The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-04-26 00:00:00

:HE I'IIf)CREAs PL'AbLIC OPLAIu.. ow P RLI AMENTA RY FILTORM. No. VI. 10 , ;• 11 , 1'4 MOTifql loft Till APPOINTAIIV. 01 • i SUITT. a TO Tali Pia it I.c ',u ••IMA1411•1111ITATION IN TAIIII.I•SIANT. 'I ne points at issue relative to Reform not only derived a flew importance t 'he dip.- pile with America, ;thew the covneei..it fete *: &nation and Representation. hot were then. ..r the twst time. rendered %objects of imblic us.iou, nil fresh arguments and grounds. lot go•netal Eery had !wen plesiucsly. a% matters ut • spedienry ; but. from that period, were regarded h) 1... my as founded on natural right. Before the Mor td An tv..r, that parriutic catesumn, the Es - I of 4 hat i.amo, while loditing upon the condition of the tonotry au 'unions f.iend and goardian of its liberties. WAS .Meted wilt the injuries it received through the de- IA doe state of the Representative Kos4. 11 hen he s',ewed it. hoorrer, at the sauce time with the coati to ration of an experience/I politi• ian, conscious of the utetaclea and objections which would start at hi% sug gestion, suet of the grave awl eitraordinary responsi bility he *mild incur for the innovations he utight propose, he ass content, on first owing the complaint. t tr.'s' , it in a manner mat might at late al run, anti • all es sa.cci tilde of an ett” eonstitu ional returtly. It ass in 1;;4 0 , its a debate iti the fluW 4 4l of Lard% on the State of the Nasiossi this he first advert uccol to espres% his opinion on the subjert ; cud that inderontlent 1 , 1 it, intrinsic is worthy spei ial rrw rk, on arconni of its being the first sug ,;• snots via sprritie reform. nook •lel:brou'ely and in by a Statesman in a place of soillority. Ili% ing, in his re% Wir of for state of the Ilaltoll, no ti. ..domg the other euilt which time had introdut ed, the new corruptions that had crept into Parliament, Atrungh the in: . tletort or money, and espreially through tLat acquires' by adienturer% from Asia, his Lordship too!‘ toe u+i to observe. that, •• a !soberer understands the theory of the IgnigliNis 4 onNtilution, and rimy :i n., I! With the fact, now Nee ai once hot% widely they dif or. V. limo reconcile them, - said he, .• to each other, if we wi-li t.o•ae the libertii s of this country; w. 'Lust reduce our pisiitiral practice to our principles. life Cinistituti intruded that there should be a per heaneut relation betneen the Constituent and He !Je,entative lludr ur the people. 11 ill tin wan u, that, as the !louse of 1 winnow. is now tortued, 11.41 relation is in sisy degree preserved? It is not iireseesell ; it is destroyed. Let us be cautious, how- bon to have re-swim. to violent expeolieni4." I:.•ga:.liia and det lathy the bort.ukh% of this VOUO II, l eurrally, and r•lrrriatlti th...r ul 1 urnu all, uhich persuniblly hue% to " Ilir rottrii parts of the l•on- 3 „ hr• 1,4.1 am tovlei neo. or , at the' *tame to con Lite than '• 'Ake other intirmitivr, which iiitot Liar w lila patience," and to rer a r m! i•I " Vlllrther ~.tot :cutler rEtriedy than amputation I..ay .t be discovered. Since we cannot ture the ~ t ,...tder (according to the opinion he was disposed to a.is..tioe). let us then,' ells hos , " I orleoroor to issfiier lOM ;Nit) the Cussititntior, if 1,14# rookie it to atopport i a swoat imeeterste diseases." U. then proceeded to suggest, in the folloning terns•, his spetitic remedy for the complaint he had out—" The tafti-ion of health, to which I new sande, would he to per,. it every county to elect one Member more, iu addition to their present represen tation. The knights of the Shire approach nearest to V..: constitutional reprr‘sentation of the country, he they ►epr..r sit the soil. It is not in the little .tapcndent boroughs, it is in the great cities and roan •ics that the streuglit of the Constitution resides; and '.y them •Lone, if unhappy question should vier will the I onsii.ution be hunestly and firmly de- Ended. I would increase that Atrooolt, bevause think it i 4 the ibnly security we have against the pro snowy of the (Mica, the coriuption of she pi ople, and the aniltition of the true n." I hese sentiments of Lord Chatham are the more .!:.erring( motile, uhile considering the pru , ..eedings u,w under view, becanse they funned the basis of Hie i au which Ii sun contemplated, when, on the 7th of Ma', 1742, h.