The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-07-06 00:00:00

• I . • ! 1 I . . I, i 1 ; 1 1 li 0 ' , i t ii ; ... f II I f k r i Lib. ~a received a black rye. He was poslthe as to the identity of the prisoner. although he had never seen him but once. and .hen only for a few minutes. W. Shearwood, a tailor, was called to mend the prisoner's which was torn in the senile, at the Rose and Crown. "II the 4th of January. J. tireenway. landlord of a public house in Leather-lane. 4a ore. tsntt on the nth of January he saw the prisoner at hie Dodging, between 10 and II in the morning, and again at night ; when he observed that he had got a black eye. Mrs. Marnoch lives at in, Leather-lane. The prigoner !odged at her house from Christmas until the latter end of January. when he was taken into custody : and she verily I ),.lionetl that he was not absent from home two nights toge ther during the whole of that time. The Common Serjeant summed up the evidence, and the .Itirv. after retiring for nearly an hour, returned a verdict of The Common Nerjeant then sentenced M. to transports tioa for seven years. HIGH TRSASON. ../....- Is I.ET, JULY I. MO.—The Court of Oyer and Ter. mince was opened here this morning at ten o'clock. Alter the Grand Jury had been chosen, and the Lord President had delivered his charge, a bill was laid before the Jury, charging seven individuals with high treason. The Jury, after examining witnesses, returned a true bill against the whole defendants, viz.— I v t vSTODY.—James Speirs, John Lang. NOT IN CUSTODY James Walker, Robert Parker, . 1 4 , !.n Young, John Smellie, James Nixon. Lang and Speirs were served with their indictments in 1 ' , art. They named Messrs. (leant and Jeffrey u their I ()tinsel. The Court was ikon' adjoaraed. PRICE Or KTOClViiiis DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. Rank Stock 241 990 per Cent. Red. tilit 00 3 per Ct. Coss. 0041 ex. dlr. $9 per Cent. 7744 4 per Cents. 141141 A pr Ct. Nev. 109 k 1011 ex. d. long Au. In 13-16 Insp. S per Cent. Ann. India fldwk 4141 Dittolluissis !Is. las. pm. Old Annuities Ex./111151M. 7s. kn. pm. Ditto Con. 1 Is. lts. pm. Oanlum Con. for Ae. 7011 Lott. Tickets £l9 10s. Cbe ttateirnan. " TIM 8111/111111TILTIS1111/4" IS mcoar &&&&& II WITII " THE lITICTIISMAX." LONDON: TnnumAT ['MX', JULY 6, 1920. We know not by what impulse the prosecutors of the Welts' are impelled, but they seem to proceed front *oil yetreordinary step to another, equally sur prisioeZtehh a precipitation that would appear as if intended' to snake amends for their late delay. The 11111 1 founded on the Report of the Secret Committee wa. brought into the House of Lords last night. It is of a nature which every one, who dispassionately re rect. on the subject, and upon its probable conse gurney", most witness with pain and regret. It ex tend. not only to the degradation of her MAJESTY from the style, title, and prerogatives of Wes,/ eo,rseetr, but to a divorce r rimer& ntetrimoaii, and thi Lords are to be her prosecutors, judges, and le gislators in the cause! Previous to the introduction of the Bill, a petition was presented from the QUEEN, ..raylfg to be keerd by Counsel against the charges, hut the prayer of the petition was rejected. Thus then the charges that have lain so long in am buscade in the Green Bag, have been embodied into a tanp,ible shape, and thus the Ministers of the King 114% r openly dared to impeach the virtue of their Royal Matter's Consort. But upon what sort of evidence have they bonded their Report? and on what credible tt:stiniony is the Legislature now called to sanction a 11111 of Pains and Penalties against the very person whom her impeachers were a few days ago willing to • endow ln the character of a blameless Qvcee— whein tlare acknowledged to , be so worthy of respect, auto ithstantling the allegations had recourse to, that they would notheeireditgements for her introduction to a fneign Cou oil allow her fifty thousand pounds a-year. The 011110 e will sot fail to remark the incon itistoney of these proceedings, and to demand a strict sc. utiny into the characters and