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o f the House of Cummont—so entlesvouriog to ■p- hold the Constitution against its violaters—was pro nounced by the " loyal" majoiity of that assembly a high breach of its privileges:" and the impre scriptable right* of Englishmen were again Violated, in order that you [nigh be committed summarily to the Tower ! On the second occasioh, your public s pi r it * as aroused by an outrage of a more frightful—of a hor rid character ! A meeting of the people of Maui rhester and the neighbourhood assembled to petition for a reform in Parliament; and, as if to demonstrate that the real put pose was as peaceful and unoffending, as the avowed purpose was indisputably legal, a nu merous body of women and children were indiscrimi nately mingled in the throng. The proceedings had -a•arecly commenced, when without the slightest warn in:, by the order and under the eye of magistrates — conservators of the peace—a band of horsemen, sword in hand, rdsheel into the midst—killing or maining hundreds! The accounts, which reached you, of this dreadful occurrence, naturally excited those feelings, to %bias no human heart can he insensible, and which every Englishman should be ashamed to disown. In the generous spirit of those feelings you addressed a letter to your constituents, calling upon them to meet, " to demand justice and redress, and to afford conso lation to the widows and orphans, and mutilated vic tims of this unparalleled and barbarous outrage." In tbb letter, which has engaged the just admiration of our country, his Majesty's Attorney-General disco " a seditious libel." He c.iutionsly proceeded against you by information es clicio--thus depriving on of the benefit of a Gravid Jury, so peculiarly essen tial in all questions between the Crown and a subject ; h• a legal artifice, you were taken from your accus tomed neighbourhood, before a Judge, who refused to receive evidence of the facts, which gave rise to your letter, and in which, therefore, its justification wail to be sought; and you were pronounced Guilty, by a Jury—a special Jury—not " chosen indifferently from the body of the country," but chiefly composed of Justices of the peace, that " select body" of whom Slr William Blackstone observes, that being " generally scleeted by the Prince, or such as enjoy the highest s.tksea in the state, their decisions, in spite of their wen natural integrity, will have frequently an invo l.tatary bias ;" and, the Cold having overruled a motion fir a losai trial, founded on a defect of evidence. Which one oi the Judges acknowledged as an adequate res t... tor granting it, in consequence of the serilict of t..ss Jul, you are now suffering in the semblance if no in the spirit of the law ! We have been told, by a high authority, that " next to swing right, the fir.st great object in the adminis tration of public justice, is to give public satisfac fam;" but Sir, it would be difficult to point out, at si hat stage of this anomalous proceeding the public satisfaction may repose. Nor can other circum stances, which have attended the outrage, in which it ori t; inatcd, he contemplated with a more favourable eve. Vie vigour of the law has been directed, not against the inhuman authors and abettors, but against ti-ot intended victims ; and, wbik these are suffering the monstrous severity of discretionary punishment, for an offence, of which (if an offence it really be) they obviously were uuccosscious, thee* have nee been subjected to the slightest question. Even the ordinary inquest before the Coroner was interrupted, s.laveil, and ultimately quashed ere a verdict could be re. wiled ; and the powers of the Magistracy, extended as they have been by subsequent encroachments on our liberties, are still entrusted to the very men, who so wantonly and cruelly abused them ! Sir, the public neither can nor ought to be satisfied, with an admi t:titration of justice, which thus fails to enforce the responsibility or offset; which seems to regard the slaughter of the people as no crime; and, which has involved in uncert .its penalties, those, who peaceably asputhled to petition the legislature, and him, who nobly demanded, in behalf of the injured, a legal remedy fur unparalleled wrong! Yet these are probably the natural results of that masdern doctrine of our Courts " the greater the truth, the greater the libel." Vitriol( the reign of a system, solder which "no honest man can be a Minister," what evils may not ensue, when truth is thus brow beaten by authority? We trust however, Sir, that the time is fast approaching, when the great object of your hte Milli he accomplished; and when the people, !wing represented, no Moister will dare to be dis honest. When this period arrives, the law may resume iis essential attribute—Ali:Nrm:v . l.r ; " it will give waning 11:.fore it strikes." Its venerable organs may a.:ain