The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-01-20 00:00:00

4- .. '~ ~M 1 .WEETING OF Till COUNTY OF WILTS. (Concluded from our last.) On Sir FRANCIS BVIOZTT coming forward to ad dress the meeting, he said he really felt ashamed to be called npon, at this late hour, to address the meet ing, after so full a discussion of every topic had been Rene into with such ability as would redound to the credit of the county in time to come, and prove a sti tnulus to them on future occasions, since it now ap peared that they could meet together and conduct them selves with the strictest propriety, notwithstanding the impression which had been attempted to be created, that to assemble for the purpose of public discussion nn as a great public mischief. After the eloquent speeches they had heard, there remained little for him to say. The consequences of the persecution of the Queen had been foretold ,by every man who was capable of giving a disinterested opinion, and taking nu impartial view of the circumstances under which it was commenced. To foresee that it would pro duce all that agitation which prevailed in the country, required no spirit of - prophecy. To any man whose eyes were clear enough to see a church by day-light, the difficulties in which Parliament and the country would be involved were sufficiently ma- nitest. The whole of the transaction was so extra ur•linary, that, after all the eloquence which had hreii employed npon it, both in and out of Parlia ment, still son:wapiti rem ined to be observed ; so ...range and unnatural were all the circumstances, that something slew would still start out. They had all heard of a rotrupt and blind Bench of .Angel existing at different times. This was a thing could easily be conceived, and, indeed, he bad himself felt the consequences which resulted tram x syetem of packed Juries and corrupt Judges. In the prosecution of the Queen, perjured. corrupt, nod bribed witnesses had been employed, but it was the first time he had ever heard of a prosecti!or, not content with the bribery of witnesses, attempting to Wert his purpose by bribing the criminal.—(Loud applause.) If the Queen had consented to stamp her name with infamy—if she hail been content to receive the plaister which was to be applied to her reputa tion—if she had accepted the humble vote of Parlia ment, and fifty"thonsand pounds a-year out of the pockets of the people ; if she had so far sacrificed her character to the convenience of Administration, Ow might then hare revelled in all the turpide which was imputed to her, at the expence of the people of this country: she might have indulged in all those low propensities with which she was falsely charged. —(Continued cheers,) Had that nnworthy compro mise been acceded to, Ministers were prepared to go the full length of turpitude, in unison with her—had her mind been as debased as theirs, the conspiracy would have taken effect, and Europe would hare wit nessed the strange spectacle of a degraded Queen, stigmatized and blasted in character, but receiving large emoluments out of the purse of the people of Engl.and. But her Majesty was too high spirited a WO11141), and too conscious of her own innocence, to li‘trn to their degrading propositions. She said— '. Nu : take bark your money ; you may heap upon me every injury which power can inflict upon the head of an unprotected woman ; I will brave every tin in defence of that character which you attempt to tarnish, and that innocence, of the consciousness of which you cannot deprive me." And still we were to be told that this illustrious person, though acquitted, was not innocent. He hail heard with sorrow the declaration of an Honourable Baronet on this subject. He did not dis3pprove of the lone liness of arowing an opinion; but he did sly, that after the prosecutors themselves bad thrown up their own eharges it was a little too hard for any gen- Crnian to say, under those circumstances, that be did not consider the Queen as having been fully acquitted.—(Applause.) Good (Icul ! in what situa tion should we all stand—wkat was to become of our characters, if, after a false accnsation was with• drawn for want of being supported, some part of the scandal, which it was found impossible to sub- stantiate by evidence, must still b.• presumed to ad here to us? He knew only of one case which was at all similar to the conduct of Ministers in this respect. The conduct of that great company of r.erchants, the Bank of England, did in some degree furnish a parallel, for they did bribe men to plead guilty to the charges which they brought against them—they bribed thew with their lives to plead guilty to a part at least of the charge. This however, was one of the anomalies arising out of tLe strange circumstances in which the country was placed—it was one, and not t h e least, of the evils arisin4 out of the ministerial abuses of that trading company. The Member for Crickiade (Mr. Gordon) had dwelt upon a topic, by no means disconnected r ith the subject before the present meeting ; a tupie so interwoven with every important political consideration, that Au an who applied his wind to the state of the country could omit it— _ _ 1.