The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-07-27 00:00:00

.. i i ( i . . i . it t i I I i .. . . , 1 i L , .. 1 . -,. k . ' 1 1 A THE QUEEN. —.ow— " Brave, brave, by Heavens—she deserves a Crown "' "AU that had beets intended towards Yew blejest was keesesse, condoler. feeling, and benevolence."—Mr. CA - Wino's Seneca, Juse 7, PA2U. " We are governed by a set of drivellers. those conduct takes away all dignity from distress. and makes even ca lenity Mit uloss.**--ktir R. ST s s Ls. LITER XI?. TO THE EIHTOK OF THE STATESMAN. Saw,--le is refreshing to turn our contemplation for a moment from the dull and desolating scenes, which mark, I trust, the last struggles of virtual representa tion, in this unfuitunate country, to the exhilirating prospect of freedom, which so auspiciously dawns on the hitherto enslaved inhabitants of South America, of Spain, and of Naples ; which must soon enable them to regard our superannuated and inquisitorial proceedings with mixed sensations of pity, contempt, and abhorrence, intermingled, no doubt, with a due proportion of thanksgivings, that they are not, like France, placed too close to the mouth of that notori ass den, from which have long issued, as from a re servoir, those overwhelming streams of pollution that have hitherto nipped in the bud the nascent liberties of those surrounding nations which have the misfor tune to be geographically or politically within the range of their destructive influence. It is to their distance from the boroughuwngcring oligarchy of Eogiand, and to the diminished resources of that oli garchy, more than to any other circumstances, that South America, Spain, Naples, and other nations in succession (for the progress of freedom, or its march, as our great fundamental statesman, in his half English half foreign idiom, would call it, is not to be imped ed, by cabinet calculation, whatever ;nay be thought by Mr. Canning,) will owe that unmolested career of happiness and of glory which await them, and which, in their turn, if we du not awake sooner, will act up on ourselves. When priests and soldiers lead the van of freedom, the age is already enlightened ; and, it is of little consequence, in the sum of things, whe ther oligarchs and other despots, display their valour by the persecution of an unprotected woman, or go to sleep, and leave the world to its own guidance. But it is of great consequence to the character of a nation as oral! as to its self-esteem, not only that a woman, thus persecuted, should not be left unprotected ; but that she should have powerful and efficient support. This support the Queen of England will assuredly have, to an extent of which her base calumniators and persecutors were probably little aware, at the com mencement of their proceedings, and to their utter discomfiture. disgrace, and confusion. She will be supported by the people universally, because they be lieve her to be innocent, and because they know her to be oppressed. A few hundred corruptionists in the opposite scale are not worthy of :consideration. She will be supported by them, because, as I hare already repeatedly demonstrated, her cause is also that of the King, and every one of themselves. She will be sup ported by them, from those feelings of just indigna tion, which glaring acts of tyranny and injustice never Gil to excite in well constituted minds. Upon all t►ese grounds, her Majesty may rely upon a daily and hourly increase, both in the number and the seal of her supporters, throughont England, throughout Europe, throughout the world, in the exact proportion In which her wrongs are accumulated, and made known. It is in rain that some parisites, in either " Chamber," by foul and insidious accusations, amounting to downrik ht abase, endeavour to prejudice their common canoe, by attempting to disunite the queen and the people. They will not succeed. Are the people, do they think, to be deterred from doing their duly to themselves, and to their Queen, lest their efforts should intimidate Ministers and the "Cham bers," and bring them back to their senses ? Or du Ministers and the " Chambers," think to intimidate tke Queen and the people? If they really entertain any each expectations, they will be egregiously dis appointed. Their bolt is now shot. Their most fe rutious looks and attitudes will no longer frighten ordinary women, or even children. One virtual states men, in their virtual wisdom, would seem to forget that there is such a thing as moral power in the Universe. because none of it lays with themselves. They koow that the physical force of the nation is in their hands. But they ought to be warned, if they do not know, that, by the moral force, which is now ()Waled to them, this physical force, if they should attempt