The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-09-18 00:00:00

R ...T i SPAIN. • • 111 %Ivan; SEPT. 1.-a—By an edict published on the .Iftli of August, at ratliv, 'appear, that a case bad' ••••turretl, in the hospital of San Juan de Liss, which isas inspected to be the yellow fever, and which ter roicateil fatally. By other accounts we learn also th e e r l :ire stnotg symptoms of contagion in Xeres de hi ] r nuns. • SITTIVOI oF THE koRTER, AVG. 31. The Secretary of the Finance Departuient Mates thst his Majesty, desiring that the operations relative, ts the.expensliture and to the ways and means should Le concluded as soon as ptis , ihle, had resolved to trans- , na:: them to the Jambe de drfllgrelos, Ti:e Minister of the Home Department stated that th.• King had given his us4ent to the law prohibiting ti.e importation of foreign corn and flour. . _ , The Committee of Finance and of Commerce pre ‘,.nted a proj,ct of a law (whirls was read) on a general reg.:lation of the duties of customs in all the domi r: ,ors of the monarchy, which was ordered to be SITTING Or 4EPT. I. A rimrt was read from the tonitnittee of Finance, or, the memorial presented by the :Minister of that de pa; ment respecting the general system of finance which must prevail till July next year. The Com ,. H!1•1* diVidl.4 its report into three branches : in the f•st it •xamines the proposal of the .linister, offering a. the result of its observations, a reduction of 1115 IZ:ions of the sum mentioned in it ; in the second it unsiders the general system of finance from July this speaking of the loan of 200,000,000, which it ere. to he nearly concluded ; and in the third it tern's particularly of the modifications to be adopted In the system of levying tithes. SenoiMeti no lluirratnoved that a rinottlittee should be• appoiutesl to congratulate General Haig°, as had en d.ane ht• the General `orte• in the case of Lord Us the 31st lieuerol Reigo had a very tont*. audience of the King, who loaded hint with marks of his favour. Uniting the day he was every where received with en thusiasna by the inhabitants of this vast metropolis, hwthroared the streets throaah which he passed. I r 'lie evsning he was at the Theatre, where he was re, vivral with acclamations, and addressed the people is luign.we which does as notch honour to the purity ut Lis •entinsents as his memorable campaign in Fe b tiy to his talonr. ff.,. it:oriole s,,cietiva are preparing to give him br:iii.iut tee POR 11 G.l L. -...--.. Papers anti letters here recei►ed on Saturday froth Oporto to the lilt lust. A letter of the '2ll lust. cow. ::tuaiegtes the following pattirult►rs relative to the state of affair. in that city : " Etery thing now seems to portend a conflict be ts...an the two opposite parties. The post from ids hot. :s not arrived, and there is every reason to believe that the government is determined to make a stand.— The Conde &Amirante is in full communication with 4/erseral Vittoria, commanding the south, and the ad vances:ll'l2bl of the former is in the town of Amarante. The provisional guverument here is in a state of alarm, anti has ?Writ, s the report goes, to call in a ssi s t an c e Com ;he Spanish frontiers. It appears that the revo lution broke out here sooner than was intended, the l.kit of this m u nch having been originally fixed on.— The (-bit Is impa.ted their design to the Conde (I'Am:t -r.:Lb% and attempted to gain him over. lie seemed to coneor in their views, but secretly gave informs !. ti: to the Regency. who immediately dispatched Lie nc.al Pamplona to i.islem, to take the command of the t ..,ps, and to arrest the conspirators, one of whom, Feinetnles Thomas, having intimation of it, acquainted coati:ntors that there was no time to be lust, and tl.at they must instantly declare themselves. This ac counts fur the want of combination among the pro duces, as it Itdgintentleil the rising should have been s':irtultanroos all over the kingdom. Ti,.' Conde d'A ma rante, it is expected, will march on (tporto from Trott us Skates, which province holds out against the Con stitution. anti (lettere! Viroria from the south. Our situation is far fr agreeable." .