The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-09-28 00:00:00

1 1 4 " • • . . - THE SI ATE4MAN. . - et Majeatr? Amongst others the charge of dancing and of resting on a couch in a hot country where they had no cliairs--44 laugh) ;—and * there was another charge,. that a person who was a faithful servant ha& tit down at table with her. Now what, he would ask. bad the people of England to do with all 'hi• How were they concerned in it ? Why should they interfere in it ? Suppose a person Lad last year come from Brighton, and stated, "1 hare seen a couple of scullions come out of a cer t .in place there, and they assured me that a certain i.re3t MOM hail sat down on the bare floor to eat beef ..o,th• with his cook at half-past one o'clock in the vorning"—(much laughter). Suppose that he (Mr. 15.1 was told he ought to bring this matter before Par r .ment as a question of national importance. Why, he would tell the person who would suggest it, that he was a dirty tale-bearer—(applause'.) Though, perhaps. it would he as well if that great Person had not played high life below stairs--(a laugh!) Yet Mill he saw no great harm in descending from the Throne to the kitchen—it was affable in a Monarch, it proved that he was sot at all times a King, but sometimes condescended to be a man--(applause!). He thought the charge unfair--he thought it a vulgar topic, and he never joined on that occasion in a sneer against that illustrious man—(applause!)—but he mow joined in indignation with the people of England. that similar charges. or rather, indeed, not half so b.ol---not half so undignified, should be made the sub ject of a crime against the most persecuted. anti the most unfortunate woman in the world---(loud ap plause'). Was it not extraordinary, that watched as she was in every step, asleep or awake, standing or Oting. moving, and at rest by her own familiar ser • int, in the hours of retirement and confidence ; still that nothing of a positive nature could be proved against her—(applause!) Was it not in evidence that those spying servants had even looked through the key-holes—had peeped through the curtains, but after all, nothing could be proved, hut that her Ma jesty sat with her arms round a man's neck where it seas necessary to do so in order to prevent from tum bling off the caution on which they sat. The proceed ing, absurd as it was, would go on, the Noble Lords who had tasted the dainty dish, would not sleep till tltey hail swallowed it all. He was convinced that the Bill would pass. though it was now said that the King did not care about it —nobody cared about it. The Solicitor-General declared so, and appealed to Ood and 1.54 ronscienre. He thought it was not fair to join them both together—(a laugh). For Liverpool declared so in the House of Lords, and Lord Castlereagh declared the same thing in the House of Commons. Nobody then wished it—nobody began it—and nobody would end it. (Much laughter.)—here they Wit then, in a carious predicament—public time was lost—public money was eapended----public meetings were held—all done by robatly, for nobody. and for nothing.—(Continued laughter.)—lt seemed that the Divorce was to be given up, because Lord Liverpool declared that be was willing to do so. He (Mr. II.) thought that, in order to save ti .1 e, it would be better if the Noble Lord *would just read a paper to the House. stating what he intended and wished to have; this plan world save a great deal of trouble---(A laugh.)----The Bill might indeed be altered--perhaps they would not even de grade the Queen ; but because her Majesty appeared to prefer honest men before rogues---as 'pie was in the habit of disconntenancine spies and informers--as she was in the habit of sitting down under calumny and oppression, they might declare that she was there fore very unfit to receive persons of quality at Carlton hoose.--(Much laughter.)---Then would the Bill be sent down to the other House—that pure and inde pendent House, who would not, never did inflict any at of oppression or injustice.----(A laugh.)--They c^yer did in yet, but it was not too late to begin, and it was his opinion, that if they had not a precedent they of h 1 mal.e one.--(llear !)