The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-02-19 00:00:00

•111111 Mi 0 , WORKINGS OF THE srarg,k. NOT TO ESTABLISH A?I ABSOLUTE DOM MID I itti . —Lirrnai 111. I or Thou de'et Witt lies the Oleos, lersik. By pradle. hardeeed Is the alsoderiag trade. Divers. ioartiz IinITOR OF TITS ST tTESMAN. Nta—la whatever light the rote of the Hotta of Coumsoas of Tallioday night may beef:moldered, no one conversant with the system could have reasonably com temple/tit a Merest result. Indeed the numbers, as well ab the persons, who are to vote on each side of any 'pettier' of this nature, is which liberty and justice ere eoneensed, are pretty accurately known by anticipation. Therese% however, of such divisions, although they fogy not be calcuhaterl to obtain their lateirSliate objects, are highly beneficial to the com munity, • They serve praetically to demonstrate the . real cartes of the calamities of the country, in the nature of the prevailing system of oligarchic misrule, unJ the extretsse peelligasy of the persons, who are its principal tools and agents. In this view, I regret that the friends of liberty anti justice should not have thought it necessary, onehe qtrestion of the Liturgy, to have a call of the Bosse. If the enemies of freedom had net been assured that mach a Inteaaure would have en injurioes to their cense, ran any one doubt that therrgould have adopted it ? For then themeasuremnst Lave beset unnecessary, Moire their mercenaries would feel therasetves romprtltd to attead without a call of the House, whilst to the nese of justice it might hare been nseful, even in respect to the number of votes, since it is reasonable to presume that many of those who stayed atsay, if they had been compelled I , y a call of the House to attend, would, as they are but strictly mercenaries, have felt it necessary to com stilt their reputations, by voting on the side ognstice. ~t any rate, it could not have made any difference 1 . ; featly unfavourable to the Queen: for, if we even • .prov her, by a call of the Homo., to have lost a t..c votes, this lu-st would have been more than cons• pvtisated for by the full exposition. which it would 1. ice occasioned, of the character of every individual _ _ Member of that House. Upon questions of inch vital iots.crtatice, it is not feir treatment of the public, not Ili have a call of theJlonse, since they are, by the omis o'on, prevent's! from forming a judgment of the charec t..r of the se isidividuals who stay away, anti since the r',;:r te:er of every individual Member, ought for ever to be stanipe.l, in the minds of the people, aceotditig to Lis sloe upon sorts ao occasion. But other opportu nities o ill °noir, as at the discussion respecting the iippieintusPnt of the Milan Commission, anti the other Is anclirs of the conspiracy against the Queen, and 0 at which it invoices against the constitution of these r.-.,t!ots, which it is to he hopeti will not be neglected, to. preforming this duty to the public. I ant farther sorry, Sir, not to be able to approve of retain measures recently adopted by the legal advisers es her illajesty, to which, on the contr:srv„ I see very s'-tong objections. I mean the proseention of those t:t.vaded wretches, the tools of her Slejesty'i pees,- rotor+, -- parson Illacow, Cornier, The 'itorPin:'. Post. 111, 1 a certain Sunday Paper, which serum to he the legitiessote sitreessor of " Pere P.-rke.... , " of the Preach Hevolutiort. Such prose folio*, are unnecessary, beton''e the public do not be- I eve a word of :he scandal which is disseminated tSrutigh those notoriously polluted vehicles; and be c.::tse the independent Press is fully able, and forms l.y far the most aprropriate channel through which to g:ve a good account of these Ministerial scavengers. Iley are, indeed, as I before. repeatedly observed, un worthy of any species of serious notice; and ought to be left exclusively to the infliction of that ridi c,.le and contempt, with which they are sure to be overvolieltusd. In the pious work of detaining Lc:- Majesty, anti those lathes who visit her, as well as tbose writers rho advocate her cause, some of the oride-dnensop of the oligarchy, as rumour affirms, consist of outlaws, who have been defaulters of public money to an emir 666666 is amount, and, after f.aring been sent home in irons, by governors of die ta.st provinces, to