The Statesman. — London, England, 1824-01-29 00:00:00

A • which load accumulated. amounting to about ,to hi cancelled by the Company's annual donation. The meet ing being called, and its object explained to them, I re commended that the contributions should b e cont i nue d. rather than that the comforts of the sick and blind should be curtailed, but requested that the parties present would take time to consider the subject well, and inform me if they could suggest any improvement in any of the pro posed details. I adopted this course, because i was desi rous to discover what progress the older inhabitants had made in the acquisition of good feelings, and the know ledge necessary to enable them to act with humanity and justice to each other. 1 speedily found however by a paper put into my hands by a few of the most ignorant and least charitably dis posed, worked upon by interested individuals from with out the establishment, were attempting to mike these proceedings subservient to the views and measures of those who have latterly arrayed themselves in opposition to the New Syst-m. Seei n g this, l re-considered the subject with those who possessed the most kaowledge and experience, and who ware dis i n terested as to the receipts and expenditure, and such regulations were formed as were conceived to be the most beneficial for the whole lo pulation. At the same time, at the request-of the who: - named manures of the fowl, I added to their number one workman from each department, to be chosen by the operatives themselves; stating that they should have a report monthly of the receipts and expenditure, that they might have in one view the amount contributed, and the sums paid out, with the names of individuals receiving relief. A second meeting was then called the day before I left New Lanark for London, and as the regulations which were communicated to them had ' , violently been made rudely for the benefit of the whole popalation, 1 concluded that the business was finally settled. Bait I bad scarcely departed, it seems, when the indivi duals who bad been previously irstigated to oppose the measures which had been proposed for the permanent good of the villagers, became vary active in concerting a plan to create dissention and dissatisfaction ; and sonic of them went so far as to threaten with violence, those who resisted. They formed a junto, and put the names of some of the most respectabl inhabitants upon the list,withoot their knosleolge or consent, and tints imposed upon others 'they mimed a President and a Secretary, and passed such resolutions as appeared in The Glasgow Chronicle. The President was a Lean who bad been formerly dischareed for misconduct, but who, on account of his distressed si tuation, and earnest entreaties, had been again employed ; and the Secretary was an apprentice in the mechanical de. partment —the only sine who ever left the company's ser vice before the expiration of the usual per'enl of serving, but who also, at the repeated rAnret of his tether, who had long conducted himself well at the works, was again received into employment. All the respectable put of the inhabitants of the village, when they discovered who were the instigators and attar' in these proceedings, after wart - log them of their folly, kept aloof tram them, and:as soon as they knew that a false statement hail been sent to Lon don, iinmediately fur; arded a counter-representation to the same quarter. Sorb is the history of the domestic distnrhaece which was fomented in my absence. ITlion my return, to pre peeve the rest site order in an extensive manufactory, it became necessary at time to pet a stop to such p-oceedings, and I immediately discharged eight of the principal ring leaders, ;toying each of them a months' wages in advance. Considering the manner in which these people have be n treated for ready 25 years, it could scarcely be expected that the most ignorant and irretion of them would accuse use of tyranny. It has been the leading object of my life to devise and carry into excretion. sorb measures fee the permanent amelioration of the working classes, as should ultimately supersede the necessity for any punishment or severity whatever; and in so far as these have been intro duce:l at New Lanark. I have heen most euceessfial. Dur ing the whole of these 25 r: er I. I do not recollect applying to a mono of law to inflict a single peniehment import any individual. By the roles of the establishment, stilferent offences were snhjected to pecuniary fines. and these, ex lusive of the fines paid on account of illegitimate chil dren, have not amounted in the aggregate to -104. a year, Porten years past, in a popul divot of 2,5141 souls. These lines were always paid into the village fund fur relief of the sick and