The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-07-19 00:00:00

tier the peculiar protection of the Legislature, and to rrisivh the public faith was pledged. It was also flit that sec change attempted in a system wbieh the country * had so long observed, must be gradual and slow, in order to produce the :efiects desiseds , for the country could not sudilenlYretrier its steps in a course which, he admitted, she had too long pnraned.—(Hear. hear')—lt might be thought.by some, that the Com mittee had not recommended change enough ; hut even one step of departure from an injudicious system et commercial policy would he hailed by wise men as a return to those right principles from which we bad too much receded, especially in the opinion of foreign nations. Our restrictive system was, indeed, a re proach upon our character for wisdom and liberality, as well as a provocation to hostile reciprocity, through out the Continent ; and for the vindication of that cha racter it would become um to give up that system, from a sense of its injustice. At all events, it would be ertne us-to show to foreign natio/is. that if they vio heed the sound principles of c acne hereafter, they should nut have the example of I ireat Britain to quote in jnatification of their conduct.—(Hear, hear !) .1 kc lteport was ordered to lie on the table, and to printed. The Irish Promissory Nears Bill went through a Committee, after a short conversation, in which the C!taNcrt ton of the Exeurovre, Messrs. Ileventst s-„s and Firms. took a part. Th Bill was reported, and to he printed. SIR WM. MANNEKS.-31r. TINSTPON said, that be had to present a petition from an individual, who had the misfortune to incur the displeasure of the !louse. Upon an order made for the attendance of Sir W. Mauners upon a Committee of that House, the lion. Baronet, who was nut aware of the order, hap pened to be absent *from haute, and the House thought Proper to come to a resolution that he had absconded in order to escape the service of the order. The fact, however, was, that the moment Sir W. Manners was arTrised of the order, he came to town with a view to attend the Committee, bat on his appearance he was ordered to be committed to Newgatr, where he bad now bsets eight days a close prisoner. Considering the offence of the Hun. Baronet was quite unintentional, and also t' « unfortunate state of his health, to which a respect :Ode medical practitioner was ready to depose at the Bar, he hoped the petitioner would be found to cape r'ence that degree of clemency which the Ifonse had h—n pleased to extend to others.—The petition was read, and laid upon the table. Mr. Bor. the Surgeon of Newgate, being called to the Bar of the Moto., said that he had seen Sir W. Manners that day. and that, in hi• opinion, he could not attend at the Bar of the flutist. without consider abl risk. •4'he Marria of Tirfll►lPLD noire', that Sir W. Manners be tligrliargeti upon payment of Lig fees. Mr. M.:l. TArLoit bore with:tufty to the infirm !tate of Sir W. Manner.' health. After a few words from Mr. GB t NT, Mr. R. MARTIN, Mr. W. WILLIAMS, atatl the Marquis of TITCBTIELD, the motive was agreed is. Mr. !fume said, that as many erroneons opinions had goer abroad with respect to the expense incurred by the Government of this country in the lonian Isles, lie •hould move that there he laid before the House an Abstract of the Expense incurred by the Government of Great Britain in the lonian Isles, for the year end. iro: Dee. '2 , 1119.—Ordereol. Mr. 11.1v7 obtained I. Ave to brine in a Bill to conso lidate and amend several Acts relating to Gaols, Peni to totiary !louses, and Houses of Correction. Mr. ('Levy then moved for Copies of the Fourth Re port of the Committee appointed h 1 59 and 39 Geo. no inquire into Charities in England and Wales ; a• d o•tilie Second Report of the C,mmmitter appointed to ingiiire into Weights and Meastores.—Ordered.— Adjourned. 11('F. OF STOI'KS Till Plank Stork MI 111 $ pp• ('rat. lied. 4014 1 per CI. Cons. dm; s. per Cent. 77 4 per Cent.. 1171 i 6 "r Ct. Nay. 1011 103 Long Ann. IS 1-113 1-tp. S per Cent. Ana. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCIi. I mils Stoek Ditto Bowls 204. 114. re. Old Annuities Es. Bills Yd. bs. plc Ditto rost. I Is. Its. pm. Osmium put. ('on. for Ace. Vali Lott. Tiokots To Connonookissnrs.—" Ar!tildes. Letter VIII.." is M. tended for to-morrow.—" Cineinnalos," as soon as possible. EPRATA.