- mean!, the mode in which Members were sent to the House of Commons. Could that topic be any u here more properly introduced than is this pla,•o, ‘vhere they knew how the Member was returned.—(Laughter ?) They, the inhabitants of a rotten borough, were we* an are that the Member was sent at the beck and' nod of a Noble Lord, whom be respe, ted in every view except in that of a horongh proprietor ; but in that character be considered him one of the most mischievous men in the country, as be contributed to support a system by which the Consti tution of England was destroyed. -Even Mr. Pitt, in the earlier days of his political life, had felt so strongly the necessity of a Reform in Parliament,• that he de clared the evils under which the country liboured could never be redressed without it. Without a Re form ih Parliament, said be, you must look for frtsli and accumulated grievances; without it there can be no security for your liberties or your property, nor can any honest man become a Minister of this coun try. They had beard touch of professions of loyalty ; nue/ what he understood loyalty to mean was, devotion to the ions and liberties of the reentry, and devotion to the King ass branch of our Constitution, intended plairld those liberties. 1• that sense of the word field ha loyalty to tut man ; and if any man him, or any other man, that he was dis deserved no other answer than a blow.--(%p •hat n•as the prarical effect of this nomo poly- df teyalty in toles and corners? What bet to degrade the Royal Family, to destroy the sanctity of the laws themselves, and to pervert every principle of the British Constitution? They had misdirected the whole mind and energies of the country from the dif ficulties it had to eicounter. Did the family of Bruns wick think that this was the way in which their cha racter was to be upheld? Did they think that by de grading the Queen, and giving provocation for every kind of recriminatiun, the character of King or Queen was likely to be maintained in the estimation of the country ? If there existed any disaffection in — the country towards the Royal Family, the persons who had created that disaffection, and who were ansuerable fur the consequences, were the Ministers of the Crown. He had declared his attachment to the Con- stitution as by law established, but when he said that, he meant the old, free 611stitution of England. He was not to be considered as advocating the cause of the new Constitution, which had of late - been imposed on the country. He was not advocating the Peare Alien Bill, by which our abode had been rendered inhospitable, and the nation, which once ',periled the high rulogiuu i of giving freedom to the slave that once set his foot upon its soil, could now only be, pointed out as the countr♦ in which the foreigner) tiring frum the chains of tiespotisut, would tint! inure palling chains, and more intolerable oppression (Con tinued applause). When he spoke of the law of the land, lie did not mean the law as it was now fettered by restriction on the liberty of the Press, which sub- jected a man convicted a second time of pahlishing a libel to transportatitm. This was a part of the new Constitution in which he was somewhat interested, for he hail himself been once conaicted of publishing a libel, and was ther.fore liable to transportation for w•h;at might be deemed a second ; but no consideration should iodate him to desist from it riling. whatever lie thought caleulati.ll to promote the liberties of the conntrv.—(l,nuil and rontinnrd rherring.)--He was no advocate fur this innovation, 'tut for that ancient ...... .. . - - tioi. but the regatd and good opiuian of the people. That, he acknowledged, was a great protection ; it was one which her oppressors never possessed ; which corruption could never purchase (Applause.)--He trusted that something 1;8041 be done in Parliament, 'Omagh he could not flatter himself by saying that something would be done. The Noble Marquess (Lansdown) had said. that Minister , ' proposed to send the two Houses of Parliament up to her Majesty like so many sheep. The two Houses were geneally treated like sheep by Ministers. The Ministers generally made them appear disgraceful in the eyes of the coun try. In the higher House, some Noble Lords, true to their dignity, as well as to the hiterests of the coun try, had honorably resisted the attacks of Ministers— (Applause.)--Ministers were defeated, and they flew for protection to those who dealt in mock loyalty ; those worthy persons appeared to him, anxious to mo nopolize, not merely the good things of the world, but the good %voidsmodestly iepresented them- / selves as the only also good husbands; the only affection- I ate fathers in the country ; the only men, in short, I who paid adoration to Ood, or service to the King.