aged. In the schools no punishment ie per• 'flitted. As the improvement of the popnlation of New Lanark seas a mere speck in the proceedings which 1 con templated, and as the consequent necessity of my being mach from home was faresten, 1 adopted two general mea sures, by which 1 endeavoured to secure their independence and their happiness, as far as regulations could effect this, cinder the peculiar circumstances in which we stood in re lation to each other, as muter and servants in a manufac turing establrehment. carried on for the pecuniary gain of a company of proprietors. A general store was established for their Owns fit, and that its object might never be friss :rated, a regulation was made that no one should ever he asked to purchase -there, or be prevented in any manner from freely purchasing elsewhere, whenever they thought they could he better served. This was such a cheek upon the managers of the store, as rendered it necessary tbat they Omni,' purchase the best artirles only, nt the lowest prices, and sell them accordingly. The other ass, that no advantage should be taken of the distresses of persons ap plying for work at the establishment, by engaging either individuals or families for many years at fixed wages—a very o oatinon practice in similar inanufectories. Therefore, it any fon not themselves a egrieveiLthey could remove at any time on giving ole mem h's notice; but in general, if they thought they could improve their conditiou by a change, they were allowed to go at a day's notice. Under such regulations I knew no tyranny could be exercised by any parties over these people, and the most active proof of the happy effects which have been pro duced, is that the changes among the managers and work people have been singularly few in number. 'the super intendant of the mechanical department has been in his present situation as first and second master; the superin tendent of the mills as first and second master; the superin tendent of the store, and the greater part of the beads of families, from 15 to 39 years. Still. however, I do not a(tribote blame to the poor de luded iudividusls whom I have been obliged to discharge, or to any of their associates who remain. I dismissed the former, not because I thought it just, but because, as in every other instance in which I have inflicted punishment, it was expedient and necessary under the circumstances in which I was placed. The reel cause of that which is to be lamented in their conduct, is referable to the great error which society has committed, in &Honing them to remain in a state of ignorance, which exposes them to such delu sion; audio the present instance, I attribute blame to my self rather than to these poor men. I ought long ago to have proceeded, as I intended, to remove the ignorance of the elder part of the inhabitants of New Lanark, by insti tuting regular lectures for their instruction, to be given after the hours of work ; and if 1 had done so, it is not probable that any of them could now have been influenced to an act iaditeet opposition to their own interest and hap piness. But from this mode of proceeding I was deterred, by a desire to avoid even an appearance of interfering with the opinions of the population. Ldefer, till your next publication, some important eon siderations regarding elmstianity, and its relation to the New Systems. New Lanark, Jan. 13,1824. RONIRT OWIN. SHIPPINO INTELLWENC rte -77tattlinian. In the first place we would direct our attention to the expediency of prohibiting a publication of the proceedings of the Court.We will suppose there are 1000 persons present at the trial; and that, before the trial is over, half of them quit the Court. What shall prevent this half from pro mulgating orally to an equal number of persons every thing that has passed—and these again from communicating to another equal number what they have just heard, and so on •ntil the matter has be come as notorious as the publication by a newspaper can possibly make it? Is there any law that can put a padlock on the tongue, and prevent the auditors from making known every minutia of the trial? And if the Court cannot stop the tongues of p individ oats from speaking of its proceedings, of what possible utility can it be to impose silence on the press ? May not the evidence given on the trial, if there be danger to the prisoner or the Crown in giving it publicity, be spread as wide, nay, wider than by means of the press? The publication, it may be, is of a very limited circulation ; but, according to this doctrine, the printing of ten or twenty, or any small number of newspapers that shall contain any account• of the proceedings of the Court, contrary to its order, shall amount to an offence that is to call down the ven geance of the Court, whilst five thousand tongues, set in motion, that circulate the same information through the Tue ARIIT.