The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-10-04 00:00:00

- Id gees - = - ._q- ~. _, olilosswimmomose------____ . . N acts of injustice and oppress ion, exercised on • enormous debt incurred since his Majesty's Coro. - o WILSON, TIIE,AWDESTRL4N. ft s ingle individua ls, excite indi g nation in the human nation. And it is well known that the profits alone —ism - TO THE EDITHIt eri*tHE STATFSMAN. breast, how much greater must be the excitement, derivable from the White Herring Fishery, if con- . Ma. f..DlToll,—This :nap's case is unquestionably she" the pilvileges of a whole nation are insidiously ducted on the plan formerly adopted by the Mitch, • hard one, end 1 am very glad to understand that b e t r ayed atid violated, and its property basely anti. would amount annually to three times that sum.— he found supp or t i n a lib era l-minded public; but ha cot.oo.. and usurped by the pretended fathers of the •But we may rest assured, that Ministers will never 'minify is lint the only sentiment which ought to be. .veople. listen to Ingestions, or adopt measures that tend to .excited by th e s t range t reatmen t h e h as ex perie n ced. I n the investigation of the causes which have in- diminish their influence; by liberating the people It ought to be known to every man, woman, and volved our un f or tunate country in circumstances from oppression. The National Debt has been child in the island, that, en l e's th e y comm it some of unparil!eied misery and embarrassment, we find augmented to a sum equal in value to all the land- offence Punishable by the law, their persons are as them e manate from that 'Went o f c o rruption and ed p ro p er ty i n th e ki ng d om , and Government and ever]. Now a hat crime has WI r.soN committed to every political evil, th e N ational Debt, the history its creditors are so inseparably connected loge- render him ob nox i ous t o th e pun i s h ment th at h as o f ,oi c i, will at once furnish an irrefraoible proof tiler, that they must stand or fall with each sheen inflicted cm him—for a grievous p un i s h m ent it h ow a great nation m a y b e e n t h r alled, and p osterit y other. Here the policy of keeping the s cation unq uesti ona bly i s , t o d epr i ve a f ree man o f hi s per ruined, by the corru pt devices of a single Minister. in debt is apparent . This is the great but- sonat liberty? . If it had no t b een so h e ld an d At ttie time of the Revolution the p u blic r e ve nue i n wark which . pr o t ec ts every Administration, and esteemed by our ancestors, a clause would not hive ne t moue} am ounted to no more than two millions secures its measures from controul. Every Stock- been inserted in Magna Cha r t a f or th e ex p ress pur ooto„,,ny, which sum was sufficient to defray the or • holder, or possessor of a Bonk-note, in respect only pose of guarding against it : and therefore I ask Binary expenses of the Crown, as we ll as t o main- l o f such stock e r note, is on implied servant of the again, what has WILSON done to be punished- with • rain n fleet and•a greater army the was et that time Crown, he, therefor., never can V , espected to make loss of his chartered rights? Why is he put out of neces sary for the defence of The realm. 'lids revs.- any effort that ma y en d anger it s l oss ; an d the landed the pale and protection of the F:nglish Constitution? nor wis r aised w ith o ut any tax on land or malt, and proprietors will continue to support public credit, Surely it will not he said- that he has sold his bi r th. ty very few duties on commodities of necessary con.ilest their es t a t es s h ou ld b e -rendered li a ble to the right for a mess of pottage! If he h as n eithe r vo public debts , . tto, on the event of a national bankruptcy. temerity renounced it, nor criminally f o rfeited it, sumptcon. The nation knew nothing then of public , These mutual fears maintain the erptilibrium between ,hut is deprived of it by su p er i or f orce , th a t deprive debts; far soon after King WILLIAM came to the Th ron e, notwithstanding a great military esta..: resistance and submission,' and keep the country in Alton ought to breed a general alarm, inasmuch as it is •bildnent was n ecessary t o be supported, it was a' state of miserable and insupportable thraldom. i a general attack. When Sir FRANCIS Bottom wits ascertained that the revenue then subsisting, aid- The Revolution of 1688 was thought glorious, be. sent to the Tower the periple were indignant, because ed by a land-tax, malt - tax, and a few other cause it emanci p ated us from im p endin g Po p er y and i they considered the. violence done to his person as a tales, which could easily have been raised with- arbitrary power, but •it introduced en infinitely : general attack upon their constitutional rights.