% letter, dated early in the morning of the 3d inst. says—" Last night there was a forced levy of troop to strengthen the rank , of the constitutional army, and among them was taken a twin employed in our estab lislinwnt as a cooper. They have marched off this morning, to the number of 5,000, to meet the Comte d'Aniaratite, who is advancing from Tras-os-Muntes. The re , ult cannot I.c eunteuiplateil without alarm ; but a very tient e.!.eciation is entertained here that the tuom:mt ter tau armies arrive in sight of each other, the troll,. of the Regency will lay down their anus. IuteLILT h;is just come in, that Ain-antes and ano ther strimg Oar., r:ie Halite of which I you'd nut learn. bare h.• Fred for the Cuwaitu ." Of the r..• ul. of Count Pampluna's mission, alluded to in t :e1.,/ of the ga, inst. the following account i, given in the.l i It member of the Yin/ iu .Vari : '• Alano.al Pa -ipiona, being un his nay from Lisbon to take the command ad interims of the troops in this city, learnt at Av-iru that his countrymen, the loyal inhabitants of Oporto, had manifested the heroic reso- Indult of saving the country: and as this intelligence sva , not very gratifying to the Marshal, lie caused the 10th battalion of Chasseurs to he put in march for Coimbra, with the intention of returning to Lisbon ; hut hiving been apprized that Colonel Silveira was ad vancing upon Coimbra with the ltd regiment of in fantry, he precipitately fled, abandoning the few chas seurs who had not yet found an opportunity of desert ing from such a chief. It could not have been sup posed that a person of the rank and birth of Senor Manuel Pamplona would hare conducted himself in so di-graceful a manner. The above-mentioned battalion is re-assembling at Coimbra, where the patriotic and indefatigable Col. Sepulveda had arrived, and where the liuerty of Portugal bad already been proclaimed with inexpressible Joy. The troops now collecting at Coimbra will soon forma respectable division." The following .proclainatiol hid been jellied by the Provisional Junta, in reply to that of the Regency Citizens of Oporto!—Frankness Is the first of the virtues of just government ; you shall know, stbere- . fere, all that we 'know, and the certainty of which - the governors we guarantee to you. Those who were t qir on a. 11%, IA• OOP.. 7 .••• •••••••• 4 .0.6 •10 411.. THE STATESI •••••-.... 7 -r. - # a- ....i3-- 10 ' - of thel riglionshavi.prOchsimed that a • very few men ir4 coOrerned it clsariging the ancient order .ut things, and for this reason nobody ',light to obey ns. Yon know to what a degree they are deceived, or seek to deceive, brcau as you know perfectly well with what rapidity the cry which you raised if repeated on every side. 'Do not fear ! In Lisbon you are considered as heroes and true patriots; and its inhabitants, who •clesirs to imitate you in the calmness with which you protlaimed your independence, only expect the ap proach of souse force to declare themselves, without fear of suffering any evils, and without seeing them selves under the necessity of indicting them. Citizens of Oporto, we have the means of supporting our taus.. It is just ; it is also the cause of our neigh bours the Spaniards: and fur this reason their troops already occupy our frontiers towards liallicia, where they are ready to assist our indetion-lence. We should wi-li to owe to our own exertions alone the liberty which we ate going to enjoy ; hut the enemies of the nation even in this desire to ohs roue the glory to which it has 50 many titles. Citizens of Oporto, fear no- I thini. , ... thal is with us. __ .. (Sigl:rd) " timvittn.t Pox) tDA FIiNCECA, President. " SictiAsTlAN DRAG( VALENTE DE Bniro CAsukltui v Vice-Prebidriat, " Oporto, in the Palare of the Government, Sept. 2." The Provisional Junta has called on the i'ustmo home to furnish them with all the money they pos sessed, which was complied with. The latest ad •ices which had reached Oporto front Lisbon were of the 25th ultimo. All was then quiet there. The proclamations transmitted from Oporto had been placarded in the principal streets. The people, it is said, read and applauded them, but manifested t• disposition to sublet-I the Regency by violent means, and the latter, it is asserted, satisfied themselves with remaining on the defensis:-, cautiously avoiding all measures which might exasperate the feelings of the people. This state of thins, however, was not expected to last for any length of time. The re sult of the impending conflict between the troops of Oporto atoi Count d'Amarante would, it was sup posed, determine whether the Government should submit to the wishes of the great majority of the nation, or enter