— (Langhter).--The people would despise those usurpers r4ithe loyal dictionary .---(. 1 laugh.)—They would con nce them, to use the language of a book he had lately read, that the Deity was not on the Government Iside of the question this time: and applause.) He hoped that the country would shew those desperate men that there were pro; he left in England who were not like stocks or stones, but men worthy of atten tion, whose interests must be consulted ; whose feel ings must be respected, and whose liberties most not be violated by any se! of men who might pretend to got ern England.---(Applaue.) to uphold tb hr w uuld yie dared to tell loal, hr des pl.usr.)—W , • 1' I 111:' L.lll' INTRLLIGENCF:. --ow- CO JRT OF CHANCERY, FRIDAY, J 4x. 19. THE FINE ARTS-INJUNCTION. Constitution, and that iimalienahle right of English. i MUDIE C. TUUMASON AND JUNES. This was a motion made by 31r. HART, for the por. men, of %illicit neither Kings nor hired Parliaments ; pose of restraining the defendants from using or Co . (mid deprive them; the right to Meet mid declare pying the dies of the pi mintiff, or-Iron. exhibiting or the 4 feelittos and sentiments to Parliament and the 1 biome, upon the general state of the country. This disposing of medals of the same description, as those was a right not held, ur to he defeated by an Act of of Idol, the said plaintiff, without his permission of o Parliament ; yet on this very occasion, the new con- licence. The motion was f ttrimled under the Ail of Parliament passed in the reion of his late Majesty, for stit talon would have deprised them of the meana of ex the protection of the Arts, ;ie. and arose out of the ercisiag that right, bad it not been for the honourable following circnittstancesto-lii 181 d, 1I r. Mollie un conduct of time High Sheriff, who bail given them an ilertomml; to publish a series of medals, to record the opp.oonimity 01 meeting, which haul been denied to a most itopectable body of Requisitionists in the county victories and glories of the late war, and accordingly of !leas. Ile was consequently no friend to the new advertised his intemobta, intionatino that thry would system of rhinos, but he was a friend to that old, bear the profiles or busts of the distinguished person free Con•tiott ion, which made public rights and public ages who figured at the respective times. In the per liberty time basis of i;s Government. Some beneficial i formance of this, be, the plaintiff, hail been at very c• iects would, be trusted result from this !fleeting. great expence, and completed the first set for the year They Itail, at all event., !hewn that they were capable in question ; which gave general satisfaction, and was of observing the strictest impartiality and propriety. patronised by his pro sent Majesty, the late Queen, and A radical rhatioe of si -tent was absolutely necessary the Nobility. The plaintiff employed the defendants to save the country. SOW.' fastidiousness had been as medal manufacturers,-and handed over to them the ahewn x ith reoamml to the term Radical, but for bite leg femn which they were t" be struck, These dies part lie declared he had always been a Radical. He were delivered by plaintiff to defendant at Riming :lnd wer e pu t t i n to a b o x which wa s sec u r ed under wished to cut up eorroption by the roots. He w i s h e d ,bum. for ao honest Government and an honest House of lock and key, which it was tinderstood would be kept Commons, which might protect the people from the , in the same situation, uoless when in course of menu sycophancy ofCabinet Ministers, anal become a healthy ' facture fir the benefit of the plointiff. In 1919 the organ fur the expression of pothlic f e elin g s an d opi- plaintiffcompletemt the series,the dies baying been hand. niuns. L'sad such loon the state of the House of Com- ed over by him to the defendants, wlio, it was asserted. mons, 31inisters themselves would have been the bet- had continue,: to strike off copies until the month of ter for it, for then they would never have been suffered Ibtectubser, 182.0. The dies were for a series amount to enter upon that mad and u irked career which he hie to no less than forty medals ; and in the progress believed would now cost thrum their places. If no iof the wmpOi: the plaintiff advanced 10,0110/. having such prosecution hail been commenced ; if they Imailicorip!eteml in historical succession, a record of the told the hilts that they were unable to manage time ! most celebrated victories front the landing of the House of I'olll 00000 US. they might have kept their places, British army in Portugal, np to the capture of Paris and the emmotry might have been spared the agitation br the allied armies. and the eventual incarceration into nliich it had been thrown. He should now take of Napoleon Bonaparte in St. Helena. In 1620 the his leave, not with that utter hopelessness which lie : defetiml.mots exeettteila shield of considerable dinten