--They will be told that they need not go to the trouble of examining wit nesses----that they cannot examine on oath, though by the way a hint was given, that for this special ()emotion they might be invested with that power. • And here was more of the farce. Who could stawse that an oath would have any effect with such witnesses ? Few of their description care for the solemnity of the oath. where temporal punishment is put out of the question. Well, then, to save trouble, a Select Comrtittee would be appointed, of some Mom bers impartially collected—yet composed of Honour able Oen letnen who hare a great opinion of those ' who s'o on the right band of the Speaker. The Com mittee would then report, that what was done was most independent anti most impartial, and the Com mons ottOit to follow in their f o otsteps.—(Applause.) —Let not the people then suppose that notwithstand ing the 41;ffcrent meetings that had been held, and the atidre=se4 that had been preseetetl, that this Dill would not Ita:a. They would be told that their Addr•sses and P•titions amonnteri to soloing—that their cam idle. '1 he Oovernment pa:tera and the Ooso•-lim .tit orators would say, that in the Yanetiester famine.* much more was said than in the case of the Qee. n they would say, that in that case there were meetings in Yorkshire and in other places attended by the great Lords, end that they ended in nothing; that in the present case no aristocrat is to be found ; that the meetings in favour of the Queen are only held in the towns attended by the artisans and the women; they will say that they are not afraid of this petition ing people, for the people of England do nothing but petition: they are " all cry and little wool ;" but yet the sheering has been so long going on, that the sheep and even the swinish multitude will bite at last.— (Applause).--Ood forbid that he should prompt them; time, °cation. and oppression will du it of themselves --(Hear, lime, hear )__What remains for them, it might be' asked ? Let them remonstrate. however vain, however hopeless; still let the people raise their voices against those who meditate despotism. Let them diked as well as they were able, to shelter the in tended victim. Let thew bold up their shields to pro tect immense*, under oppression. Let them, at all ream, if they could do no more, leave behind them a record that they were not accomplices to the basett act of injustice that the world ever beheld ; so that postethg might learn that if the voice of the people were attended to, the Queen of England would not be oppressed. and the Constitution would iot have been sivevtitrowai—ile. Hobhouse concluded sit elotptfut speeds' maklat rural applause. Mr. Rtutaansox then read an ;►ddress to- her jest• founded on the Resolutions, which Was seconded. and agreed to, to be presented by Sir Fraticis Bur dett and Mr. Gobhause, attended by such Ladies .and' Gentlemen as might s 611 to go up ►with the sat* to her Majesty. • .1 It was at•o resolved, that the address should he pre sented on the same day: . as that of the 3letropolitan Meeting agreed to at Freemasons' Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the Meeting adjourned. 1'111: Q l'E ES. HER MAJESTY'S ANSW ERS TO ADDRESSES. TO THE LAI•ILR (IF P‘DHINF;TON. heart has been touched by this loyal and of Address from the )tarried Female. of the Parish of Paddington. In toy return to England, I felt the sacred cause of in sulted honour and of calumniated innocence. To have remained abroad after such arc laird indignities and wrongs as I haul experienced, would have been to con fess myself guilty of every crime laid to toy charge, and to have prostrated toy character at the feet of my got . mies. But while I was unconscious of pill, I w . as is ' accessible to fear. While I was strong iniategrity, I felt it impossible to hr weak in cowardice. I was deeply grieved during the late examinations he fore the House of Lords at the monstrous mass of inde cency that was dai l y elieiteil from the 1111 l 'nits of such witnesses as would have produced a mural loathing in any Court in Christendom. Modesty migi.t well hang its head at such disgusting recitals, and even patriotism might blush to think that the highest judicature in this great kingdom should suffer itself to he louitiliated, in the eyes of Europe, by its minute attention to ribaldry, in its grossest tales, and to obscenity in its most offensive particularities. No proceeding has, perhaps, ever tended so much to lower the character of England and to lessen the dignity of Englishmen in the estimate of other nations. THE WALE INHABITANTR OF PADOINnToN. I am particularly gratified by this loyal and affer• tionate 4‘lll.lre%s from the Inhabitants of the Parish ail Paddington. I am not unmindful that I was myself once a resident in this parish ; and this circumstance, though combined with some painful as well as pl • Lle