declare, that " the public benefit is the supreme rail of its institution ;" the truth, which integrity of iidention can never fear, will receive protection from their decisions ; and gond men will no longer be tbiought into jeopardy fur such acts as are censurable bi no moral code, as entitle them to the respect and csitittule of their Country! lleaelime Sir, while we deeply regret the restraint anti inconvenience to which you are for a term to be alb i ertz I, we 3 ltottki lye wanting to ourselv es and to t i he PVC case were. I v e to withhold the tribute of i hlt admiration of the benevolent promptitude, with which you commenced, and of the constancy with tilsich, in tile face of persecution, you persevere in Tsar endeavours, to bring to justice the cowardly Perpetrators of that blond-stained tragedy, by which the kistiry of the present period is disgraced! Soy can we onsit to acknowledge the high sense we entertain of the genuine patriotism and manly deport ment, by which your long and eventful public life has been uniformly distinguished. Whenever duty leas X 4 ilell YOU into contest with power, you have bravely eucouutered the danger; whenever difficulties have 1."4" is your way you have triumphed in the midst of "Sicehies. You have been assailed by the evil rieett .of jealousy, of fraud and malignity; but, muiliW in the }sward satisfaction of a pure consclestes Tee l has sever condescended to seek the sileaco ot rule ralatuaiators by appealing to their feu of petudiy.l Yet whe enjoys so decided a praeroloeste lo dlo esteem and affection of the !people? To this entity Sir, we entreat an answer from your prosecutors; aid 1.1 them tell us the effects of an opposite coarse t bM them recount the successes of their es-41eio *mad" how men have learned to worship a virtual reform.' t etiee --40 pray for the continuance of mereilees Actium and of wasteful expenditure: sod low deg 41 0 W reeeteeee the fomenters of plots, the egiNiells. Ai PerieeT, the aecompliees of spies. sad the pirate of the sabre! For *anchor Sir, we sum ee um simpler views of ^ THE STAT; honesty and truth; and, if we convey to the tenant of a prison the expression of our sympathy and respect, it is i■ the conviction that we but accord in those see timents which the faithful historian of his actions will inspire iu the bearts of a grateful and admiring posterity. Signed by order, and in behalf of the Society by , ERTON 8141111, Chairmen. Liverpool, March 10, MI. PRICE OF STOCKS TH Bank Stock per Cent. Red. shot. Spw Cost. Con. Mil Se per Cant. shut 4 per Cents. shut. b per Ct. Nary b per Cent. Long AWL shut S per Cent. Irish 6 per Cent. IAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Stock Dittoßonds 41541. 475. p. South-Sea Stock Bs EtillsOd. Os. Ss. 4s. p. Osmium for Money p. Bank for Account Me India for ditto Voss. for Acot TSUI Lou. Tickets —4. —s. Clic btat t Oman. " •RITZ!/ ITATIMIATI" 1111 IMCORrOIATrD WITS rrAissm AN." LONDON: THCISDAT RIMNING, APRIL 5, 1821. An express from Paris this morning, brings intel ligence which had been received there by telegraph from Naples, stating that on the evening of the 24th of March, the Leesaroni assembled tumultuously, and would have murdered all the Members of the sect of Carbonari that could be found, but for the interven tion of the Austrians. On the 25th tranquillity was again perfectly restored. Lvosts, MARCH 31.—We have received very con tradictory news, on the present state of Savoy. " On one hand we learn that the Marquis d'Oncienx is appointed Governor of Savoy instead of General Annezeno, faithful to his King and his oaths, and that he arrived at Chamberry on the 21st with full powers. 14 On the other hand, Savoy, it is said, recognises thing that has been done at Turin. The manifesto of the senate, dated the 26th, proves that it is still at its post, and maintains firmly the sacred oath which binds it to its legitimate King and the l a ws. It in v it e . the ' magistrates to arm themselves with the full power of the laws against such individuals as shall attempt to disturb public order. Letters from Chamberry announce that there arrive continually revolutionary emigrants from Piedmont, who take the road to Geneva, and that the students of the law-school of Grenoble, who bail taken refuge in Savoy, have received orders to depart." 'II/reach Funds.—Five per cent. Consols (April 2d) SI f. 95c. The entrance of the Austrians into Naples is thus described by one of their partizans : " NAPLES, Maws t).3.