to use it, may be turned against its employers, and themselves and their machinations scattered like chaff before the wind. We have long heard of " pocket boroughs;" we sow hear of pocket "edesobere." Lord Castlereagh speaks, sad Lord Liverpool sets, although he has the discretion not to speak, as if they severally carried a " chamber" is each pocket. Nor is it at all uncommon, upon great state occasions, like the present, to see uppositlon members, peeping oat of ' the Ministerial pockets. The public, indeed, however they may be disgusted, are now never surprised at a phenomenon of this kind. When they hear the Earl of Lauder dale argue for the rejection of the city petition, against the secret and inquisitorial proceedings insti tuted by the Muse of Lords in the ease of her Majes ty, they recollect that his Lordship has got a brother • viceroy in the Mediterranean, and sons and other re lations aspiring to promotion in the army and navy, and they only consider his conduct as a matter of tuurse, regretting merely that be is not rendered a less efficient enemy by coming openly from the Minis terial ranks. The reception of this petition, was, I be beer, supported by the Doke of Hamilton alone. This, for the sake of reference, I enumerate as the thir teenth mmecun of this series of persecution. It is a wretched state of society in which prece dents are substituted for principles. Oar rulers, with notable sagacity, have appointed a Committee (this is the fourteenth measure of the last series of primes ties) to search for precedents relative to the giving of lists of witnesses is eases of attainder. bills of pains aad penalties, sad impeeeluseat ; as if they themselves believed, or thanght they meld persuade others. that preeedent could eassonale wrong ; or as if Parlia ment had a tight to establish or to Ilellow precedents. obviously wentrary Co the knows solos of ,eternal jus tice. The oblests of this hypocritical pore& are to bewilder mai nakisni the mind. Her Majesty's per. THE STATESMAN. mentors may possibly succeed in producing therm ef fects upon the two " chambers." But they miscalcu , late widely, if they think either to mislead or to de ceive the people, who hold in the utmost contempt and abhorrence their vile precedents, drawn from the worst of times. In carrying on a criminal prosect don against the Queen in such a manner as to pre clude her from the usual means of defence, no prece dent, no qualification, no glossing, no mystification can give to their proceedings any other character than that of injustice. After drawing up a cri minal charge, without specifying either the time or place at which any of the imputed acts are pretended to be committed, and searching in vain fur precedents, for the refusal of a list of the witnesses to be pro duced against her, they formally refuse a list of the witnesses in this peculiar case, establishing a prece dent by which they will claim to themselves in future the right of doing similar wrongs upon their own authority. Anil Jo they really think the age and na tion, s., besotted, as to tolerate from their rulers, either a disregard to the principles and fonns of jus tice generally, or the perpetration, in the ease of her Majesty, of an almost endless series of unprecedented iniquities ? which I was utterly unable to give them, refused to ad vance a step further unless all their claims were satisfied in full. I represented to them the impossibility of com plying with their request, and urged them to march for Santa Martha, engaging to give them the whole on the capture of that place. This had no effect, and they threatened to burn and plunder La Hache, and desert to the Spaniards, where they would be certain, they said, to be liberally paid. The Spaniards, however, had re treated so far after their last defeat, that thete Was so possibility of overtaleng them. I then represented to them their situation—that it was impossible for them to remaib there or to get away without co-operation with our fleet--sod proposed, as the march by land to Santa Martha had been found impracticable, that they should go thither by sea. This they consented to, but not till they had burned a part of the town, and plundered the miserable inhabitants, of Rio de la Hache. I had pre viously laid an embargo on the vessels in the harbour, on board of which I had the troops conveyed in boats ; and, having preconcerted the matter with Admiral Brion. each party, on coming on board, were quietly disarmed, and placed in confinement. When the whole were embarked, I canned them to be informed that I dis claimed all connexion with troops who so far disregarded the rules of discipline as to demand their pay at a mo ment when they knew it was impossible In comply with the request, and who threatened to burn and destroy the houses or plunder the persons of their friends and allies, as a revenge for such a refusal. They were at liberty, I told them, to go wherever they pleas . ed, that their arms were safely deposited on shore, and that the public bad no further occasion for their services. The whole have sailed for Jamaica." TO THE EDITOR OF THS STATESMAN. Si.