-151 the Kiag's Letter. among the Diseonsente re hitire to Mrs. Otitis &Tres. instead of " is now wade -*own to Ike native ." rend is "nest'," kr. ; dead instead stl 1731). - read " 1710." fbt atatcsintatt. `• TPIX illTlxlf XTATESSIAN " IX INrollrollx71:1) 'MN " TUX LONDON: WIIIINZADAT 'VINING, JILT 19, 18.30. French Papers have this morning arrived in town to the 16th inst. Hostilities have bee■ commenced in Albania; the first advantages are said to be in favour of the Insergenb. Some fears are entertained at Constantinople as to the final result. The insist roction, in the opinion of the Court party. has assumed an alarming appearance, and is not likely to be easily quelled. Selman Ali Pasha has been formally de posed. A low from Harnitergh mate'. that five pi ratical vessels have sailed from Algiers under the red fag. The direction they hare taken is along the French. Spanish. aad Portuguese coasts. Fauna Portia.--Fine per Coats. 79 f. 15 e. Boston ?urn arrived t►is warning to tie 4Yd of [room vua sorrow pasta or PINS 491 Aerosols from Stew's Ayres so the lith of April, state, that another usllltary ekistiloweral Alvear, bad failed is as attempt to slim *mum •f Covariant. Admiral Coshrom had tam kiwis, sod the Patriot troops were withia SS miles of• Guayaquil. triton SPAR/SM AMEBIC/19 MIS I. A supposed emtspiracy has Ulm discovered at Ti- Issas. The Creoles are said to he at the bottom of it, whose object it was to take the lite of ilea. Morino. 4 i • THE IiTA and destroy his arnty.• Six of the coopiraturs have been shot.—lieu. Murillo has a strong force at Vene tuela. The Patriots have polsession of Santa Fe : but two Spanish divisions have advanced to oppose them. Cutuana and Barcelona are quiet, and in pos session of the King's troops. It was reported at Porto Carello, that General Boli var had gut Lack from Santa Fe, and was at Achattat supposed with a fresh supply of men and money. The Patriot General Paez war at St. Fernando with his ad vance. General Murillo** head-quarters was at Va lencia : and General Morales was at Calaboso. Accounts from the Spanish Main state, that the Independent troops had fortified Rio de la Marie, and that a large detachment has gone against St. Jlartlia, the Independent fleet co-operating in its reduction. NEW YORK, JUNE, 12.—A letter from II state., that the Spanish General Renorales died in the Meru Castle ; he had been arrested, with several other officers, on a charge of having attempted a con spiracy to overthrow the present Government, and esta blish the independence of Cuba. The following Papers have been received thi4 morn ing.:—Huston. 2.. kl June ; New York, 14th June: Norfolk, 17th June : Palembang. I;th Jane Phila delphia, 16th June: Halifax, 16th June; St. John's, 13th June. Private letters from New York, of the I.lth of June. state, that three slave ♦essels have been raptured ■nd carried into New• York, and they were expected to be condemned. AMERICAN CAPTIEER.—It appears, by au official cor respondence in the Notional Intelligesteer, that our Mi nister at the Court of Madrid has of the liberation of American captives immured in Spanish dungeons, thereby restoring to their country and their families numbers who, from principle and patriotism, had taken part with the Independents of South America. In the House of Lords last night, the Alien Bin was strenuously opposed by several of the few Noble Meni brut ulto attended the debate, and the spee . cle of Lord llou.as to, though unsuccessful in checking its passage through the House, cannot fall, we should expect, to mollify the exercise of its powers. The principle of the Bill his Lordship clearly , hewed was as inconsistent with the spirit of the Constitution. as its operation was with sonnd and proper policy, and with the rota fort and convenience of individuals. By tiOs inhos pitable and insulting Art. Britain is nit longer what it was, the refuge of the persecuted, and the asylum of the distressed ; the revenge uf foreign do spots is ex changed for the surveillance of an English Secre tary of State t ad the liberty of every letrangere . • 1 which had been secured to him by the general laws of the country, is now left at the mercy of a single intlividoial, invested, towards him, with an arbitrary authority : fur the exercise of which. whatever be the injury, no redress can be obtained lt is in vain to urge that this authority is geld exercised, and hitherto not chargeable with blame. From its very nature, it must be liable to abuse : and even while its inflictions are suspended, it cannot fail to be injurious. With all the forbearance and fair dealing that have been professed. it cannot fail to have effect upon the transactions of the present crisis. The minds of aliens most be ronstructed of materials much stronger than we conceive, if they can be equally unembarrassed as witnesses defending the 1 party acensed, apd as supporting the cause that is I prosecuted by Government. The renewal of this I odious measure was again imputed, as it bad fee- I fluently been before , to it r : suggestion of WM! Foreign Councils. But the spirit of the measure I is, alas ! no longer foreign to the Councils of our country. Every year and : month, the aye tern of