upon a rigorous system of ethertion. ADDRESSES TO Milt MAJESTY. Her lfajoity returned the following gracious Answer to the .lddre%• from i'arikle I accept, w ith many thanks, this tribute of regard . from the Inhabitants of the. City of Carlisle and its vici nity. My hopes have often teen frustrated, and my . confidence has often been betrayed ; but I ane convinces' that the trust I place in the affectionate attachment of: the British people nill never prose illusory, and that they will estimate the attempt which is marking to pol lute toy character by the known malignity of my adver saries, and the little creilihilitv that is due to the wit nesses who have beeu produced iu support of their elley gations. It is difficult to conceive how much the vilification of what has been recently passing in the 'louse of Lords may affect the morals - of the country ; but it cannot he supposed that so much impurity can have been vireo latish in the public jsrints, and diffused suer every part of the. kingdom, without having some vitiating effects. But if ill , . sentiment of delicacy should have been of ten offended—and, indeed, if the most revolting die- gnat should sometimes have been felt, the fault mint he ascribed to those who encouraged the invention of this accumulated obscenity. It most have grieved the good and the wise, of all elasses, to have had all the newspa pers filled, for two or three weeks, with a imps of insleeets cies unfit to he read by any modest eye', or to be heard by any modest ears; and to behold the highest judica ture in the kingdom, io sonic degree, ministering to the distribution of this moral poison among all classes of the I eornumnity. Of this extraordinary mischief, whatever may have been the contaminating infinenee, the blame cannot rest with me—it must be imputed to the malice of my adversaries. Iler Majesty returned the following gracious An swer to the Address from Ross : I am enrich gratified by this honest tribute of regard from the Inhabitants of the Town of Ross and its Neigh bourhood. Ilad I a heart of stone, it would, ere this, have been softened into one of flesh, by the multiplied proofs of sympathizing tenderness which the people of these realms have manifested in my adversity. lint, es it pleased the Author of my being to endow me with a bosom of more than ordinary sensibility, I cannot ex. press how much I have been affected by the vivid de monstrat;ons of zealous attachment which I have re ceived since. I first quitted the inhospitabi• coast of France to throw myself on the generosity of the Eng lish people. I knew the magnanimous character of F..ns,- lishuu•a too well not to know that my A ilversarici wonld constitute a strong claim to their regani, and that the sympathy I should excite would he in proportion to the afflictions by oleic+ I was visited, the injuries by which I was oppressed, and the rancour with which I was per secuted. - _ - An .f,ddre•s has been presented to her Majesty from tiro Inhabitants of Halifax, to which her Majesty re turne•d the folluw•ing Answer : " I am unfeignedly obliged to the Inhabitants of Halifax and its Vicinity. for this affectionate Ai- " The present conspiracy against my honour and me ' rights issues from the same trunk of malice- as that in 1t,t16; and it is prosecuted with the same views, and coo ducted by the same means. ff "My adversaries first attempted to depress my cha. racter by such an accumulation of slanders as might ' cause me to be condemned before I was heard, and to be punished only, because I had been reviled. lint thoriels 1 1 the corrupt poison, which the 8E8.1 1, 1011 ?ACTION had slit.. fused through all parts of the State, has impaired that , respect fur justice which hail formerly *hallowed shrine in almost every bosom in this country, still, in nnrue runs instances, nature has risen superior to every sordid artifice ; and the injustice, which I hare experienced has excited general indignation. " In this country the friends of truth and josticel—of t civil and religious liberty. when banished from other parts of the world, were wont to be protected as an in-; violable sanctuary. Here they fled as to a sure resting place. Here they might repose after the pelting of the pitiless storm. here they experiences! not only tranquil security, but honourable encouragement. They' were respected and admired. But, were the spirit of justice, in all its purity, again to descend upon the earth