The Statesman. — London, England, 1819-07-20 00:00:00

Tilr, STATEHNI AN. soy looser. H► enntleded in recommending Omelet flron of Mr. Assley. Mr. CALLLY said, It was not whet this Mil or that bill contained, those paltry poblicatious are en. worthy Dunce; It is the mati's ammeter we 'avoid look In s and Im thoeght Mr. Borten heal the fairest char► of inners among the imdeletsd►nt pert of th► ceinieseldly. If Mr. kills, bad served ao long in the aniline, Mr. Se n ►at had been a yeoman in the coon. ty many yeas., end one was equally honourable as tM other : trod Mr. 13►nen bed mainlein►d • charac ter equally agre►able to the prioriples of freedoms awl philanthropy. The Ilion Sututri they, called for a show of beads, when the majority appeared do fewest of Mr. Pietley, upon which Ms.. *eon immediately de- Mended a poll, and the High Sheriff announced that Mir poll would cesmence on the Nib libelant (yes ditty). GERMANY. —wow— The Diet of Wittenberg anteesh%itit erg on the 19. h instaot. The eleetioss to tasted on the Sitt, and the result was la general satisfactory.— Bet that which seems •a •+rre happy sugary to the friends of etrnsiitidernal liberty, is the certainty of ill . paccpss which thew parsons are threaten►d with who .sfndesvost to make the King depart frosts his liberal system in f of the Liberty of lite Prow That, Is every reason to believe, that the Niece bas declared, I la the most fires and candid manner, that the Liberty of the Press Is a necessary element of Representative Government; that .o human ioitioutien can be wholly swept front Inc aaaaa loners; bat that is this the a untie/es evidently preponderate. It is Dammed, in consequence, that the publication of periodical writ ings will no Inner reclaim the petioles authorize. lion of the Council; the other dispositioes of this gotstlon will be settled by the new Charter. It is thought that no series@ risealty can Ward the adop tion of the Pr.jeet premised by the King. When the Representative System shall be that established in the centre of Germaay, it is easy to see that the voice at the People, mid the interest of Princes, will caste Its energetic isitteace to aimed emend. TO tORRESPCiN DENTS- 0 . 0 Time newt whiles to we the Author of the Poetry which was Nottaited for Ms day's S 'hot, to rewire a dif lenity upon one OWL The wbek Select's@ *all them be ribliebed Inge-bet. *'RICK Or STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONUS OPCIAMIC. Disk !Sock SIB 6 per Ont. Navy 10lie tOS 104 9 pot Coot. Red. SOli lit la6fa ltnek 9 II pm f gar Cent. Gmaall Mil 691 Lose &me. 101 Pee Ceni. ih $ l 4 794 . It: arguer litabl 4 p.. "p e r Cent. em se 9,ii 861 Osmium 324 yen ' - - - - - - Lwowls for An. 69in 70f6 Pi. E. sYTOK, Stock-Broker, ,$ Ornate, sail Loabard•st reef THA STATESMAN. LONDON: VIESDAY. SCLY 20, 1819. ' As the h.. eleeermbliog appreackes, the tools of Government vs Irpedon, earl in that tied of mo 'Hon whose impeller, le this Instance, we sincerely be lieve is not communicated to t►em from the Members of tbe Cabinet ; who, to do them bet common justice, seem to act with a notion we should hardly !metres ' " ' peeled from them. They bare skews a wise forbear Gate, sot only in their answer to the Loan MATOS, •ad in declining to Inured his Lordship bow to set •s this occasion ; bet as we are snared they refer sow and !ken to the spirit and dictstee of the Con siltation, when one of their number is urgent to pro ceed toe " vigour beyond the kV." It is very easy to tlireeten Mr Huns, or any other Reformer, who distinguishes himself either at Smith field, or on a similar occasion, with a warrant, which may lead to s seven years' transportation !!! Where is tie warrant to come free ? Wks Is to sestence to a seven years' transportatiew ? Not the Loss Matoa—sot a Jury, at the diets• of a warrant. — Theis writers appear bereaved of their seises. Now, although such Meetings are not !Peeled, nor even at compenied by any distinguished, Members, of what may, without any invidious allesion or application of tke term, be denominated the Aristocracy, yet are Ibey instigated by the most natural, fieriest, end open impulses and incitements. They meet to throw off intolerable borthens, to devise means for Worn. log comforts to themselves, and to secure their rights le their posterity. Are they then to be threaten ed with warrants and transportation for cum plainiog. If our heart were mot wrong with a sense of the wrote'', and Inuits of oar fellow.reen and coon tryrotre, we should laugh at those puerile menaces What, because the PRINCS Rama has been advised to say in his Speech that the Reformers aim at the sobtersinn of the Constitution, is the Pobllc thought to be stupid enough to take it for granted? Is it not known who invented that calumny upon the whole body of