• proposed, in the !loose of l'otu ~,,, ns, •• a.' inquir% into Cie .tare of the representation of the people in Varlianient." Thi• relebrated motion, though nut, as will be hereafter sheen, the first that hail h.•ru _ . z•Lide, iii or ier of time, n ith a view to Parliamentary ' la d e n' , was ou. l oestiosiatoiy the first iu point of ins ;•ortance ; an I gave weight to preceding impressions wire in 41soga r of being effaced, and a more :ham ordinary interest to the po • tular sentiment us the ,ohject. The respectful rousiderations associated with thc very name of the party is ho proposed th • measure. fis permnal rlintatio.., hi% promising talent• ; and ,•ern ►is early age---•the spirit of the people at the time the ibeitsnre was brought forward, and the countenance bc'stuwed upon its übj. eft, by many of the Ministers of the day, conrurred in aff attenuation drew to direct tRr attention of thr pulalic to tie di.cui•iuu and result .1 the motion. liming stated in the spirit and almost in the style a his father, the Jinn-Imre between the theory df the EagEsh l'tistitution, and the actual frame of the GO* %eminent, Mr. Pitt ay.:inked it to he the ririerlte of the t.'onstitittion, that the people bad a share in t►e Ito remittent bt means of representation, and that its ex eAlenc, and peruigurne ) must re.ult front this rept,- ,entatiun being equal, practicable, and complete. When i t 'lt'd to be so When the Representative 4 eased to have connexion with the constituents, and 41/ either dependent un the Crown, or the Arista . racy, there was then a defect in the Constitution,--- and im was not innovation, but recovery of Constitution, ta repair it. Mr. Piet, then, took °erasion to observe, that it was hi• intention. to recontutend of himself, any aped t:: rented) for ►he detects that might appear, or to de t.riniste the particular species of Reform that autdd irrespetitlent lUilPi congenially with the original ::*nu of .he Constitution. All he intended at that t . ue w propose. he said. was this appointment of a committee of such persons as the House should deem it.st yeslitietl to investigate the •abject, and represent ltep•tri on the means which they might think twit cwienlated fro •Eas eying into execution a moderate and • abstantial Reform in the representation of the people. but, titosigh be did not press acs pa-.icitlar proposi- THE STATESMAN. I tiun on a Comse, he proceeded to state sevetal facts anti viri most:awes, nhieh, in his opinion, made this tibjete nt Itefi.rsts essentially necessary. "It was per t'', neiterstmos,•' he observed, that there were s the bur•iughs very generally nailer the infnestre of the Treasurc, and others tut,il4 possessed by them. It was man:fest that surli boroughs had no one tetality ut representation in tin lit. i here were uther bo roughs which had stow in feet no actual existence. but in the return of Members to the !louse. They had no exis'ence in property, in population, in' trade, or its weight of ny kind. 'I here were hardy assy men in such b.iriouglis who had a right to venue ; ana they were the slaves and the eubjerts of pi mins who claimed the property of the boroughs, and who in tact made the returns. 'lbis also was toi representation, nor any thing like it. Another set of bor awl too Its claimed to themselves the right sit bringing their votes to market. hail no other market, tin iltiwr property, and no other stake in the tonntry, the property awl !wire Ilhirh they ptu coresl for their \tit' if b. rues Kis• urre 111.• most dangerous of aI others.. S., for Genes etoM.11111111: the itnerests ut their country, in the flat.ter they ma d e,' they held out their borough to the I-est purchaser ;: and, in fact, souse of them 'whinged more to certain princes in India than they 'lid to the people of Great i Itritain. They were towns :In I boroughs more *Rhin the jnrisiiirtion of the I 'artiatir, than the limits of the empire of great Britain. The Aaholi of .