The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-08-10 00:00:00

j t • M.4.lfPit 1741111VRIGHT. hi. fatuity of alajor Loris right is of great antiquity in tibia country. By the fouialr liar, throve h a descent', ail rive generations, lie is sprung. front the Pierrepoiiits, p , well as from the salmi stock as the lientioks. Ilse of his aneestors, who lost his life for ilefen4ling.thel righ. v of his country, being designedly crushed to' Ileitis cis:ming out of the house, represented the borough of Ketford, iu the reign of Chit a s I. and a younger brooch of his house has represented the county of l Northampton in several Parliaments. here are, per. hap., s to whom these circumstances may itio.t re commend bins, but his proper merit is iu himself. lit is mild in his manners, of a temper warns, hut governed, a7dent and steady in his affections, elevated in his sew tituent::. enterprising, daring and indefatigable, pus. '.,•....A of all that is essential in politeness, yet negligent of frivolous forms anil fashions, with a strong sense of ua .tral obligation. and A religious turn of mind. as ap pear, in all his writings. .Its ardour in the pursuit of virtuous f.uue was the firs', and will, perhaps, Ise the last passion of his mind. '4 is:. bras impelled him ever to du more than his duty, 1.1. ren,l,•reil Isins careless of those rewards which he vt-s •rved, and might have aspired to. Though he has s 'reed with the !hike of York, Lord Howe, Sir llnXii r I and Admiral Byron, esery one of whom has I ff r testirnowv . to his merit. the rank of Lieutenant Lr-ttinated his career of Nava! prioniotion•. Hut his s;:r..er of generous ambition and virtuous action, began 'th his earliest youth, anti will end only with his life. 1-ile bat a boy. he left his father's house to engage in the service of the King of Prussia, whose heroic eoeiis had stimulated his youthful ambition. Being osertaken by a friend, he was prevailed upon to return, xr,i direct hit mind towards the military 'wilier of his s•.n country ; and he soon after entered into the acy under Lord Hone. While with his Lordship and ti Duke of York, the daringness of his spirit !vas sidewn by his leaping from a 71 gun ship auto the sea, as thiShip was under sail, in order to save the life t..:* a young gentleman, who had fallen overboard!. And afterwards, while a Midshipman, wade a proposal to Lord Howe, to lertake the burning of s French men of war, which Isis Lordship was then blocking up in a harbour; but Lord Howe thought the attempt too hazardous. 15 oder Sir Hugh Pallieser and Admiral Byron at N-•tefonnilland, he distiognished himself for live years sc.cessisely by his able and upright administration of j in the extensive districts committed to Isis jeriolletion ; by g the defects of laws, in cases u: sliffieulty,with judgment, address, and firmness, and in being the proposer of several reformations. Ile will aim be remembered in that island so long as it shall remain in English hinds, as the discoverer of the ta.nntry to the very centre of the island, to which he penetrated throngh unexplored woods and the settle rients of hostile savages, with the view, amongst other generons purposes, of rendering them friends, and af t,riling them means of becoming Christians. In 1771 lie was obliged to quit his ship for the recovery of his health, which had greatly seamed, and fur tan or three years had been constantly de tl.ning. lint sir:cuess could slot repress the activity LI a mind deviated to the public, nor could the shire e:ents of society wean him from this strong attachment. ll^ very smog wrote a free and manly pamphlet un the rigl.ts and interests of adventurers in the Newfoundland t :iiery, against the neglects of the Legislature, and 0-.•...?prefsions of Governors, which he presented to the Secretary of State. Ile drift- up also a plan fur a perpetual supply of Eisglivii u. 4: to the navy, for col t; :ating the Royal forests, anal other great advantages to the tialon, which met with the highest approba r on, and whirls be laid before the Ministers, but with cut receiving even an answer to Isis manly applica tions upon the sithject. They stole indeed a part of I', which answered their own purposes, but by no nears secured those benefits to the public which were ea , author's ohjert and with regard to the whole of the plan, the hest idea that r an be conveyed of it will be in the words of a friend of the 3linister to whom it was sliewn, who candidly