—l find that hi the reign of Edward the Sixth, the Duke of Northumberland, attempted to get sentence passed on Toasts], Bishop of Durham; who had been accused of misprision of treason, the Lords readily passed the Bill of Attainder against him, but the Commons would not proceed on it, because it was in tended to condemn the Bishop, without confronting the witnesses.—HAPlN. If . von think this will be an♦ way useful in the cause of our injured Queen, yon will, by inserting it, in your respectable Paper, oblige Your humble Servant, 1. R. Jitly 15, I NO. 71() THE EDITOR OF 7716 STATESJIA.V. Mr. EDITOR—The great topic of conversation now is the wretched treatment which the Queen has re ceived, and is now receiving from the Spy-Administra tion of the present time; however, one thing is as sure as daylight, and that is, that sbe will be acquit ted by the country at large. Yes,yes ; every upright— every feeling man, in England, Ireland and Scot land, will be ready to form himself, along with his fel low men, and make one of a Listard of Honour, to pro tect his Queen—an injured and liar aa rr d woman, who is persecuted for being virtuous. Much is said at all times about what is done and said out of the " Hon ourable House," " uithout the walls," and so on; but then all persons out of the " Iletsourable House" are Rabble, and the Lower Orders: unless, indeed, once in seven years, or so; and that is at the election time. Then they are no such thing as Rabble: no, they are ‘. My good Moods !" The respoosable Electors !" " 3ly brave Constituents," &c. &c. But, when the Election is over; when the seat of honour is safely obtained; when snug and comfortable ; then, ah ! then, the Rabble, the Lower Orders, and so on, are forgot. ten : except, indeed, by the good, accommodating, kind, church-going soul—the Tax-gatherer ! He, in deed, was at all times mindful and watchful of the persons " without the walls." IVell, all things are for our good : they are well meant, and punctually practiced! Were we to get too rich, why we might get proud, which is, no doubt, very bad ; we might then begin to think we were of consequence in parish business, and also at elections for 3leusbers of Podia uncut. However, things are wisely ordered by the Spy- System-men ; our money is spent for us in all sorts of unproductive plans, upon all sorts of unproductive persons; we have therefore nothing to do but make ourselves contented, grow our potatoes, live upon them, and be happy, in this land of Liberty. Bravo, then, potatoes, salt, and Liberty! Hurra, burro! Never mind the Queen, never mind the Queen, while we can get potatoes, salt, and Liberty! Your's. respectfully, R. Jvlg 19. 1820. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN. Sts,—Throngb the means of your truly admirable paper, I beg leave to set forth a grievance which exists, and which is not likely soon to be done away with, I am sadly afraid. It is a notorious fact, that there are hendrede of deserving men of that class of officers called Lieutenants, who bare been on the mi serable half-pay list for years (3, 4, and 5), who, with all their earnest entreaties, have not been put on full pay. Is it not gross injustice to see a stripling pro moted in preference to a man who has served his coun try fur years, and bled in her cane, and who has been on the half-pay list four or Eve years, when a youth probably has nothing more to recommend him than Intes-eet The army is getting fall of the sots or relations of men of power and property ; but I beg leave to say, it is not adding to the dieciptine and' eyed conduct of corps to be officered by such men, for their object is not strict and zetrions *Anemias., qj military duty and good order, but rather parade and 'dim anew. What becomes of these young men of wealth when their regiment is ordered on foreign ser vice ? Why, they lope no time in exchanging into corps at home, or to half-pay, and the man of small property, and who who has been soliciting so long for promotion, is put in to go to the But or /Vest Indies, or some where else, in the room of the wealthy men, or son of the man of interest. I shall not proceed fur ther, for your paper might be Riled with recording complaints, but conclude with saying. I am, year obedient humble servant, A CONSTANT READER. RIO DR LA MACRE. Extract of a letter from lleneral Monti I io, cemmander of the expedition from Margarita, dated Juno the 4th. on board Brian's squallreu. Asr relating the gallant action is which 700 of his men repulsed more than 2,000 If the Spaniards. he dins madness t.