-11 s -sit, it nits' reflerally had serail or right riwitilwrs ut that House and it was a lisies‘liun deserting of nob -lisleration n heater a foreign State in oniiiity with this etimitry, might Hot, by means of Barr. inoroliglisi, p.p.! cure a party Tii art fist them smiler the mask and rillb• I ratter of 311rniliers of that II Ilse During exhibited this sherds of O w stat e of P a r. liamentery representation, Mr. l'itt pros...yard to infer, that the borough, lie 'lesser heal were manifestly assurers of corruption, by shills no interest of the country was pro 1111 l tell : and that therefore they ought to be abolished. " They were defects, - he declared," which altered the Radical Principles of the l'unsfittrion.”-- " It hail been truly said," he added, " that the corrupt issenence thiss introduces! into Parliament had grown with our growth, and strengthened with our strength.' —I nlsappily, Isoweser, fur this country," continued he, " it had not decayed with our decay. nor diminished with our decrease. It bore no sympathy nor Connec tion with our falling slate : hut upheld by that Minis try, who, by their inspoliey, hail contras-teal the ut the empire, this corrupt hairiest.. was still found to exist in a I it+ stsength, anal had supported that Ministry for a length of years against all the coare-' qurutes of a mischievous sysstetit, and a desolated emu- I pine." After adserting to certain plans that bad bees pro-' posed for olectisig a more near relation between the Bepresentati es of the People, Mr. l'itt emulsified by sul 111 l itting the a hoice of the means, free from all par.: tialitirs ol his Ott n, to the judgment of the Committeel that might be selected, and to the lights they would reerive orison the subject; and conterderi blmarlf wtth I into ing the appliitftwient of a Committers iu the wanner Le had intimated at the commencement of kis speech.. This muti of lir. Pitt ass seconded by Mr. Alder man Saw litislge, and supported byt e elosprester of some the most eminent Members of the (louse. Among those u Ito thus diatingnisherl themselves. were Sir lissorge Saville. laird Surrey (afterwards Duke of I \ orlon:), Mr. ityng, Sir Charles unser, 11r. Baker, Mr. Fox, Mr. Dempster, Mr. Sheridan, sod Mr. Alder- 1 Luau Townsend ; anal among those who spoke against, the proposition were Mr. Powys, Mr. T. Pitt (after wards Lord l'amelfortl), Sir Horace Mann, Mr. (now Lord) Rolfe, the Lord Adiocate of Scotland ((henry l Duesdas), and Mr. It igby.--The grounds of opposition to the 1111/1 . generally, were, the fear of alarming the country—the dangess of innovation----and the petition., front which the proposition had sprung, being ' I not the petitions of the people, but of delegates of. County Meetings, who wished to urge their suggestions on Parliament as the sentiments of the country at large. The only observation proceeding from torit side of the Douse, whirls deserves pkrticular notice in a review of public opinion, was an insinuation of Mr. Rolle, which, when made. was probably regarded lightly, but which would hare justified %coy serious suspicion. and sub sequeist experience may now induce a belief, aas Out with-ut a just foundation. lie expressly intimated his opinion, that the real expressed by Mr. Pitt was either not eonsistrtet with his temper and sentiments, or nut sqiuniancou‘ and hearty in the cause of Parliamentary Reform. " The Ilesoaarable Uralle.aart, - ha said. " /rod burs pressed ialu Me terrier ." As a means of getting rid of the question proposed, Sir Horace Mann moved the order of the day. Dis a division, there appeared for Sir (homer's motion, 16 1 i _against it, VII ; so that after all the efforts of the Borough Patrons, and of the other askoratea of the l l established system, the appointment of a Committee lel enquire into the state of Representation, was thus de- ' feated by a urajririty of only twenty .11euilsors. sishversiee of every principle of the British Censtit u titan, and retch as never before disgraced the annals of any civilised or barbarous nation. authorising the inhabitants of the sister kingdom to be dragged from their homes, and to be immured in pest-houses. by compulsion, when eeepreted of labouring under a obi-dispel reetagiore disease. 