Reformers his well to apprise our Readers what other persons la remote situations say of these things and proceedings, and for that purpose we have chosen en eatrsct from a Provincial Journal greatly esteemed for its good reuse and patriotic sentiments. The writer refers particularly to the almost treason- Ole delusion pet upon the person now exercising the Sovereignty of these kingdoms by his Ministers:— " The Speech of the PRISM' RIOTS; Os the pro rogation of Parliament to the t4lb Airiest, will be read with an interest corresponding to the critical nature of the times. Every one knows, that the regal authority is little else than a rug to cover the measures of the Oligarchies, and that, though the Crown be nominally responsible, yet Ministers are really se; we therefore deem it no breach of respect to the regal dignity to say, that the Speech from the Throne, though it does ant disappoint hopes that were sever ciliated, certainly afroula nothing of toe soletion et this jostler,. 't%e ran perceive in it no heeling balm, nothing irmellsolit to aot,the the irri .etiois of a long-suffellng lb s . Palace Repent Is made to soy „that the new tam Inns as• lieietly es possible upon the country, consideriug the necessity of our hardens. Now we deny both the major used the minor of this. When we contetn. I plate the hundreds of thousands of pounds that ore wrong by the iron and inexorable grasp of elation frees the vitals of the courmeniry, in order to pamper pride, and bloat oat the bloated, we cannot conceive the necessity ; nor can we perceive bow tales upon the n • of life are the most tolerable of ell burdens. The Foreign Powers are said to be friendly ,to this country ; and the lugging of them in thus, into the Speolch, when no one ever harboured a contrary idea, makes us very strongly suspect, that the domes. tic situation of the coststry is not tech as to shed the Whence of poppies over our raters, nor to make tbs. repose on ' beds of rues.' la referring to tilt elate of some of the manufacturing districts, his Royal Highness is mode to express en opinion, that the distress is merely local Merely local ! his Bpi Highness have it 'Vended to iribei. , le& Because the . extremity of misery does not antietce this, is that a ground of congratulation ? We, is well as his Hoyt! Highness, and those pee. sons that are called his servants, know fell well, that all the people of the reentry ate not 'within ender the tortures both of mind and body—of despair sod want. Is soy proof requisite, apply to the rest book, the infamous red-book, and there you will see how the product of the industry of millions is expended on the worthlessness and extravagances of a few toad. eating favoorites and their dependents. We agree that the mansfacterlog districts are discontented ; cud it would be very strange were they not. But this discontent was primarily occasioned by Mioit. tees themselves and their predecessors. " We challenge his Royal Highness, or his ad. visors, In adduce a single instance of popular and general discontent, when the interest of the govern. ell, rather than that of the governors, was fairly corr elated. It is the immutable decree of Providence. that bad measures, by producing discontent should have a tendency to cure themselves ; in the same manner that, in the physical world, the steppe rstion of a wound is nature's mode of care, and of a rents. mien of parts. In speaking of the Reformers, his greclosi Highness designates them as men who' bare really no other object bet the subversion of our happy Constiletiun.' ' Things es they are,' are, to some people, of Wry desirable contingence ; but the discontented People west be stigmatised as disloyal because they are such enemies of Innovation that they warst.things as they tram The People, indeed, de want rut Constitution rather thin that order of things w bids the Pas wee, per a:Miswrote suppose, terms ' ova happy Constitatiort' La the Permit take hit happy Constitrtioas ; bet let him not deny the People theirs ; and thee, we believe, there would be no love lost."—(Carlisle Journal ) The old phrase (filmy jargon, se Msjor CART. WRIGHT TIT, properly called it) of " the Consist.. Hon es by law established," is now and then mode use of again by those writers who wrest say something about the Meotiugs taking place for the discussion of public grievesces. Heaven forbid Met oar Coned- Lotion were to be established by the laws bet our Parliament would coact. The Coastitotion prescribes to toe u , s*, and not the Lew to the Coostitution.