, I eta have no wish, wider circumstances like the present, that oar addition whatever should he made to the settlement adapted by Parliament in the year IS la. •' MI Loans ANS* GINTLESILN—DeepIv as I regret that tie reachiaations and designs of the disaffected should have led. in some parts of the country, to acts of open violent* and insurreetien, I repent but express my satisfaction at the promptitude with which those attempts have been suppressed by the vigilance and actitity of the Magistrates, and by the seldom eo-operation of all those of my subjects, whose seer imebeeu called forth to support the an thorityof the laws. •• The wisdom and firmness rusuil,:sted by the late Parlia ment, and the due esecutioe of the laws, have greatly con tributed to testae confidence throughout the kingdom ; and to discountenance those principles el -maiden sad irreligion whidi hod beet disseminates! with such matignant peruser• once. and had fe.; soned the min i 4 of the ignorant and unwary. I rely upon the continued support of Parliament in nit determination to maintain, by all the means entrusted to my Ink the pe!eir safety and tranquillity. "Deploring, es we all meet, the distress which still un happily Freya:la among many of the labouring classes of the etemminity. and anitiousty lookiog forward to its removal Weltigation, it is in the mean time our common duty, effec tually to protect the loyal, the peaceable, and the industrious, aliallet those practices of turbulence, and intimidation, by wild the period of relief can only be deferred, and by width am pressure of the distress has been incalculably m inuted. "I trait that anawakened sense of the dangers which they have incurred, and of the aria which have been employed t seduce them, will bring hack by far the greater part of dime who have been unhappily led astray, and will revive in time that spirit of loyalty, that dee submission to the laws, ■adtbat atteehment to the Constitution, which subsist una bated in the hearts of the great body of the people, and which. under the bismaine of Dis ine Providence, have se eared to the British (lotion the enjoyment of a larger share of practical freedom, as well as of prosperity and happiness, thin have fallen to the lot of any nation in the world." The Speech occupied exactly ikven minutes in the delivery. The House was crowded with Peers and Peeresses in every part, and presented a roost interesting and brilliant spectacle. lmme•diately after delivery of the Speech the King retired, and the House adjourned during pleasure. At five o'clock the House resumed, when Lord LIVERPOOL moved profbrina the first read lag of the Bill fur the better Regulation of Vestries. The LORD CHANCELLOR then read the Speech from the Throne, which was afterwards read by the Clerk at the Table —upon which Lord GRANVILLE ruse to move the Address. He expressed his satisfaction that the Speech which they had jest heard from the Throne was so framed as to allow of no ground fur hostile debate. His Lord ship then obse, ved, tbat there never was a moment •hen it was more important to the nation at large, that both Houses of Parliament, in ezpresiing their devotion to the King, and attachment to the Consti tution, and in tendering those sentiments at the foot of the Throne, should abstain from all political dis cussion. The Noble Lord then proceeded to remark upon the distinguishing character of the times ; de scribed them as fraught with peril and circumstances of terror and alarm, by which the present occasion was rendered peculiarly interesting, as well as by its closing a long and memorable reign, and opening a new one. He observed, that the annals of the late reign afforded a more useful lesson than could be col-! lected from many other centuries of the history of, mankind. He then adverted to the French Revolu tion, and attributed the surcessful resistance of its, principles in Great Britain, to the good sense and firmness of the late Kiag, aided by the decided part which his present Majesty then took is support of the , of the Crews. ' Teat - ter .tpplcs of thelfttetel Littirs-apsech were in refertitha to the state of tint finances, which were entbarramsed by the exhausting exertions of the late war, and to the prevalent distress of the country, which he accounted for spoil the ground of the peace having deiirived us of that mono poly of commerce which we estioyell during the war ;. and also the disbanding or a large proportion of oar military and navtl forces, which threw a number of active and discontented person+ upon society. In re marking !al on our foreign relations he said, that al though the state of Enrope was not to be viewed with out apprehension, yet it did not a: pear that general pause would be disturbed, or that England should be called upon for pecuniary exertions. He concluded by moving the Address, which was as usual an echo of the Speech from the Throne. _ Lord HOWARD (of Effingham) seconded the Ad dress in a speech which merely repeated and enforced the principal topics insisted on by