The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-02-05 00:00:00

WC= P 4 6 .. ~,,, ;1 „i •;', Julie'', • 4 '` parisliait I • Lyso A curious trial took place' the other day. lee * ' who had alsrayl passed for the Saint of his VII accused his female servant of having robbed him 1 10,000 francs. The first surprise is, bow a starving singes Curate, .with certainly net more than 301. per annum, could save in eight yens fourteen times the amount of his salary ; this he knew would appear . wonderful to the. Court, be therefore got fin di vie of the neighbourieg Cures, his friends, to prove en the trial that *Sweetly had that sum. The first wit: vest called was a modest young Core, of e saint-like appearsnce, *be gave his testimony in a very devout manner; be swore positively be had seen the money. " I object to his testineoy," said the Prisoner.— On what grounds ? Mb. himself. The Cure was silent, his eyes east es the ground. If he will not speak I must: be is acqealnted with me, let him look me in the face, and declare that he had net carnal knowledge of me timidity that he administered the Sacra. agent for my master, who was ill. Let him dewy it if be demoted I will prove it to the Court by other circa.- so f stances. The Priest was silent. She en attacked every witness, and dared them to d their having carnal knowledge of her at periods which she stated. The Court was convulsed with laughter, sad the peer witeesses ail mired amidst a wink of laughing and hisses. There now remained the Prosecotor,Gen titmeo of the Jury, said he, my master has been at unnecessary pains to prove to you that he bad ten thousand francs, and be repents it I am sere. Why did he not call on me ? I could have easily proved it, as I will for your satisfaction :—Old Madame was very rich, on her death-bed she sent for my master who consoled her, but told her she would go to hell, unless she gave ten thousand francs is cha rity, and leave it to him to lay (min pions works for the repose of her soul. She did not like to give the money, but, she feared to be damned, and gave it.— My master came home ; and overcome with joy, I suppose be did not know what he did for the repose of the Lady's soul, but that day nine months I pre. witted him with a little cherub, which is new at nurse, as his sister's child, and the uncle is very fond of it. I would not be thought irrreverent, but he said at the time he knew, no more pious works than that of presenting me edih 100 francs to pray with him, this was the price he offered to secure our joint prayers, and you will see by this bill that be is much in my debt, though it is only eighteen months since we began to pray together; she then produced a bill of dates, fix., by which it appeard that after codes. sing, marrying, and burying his flock he always went home end prayed with his servant. This was, it ap. pears, found out by his brethren, and they all obliged Mary to pray with them, under the threat of *epos ing the business. The Prosecutor was confounded, and offered to abandon the cause, bat the Judges cud Jury thought proper to punish the girl with a month's imprisonment, and a fine of ten francs; and at the same time informed the Corti they should apply to the Grand Vicar of Paris to institute proceedings against him and his brethren. The subscription at New York for the relief of the sufferers by the late fire at St. John's, Newfoundland, amounted, on the 9th ult. to about 3,000 dollars. An application had been made to Mr. Batiox, the British Minister, for permission to load an American vessel at that port with provisions, for the distressed at the above place, and there was no doubt of its success. The Lords of the Admiralty have appointed F. G. Hastrroor, Esq. Receiver-General of the Droits of Admiralty, in the room of the late Sir C. C. Da CRUMB wr, Bert. Admiral Sir Geottoz Hort retires, it is said, Ilika the Admiralty Board through ill health, and, II is added, will be succeeded by Admiral Sir Gaoaoi COCKBURN. It is a cpsestion at the present moment, whetter the unexampled sale which has taken place in the pre sent early period of the Lottery has been caused by the devotees of Fortune or the votaries of Bacchus. On the one hand, Three Prizes of