conduct of thepersons on whose depositions the people of Britain are required to condemn their Qualm. Is it upon Italian evidence, upon the allegations of wretches gathered from all parts of the Continent, who hold themselves absolved fr lin the sanctity of out oaths, and the jurisdiction of our laws, that we are asked to inflict degradation and the worst of punishmeut on a female, who has nobly put her trust in her own innocence, and theohield of British justice ? Never may the stern feelings of in tl./neat virtue be so relaxed—never may we see the treed forms of justice so violate 1. The Orend Juries of this country, who decide on the apparmat grounds of crimiLat an, before they find a hill of indictment, exa minepersons sad hear evidence !detract. The accusers of her MAJESTY have assumed all the powers of a Grand Jury, and brought in their bill of accusation ; hut can it be said that they have performed the salutary duties of Grand Jurors ?—bave they interrogated such witnesses as an impartial Jury might be expected to examine before they sanctioned sue/. accusations ; and can it be said that Ministers, after having pre judged the case of the Illustrious Defendant, can come to the consideration of the charges with minds fitted for an Impartial inquiry? Let the public but look at the names of the Select Committee who have reported her Matter( guilty, accvding to the contents of - their bag, and perhaps some part of the cause of thi n s moustrous birth may be explained. Was it thus that the Duke of Toss was dealt with ? Were any mea sures pursued by the Government, or by Secret Com mittees, calculated to prejudice both Houses of Per- Mamma and the public against that Illustrious Indi vidual, though the chirps against biro were of a serious Mature? We recollect the expression of bisect iesilgiestlest cad diarist in which a Minister se the time (Mt. Wrsonabs) indulged, whoa the mod* which the seminary deesateitte bad bees obtained THE STATESMA`• was developed. Ue observed that he would rather beat the weight of the accusations brought forward against the personage then impeached, than sustain any part of the odium which attached to the disgraceful man ner in which the letters and testimony had been pro cured, on which the charges were founded. We doubt not there are persons who would express them selves in like manner, were the means by which the ' scandals on her MAJErres character have been col -1!-cted fully exposed, as they yet must and shall be, aid gh the denouncers of mean and filthy intrigue may not be among the Ministers of the present day. Her M IJESTT is accused of having pursued a lung coarse of licentious conduct. We shall not stop to animadvert on the degree of approbation due to those guardians of public morals and national tranquillity, who, aware of such conduct in a person so closely con nected with the State, could so long overlook glaring and dangerous improprieties, and at this late period make such sweeping imputations. Boldly as this as sertion is made, we are convinced it will be shown to be unfounded. Her Majesty has indeed resided i■ and traversed licentious conntries, but she has ever felt a stain ass wonitd. Cou►ts are never the most pure abodes for virtue; but in the contamination of what Court or haunt of vice has she shared ? Thanks to the mode so religiomtly adopted to exclude her frogs the scenes and circles where dissipation and folly reign with the greatest extravagance, the Waxer of Ex I:LAND was exiled to the most remote and unblemish ed haunts of nature, to the romantic shores of the Lake Cosmo, where her time was spent in the company of the most virtuous and select females, and in constant acts of beneficence, as Lady Axes lissieurox, and all who had the honour and pleasure of her MAJzsTy's acquaintance, can testify. The only distinct and sub stantive charge that is selected from amidst the many imputations so much dwelt upon, seems to relate to &CREAMY, the foreigner, who lately acted as her MAJESTY'S Chamberlain. If this is the best and only ground the enemies of the Qt-axx can find whereon to rest their proof of a mighty