The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-12-11 00:00:00

ne ahanslonusent of those measures ; that the Ad- I i n deed. There is hardly an obscenity ever practised It is* refe..rcd to disaffection and irreligion which slid I —there is hardle an elm-rutty eve(' invented or de not esist in Frome or its neighbourhood ; that as to' scribed in the filthy legends of brothels, that was not t arlile and others, they had received the punishment . imputed to her Majesty. At length the mountain-in ane to their crimes ; and that it did not appear that ' labour was delivered, and what was the produce there were disaffections to the tiovernment to be feared miserahle abortion! svlsicts Ministers themselves, its un ity (regime/ of the country. If, therefore, there were happy parents, were ashamed of, and therefore thought no meetings, no disaffections existing threatening the proper to strangle it at the very moment of its birth. eiovernment of the country, if no notice was to he After going through the case that had been brought talsets of the proceedings against the Queen, either forward against the Queen, and successfully repelling 31'nrosing or disapproving of them, where could be the attacks he said that great as had beets the triumph the necessity at this moment of such an Address as that of her Majesty and of her ;party, he could not flatter fitst proposed ? theist that as yet it was complete. From the back- On the question being put by the Chairman, whe- wariness of ministers to restore the name of her Ma th,-r the amended Address should he adopted as the jesty to the Liturgy, f their refusal to assign her Address to his Majesty from the inhabitants of Frouse I one of the palaces for her residenee, from their shame and its neighbourhood, there were 210 in favour of foil prorogation of parliament to avoid all discussion the amended Address, and 75 against it; and it was about her affairs, be had Inure than forebodings that rescstved s Trott the Honorable Baronet, together with their malice was not yet satisfied, and that they meth the County M e mbe r s, s h ou ld be requested to present tatell striking %MM . other Wow at her peace and at the .ante to his Majesty. The above Address has her honour. It behoved, therefore, the people not to heart Signed by near 3,0011 persons. suffer themselves to he wearied out with this species After the Thanks of the Meeting had been unani- of was fare, but to double their efforts to save, in pro snously voted to the Chairman, Mr. Hinton reqnestell portion as ministers renewed their attempts to destroy. to call the attention of the Meeting to a paragraph in Ile trusted that the moment we had redressed the To Com ier London paper of Thursday the 23d inst. Queen's wrongs, we should set odrselvrs in geed earnest pnrporting to be an account of the rejoicings at Frome about the redressing of our own. The success in the on the abandonment of the Bill of Pains and Penalties ; Queen's business, whirl, was the consequence and re the same Was read by Mr. Kingston, who took occa- want of our unanimity, ofeoncerted operation', should Con to observe that lie was present at the dinner, serve as an example—and as an encouragement to hold and: Ise believed there were near fifty more meetings again, not only in towns and countries, but Freely.: lers there, and amongst them persons as in every parish and sillage ilsronghlott the kingdom, resisectable as any in Prolate. The worthy Baronet on all questions of great public importance. In this said that the statement, so far as it related 11 hint-, way, good eventually Islay come nut of evil ; awider self, or what he saw, was every word untrue ; that hr range than ever will he given to the force of to-s.-r in bis life sat down to a public dinner with public opinion, and we may owe to the op. Alb large a party, where propriety of condott and pression of the Queen the restitution and recovery of l•havinut was snore strictly observed. The writer our own liberties. Indeed, he considered every man La t evidently takeu scurrility and falsehood for wit. must consider the ease of the Queen as a note of pre- Ile, fur one, had no objtction to be cut by a lancet, . paration, as a signal fur still higher encounters, as a but disliked being hacked by an oyster knife. Mr. prelude to still greater victories. Ile hoped that all Itotton, after observing it was well known to all pre- , England would he seen, and that soon, to rise as one sent, that the statement in The Coarier was a coot- , mats, to demand indemnity for the past, security for plete