—On Thursday afternoon (22d inst.) about 100 Irish recruits arrived to join the 94th Regiment. It is now considerably more than complete, consisting of op oards of 800 men. The regiment is formed into eight companies. eight)-three rank and file each. They have been inspected by the Commander-in-Chief for Scotland, and other field-officers. They are expected to leave town in about a month for Edinburgh. Neither the appoint ment of officers nor serjeants is yet complete. The regi ment will be ready to take the field in six months; and a year will complete their training. On their departure the rem.rittder of the 65th regiment will arrive from the me• tropolis to replace them. The shopkeepers in the vicinity of the Barracks are much bendtted. by the quartering of the new corps; and are doing murebpsiness than, at any time since the car.—(Glasgow Chrwgcle.) We are informed that the person alluded to In the Mansion . bowie report of yesterday, as having seduced a young wo mannow In St. Sepulchre's workhouse, has not for several years past been a member of the ()takers' tloolety.—(Marrs in paper.) lead, shall . move harmlessly and inoffensively,and excite no displeasure. In slitter, whatever way the subject is con sidered on the score of expediency, we mast admit the folly of the prohibition, We would next consider the question as it tegards the subject. On this point there cannot surely, in a country where liberty is so well understuol, he two dissentien t voices. By the constitution, of the realm every man has a right to be tried by his peers. if a man offend against any known and well defined law, let him be tried by a Jury of his country. Let him be brought face to face, before his accusors. Let him know for what he is to he brought to the Bar of Justice. Let his offence be well defined. Let no ambiguity be charged against him. Above all, let not any person, be his rank or station ever so high, set himself up as his accuser aid his Judge. In the case before us, who makes the law ?—The Senate? The Parliament ? The Wittinagtmote of England ? The three estates of the Realm—the Commons, the Loris, t he King ?—No, no! the Judge of the Court.—Who accuses? Who prosecutes? The Judge..--Who tries? The Jnflge. Who condemns ? The Judge.---Who punishes? The Jedge.—AHD ALL THIS IN gNGLAND: —lf such be the law of the land; if the subject can be thus accused—prosecuted —tried, condemned, punished—shall we, can we, say of it Ego perpetual. But it way not be. The Law, which is called the perfection of reason, knows not of summary pro ceedings, where the liberty of the subject is concerned; theft, murder, and other outrageous crinies, that require the instant security of his person, to the end that he may not elude or escape justice, always excepted. But to im prison his person, to set a fine on his bead, for violating the dictum, for acting contrary to the will and pleasure of a Judge,and that nil' emanating from an undefined source, may not, cannot, be consonant to the principles of juris prudence, bottomed and a,nctioned by the accumulated wisdom of free England. Libery, the birth-right of En glishmen, is n a to vanish before the mandate of a Judge, acting, we say again, tinder no defined or definable law. The sic villa, slat pro rationc, may be a motto befi tiog a Bourbon ur the great Autocrat of the North, or arty other Legitimate of the South. It once prevailed in this country, ander a line of Kings, happily now extiect. But the tyrannical fiat that incarcerated man within the walls of a dungeon, and left him a prey to the heartless merry of his accuser and his Judge, his ceased to have operation under the :tiller sway of a Brunswick. The King himself, armed- and fenced, and "hedged" around with all his power, cannot issue his command to arrest, and imprison, or to line, the lowest peasant of the land, with impunity ; for a right of action will immediately accrue, not against the Sovereign, indeed, who gave, but against the officer who executed the mandate ; and shall it be said, then that those who execute the laws and hold their authority direct from his shall wield this omnipotent engine? Shall the servant he greater than the master ? Shall he who acts as vicegerent be greater than him from whom he derives his power ? Let as now consider the important question, as it affects the liberty of the press. We will never become the advo cates of that licentious and undefined freedom of the press, which spent' with private character. Let the insidious assassin, that aims a blow at his neighbour's fair fame be punished : let the dark cilumny that breaks in upon the e peace and social joys of domestic life 'be repressed ;—let At the Annlvereardy .weetine of the Antiquirian Society Woft' is town, on e .esday se'nnigait, an interesting .pa the obscene exhibitions which corrupt th e t ided, and :no rats of our youth, and offend the cheek of modesty, be t er by Mr. W. Chapman .sus rea d to th • meettne, gime an ,recount of the antiquities and curiosities discovered in blotted out and disappear.