The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-06-16 00:00:00

tin; STATESMAN. here as rinali6ed to encounter, states that this day of companies of artillery. Very violent measures have instead of beingdistinguished by also been taken at Dunkirk. The French a rmy eon prescribed return, tota l dereliction from Louts of his military sup- times to concentrate itself, and takes a defettsive !m -enders to IslarotF.ost, it was celebrated by these sition. ,evens at Ghent as a day of honour, and of general The following are some particulars of the death of veuring in to the cause of the banished, or as they Prince Berthier. For some days preceding a remark rill him, legitimate Sovereign. But, alas! whilst nNe change in his manner had been observes!. Gen. the enemy is confessed to be most active and daily Sacken, who dined with him on the 3 ist of M.iy, at erasing in strength, almost ready to commence, and his father-in-law's, the Duke of Bavaria, told him he proudly defying the encounter—waiting but for the was charmed at seeing him among the small 'somber animating presence of their directing Genius. The of persons who had remained faithful to their King; Ames, who were to overwhelm Lim in one short tilt, these words disconcerted him so, that he WM at a loss ere he was aware, appear like these Ghent Emigrants, for an answer. He had passed all the morning of the to be only drinking t o his downfall Bat their in- Ist at the window, observing with a perspective glass a ctivity is perfectly excusable—thore are powerful the Russian troops as they went in ; he afLerwards‘ ~,o m s for it. The contingents from various States went up to the third story to the apartment of his l i , t e not yet come up; and what are to he furnished children, he dismissed the servant, and threz: hiaizzA m ere driblets, compared to what was expected, that out of the window ; his son, yet a child, endeavour when all are assembled, but ill make out Lord ing to catch him by the foot, was nearly dragged out C'-vt EREAMI'S mighty aggregate of human beings, of the window with hiM. The fall was so violent ~;,nos he had purchased for the contest on the Conti- from the height, that he was killed upon the spot, t wit, of a much cheaper rate than men could he his head being wholly fractured. _ bolzht in this country—at I 11. per head ! It is stated ! —ms.— in the Papers received by these Mails, that the con- I . It is now certain that an embargo has been laid on Cogent of •;:ixony, the command of which has been the French ports. Letters from the coast, and some Riven, hy his Majesty, to General La COQ, will • gentlemen who have made their escape, state, that not eiceed eight thousand, including cavalry.— the orders for stopping the communication were re. An:: what is of some importance to the specu. eeived and put into execution at Calais and Dunkirk lations of the war arithmeticians, though we' on Monday last. " With this order," says the attach none to it, we are informed that our Minis- Times of this morning, " came instructions to admit ters yesterday received dispatches from Lisbon, an- into France none but certain favourite English Pa tioan.ing to them the determination of the Regency pers ;" and with a most laughable inclination to !w -00l to contribute the Portucc-se contingent towards row honour from disgrace, this elegant Joarnel th e 4 .llied attack upon France. This is the consent pompously adds, " the Times was not one of them." which the Government of Portugal has given to the We really do believe this—we believe that the most treaties and documents which bear the signature of ignorant of the people of France, if they could but its Minister ; and th us we learn to appreciate the perceive one fiftieth part of the filth nod falsehood weight of credit duo to the anooxation of ether sig- ",rich is (1.