— In the year, would he amply adequate to defray greater evil; it hay been the Means of subjecting the :The cases are very similar. In both, no offence the whole expense of the. Government. A scheme Crown itself to the worst of. all 14avery..•-• depen;lo ; whatever was committed against the law ; and conse for this p u rpose was sugg ested, and allowed to he ence upon loan-lenders, bankers, and stock-jobbers, o quently, In both, the legality of the warrants have practicable, but it was rejected by the lin yA • istr for for its very existence; without them Ministers could i - been rightly questioned i for a warrant is not an or the following political reasons, which deserve more not perform their functions. To whom then do rte! Filtrate mandate launched forth by a .man under nu. than ordinary consideration : because (hey will not owe allegiance, is it to a Corporate Body of Money- teerity o acting upon his arc's discretion, but a, regu only give us an insight into the secret motives of lenders,'or to the King ? We rosy talk ofrefurm and tar sad necessary process issued by the Civil Ma ertry succeeding Adminitration, but will also de. wish for it, hut it is evidently impracticable, it s will - gietrefts, as simple executor of the law, for the sole motistrate how the adoption of one corrupt measure never be accootplished whilst the Stockholders _ere P I- urpose of giving that law its " due retest" curd ac c.ompohmeet : upon this ground, %%Welk I oppi ehend . ll.like animated with the ho p e that the land will be • their will generate others, to a contagion they be- come universal. It was contended, that a new : ultimate security ; and_ the loandholdersare paralysed e u t L Os .-sst a‘RATICJI BURDZ2T, and that of the humble Mills fear of its being inevitable.. Government established against the ancient pried -' f' Pedestrian above mentioned, were an mipardonalble • and wanton stretch of authority. As to the differ ples and actual engagements of many people, could . • Alas! we here terminated wars only to lay the of rank in the it. beim: no real or fi t mo t he so effectually secured any way as it would be foundations of socceeding ones—we have exhausted d eh . s ee t . , h - part i es , , . • le Rife no r i, hts , such if the private fortunes of great numbers were made to. our blood and .treasure to gain only the laurel wreath distinctions l' Il n c i l ° ') ; e w r e: i e indeed , the P a e t o te li lded in : the n oble slave, depend on the preservation of it, and that this could of victory. But what is all our indium? and naval who is the nominal own of an estate (for the real not he done miles% they were induced to lend their tannin to an insolvent country, an unemployed and owner of all property, in that case, is the despot), is tonnes to the public, and to accept securities under• - •Ofaiving population ? The inability to procUre the considered ima o dlfferent light from the menial .slave th e p o istiog establishmeut. This spe c ious argument' common' weans of comfort at home, has- already who is attached to it; bet iie Ottgland, w herehe all the people share in one consvis.4 WA:right, irtin prevailed, and accordingly the system of borrow- driven many of our ingenious artificers and_ me- of that right is equal, teassideved as a publieaffence, ing commenced, and the me th o d o f f un di ng , and chanics to foreign realms, and we shell soon see a whether the injured" party be•noble -or ignoble—rich the trade of stock-jobbing began, which was competition in foreign markets,_, which will convince t ~,- poor. It