remarked, ts we are not Luncst en nn gh for such plans as these." In 1774 he could too longer suppress his feelings for the sufferings of America, autl the fatal COMIC.. quenre to his own eonntrv, which he foresaw from the arbitrary principles and rash conduct of the Ministers, and he them wrote his first treatise on politics, a trea se that was then Neglected, mobil! of false prognostics and cisiwerical proposals ; but time has *hewn that it was prophetic, and containing instructions of the sidnisalrot policy. This was followed from time to time lac other pablirstbsov, is all of which he Phew• true knowledge of t: liar Constitution, an ardent love of liberty, and a eitittympt of private interest and per sonal danger, when in competition with the public geed. Bet the work whirls has moat distingstished lons, and derided his Went for a ant in Parliament, is klellteticathar TO the Legislative Bights of the Commonalty. The author of that work, who has so well asserted the rights of his fellow-citizens. deserves their hest unsfidessee. la it he traces with precision the declesaion•ot our Parliaammt. from its ancient parity and mealiest.e to its prestos corrupt state. r,fetes all the argnnorats is favour of this rotten sys t,m, and clearly points out the meatus of reformation. The anther, besides addressing this work to the pnhlie, and presenting it to the King. used every other effort its the power of a private persoa. towards setting vs foot the proposed reforsaatios. from a full eourietion that nothing less amid save Ms country. The writer I of those strictures, without basin Major Cartwright in his eye, sincerely wishes this excellent work in the hands of every Bagllshaaaa, and with their Bible to be next their hearts. A theinterested party, in the town of Nottingham. have sheen their gratitude to the author of so valuable a gift. aid have the honour of lacing the first who 'ridged to seed him as their Repre 'rotative to PIUaiIIONISt. The meaty has it now its power, with more sums; to follow so laudable as ostempie Aka. it is his Muse that be is sot richt ; but eves this. gyrators of all crimes may be apologised for.— c e mail be knee veeeeellesi it to his awiseiglee to have accepted the deadly beeltadea Lied lbw*. to ae- •Mee f7ettwAMt wok ea ewes, oftie Mao. ea :76141 Ow Mem i ll ert he iSt i t e trigs elm* wee mere reterprale it reef Ye 1/11111his --~--. THE STATES] conspany him to America, he hal, in all probability, long are min- commanded a man of war, and captured' American enongh to lure bought the dearest borongli in England, and to have rioted in luxury. But pour a% lie was, he was proof against this tempta tion, and even his ambition he taught to give way to the eonstitational principles of his country. INR - THR-s7r.litiSMAN. TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL. •My Loso,—On taking up The Ti.nes newspaper of this morning, n.y attention was arrested by your Lordship's name to a letter addressed to Mr. iVilber- Ince, wale!' was ace,onpaniel by a form of a Petition u his Majesty on time subject of the proceedings now, pending against his Majesty's Royal Consort, queen Caroline ; in which letter your Lordship states, that you have adopted this 'nude of conveying your opinion on this important subject. It certainly does appear to me, by the manner in which you express the word re,l that it is intended by your Lordship to be indirectly re commended by you to be adopted by your countrymen; it is mm that account I thus address your Lordship. I beg leave to assure your Lordship, that in taking' up my pen to eounnent on those two extraordinary do consents, I am not actuated by any feelings of disre spect towards you ; but on the contrary, I am eon scions that your Lordship's name is deservedly held high iu the estimation of a considerable portion of well-informed men, and it is for that reason I fear any misconception or error in judgmer.t which your Lordship way have fallen into in framing those singu lar productions, (if not set right, sir more fully ex plained), will, with the high sanction of your Lord ship's n use, be the means of causing supeeticial read ers to art upon and follow your Lordship's example,' in admitting• the degradation of the country and i• forwanling such an Address to his Majesty as your have lain betnre them, and which, I have Au hesita tion in saying, is calculated to do wore mischief to the cause it professes to support than all the malignant 'lan ler that has been