Thirty Thousand Pounds and One Hundred Capitals may be adduced as incontrovertible arguments; whilst, on the other, Twelve Pipes of the best Port Wine in the kingdom seem no less convincing. We believe the effect may be attributed to their combined operation and the novelty of the ides, since this is the first Lottery on record where the cornocopiz of Fortune has over flowed with the choicest gifts of the Son of &Melo. The Scottish Public may be congratulated on the progress of Burgh Reform. The majority of the In habitants of almost every Borough in Scotland have declared an earliest desire for a restoration of the ancient rights of the Civic Communities. The Glas gow Chronicle states, that the most enlightened Mem. hers of the Town-Council of that city, ere decidedly in favour of an amendment in the set of the Bergh ; and that, for a considerable time past, they have urged the propriety of publishing the town accounts. THEATRICALS. —The new Tragedy of Fazio ' which is to be produced et Covent-garden Theatre, isfound ed on a story quoted in the Annual Register for 1795, from tae" Varieties of Literature." It has already been performed at Bath, with much success, and has been printed. It is stated, sit a jest tribute to the genius and perseverance of Miss SOWIRYILLI, that it is to her alunc that the Public are indebted, as well as the Author, 'for its production on the stage. It is an attempt to revive our old netional Drama, with greater simplicity of plot, but the characters and scent'; are Italian. Fazio is the Alchymist, whose love of gold, end the jealousy of his wife, l Bianca, occasion the catastrophe of the Play.—A sew Piece, the Bride of Abytlos, from Lord BYRON'S Poems, is also announced to appear at Drury-lane to-night. The Earl of 'rit.INEX left town yesterday, for his sent in beat, . . • ; 1 • . • NAVAL iNrELLIGENCR: MAL, Fe frog' Newcastle the Posit a, Forrest, and Pleereamle, for Jae make • mid Jolitt, end Charlotte, for Liultev i , land a iled".—Caste down frees .the River the Bald* Merchant, Lit/ 4100; 4 f, for Grenada ; Boddingtoe„ Parent, for Bermuda; Thfitia,parshafn, for Jamaica; Maria, for St. Lucia 'Jaime, Berridge, for the Cape of Good Hope • Harmony, Creswell, for Poir.o e .P r i nce; Thetis , for Pernambuco : the whole have sailed escept the Thetis, Defames, which ship missed stay's insetting under way, and hes anchored close in shore ; a Deal boat is now carry. ins set an anchor from the ship,. in spier to ham ifer of. PoevsNotrrm, Fits. 4.—Arrived his Majesty's ships Prometheus, Rosario, and Grecian, from cruises ; Latona, Denman, from the Downs for the South See, with the ring of her anchor broke. Se rah Christiana, Young ; and Rockers, —, from the Downs, passed through with ablut 40 sail out ward.bound.—Seiled his Majesty's ship F.vosrite,for St. Helena and Cape of Good Hope; _the whole of the outward-bound, together with the Russian squa dron for Cadiz, and the following East 1444 ships, viz. Norfolk, Edwards • Intrepid, Johnson; Wan geed, Young ; Lady Ca mpbell,i Marquis; Medway, ,Wight; George 111., Faber, for Madeira and Bee. • Ace, Reynolds, for Bombay • and Eclipse, Wrimer, for the Isle of France and Ceylon. Coma, Fez. 4.—Arrived the Waterloo, Gittens ; and Duke of Scones, Ripley, frog Leghorn ; Pallas, Cletaent, from Naples ; and George, White, from Altos. HARIIIGIE, Fes. 4.—Arrived the Auckland, Henry Freeness, and Beaefoy packets, with Muds and pas sengers from Ceshaven.—Sailed the Mercerise, Morrer, with &general cargo, for the coast of Africa. Oa the publicity of the report of the London Grand Jary, of the deplorable state of Negate, and the great want of clothing of the unfortunate prisoners confined therein (many in a state of nakedness), the late Sheriff, Mr. Kirby, visited the prison on behalf of himself and his late excellent colleague, Mr. Bridges, and through the continued confidence and liberality of their friends, supplied every male pri soner in want, with warm and extra articles of clo thing, not forgetting the females under the charge of Mrs. Fry, and the Committee of Ladies, who were first fostered and coenteoanced by the late Sheriffs, in their successful endeavours to reform the females confined in Newgate. The &shams