is obvious, that Cl o the poor man-who the origin of the National Debt, incurred solely us that the mansfoctures of Greet Britain are not t has not offended thellitre 'rim," by a wanton , etietch as it appears for the purpose o f attaching a essentially necessary to the whole work]. CoMpare jof nulhority, be appr . ilitiaed tea culprit, And not strong party to the .Government, .by involving the balance of trade in our &Your, it the beginning t only 'disgraced, - but, deprived of his self-enjoyment, free-will, amid 'tbety of actieu,therecan. in that ciao, the security of private property in the fortune of the last century, with what it is now, and observe h .• ' t oo t h. • . eno securtty te rach.mae either against similar of the State. In 1698, the public debts amount- its appalling diminution. At a nation relying upon d• g• 1 ' e ' ,disgrace, or strut s i m ilar coercion. 14,4eam I apprehend, e i l, ac co rding to Dr. &men, to 21 millions and a commerce for support, our foreign trade ought to r necessary for the legal apprelienviOn of Wrosom, that half, hut according to Dr. Monster'. to 17 millions, have increased in proportion to the numerical in. aninfoo - mnifiviiipon oath should previously have been who estimated the revenues at five millions, and the crease of our population—that is to jay, it ought to merle 'before 'therMagistretes of some ntlence against gain of the annual balance of trade at about,l3 mil- have doubled since the period just alluded to; on the the. Iswi t . by•lias• done, nod committed; wltheiit ; tende liens. At this time the population was about half contrary, our genii of trade have been reduced . , o such giduittl forr their proceedings, their, was (as I enneeme) not only wanton, arbitrai d y, of its present amount. In Queen Anna's reign the its the same ratio as all nor necessaries of life and cruel , bu t'" • . al • 'I rd - Il '' I uncons uterine al i ega .-- Notional Debt increased to 53 millions. In Gtones have been enhanced in salue.—The insolvency All that has been said by Lord Crete against H.'s reign it increased to 146 millions, and, at this which has already mule such tortoises amongst Judges and other 'arteries. Magistrates acting present blessed era, that the gyeatest possible secs. our tradesmen, is now esteciliiig to our agri- from discretion, is applicable to that discretion, • rity might he established to render the Government I culturists, and every day elevolopes a new -melon- which appears here to have been used by these Ma immutable to eternity, the National Debt has aug- ' choly instance of a rapid approximation to some dread. Kentish abused their gistrates. We know that Judges have authority, and been punished for it by neuter( to nearly a thousand millions. This debt ful catastrophe. A political storm imponds, and fine, imprisonment, - arid even with death; and we having thus been gradually increased to a magnitude ' will ore long burst forth like a volcano. It is not know, too, Ala the same abuse in inferior Magi which cannot be rressured by the ordinary powers of from the rich that the national shock can be expected, strates sometimes happens from mere ignorance.— mental calculation, in order to give unlimited power trit from the immense multitude of unemployed per- It is impossible to select a County Magistracy with to theCovernment upon the principles of salvation laid sous, whose desperate circumstances will over-rule .) meal, or both : hot the grand security consists in down at the commencement of such a debt, it seems • and extin g uish every principle of lubordination.