— " This advantage gam me the highest Imp of being able to admire tom Santa Martha, mad oe-epalme with Unianeta's divide!' is the redaction of that place t bat my troops, irhe bod long been dimenlented at time prim dons they Wired, and particularly at the wail of pay. LONDON: TUVREDAY EVENING, JLLY 27, 118:).0. This Morning, at 10 o'clock, Mr. Base, from the Bank of England, acquainted the Contractors for the Loan, that the Bank would take in tl-• Uranium. This event had been anticipated, but at the same time it is expected to have a favourable elfeet on the Funds. The market remains stationary at present. Consols are 691 oa the account. We have this morning, received Paris papers of Monday, those of Sunday arrived late last night. The Parliamentary session ►rhich commenced on the 29th of November last, closed on the 2241 July. A letter from Naples states that M. PIONATILLI, former ly Secretary of State, under Murat, has been nomi nated Ambassador to the court of Paris. Fnaiscii FCNDII.--Pire per cent? 78 f. 83c. Book Actions 1582 fr. 50 e. M mitt), Jui.v 13.—1 n the sitting of the Cotes, yesterday, M. IA:moot/ proposed that there should be required from Government details of the event which took place in the quarter when the Kixo's guards were stationed, when two or three persons were killed. He thought it necessary that the Assembly should from day to day receive intelligence of the procedure, in order to rains the public mind on this affair. When i the King's Ministers were introduced, thellinister of IJustice rendered an account of the decrees of His Majesty, which were intended to Consolidate the Con stitutional System and insure the execution of the laws. He made a report of the state of the Tribunals. &c. enumerated the various Ecclesiastical Benefices, which had been disposed of, remunerating persons persecuted on account of their religious opinions. He endeavoured to justify the conduct of those De puties who signed the fatal protestation of 1514, and finally Ise read a cop y of * dispatch from a magi strate of Seville, stating that the most active measures had been taken to repress any tumult. The President in his reply, said, that the attention of the Cortes would extend to every department in which was in• Wrested the administration of justice or the tranquil lity of the state. Among the numerous propositions reeeivep by the Assembly, was one in which was de manded the free return of all Spanish refuges, to gether with a restitution of their property, ace. )11.1 pa t ph/ LT A decree, dated the 30th of Awe, provided that the pardon granted to foreigners undo prisoners among the South-American Insurgents shall not extend to Englishmen who may have en tered into such service after the 3d of July. 1819, the day on which the ilereign enlistment bill was pas , sod by the British parliament. Other decrees bare been issued. ordering the re-establishment of the na tional order of St. Penottiarin; the abolition of the wenn; the organisation of the council of state and the supreme tribunal ; the suppression of the Inquisi ties, the reservation of the title of Majesty to the Wog alone ; the Axing of the puaaal donation for the Royal household at 40,000,9110 of real*. Extract of a Letter neared this mersing from Freya, St. Jago, April 10: For the first time arrived here, the Vatted States ship, Fraaktia, 74 gams, Commodore Stewart, from tie liediterranesa. Cla sailing, he desired the Otarerwar-Oewetat to he laformed, who immediately loud enlace for the ship to saes; hot by the Inn ran of the Oteers, the most distant batteries wen net apprised that his Excelluey's penological war mated, *ad 'posed afire apes the Fraaklia. Before as swam for them to seem liring bad reached them, M et II rtuag Whoa discharri, mod oat that pseud PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. auk Stock Indi• /not* i per Cent. Red. 001 Ditto Bonds ?Ss. pin. 8 per Ct. Cons. 74e Old Annuities Se per Cent. 7SI Ex. Bills 4d. 4s. bs. pm. . 4 pot Conti. Rif Ditto Co.. 10s. pm. 3pr Ct. rat. llni Onmitnn i pm. Long Ann. !Si I Con. for Ace. Be hap. 3 per Cent. Ann. I Lott. Tickets i TO CORRESPONDENTS. FITS-GLILLMEN," "T. and "J. D. N." To-aaorrow. "TN DEITISM STATESMAN IS IMCORI STATESMAN." Gibe btattifittan. 'TED WITII " Tilt the main top-sail. His Excellency then Captain of a 20 gun brig of the Commod ore % with an apology ; but the distance of th e I n prevented him reaching the beat. HAVANNA, JUNG 15.