Effect, of Eledizolion on the human frame, in accelerating the circulation, promoting glandular secretion t and insensible per spiration, removing obstructions, invigorating the constitution by stimulating the system and reciting the torpid organs or paralyzed nerves to healthful action, prove it to be an invaluable and effectual re medy for a vast class of human maladies, both local and constitational. In paralytic and rheumatic disorders, contractions, indolent tumours, scrophulous swellings, &c. In debility of sight, gutta serene, which often terminates in blindness; in deafness, particularly in nervous deafness, setinising cures'ltare been effected, and are daily effected,by its influence alone,than have been obtained by the combined powers of internal and internal medicines employed for ages. In those delicate and painful complaints peculiar to females, especially the young sod atiddbbegad, this operative principle is singularly efficacious, and has been suc. cessfully employed in producing a radical cure, even in the worst stages of disease.—This safe and philo. sophical remedy is scientifically administered, by Mr. LA BEAMS; Medical Electrician (on hie peculiar system of mild treatment), at his house, No. St, Southamptou.row, Russell-square. Application may be made from twelve to four o'clock. THE FM CAusx.—This important case, which has tucked great interest in Scotland, as involving pro perty to a large amoent, has just been decided by the C o urt of Session in favour of the Earl of Firs. The late JAMES Earl of Furs, his uncle, had ac quired in his hfe-time by pinches', estates to the va lue of upwards of 20,0001. a.)ear,which be conveyed to Trustees, the rents of which were to accumulate for an indefinite period, excluding his nephew and heir at law, the preseni Esrl, trim any future bens. fit whatever in those estates. An action was brou g ht before the Supreme Court in Scotland for reducing the deeds, on the ground, that in the year 1808, when they were executed, his Lordship was so blind as not to be able to read any written instrument or printed book, and that they were not read over to him anti signed in the presence of all the subscribing witnesses, as the law of Scotland requires. Thet.e allegations were proved, after a long trial before the new Jury Court, who made their Report accord ingly to the Court of Session. After hearing Coon eel at great length on the import of the verdict of the Jury, the Court gave judgment in favour of the Motif, thereby reducing the deetls in question. The very great satisfaction the plan adopted in former Lotteries gave to persons residing in the 'Country, has induced T. Bon, the Contractor, to repeat it in the present ; and be hopes he has , as in Mint Lottery, selected some of the eapitals 11211110.1 t those Numbers advertised.--The under. min gi os ed Numbers may be had, either in whole Tickets, Halves, Quarters, Eighths, or Sixteenths, at Nis. 4, Cornhill 12448 11.486 I 6.826 1 11.487 6,827 11,4R8 14,7i9 14.721 4.315 1 16,96+) 4,514 14101 17,232 19.200 17,233 1t,197 17.234 16,037 . 16,866 114361 16,447 9,715 L 16,088 10,1115 13491 AMY I Mien 10.319115.233 15,974 The followingNombers may be bad either in whole Tickets, Halves, Quarters, Eighths, or Siateeuths, at No. 9, ebaring.criss :- 12,325 17.293 1,071 4.312 10,182 1 6.890 9.711 18,91, 12.381 1/491 14,724 4.311 141 13. - 5.815 16,090 11,450 10,130 , 11.4110 1144 13,235 i 6.812 1 509 n HA7 11.490111411 1 14.722 Wis The 'sent ' e Three Prizes of 1300 I ~ —One flee red Capitals,—.ll Sterling Moneyo..no Stock, Prig's,—no Classes,—oo re. drawings Thi Dramas( coseiggpces the 4th of March. PftIISENIIIIIIICE. Tidy. Half Quarter *** Letters (post paid) containing Bank Nouse, or Post-Office Orders, duly Attended to. The last Lottery that contained Three Prizes of t 30,000, Him sold them all ! and last Lottery be s old Three Prizes of 00 2 000 1 all in Shares. • • • THE STATISMAN; _ s• TO THE MEETING 111`511E OROIFN AND AN CHOR. FOR THE RELIEF OF THE SUFFERERS UNDER THE SUSPENSION ACTS. • . . • Tn the Chairmen 'Odle Ileithar,fer she Art/0111 Panama who have herwerosiamt simians af IL.faef erstrykoey against she of nor eniniry—Ferues was have Sere infamans47 ralawaiwad &MN, of Heghltionate-441Inie sawed fat* Imprhorwarat. iadicaities. sad re•Hturs—std seesaw lobe. rased rinser, any competaasied fectlselr sufferings. • • MT DEAR SIR. FRANCIS,— Not able, through in. .dhposition, to attend the Meade' of freedom and he.' useolty, among whom you em this day to preside, I beg !mite to submit to them, through your monis , the following observations, bowl e g imarogNate retail:a to Me ease of tie sufferers which is in troth.