be tried for stealing the public siores, expect frosts the system not only to be par doned, hot rewarded, for committing the new, anti more horrible crime of moral assassination. If rumour I.e nut here correct in respect to the identity of the twroots, it does nut at any rate exaggerate in respect i to their baseness: fur, no public defaulter, can be so I :le as a hired sbooderer. Many of your readers will 1. donbtles• recollect a libeller by profession of a similar description, the . editor of an infamous publication whose avocation consisted in I 'Pitying every pnblic spirited !serum, who opposed qt. prevailing system of misrule, and who was some sears ago rewarded, by Lord Castlereagh, with a to the United States of America. In the present stage of corruption, I hold it to be much wiser it tlie friends of freedom to &norther sites reptile., to the unbiassed tribnnal of the ;Intone, than to risk tl a danger, by a forms: prowess, of enrountering a pselted jury, or even the grejodiers on the Item+, in 'tor Courts, of Law. I have besides this great objec tion to attacking those hireliwgs, be any regular torus 4.1 process, criminal as they are ; that it is their ens pavers; who ought in honor to be attacked in their Isttiesses. and dragged before the public, however fie+ Ate.' their stations, or apparently great their pit% er. I *Ay 4' apparently," because as all power al• pelvis on public opinion, where it is in active ope ration. and as public opinion is at this moment in active iyeration in this Conntry,- that power, which is exercised in direct defiance of public opinion, ;oust he only apparent, not reel ; whereas the eitievery of the law otiglit, as we have seen in heveral cares; not of very ancient date, 'cloddy elude the salutary Willow, of public opinion. We have, in our own t!ays, seen Judges give charge+, anti Juries retern verdicts, which would be a disgrace to any to or nation,. whilst the opinion of a great niajority of the ; wi n o has been .loudly pmnottneed against their pro ceedings. Fur all these reasons, but still more bes:anse nu pretence ought to be afforded by the friends of the Queen, of jostler, and of freedom, to the enemies of uiankind, for attempting to eirentnocribe the liberty of the Press, (which it is impossible, excepting in the opines:Po of'Sir W. Curtis and tilt Pitt Clubs, that we shoo hi possess, wiriest Wier sobjret to its lierstioos new) I cannot, isfiesomi as i am at present, subscribe the propriety, espalioasy, or wisdom, oa the part THE STA' of the legal mitlatip o j tb* chive, o( • fft4ertil!6* of 4444 motaailit offoimiti ripotatiott. 4 4 1. I must here tee*, althaugh ammewisat to of the characteristic maneetteres of them , sinetssirf tniscresol%. with a view to delude the public mind, mid .t 0 blunt its indignation on the subject of that most atrocious tribunal, the Milan Commission. I ailed* to the story of the attempted aseassinatiou of Colonel Browne, got up Acme time agn by The rewrite. If it be true, nho are the probable perpetrators' Who are the most interested in the death of Colonel Browne? Certainly not the Queen and her friends. Living, he cannot hurt them. His death might beinjnelons. He might be prevented from betraying his employers. Colonel Browne may have, in his own justifiration, to ! produce dnetotents and evidence, which might deeply intplicate higher criminals. The prevent/eh of thii, by au untimely death, would he injnrious to the Queen. Who, then, I repeat, are interested in the d e ath of Colonel Browne, or the destruction of his papers-- the Queen, or her enemies? None hut an idiot coo fail to see this in its true point of view. For my part, I should he sorry to suspect any other thaacom moo robbers of an attempt against this person's life. lint, since The Cow rirr nyikes thelirst attack, his hue insinuations shall be more than repelled; These are, like all the rest of their hypocrisy, the treasonable placards--the blasphemy and sedition--the %mho Idered to his Majesty—the incitement of the ignorant and discontented by cis and informers—all their own contrivances. attempted to be fixed upon a loyal and generous and most patient people. If this state ment be true, then, if jibe nut altogether a fabrication, The courier will know where to look for the perpe trators, with a lunch better chance of disemering them than among the friemls of the