—Arrived the 526 slaves ; and the Recurs° with 270 slaves. From the answer to a question proposed h Hume last night in the House of Commo ns , 4 pears that we had given a credit to Parline sm which it was not entitled, for having pi ne d tle for commuting the punishment attached to the of bank-notes from death to transporr e si es , a member so intelligent and ,vigilant as M e , found it necessary to ask for information on ti e ject, the misconception we had formed will, we be the more readily excused. The error into old we were led, in common with other jou st e rs. vti day, originated in our recollecti on th at a giusf description had been recently in Parliament; n d ing what was termed the Capital Feloni es R epro had received the Royal Assent the do hf ht , , 1 bad taken it fur granted that the lon g d es s m g to , mutation had been then established hy time. 1 0 Bill in question bad been introduced, along e i others of a similar kind, by Sir Janis Revisi t . yet, as we find by the answer of the Arrovnrk mita•t., had not received the Royal Assent wit% rest, but stood over for further considerations, though the alteration had not actually bees in the law, yet, as it had been deemed twit 1 future consideration, and might be said, aot is rectly, to be at that very time in contemplation I pleas we so earnestly but unsuccessfully aged ym day, in behalf of the wretched victims who vs doomed to suffer death, were weakened very hub, at all, by our mistake. Since, however, the semi of that sanguinary yet ineffective law has been 'dal executed, we cannot forbear repeating our ?num the occasion. Lamentations are saperiams, sad proaches might be reckoned wrong; awl we del fore only would express our hope, tbattitsfires tb were forfeited this morning for forgery Melt be I last to be sacrificed for the offence. The misconception to which we hare referred Is us to notice another which was generally eats** yesterday by our contemporary Journaruattelatim the motion of Dlr. WETHERELL in the Home *Ca mons the night before. The reason gins by lion. and Learned Gentleman for withdrew* h motion appears to have been misunderstood, nib puled by different papers to different motives; tits to his conviction that a sullicient benefit had ressil from the general expression of reprobatitanikli libel be referred to bad called forth from testy ism of the House; and the other, to the belief tbst I passages he bad pointed out had been ordered sl prosecuted. The fact, however, was, as ve tel yesterday, that the motion was withdrawn sa mi derstanding that the ATTOL HET-GENERAL WOW I his discretion in proceeding against the libel Is ill lion; but then it was equally unientwd the like attention would be exercised NI some other writings that had libelled Wu liament and the KING. The mixing ap passages of such opposite characters ea tie occasion, has produced a very general imprimis' - - - the latter nbentioned had been introduced to the resentment excited by the former ; and the we bare no doubt that Mr. Wrrnanut.'s view Is motion he proposed was as aingle-minded sad sin as he professed, yet the effect it has setwallyj laced was so different from the end proposed, I dissatisfaction and suspicion in the public ail been the result of the proceeding. On swan,' we are disposed to vindicate the simplicity tad thous sincerity of the Honourable sad Leaned ben, and to impute the advantage take, es Ids wad to the adroitness of that evil spirit that is Immo prepared to embrace every opportunity is the utterance of strong and honest helh restrain the exercise of free discussion. Oa J at present, we suspend oar remarks, witb extend them on the next occasion. In contionatiou of our _ _ _ . petting the situation of Ministers, we may Is the Quante then to be sacrificed, in min le stli Minister, to complete the misery and destsoll which their councils have brought epos the POO As soon as the consequences of their polki Mfr the subject of natural inquiry, as soca as *ob. log depression of our, trade, commerce, anti 110 106 tures began to be generally canvassed and the 410 of the system were plainly shewa t —no 10 1 . 6 this exposure made, than it was resolved $ act it by an investigation, that should ix all theiolli of the country. The consequences of the lork?" the conduct of the DVICI of Tons were net WO The example was too good to be neglected; WI ther royal victim was selected is order to rim. the fates in favour, of a cabinet, more iseopobigla i disgraced, and placed in more dialcult eitesteal l if possible, than the former. To this osiotolw, probably owe the proceedings opine bet Set The bushier of the session has bees eoeseinenoe. or transacted in the meet ME • slovenly ninanee. The Widens ben lbe trading towns, notwithstanding the Vat lance and energy of the matter, have berm than neglected. The expenditere of the meat bee been voted with an scree care, 'W", I