—But in all other respects, we digging the canal from Carlisle to the West sea, under that and. cgon will never cease to advocate the rights of t he preps , a n ti to the ( m ii n se s o t v i e n r t y ere o st n in oLp e a a r i t i c: t f ,s t s t f s e t nt ti l l e u m n a ie n:a tio d n ire r c ei ti; t l as among the first, the right to publish the proceedings of th e Solway Frith, beyond 'trough, of a sobterramous fe- Collets of Public Justice. The law of England kno s not • rest of oak, embede in a stiff blue clay.n o anfd th lying from how to administer its statutes and its ortlinanees pith , to to feet below the four latiee in Wall, which pissed over it. The trees, which were of closed doors. The Judges of the inquisition may sit in judge large dimensions, were all lying towards the north; the went on their victims, and the auto da fc may 'eight up stumps of were in their natural position.—And tic at its fires for their sacrifice; but, in England, publicity is the life and soul of liberty. Whilst it exists, Judges most Is m ore o a r e s r t ;t e te r a k s a t h o l e l; the e s a s r v r o o d stin the se gu i t s r h a e i s ) l % e v f s r in treat oak, ablioug , b it is evident it y li it it omit h eve lain tber• respect popular opinion. Destroy its inflaenee, and whet some t ho usa tid years, as the p eriod of its growth west have will be the consequence? Establish but for once, that no public Journalist shall give an account of what passes in a been long ;interior to the building of the Roman Wall it will follow that what is ordered Court of Justice, anti uroses of embankment &c. along w ith other wo r ds te, pferectly son, d as embankments o e wed that it it as used o tto piece of it was exhibited and presented to the Society. The to he done to-day, may be ordered to he done to-morrow I an tiquities c o nsisted principally of a rudely carved bored and the inroad once made,no one can know whither it wilt fore, snpposed to be a Bacchus, and a small coin, bo h uh lead.ln 61'10 may lead to the utter subversion of the right foun i d t ne b ar b li i r e o t ti4r i l a t . 21 Lk! s a e s w n e .a re s s o l t h t l i t e re f s r . a n u t t e i i i i , li t t o : f te s to publish at all, except under the sanction of a lieerse, on red eer y the y rn howl, Chapman ; in the station at Near-etill. emanating either from the Sovereign or the Judges. We the first sink[g of the eolliery.and which was long iv the admit that it would be a long time ere the re ,ple of possessi t! a hate Hornby, Esq.—Arica:stir Chronicle. England would submit to such a rule. But we are arguing ROYAL SOCIETY or EDINIMROII.—At a Meeting on Monday, an abstract question, and deprecating the consequences of Mr. Adie exhibited a very neat experiment, dernonstra:ine permitting the first inroad, on the principles by whirl, wendedpoio of wa.er in the synthetical way. It ea', one of the most vital parts of English liberty has bit; er t o on h late discovery of Professor Duberei! et. e , t, been cherished and secured. We say therefore, broadly, p scoring nu t t d i t h e it t i i n n u a l: y h t er o dr k og a en itl i t o u n b. i 11,1 ci that if once our Cotters of Just' co prohibit the publica- gr e tiger filled with two parts of hydrogen gas, and one t art tion of what passes wi!liin its walls, and fine and imprison of oxi gen gas; he inverted it in a mercurial trough; . 14 O an Englishman for the dis o bedience of that prohibition, then took a small ball of the prepared platinur, a dangerous precedent may be established, which m..y s te rt t e c t u l t i into A s t h s e po lo n w a r; e t r b m a n tl i l ty ca o l f ue th i e n I:obi:tater:eh elf lead step by step to the total abolition of the right to put.- ga seotts y. fiuide, come kind of absorption w sncereded,b h st ich Halt any of the proceedings of the Cour t ; a n d the abo- we will not pretend to expl iin , and the mercury, ea,r!this the ball on its surface, ascended to the top of the tube. lition of this right may be followed by the abolition of the experiment is quite ilex ;and we assure our e nperimentinit right to be present, and terminate in the. erection of a f r iends, that to.-y will net find it ttilliealt te tfied by th e e . u t r Judicature with closed doors. description, and they will be very mach grati results, of whirls sir should be glad to hear a satisfactory theory.