fabrication of falsehoods from beginning to end ; the fut u re ; to demand a change notuf Ministers only, that the writer had dared to calumniate the worthy but of measures ;to a system of conciliation to Baronet, to libel the popular' of Femme ; and net be pursued to ward* a t meritorious but %altering contented to stop there, had, like an infamous libeller, I people ; instead of coercion, to dentand a rednetiun of destitute of all the noble and honourable feelings of a' all those taxes that press hardest upon national Indus man, dared to call the Queen the most opprobions try, and on the labouring class of society : to demand, moved the the following Resolutions, which In lieu o f th ose taxes , a sys t em of erotturny and re m -re carried neon. row— trenchment: if this be not sufficient for the revenue, lot: That the statement in The Courier paper, above re ferred to, is a collection of gross and infamous falsehoods. *l. That the Author. whoe , er he may be, is a malicious, despicable. anonymous libeller. tVe are sorry to observe that it is become a kind of ftAion kith these who are pleased to give themselves the names of King's Men, or King's Party, to stir up aniraw.ity and discord, by calling all who do not fall in. with their views to the conduct of Ministers, " Radicals and Disaffected;" as if an Englishman was not to have an opinion of his own, without heiNg derii.e.l an enemy to his King and Country. We hope the,A grimy will learn a little more wild and leratiun; let them keep in mind the old motto, " Think and let think." to demand saeritires, where they can be best wade, of the rich, and above all to demand a ttefor►n of Par lament, as the only ,wean of relmilding the fabric of our ronstitntion un its ancient basis, a►ti of opening to ourselves new ',wirers of wealth and strength, of inters►at prosperity, and of external power. These were the views and sentiments he entertained on the present occasion, and these he hail endeavoured to embody in the Address to the Qnecn, and the Petition to the King. The lion. Member concluded, amidst great applause, by mov i Ist. Resolved.—That an Address of t'nnkrat►►lation be presented to her Majesty the Queen, and that the Addrmss now read be adopted. And that a Petition be presented to his Majesty for the dismissal of the present Ministers, end that the Petition now read be adopted. The two Addresses were then read, and ably se conded by Mr. M It Sit. Nine Resolutions were moved and seconded by dif ferent Gentlemen, and tarried unanimously. On the Resolution of thanks to the members being carried, C. F. Pstmen, Esq., M. P., came forward. Ile was in a distant part of Lincolnshire when he heard of this meeting, from whence lie immediately proceeded, considering it his duty to attend his constituents on a question of so notch importance, and which has excit ed so much interest in every part of the kingdom. The Queen, it was said, had been blamed for not throwing herself on the aristocracy for protection ; but, in his opinion, she had acted snore wisely by ap pealing to the affections of the British people; for, while she received their support, in the language of Mr. Denman, lie believed Ministers might as easily pluck a star from the heavens as deprive her Majesty of any of her rights and privileges. The assailants of the Queen had proved the greatest enemies to the monarchy of the present day, and bad done more to degrade the kingly dignity than all the radical meet ings which had been held fur the last 50 years : for they had been the means of reviving numerous dis gusting stories long forgotten, and which had a ten dency to make many illustrious eharacters odious to the pnblic ; and which, bat for the prosecution of her Majesty would have remained buried in oblivion. To the Bible and other religious societies we are much in debted for instilling lessons of morality and virtue in the minds of the rising generation, and he much lamented, that the enemies of the Queen bad been es mischievously employed in sowing the seeds of vice, and rendering the labours of the religions so- cieties abortive. The hon. member then warmly ani madverted on the attempts made by ministers to sub vert the constitution, by pasting an ex-post /trete law, instead of subjecting their charges to a fair and impar tial verdict. He bad every respect for the rev. bench of bishops, but lie could not help observing that they had, in thin case, differed not only in point of law, but of religion ; and, in his opinion, had done them selves no credit by exhibiting party-coloured robes. lie