— this, that, according to our Constitutrom the Mee. Surprising that a fund should ever have been suggested Should this be the case (which Heaven avert!) it will strate is a mere mechanical Instrument, confined in mid formed for its extinction, commonly known by he unlike the ancient contentions between the Barons his motions by certain rules, and invented merely to the name of the Sinking Fund ; for if the principle and the King. or the Crown and the Parliament, but give effect and . operation to the low ; so that the of the former were found to be beneficial to the :it will resemble the ferocious contest of which we power we are bound to obey is not the power of ' State, surely it was iticonoistent to counteract it by ' hare had a memorable example in the French ReVo- the Magistrate, but the power of the law. This power is so great that no man, hnwestor exalted, the adoption - of the latter. But this, like all other lotion, when a vulgar end despised rabble subverted shall i t offend Against with impunity ; and it is more. political stratagems, was a State jueele, adapted to all the constituted authorities of the State, usurped over so just, that ne man, however poor and mead, • toloquillize the triuds of the deluded 'subjects, and the national power, and conferred possessions and who has not offended against it, shall suffer the to divert their attention from the original design, ; dignities on the vilest o f s o ciety. A r e we they tb least harm or molestation, even from its -own e Lich was always intended to go on progressively.—; wa i t passively for the infliction of the like horrible Ministers; for it communicates authority to cor rect the wrong doer, not to oppress . the innocent. Hence we find, that in the year 1716, at the aeces. ; calamiles ? Or is it not better, that the actual state tirhen WILSON walked upon the public road, either air ii of the Brunswick Family to the Throne of these I of the nation should be deliberately enquired into by i for his pleasure or his profit,' no matter which, he kingdoms, the Sinking Fund was declared by the such of our Representatives as may be able to corn- I exercised a right inherent in every Englishman ; and l'atlianient to lie inviolable, amid to be appropriated ; bine all that is to be combined on such an impor.! the Magistrates, instead o f vs ithliolding from Wm the solely to the extinction of the public debts: and in• i tent occasion, and by reflecting on the past, and by' legal exercise of that right, were bound iti duty to deed during a few years it was suffered to operate on i observing the present, to judge of the future; that :protect him in it. Those who obstructed him, arid trod upon his heels, were the real offenders against its object. But the Minister, finding the debts de- measures of alleviating the public burdens should be the law, not IViroort; and they were the ptrsona crease faster than was consistent with his views,l adopted ; that a system of political economy should that ought to have been the objects of magisterial ' I'llenated and anticipated the Sinking Fund, which i be established, and constitutional abuses reformed ; interference and correction, if any interference and il a short tutee he found would have liquidated the; that an Administration be composed of men faithful correction were at all necessary ; hut really, ,Mr. National D.bt ; y e t no p un i s hment was i n flict e d l` F to the Prince, as well as to his people, not to be se- • RITOIt, this case seems to verify an old remark made , who says, - s, . for this t i o l a ti sn , th oug h i n a R oman age o f v i r t ue ' 1 duce~] from their duty by insidious arts, or meretri- by the witty BUTLER ) ilks iti! Iliidgia that— Ito would, for lids dereliction of public duty, have i cious practices? Such men, even in these times, are been j us tl y h ur l e d f rom th e summ it o f a p re . l • to be obtained : for good M inisters will never be cipice.--The came of a Sinking Fund is still I wanting to a Prince, who has discernment enough to kept up to ca j o l e th e people with delusive hopes f seek for them ; who selects them for their superior that its appropriation .will lighten their burthens.l talents; experience, and integrity; and who resolves .