the Noble Mover. Earl GROSVENOR followed, and expressed his concurrence in the sentiments and language of the Address; though he was of opinion that the Noble Loa who moved it had touched upon topics which were talent &tea to call forth a dillerence of opinion. The Noble Lord spoke in praise of the general system of education which distinguished the present age, not withstanding what was said of its having facilitated the dissemination among the poor of seditious and ir religious works. He also, in adverting to our foreign relations, eulogised the Revolution in Spain. The Marquis of LANSDOWN expressed his appro. val Of the Address, and his agreement with several of the opinioas expressed by the Noble Lord who moved it : but he insisted that recent events had shown that the old laws were sutLient fur the due government of the kingdom. rl of LIVERPOUL obseryed, o.lt after wbat mil botb by thi Yale Mover and &conifer of the Address, as well as by the two Noble Lords on the other tide, any observations likely to disturb the unanimity which prevailed, wonli be alike unseemly and indecorous. The Noble Earl then slightly ad verted to some topics of general interest, particularly to the regulations with respect to commerce, which lie said might undergo some advantageous modifications, though he should not take upon himself to say that all could be done which was expected. Lord HOLLAND expressed his concurrence in the Address, without, however, retracting any opinion he had advanced as to the unwise and unnecessary mea sures which had been adopted by the late Parliament. The motion was then put and unanimously agreed to. Lord HOLLAND gave notice of his intention to present a petition relative to the inferior Clergy; and, upon his Lordship's motion, the House was summoned for this day se'nnight on the subject. The Earl of Shaftesbury was re-elected Chairman of their Lordships' Committees.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The attendance of Members was Putficiently nume rous at a quarter to two o'clock, to enable the Speaker to take the Chair. At tw•o o'clock the whole of the benchrs were occupied, the Black Roll summoned the House to the House of Peer*, to hear the King's speech, sail when the Speaker left the Chair to proceed to the Lords, a sudden rush of the Members from every side took place. lu the general pressure, several Members were unsble to get forward. Among these were the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. B. Bathurst, and Sir W. Curtis. On the return of the Speaker and the other Mem bers from the House of Peers, the Hight lion. (gentle man addressed the House, and said, that he was sorry to observe, that in leaving the House to go to the House of Peers, m any of the Members hail been sub jected, not only to inconvenience, but to personal risk. In order to exonerate himself froui all blame, he thought it right to observe, that lie had given direc tions to the proper officers to have the lobbies, and all the avenues leading to the House of Peers which were under the jurisdiction of the House, kept clear of strangers, so that no interruption to the progress of the House to the House of Lords might occur. Still the inconvenience which was sought to be prevented, u!ifortunately happened, and in his passage to the House of Lords, lie saw no person who was not a Member, in the lobbies, and he believed he was war ranted in saying, that the inconvenience ',ruse from the Members themselves. He said thus much, to exo nerate himself from all blame.—(hear, hear!)--Ile now added, that he hoped to be able to resume the Chair before three o'clock, as it would be a conve nience to several Members who wished to be sworn. M a quarter to three o'clock the House resumed, and several Members took the oaths and their seats; this continued until four o'clock, when Ti.e SPEAKER informed the House, that the Clerk bad prepared the usual Sessional Bills. The Clandestine Outla:►•ry Bill was then read a first and st•cund time. The Custmna►y Sessional Committees of Privileges, &c. were then appointed, after stUivh the nasal Stand• in Orders were agreed to. Sir E. KNATCHKIILL rose for the purpose of moving an Address in reply to the gracious Speech, which had been this day delivered from the Throne. The Address which he intended to move, and hr hoped he might add, with the unanimous approval of the House, would be such a one as would express at once the opinions of the House, and evince their attach ment to the Kiag. In discharging the duty which he had undertaken to perform, he would have occasion to refer to the rations topics in the Speech, but he ti%ouW rigidly endeavour to abstain from any °bier yule. which could possibly prevent that unanimity, whielli w iinier any circumstances, wu extremely de-, 'srealle,"7llte accession of Us Majesty to the Throne turned, In his estimation, grounds of no inconsider able weight for the hope of unanimity which he had cherished, and he might add, that in the present par ticular state of the country, a unanimous declaration of the Hon* of Commons in favour of the established Government. would he highly valuable. In using the expression " Uovernment," he did not mean the ,present Ministers, but the general government of the country.