deprecated the manner in which ministers had treated the House of Commons, by dismissing them in a way perfectly unknown to the usages of the coun try ; and declared that it was the interference of the people only that had rescued the Queen from her ene mies, and on their unremitted exertions did her safety even now depend. A change of ministers without a change of system would be worse than useless. The present men were undoubtedly leagued with foreign powers ; anti under the present s} stem, he feared English liberty could not exist. He hoped the death Oast present ministers would be the death of the present systai; for if that was allowed to exist, other men would he found to attempt its continuance: in essdirusatism of whieb he had reason to know, that the proem Misisarrs tth jeeted to bring forward the charge" against the Qum, when they were informed that a noble Dub Irks dote not lire far from this town, and Mr. Peek tauld farm another ministry; they thereby' thought limper to proceed with the prosecitiow, ail owls OR* pins... ' The Hon. Member soispliwisssad the amidst el die b .1d and manly part, in defence the public libevty, which had always been taken by the inhabitants of Reading; and concluded a mo 4 energetic speech. (which was received throughout with the loudest cheers), of which the above is a very faint outline, by assuring them it always gave him pleasure to obey their commands, and that it was with the greatest cheerfulness and alacrity he should attend upon her Majesty with the Address. Mr. Moser' and our worthy Mayor severally re turned thanks, after which the meeting gave three cheers for the Queen, and adjourned. THE STATESNIN. RE.IDING MEETING. On Thursday a most numerous and respectable meeting, consisting of about one thousand of the in habitants, took place in the Town-hall .1 to consider of an Address of congratulation to her Majesty the Quern un the abandonment, by the prosecutors them srlers, of their own Bill of Pains and Penalties against her ; and also an Address to be presented to his Majesty the King for the dismissal of the present Ministers." .......... Wm. Sterns:Ns, Esq., the Mayor, was called to the chair by acclamation. Jovsi BZRIMET Molitor, Esq., M. P., then came forward, and, after some introductory observations, said, the great majority of the whole people of the I•tilteil Kingdom were well convinced that the pro cedings against her Majesty were inexpedient, none ( essary, and uncoostitational.—((eat applause). He bad never been able to discover, up to the present boor, a single public ground—a single ground in which the people had an interest for the adoption of any proceedings at all against her Majesty. lie be lieved in his consch ace that the proceedings were instituted merely to gratify a private feeling of disgust a•iil resentment in a certain quarter, from which, of all oth tat, accusations of adultery, and sermons about ulnae Jity, purity, and the force of example, caiue with the very worst grace—(Applause). In that quarter, at least, it might have been expected that the humane precept of our religion would have been scrupolously attended to, " Judge not, that ye be not judged." When, however, proceedings, were determined to be adopted, why was it that his Majesty's ministers did not pro ceed by the regular constitutional mode of impeach ment, instead of having recourse to an ex-post facto law ?—A bill of pains and penalties—a nieasnre that never ought to be pursued bet in ease of absolote ne cessity, against some state delinquent, either absenting himself from the country, or beyond the reach of the ordinary laws ; and then ouly for the purpose of pre serving the constitution—of defending the rights of the people; and never for the purpose, as in the pre sent case, of oppressing an individual who had never done any wrong to the people—whose sole offence, if any, was against her husband—a husband, too, who, had done nothing to gain her affection, to deserve her love; who, within three short weeks after marriage, after a solemn vow to cherish and protect her, had discharged her from his mansion ceaselessly, capri ciously, and had ever since treated her, not only with neglect, but with the most ungenerous and unremit ting persecution.