** ease of 'eery men in the United Kingdom. Their case having bad its root le en Art of Perlis. Meal, it is my perposeto prove, that Parliaktent bath .not aathority to suspend for one hoer the personal liberties of Englishmen. • I rest nothing on the notorious facttthat the lions, of Commons does not represent the nation; or on that other fact, equally notorious, that the Howse of Lords is deeply implicated •in the Rotten Borough System, which facts in the opiolona of some, amount to an incapacitation of Parliament, in its present con. dition, rightfully to imposes Laws nn the People. No, Sir, my argument, for proving that Parlia ment bath not the authority in qeostion, stands on broader and more solid poised, equally applying to a Parliament de fade, aull a Parliament de jure. ktilloegh Parliament, holding its proper office In oorlyetem of Government, were Ogee -St I perfect, I mean to show, that it would sot have authority to suspend for a single day, far a single hoer, for a single moment, she personal liberty of Englishmen ; placing all freedom from chains and dungeons, et the mercy of a Minister. What is any sech suspension, bat a suspensinwof the Constitution 7 Coo •nyinferint suspend its so perior ? Can a Constable, *ben•be pleases, suspend a Magistrate? Can a Magistrate, at his will, sus pend the Court of King's Bench? Can that Court, at its discretion, suspend the functions of Paella. ment ? But no one of these suppositions is more eon. Woos, or more tending to anarchy, and its dire con. volsioos; or to the military de•pntisrn likely then to roult ; than an edmisvion t►at Parliament, in any conceivable case, can have authority to suspend the Constitution. IP/reri leas at any time been the pretence for an Act so monstrous? Why, truly, necessity. But is it not proverbial, that necessity—sometimes softened down to expediency, is the tyrant's plea? Then, who at any time is to be the Judge of this necessity or expediency ? Why, truly, the men imposter. And these, last year, did not condescend to ex plain, even to either House of Parliament,. the grounds of their desire to suspend the Constitution ; while she obsequious Parliament did it on the mere re. port of two packed Committees, who had looked in to tne mysterious Green Digs of the men in power. Without further preface, I will wow state my ar. gement. To understand our system of Government, end the respective functions of Parliament. of ma gistracy, and of all other authorities, we most care. fully look tofirst principles; end we mast ever keep In mind, that a violation of principles, accordingly as it flows from ignorance, or from design, is folly or crime. Not even he universe, the work of an Al. mighty Creator, could stand; nor suns, nor planets, be preserved in their orbits, if the principles of the system could by any adverse power be violated and overthrown; as then chaos most return. Let not men ti.erefore think lightly of the principles of Ger Constitution, which are principles of free Govern ment. And nntwithstanding the constant sneers and air. calms of factitious politicians, and of impostors in the solemn garb of Statesmen, at theory and abstract. aver lions, let all men hemmed. that whenever they se* violated a principle of Freedom, they see that which is infinitely more mischievous to their country, the. a thousand mere errors of policy, or blenders in the administration of Government. Tracing then. ear sysiem to Hafted principles, we shall find a simplicity that will furnish a clear light, by which we shall see its excellence ; as well as die. cover how to pull off the mask, that hides its beau. ty ; to strip off the sevenfold cloak, that clogs it, till as inert as a mummy ; and to strike off its die. grocersl manacles and fetters. To this end, plain and artless is the train of sa a. sorting. The fsetelom of individual men is merely the stuff of which the collective freedom of the cora. manity is composed, and nothing else. National freedom is, consequently, that mere aggregate, that whole, of which the separate freedoms of the indi• vidoals are, essentially, the vital parts; and it le nothing else. Wherefore national and iudisideak freedom, the whole and the party, are alike sacred; as in the natural body of man, the arm, or the hand, or the steeliest finger, is as sacred from lawless de. 