should have tit, had this Meeting not taken place, for sions, u hich they ornamented by twenty-one half he parted from them with the hope of see i ng th em „ n medals, struck front the dies of the plaintiff, without inture occa s ions, when timed might again exhibit the mh ct ing obtained hi- consent or approbation, and same conduct, which they bad exliibited to day, and : which they advertised in the respective Ile% spapers of show their enemies that there was to necessity to sneak the day, stating that it had been executed by Mr. into holes and corners, since they might express their , Tholoasoo. It was also alleged by the plaintiff, that opinions here with perfect safety. i the defendants had struck off a large number of int- Mr. Cast Hounot:st, having been called on, nex t 1 pressions from his dies, part of which they had dis stood forward. Ile said he attended the meeting posed of , and the remainder Was now ready for sale. merely to otter his feeble assistance, in case any oppos , After some argument, in the course of which the sition were made to the proceeding , of the day..—(A p. LORD 01s:441w:on inspected the medals, his Lord plause.)---11e had heard a great deal of what was called ship said, the defendants having been employed to Loyal Addresses ; but trite loyalty was as easily i lls- execute the work by the plaintiff, the plea under the tinguishetl from mock loyalty as blind obedience from statute was of no consequence, as they were only em the rational mdiedience of freemen---(Applause.)—The i ployed to strike for hint alone ; and if, as was alleg people of England should not, in leis opinion, rest sa- ' eft, they had acted contrary to their agreement, it was tisfied with the half work a :deli they had already per- outfiejent to autholise him in directing the injunction formed. The people saw, that its spite of the general to issue, which lie accordingly did. opposition to time odious measure against the Queen ; ( PRACTICE OF TnE COURT. in spite of the pronounced opinion of almost the wile% .31r. lizaao, at the rising of the Court, complained people of Eng:otil, Ministers still resolved to petit- of the practice of the Senior Counsel moving in vere ; though once detected and defeated its skit preference to this Junior Counsel, whom motions qnity, they intended to bring forward the unhallowed - were generally in time nature of appeals, and were very measure a second time, to make one expiring effort to frequently of an earlier date to those of their Learned destroy her Majesty, and to depress the people.--(Ap- Friends. This practice was, in his opinion, highly platise.)--Nothing eou'd be more unfair or wore u n— detrimental to the plut:ssiort ; and the object be now dignified than the conduct of 3liuisters ; they would i had in v ie w wa s to obtain an Order, by which his even turn their defeat into triumph ; thong!' her Ma-1 Learned Friends wouid be relieved front time hardships Testy uas acquitted by the Parliament, still it seemed,: under which they laboured. that in their opinion, according to their notions of The Lunn Cita orgotomusaid, be would consult with justice, she was to undergo some species of punish- their !Loonies the Master of the Rolls and the Vice went ; she was to undergo degradation, as if she Clianeello . and he had no doubt but that such an were pronounced guilty. Such being the notions of Order would he drawn up with respect to the future Ministers, they having, from the commencement, de- practice, that would give general satisfaction to the termined to degrade and punish her Majesty, whether parties. innocent or guilty, it appeared to hint, that they might as well hhve avoided We trouble of going through the form of a trial, they mielit as well have, saved the country the expense of the prosecution, and the misery and shame of reading their infamous eyi dence--(Applause.)---It was true that the House of Lords gave up the prosecution, but it was equally true, that the condition of her Majesty was little bet ter than if she were found guilty The spirit of per secution followed her. Acquitted by the Peers, ap plauded by the people, she yet had no name in the Liturgy ; she had no palace in the land ; the creatures of the Court and the hirelings of the press attacked her with impunity and without shame. Acknow ledged as the Queen of England, she bad no rank ; site had no, provision ; no consolation, save the consola tion of a woman conscious of innocence ; uo prutec- LACKINGTONS and the Muses. , —lt is well known that the shop of these celebrated booksellers, in Fins bury-Square, is called " tha Temple of the Muses," they received an order the other day front a country correspondent, requesting they would purchase for him a Lottery Ticket, and with hopes that to him it might prove a " Temple of Fort.the ;" had he re quested each muse to buy a Ticket each might have been a 21,000/. Prize, as there are no less than Nine in the Scheme, Three of which must be drawn Next Tuesday._ N YORK, Der. 11.