—Sdiaborgh Literary Gazette. • Y.sterday [lmmo , : it was discovered t hat one of the prisoners confined in our County tweed James hKay,t had put a period to his existenc e by cutting his troa with a cleap-knife. The deceased, who was sentenced te three months imprisonment for vagrencv, complained of indisposition on Saturday, and was admitted into the Hospital, where medical assistance was afforded lite: Early yesterday morning he comp lained of has+ g a eer' ll . pain in his side, and said he wished he c ould of some tea was given him by the nurse; he a pp emit composed, and quietly laid himself on the lied. In abe t h•ilf an hour afterwards he e as found cold and lifeless; on examining his body several incisions were found in neck, which had completely severed the windpipe between his legs was discovered the fatal instrument' s ` which he accomplished the deed. Although three sick were in the ward with the deceased, and awake the wb time, they were imeonscicus of what was occurring. cause is assigned for the perpe trat i o n of the art. Coroner's Inquest wilt be held on the body this day ( 271 ' —(hlaidstone Journal.) DIAL, January 2R.--Wind W.—Came down from the River and remain, the outward hound as before, the William Imshington, Stighrtae, and the Royal Charlotte.—The weaCier has been squally throughout the day. PORTSMOUTH. January 28.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Cyn thia, Lidater, from Zante, in distress.—A large ship has just been brought up in St. ll:Aril's Roads, supposed to he the Don. Company's ship alacqueen, for China.—Sailed the New mess ing, Jones, for L . :ndon. PLYMOUTH. January 27.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Kinners. ly Castle, Couch, from Norfolk, in 36 days. FALMOUTH. January 27.—Wind W.—Put back the Good Intent. Tonkin, for Terceira. Liventroos., January 27.--Arrived the Mary and SUM. Couthy ; Two Friends, Smith, and Amethyst, I3ussey, from Savannah. sailed 2d J anus ry.—Fidelity. English, fro:a Phila. delphia ; Ilebe, from the Mediterranean ; Caroline, Ditatay. from Jamaica ; and Julia. Rateson. from Seville.—To e Jane, from Demerara, was seen 23d instant, lying to of Cape Clear. The Cossack, Topping, for Sierra Leone. was on share oa the Red Niagara near Liverpool, on Tuesday. 'End Islam, Biggins, from Liverpool to Barbadoes, was Ina on Blackwater Bank, near Wexford on Sunday atria.—Crew saved. THE STATESMAN I ItYhalaibleColleciion rirtrio o te PA I NTINGS. ' the property of a Gentlemen, by esteemed Masters. will be sold by Auction, to-morrow, on the Prem ses, No. b. Idelphi Terrace. MAILS. ARP. Dug. AIM DUE. 1....0t0 - lln 0 0 ..IFinlttnd o I ...Waterford..•.. o o....Hambro 1 0 ...CI kJersey.... o I.... France 0 0....1.i5h0n 0 o... Flanders .O o....Gottenberg • ...9 0....Ma1te .• ..0 KING'S ACCESSION. —Holiday at the Bank. THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1b24. STOCK-EXCHANGE, 12 O'CLOCK.—Consols opened this morning at 901, but afterwards were at 91, for the Account, with little doing. Up to this hour we do not hear of any Express hay rig arrived from Paris, owing, we suppose, to the boisterous wind last night. This day is a holiday at the Bank, as well as to-mor row. FOREIGN FUNDS.—The only business this morning in the above market was in the Mexican Bonds, which opened at 31, and got up 44. There is very little doing in Spanish Bonds, which opened at 2.4 and remain steady at that price. New Spanish, 16q—Old, 241—Colombian, 65f —New Austrian, 30 —Chili 771 —Russian 90—New Prussian S 9/ Old 9l2—Prench Scrip 71—Portneuese l pr to par— Mexican Loin 41 to I—Poysis 31 1 to An opinion has been gaining ground for some time, that our Ministers were becoming alarmed at the re sults pi-educed by the Bourbon .invasion of Spain.— This, if true, which we believe it is, augurs well for the interests of England, as it certainly shetvs, that the plans and plots of the Holy Alliance, aro now losing, here at least, that popularity which the pious pniity of its origin, had in its outset, attached to the character of the high and mighty Members form kg that Royal Club. The present state of subju gated Spain, ruined in her finances, torn asunder by the fury of factions, and now a general scene of rob beries and assassinations,are the bitter fruits of Bourbon polities and the morality of Bourbon Allies. This is enough to dispel the delusion of the most thoughtless, and to prove the danger of allying ourselves with bigotry and fanaticism. That such is something like the present Gering of our Alinistersonsy be inferred from the tone and slit it of their speeches, delivered at the Meeting of time sldp-owners' Society at the LondonTavern,onTuesday last. With ail the caution and rrserve, wl:ich Ministers impose upon themselves at such Meetings, respecting great