— Any Law passed contrary to the spirit even of the Constitution may, by some persons, be thought bind ing, trot the HONIVIT PATRIOT sill consider such a Lew as of no authority, bat an Oligarchal tyranny. FUNDS AT HALF-PAST TWO. Oer Readers, at a distsoce from the MOW, would be at a lou for the reason of the Stocks rising to. day. The plain sod tree the is, that the Bears have overreached themselvire, and DOW MO ■ske up itir serpent. Osmium essence at 21 and 3 pr. ; but at the 'bore beer teas 21. Console for settling 694. French Papers of the 18th instant bare arrived, bat they minks nothing worth estreeting. Sir CIIARLCS W01311411' is arrived in Loads*, front which circemstence it is presumed be will at. tend the Meeting in Smithfield to-morrow. The es. rellent Patriot Major Caavwatorrr, too, is refereed' to town, on which ground also the Reformers bop the proceedings will be dignified by his presence. If the enemies to Reform and to the People will still strive to keep the venerable Friend to Liberty from corking in the lendable pursuit at one end, it is equally feasible to proceed in it from the other. The attention, however, must be Radical : nothing lots will content the honest and sensible part of the us lion. On Saturday last Mr. Bunsen kid an interview with Lord Liveeroot., at Fife.hosse, end succeeded in removing his Lordship's objections to the new plan of carrying the Malls in light carriages without any passengers, at the rate of 11 miles an hour. — There will be an additional postage; but letters may be sent at the present rite by the coaches with pas wagers. The new arrangement is to be immediately carried into effect. It will save a day in the trans mission of letters from London to Edinburgh and Glasgow.—(Caledonista Merl-aryl.) The present population of Sicily newton, accord ing to a French Journal, to 1.681,983, distributed es follows: The Valley of Palermo hes 437,852 in habitants, of whom 140,549 reside in the city of Palermo, and 32,263 in its suberbs and dependencies ; the Valley of Messina 25,5114; that of Goiania 292,282; that of Girgente 198,536 ; that of Spa case 187,718 ; tbst of Trapani 146,408; and that of ICaltauisetta 161,113. The Theca Las adopted a habit of Iste, of replying In all Or templaints and proceedings of the Re formers, b/ sneers and 000000 Ole, and critical com• ments.9ll their eilinpwitiom, or 'bitter denooeletloos of cheteeter oolong the most bury advocates of Re- ftirm.` It world he astonisbioc in the abstract, to ffnd one of the moat considerable ef the peblic Jew. nets, passing by the enormous end unegasi mischiefs re nor political system, for the spite of tottering squibs and Isuorts against those who ere discontented with it. The foci, sod its prevelency is the newspaper departments, could •lone assure us of its existence. The count') Papers ate filled with statements, which prose distress and di.tractinn, ere regularly height. ening to a degree which most speedily shake the frame of society asunder ; end the London F.ditors, .._ , It! em losing themselves with pageontries of wit, which would here dishonoured the good old times of Louts to GRAND, in the fatuity of risible self conceit. Whst has the chs,seter of Mr. Cosarrr, or the sooner and language of the 'Wormers generally, sap• peeing thedi to be as depraved as the industrious siteperetion of the Times would make them, what we ask, have these to do wish the necessity of Refoom ? 1 there Dot miseltirf eoough work, already sitheet any efforts to inernse it en the part of the Landon press? I the increase of want, and tam, and larbaletiee, and almost toiler• sal discontent, all happening at one juncture, an in. aufli:ient reason for repressing the tenuity of instill. ing j .ors? Is there any want of proof in the admire dreadful end manifold fact, that Reform Is indispen. Bible; and if there is such lark of proof In this, which Is enmesh In contemplation to make any men shudder for the probable resells, is the opposite argument rendered more forcible by adding deriginn to the lace , reties and lima which misrule bas ledieted ? The yeti...jellify of these writers profen the utmost anxiety for the preservation of the pehlic pent, tad imam iliately proceed to ass their scholarly ingeneity for the ;toupee* of egeravatieg miseries d►ady intolerable; the People ore fleeced, end eta reed, and maddened by the system, sod now they most be goaded in their very sores, because their complaints are not in accord ance with the precepts of Lovatxut, and the twat. site lots of fashionable life. liew far does this differ in feeling from the celebrated application of pepper and sett to the back of • nagged negro? It is re views to speculate en the effects which might confi dently be anticipated wore their own principle of personal ch•racter and College learniug to be insisted on among all the persons connected with the con. tituted Authorities. If the Times requires so much erudition and integrity among those who oppose the , the Administration, surely he is bound every way to substantiate the characters of all the Government , people both for morals and knowledge; if bad style tie fatal to the pleas of lb. Reformers, it ought fo be dou , .i) so to the wiessores of a (Internment, wherein tithes , la ores or togoes arm in the smallest degree coo• rerned. •Ve hare weighed the cruelty of these &ills hems : h el y, th en , Is the logic of this case.