our Govermnent approaches n to the policy of the continental States. No longer do oar Haters glory as being the Ministers ofa free and high minded nation, but as the Ministers of arbitrary and $ military power. No longer do they glory in pro- 1 touting the prosperity of their country, but in labour ing to suppress the discontent produced by its dis tresses. No longer do they glory in opening new resources for the industry and enterprize of a suffering people. but in building barracks for bear is tinsidation, and training up a soldiery, apart Own the habits of citizens, fur the purpose of their coercion. In proportion as they approximate to alien habits, they forget, however, that they are removing from tier native habits of their fellow countrymen. The ex periment they are rnaking is of a desperate hind t it betrays their weakness, and may accelerate their over throw. The danger of their policy is obvious, eves to their sappo . rters; and the admonitions of Mr. Lawn nAltT,.. in the House of Commons, last night, Ole them seasonable warning. A secluded Esiglish sol diery is, to an English Uovernment, a ~t wo-edged sword. Ivor since the commencement of the itoromilitills against lief M&JUTIN we have dose what we mai to direct public attention to two great points: firm, the ebbs* dose to the forms and prieriples of jester ; mot/ licit, the anode apes pablie liberty. Courreg %these, every other consideration miuseeltd wltittlik !oaramif trial, is of secondary uterus;, From the warms that has been punned. ' • boy Se some design to destroy virtiectratiess in which - • • on Lcorerstasitixtho, iwittiors: They absolutely travelled out of their Way, •is 'edit to defame the great securi ties interposed by the wisdom and public spirit of our ancestors between the subject and 'the brutal exercise of power. If it he their wish to invest the Crown with larger powers in State trials than it possesses at present, they way consider it as a proof of political address to have commenced the etperiment upon the first subject and most popular person in the kingdom. Their success against so illustrious an individual, in spite of the entire weight of public opposition, would lay the remaining energies of the nation prostrate at their feet ; and a Bill of Pains and Penalties could be resorted to in every instance in which the Government might wish to get rid of an o hnosione suliref. The course they have taken, so irregular, so open to censure, and so certain to excite the whole for. of national sympathy in favour of the accused, cannot be comprehended Oil any other princi ple. It would show madness to tread upon such dan genius ground, and afterwards recede. It would be the extreme of political foUy to attempt to carry by irregularity an object, which, if at all attainable, might be accomplished in a way liable to no objection. If the grEEN•3I accusers had proofs of her guilt, why have they taken the devious path in which they are proceediug The public bare uu other wish but to see justice fairly, honestly, and constitutionally Ad ministered ; and Ministers, it really seems, would set no value spoil a conviction, unless they could get it in a way that should at once outrage public feeling, and gratify their . arbitrary principles. It is therefore hardly necessary to say, how mach the country is in terested in this question ; for, besides the idea, so re pulsive and alarming to every mind, of seeing inno cence offered up as a sacrifice so the insolence of power, if may be the means of conferring upon the Crown, iu State prosecutions, a degree of commal that would, in most eases, render trial and condemnation words of equal import. The next great point connected with the prosecution of her M \JEITI is the violence it offers to public !wily. It was commenced in defiance of the clearest manifestation of puhlk feeling that we recollect to have ever witm.ssed. It is persevered in. in spite of the loud disapprobation of at least nine-tenths of the nation. The prosecutors treat with the same disdain the warnings of the wise, the anxiety of moderate men, and the remonatrances•of the high-minded. From such condect, it is evident that the present party in power have made it a fundamental part of their policy to treat public opinion with coetesapt. They appear to think that the people haver other iatereet in the Uovernment but to obey. We have no hesitation to say that a Uovernment, which should uniformly act upon such a principle, would be the most odious awl intolerable that could be conceived. A liberal des potism would take care not to do any act that might soleod the great body of the people. A limited Govern ment, even where it was right, would yield to the voice of the nation. An oligarchy alone, whether right or wrung, seldom concedes ; and when it does give way. it is with a reluctance that