-Civ , vented in that paper. a:id by other la natures. Can we believe that this will be the only bourrra in the same corrupt stye, woull think their instance 'of disinclination to the present crusade:— soil polluted by such trash being allo.t sal to touch it. Prince SCIIMARTZENBERG has sent dispatches to this t —snov—• country, which we understand do not express any ! We give a full account of the Nletlitie in Palace. extraordinary ardour on the part of his Government yard, yesterday, of the Inhabitants of NVestminster, to curry the Austrian arms into France. Fears are whom a Paper ef this morning calls litindiiti. for entertained that the chief part of the Austrian force attempting to preserve the privilege gnltiat,te..rl to will still be wanted in Italy. We have letters to. them hy the Constitution. It is true that the mid day, stating, that the Milanese are almost wholly in apropos presence on the seem'. of spi colation of one favour of Bosreeateet, and that if the French make co nceived to be net sery friensl:y to the preservation an attempt on Italy, they will not find many obsta. r 1: : 1 I I ; a 0. 1.1.4 eiva.as.e p r ivi leges, my Lord CAsTI,IItF,At; 11, rtes to their progress. to wit , ambling itolievtard twee his mooring r id e , ,1,,,, g It seems from the article we subjoin from the , Westminster-bridge and Parliament -street, excited Dutch Papers, that the tedious operation of sieges is some tumultuary procrAings, n hick, in this time contemplated as the part of the campaign first to be of apprelieusion, led to feats that his Lordship adopted for the reduction of France, and that Lisle would have been put hors de cemta!, or made to is cmisidered as likely to be the first. When we utter vows to liberty and popular right, which consider that there are 14 such fortresses to be sub- : many think he has no Wei:easiest either to sate deed or masked, before the Allies can enter on or to keep. As he entered Parliament-street he watts their triumphal march to Paris, along the road *lichs! recognised by the people in the streets, and• the eicw has also been strongly fortified, we cannot help de- ; ha w s was given as if a fox had broken from his cover. spiting of seeing the deliverers keep their promise ' In an instant the Noble Lord was surrounded, and of destroying Bostseetere's power in one campaign. his ears assailed pith the most tempestuous clamour. The account of his arrival at Lisle, which gives For some time lie did not attempt to escape from strength to the supposition that the first hostile ope. this sort of tribute paid to his political character, but ration will be manifested in that quarter, continues ; walked his horse leisurely aloe ,casting his eyes from to be believed, and is corroborated by letters from side to side upon the assailants with more of alarm the coast, which say that he was pursuing the line of : than satisfaction in his countenance. The people his fortifications, and apportioning the active corn-I who had attended the Meeting, and were among mends and disposition of his troops, in a manner ! which left no doubt that the campaign would imme- the first to disperse, had • by this time adv an c e d dietely commence, by his taking the general direction. a good way up Whitehall. Hearing th e s h oots It is said that he set out on S aturday evening, after i and tumult in the rear, some of them stopped. having had the Addresses of the Chambers presented . short, while others retraced their steps. This in to him, and that he arrived at Maubeuge on Sunday I creased the crowd, and happening just as his ford. afternoon. He was received with the discharge of ! . t ship cleared the end of Parliament-street, opposite 101 pieces of artillery at every fortified place.— claw D u k e ~ ~ o . t . ILICHMOND'S house, he made a dash, or, place.— Every one has his different speculation on the sub-i LPet of his probable movements. One likely enough to use a military phrase, be tkbouched across White. to he attempted by him is the conjecture, that lie hall, through the Horse Guards. At this moment sill hsgin by trying to break asunder, on the side ! the populace set up a most horrible yell ; but not of Minheim, the Austrian and Russian armies as . content with this parting salute, they rushed forward they are forming, by attacking them separately. ~ and followed him up through the Horse G u a r d s , across O There is, however, a determination apparent on s P part of the Alli e s to p r ev en t thi s . A n a r ti c le the Parade, into St. James's Pa r k. Th e m ili tary , al horn Mauheuge, of the 7th, in the Journal de' ways upon the alert, were instantly in motion. A Paris, of Saturday last, which we have received by ' strong party of the Life Guards were immediately II private conveyance, and which is of the same date sent elf to St. James's-square for the protection of as the terrlay , a Man nnoun de:J ces that great movements r, from whieh we made extracts yes- b lordlail, upon the presumptioc that he terday, announces that great movements wete takin . elects on all the points of the French army, that these was going there, m i d th e p opu l ace woul d tr. , t•emeiats seemed to be occasioned by the appear- follow h im. The Gemds arrived bef ore hi s Lord apace of the Allies concentrating their masses, that ship, and tee: their station in front of his house.