---!lut however plausible this may appear, past `to support them, as Homo IV. of FRANCE Sup• experience has convinced us that the annihiliatioa of ported his Minister, SULLY, against favourite mite the public debts never coincided with the policy of tresses, court intrigue, amid priviie confederacies. any Ministers, because it would contravene their We are in a political crisis that must foul either to Woofs of ambition and aggrandisement, and dimi- life or death ; a timely exercise of wisdom may y e t pish the preponderating influence of Administration. lead to the former, whilst a stubborn insensibility to Had Ministers been disposed to suffer it, the Sink- the evil* which menace us - , will inevitably facilitate it% Fund, properly appropriated, would have die- the speedy destruction of the Constitution ; and charged the debts long ago, and even now it hi easy those who have contemned the danger, and despi se d enough to prove, by arithmetical demonstration, the warning voice of reason, will then deservedly that theapprOpriation of three millions a year by feel the-vengeance of a Nation whom they are no all of intepound Interest would, during a period longer able to oppreis by their power, or delude by . • no longer thin the present reign ; liquidate all this their sophistry. " Juqice, though she Inoka o'et cruses, " Stuiribles`nn innocence sOmetionesi." I trust, Mr. EDITOR, you will. excuse these few lines from one who consider nothing ynimportant that relates To the rights and liberties.of the . people; sod remain, Sir, your's &c. Pluck inghainchire, TIMOTHY TRUIMAN. S. pt. 49; lbls. THE BAKERS' AS•4IZIE BRRA D•—Accottling to the stated price of Flour, !he heit Wheaten Loaf,:for the ensuing week. ought not to excved 114. Buicserom.—The proprietor of tile Wr , t. Cliff Li brary, taking advantage of the misunderstanding which exists between our M. C. and the proprietors of the Castle Rooms, and 'which has occasioned the closing of the same, has introduced waltzir;g, enta lions,• and dancing as evening amusements at his Li brary. Mr. WILSON officiates as M. C. at these as semblies, which hitherto - have been both etzint and tusteroul. IPPgr - r - - • -; DRURY- LANE THEATER!!.. 'Tt• The Child of Nature was rei.reseitcd last night at this Theatre, for the first- time. The part . of Amanthis, in this amusing little was stts• tallied by an anonymous 11, Galante (we understand a Miss JonNson), of whom weare h.ippy to tee able to snake a very favourable report ; the "nott Lady lifts a handsome and inlet eating person ; her voice, though not powerful, is clear and harnionimis, and when practice shall have given her the power of 41 without over:training it, and when she s':all have corrected a slight inclination to lien, which we some times observed, we hope to have great plenQure kt witnessing her performance. Her action is grader's', though somewhat redundant, and her conception •nt the character was, generally speaki.ig, nocnrates.4 In the first scene in which she appeared, that with Marquis Almanza, , he displal wl coisisiet. able talent, after her irst c nfip.ion sub: deal. reading the letter from Count Vales:tics, her t ; ennui simplicity Whetted the sympathies of the hoes* 1 9 .,a very powerful ilegrie.. Every comment was littered in the tone and manner w Welt we moot it$11)0•41 to lie. long to a female, so educated as il,rotairis ie repfe. seoted.to hate been, and the applaus • .cita!sect• es must have sistisked her most anthiiiima- lives. XIIe artless force with which she put thequet.tioit,-". W.iat is love ?" was distingni.heti with every, m,tvlt of op probation. The scenes with Count Valeniia and the Marchiaaesi llterida, were equally se aces 4,a I . .C h at with her father was al.o marked by very strong feel. ing throughout.. She was greeted at her entree with the usualjtindnets _shown to a candidate. . Tlie atine - uncentent'of the piece fora mood rezwe. sentatien, was received .with. the loudest arp:atvw from a„very crowded hmise. • • , • ~ • • About 25,000 persons are. ea* employed ale the cotton estnblishments in the micinity . rce learn by.a communication from stAhhtietawctin ' , that neighbourhavd• •., • I; rt...4lss-4. Admiral . KIKKeitT has .beervappaintoa Vogyrrtifbh G 'neral cf Curacoa rt;d its depNs.leraries; King of the Nrrnuat.tNDS; , and (;eneral et-V2truirml• Gove nor of the establishment of his .Majorty 44.. the Coast of Guiriear • ' . . • ~ Several leading families in Osferd.ite haset..de.. Glared that they will take no: part whateVertin•tbe present. contest between. Imrd SUNDERLAND and Mr. Mt-Inuits - 1% The strength , of toe thelnitilVilltgrest lies prinfitoilly round .o,xford ; In the other parts of the county, Mr. ANIIIIUR9T is said. to hisse.a decided majority Of the freeholder„ and.is wargsly•-stspikorted by Lord ABINGDON, Lord hi ACCLUSPIEL*III‘I,Sir HENRY PEYTON. • • • : . is,. • Rear-Admiral Sir. BON.' Aal N Atte witt44llll[9 l ( painted to common() ;t .Corki, isi.. tire .Totipous44llk Captain K. P. BaSt4TON, • Sir SENJ IAIIII4 will *ye ten sail of cruisers underitiverdeet- . • . • C o - Wel,. OCT. 4,1- z kye. Weal* gfiod sup. ply of wheat this morning, and .although the sales were not so hriskas rve a .hiorstiatfi what seas df•l'4)sed of obtained the sablepliebr as iier.ol.ll6n sold at Is. pee quarter lower; ancroll.e4"er.