wt tional measures, still in embryo, yet enough may he collected from the speech of Lord Liverpool, to show be is decidedly pacific. Mr. Canning ventures in his speech to the Meeting to go a little beyond his colleague, for he cat's, that " there never was a period at which this Coun try was in a course that promise! more permanent o r gr4winf prosperity. A prosperity, which I trus:, no untoward accident may interrupt ; bat, if any accident interrupt it, let us, remembering the experience of the pas., look forward with confidence, to a future, as grati fying as the present," This anticipation of possible accident, interrupting our growing prosperity, can scarcely in the present state of things, allude to any other measure, than the independence of South Ameica, which, in spite of any opposition, our Cabinet is now di ter mined, by • public recognition, to acknowledge. If this - - . . conclusion, drat+ n from such expressions be correct, a vast field sill soon be opened for English skill and enterprise, that may restore Englishmen to days of happiness, to which in sober truth, they have long been strangers. For these reasons, we believe, that our readers may expect, the important measure of South American indepen letter, with form a leading, and consolatory topic, in the Royal Speech of Tuesday next. The question to he tried to-morrow, coneerning the legality of a fine imposed fur publishing a report of a trial, involves considerations of the first importance to the interests of truth and justice, as well as to the rights of the Public Press. We ventured yesterday to make a few remarks on this interesting. case, and shall now proceed to consider it in other points of view. THE KING. BRIGHTON. JAN. 28.—The answer to inquiries to-Jay at the palace, is as under : " The King has had a favourable night, and is cor,si• acted Netter to-day." Yesterday at two o'clock, &Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign 0111..1., which at 'towards of three Lours, the Council not breaking up till past live o'clock. Tile lengtheued deliberations of the Cabinet were suposed to be relative to the state of the West India Islands. Yesterday Mr. Wynn gave the annual great Cabinet Dinner, so called, as, in addition to the l'a►duet the Great Officers of State and other offiial arntlemen are Invited for the purpose of arranging the lt.•ll of Sho . ritfs for Engtand fur Vie present year. This annual meeting anti entertainment is generally given by the Lord Presi• dent of the Council: the re,s on supposed why the Eitl o f Harrowhy does not zive the dinner upon this ozcasion is. that the noble Earl's family anti household are net ar rived in London yet front his Lordship's country seat.— Court Circular. In the tic use of Peers the address, it is understoul, will he moved by Lord Somers, and seconded by Viscoant Lorton, brother of the F.arl of Kingston. MEETING OF TILE SILK WEAVERS. In consequence of the present misunderstanding bet 'era the Nlstrufactnrers and the Jonrneymen, and as on last Tuesday the Masters refused generally to give out any further work until an accommodation would he effected, a general Netting of the .loirrneymen took place at the Red Lion, Plecenix Street, Spitalfields, on Tuesday night, convened by special application. About nine o'clock, Mr. Messner took the Chair Mr. liAlii:R (Seen tary to the late Committee) said lie 11311 received a letter from Mr. Thorp, as Chairman to the Blasters' Meeting, requesting . to know the result of the (itneral Meeting of the Journeymen on Saturday night last ; in consequence of which he, with others of the Com mittee, waited upon Mr. Thorp, who informed them that they (the Maat•rs) were willing to yield a little to the Journeymen upon the Statute of Law Galloons, pro vided the Journeymen had a corresponding feeling to meet them on the " Blucher Bands." It rested however (he said) uitli the Meeting, and not with him, to determine how they would act. The eIIaIRMAN then put the question, and, upon a stew of hands, it eiidently appeared in favour of concession. The following Resolutions were then put, seconded, amt carried unanimously. L That a Deput.tion of three of , I our trade be requested to wait on our employers in the hope of a mutual adjustment, 2. That Mr. Baker, Mr. Chad ' I ton, and M r. Simmons, do form that Committee. 3. 'That I 1 this Meeting do adjourn until Thnrsd sy night next, in , e I order to receive the Report of that application. The meet . I ing then sepsrated. toe tor dil Pa of of of al of th ti ti , 4 .1° It (.1 pr ti t 11l 11 1 DI n to ri it i t It i s a of I at r- -1 re 1 h A .1 he 1 rd ih he a on he lie iy, 3 , of cb Le j 0- .he Lie ich nt hts nit Out the )ry the gat I to of the rJt tei ore )Jil t at , Lis with ra• hole No , d rati). • I / 1 t