recollections. tends to place me in a eta!, of choler proximity to the in terests of the inhabitants than if I had Lien a total stranger to the locality. As the people of Paddington have once been my neigh bours, l still consider myself as united to them by the charities of neighbourhood. The ties of friendship, when once formed, ought, if possible, to be indissoluble; sod even those relations, which arise merely out of local contiguity, are apt to spread the fine net-work, of a thousand nameless associations over the memory, mud thus, in a variety of ways, to bra-time iiitertsvined with the affections. Life has it:twiny 441 many dark inter vals, that it is our duty nut to overlook any associated circumstances, or to reject any possible auxiliaries that can assist in adding to the number of its satiny hours. The sympathy which tie inhabitants of Paddington express for the sail variety of my domestic afflictieas, is very acceptable to my heart. There are circanistances in which a sense of obligation is humiliating to the indi vidual: tint gratitude to those whom we esteem is rather an elevating than a depressing sentiment. As mercy blesses both him who gives and him who taken, so gra titude, whilst it is a delicious feeling in the heart of loin; who has received the benefit, reflects a pleasurable sen sation on him by u hum it was conferred. I owe more to the people of England than I can ever repay ; but they are a people of an many amiable anal so many noble characteristics, that I am convinced they will ever con rider a grateful consciousness of the debt as a discharge from the obligation. The good wishes which this Address conveys to me from the people of Paddington. anti which I am daily receiving from all parts of the kingdom, are not empty sounds or airy professions, but the realities of affection and regard. The oppressor and the tyrant may be greeted with the fulsome incence of extravagant p raise ; but its very extravagance will prove its insincerity. Very different is that tone of approbation which is perceivable, and thatcheering voiceof sympathy which is heard when the feelings of the people unfeignedly harmonise with the joys or the sorrows, with the good or the bad fortunes o( their genuine friends. and their undissenibled bene factors. THE INHAHIT•NTS Or THE TOWN OF STROUD, IN t anucervaesittne. I receive with cordial satisfaction this loyal and af fectionate Address f the Inhabitants o( the Town of Stroud and its vicinity, in the County of Gloucester shire. The sympathies of the people with my wrongs and my sufferings have been so uni Ily manifested, as to make my adversaries pause in their career of oppression, and politically to hesitate when they do not morally relent. I have experienced adversity in many of its most dis tressing calamities, and in some of its darkest hours; but I have always found that it never has praised away with out leaving some moral benefit behind. Adversity mu ally compensates its immediate evils by its subsequent good, 411.1 its uses are, in monerona instances, so pre chid., CIA it nosy often be regarded as prosperity under another name. I Baer he en at times sunk in the depth of alb:4os s • but from those chlitlis I have been raised by the invisible hand of the All-Merci:ol, to rejoice in the dawn of hap pier days, anti to comemplate a futurity of hope fur my self sn, fur mankind. Whatever inay hare been the will of Omnipotence with respect to my destiny in time past, I acknowledge it to hare been both wise and good ; and I trust that my safety will be protected by the same wisdom, sad my happiness he promoted by the same goodness, in the time to come. These sentiments are my cheerio, asso ciates during the day, and at night they smooth the pil low of nay repose. COVENTRY. I am particularly Wilted by this loyal awl affectionate Address from the Inhabitants of the City and County of the City of Coventry. I cannot be insensible to the ten derness with which they lament the sad chasm that death has made in my kindred relations; nor can I readily forget the warmth with which they resent the numerous indignities that I have experienced. My ramie.' have now mails out the best mule they could in support of their Bill of Palos and Penalties; but who will venture to assert that the testimony they have produced, even if its validity were km auspicious than it appears, is sufficient to justify the monis* in the preamble of the Bill? But the very measure *kith My enemies designed as fatal not only to t h e honour of the Queen, hut to the liberty of the nation; islikely Wynn favourable to troth. It has united all parties, and made those. niy friends who might °them', lava b o as my enemies. . Principles are iodaslritelibl•—alli,aairrfaio 1 - feel a vivitrasanrince that, Wine I coatedfor spelt rather `that fort salt Maslen litmus, • t'saill . idsiumely triumph over my tnenties.