and choose her favourite residence among the nations of our hemisphere, it may be doubted whether England would be preferred for her abode. And if England were her choice I shall leave it to persons better versed in mo• ml calculations to determine whether a spirit so encl. dated, so impartial in her views, and so nehiessed in her decisions. would venture to exhibit the presence of her resplendent attributes. where both tyres.). end i n j us ti c e have formed an incorporate anion in the lona of a Bill t of Pains and Penalties. " _._ "~- , Yoeig, her Mi •*er : Asldre.s presented to- her Idijeti lip kora tlo len, loliabit)lnts, of the t'ily.of Herekir& sty returned the following gracious Au "I derive much pleasure from this Address from this Young Men, • Inhabitants of the City of Hereford. " Youth is the season of generous sentiments, anti when erety act of iajastige and inhumanity excites thi most vivid indignation. " The Young Men of Hereford have proved that their sympathies are powerfully interested in favour of theit much injured Queen. Indeed I am convinced that, among the youth of the three l'aited Kingdoms, tiler. is hardly a heart that does not beat in my favour, or a band that, if it were requisite, would not be raised in my defence. I may have enemies among the corrupt and venal ; hut I can have none among those over whom the vitiating influence of the seLvisu escriord • has no! vet spread the mildew of depravity, or cankered that in dependenre which is natural to youth.' " Beneficence is Virtue's imperial crown ; but Irene licence must be regulated by the means of the indivi duals. It is difficult to know which is most to blame— the selfishness of youth or the prodigality of age. Both are odious in themselves at any time • anti when they arc respectively attached to these peri ods of life, they have a double incongruity. It is wise to be economists both of our money and our time. The fir.t pre . us from dependence, and the last renders life our own." To the Address from the Provost, Magistrates, Bur gesses Tradesmen, and Citizens, of the Burgh of Montrose, presented to her Majesty by Joseph Hume, Esq. Member of Parliament for Montrose, her Ma jesty returned the following gracious Answer :--- •' I request the Protest, Magistrates, and Borresscs of Guild, Trades and Citizens of the Royal linrgh of Montrose, to accept my cordial thanks for this /Sec tionate Address. " The sympathy of persons, so enlightened and re spectable, exhilirates my spirits and enlivens my mind. " timid principles are often established in bail times ; and the abuses of tyranny sometimes prove favonrable to the recovery of liberty. The present unconstitutional attack neon my honour and my rights will I trust, in its results, co-ntierate with other reuses in improving the decayed fabric of the Constitution, and in adding to do general stock of liberty, and of happiness. "The Provost, Magistrates, Burgesses, and Citizens of Montrose, have hail ample experience of the disastrous consequences that must, sooner or later, be visible in those institutions in which reformation is &laved. Sovereigns who seldnm like to part with any power that has come within their grasp, will not readily be im pressed with the urgent necessity of reforming inveterate abuses, and of truing before, rather than of lingering behind, the light of the age. lint in these times, ti Reforms are not begun quietly from within, they will ultimately be forced from without ; and both justice and policy, which can never be disjoined, concur in recom. menifing the adaptation of ancient establishments to the increased light and the advance.' civilization of modern times. _ _ " The Inhabitants of Alontrose enjoy a degree of po litical independence, anti of municipal liberty, which Inv of their entititty . men possess. For this possession they are principally indebted to their own manly and constitutional exertions; awl if other burghs have not been equally successful in obtaining the same advan tages, I still cherish the hope that the cense of Reform in :Scotland will finally triumph over its opponents. When his Majesty's Government thought proper to strike my name out of the Liturgy, their conduct was most unwarrantable; for, as I had never been tried, the : _legal presumption was, and the moral conclusion might tat have linen, that I was innoceent. If the Government could thus dispense with any of the forms of the Liturgy, with respect