load of guilt, her hisJcsvr may well exclaim, " despair thy charm," for the investigation of that charge, whilst it will place the virtue of the Illustrious Female in the purest light, will cover her accusers with ridi cule and scorn. Pity and delicacy would prevent us being explicit, but time will show how far the man, whom the wise authors of these charges believe to have been so highly favoured, is capable of giving such offence. Surrounded as her MAJESTY Las been by spies and traitors, she has stood lunch in want of faithful attendants. BERGA3II, it seems, proved not undeserving of confidence iu his station ; bon what baa the Grand Sultan to fear front the inoteasive geardian of the Hs rem ? e - The grave and awful thoughts which the proceed lags of the House of Lords inspire, have been re lieved by a lively tale, connected with the subject, which has found its way into general circsingion. " If, in the present instance," said a writer in a Morn. ing Parr yesterday, " this charge against her MA- JtiTT of adultery with BIBROANI does rot produce more laughter throughout all Europe than any thing which has occurred since the beginning of the French Revolution, when laughing went out of fashion ; nay, we will even ge farther—if this saloons charge produces ultimately any thing bet laughter itaistet the fabricators and believers in the supposed in tercourse, we shall be content to 6 reciteei the greatest dupes that the whole land contains."-..- What can all this mean ? asked those who were not in the secret. How can a charge of the most serious nature be made to take such a divertinglarn? What foundation is there fur the pleasantry in which the journalist indulges ? The grounds which are thus but hinted at eitiwing In existence are referred to, vaguely, by au antagonist Paper of this morning :--" We have no doubt *tit her [MaJarree] Counsel will urge every thing that learn ing and ingenuity can suggest, In proof of her inno cence; but we are very certain that they will Mt in sult public decency by so shame:ess a defence as that intimated by • certain journalist, who has injured her M AJ eel T . II cause by undertaking to give it support. He insinuates that the alleged adulterous let me with lignoant will be sopisimit *amp, and mere subject for Issighter ! Gracious Heaver! an utter ignorance of the very nature of fitiml?' cacy! The manifest insinuation of this writer is, t l4 only certain appearances of guilt were produced, bat that the reality was prevented by some natural limp& diluent." Another Paper of this morning alindute though but in general terms, to the grounds which , caused the writer we have last quoted to utter so many seines exclamations and which had dispense) the *ni l to anticipate so much mittb. With respect So she adulteress intercourse with the individual is question, this Paper states, that " rumour says her Kumar, is verified with an unanswerable dekcee." When a circumstance is so generally knows es then extracts testify, and when so much of it la displeasing , to tantalise curiosity and set conjecture on the rilt.l it is diScult to sausage our commanicatiens reepnetint it in such • mann* as to ministate the tone thanes*. pedient oi the delicate °session, end yet to famish lb* information which the public have a right to sirs& If we attempt to gin out Itemises some lies et grenade that have been already se mesh cam terms of such obscurity, we knew elect our purpose better than in the words of a Cor respondent, who related to us a dream he had had on this very subject about ten days ago. Hear ing, as he stated, fur several days before, no thing hut about tireen Bags, Queax, and Berman Baron, he one night dreamed that he had a peep into certain documents relating to the affair in agitation, and among them discovered evidence that this psis sem Baron was one of that description of persons who are occasionally imported from Italy to sing the tenor notes in some of our Theatres. It has for some time been asserted with confidence that the industrious agents who were sent from this country on the eariota suissiox to Milan were, with all their craft