—Those principles which are most sacred to my conscience and de arest to m y hear ‘! are those of truth, of justice, and of liberty. Those principles are better calculated than any others to pro• I usote the general happiness of mankind; and while I maintain them with unshaken constancy, not more fur I my own good than.for that of the nation, I am convinc- I r.l that, in the generous support of all classes of the community, I shall be able to oppose an invulnerable I shield to the violence, the ferocity, and the malice of my enemies. In this age, when knowledge is generalized and in- quiry unrestrained, the power of public opinion is be come so great, that every other mast finally bend to its decrees. A temporary resistance may . be made to the I measures it suggests, or the conduct it prescribes; but as long as the Press preserves only a moderate degree of liberty, public opinion must be ultimately omnipo tent and it is in vain to oppose its comm ands as it would be to order the earth not to revolve upon its axis. When tiod gave the power of thought to man, be evidently designed it to be free. Tyranny may fetter the legs, handcuff the arms, but it cannot impose chains on the interior operations of the mind. It may restrain the freedom of intellectual agency through the medium of the Press; but, in the present condition of man, no restraint of this kind can well be efficacious; and my heart vibrates with joy when I reelect that tyranny itself is on the point of expiring in almost every part of the Ruropean world. The Holy Alliance, though made for the purpose, can hardly keep it alive. Its extinction is decreed; and some member of the sztrisii rAcrton may have leisure to write its epitaph. EAST I.N•DIA HOUSE. • Yesterday a Quarterly General Court of Proprietors was held at the East India House. The Minutes of the proceedings at the last Court having been read, The CHAIRMAN moved that a Resolution of the Court of Directors, granting a pension of 10001. per annum to R. Barnard, senior clerk in the Coast and Surat Warehouse, in consequence of a reduction having taken place in the department to which he belonged, he approved by this Court. Mr. Hum t. rose with no view of opposing the present motion, though lie could not but regret that the Court of Directors had not remunerated the services of a meritorious servant, who was still capable of active service, by finding him some other employment, in stead of placing him upon the pension list. Ile ap proved of the reduction which had taken place in the commercial establishment of the Company, though that reduction was still far from being proportioned to the degree of their commercial embarrassments. The report of the Company proved the folly of at tempting to compete with the British manufactures in the cotton and cloth trade. In the cloth trade alone, the loss which the Company had sustained, amounted to not less than 411 per cent. If their whole commerce was reduced one-sixth, the expenees of their commer cial establishment ought to be reduced in the same proportion. He had no objection to the motion before the Court, but he repeated, that the Court of Directors would have better consulted the interests of the Com pany, if they had provided an active and meritorious officer with employment in some other department. Mr. Meal thought that at a period of great public calamity, when the distress was general and unprece dented in every part of the country, pensions ought not to he hastily granted to individuals, arrived at a time of life which required no extraordinary indul gence, and which was, in fact, best calculated for artier service. Me did net, however, mean to reflect upon the conduct of the Directors in the present in stance, and it was not his intention to oppose the motiou. Mr. LowNDIS regretted that the Court of Directors had not provided Mr. Barnard with some other situa tion. He was persuaded that this course would have been wore gratifying to the feelings of that indi vidual, who must necessarily feel hurt at the idea of being placed on the pension list, after having spent 35 years in their service, as if he were a useless mem ber of the Company. He was still in the prime of life, and the best way of rewarding him