— the arrival of the EAtrEernt was every moment ex- ; They were, however, soma after sent away, and sac eecteal, and that it would be the signal for hostilities.' needed by a posse of constables; but even the pre- NET and his principal Generals are now in the field ` wane of this force did nut appear to be necessary. with him. We hate to add to this notice that we have just ! Private letters recently -- rectived from Bengal, state, seen a Gentleman of Manchester, who is returned that the operations of the army were resu m ed against from the Continent, who corroborates what we have the fort of lialuriga. Tire grenadiers nuil one hat had occasion to mete, that the Allies were working taliun of the b3d, with the light infantry companies, en the greatest activity in all the fortifications from stormed the fort; hut, after a most galling fire from Mayerice to the sea—that they had received sudden • the enemy, they were obliged to retreat. Alth oug h information of the necessity of concentrating, but 'hat the troops etssembled on the Upper Rhine and the troops were not successful, this atta c k p ro d uce d such an effect that the Nepalese Governor aba n d one d , :in Brabant frontier wero far from being so name- • I !nos as has been generally stated. the fort to the British troops. —aw.-- Beesser.s, JUNE 10.---It appears that the French, t. • oR v•EXCtI 4 NGE. .Tu v c I6.—There being nn arrivals of are of opinion, that one of the first operations of gr..iii this inor .. i,, ...:. arid licirrrly any huaines, done, the . prices OP klieg will be the siege of Lille. in consequence . coutiaue nominally es on Wednesday. 6:%1 ITU 1 , 1 ELI) MARKET.—Jeer 16. file most severe precautionary measures are taken in i ro sea toe (WO, per stone of eft.. that unhappy city. The day before yesterday 40 of Beef ••• 14 8 4 n. bi• 84. head of Cattle thi s a ns . : j the p r incipal inhabitants were summoned before the tit v . ui ion .. . ‘ 4 ,: . ( 8 14 1 . . :.... . : 3 3 1 : : i i t,. / ... th , 670 .... 6,43 u Commissioners of the High Police, where they were Pots ... 6.. 01. sr, de.. 61.1 Ca . % . .. informal they must immediately leave the city to he Lin t) • • . 15 s- Chi• to ti , .. 6'. ; Pies 11A1-SIARKFT. conveyed, for the present, to some small towns 30 tiny leagues be) mot Paris, where they are to remain ender; Clnver the enntroul of the Police. The three gates of Lille ' Wray" ... 11. 12,. 0/1 in 11. 164. 04 "Ant Davis,tint i;;l o , n pf t ( he rie llth ir i i:t.nt Readin. In Berkshire. Nor. t owerds our frontiers ere shut, as in a state of actual P embroke shire, to Mitt. %wavy, siege, dammed up with durie and earth. The garri- eldest daughter of Colonel Savary, Deputy Liente far the' I n4 s K , rit, and one of the Directo s of Greenwich Has son consists of 10,0()0 National Guards from Nor tal County e ; to c hie Excellency Lord lo Whit worth, i mainly', Picardy, and Champagne, commanded by f jord Lient;•n'a j u l t n elllr s e:la ie i c id ^ I II tif5CM. These soltiiiirs are badly equipped, Rued. late I. rd Chief Justice la Bengal; Y also er tr e i 11) . Di en ot i l- Lady Dc Blaquiere, Viscountcy tyke. flask. Besseianen aed worse armed. There are besides 1`23() " r falgervorth ; and first cousin to the Lord De Brasetire V ies trace of the litre ) some depot. of Cavalry ) and 16 countess Kirkwall, and the iioll. bill. Hawkey. ' . WESTMINS 7'E It if E EII:VG. A. very lnutiorous Ni.eting of the Inhabitant 11 , ,oictiottlers erf-)Vevtniinster was held yesterday, in Palare-yard, in cbosegoence of the rejection, by tile (lonic of Commas. of their late Petition, " to consider of another Petition, in support of the Peo ple',; r;g!:t of Potitiuttin4 for a redress of grievances, &r." Soon after one o'clock, Sir F. Burdett, Major Cartivti4,lo, Mr. Hunt, of Bristol, Mr. P. Walker, and several rifler Geot!omen appeared on the hust ings, and were