5. Imposing on the already overburthened people of Ireland, under similar unfounded pretexts, con siderable additional taxes, to defray the expense of building. and permanently maintaining ea-dienst eue-, isri.,ex fever hospitals. K. th:casioning similar effects. in an inferior degree. in tireat Britain, by the maiutenante of similar insti tutions, upon a less extended wale. 7. Multiplying, by the effects of the terror occa sioned by these unnecessary and pernicion. measures, the othernise kevitafile sickness and mortality. S. Continuing, to the great prejudice of this nation, in its present itiqiot eriplied state, to expend a sum pro- 1 1.4.1i1y not less than half a million sterling at home and in our colonies, in the vaaintenanee of vstablishmenis, emanating from doctrines demonstrated to lw unfounded, and to have originated in train'. 9. Refusing to abolish qnarantine in England, or to itsipt*.re into the expeiii. ncv of so doing, after it had been shown, by undeniable facts. that, even if con- tagion were infinities.' to exist in the plagne of the Ls-' rue/. quarantine could have no uhject its England. In. lh dining to appoint a commission, or to take ; any other efficient step, for prosecuting the inquiry concerning the validity of the doctrine of contagion in evid • diseases, notsvitlistantling I bad pioved the Reports of the Collette of Physicians, in adirutation of that valifiitv. to be frivolous and unfounded, and the Report of tile Select C tee of the House of Com-1 won., to be irrevelant, or unintelligible, or, in as far as its meaning could be divined, in direct opposition to I the facts of the evidence laid befo.e them. I. Refusing, upon frisolous and unfounded pre ! tellftli, and notwithstanding the urgent representa tion of the Levant Company to his Royal flightiest. the Prince Regent in Council, to that effect, to de fray, out of the public purse, the expense (not exceed ing a few thou-and pounds) of en experimental in quiry, which could not fail, as far as the plague of the Levant is concerned, in the course of a single epidemic. to set the question of contagion for ever at rest ; thus continuing, beyond a doubt, that decided hostility to investigation which the whole of their proceedings had by implication r% inced. C milting individual injustice, by withhold ing from us) self the suitable reward fur wy services in the Levant recommended by Sir Robert Liston, the British Ambassador at Constantinople, and by the Levant C panv ; thereby e%inc.ng a spirit of perse cution disgraceful to any age or nation. 13. Refusing even to reimburse the expenses which 1 bad incurred, in the course of my researches, fur a period of npuards of four years, the greatest part of it bring occasioned by their oun evasions, and contrived _ _ 14. Discouraging scientific investigation, by not availing theniseltes of wean•, which werrupen to them, the ministers of other powers having enpreased a wil lingness to c►-operate towards the establishment of Any general Ilan fur the further prosecution of my in gair►• respecting the plague, to which the British too‘crainrut might the initiali►e. SPECIMENS OF SYSTEMATIC MISRULE. A curious work, under the above title, has fallen under our observation. '1 he author has embodied in the following extract the charges whirls he thinks himself justified in preferring against the 31inisters of the Prime Regent I. 1.7.‘ outing a prime /uric hostility to discovery, by refusing to adopt a plan, supported upon adaptor grounds, for prosecuting researches concerning the plague, and diminishing mortality, in the lon'an islands and parts adjacent. Y. Contriving, by trick, procrastinatieo, erasion, and P Warring., to defeat, as far as in thew 1.. y, the objects of an inquiry of the highest importance to all oba ukind, now for the first time in the history of the' fmtnally attempted. :1. Persevering, not only without evidence, but in defiance of irrefragable proof, to maintain au iuspos , ture and delusion disgraccfnl alike to humanity, science, and civilisation, and deeply affecting health, life, retenue, commerce, navigation, individual free dom, and the intercouise of ■..tions. I. t.onetarintt, whilst my prow* were before them. and loon ithsionding toy urgent retwonstionee, to pooh aro *ileasin thnserh Parliament. a law with respect to Ireland. twinkled upon the inorirdnre, whirls formed th e ~übject of tn: refut.oivn ; a law, beaidtg, utterly TRADE To ODESS.I. We have been fasoured with the manifesto declaring Otles4a a free port, und the regulations for carrying. that tit-asure into effect ; the tollJwing is a brief out line :- I. The limits of what it considered the I ort. 2. Declare+ that all foreign goods may le imported free of duty, except until the expiration of the preseht terns, of Brandy Farm, to the Ist of January, Itl2l, all stores of corn, brandy, 2:141 brandy wine, are, as well at other strong liquors, prohibited by the tariff. 