betrays the extreme of Ingo knee. Also it would sooner give up a good than a bad measure. It is ridiculous therefore in our si tuation to speak of limits to power, and particularly of the force of public opinion, if Mit:lister, follow no other rule but their own will,. or, what is exactly the sante, the votes of an obsequious Senate. A Govern ment like ours, when it obstinately resists, even spun a &atollsl point of policy, the wishes of the people, violates in the must indecent manner the relations subsisting,• between both. But if it were to persevere in a pernicious manner, in spite of the retnonstranees of the country, it would be clear that it aimed at i tyranny. dhitely interested. We are by the langur used by .a . ". . form or practice estabHlhed by law, or esseforming t s l die spirit of the Constitution. In the first place, a ram . mission, unauthorised and unselected by the respessible 1 Advisers of the Crown, was sent filigreed to collect evidence. Here was a flagrant innovation ; a n d, we presume, every man engaged in it has catmints! a liirh misdemeanour: end perhaps treason. In the next place• vast sums of the public money, withdut the sanction of Parliament, have bee. e*peeded ; and here we hare an. other mischievous and daring novelty. Again, th e fire subject of this country is enthroned trith epics, without any inssructions from a competent andidrity; rad sh e i s surrounded on every side by Snares Witlimit the least is dmatiou of her danger. Her servants are bribed to h e . tray their niktrees, and to pervert to the purpo ses 4 their base employers every unguarded word sr act that might escape from her in the consciousness if pe t t ers purity. blorrover, a titled scoundrel. aadilllieg a n o h,„ vial situation of high importance, to which he may hate been appointed for the execrable part he was afterwArds to am, receive. instructions to u heedie himself ieu her eesildence, awl to take advantage of the opportniew, .teirich the sacred rites of hospitality 'timid afford hint, to fah his generous and unsuspecting entertainer of he r p i . per,. We conceive this to be another illegal act. fi e 6, already seliced the conduct of her enemies, from bee If - thol In the essatry down to the termination of the so geelation ; and such a tissue of inconsisiesey and bien nia as marked the interval, has uo parallel in public Lions. At last her enemies, driven to desperation by the in. iestibility of this high-minded woman, bare recourse to a measure, which puts the lival stamp of reprobation .imassac upon their conduct ; which prosperity will harii!T credit ; and which, from its palpable violesee e mnst preys harmless to the accused, though, we true, it will re• bound upon her accusers. Without bearing a sing:, witness, without haring it in their power to substantiate the truth ilia single charge ; from papers collected be her enemies, and containing depositions made hr the scum otmankind—a Secret Committee, consisting in part of the Queest's accusers, fritter away the hosonr of a high-born woman, and reconsinend a course of legisie , live proceedings, which, for aught they know, tuight terminate in die loss of her life, as well as of Innis. sour. Prom a report founded upon such base materials, die Ministers of the KlaG introduce a Hill of pilot, &Are rwsrirtiva, and contrary to every kaolin poem dent; thus offering the greatest violence to law, justice, and the common feelings of mankind, that has my ' b een perpetrated. it is sufficient to say that the rest et th e proceedings have the same character; and the nfasal 1 to furnish a list of the witnesses winds up in a manner so revolting this scandalous transaction, that we should only weaken the impression on the public mine br the strongest language of reproach we could employ. 'This circumstance, we fear, may produce an eternal list el separation between Terliament and the ration; sad, after these &ring facts. to dist t rust the Queen's hoe , cease , or t esistersce of a informal A* against her honour, would cetresse of weak. pops or if ingegacy. Ilex ' ban Grade a deg,. 40~ i:—lrsat stern them. i . de elieial return se ea a the Son id Gap mese states the total 4•0111111“ of payments made is dt Commissioners foe die Reduction of the National Debt. by the Trustees ot Savings Basks In England, from Aug. 6. 1817, to July t,, 1820, both indissier, at 3,361,102/. Oa. 3d.; and the total stock purchased with the mosey es reeeived. st 3,1126,3711/. BalTlail N•allisirNitalea.-011 Saturday last, the Royal Assent was given to the Act to allow tintbre, fit for naval purposes, to be imported Into Orrat Bri. tam and Ireland, flee of duty, until March 1821, free the Kings colonies in North America. • I I A House of Reform for Lancashire is about to be established at Prestos, for the reception of discharged criminals of both sexes, under the patroller of the 1 Llttl Lieutenant and all the nobility and gentry If that county. 