--(Cries of shame, shame.) --This husband seems to have thought that he had sufficiently fulfilled his engagement to hii consort, and his duty to the public, in going through the forms of marriage, and in securing to himself two solid advantages--the payment of his debts, and a large increased establish ment. As there was no bishop among them to broach a new doctrine of morality, be was not apprehensive • •that any our there present would tell him that the husband, be be prises or peasant, who bad acted thus. • weld de DO wrong. At last, when the iniquitous and awful proceedings were begun, it would be remembered at what length Mr. AttorterOsserel opened the one against the Queen, and that it was a tressodosi sass FARRINGDON-IVITHOUT MEETING. At the Meeting of the inhabitants of this Ward, held on Saturday, at the (Boise Tavern, in Fleet-street, for the purpose of considering of an Address of Coneratn lation to the Queen, and of a Petition to the King to dismiss his Ministers. After Mr. Alderman WAITIIMAN had taken the Chair„ Mr. FLAROM presented himself to tire notice of the Meeting, as stated in our paper of Saturday. Ile began by saying, that lie need not apologise for claiming their attention upon a subject which had been declared, by the universal voice of the people of to be the most important that could occupy their deliberations, and which in interest swallowed up all others. In con sequence of the indisposition of his father-in-law (Mr. Thompson), the task of submitting to them a string of resolutions, with the address and petition, had fallen upon him (Mr. Fearon). From some secret cause or other, the ieliabitants of that Ward, who constituted one-fifth of the population of this great city, hail, on this occasion, contrary to the usual practice. been denied by the Churchwardens the use of either St. Andrew's, St. Bride's, or St. Sepulchre's church, on various pre texts. lie complained that they (the parishioners) who had the payment of all the expenses, and bore all the burthens attached to these churches, should be denied the indulgence of meeting in them, seldom as it was that they asked it. The speaker proceeded to call the attention of the meeting to the very different situation they were now in from that in which they were when they met before on this question. Ile remarked on the powerful effect which petitioning and the general dis cussion of the subject hail produced. At that period they were accused of being tardy in the manifestation of their sentiments ; but now, when they had heard the evidence on both sides, they could come to a rational and fair derision. The speaker then took a review of the proceedings against the Queen, and concluded by oh serving, that the religion of the country, and the cha racteristic purity of the female mind, had never been so effertually undermined as by the proceedings in question. —(I fear.) The rho rges against the Queen were out of the power of a rational man to credit, unless they believed her to be a being not human, and he could not be lieve that even the prosecutors ever expected them to be implicitly credited, although evidence had been sought by the most tremendous influence in the world to support them. The views of the prosecutors might be exemplified by an old story of a tenant, who asked his landlord to give bin, timber enough to build a barn ? " 'Co !" Then, said the tenant, " Will you let me have enough to build a pigstye ?" " No." " Then," said the tenant, " will you let ate have enough to build a gate ?" 44 Why you may have that." " That," said the tenant, 18 is as much es 1 want, and more than I expected." So it was with her Majesty's prosecutors, who by charging her largely, thought to get some portion of their charge believed. The speaker next commented on the conduct of her Majesty's judges, and said it should be asked wise-, tber they were themselves pure that sat in judgment over her. In his brief experience he had remarked, that individuals guilty of any specific vice, drunkenness for instance, were in their cooler moments, almost the most severe and illiberal on those charged with the saint sin. The Trepsury prints bad amused themselves by making reflections on the rank of the Queen's adherents.