Quern. lint, it i 4 probably altozether ae invention; and hrmtght out, at the present pinch, as a forlorn hope, by the mi serable barks of corruption, in their pliretizy and despair. ARIATIDIES. DUNI, AT CIIALK FARM. • An sitecention tint had male .Dyne noise in the ti terary tturhl, between 31r. John Sentt, the avowed Edi• tor of naleltria's illnrazine, and Mr. John Wilson loekliart, the sit pposed conductor of B/ocktenorta Ettiobwrgh .114r;q:ioe, le.l to a C(lflfliet hrlWrea the former gentleman, and 31r. Uhristie, a friend of the lat ter, whirls has been prodnetive of very melancholy con sequences. The rouse of this new quarrel is stated to leave been nn otfensiie letter add d 11)• Mr. Christi! personally to 3!r. Scott ~u Friday afternmbn. A retest-- Mimi was demanded by 11r. Scott, which was refuted. In consequence of this, it would appear, an appointment of a hostile nature was arr.togerl by moonlight that evening ; for about Itslf-past nine, that night. tun post chaises were seen waiting hear the spot in the Damp stead-road, and, shortly after, the ostler at the Chalk Farm Tavern saw two gentlemen pus the house and go towards the fields at the foot of Primrose-hill. About the same flume tan other ;Lentlettorn carte into the TA rent and desired a tire might he lig hted in a particular room which they pointed out. This being immediately done. they ordered a isottle of port wine, which they drank off, anal then desiring the lire might be kept up as they repented to retorn speedily ; they left the house, taking the same directinn as the two fornwr gentlemen. The ostler. atiapertior •ornetliinr wrung, entintwilitelitert his suspicious to the proprietor of mime Tavern, cad then followed the 7entiesnett to the fields; lout heforeiteeame tip to them he heard shots fired, and alien he reached the spot, one gentleman (Mr. Soot) was 4.iiik on the ground apparently in a dying Mato, and covere.l over wills a large roqweloire. 'The whole party now assisted in conveying the wounded person into the Tavern. In the mean time Mr. Watson, jilt. son of the tavern-keeper had been despatched for au officer of the. Police, anti Mr. Christie teaming this circoonstanee immediately drove off, IrovinE• his set fond, stiffs the wounded man. In about half arm ho tr Mr. Walloon, jun. returned, ac companied by Mr. Pornder, a surgeon of Camden town, and J. Davis, one of the patrol. sir. P. intrimeriiately esa• mined the ttonnd, and found that time ball 11311 entered on the right %isle of the abrionn n, a little ;those the hip bone, passim nearly through to time oilier hip, amid causing a grrat effusion of blood. lie immediately merle known his fr !rs that the wound might prove gym-tat, and desired that other assistance might be immemltatrly procured. Accort;ingly, Mr. Brooks, of Blenheim• street, was sent for, and at the same time a nate was sent to Mrs. Scott, st ho arrived very shortly, as did Mr. Brooks, hot no attempt was made to extract the hull that evening. tin Saturday morning early Mr. Brooks again visited his patient. accompanied by Dr. Bree, and in the conrse of the day these ...elide-men made seeeral reports, in person, to the Magistrates at How-street. It is understood that throngisont the day Mr. N. was labouring tinder such an accession of fever, that they did not deem it prudent to attempt any surgical operation. •in the evening, however, they hail another consultation, con jointly with Dr. linthrie. when the fever was found to Rare subsided eonsideratolv, amid it was determined, if these favourable appearatores milli:uteri, to attempt the extraction of time hall early on time following morning. Accordingly at nine o'elotek yesterday morning the hail was sefely extracted by Mr. Brooks, in the presence of Drs. liree and Guthrie : and tie have the sstisfactittes of stating, that the patient is now cus.idetretl Iv be in a fair way of recovery. ES GLISHISMS. -maw- TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE STATERM AN. gli—Aswonorst the mane• EnglisAisms 1 larosr so con stantly in London, and fr tlo,• most consequential per sons too, is float migh►y diienifitd expression " a gloss. coaels. - As my ambition, like all my countrymen, is not only to get :hat .of noy Grelpf• , but to adopt all the Cockneyisms I possibly ran. prcvloonsly to my return to Dublin, I n ill lake it as a great fAvor indeed if you