receive, with loud acclansgtions. Sir F. Buitui.rt stood forward, and 41)0k 0 as follows :----" Geett!met', the High • Beilit of IVestininster not hnsing thought fit to comply e ith the requisition of 118 resperemble hedeeholders, it falls to me, o n Jailing a r e qu i s i t i o it, s i gne d most numerously and ievece i bly (I b e li eve b y th e , utne persons whose Humes %sere "Axed to that which the High Bailiff did riot conceive it proper to obey), put in'o my hands, to take on myself, at their request, to till that situation which it might have been more becoming in the High Bailiff to have occupied •on this occasion. Gentlemen, I do not wish to cast any reelection on the High Bail 4, with whom, sip 'to this time, the Citizens of Westminster here had so much reason to he satisfied. He has every right to judge of the propriety of his owe conduct; at the same time, it is not incumbent on the Citizens of Westminster to depend at all on the High or on any other particular person, to pre•it!e at their meetings.—[Loud Applause.]—loileeJ it would bear very hard on the people of Criglarel, if their undoubted right to meet for the purpeee of petitioning, could be made to depend on the discre tion, or the no-discretion, of any °nicer whatever; but, in Westminster, where the Citizens have, on all occasions, acted as becomes freemen, there never was any necessity to call on the High Bailiff to summon their Meetings—because, as I am told, in former, and, as I should be inclined to say, better times, it was not der , med at all necessary to re quest that he should preside at those Meetings.— In the time of Mr. F-x, he way always the Chair man, I believe, on those occasions—but certainly he acted in that capacity, very frequently, as the Representative in Parliament, for this city. There fore, in whit we are now doing, we ale reverting hark to our ancient, and perhaps b Ver mode of proceeding —[Applause]—Gentlemen, in the days to which I have aPuded f the High Bailiff thought he was treated rather slightingly, if a Meeting were held, t'te compliment of asking him to preside at it tint having been first paid to him by the Citizens of Westminster. This was done more as a compliment or formality, than as a serious request to preside on such occasions. But we often see men, the slightest ground being afforded them, lay claim to an au thority which they have no right to possess ; and, on this occasion, the High Bailiff has thought it neces. sary to step forward, and to state, that he does not give his sanction or authority to our Meeting. It is for us, Gentlemen, to show, by our act, that we do not think any such authority necessary for our wooprittdir*, 7 [Applause.] —end that what we have hitherto done has been merely out of Teepees to an indisiddal, with %hose conduct, up to the present time, the Citizens of Westminster have been per fectly satisfied. The High Bailif, by the course lie has pursued, has disqualified himself from being a person proper to be applied to on such occasions— because he tells you lie is not capable of acting from his own judgment or discretion—and teat (where no necessity for information, either in reason or in law existed), before he can give an answer to the re quisition of the Citizens of Westminster, he must consult a fateeer. Perhaps, Gentlemen, no worse mode can be devised, on all questions, where popu lar rights are concerned, than to adopt the opinions of the Gentlemen of the long robe.—[Applause.]-- Our right to meet and to discuss the situation of our country, is ton obvious to common sense to render it necessary for any' elan to have recourse to those opinions. Having stated tbus much, with respect to the situation which he now fills, I shall next beg leave shortly to state the object of nor meet-' ing. When I last had the honour of addressing ' you in this place, a Petition to the House of Cum ! mons was unanimously agreed to—complaining of the grievances of the people—protesting aga inst ' that war in which we are on the point of being in volved—and calling for that redress which is so essentially necessary to our security against the notorious corruption which prevails in that Assembly, who thought proper to reject the Petition, because it was not couched in language which they conceived to he consistent with their dignity.