—Ths "huts will hardly assume that there is no bad sty '1 the 'log f the Hesse of Commons, sine it: lack of grammatical skill is not aeon the least parts of Its reputation, and as to the morels of many of its Members, ' 6 the least said is soonest mended ;" one example is often as good as • Ithousand :--A Senator was brought out ontse Fleet Prison mod constituted a guardian of these lows which be bad broken, by taking more goods from trades. teen than he could pay far. Until, therefore, • vote i of that hones shall be considered void on moos' of one immoral person having divided on it, while Sir WII CLIITIS is considered a constitutional orator, and Lord CAST AAAAA Gila pure rhetorician, the Mies 1.1014 nothing to answer the melancholy reasonings of a reined People, by utilising the composition of their complJints. and reviling their characters. D'Evenava's larsion.—Gen. D'Eve ntvz will hold a Military Levee to•morrow at three o'clock i at Monution's Great Room, Mason-street, • hen be is to present the colours to the Lancer Re giment. Several ladies have intimated their Wien thin of being present. A splendid Public Dinner is to be gine to Geo. D'Evancrx, at Monntson's, on Monday neat. It will be attended by slumbers of the most respectable of oar Fellow-Citizens, oho justly appreciate the services of the General in the nose of Liberty, and in promoting what most ultimately prove so bench• cial In the commercial interests of the British empi r e et torment' particularly to lreland.—{Dublin Even. Post, July 17 ) The Chaulotte, CASIMIR, with J. C. COURTENAT Vuc Lsrrra, Esq. owner, sailed from this harbour yesterday earplug for South America, having en board Col. Maxim and the officers and men raids re giment, the first Riau of Gen. D'Evsartra's Irish Legion. It is to he hoped they will arrive in time to second the efforts of those Patriots who are atrog• gliog to obtain deliverance from the tyranny of the advisers of FERDINAND, whose councils have so long kept that errantry in a state of thraldom, at once de. grading to themselves, sod iujorious to free com merce and rational liberty.—(Heffert New Letter.) COL. 141‘DIRMOTT'S M'DEe• uorr has nearly completed his Regiment. The first division will sail on Wednesday neat for, it is said, New Granada. This morning, Liestenants Goaatx and WILICIN.• SUN, Sal off to join Col. M'Denisorr's corps. 'they were accompanied by Mr. Rator. These hoe young fellows went off in possession of the esteem sod wsrm-hearted wishes of their fellow-citreens for their recces.—( Limerick Evening Post ) COMMOTION or SCORER IitOTAL BURG:II.—Ou Tuesday a General Convention took place in the aisle of the High Church, Edinburgh, of Commis. dopers hom the Royal Bergh. of Scotland. Several proceedings, connected with local Interest took place; and, on the motion of Provost Bunter, se conded by the Provost of Annan, and warmly cup. ported by the Lord Provost of Chigoe, it was unanimously resolved to abolish the Harp's, Oath throughout all the Royal Burghs. Notice was given of a motion for an application In Parliament, is fa veer of a portal Reform in the Scotch Bergh.. The Rocs:Avon family are expected to augment their large hereditary possessions nearly 40,0001. per annum, by the recent decision in Chanc►ry, which has decreed that the leases granted by the late Duke of QuegnsezenT on personsl fines, paid to timiele, ere null end void. 4 li l lt 7 ltUYAL IIibINCV rots PRINCE 4 :‘,-sva%. 41100:111P. Sen.—The Ministers who now caroled your at. fairs have persuaded you, that a large hr•rly in this nation aim et overturniag the Government, end wish to riot amid the ►ein and destruction of their country. Admit ing this, for a moment, to be true, it can only demonstrate the Buster necessity for Reform. Per. sit me to call y our Royal Highness's attention to a few events. The Reformists have encressed amaze ingly, and even moderate men admit the necessity of a change, though they differ as to the event Poblic feeling, Sir, lies been, it teems, only dead.ord ' for a time to burst outflow with tenfold signer; and there is a c►ain of communication eatetsd:ng over large districts of the country which ►enders the cause of Reform invincible. 