sent forth to the world by her Majesty's accusers and enemies, by means of the vi cious, degraded, and contemptible part of time press. I shall, therefor'. first examine yonr Lordship's letter to Mr. Wilberforce, and then its accompaniment„ makin.; such remarks as may occur to use, on the pro bable rife. t that each is likely to have on the public ',dud, and the consequences that may Ise produced ; and, as an Englishman, to guard my fellow-subjects against acquiesciug in the one or of adopting the other. I must confess, my Lord, that I feel myself in no inconsiderable difficulty in the task I have undertake'', and in particular, to make rip my mind in what man ner to treat your Lordship's letter. and for this plain reason, be..atuse I can scarcely briug myself to think yon can be serious in your declarations therein con taine I ; hot as your lordship's name is 'Axed to it, I am b rind to take for granted you are so, hut I cannot help still expressing nay surprise and astonishment, that a man of your Lordship's understanding and ex panded mind, that a Son of Ike Hones gif Russell could seriously come forward in the face of this enlightened Nation, and say even now, that tlittete of this este great and free country is subject to the controlsl of any indivi dual, however exalted his rank, (nisch less a Member for a rotten Borough,) without blushing for the insult offered to every Englishman that possesses any re suoins of the blood of his forefathers. (lad forbid, that it is, or ever should be the case ; and could I believe that such a thing were possible, I assure you I should dy from it with disgust, as a country not wu:th saving. I sum led to believe, when your Lordship committed these declaratives to writing, your Lordship must have acted under the iuduence of a disturbed mind at the degraded state to which the ll'higs have re duced themselves, and which degradation your Lord ship must feel most sorely ; but had your Lordship been a little more composed under this aMiction, you would have been enabled, I am convinced, to have traced the cause of this debasement of all the talents, (for your Lordship admits that, that this is the case, that the Whigs are not only debased, bat that they have no power whatever) to a more substantial reason, than simply to a powerful ministerial majority ; for jot* Lordship must allow me to say, that this is only o of the effects produced ley their debasement and loss of power. The true cause of their now wanting power is their loss of the sinews of power, (via.) the pod opinion, support, and roaddeuee of the people which they thought proper to spurn from t:etu with con tempt when they possessed It is, my Lord, I toast confess very extraordinary; that this, the true cense, should not have struck your Lordship, and in a very forcible manner, when you ware' writing your sentiment's to his Majesty; andisywiticla writing yea call to his Majesty's yardman/ eadellies' tion, that the alibetionate hearts of the people sir At best part of his isiberitance. I have said this mach to /one j.orilslsip on this part of the subject, to show your Lordship, that had the party with orbetargmtnei l l in the once "louse of the Representatives of de, people, stood by time people, and joined and them in their constitutional petitions for a t '(I mast not say radically. I suppose) reformed Pa sent, to the want of which reformation we tier. MO attribute all our evils and misfortases. I my, ha& they stood up for the rights and liberties sof this people, and boldly demanded, in majnostios with tell people, a redress of their innumerable injuries. would not have wasted power, nor your would not have been driven to the *O4l sod listing situation of applying toe noisioterbil syesplimit to assist you. when all their and year welled power is at an end. I hare hitherto treated year Latilthip's later conveying year real sentiments ; is dist I hope. how ever, I am mistaken; for I mast melba them is some thing about it which carries a smobiswoo of so anew plot is the farce recently pt up by that celebrated r: a ldeal stage-manager to - bat perhaps. with did test anticipate; hut a if the present OW tonns,and their Loyal wilsod times degraded Whip imosood Is getting them oar 'Amish der/ have Omega' send be. me that the b. year sidm as no alienator ....