and vigilance, deceived by false colours held out to them, and became the dupes of a raw des Araerre. Apprized at length, though too late of their mistake, they now, it is alleged, pretend that the person in question must have subunit- 1 ted to undergo a most important change, for the par pogo of contradicting their elaborate discoveries. , Credal Jade•ns ! Low as they might be disposed to submit for the sake of their attachment to their em ployers, or for the sake of reward, we question whe ther even they would expose themselves to the degra dation and the danger which the statement they assert implies. In order that our Readers should be made acquainted with the sentiments of our cotemporaries this morning, on the proceedings of the House of Lords last night, we present them with the fullowieg extracts. The Time., after stating the objects of the Bill for dis solving the marriage of the KING and Quir.ax, kc. obsetves— "The law of divorce separates, upon substantial proof, a pure man from an impure woman ; but it does not allow, nor ever has allowed, nor ever can allow, of the separation of two impure people at the option of either. We do not impute to his Majesty an impure life, either during his cohabitation with the Queen or since she quitted him; but we do aver, that a Bill of Divorce, founded upon the simple misconduct of one party,—the conduct of the other not being allowed to be examined or inquired into,—is a violation of the law of Hod, as it it modified and applied to the sacred mar- riago-rite. Be the Queen's conduct what it may, his Majesty must show an unimpeachable title to relief, or mast allow that title to be scrutinised before re lief can be afforfled him; or otherwise there is an end at once of all the sacred solemnity of the issrriage contract : fur ill examples do not mount from the humble to the great, but descend from people in ele vated stations to the crowd. A Bill of Pains and Penalties is one thing, even suppose such a Bill had imprisoned the Queen for kis, or bad banished her from the kingdom ; but a divorce—a dissolution of the nup tial hoed, is a measure of a totally different nature— it does not punish guilt—it sets loose from a disastrous obligation. bet it be recollected that the man, as well as the woman, engages on his knee.,, before the ; altar of tiod, that, " forsaking all others, be will beep only to his wife so keg as they both shell live." i t it do net say that the King has sot ibis; vier that the Waimea of is a alai unalienable condition of the o dap ; and that it is irdplosse to &sok. die without allowing of what is WWI natio,. hut which is redly on y • coetrevertitg ef the plaintiff's claim to relief. " And DOW with respeet to the grime imputed to the Queen. It we were lielbet; doubted whether Illieletsre ireeld prove the charge of adultery against her, her ere these doubts strengiliemed by thi most lieges, pm:she of this Hill, wherein we Sod Ii hopeleg em elimee in a bi l irsty, sad pieced by the aids of her oeseethee with that she instituted as Order of mmo tied or ether Mdse. If we recollect aright, iestiteied the " Order of Houser" In Italy •, and certain Individuals established the " Order of Arced'," exteedleg throughout Europe. But we .s -treet ettentioa generally is the preamble of this most - - astonishing IWI. These an Oa aerates sealant She Queen :—'That, poverty; thetas became came* hied to Ms itardly; that Iltaispearn pe den apes hie at bee solletetlee (thee ,Iforopo to o_lo.o the wee admitted) ;eeIMIN% V nada eke F ar A oftimmokes Ono. Am the' heard e a t ehii. h b Akar r o. of seeA d admieel Mr hove hese p.... "gessoese, per se, have mot the tire.