— Ile would ask these scribblers, in what classes the greatest strength and virtue of society existed ? If they answered honestly, they would say in the middle classes. The Courier told them that the Queen's adherents were only butchers and bakers, and men of " mean birth." It would not perhaps be proper to ask who were the parents of Mr. Canning, Mr. Southey, or any other of the Treasury scribes. The speaker commented at considerable length on the loyal meetings for addresses, and, in particular, on the meeting held in the lVaril of Cheap. These were the men who were always foremost in the bigoted cry for per secution, and restraints on their fellow-citizens. It was they ivho set u p the cry, twenty years ago, for the mur derous war against the rising liberty of France, and of the world. It was this same body who, on one occasion, when an individual held up his hand in the Merchant Taylors' Hall against one of their resolutions, dragged him oust, pumped upon, and treated him with a degree of violence short only of murder. They were the rem mints of the Church anti King sten, who burnt the house of the great Dr. Priestky in Birmingham, and obliged him to fly for his life. At that time they heard no com plaints against the excesses of hired mobs. These men were wow an fallen as to be obliged to meet in lurking helm and commrs to hatch these measures, which would est Mar the light. For these men be would quote a book which, from the tenor of their lives, he feared they little rousulted. It said, that " men who do right come to the light, because their deeds are light ; but be that doeth evil hateth the light, because his deeds are evil." The speaker concluded by moving the Resolution for en Address. Mr. 1111DLRY OpposPd the resolution. He said it was ow thing to fad in proving a person guilty, and "another to establish her tummonce. 44e was of opinion that, although the prosecutor, had failed in proving the guilt of the Queen, the defenders of the Queen had failed in establishing her innocence. If there had been con tradictions in the evidence on one aide, there had been contradictions on the other. He was friendly to a change of Ministers, as they had misled the King. Here Mr. Alderman Wait Innen le ft the chair to join the City procession. He was succeeded by Mr. Savage, the senior Common Councilman. Mr. 1)oaos asked how they could bring themselves to coogratalate the Qom§ on her being proved innocent, when the House of Lords declared her guilty.---(Violent and continued disapprobation.) Mr. FISAROX said, the best answer to this question was that Lord Liverpool had abaddoo 41 the Hill.—(Loud ap plause.) he resolution, after some further desultory discussion, was carried, there being about eight or ten bands only held up against it. An Address to the Queen was then read and agreed to, as was also a petition to the King to dismiss his Mi nisters, after acme opposition from Mr. Dobbs, who, per sisting in speaking, after the Chairman had declared bins to be oat of order, was finally dragged from the seat on which he stood, and put out of the room. It was moved, that the Aldermen and Common Coencilmes of the Want should be requested to present the Andress a tho Queue, with as many ladies and gels denies of the Ward as might choose to ay them. It was also moved mid carried, that La= ' lse and Loa Comm. should he requested to present the redden to the Sing to dismiss his Ministers. Themite wore mood so Alderman Voidness and Mr. Savage ter their modust Is the Chair, when the Meet- • - r — --ir--- ng separated, after baring. `passed a vete of,censnr the clergy of the pari‘h for dabbling in politics worldly affairs frots interested usotires. FORE COUNTY MEETING. (FROM TIOR TOUR IFRRALD.) In our last, we expresso -1 oar anxiety fur a tiereral Meeting of the County of York, on the subjeit of th,- triumph of the Queen ; and, we have since learn., with considerable pleasure, that a requisition is handing Atom, for such a meeting, to take into c.u.. sidermion the propriety of petitioning the two Houses of Parliament to stop all farther procerdiogs az, L i nst the Queen, and to immediately restore her Al.:jsszy to all her rights and dignities. Our pleasure is. tia te . ever, in some degree, redneed, by the circumstan c e of there existing amongst the Patriots uf Yorkshire, ma i: . eats of opinion respecting the propriety of bringing ward at the said Meeting, the great national questios of Parliamentary Reform. Nome gentlemen of rack and talent, whom we knew and highly respect, hale refused to sign the requisition, unless that subject be introdated—we, how' err, would hope, that the differ ence will yet he so amicably- decided, as to present the failure of the projected meeting. The Yorkshire friends of Refo►ns we :.new are u Mine to meet the Whigs half-way on the subject ; and surely the white will not hesitate, at a time like the present, to exhibit a spirit of conciliation on their part, so far as is con sistent with the constitution of the country. It must be clear to all, that there are evils existing- in the C o . veruntent, which require an immediate Reform—it must be clear that the influence of the Crown is to.) great for the peace or prosperity of the country—it must be equally evident that a change of awn in the administration, without a change of measures, and a decided Reformation in the representation of the pee ple will he of no avail. Let then the leading men of the county meet the grand question openly, and with bold independence tread the glorious path that leads to peace and to liberty.