3. The exportation from Odessa of foreign u►errhau dize to be sold r ithin the empire, only allowed through the two elisions barriers. 4. Regulates to the manifests of cargoes and the prevention of contatium 3. and 6. All goods prohibited exportation from Itivilgia are ale prohibited shipment at Odessa ; on ex ports the same ditties levied. - 7. and 12. Regulates the manner of shipping or forwarding goods into the Rusolimn empire. '1 be good* to be examin 41, and a certificate of their content* to be forwarded o ith the t oo.is. 13. Odessa liable to the existing Quarantine Re gulation*. 14. That these regulations shall be carried into •feet as soon as a proper trench, or barrier, is ca 4 ried round the town, to prevent ingress or egress, except through the town gate. 13. That Odessa shall matinee a fres part jar at letet thirty_zeats—. - -- • • -• The Imperial Ukase, dated the 4th st kilt, 1919, declare*, that all the proper regalati..tt• have been carried into elf• t, and that Odessa waa armed as a free port on the 13th of August. De ten or Commonoux Dec trua.—The Falmouth letter of the 2211 instant, contains the follustinx state ment :—“ Off the Lizard, ship Maria, Ruby, than Cal cntta, last from New York (26 days) for London. Captain Ruby reports, that Commodore Decatur had died in consequence of a wound received in a duel with Commodore Darrow, at New York.•' The Rev. Mr. Plaxton, M. A., Minister of Sheriff Hales, in Shropshire, when James II: was proclaimed at un the 6th of February, 16b4-5, exclaimed, in a speech delivered on that occasion, '• I mono' look beet to the peacefel days of Charles ll. (enact remember the laming happiness of his wigs. but I must drop a tear upon his hearse ; nor can I kale for ward toward the resist glories of James 11. but 1r am overwhelmed with joy. and a loyal transport 11011114 We have lost ova of the best of Princes width ever swayed the British-sceptre. Clarks the gracious ; a Prithee who ass the mare of heaven_ the darling of hissubjeeis, whose life was a stunts; sad his whole reign one continued blessing! Mercy and justice were the supporters of his throne, peace and good aisles the 'casein be bath left us!! But, this is not all. the greatest blessing( is still behlad : be bath MR as lib, Royal Brothel, James 11. to sacred him is his larvae and virtues. This must wipe swat all our griefs. ilia mast make our jo) s perfect. ander**. our liter with a last ing happiness_ The Man is set with us, bet no algid fol lows: (*harks the gracious is exchanged for James the lust, slid though our king be drill, )et ‘tir M. marsh Weal" Le. nen. • Unlisted .... • insiders ... • Prising ..... • Lisbon O %lilts . ........... . ._ 4 . DAY AT ONE k India Stork Dlttss 1i0a.141165. 901.16 s p• Old Annuitirs Ex. Rills. W. 6s. 6s. ;se Distil ( no. ihnnisin Con. fiir Ar. 60111 Lou. Tights .tsi ;AL etc aaa. I Dahlia I Waterford . I Harms') ■nd Jersey .. II 0 liotterthargh I Ilmalsoreh 0 PRIt'E OF STOCKS Till Rank ' , Hoek S per Cent. Rell.ntzi OD 051 to per rt. Cons. WI; si per Cent. 6 pe► Cents. n7f Ape? It. Natp‘ ID-1, 108 Long Inn. If , IT 16-10 1$ lop. 3 per Cent. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We would wort readily insert the letter's if C. N . fr ~ tke 'math rs they refute to LriNq eielosisely tare, ore Jar they world not Marge, ere be interesting t.,. the yereeraiity oar reader/. LONDOX: WEILINSID•T STENING. An&L 16 , 119 It has been stated in a Ministerial paper, as from 0041 autherPg, " that an arrangimeat betsien rats ilnurtauttsuen ransoms is nearly, if not qui , e, uu. pleted ; and that the Lady will rontinue w •emp abroad." In forming this determination, it is sehict!, She is tail to have been influenced by the advice an habitual Oppusitionist, who did mot esmsalt his p 6 lilies at the expense of his duty." It would hr ti „, ridiculous affectation to pretend not to understaml tLe meaning couched in this laragraph. The sortx• cuirtits.o reasoms alluded to, occupy to Isle s 1 .