__ ihoty to then, wall sot have bees introduced. a Asses' the war/ seeselles of tote singular preeeedieg MAIr ve v eiyikett some. The proof of doe adultery *Wee ni es together. Thy are to sometime Nis eel: is Area follow'a ell *he Se eliodsdee et idelstiy. iltelne sai t ftiln il ees iir remarkable sr s if the divorce were pas se d fret, e= tet, sad the wir e proved afterwards. Hut the • r lith. MP's set aside on a tedsaleality, her is. liouelbeik sot to knew the witnesses who are ire lOW beet se Set It is wet to impossible that dee 41sposee Shelf evidase, obey the iefinny of thole ehe thalelh steam their armee *es the - t W. •=ut e widest* ' -'? [ruse 1 ear Nebo ter upon the details of a subject haters, in itsesf. ami were. fenced off from public diseussinn by the judisiglib lily of the 'Parliamentary measures. But white weer mf , form our duty, we will not suffer the mind of the covetty t o be misled and poisoned by infamous sophistry au hood. Obstinacy and boldness have already brought a heavy calamity; a perseverance in the same m cuter will only wee to aggravate the fall, " And in the lowest deep a lower deep" is yet, we fear, discoverable. Two centuries have .',Pal since shame was attached to the reputation of a Q w‘a England; and thus, whatever may be the issue ci the tell now unhappily distracting the nation, it may feel Paid the past, while it looks to the wisdom and purity of kis, 'ligature for such conduct in the present as is eak s l ats rinderthe future guardedly virtuous and honouralgyd ectne , [room Ti! new viers.] • The Bill, founded on the Report of the Secret Cq. lee, has been brought into the Ilona. of Lords ; magi; j ig a mature which no ingenuous mind can contemplates pain. Who, that feels for the honour of the House Ole* wick, can help lamellas that a Princes of that kilo" line should fora moment be thought deserving of tied", dation which this Bill contemplates? The preamble sk ile , disgraceful, licentious, and adult erous i n i ercourse be d the Queen and one Bergamo, formerly a menial serval : e l l it proceeds, as a necessary consegvence, to easel. :wa r , Majesty shall be deprived of her regal station and tit tki that her marriage with the King shall be dissolved Her Majesty will this day be heard ht Conesel ap s e the Bill: and assuredly we shall be most happy iftheve% allege suacient reasons to Indere the Hoe* * soma; proceeding on a meaner, se painful ; bet we own, Thee e , look to the constitution of the Secret Committee, car hop, in this respect nee faint indeed. The Committee. it tab, remembered, tantalised only four Cabinet Ministers, am besides them there were the Dukes of Reaufcrt .sad Not. thumberland, the Marquis of Buckingham, the lark g Donoughmore, Lauderdale, and Beauchamp. Lords lbw. Redesdale, and Ellenhorough. the .Irek6hhw Canterbury, and the Bishop of London. All these KA, and Reverend permits astaaimeaiskst contorted la the Isms —a Reinert certainly such as never before was presestaik mach a body against a Queen of England! Still It is far from our wish to overtook the elms's* that their Lordships merely drew their isoaciasioas freer:. parte evidence. It is possible that thismay be rebelled* ettetrary and sore powerful evidence oa the part of halls. itatf• We have received Paris Pap % the 40. h instant. On Sunday evening, the Duke Deems had audience of the King. We may forts some Wm of the Liberty of the Preu in Prance, when we km that 4,623 lines were erased from the numat sf I The Conatitationnel by the Censor in the cant sf last month. At the Court of Assize, Paris, theater Bidault, late responsible Editor of The CeArtitutinewi, was found guilty of excitement to disobedience of the laws, and sentenced to eight months insprisonmest,m4 4,000 francs fine; the responsible Editom sf tie Cc:safer Erropeen, Remonessee, Courier Flinik Independent I' rieterfre, and Let tree Norma/mar found guilty of a similar offence, and genitalia', to two months imprisonment and 2,000 Irani" The Sitar Oossuia, Editor of The Bi4list‘eret $ torifne, was found guilty of a formal attack efik itKol the consdtatlesal attherity of the Kinrand the hers, and sentenced to a year's tatpriehemse ad 6,000 francs fine. Faamcst Ft:Nos.—Five per Cents. 771. 