--(Hear, hear trusted that nothing which should fall from him would have the effect of rstarding the accomplishment of such an object. He observed, in terms of warm praise, upon the virtues of the late King, and upon the splendid events which oc curred during his long sway over this country. He then proceeded to comment upon the prominent parts of the Speech, and congratulated the House upon the declaration which they had heard front the Throne, that his Majesty was determined to follow the great ex ample of his beloved father, and that nu increase was to be made in the Civil List ; hr chiefly insisted upon the necessity of reducing the disaffected parts of the coun try to obedience of the laws; and of the House stand ing firmly by the Constitution, on account of the at tempts that had been made at revolution. Mr. WILMOT seconded the motion. Mr. Ti ERNEY rose merely to express his agree ment with the sentiments of the Hon. Mover cud Se conder of the Address. Their speeches rendered it unnecessary fur him to detain the House a single mo ment. For if there was auy thing in the Speech from the Throne which might Imre raised animadversion, they hail put so fair an interpretation upuu it, that no objection could possibly be taken, and he congratu lated the /louse and the Country on the unanimity which prevail —their sill nniting in loyalty to the Crown; is su rting the true liberties of the people; sod in i si fe • likes agoitset the aischioatifial 4f the di. Sir F. BURDETT said, he should be unhappy if he were supposed to be capable of disrespect to the Throne, by disturbing the unanimity so earnestly called for. lint he could not help observing, that the House had been for some time past pot in an awkward situation, by the method that had been adopted with regard to speeches from the Throne. Tho.e speeches were formerly fair statements of the situation of the country, and not, as non•, Irittered away, and so gene ral in their import. as to obtain an acquiescence in principles which were not perhaps satisfactory to those who thus appeared to sanction them, but who had no alternative hut to raise a seemingly groundless and disrespectful opposition. It was an extreme want of courtesy in the Executive, not to make known to Members, the day before they met (as had been done from the period of the Revolution till within these few years), the nat►►re of the speech they were to hear from the 1 home; or read it, as had been customary, in the Cockpit, to which every one had access; so that it was the common subject of conversation and dis cussion all over the town. I 'ntler those circumstances, Gentlemen were prepared for the subject, and able to discuss the great and important topics which formed, anti ought to form, a scaten►ent from the 'I hrone. But to be called on all of a sudden to do this, espe cially under the extraordinary circus►stances in which the country was placed, was inure than they ought to be calied on to do ; and however loyal and respectful they were, it was too touch to ask, as a proof of it, that they should agree, on the first showing of Ministers, to all they chose to put into the mouth of the Sovereign. Ile should not like to enter on the spur of the mot ent upon the Speech, and without son►e.tin►e fur reflection. When a younger Member, he had on a similar occasion proposed to adjourn the subject over one day; but at present, at the commence , ment of a new reign, he would not even pursue that course, hut content himself with stating, that he con ceived himself to be distinctly guarded against the supposition of concurring with any thing in the Ad dress, but wiAl the Congratulation and Condolence, in short, with nothing but what was in-rely formal. There were one or two points so prominent, that but for its being the beginning of a new reign, he would , have touched upon then,: but, in order to show his respect, and guarding against being held to any po litical pledge, he would not disturb the harmony of the day. The Address was read and carried unanimously. TUE CIVIL MST. A conversation took place across the table, between Mr. 'Ft RR NKK and the CIIaNCELLOn of the EXCHEQCEtt, r-sperting the arrangement of the debate en the Civil List ; but they spoke in so low a tone of voice, that we could only gather that the Resolutions were to be brought in by the Chancellor of the Excheqter on Tuesday, and the discussion (if auv) taken on them on Thursday. Mr. BROUGHAM inquired if the Ihnits of the Ad miralty, the Bruits of the Crown, and the Four and a Half per Cents. were hi:ended to be comprised in the new arrangements. he CHAM.ELLOR of the EXCHEQUER an swered (we believe) in the nerative. 