- rmnsin the ism.,, • The Gaille or last night .coliNins ads o p t. a 'reward of 2i eauineas 'for the discovery Li Aorr.. sou or .peri.ons whO.set.fire to warioos f ieks of the property of Mr. Jo;,n_ll,,re,l4'sauotoo.:oo, if the parish of Bra - untori; 'anti courtly of Dciroti'l alsd of the Prince itegenr.s' pardon to any one Jil t ; - • vc •• .itc.comfilites,except theperson teboactuallycontmyt the offence. • We,ssinkostand that a distinguished BritishOficest, who had au opportunity of viewing the =Amerfcals 'stoma; frigate at New York, ,prollObnci .it the - twist formidahl , Olttery of defence ever itteented(therare to be sfititoh'eii et Vl : Miele ditfartiatt sen : jabili) *.a the Other altudeil to has,. we Gir l st'origli•rei!wm. ndtd their adolitionOsarticulaily' for the Wa V - Gibraltar; ' 4.3 " • 'rect . MrS. MART ANgieialtlEE'lieing discowe mtar Marttite crerflar,'llerlitughter, ii3th e ie . also fdlotreAisims . , - ir 4 lllllrrellest a feet da)iliesi "stead of her, whilialte eidllier escaped to Fan& FittEs.—Thurs‘ht . seritighf, 'dre'adful rite fogit place at Bablea G?een Haar • Ware, Hells Tait girl Went to an • adjoining cottage, to get some withers to kindle a fire in that in, which 'she resitlect.' wind, imperceireil. - by the girl, blew v i re 'of the. embers to some loose •straw, which "collimattiCated first to the thatch of the pig-stye, and then to the cottage in which She &welt, and to two othervd ! joining ; nest 'to a farm house, and which; with barns, stabling, and nine ricks of corn anti hay, were all consumed within two hours. The tinter* tunate pieprielor has a wife and four Oval! chlfdien, and his property' fist, except a few triffiri, Rat uu lnsused.' And on Thfirsday last; another fire took place at Taunis, near Banfingford, Hew; at nine in the evening, which burnt down s harn full of wheat, ?I' licks of corn anti hay, C:e house, furniture, stabling, - and outlien:.s; by this fatal calamity three fine horses and 17 fat fink*, to. gether •with the farming implements, were a-awls/ft destroyed ; 'so-rapid were the limes, that ttfiownee and his family' had 'scarce time to save fhiMiselres, The premises are suspected to have been set 'on 'fire by some evil-disposed 01 , rsotis. . . Boxiso:—lk eevere plated battle Wei fotsght . at Hendon, - on Monday, beta" een Robert Tqlor, master wheviteright,' s Peondetl" by Pevtridge afid Lemon ; and Job Reddiford; Veentwitid• by Peel and White. .T.his's battle was fteeasioned by e quarrel between the parties, and it was tont& obittnately contested.' The men were destitute .bf wcienee, hot they.turtied. found hit .away iip the first:round until it was. made a draw off 'Ay: ultAurlierinSene.. round lasted ten minutasso..tabeninvoli tieculion was done, . but iieithey. weld down, and the comha;nntu : were so much that the svconds interfered, and was agreed upon therie.simssid,.be a cessi•ion of fighting until tile) got gird, 'file second round was as caleitinatery • contested as the first, and this severe fighting Jested an isitur, dosing whickusora native bravery as 11.1111 r it ktnessed.. Taylor at length pie ih by the advice or his seconds. : The Strand bridge improvement has thrown npen some additional si,ecimens of the rains of Jour+ or GitUra's Palace: EFhe e • indows are of that large and lofty dimensloos,.ehich.drew forth the censure, • of al celebrated clatteellor BAcox, who described , them. as so full of ging that note wool tell share to becalm. to fiemeif tke . ‘un.," . .. • .v.timet: • 4 - --• IbP-011h._ - . ft. \ ' .. 1 %1 y , -...".^.