60 r: Bask Actions 1,442 f. 50 c. We have received GPIO4I Gazettes t. the !deb which contain intelligence of the aserewents IT the Pasha of Jenina. Want of room eugn as t fer their losertion till to-morrow. The following Is an extract of a letter from la Hoche, Jane 1 :-- " Part of the Columbian navy. , r e book t• the degradatk. atlresof Qeres sa Ad tic sad Lsgleiston in the esese as, however, to the Istrodostieo Weis IN, ewe diseessloo .look plate on a peddes p. by USW DEW Me bar ilkiesty, Nadas, that sbe fed bees (okellted of the down on* , 4 ;ll w e i l os le y _ et the Norse Caw mikes of es ye 1 1 el/ Imo., to be heard ky Comae]. her _ masa to erg* wogs te t here s klieseholskb iegard to her *tern Wind tbe Mktg oak. see we bare sot Word. It was stated yeasessy by of oar tentsaperartee, that' her Majerlyzilt= ea tbe Mart of the Secret Oar "dues to sillitt had istbsted sertesth by time, eat .M id to kat her Mel easy be pro ceeded is 11111111011sisli, Ike presented lea eiplit will not. beeterer. estellk AMMO Ash onty be the l. object of lA abet be arged by "bar iligesty's Coesse Oar readers will see from tbe presidtre gibs," that k le pounded joiselpelos Ole doge f ihtreos liters tsetse Ma Moral, f o r !taped. It kiss lb. add terse, Isteelleltres with this Wieland Is not preset, the 11111 'SS of mores fell to lb" greeod. Censor. however, soya Sat oda as le tatie putioular sharp kw illgesty le padded widi as maimmilro Othesse. [peen Ts. 11•0311 MI Baer.] Latiles Liked. 711° upset which Ws vabeff/ maiir kW see asshiesee ' " D a Tlllla prsthe egression of soy of sew essikeense *e Pepter) No. "'"d• olefft obese fa type. Ma . premise by It. WARDS by lase attempts ei midst' Oast" we g AO set atakations, 00 Os do 411 i 105 t.% 0 ribloThosso Lord 1 , not d *AM descsiti mo d: 6, RIO JANRIRO, APSIL 19.—The eaphal of Imo Ayres has been established Intern intending, oda* rates named Intendant Uenend and Weenier. 1890 brought about a coaster-revoistles, when Carrera led away. bat it lasted may a few 8 11;1 1 1 1 ?_ the above cause hack and resseped their places. ow because Saltarce's tarn to ay away. - wilheme e nt ri t en lees bestinded vela* the lea .sud t. for havioir asseildsi s SmoS with . Fraser. engsgiag r nom, is Bums • 'wrier of the Begrime Paudig. -Portuguese Prises's. - as seated, that It bu hese speed /cps. Mr. Alderman Wood, we with Mr. Ball, for his seat for the residence of her Majesty fur three The Queen took a carHage airing ea lag, for severed Giles along the western mod, ilkiA riot and pair. The Primates Sophia aloe lei 0 slaw the same read, In • mmeh sad fear. AO_ ,_, lll riders. The illustrious Ladies mot war ligs 01 0 11 : gate. bet not the slightest recegalithe took yin° tines them. The gnomes COATIS" WPM& 1111; 2, the monseat anemia& by a amber of wow P -1 Kensington, who cinema mach cl4airreill Imolai towards the Princess; at the saw deo remptorily ordering her servants to take eirdwit The mandate was not obeyed, and a sessersany knee sassed ; bet the whips of this respective sad the mettle of she hems% Been pet m it, by whirling the sarriagos away.la silifemog dons, almost in fall speed. ___..:-.....00 ---- - ••••••••• Wee their absence from the mein while ,they MK • scribe; and farther , as the papers of the Gram nert i i i i i s e w ow' tht secret, it Is Impossible me to compare disk i s i s uss tees, Is. likt their depositions." resign his dire. :rim /ma smart 55 ciao/neut.] that he is to taki s=mLe die the 111111110esiebeli Qhiiits, fhb. M • a end amp, eatt ili te ll eg; so So ld. yes .... 1511• M i liviesty hoe die style. title, mod te r d a y al oA die r Consort Lords , are to be the but to a Morse a vineule a _. 7 11., settled wi IPr es hi lbe nue! oeseaters. ""' for the readouts the "i:lihi& it- eau- four schwas's, one Mama, aad two tra;sporl Sat th‘ • SesiraNd tire. theconnmaad of Admiral Brio*, are still here, sold TM that die was s o cr a s es eali h ne d 0 ,. the lead Mess bailiff ntarelesti towards Si. MI i net being • Cowl of cooperage 41111 Ike eimodetta is as lateaded de milled) i fiber At krittif i i... hair * set ir k , is new f ore if y l e run M the demotion. 77 -.."' its' last we sever tem • amer Punt es la safety. At d Br at a 1 Wall air* t 4 14 iiikiler is interrupted bill lb ' eallissr l*orces, mil Cheeks aad 'indigos : their les proved. these oilier th- ud th e u n d ue o f or i o d. aloe a Creole, aad a satire of this place." ~..r iet vagina.. --.--- sat 0 iamb nit arid* ~-