'traction as the heed or the heart. It is thus seen that, to violate any individual man's personal freedom, is to violate the nationallreedom ; or in other words, to stab the commanity in one of its members. What is 'bit, but to stab the Goleta! Sudan, of which the political liberty of the commei pity, and the personal liberty of every man in it, ii the very end, the scope, the object ? It has lately been well said its the flown. of Lord% that—" the right which had bees' suspended was nee one which had been granted by Parliament. Tie personal liberty of the People was no concessfoi3— It was a right antecedent to any Statute, endowed Fn. the rightsiof their Lordships to vote in that House, er to the right of the Kin& to sit on the Throne." With deference to the Noble Speaker, oar right to personal freedom is superior to those other rights he noticed ; inasmuch at it is inherent, whereas those are derived; it is original awl antecedent to ell Government, where., those of the Lords and of the King are the mere concomitants of trust, conferred by, and to be exercised for, the benefit of the People. The Noble Lord It reported to have proceded thos: --- 44 lie did not mean to say that there was any ah• solute limitation to thepower of Parliament on Mk subject, where circumstances rendered•soch a stretch of power indispensable." What, can Parliament take away a right it never gave ! a right antecedent thousands of years to its very being? ~y~ I - Sidi _ - peach,' 'lady el the -- seience of Onvehnerist, i very Camden eteesideration of the English CNN stitaileas To decide est the question of Ferliansentety OM. +Mem", to take ewer, in any conceivalslemsse, the esters!, haltered, original rights of a People, it le proper sO l inquireinto what ire the respective insporb of the word Constitution, and Parliament. If these be indeed reel entities, and notithedows or dreams, or onfathomable mysteries, therm...fed. 'mit of definition and esplenetino..."Now a CON. STITUTIQN.,4I that system of polity, by which a free People agree to govern themselves ; that is s through the medium of lieponeotatiost, to impose en themselvea all the laws they shall observe, and ell the tales they shall pay; and of which system all the principles of troth and justice, so necessary to pee. serve the COisalinity's liberty and So promote in well.beipg, ore she very life and soul. Their CONSTITUTION is , therefore, neeenerily the'criterion, in that tornmonity, of political rani. tude ; a sacred law to their legislature; a 66 Polkas lion.' of its authority it cannot without erimisality pan; sod on all occasions an indispeosable rule for its conduct, and that of ell other tenetionarkm of this State. Such being the CONSTITUTION, we nest enquire, what is PARLIAMENT the fore. going definition of the coNsrITUTION, as in a mirror, we see the outline of its image. Farther to explain it, we say it is a &lutes in the ordinary work. of legislation for the 'Denotement of public affairs ; as well as in the superintendence of all ningistracy and .all :lodine! proceedings ; far. harped" NW moral runclioi k aries to their duty. It is not necessary to descend to agnates, touching any distribution of its offices, between the Lords sad the Commons! . but it is proper to remark that, al. though PARLIAMENT is competent to enact suck Statute Lew in the management of public atairs, ac. cording to the CONSTITUTION, as may In ex. pedietst, it would be manifestly absurd to admit, that it path authority to take away, or for one mo• meat to suspend oue iota of the ConstitatioN • or ender say • pretence whatever, to violate a sitsgh principle thereof ; for it is a maxim of law, that', 66 If one principle be