would have been to give him an opportunity of rendering further services to the Company. He thought so large a sum of money as 1,0001. a year, ought not to be voted away in a Court consisting of 14 or 15 Proprietors. It would be well if a rule were adopted, that the Court should consist of a certain number of Proprietors 'whenever any large sums of money were to he granted. In the present state of the Court, which reminded him of the congregation of Dr. Swift and his clerk, when the facetious Dean ir.is reduced to the necessity of saying, " the Scriptuie moves you and we in sundry places," it appeared more like an understanding he tweeu the Chairman and a few friends, than the voluntary grant of 2000 Proprietors. The CHAIRMAN said that as an ob tion of an Honourable Proprietor (Mr. tinine) appeared to refer to what had fallen from an Honourable Director at a former Court, he would venture to say, in the absence of that tientlenian, that hr had never denied that in certain articles of commerce the Company were likely to sustain some loss. He was too well acquainted with the state of the British manufacture in the fabric of cloth, not to be aware that the trade of India ii muslin' and calicoes would at last be entirely drives out of the market. At the %lime time he differed with the Honourable Proprietor with respect to the exile. • diency of giving up all competition with British pro duce. The Court of Directors had ahewn their readi ness to abandon any article of commerce which was not profitable to the Company. With respect to the i motion before the Court, an Honourable Proprietor (Mr. Rigby) bad admitted that his objections were not applicable to it, and he thought, therefore, that those objections might just as well have been spared. Mr. Rum explained. He had made the observe tiosoo, which were considered irrevelant by the Chair- Vials, with a view to the future condact of the Court of Directors. At the same time he thought the pre sent grant ought to be limited in some manner, either to the period of his continuing out of employment, or his residence in the British dominions, for it might happen that Mr. Barnard might embark in some rival commercial speculation in India, and employ the ability and experience which he had acquired in a way Awhieh might prove highly detrimental to the interests of the Company. Mr. Immo thought the *practice pursued by Clovertment might be advantageously adopted on this oreisiotk The 'pensions of 4be widows of general Ulcers and others ceased, if they acquired •a found :,~ . • equJl to the amount of the pension. A con iiti4n might be annexed to Mr. Barnard's pension, so iha' he might be obliged to give up one half of it in the e, ent of a future accession of fortune. The Resolution was then put by the Chairman, aril carried unanimously. After the Resolution had been carried, Mr. Rtiast rose to inquire whether, in the word, o f the Resolution, the pension was granted for the life u' Mr. Barnard ? The CxatRMAX said it was not so stated in tl:e words of the Resolution, but a pension voted by t 113: Court was always considered to be for life. Mr. LowNnss thought an unconditional gr:►nt wa. highly improper in the present embarrassed st,te the Company's affairs. Mr. S. Dixoss objected to the granting of a pension during the life of an individual, because there could be nu certainty that the Company itself would exist su long. He observed the manner in which his oba ctr ,_ tion was treated by an Honourable Proprietor, but as scarcely a day of his life passed without his weetitii with some unmerited ridicule of this sort, he was able to appreciate it. Mr. PATERSON assured the Honourable Proprietor, that if a smile passed over his countenance, it was nut produced by any observations which had fallen from him. It was clear, however, that a grant could only be co-extensive with the existence of the grant..