—Their notion of dignity appears to be extremely fallacious. Real dignity, I think, would consist in adopting proper) conduct towards the country—conduct very dif forme from that whirls the public for years post have beheld them attempt to support and justify.—[Ap. please.] —Gentlemen, as the business of the day is to assert your right to Petition—and to recapitulate the topics of former Petitions—(nf the precise course you may deem it prudent to purpe, I em at present ipintant)—l shall now merely desire your attention to the Petition and Resolutions which have been pre pared for your consideration ; and when I have heard them read, I may, perhaps, feel it my duty, as your Representative, mid the person who will probably be desired by you to forward the Petition to the House of Commons, to address you on the sub jects to which they advert.—[Applause.]—At pre set, I shall merely confine myself to opening the business, as Chairman, and stating the purpose for which we meet." Major CARTWRIGHT neat addressed the Meeting t —" Gentlemen," said he, "as you have heard from our worthy Chairman the cause which has occasioned the change in oor practice, I shall have less to say nn that. subject, than I otherwise should have. No no. i Ake appearing, for a long time, to be taken of the re- • jection of our late Petition by the House of Com mons, some persons imagined we felt little on the subject—while others were ready to conclude, that, conscious of the impropriety of our conduct, we sank under the reproof which we, in common with the Livery of London, had receiVed. The truth, how ever, is otherwise, as a few words will explain to yoft. The rejection took place on Thursday, the 25th of May ; but it was not known to many of ns till Fri day noon, or after Words. On that very day, know ing that the rejection was founded in tern a new • '\l4 6 Requisition to the High Bailiff sins prepared, and put ,in circulation. Being in three parts, these could not be again collected twfore the 'post Wettedut on Sit ur. day ; trot on Monday, the eggs, it envy was trees. milted to the lfigh Num at his l:00%o noir C.ilts. brook, its a letter requesting he a tult! iostiuct hie Deputy to orange matters kesPeetieg the Need* for which we applied. The iterpiisltlon was eigtied by 118 householders. It is understood 10 be a rule of common ciliate , between Getrilerhen grid Gentle man, always to answer a letter on business; but to this letter I never received any answe r Witaterer.—te The 118 householtleis received as little eitentiOn. —After waiting till their pritlence was quite mt.: hausteti, and eonceillisg theologies to be very sharhefully triard with, they detehtiltieel to tie no !Center obstructed in the etetefee of their right to petition actin; aitti therefore on Sattert!hy last, ht. in the evening, they detpatchell to the Sartaiey pers their Advertisement for plfittg this With regard to the High Bailiff , f im sorry that hit :1.43 sho.. II himself so touch ender the influence of ill @dike; but, as be has done so; it ii high time to let hire etirl . hie tethers know, abet iengllshMen do not etepeod on men in office for the liberty of as: Isendilirig - tn consult together on qiiestlnrit of import• ! ance.—This etindoet of the Bight i3ailitf brings us beck to the practice •of Westminster when I was first connected with her. as one of her Committee of Associative for Parliamentary &form, 35 rani ago. A paper. new in my hied, mime-his the Pro: ceedings of a General Meeting, whkh *is not callete by the High ii-tilitf, • neither did he therein preside. The Meeting had been' called by a Constaineei.nbick, Committee hid been appointed in ai prier Genterri Meeting, and instructed to cn!t ()friend Meetings, whenever it should appear to them tweets/try. At this General Meeting the Representative of the City, Mr. For, presided ; as our Representative, Sir Fraveis Burdett, now presides, anti its lest Resetutien is this— ' Restored. That Viia Meerfez t.e :ie.:our:el, :abject to a call he toe committee ef Had the High Bailiff uniformly acted accotcling to his own disposition, I am persuaded lie should hare had no reason to complain. But, having subletteet himself to ill advice, the case is otherwise. That we may never mote bow our necks to a yoke Ott has been found so very galling, I shall propose to you a Resolution or two, that will emancipate you in fu. lure, and leave the citizens of Westminster toasters of their own meetings, w ithoat having to dance anon& ance at. an attorney's office, exposed to indignity, counteraction, and the meanest mid most vexatious obsruction to which a petty agent dare retort...