to the Queen, why might they not dispense with other forum; and, in short, imitate t)ie example of Scotland, which has exhibited such a splendid proof that the religion and the morals of a people are not all dependant on the ceremonial of an expensive establish . meet ? "M Providence sometimes hangs the greatest weight upon the smallest threads, I may, perhaps, be an humble instrument in promoting sone gracious purpov.e of the Divine Administration. Whatever may ha my destiny, I shall rejoice if my sufferings can in any way contri bute to the national prosperity." LIST OF .IDDRESSES PIIKSENTED ro HER M. 1.1 ES rY. The f ,11Jtving is a list of the Addresses already presented to her Majesty, together with a statement of the unn►bers by which some of them have been signed. Twenty Aildreutes from Other places will be proeented to her Majesty en Monday next, at Bran denburg!) Muse. Requisitions fur calling meetings are preparine. in various parts both of town and country Biped. -. . sou Alder gate ilaton Ayleghtiry Banta-ft-Castle Rath (I.atlir , ) Rath Bedford . . llnt or Herwiek-upon-Tweedlia% Bethnal-green . 700 Bolton . . Roston . Choi fItINIS Rridpnrt Bristol (l. 0111.•.) 11,030 British. Seamen of MldcSesex Cembrrwell Canterbury Ceriiale . . Caatir Dnnington . Chippenhant . Clerkenwell • . 1400 l'ripplewate ‘Vittiont Dalkeith, (Deacon and Member* of 1114m mrr Men Society) I)eacon Derby . . . 4.300 Doter . . . 0,000 Exeter (Ladies) Exeter . . . 11.000 Greenwich Chnrchwardena I OW Signed. irwes. Constables Liverpool . . 30,000 London (Married La dies) . . . 8,300 Inndoa, Mechanics of. . . . 40,308 Lord Mayor and Com mon Council, Lord Mayor Lord Alder men, and Lis ery Lord Marnr i.ndlow. . . 860 . 15.1100 Chairman Marylabooe(Nlarried Ladl?s) . 9,700 Marylehoaa . 7,300 Nl.wpeth . . 964 1 Newbury . . Mayor Newritatle-upon-Tyoe 3,900 Northarepton.Trades menand Artificers of 1,600 North Shields . . 1,230 Norwich . . Aldermen Nottingham (Ladies) 7.000 Nottingham . . 7.100 Preatou, Borough of 3,300' ftole . 900 3.1100 Reef ter Chalnetui floss Sandwich . . 480 Shaftesbury lihefßaid (Ladles) . 11.100 %Wield . . 4.0110 Lisunard's Shoroditeh and Vestry Clerk Glocester City . 1.700 Hovel Church. Pcrlmea 1,000 Haddington Ilalilts% (Ladies) . 11:110 Ila . 2,000 Hammersmith , Hereford (Yo mg Men) Ilesham . . 700 High Wycombe . 400 Ilohester . High Bailie Kimpton and (irately 90 Leeds ( Ladles ) . Chairman Lea& . . Changan LIMO . . . LaitsilleiNt (Pri. 90194 . goo St. Sitiolll . . st.titephen-by-Lsun cellos . . 400 Stockport . . 3,000 Ssndertantl . Wakeeekt . . 1.440 Westminster Mirk Ratliff Whltcchspel (Parish) 4,000 Worcester . York . . . Alava, 4 i __ , o I • Tiff QUEEN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN, rTER xxv. " At what ease • Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt To swear againt you 1" liasr lou a ruffian that will error - rob, murder, and commit The oldest sins the newest kind of stay Re happy, he will trouble you no snore ; England shall (habit yitd his treble guilt." St a,—At the present stage of the proceeding's f u r ai sacrifice of the Queen (to call it a trial would be a 'lois comer,) it behoves the country at large to ettprets the:r sentiments, u ithout waiting for the evidence in fay..n rf her Majesty, in order to show that it is their ei • uiun her persecutors have, by their own evidene. proved her Majesty's innocence. But it is not 'as. •:ient that they should address the Queen : it is sem sary that they should also petition the King, cad re. tuonstrate with the two Houses of Parliament. Atli this is unquestionably by far the most proper time fur adopting such acourse of proceeding. The witnessos, whose testimony, if true, could have been of any ma sequence, have all refuted themselves. In my lattlet ter, I have shown them to be generally so unworthy. of credit, from the money and promises they hare re el • from the drilling they have manifestly Eider gone, and from their not being sworn according tette firms of deposition held most binding among them- selves, that the cause would not have lasted an hoar before any ordinary or honest jury. All the witne.s.s have also severally, by the impossibilities, contra , lir• tiuns and absurdities with which their evidence abounds, rendered themselves utterly unworthy of credit, respecting any particular point. These ha possibilities, contradictions, and absurdities, I shall, in a future letter, more