'llonsirs llintoff, a wearer, at Thirby, in Iforfokire. who had been married tie times, died there a few days ago, his sixth wife 'arriving hies—exactly the slum ber that Henry VIII. boasted of baring led to the altar - Three Kates—me Naas--sad one dam Jane Two Deten—two Flembas—mad two ilegisberless limited; From two I was dtremed—tero 1 b nee died its ebild•bed—eed ewe meell=" A lighter, wish 6.5 last et wheat. fee lie " 1414 * Rae, loading at fee Leaden. ea 4th hobos. , soak off liolsteitr i lt ig t ir 3s lasts saved, and the red It is plain that the sufferings of the WREN have arisen expected to be recovered. front no fault of her own—from no guilty act on her Conx•Recuanoe. Jett 111.—Owing to the W sepphtM it . part; bet kern some unaccountable dislike which the heav y rains' and a " mitinsline ` of abort Wheat, the detnsod was tolerably brisk this merging independent-, of her chancier, and the weadalteeeted , 1 for fine samples, and an advance of ?J. per quarter, oa tone of her feelings, have provoked in totters. Her an- .si °essa _ ,_ ,y s prices, was re adi ly obtairied.—Oats are fall fire dignity did mot suit certain perverted tastes; sad, i Is. per quarter dearer, from the above causes.—diried perhaps, her strong and dear tinderstandiag overawed I lug Barley b e i ng eeme . a. is also Is. per loo n s , higher; the feeble and (Hushes minds of her persecutors. Where sa d s mos an d,.. pens sold on full as good terms i' ea frivolity and liceutiousness alternately prevailed. the m wa d ay . • • • ataaesee of a weenies so highly gifted es the Qvgax• On Sunday morning, daring the berry stem sr' week! be a source of pain as well as ensbarrassusesL compenied by thunder and lightning iis a s po r zi AS But it would be bard, indeed, if a bail or prosiest taste was killed by the Incur , al West-tad, Ye were to decide unalterably upset matters of the greatest big taken the insprolleut same et esekletr 00 0 ibill importance; and could destroy at pleasure the happioese the storm soder a tee. , ter honour of a beam being, and that being of the first lIIIIIMIS. + order of illustrious and accomplished muses. la a Oat tire lath last. st bee father's home, /fierthele, fle lo4 Anderson, Rsq. of a country where freedom and morals prevailed, such an 1 lilloallel, bust. Tbl at A x on Howe, arnobs . , tie lap • attempt would be an unpardonable outrage, and would 1 of cut. Mow eta deoptier. be more insulting to the nation than to the iateaded ab. 1 OM Varealorked. Mrs. Salsesa Weise. eif 11 . 1 se" . "' *11111 ‘ ,''i ildds. et a . . , jeet. If the former did MA feel it. they would have no , okk , dm i lrt . as p u s,. th e Right sonenside WI lard feelings ; and if they did net resent it, they would ' le s of a seu. Pp insensible to their own safety, it will (*Mild)? for. I TheradaYs,al DT C c tl i r ter Cbaelmo t 604 a l •alailiall Coh of a f, se infallible criteria& of the matioaal character ; and, If J Tuesday' p as k ;It &m e , sone d = t -oitest. lb. bar itaJaill'S sneaks trials* British iadepeadeace : lily of It'. L. Illaelses. Req. H. P. of 1 ~,. Aid less of justice will be words smareyieg the meet ' , *ter intay. The degradaties.of her 414.1111111. weed- 1 , oo eh. wo k ow. et alies. of •MO de' m e i Bre. tag to the proems that hes been eshopiet, and wlstelis ' slime. Jaime** gitiees, MY ii ....,....._ef il i t. e decidedly averse from the legal and reastitatiestel peat- i L a m e r s. /Pas s i s t i ; sf e l h i n e l i b l rit o 7s 2 s ( . 2 1 11 WIIAZ I:.1 den of she eeastry, ovoid settle at mope the &spate whit- ! la s iss.nitt, reejautela. aged fit titer the people of Ilia country In tree, or the saltines I At Pena. ell Ile nth W. Is the OM yee, er l W.l l e diss e.. * Alsomeamier This lady at SW lilegboli us 'of -a despotic Oevernmest. If due mealiest indivilinsi i tra as.46 . 464 . t ' s , rads. I. the hood could be punished In this way, the moral I as ebb inestahlg n ot pow, lost, et Clerbell. as p wad she constit u tion scow . owe. Um. Uminp. *lb of Cape. James limbos. i s wine. a alichierees ' Owed% is the INN pear et her sge. ate free Goveramillt r iirs 3 Musk polueni e sad Pabadled at a t OW 11 . * Ashes fielliii' '' • • :,:i Tim fie* , " amis. Tats Cessrit taimmei stee" moo R tio fitreml. ILiaiiitt t ei lt l ' i , tills ," .a , iv ' „ j e ,..111. s to wham di OP' C " . . 1111 00 9 1 ' l l Sla g le "1 • ' 4"11. As. ere ropteded to be silials4 valiatl s !"" 14 _ 5 " rook week' be die aerie all 0. 4 0 It 1 " .. It he Frer" 6 " Ye a• - esall . Setter.' K. what wroy g o** prudes i miaow frlweedili ete the Crewe • lihr be 1004. tai coif eervii rivet d re maimed le• Ole jeleiglies Nihon onal Ministegi duke a* irti* P•rifffikorihiii r an T • c.“ 41 r~ I ~' r ; la ) I