-. Whatever calamities might hereafter befal the Com. parry, they would press with coal severity tyon all connected with it, and the annuitants must of course shire its fate. The CHAIRMAN observed, that the pr..sent discussion was irregular. as the Resolution had been carried. lle should proceed therefore to move, that a Rest,lntim) of the Court of Directors, dated td Augnst, IP2O, granting a pension of .t:ZiOn per annum to George Mordaunt, jun. Second Clerk in the Coast and Surat Warehouse, subject to the approbation of an ether Court of Proprietors, be approved by this Court. Mr. Wait objected to the motion, on the ground that in the present circutnstancts of the Company, a pension to this amount, to a young active man ass most improvident. lie proposed, as an amendment, " That this Court, taking into due consideration the circumstances attending the case of O. Mordaunt, re• commend to the Honourable Court of Directors to avail themselves of the first opportunity of employ ing him in such a manner as tuay render his experi• ! ence and ability useful to the Company, instead of granting him a pension." Mt. Lounnes seconded the amendment. After some desultory conversation the question that putoriginal words stand part of the Resolution was and carried. The original Resolution was then carried, and the Court adjourned. TO THE EDEIVR OF THE STATESM.I.I'. • The whole head is Sick. and the whole head faint. Front the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it ; hut wounds and bruises and putrifyin sores. - hums, Ch. I. lief. 1. SlR,—The Vicar of Harrow's letter to Mr. Whithreaii, has occasioned me the deepest and most heartfelt con cern. I know and esteem the writer as a learned mu. a gentleman, and a Christian Minister, mail am therefore the more grieved that he should lend himself to a work of persecation and conspiracy, the foulest and most 'atrocious, bemuse the most cool blooded and systematic. that ever disgraced the annals of this or any other country. I have chosen the Motto to this Letter with a view to convince him that I am a Radical in more seines ' than one, as also to convey my feeling sense of the presen t state of our political horizon. With great deference I inform the learned gentleman that I bare been looking ' into Johnson and cannot hind the political critic that contains all the maxims, qualities, and antichristian fruits which he ascribes to the term " Radicalism ;" there is in fact, no such word to be found in that excellent author; and yet the learned Minister of Harrow adopts it as a true one, comprehending atheism, deism, scepticism, anarchy, and I know not what dreadful evil I beside. Why should an evangelical clergyman descend to borrow epithets from the unhallowed mouths of such vile Ansi detestable hypocrites • as • •• •, •• • • • • • • and Co., who while they profess a high vene ration foe the religious institutions and morals of the country, yet to gratify the criminal designs of another, can inundate the land with details of tne vilest and most beastly kind, affecting the honour and character of their illustrious and persecuted Queen. It is truly lamentable, Sir, to see a minister of such high character pandering to cor ruption, losing sight of the clear and positive commands of his divine Master, and giving so much reason to suspect that the lawn sleeves, and not the glory of God. is his object. The holy and beautiful sincerity and firm ness of the disciples of Jesus Christ seem, indeed, to he exchanged for time sophism of the political and anti scriptural partisan or votery. When be triumphantly quotes "Featt GOP AND IInIsOUR Tae Kiss." Why does he omit to soy, tVaosorven PUTTRTII AWAT Uts Wire." Ise. Ike. Ike. /low ili.,ustirg to observe a Mi nister of the tlosiA, (.rain in a peculiar sense, insists that his king-tom di not of tlt 5 world), reminding a Mem her of Parlianient of personal obligations in future, ash with all the rri t•me erlilsegnehimi of a political Pope, pointing out his defects anti his duties t In my opinion, Sir, Mr. Cunningham bar disgraced his office, and in his ill tim^ii zeal to prevent the " infliction of s nuisance," Las added a fresh i intuit to the deeply-wouselei feelings of her Majesty. Queen Caroline. tiod grail . him repentance. Respectfully, your's, Sept. 43, IRS. /OAR Confidential letters, dated Kingattm (Jamaica). Aug. 7th. positively athrm that an armistice ba Men concluded between Ueneral Morrill° and &- Near. By recent intelligence from Ilztopeace we leate tbst Sir Thomas Maitland, previous to his departure tree that city, was created a Knight Grand C i uss of I Tuscan order. Ltv•s:root., Barr. fl—The quantity of carnal' fered for public sale here on Friday last, is raid 01111 - ceel that which has been offered on any utker dal since the rise of this port. The Boreas of Frauterhargh, a small ishisg-'l lO . with five urea in .it e whit.la tea in • tremendeas gale on picked up on Sunday land. by the Smart, Capmin Cara. Dundee on Monday night. &bent in a stormy sea, and whither. bad been riodaeod to heal boos drivels - ma to Thenday senaight, we, iog, a boodrod wiles from faint, which asthma I The poor fellow* hada carried; they hoew set o the last ealitiOlii• _ W P i C