will, through your classical Paper. let me know, may I not by the imam rear that my friends in floe Ponitry sad Mincing-lane say " a glass rowel,." say " a ►lass Anise. " to an house that Lai g1.A016 windows! s uc h an exprevoion, red loot from " LwAra." would 1w a splendid importation to the land of Shamrocks, were niae•tenths of floe winolons :►re glazed with HOICK sod rtAisTra, to avoid dor veligvanCr of " the Ilectrelo4nre Ministers . '" hatred to the LIGHT, commonly called the WINDOW f: PATRICK IMISOIiRIIR. I Oa°. Ire under.tanil that )Jr. Wyse. a Yuan Castleman ofconablerable talent, the head of the Waterford fa mily uf that Dame, and pusaraaing considerable es tates in that county, a ill *hardy receive in,paarriaare the hand uf Letitia, the fiJnghter ut Lucian itnnoa parte, a "lonic lady of cutibidorable beatify atul for tune. Mr. Wye is a &man Catholic, and gnished himself oath In our late Hist or i ca l Society. —(Ftiessea's J•sernal.) I pORZATILIt AT LONDON 111100111 Tialowanew. . eala. alter 4 —Evellag, Nib. Matter 4. PRIM 4 STOCKS Tlll3 1) tY AT ONR OVLOCK. Bask Stock Ida II por OM.. 3 per Coat. Refl. 731 Indio SW* 3.por Coot. Coo. 73ift flettolloods MS. 4—s. pos. sk per (led. Sootk-Sea stock I poi Coots. 93Z 91 111.11111sild. I. St. is. pro. •prCt. Navy 10311 lhaniusa for Money pa • per-Coot. Rook for Account Long _too. Lfil 13-10 f Goo. for Aett 7101 hop. 11 p►r erot. Lott. Tickets Set 10s. LONDON: !MONDAY Evrxtmr., Prllltl'AßT 19, li?1. In the house of Commons en Fri Oar, a discossioa of considerable interest took place in consetluence of the Bill brought in by Mr. KaNtssor, fur altering tba mode of proceeding in Criminal Trials in Scotland.— In the course of the discussion the Lone Anvocata took occasion 'to state the advantages which the accused is Scotland possessed above parties similarly situated in England ; and instanced particularly that whisk had been refused to the application of the Qualm, a list of the names of the witnesses that were to support the prosecution. This accommodation, for which there were peculiar reasons in the proceedings against her MAJESTY. was, as we stated, when that !Mild is her MAJIIVIT'S case was argnrd, admitted in the case of every criminal trial in Scotland. Favourable, how ever, as tl.e law and practice of criminal justice may, in that and one or two other instances, be to the at ruled in that part of the United Kingdom, it is mini. fest that the prerogative exercised by the Judge of selecting Jurors from a limited list made out by an.olll - of the Crown, and the denial of the right of !treetop ehallrege on the part of the accused, mnstoperate most se;iously to the injury of a prisoner in eery case where personal, party, or political prejudice runs against the charges which are brought against hint.— At the present time, and indeed, at all times when any strong exertions made in favour of Reform. are liable to be construed into arts of sedition, and any jest and indignant expression in print against unworthy and mischievous rulers may be indicted as a libel, it is truly awful that such proceedings should prevail, especially in a country so much under the power of tiovernment as Scotland. It bectmes therefore efery friend of humanity, as well of political liberty, to unite is striving for their abolition, unless they would allow the rising spirit of independence In that part of the island to be supptcssed, and its advocates be made the sictims of arbitrary power. The Judges, there, besides the other powers they asinine, have taken the liberty as Mr. M. A. TAYLOR asserts, of eneeediag the authority invested in them by law. They are in vested with a discretionary power in many cases, and in awarditig what is termed an arbitrary punish. ment. But that power which was meant as arbitrary, or diarritiontnry in its original sense, is sometimes exer cised to that extent which Mr. WI xnusit recommended,/ eigerr '.eyomd the lair. The rue of Ttfosiss Win was that in whit h it was employed originally, at the tune of those political Societies being formed in Seat. land, whirls were called " the Friends of the Peopli." Mr. Mein, an Advocate at the Feottish Bar, had been an wtive Member of •oisne of those Societies; and he was indicted at F.diuhurill in the Autumn of 1;93 for sedition, as haying been present at some of their :flutings, and supported some of their resolutions, The