—The Spanish ship Castello, train Guayaquil to Cadiz, with a cargo valued at 25v,000 dollars, was captured two months since, by the brig Rio de la Plata. Some of the crew hare arrived here from licrtuutla. BOX/NG AND CUDGELLI.I6. The provincial fanciers had agood morning's play e d Thursday, on Riddlesworth Downs, near Tanswerth, Herts, in two baiting-matches and a cudgelling match. The heroes for the first battle were not the Tom Jone s of Fielding, nor Tom Jones the brave competitor ofJetu Belcher but Jones, a pupil of the latter, a fart h er, w h o knew how to ..se his mass/ewe well, and Abel Norris, a Cambridgeshire man, backed fur twenty guineas br some collegiate sprigs of fashion. Four hard rounds were fought, which occupied 36 mi nutes. In the first round, Norris *ass nearly pinked blind by left-handed hits, which, if nut of the hardest kind, told by repetitions. Jones was floored by a right. handed blow an inch above the mark. I. Norris got hold of his adversary. at going in, and gave him some pnlle.y-Aawleit punishment, and Ikea threw him a heavy somerset. 3. Jones worked with much cantion upon his sci eneu, and did muds out execution ; but in a rally, a hich lasted several minute., much execution was performed, aid both went down weak. 4, Norris was too blind to find the scratch, and Ise was knocked down by a body hit, which won Jones thi fight. A second battle was fought for a purse of five guineas, httween two awkward novices, which was a contrast to the former, and affonled lunch fain. Their names were flee and Roach, anal the affectation of science canted the fun. Not a drop of rinret sprinkled the ground from them, but it was mind bitting, where the wrist instead, of the fist acted. After fifty minutes, Roach gate in, with a slap on the side of the head. Our informant left the single-stick players contending for a hat worth a guinea, second best ten shillings, and Live for the worst of the lot. Ratter, from transtesso, Wont the hat, anal we left the others in contention. NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. The Ann, Shaw, hound to Sligo, rein rfied to Que bec, the 44tb Nor. with dania l fe, having been on shore on it NI Island, anti was the only vessel remaining there. The St. liniseppi, from Malta and Genoa to Ma r . seilles, foundered at sea. The Ii defatigable, Cummings, from St. Joha's, N. B. to Loudon, has been run clown IN) miles of the Land's End, supposed hy a sloop of wAr. The crew saved by the A beona, Lewis, arrived in the Downs front Leghorn. The Maitla, of London, Tregear, from Barbados , ' to Bermuda, in bal'ast, ran on shore on some rocks near Crab Island, the 3d ult. but was got (don the sth, in a very leaky stair, and put into St. 'fl!omai , 's the itith. ANTWERP, JAN. IG.—Our river is clear of ice. Buxxos Arkes, SEPT. 10.—The AtJerican brig Warrior, was by the latest advicei flow Coquimbo, de tained there by Lord Cochrane. Hof nuncti. J AN. 2.—We still experience a most in• tense frost, with easterly wind. We are nut aware of ally vessels being detained by the ire in the smaller rivers of the Elbe.-sth, The frost continues, with much A thaw has began n ithin the last few days, but the Elbe is still obstructed and we fear the frost will set in again in a fen• days. No arrivals since our last. SriKIT Sesstoms.—Thursday, upon sentence of transportation for 7 years having been passed by the Chairman on Peter Castles, Wm. Gorily, John Selby, John Millar, Emanuel Williams, and John Chick, convicted of assaulting John Leathern, at St. George's, Southwark, with intent to steal his watch, one of the prisoners struck a witness for the pmserution a violent Wow with his list, which was instantly acted upon as a signal by the other fellows in the dock, tilos jumped over the rails and attempted to escape. The doors, however, were closed by the constables, and a violent scuffle ensued which created great confusion in the Court fur some minutes. The prisoners were ulti mately secured, and sent off to prison, with ordets tv be double-ironed. It appeared that a string party of their gang were ,lurking in and about the Court all the morning fur the purpose of effecting a rescue if possible. One fellow was taken up on suspicion, and sent to Union Hall. NI URI On Thnrsdsy, the lßth inst. by special license. at Rose hill-house. in lininpshire. Junes Cruickshank. Esti Langley-park, in the comity of Augu4, to the Right lion. Lady Anne Letitia Carnegie, second daiighler of the Earl of Northesk. On Thursday. the 14th inst., nt St. Mary's, Rotherhithe. Mr. George Rainbridge. timber-merchant, to Susan, only daughter ofJohn Mews. Esq. MED. On the 6th of last August, at etuldapath, Madras Pre.i clency, John Hennaed Travers, Esq., of the Ma. East-has Company's civil service. On the 16th inst., at Portsmouth, Mrs. Sancta Hardymint, 'blow of the late Thomas Ilartlyman, aged 7s. On the lith inst., at Bethnal-green, Captain Wm. 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