--lhus they will most effec tually put to silence the enemies of the Constitution, and erect an edifice, more bright than the bauble cot tages of Kings, and far more beneficial to their coun try than all the glittering gcregases of as-graced dia dems. I • RECEPTION Ili ins AIAJESTT OF 771 E COMMON COCXU L. The Address, which was voted on Thursday. was carried up on Saturday in the usual form by his Ma jesty's appointment. On the Lord Mayer and City officers being shown into the Royal presence, the Ad dress was read ; and the King returned the following answer: It has been with the most painful feelings that I hive heard the sentiments contained in the Address and Petition, now presented to me by the Lord Mayer, Al. dermen and Common Council of the City of London. " Whatever may be the motives of those by whom it is brought forward, its trident tendency is to iNlawie the pmations, and *pa:lead Me jadgment nj the lassenry and lest enlig Aimed part If my sabfeets ; and thus to ar gravate all the difficulties with which we have to cow tenet." ft is somewhat remarkable, that His Majesty, not withstanding lois known urbanity of manArs, never spoke a word to the Lard Mayor. That, however, is a circumstance of little importance, for it has been well observed that, " although a King can make a Lord, he cannot make a Gentleman :" and the worthy Mayor will still be respected by Isis fellow citizens. But looking merely to the answer, we do say, that we never befure knew or heard of any Minister daring to advise his Sovereign to return sods an answer to such an Address. If the Minister who is responsible for this answer be not impeached, the Members of the Commons must have formed notion very different from ours of the English Constitution, and of the peoples' rights. SIR FRANCIS BCRDETT. ...-....._. At the Westminster Meeting last week, Sir FRANCIS But:DVDT, the champion of the people, was, as usual. at his post. His declining health, his exertions, and Lis sufferings in the national cause; the daily approach of his second imprisonment ; and, above ail, the cause of that imprisonment : all hare tended to es dear Aim, if possible still more, to his fellow country men in general, and his constituents in particalar. We never see Sir Flaxcis BURDETT hot Vie flamed in bearing the title of " Englishman." We voila here enlarge upon the various circumstances, out of which the proceedings against the worthy Darted hare originated ; but temper and prudence, we WO, will always regulate our pen : and, as we understioil Mr. A7TORNIIV-ORNERAL almost devours our par at his breakfast, we are satisfied with his table frielii• ship; and bare no desire to extend it to his pee& office. But oar readers will bear In mind, &CM "bead and front" of Sir FRANCIS fivalstre's olio" was, his having expressed an opinion so termite allia at Manchester ; for which acts the Ministers, ist A le name of their Sovereign, thanked the scion; esi.fle which, one of those actors., HAY, the Matiits ' Clergyassaw, has been most substantially thanked brig gift of a living worth two thousand a year. Pm" HAT then, fur doing what he did at Manchester, Ma been rewarded with two thousand pounds a years aa' acted by a tenth from the husbandman's Isaac 04 substance. Sir Paoacts licaners. on tie anther hand, esteemed and beloved by elk. is, ler what he wrote n pon those acts nt Manchester, to be locked wP to I prison; and there can be little doubt thattbeimpaa a " meat will shorten hisdays. Thus stands thetas.; what consequence is such a 'nun as Sir FRANCIS 110: MITT, compared with thirßercrend Mr. Bar !--40 0 " sti tenon Sends, paper.) The Right Boa. the Lord Mayor has WOW ° Friday next fir holding a eviumon.hall to veer' Watts her Majesty _oo her recent triumph worke r powerfal enemies, in the ' , cicalae of the Dig of Pains and Penalties by the Moose of Lords, sal Is take into consideration the tooduct of the late lark Mayor, as connected. with the rights and prisiler of the city. We have received aceostras of The Courier, Lomise Newspaper, having recently, ill three different Owes is this coast?, beer pahliely congigord to the /ate" with every mark of scorn and itrtestatien, for iss siewaen against her Majesty.--(Brightve Hossit)