—raks r lak -'. r: self or your party can be any thing like a compea sation for performing such dirty work. This brings me to the considsratiui of your Lord ship's famous petition; I say famous, because I must ad mit that there is much abilityand some constitutional ar patent, particularly in the early part; bat at theism= time I cannot consider the latter part in any other light than dangerous; became the presentatiou of such • Petition appears to me only adapted to the purpose before alluded to, via. that of getting Castlereegb and big companions out of the deplorable state which they Bate got themselves into : and from which, without some side-winded manustivre like that reeomanded by your Lordship's Address, they can never be extricated; and to allow theses to sneak out of their disgraceful , situation in such a way will be very unsatisfactory to 1 the independent hearts of the people, while it leaves even the least stain on her Majesty's honour, which your Petition, were it to be adopted by the people and acquiesced in by his Majesty, would be well adapted to fix the colouring matter laid on so lavishly by her Majesty's enemies, that nothing on earth could ever have the effect of removing. Your Lordship is wade to state In this Address that it is desirable that her Majesty, the Queen of England, should live a sort of probational life by which his Ma jesty and the people of this country shall be enabled to form a judgment of the probability of the charges made against her Majesty being true or false. This ap pears to me to be a most extraordinary reeonstneodatios ; but if your Lordship really mean this as your opinion, you should certainly have gone a little farther, and say how lung her Majesty should be doomed to each a mode of trial, and at what period his Majesty and 1 the people should pass their verdict. How your Lord ship could cress for one motuent entertain an Idea I, that the Quern should lee left in this situation of suspense for an in' Suite time, under the se- vere sentence which you so properly stated his Majesty himself has indicted upon his Queen, viz. that of excluding her from his Palace and his' Courts, thereby holding her up to the contempt of those miserable wn tellies, your Lordship is pleased to call courtiers, and wise, at the souse tints you say,: would desert her without a question on her behaviour , in consequenre thereof; and that, therefore, your Lordship consider. his Majesty might safely leave his Queen with this weight of suspicion shoot her in the midst of the moral society of England, for those are your Lordship's own words ; sod then you conclude 1 the Petition which yon recommend to be adopted, by , praying his Majesty to prorogue his Parliament, and thus putt an end to the proceedings at present pending against her Majesty. This mode may be a satisfili one to your Lordship and your party, becau might be the means of thrusting Castlereagh and his companions out of °Aire, that you may fill their places; and even submitted to by them, as I verily believe, notwithstanding their well-known love of the loaves and fishes of office, they would even sacrifice this to get oat of the dilemma ; and. were that to be the case, I bore no hesitation in saying, the Bill of Pains and Penalties would not be renewed, or the Breen Bag re pleulsked. Rut let me ask your Lordship would this Von antidote to the sting her Majesty's feelings has received, or a bales= to heal the wostnel ; or would is even mossier any of the stain that has been throw upon her Majesty's honour; or would it be st; factory to any honest Englishman to um hie character left in so doubtful a situation, noe out I believe her Maj esty inlaid even wish to boil' Nis ipso such a tenor ; but, on the contrary, bad your Lord. ship fore red up the recononeodation to his Majesty to prorogue his Parnassian, la order to get rid of the vile and c,. pest/krte proceedings mew pending against his Royal Consort, by praying him also to emote to her all her rights, honor., dignities, and immunities; or that, on the re-assembling of his Parliament, by would direct an open, candid, honorable, efficient, and sow stitational made of investigation and tiled of Me mach-injured Queen, such a trial as her Majesty, Is the nmet becoming and dignified manner has demand ed, aid which would give satisfaction to the or: because it would gite her Majesty the same which every indivirinl on his trial is entitled to in / :country, that of confmnting his 11401111ifil e NMI ~ thereby having a fair oppportunity of establkffit se jt, ,innocence. Had your Lerlshipeosseluded thee; I have felt no hesitation in going with