31r. BROUUHAM said, Mr. Percent had pledged several Aldermen. The prisoner, Arthur Thistlewood, was then placed at the Bar, and the Clerk of the Crown proceeded to call over the list of the Jurors. From the number of persons summoned, this was a work of considerable time, and it was after 12 o'clock before the Jury was sworn. Twenty-three Jurors were challenged by tha SOLICITOR-OZNZRAL for the Crown, and twentv•siz by Mr. CLiwooo on behalf of the prisoner. 'lb. Jury• was rompo‘ed of the following persons. Alezasder Barclay, Foreman. Dickinuoa. Thomas Goodchild, J G o r is:Vdsrard Shepberi, Thomas Suffield AldemaY, John Fowler , James Herbert, William Gebbs Roberts, John Shooter, John Dobson. Samuel Grainger, William Cooper. As soon a; the above Jurymen were sworn, the Lord Chief-Justice ANNUTT rose, and observed that as several persons were charged with the commission of the crime of High Treason, whose trials it was pro bable would occupy a considerable time, it was thought necessary, strictly to prohibit the publication of this or any other trial until the whole were terminated:— This order was indispensably necessary, and he trusted it would be attended to. The indictment charging the prisoner wiAs compas sing, and contriving the death of the King, and the subversion of the liovernment, as by law established, was then read. It was of unusual length, and occupied a considerable time, _ Mr. BOLLAND opened the case on the part of the Crown, by bristly stating the nature or the disferrut counts in the indictment. Kr. Arraanstassitaat, tilts rose, and spoke to the following let May it pilot your Lor Glare—Yon .1. aasasiabled to discharge a duty of more than ordiiary importance; you are assembled to decide upon guilt or inoocence, as it respects a charge which mast, in its consequence., invoke the life or death of the tusfortanste person who stands charged with it. Upon such an occasion, Uentlemen, it is satisfactory to me to know, that it is unnecessary for me to ask you to bestow the greatest attention upon the case before you, and still leis ne cessary for me to impress upon you the necessity of coming to this investigation with impartial and un biassed miuds. I confide to your attention, and rest assured that you will consider the case as it deserves. lientlemen, in reviewing other offences, however great the degree of turpitude which marks them, we gene rally find that there has been some motive which might inspire the crime and urge to its perpetration ; but the case now before you is an exception to this remark; it is one in which we can trace no reason which could hare prompted the prisoner to perseverd is his designs of murdering persons whom he did not know, and against whom be could not po•itde feel any animosity. I will not trouble you, lienlierrien, with many observations upon the offence with which the prisoner it charged,because I wish you to form your opinion entirely upon the evidence which I shall lay before you. '1 he charges against the prisoner are f .ur in number, and three of these may be briefly stated as imputing to him the crime of compassing and undertaking the death of the King. In proving this charge, it will not be necessary to show that tl.a blow was actually and decidedly aimed at the life of the Sovereign, because, if it was aimed at the forum of liovernment which the law es ablishes, and recognises, it must in its consequences tend to produce the removal and subversion of the King. In these cases, then, if sufficient is shown to prove that a plan was form eal and acted upon, which had in view the subversion of the authority of the Crown, or which, iu its conse quences must lead to that result, the charge must ha considered as established. tientlemen, important as is the duty which has now devolved upon yuu, I do assure you that mine is no less anxion.l ; for though I purpose merely to inform you upon the nature of the charge and the e%idence with which I mean to stappos t it, yet it is any duty, as standing between the public and the prisoner, to state fairly to you the tic's con nected with the case, and to draw your attention t 1 those which strike me as making materially against him. lf, in performing this task, you shall think that I am not sutliciently borne out by evidence, and if vUi think that my observations and inferences are ISA fairly drawn, you will of course give the benefit of such doubt to the prisoner. But if, on the other hand, you shall find that those observations and io ferences fairly rad naturally arise out of this far 1 which I shall lai before you, it a- ill then be y...ur duiv to allow them to have a just and reasonable weight in influencing the opini n which you shalt lont t.-eti• tkmen, having said thas much, I shall without further premise, call your attention to the facts wl:i . 1 1 I Ives,' to support iu evidence. The prisoner, I hastl.w.t.,.4, who is now charged with attempting the death of the King, anal the overthrow of the tmerrnin .nr, has t—.a for some time (as well beivre as .1 the tinge tr:tre t• . e discovers number of persons. who appear to Fusee inrc.ri.h'‘ of his da signs was made) cqnn eered w•tt. 1 * acted hurler Ws guidance. At rr, sent, hewevur, 1 of the