violated, all are shakes." The Statutes in a free 'swims, like the bye.latts in a corporatioa, can declare principles, and can supply what is wanting to regulation, hut cannot lake away what etas fundamental to the individuals anterior to their becoming explassatorq. _ I trust, Sir, it is now - apparent, that PARLIA MENT, which is a mere creature of the People, their trustee, their agent, merely to officiate in their service, for their benefit; end bath no other function whatever, and which in an especial mariner iv hound to officiate, and as limited by the CONS [ITU. TION ; bath no more right, or no more authority, to violate that Constitution, and deprive ore People of their liberties, than your attorney er your steward bath to embezzle the title-deeds of your estate, to withhold from you to their, ewe nee the estate itself ; end as the Archyshop of Canterbury dared to my of the People, impudently to proclaim you mad, mid thereupon to pot you in irony, to thrust yen into a solitary dungeon, to treat yens as a felon, jam as lees and as often all they should think it. I know indeed, that it is to be found in books written by Lawyers, that PARLIAMENT is "rib's solute"—that it iv " dcepotic,"-r-that it " see change and create afresh the CONSTITUTION of the k ingdom* ;" that is (for nor less cell be tho meas. ing of these words), that at its will end pleasure, for the Constitution of England, it can give es the Constitution of Spain, with its Holy Inquisition ; or of Algiers, with its sabre justice ; or of Mo rocco, where men's beads are struck off for Royal amusement. Nay—and for the consolation of our Bible Sods. ties, tell this in Galls, publish it in the stemma ei .4skalon,—these lawyers also affirm, directly in so many wordy affirm, that " Parliament can alter the Established Religion of the land;" words which must meets, that it can abolish homage to a Deity infinite In perfection, and set up a Moloch to be worshipped with human sacrifices; and, to say the truth, we have seen the way paved for such an alteration in the Religion of the land, by certain devotees of Moloch, chile professing more than ordinary sanctity. The same lawyer who penned the contemptibly ignorant positions L have quoted, as if to reach the climax of absurdity, likewise declared that " Pesti*. meet could change and create afresh ()SELF," that is, it could at one and the same time be cause and effect ; the potter and the put. But lawyers do net write, and plead, and exposed nonsense for nothing. Nonsense is a fog which they have epeieliar art of raising in exhalations from the quagmires of their own sophistry, for confounding the minds of men to some evil end; and never halls snore Wickedness,wr more tyranny, worked its wey v than is this law fog of prelq*Fl o karliaasentery en. nipotcnce. . Traces of the infernal mischief are distinctly seen in all the present Attorney-General's political menis; In which are introduced with a disgusting, a nauseating reiteration, this miserable nonsense-- " the Constitution, as by, law established ;" a phrase utterly unknown to the lawyers themselves; even so late, as when, in oar own time, Hardy, Tooke, Theltcall, and they others, were indicted for Hie* Treason, in 1794. _ The very first appearance of this contemptible jar. goo, tiels gross absurdity, was is the Gagging Acts of Parliament of the following year, into which Acts it was foisted, as i have been credibly informed, as an amendment, by that paragon of Scripture -peso. (lists, that most learned of the lest*, the present lissrd High Cbaccallor.,. 'l•he drift batll evq7 beM NOR visible to alt but the wilttehy Parliesgeet•at its *amen could change the t laic* ;..-enit IF a RatteW Borough Oligarchy could onetemerpoli the fenstisee end . authority of Parliament. (oat pool coold be wanting to the complete eatabliebment of, a Roue. Borough Constitution, composed of all that is cord' ropt end tyrannical ; with Statute, to declase ell Parliamentary Reformists traitors to 0,4 ; Reties Borough Nejesties ? For mere then twenty years Parliamentary 'RN formic,. have been uniformly objects of slander and ipersecation; nor shaft I ever forget certain 'ignitor • Blacks. Com. 1. 160. A • T' 1 . 'i t ., . s j .'?'+ , . 4