1 leave these pcints for your Royal Highness's ccosideration : it is needless to melte any comment. But, Sir, if there be men base end wicked enough to clo.k their designs against the religion and liberties of their country under the specious pretence of Reform, co the abuses its our Governmeut, end they will sink in dis may before the authority of a Legislature founded on the wishes of a People. Let me assure your Royal Highness most solemnly, that in my opinion the present system of skit. must n►cestarily lead to revolution. Ti.i. is sio time for niter, : I shall use 000 e. This nation, Sit, has bee me deadened Into disgust, and nothing hut a e inplete change of measeres will content the People. It is painful, Sir, for sn Englishman to view his country fast spproaching tells declension—to see those ties of affection shich should bind es to your Ito)al Highness, loosened or brok.u—to perceive that Fa mily around you, which ought to be the support and credit of your Throne, despised, or worse. My language fails ■e, Sir, whets I would glee vent to my feelings on a subject like this. Bet it is in waits I at. tempt to stifle the mingled sentiments of horror and disw gust which burst oat. in spite of in) self, whets I thiok en the conduct of Ministers. Are they drterroinetl is goad this Nallos on to insurrection? And are they resolved to seal their other proceedings with the ruin and misery of their country Some of these men, Sir, in their private life, err amtab'e and respectable; 'tis their public conduct I condemn. Yost Royal Highness will not suffer this brass —this great—ibis still, I hope, moral Nation, which has been the gm and wonder of the world, to be plunged lobo all the eskeries of a civil war. What language, as hat entreaties shall rise, ! that may induce you to evert s I•erilous con- Ljaactore like this? Call together, I implore you, this Parliament, have end noworlhy as it is—let the whole interest of (dorernment bAy..ined with the few advocates of the Poop!, in r, forming the mintier of electing our Repres►ntatives. Your Royal Iliehness has now no other possible men's' of reroverio; the confidence of your People. In amending our It:- presentation, I should wiab the conduct of I'arlia• meat to be as free on the one band from a slsais't at tention to what some term the interest of poor Crown, as it should be fret float licerViot.sness on the other. Let thorn sterr the middle course—i i rs tremes are fetal. I only wish health, Sir. to he restored to the Constitution—to hear the rott►n parts cat sassy, and then we aright indeed be said to be Librata pander.baa .a es. I as unwilling to 9%f:fit this Loiter any more—[ will not distract your 1(n) al Bighorn's at , entinn—l have laid °ion before you my arn.iments, in lan. gent, which, I believe, is fitting au Erglishroan to use, sad a British Prince to boor. TACITUS. We base bees truly surprised at the treatment which Lard Bison's name and character hue re. reseed from a celebrated Sunday Paper, under the supposition that he is the author of the new poem, Don ISOM The Editor presumes that he is perfectly in the secret of this hook, and dotal!, a great many mare eeeee which were played off regardi..g it, rte. flees to its publication, the whole foundation for irbicb is laid in art most idle rumours belonging to the book trade. IVe defy this writer to show one proof snore than we or the Peblie genitally possess, for insisting on it that Lord Orson is the sailor, and yet has he proceeded to denounce his I t eldship's habits and principles with as little reremsay sea mitigation as the most 'slyer libeller. This is a sad (simple of the Litpirty of the Press, and is not in the least justified by the writer's zealous professions of motali , y ; for this is pee dsely the wretched reason adduced for the foulest system et libels that the country is at present pester ed with. As the case now stands, to tell a Noble men, whose works have sslnnlshed the world by their intellectual splendour, of his " embruted mind," merely on a suspicion of having written a book desti tute of fashionable morality, is, according to our apprehension, the most depraved esample of imam rality that can be sprcified, int.:otling, as it does, a ruthless instance cf injustice and inferential false hood.—Bor, suppose, atter all, that the book is not a production of Lord litnom's, which we site. eerily Wise,. Not ft .irn the irregularity of its pub lication, (a circumstance which has close been able to make this writer pause io assigning it le him,) bet the spirit of the rowiposition, mad the level of its wit are, as it stapes's toes, palpably below his Lordships stsiirlard of writing and inirtlecteal ereteness, nee con we find any decided reason Int waling it to him from the common tandersr•nding of the omegas! . !e ff orts of the slime mind at diffetesst issietealt, We I suspect the work to be a happy imitation of his Lind• ship and no more : hot I. •hontsomr the authorship belongs no apology can in say way befurnished for the scandal *lidded to, or I