your Lordship the length of your Petition ; bat as year 11= hos *might proper to step short. whom I •yoo were most callsd as to pail fiestas., I wee ilb• awed to look heck ern the *bib Nail you have tea yelled, to endeavour, If pormilffies, to ascertain the cause of this want of exertion at !ask mad as far as I aas enabled to state the rows" which I hare discovered to *rote wins we'll perhaps hove Mho ham your Lord ship's reronsmearlatiotta, nod thereby have committed A error from width they would dud it difficult to retract. therefore trust, that Englishmen will oanshise beacon to warn then of the danger that the ems try will be placed In: Irby an iseknowitat on their part. of their WW year lasdohies iusdisa. dist the fate of this nanny is in the hoods or power of the Umber sow for firanther, or that by getting rid of the present faction sow is &rear (without establishing the immerses of our heroic and persecuted Queen, either by a restitution of all her rights to the same esten as hn pettiness''s hove enjoyed then. es Q•Pell Count, or a tiring her a legal right thereto, by pruning her immature on a Mir nail roanitutioual trial.) for the purpose air et replacing the Whigs -who hare de- 1 anted the potpie. I haft tlbo biome to be, sty Lot* Year Lordship's obedient smolt. L. IL Wsilisoltotreet, Cassualsh-optam Aerie lip IMO. awl OM* Gwen yet W bo peeve ia TAR QUEEN. A foreign Gentleman, decorate., of several - orders, arriveli at the Queto's i• Portman-street. oil Tuesday thergh ig , dos of his arrival was sent olf to ,- *tautly, when one of her Majesty the servants In the royal livery, came reedy, and etteveyed hi to I:randenbarglk Mr. Denman had also a lung interview Majesty on the same day. Her Majesty has not been nut since Royal Highness the Duchess of Y‘ the mansion are kept closer!, and milted except her Majesty's legal advisers, those upon indisrusable busiuess. `Her Majesty has slept at Brandenburg` since Friday last. An Address has been presented from North Shields and its vicinity retorts's' the followiug gracious Answer "I am unfeignedly obliged to the ishuldtasts Shields and Its rielsity for this sffeetionste *-' regard. My bows mot but gratefully whit* they egress for the indignities I 1 Wood. sad he hoe nosey alleles, I have " If my lialliners bed not bees convinced , egalesime meld set be supported by nay or be presented upon any Constitutional wadi sat here had recourse to which derives no at once of the exisdeg law, and menaces my ,• uslissised power. " Caspar's, vengeance, In the forts , Peeskies. is arraying against me the Stele. The beemaly aspect ef jmities. brightest oronsest sad the highest glory tie be entered will a vett ; and my honour So be sampled M the dust by a sort which derides Me restraints of law, and reek to Me seetheists of bumalty. . 6 le iheelmemelseces In Midi I am pissed bees overwhelmed with despeekaryiniailael Weapon. I mid telly supplest! by lbePagreel hates isasiblemis know ! sheaved by Ike slia iti• Few me • the prelsellesetwbkh plass a = ream ea a the neseel reverence. or thalami suelhily d adversities. Their condo* tows.* no le thus pct lr bees preseeed by no saber Wilma* has thileflahlsed I ispiaeohme i sad they Meet know Mhos, Ilsksese Met who suppose that such malevolence will mesh Its kw • elly. seihsese he bold, whew the vietiw Is widish pm! In essaasquaiao of a Requisition signed hy wen d hawked Freemen amid Inhabitants of Ullman, the Mayor of that city called a Msetiag is the Shirr-Nall on Monday, to consider the proptisty of address* the Was, and of petitioning oat sr both of the Houses of Parliament against the farther promestios of the unjust and unconstitutional neavares whirl bare been resorted to by his Majesty's Riaisters with respect to the Qum'. Ministers have commenced preparatioas for &it. commodation of their Italian witnesses. The brain is Cotton Harden, occupied by Sir T. 