proof of sedition, on these occasions, we !where completely failed, but there were coupled with t h accusation two other charges, that beload proforma the perusal and actually lent a copy of ?Ames ifirles's .110, and gore direction to an itinerant organitt i in a street of Glasgow, to play the celehtated air of i)n! ! (in leis trial Mr. MLIIt, who pleaded his nun moose nub great energy and eloquence,,, oljrctrol str. ogle to the Jutors, all of whom hei affirmed, and was ready to prove, had signed an ultra-loyal deelsratioon in Edinburgh, and had actually prejtolgori Isis rause. None of his objer. lion) or arguments, I,rnerer, were of any argil. Ile n as• treatsd in the speech of the LOUD ADVOCATE Of that period, with a spirit which rivalled the viru lence of Jus!ge Js metro, and on being found nas sentencs ti to a pnni-hnteoot, as ap palling as nolooLed for, the rwristrmewt of MM. sportatit n for fourteen years to New beetle Wei.* Never Lad such a sentrnce, on account of such a charge, hes to thought of before, as was then pro. flounced by one of those nr‘itrary efforts of the Courts, which had the diseretiou to construe into treriemparratioi beyond seas, the meaning of an old Scotch Act of Parliament, which authorised the pu nishment of weedy banishment, at a period whets Scot land (sail not a colony to which a convict could he transported! Long as it is since that judgment was pooped, we rejoice that Mr. M. A. TATLAIR has under. taken to expose its illegality. A like one was passed soon bittern-anis i• the case of Palmer, wise was tried fur publishing a libel. and in those of 111ARGAROT. SIIIIIVIXO and GERALD. who had beets delegates to a Political Society at Edinburgh; and a similar one has within these few years keen passe:l again ; aod will doubt'. ss he repostod, a 4 often as al-- elision offers, unless this arbitrary power he effectuativ. restrained, lo the Hut of the oiajority on Vslriaty night against Ilmoo's motion fur sew nod estimates for the departments of the Ordnance, are found tier statues of tid. &emelt. Take these way and there remain. against the woke only 3 t sad there would he is krettr of it a usiJowity of 14. 1 1 TO IItELANO. An intimation has been already siren, that it Majesty's intrados to enthark en his sunsomer excursion the latter end of Jane. It is understood to be his 3lajesty's ist elit 6 i embark at Cork—to proceed theory to Kra/a m it seat of Karl Donotteliniore--onword s to lug Coate, and to the Metropolis. The first ridt e paid to the Martinis of Thoinoad. at his sie ga i seat in time harbour of Cork. His Majesty does not return to town till TW IN The Queen has appuiiired this Jay fur the r ego i, ii of Addresses: among which the following e go tormented to her Majesty:—The Parish 14 st (h ot IlasseverAgnare Koss, United Friendly $ Harrington, North Leach, Sudbury, Hinekl-c,1,1 6 ter, Bath, Cambridge, Apledure, ►iittu females, g m Melton. ♦fter much contetitiun sad discussion, I mmow hate entirely (and not fur the present nunasat os i given up the plan of supplying the Col os i e , vri door and corn, the produce of the United Kiw i America. Kilns are to 4 er.•etrd ismasJialrh Deptford, for the drying of such corn as ways, in need of the operation of being Kiln dried. Petitions front Saddletrorth, Ilohearth, Haiku kid, Kirilberton, Ellundrunt-tirretlaml, Kai s oid, and Brighouse, for holtliag .tssises for the Riding of Yorkshire, at Wakefield, are already, k usaratood, sent off, in order to their briar p ssM to the Loral eirastrellor ; and similar petition are l a course of proves% in the most populous pars o f d ie it Wing. Fiume, Pan. B.—A very numerous meeting di e paymasters of this parish took place this day, ( e , giant to public notice,) in the Vestry, to co m a e , propriety of petitioning Parliament against a Billi e , trod need I nto the I louse of Commons by Mr. thengi so , imitated ".1 Bill /hr /miler proeidirs, Mr mow ei cdstestium fiir His Alejr,ty's evlajeete w h et k to unanimously resolved to present a Petition to hefi. went, setting forth " that in the town of Prow do e . are two endowed or charity-srhools, for the ede sz e ift of poor hoydens! girls, and several tlay-sehools t sal that there are at present Moe Statolay-schuols,belesp lag te anti supported by the Established ('hared ad by the dificicet deonittinations of Dissenters is Gs