fully indicate. Theobject °fine present address, is to repeat, what I have already so often insisted upon, the gross turpitude, the abominable tyranny of the present proceedings, upon general prin ciples, and even without reference to the particular case and persecution of the Queen. Without refer ence to the unexampled profligacy of this rase, Bills of Pains and Penalties are always and necessarily an odious exertion of despotism. I roundly, and in an unqualified manner assert, that they nut only are not and never can be necessary, but that they are always and invariably unjustifiable and tyrannical. They are merely a mode of destroying an obnoxious, and most probably a meritorious individual, (and where :itch despotism is suffered, every individual of a commanity may be destroyed in his turn), who cannot he rearbed by the ordinary processes of the law. If a Bill of Pains and Penalties be *justifiable in the case of any one individual, it is justifiable in the case of eery other. There is not one of us who sloes not occasionally commit some offence that does not come under asy known description of crime, and is not punishable by any established law. It would then, if such a nude of proceeding were at all recogreieed, be better Now pereede the law of the land entirely, and to wish every individual offence by a Bill of Pains and Pe. nalties. Thus punishments might be apportioned to the degrees of delinquency. Various degrees of im prisonment, of transportation, of dogging, &c. might be applied, from one day, or one hour, to a men* a year, or a life time, and from one lash to a hundred thousand. This would also bare the groat advantage that persons could be dogged to death, or transported for their lives, who had egregiously offended any it our privileged individuals or classes, so as to prevent their ever offending in a similar manner again, without rousing the indignation of the people at large, as de viations from the usual modes of proceeding now do. This mode of applying an cs port feet. law to every particular ease, would els) hare the advantage of affording( perpetual employment meat great and vene rable law-givers, and a thousand other advantages, of which the world is unfortunately likely to be deprived, by the annihilation of the holy Inquisition. If the Fria ciple would not be justifiable, when so extended, I maintain that it cannat be justifiable in any rase, or under any circumstances. It is, then, against the principle itself, even snore than its horrid application in the case of her most gracious 3lajesty, that we ought to contend. If we tlo not now make a stand upon this gronani, if we do not immediately addreas the King and the two Douses of Paalianient *gait's' the principal of :his measure a if we do not art prompt ly, universally, and vigorously, we shall undoubtedly be, as we rklily deserve to he, enslaved, The matter i; so perfectly Hear, so itrikingly palpable, that I should he ashanwil of my countm , if I thought that any farther arguments were necessary to show the is me:mu-Able importance of their making an immediate and decided stand. few, that beiore this day fort night, meetings will be held for the purposes which I have stated, in every part of the United kingdom. If we neglect to do our duty upon dale oreasios, it is nay sincere and decided belief that her lejasty will lfe sat•riliet tl, despotism established, and the ruin of the country completed in !eta than three months. Bat if, on the contrary, we yierforns our duty like men, and like Britons, our Queen will he saved. onr liberties sc• cured, and the enemies of mankind will be vanquishe'. The :use is very clear: there is but one of two al ternatives ; the Ministry and drepotiean most fall, and the Queen and freedom must prevail (it is downright nonsense to suppose that the struggle is merely for the sacrifice of the individual), or Miniatry and despotism must prevail, and the Queen and freedom must fall. For God's rake, then, and for the sake of our Queen of the Throw itself pf our own lihnrtire, and of those of our Wier's, let us meet forthwith, and send forth salenameelimislations, petitions, and rewastrances, seigable is Oils *tension. t~Rtnvit' r. . , i' • tt TIM fliffttlufts to the address of the *rasing and tneehitsies of Manchester to the Queen. unstinted to sottouty:tiareo tboasanti. The adder.s was furwavitell to Major enrtsrtight'on Thu.' et evening. I , ... • . . .0* • " . V