-. tion of the public attention, not to be immediately discerned beneath the veil thrown over their maul; and as the subject is of no common inspertsace, ui the Lady, on her part, requires, heretic she meth, so cosecs/meet, there can be uu impropriety et inde licacy in restoring the 'withal' to its peeper skape. fsta Qc rem, it therefore appe.srs, has hos mks more advised to sacrifice her interests M the wislos rap din a high quarter, and the tepee et Ilsriterl's Ministers. It is surely net yet holm ten, that it was a similar disposition is seethe sad conciliate, which induced her sons years since to banish herself from a country Owe than: she was destined to share. Neither can it be denied that, instead of producing the abet which her cos descension merited, her absence basally served to is crease the malice of her /emirs, and to encourage them to heap additional co Is of fire upon her head. Tine circumstances cannot be ammliested true her 1110111111 t. Webb 11M& at dation , want soder tkir baneful inflow*, ood lives nobs eves is the Wit of the difficulties, foortifications, and dangers whisk they have created. Powerful reas .ns must therefore kw* been adduced to persuade her to espea herself a second time to the continaance or the retied sf sorb pereeciitione ; and it may be ilosisted whether the advice given her, from whatever yolk* it way have proceeded, and whatever may hen ken the purity of intention by which it was dictated, will be attended with salutary results to its keg ratering object. Motives of interest would have had ao weight with her M 4JZST V. First, becalm she has proved her patriotic disinterestedness beyond the passibility a doubt, by soluntarily resigniog X 15,6•0 I year, or nearly one third of the income granted het by Parliament. in order to diminish, as far as it lay within her poster, the public burthens. Secow!• ly, because no heap of money would compass.* for exile. not only from the bosom of her toss• try, but loin the rights, splendour, and &gifty her throne. If it be true, which we still haw doubt, that her Wittiest's has consented to remain fished with a barren recognition, her motives far, second and still greater sacrifice will be foundassobk as they are melancholy. The goodness of her kart. aal the sincerity of her patriotism will alone have isfoosof her decision. She will have bee I told that ia agitated state of the country, her preseace wield fuel, or apply the kindling, spark to the threatese4 condagratiou. The extent of her iudesant, *l lO l excess of the love entertained for'an itgitvil busk. will hate been urged to dissuade her from iudodif once on a demand for justice. An %pod l• 16 " nerusity will hare been made, and sack as appeekat • well knots is. would never fail. Fearful of addled** difficulties of Government, the infliassmability of people am! the dangers of the country, she sacrificed her just rights, and the enjoyineut 1f b'r gitimate honours to her patriotism. Th.s. we convinced, will be found the only prir.iple gulated her conduct, if it be trot that het LAW has rune to such a determination; and whiles . it be universally regretted that she shoul d hare 11004, to such erroneous representations, the greatallad self-druid will excite proportionate edoirstigis lore throughout the country. It has often been said that the present is the h. important pan d ; and our readers hare Iree.l2 beard the sentiment repeated. The lint re French war 1.114 important, and oh* wmidisfel rapid course of events that occured in the s with France, rendered ever!' Niec e . o aim important this the precedi n g. hisel/47, llllrirtaat—ninetrove was ionporntat maery-ots important—ninety-seven. the period t y 119,1 1 greatest victories, and the first trace with Mont ;note iinpurtaut still --sipoi re krlst. the 10,1445( MA' • ' %sus. I igLt her ly d year, t by lay cod- teas- ty t+ r dir "AU 1.0 4 IMF log esti wq ask al Tom, sos 1* I de • hate or I. Ft 10 • "" ton 4 t win Wei Ift to IS r do sa led fri ar vso I- of dP Ent AltattOsnan. WWI.), tTATIVOII•X" It I \CI,IIPO &&&&& Tag bTATISMIA% ki • • r I !