parish; which Sunday-schools, together, at premo edurete upwards of 1,21110 boys and girls, and dog the means of education to ell the poor elsildnu is the i parish—that in this and every other popnlice district (having already Sunday and other schools saltiest k the 'demotion of the Poor,) the proposed Bill is net oaly nnneressary, but will be injurious, as it will Ind to snppress these valuable instientions--Aut, if tbr 818 should pass into a law, it will all greatly nth, parochial rates, and thereby increase the distress seder whirl' the .Irricultural and llattuficturing ietereto at present labour, and that it will also prodoce vi olent parochial litigations and aninire.ities. The Pe titioners therefore humbly pray that the proposed lilt, way not pass into a Law." • bill I. intruded to be bronrht into Puvlbseamo, fair repairieg St. (filer's choreic, Elinbursrls, mei las repavirer port of the High-street. The expenses le e creating these objects are calculated at £30,000, is rider which It is proposed to levy an assessment ftt tam veal., in the city sad royalty, on beritors, at the rate of one and a half per cent., and on occnpien d three-fourths per rent. per annum. Extract of a lettrr from Banned Hodges, Jan. American Consul at Cape tie Vends, to the gliters( the New-lteeiforel Mercury, elated Villa dos Prays, St. Jago, Nov. 6, 1s020:—" The slave sloop, Anita, alias Oreenork, from St.ittsru de Cuba, for the Coast of Afti• ca, has been seised and sold at &mat...eta, fur sadist under two lags. information having been rives le the Governor by the Spanish captain, that she had used two lags, search was immediately ordered, aid British Iterister, issued at Jautaic a, f mud un board.— The perste!' representing the ENglislt captaio, r. s sa Atnerivan, from Baltimore, and most of the uses wen. Americuns, who claimed their disrarge immediately vs the arrival of the vessel." • • .1. If assisted by particular winds, there will this year be two monarahle high tides ; toe inn ss • the 211th of March, and tile second un the rich if April. The disturbances in the Collieries of Shropshire. appear to have erased. Tile Shrove/story Careairi. received un Satarday, contains the follooing genre on the subject:—" The colliers iu the viciottr of IVellington have quietly ref tinted to their dot :11 4 the military (except tier company of the Shropshire llilitia moiler l'aptais Niortimer) have taken their de. partner. Warrants leave been issued aeainst doe men who were mast anise during the lute to oths. and three have be committed to our gaol, pit. J. Aniis, J. Wilcox, and 'l'. !Jelin, fur tinsisiltuously setubliog and doing damage at the Old Park Weak kr. not cutilial thanks ut the Alaifistratrs s ad Isla. :Manta were conauntuicated to the Wellington. Mire"' Wary. Holm, 04.444 Ike. troops of cavalry, Ity their promptitude, temper, and attunes.. We are reloeitell to correct the statement that the late rioters Pouettetk ally cannon ; they hail fowling pieces only." Sin" the diAeorery of the body of the man mu- • &red near Lorlawintwels, the folloot hog rirrueense re •h" that otherwise sai,oht have ev...sped public: resister. (In the 217th of Novemiler the (emit of Ilelentsonusains, iu the parish of Spidoton. botnti ni hi , fans the busty of a horse, apparently 'esti kaki and 11:tyeld. it is recollected thut early Coot t ouring a persua was area riling, by a private road, part Ilse house towards the spot where Ow bushy of t:.e hum WWI found. Froset the whole eir.anue...nz - es citentiol ' this *Weir a s:rong presumption arises that this horse belonged to the wan inhoomasoir noun:ern, at 1. eh• winnoch, and that the animal Iva: thus disposed of 11 "toe person canteens's' iu the bloody de: d, in order is avoid those means of detection which the possession of it woostlol suaturolle Wiwi! .feircrti‘er.) Slxucwß Ciaccmin A M . N.—The cuckoo was heard , on Saturday anal .s.nonlav last, by vorcal of the bitanta of Cuoit•hill, near Carlisle, being about t!,ree months Isoforr the usual time of these bird-. . 1 be indelatignWe, Cummins, from St. Joha's. to London, which nos abandoned hr the erre 114.0 the Land's End, rating chore on ti .e island Innis:Owns neat Lasdanslerer, lot inst. sh Tie ibassiewooket, from portleanit to Jae, his bees plundered, to Cbt btattiSmatt. " TIM SIMITIIIII iTATIIOII/01" 111 INIPORPORATIIII Wire " TIM orraliteNall."