-. This person has, more than Once; had the *sump. Lion to demand of Englishmen, applying to his Male ter for general nseetinge, to couch their requisitions in words of his dictation, as the condition of listing those meetings called. Can we then• be surpris ed that an all-potent state faction Should attempt to die. tate in what sort of language petitions shdold be mei pressed, as a condition of their not being rejected? What has been experienced at the Affica of the De puty-Bailiff, not only on this last, but on foimer oc caeions aloe, fatly illostretes the difference hetweem public officers ' who are concerned in matters that aloes the liberty of the people,' being by the people themselves elected, or being otherwise appointed.— Formerly they were all elected by the people • but now, with the exception of Middlesex and West. mornsd, the Sheriff's are appointed by the Crown, and the Prince of Wales, es Duke of Crimean.— Our Hills Bailiff is appointed by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, of whom be buys his office. I em therefore of opinion, that an ratter so appoint. ed is net so likely to watch over your portieal righti and liberties, or st ill be so ready to convene you in support of them, as your Representative, Sir F. Burdett, assisted by thirty others of your trusty fellow-citiz• ns, forming such a Committee as I mean to propose to you. Nor till any Such Committee in the smallest degree abridge the gotterd liberty of calling meetings, a right that will still be vs °pert as before to the householders at large. 0., the subject of the rejection of our Petition, I feel my. self particularly called on to stand forward In its vindication, as it was at my Itistnnee that it was honoured with the adoption of my fellow.cliizens. In the new Petition I no* mean to submit to yon (a Petition which has already been submitted to friends who are eminently learned in the Coned. tution), I hare carefully attended to that vindica ,tlors. I have, therefore, the less occasion to trouble .you with verbal arguments. With reference, how.: ever, to Petitions, praying a House of Commons to. reform its o.wrt eerruptions, you must be aware hew impossible it must be to write any thing worth reading, to which seek a House could listen .without displeasure. Such a tiffs must bees imprac. nicable as it was for the lamb, in the fable; to please the wolf. What, then, is to be done? Are we to affect blindness of the corruptions and so betray the cause of Reform ? Are we to be silent on oar wrongs, and so abandon all hope of recovering our rights ? If it be this blindness and this silence; which placemeo (who ought not to have is that House either vote or voice, teaching the liberties of the people) call respect, it is as evident that they make as free '-with our language as with our laws and our purses. -Respect is the homage due to that which in its own nature is respectable. Is corruption respectable? It a violation of liberty and property respectable? Is usurpation of seats In a Commons House, by 80. rough-monger Peers, respectable? Or is a buying and selling of the seals, like the buying and selling of soap and candles, respectable ? I think slot ; and no power on earth shall compel Inc to treat such abominations with respect. But a Commons !lonia of Parliament is respectable. Granted. So say we all. In the ti ut h of-language, however, a Commons Pointe means an Assemhly, consisting of real Representa tives of the Commons. If, however, persona have got possession, who are not real Representatives, how stands the case then ? Here, Gentlemen, the hinge on which our controversy turns- Here it is that our adverseries piny with us at erosi-par. poses. When we speak. of a Ointinots House, we acknowledge it to be an object of tee/sect; those who have got fraudulent pusseaslon immediately cry out, ' We are the Comm erts Rouse—lt is in vein that we quote facts recorded on• their Jeconels.... it Is in vain that we refer them to a list of Peers, who have sent them thew by hundreds—it is In vale that use question ; - whether twenty In 658 can lay :~ API `.~ -4 1 r 1 :;