'fynrbit, Mr. la,. aad other officers in the House of Lords, ate the phns appointed for the use of these foreign personages, The late occupants were obliged to turn oat yeas*, sad their quitting upon such short notice predecease i little bustle and coafusion. Cotton Garden is seta at the rear of the western angle of the Hale dime, to which it is apprqachad by a yarrow passage beg the eastern end of Abingdon-street. A sitastisomo completely isolated from pablic approach, aad mat convenient for ingress and ogress to the intsristits House of Lords, cannot be conceived. Nom iheht •is also the ache of the newly-constraint Ms.li 1 sculleries, sad other edifices necessary tt, *psi ON; dinner in Westmiuster Hall on the ensuing, These works were completed on l'esstioy,illi M , tier access to the seem* Is entirely rut oi flagged passage from the western end of the Lords, by which the Westminster Scholars Ism isLords, privilege of access to their boats on the riser, aids blocked up by *row of Oevernment. As moo so 6 now immaio boils to arrive, a strong goal wills placed at RIO entrance. Hy nIMI , day, we how been told for i weer its 11. that lbw Quota had astengod a residesee la aro; 41 I every day we wen tali of a different bars. At sir 1 time it waists or ear Palace-yard, at atiodar, it was tie St. Jaemenowiesee. awl mow we en siesnid it ie ht IPleesonliy. Orethes Neese is stated If • ii•Ogilf Papa, tit be dad spa. sod this erteegeseete• it b said, hes bees mole with the eweeereeste if Wallin =.....m.......--- Pelee Charles of Ufologen, the son of the Dab! . el Mat. his hoes at allege at Beatty'. 'Aka Ph. I he left at the 'scales es a visit to his Royal NOM I Ilk Is Is his 17th year. which he will complate Olt 1 seesth. His Serest Highness, aocoespashod by ilk. . Warw. his toter, ail suit, arrived at Cale et Cossre : 114saday, where he was feet by Captain Monday the Priam, ateollipanied by I.:spuds , leR Calais, sad arived at Dover the same day . . sa Teseday leasing they left Dover foe the Rise Nix., at Resalsgtos, where they arrived at a ipeO le before four o'cledt. As experts .havies b e es seat to W isrineatir ',Mist - -..r t. Irht" to Royal Highsess wee es a visit to Priam Lori& isieessiss her Royal Highness of the arrival of RIP her Royal Highness hastened to the PAM 1 1:11rall possible spe ed and arrived than alai ball ash haw alter Mac sea. Norronenax. Ave. s.—YesterJay the hinds II nowise Demises and Joseph Birch, Oct Ito!! worthy itepreastatives for this tows. ameoldril Pr the porpoise of celebrating the trims/plasm retest these two Oeutleelea to Parlimaest. The :CI sabered is by the ringing of bells at the tittiothes , and the display of Ilega es the rouse W shwa battler is redo :J pats of tiw 0 , 0 1 4. 811 ' At four o'clock, the doors of the Sxcliasge.hall osie throws epos, sad the anxiety to gain asheittacee ess essoompiqf treat. Saga after the two wee* KO' seatadves arrived. seessopasied by the Wyse; Ala• aini. sod Wier lespertaible indlvidosits and I° 2_ moor with eathaahratio aphis's , . 'rho wheis a"" waretry diet sat dame se aft inarailasi 40001 0 • il iN do alladi had bees alma's. tea failawiai. gather wads, Were istrodscod. "441 alsok lin ; great arises 's: " The Klisg”—. o Tho ill (Nth three *we there}—"T he 110yel nail ' 4 The two wanly aid iadapessieat Seabee i tho tows" (with dune times tbrse)s sad I her of *Her pati4stie tenets, The wines. az excellent, and the coupsay did sot se ti late hoer. 'to who= ear letier_ilYt Mtsq. Li It "my swat. tha Waft meet I rith some Mae , vorir.WlN" 06 eseasetel *Oh atm at to tsars. that the ps year tweesalp say depaid time of the 111 of Nos sad /willies is eves yet I. Oil l a i li r hi Hacks is 011101 kees avoklei. Royal Maas sholiti. i e& wy elbrreesa • cessesesicatioe was 'hip their slab. yoo-hoo of State's slice te the Police l i set of the fishy s aw trete*. totscsdair that twee of them sbeehl he i flea semi ea as 11th lastest. This is as it sties esi tliamodiff*._y ol . lo 4 lo sli* l e s is he r bs lf Herssamset wished se plass birlfala • 111 I ° 4 m a lee so peades asehsteassee of the public race lee Tea 441 " 11 • 111 hr filo ski' forge of the mewl. 7 NEN. rotate., with the 16.4, 1 the Queen' s ink refitl n , day mewling. 141,„, st off to bet Majesty i s , 1 Majesty's carriages wil t livery, eaglet° toys i„ I:re udenhargli Hulse. lung interview truth 6. I out slice the death of d. is of York ; the pa n ~. led, and no penny is legal advisers, ur etn siuess. at Brandenbazgh Kt* wesented to het llej e ., Is vicinity. Her Main rions Answer to the inhabitaats al Nee. I of ectiostate tribute of ee• it gratefully feel 16 Ilereli idlgnities I heves lon st, does I have ea eonvlncedt E r dn.", Tied by say hffilktsh yew( :oestttuttous rye n an extra the sacred iWn - re ;lea esse , destruction by ea esoriles the forts of • Rill of Pena* st se the whole twee Je t )fjastlee, which was way lo w a glory of these reshai d nsy honour mad et dykw iy a sort of gi,lande flaw, and lei us salty. rdsorr ilidl i as t... 11111112...-611 n ■ MVO°