—A part of the Aosta ian army already asseintled in our neighbourhood has this morn ing entered the capital. We admired the tine condition of these troops, who, during their long mach from the frontiers to Naples, have observed the strictest discipline. All the corps passe d: through Toledo-street to defile be fore the King s palace, where were the Regent Duke of Calabria and his brother the Prince of Srlerno. An immense concourse of people expressed their applause of the King, and saluted with joyous acclamations the troops of his august Ally." The &flowing docements earns through the same channel. The first of them is extremely curious : PROCLAMATION OF THE DUKE OF CALABRI A. " The paternal intentions of the King, my august father, have becu fully mad:: known to me in his last communications, which were addressed to we from Florence, under the date of the 19th current, and which were brought to me by Lieut.-tieneral Fardella. 1 con sider it not only for the glory of his Majesty, but also useful in creating confidence to communicate the same by a liberal transcript. Dear Son,—l have received the letters you intrusted ao Cieneral Fardella, anal I learn with great sorrow, he the contents of those of the 13th, all that von Lave ex plained to me respecting the state in which my well-he loved snbjects are placed. The reasonings into which you enter would seem to point at me as the cause of the evils of the war which afflicts my Kingdom. "It was precisely for the purpose of avoiding those evils that 1 employed my cares, and that I wrote to-you frets Laybach the letter dated the 9th of January, to which unfortunately no attention was paid. Hostilities have been committed by our troops, without provocation, and even in contempt of my proclamation of the rid of February. The troops of my august Allies arrived as friends; the Sovereigns had declared it. I explicitly announced their intentions and mine. To whom ought the disasters to be attributed ? To whom does blame attach ? "The Allied Powers and myself dial every thing in our power to render evident the unfortunate circum stance to which my people were exposed. IVe offered the means of avoiding them, and made known that the welfare and advantage of Inc kingdom required, anal that reason dictated, the immediate abaudonment of all the innovations which bad been made. But 1 found, to my deep regret, that the magnanimous voice of the august congress and my paternal wishes were not listened to, and that a blind obstinacy has caused the most fruitless and most fatal resistance to every thing suggested for the safety and true Interests of the State. " For once listen to the voice of an affectionate fa ther; stitch I have always been, and such, my well-be loved subjects will always find me. Do not lose eight of my exhortations, of the desires and the wishes I have expressed to you. My letter from Layhach and my pro clamation contain every thing necessary as a role for the conduct which the interests of the kingdom, the wishes of the good, and those which 1 constantly form for the tranquillity of my state, require. lam confident, my very dear son, that you will on your part contribute to the accomplishment of that olsjece, which cannot be se parated from your prudent and ardent desires. 1 embrace you tenderly : I bless you. " Your very affectionate fitter, " Floristic., March 19. " FULDINAND. 44 Nero's, Masten 24.—8 y a royal ordinance, dated at Florence on the 15th, his 31ajesty has named a pro visional government, to whom the care of the kingdom shall be (Waded until a new royal disposition shall be made. "The Proelsicrnal Government shall be presided over b the Marquis Cireello and shall be composes! of the Chevalier Raphael di Giorgio, presidia's of sh e; sene Court of Justice , to wh om will belon g the dirz ijadicial matters. . 01 General Fardella will have the direction of the OMIT of War anal the affairs of the church. as the Chevalier Lechesi is ebarged with the Ministry of the Mario*: the Annetta Andrea with the Finance Department; Jean Baptista Yeechiani, with the Ministry of the: Warier. Hilaire Morino de Wallis has the di rectioef tho Tits Prowls papers of Meader ja4 have ibi s d a y reaohod as. The intelligence they eeistain eespooting France is trilling. On Sunday, aftet nuns, It Wasted the King held a lever, at wbiob were present, wen MAN, others, Prince TAlleyrand, the Doke of Dalmatia, the Prince of Evitrouhl, Count Jordan, and the Marquess of Viomenil. Respecting Genoa they give a copy of the prOclimation issued by the Governor, which occa sioned the distUrbances in that place. The articles relative to Piedmont, and which, of course, will be read with suspicion, are as follows : The Lyons Journal of the 49th contains the followinr statement :—Accoants arrived here announce that the &we Regent has returned to Turin at the head of the troops commanded by Ueneral Latour, and that the In surgents have thrown themselves into the citadels Tustin and Alessandria. It is added, that the wishes of the nation recall Victor Emmanuel to his capital. [EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTERI CUAILIBERRT (SARDINIA), MARCH 27.—The revo lution which has overthrown, during the 15 days which are just concluded, that monarchy which is so dear tdb as, cannot be compared to any other. It has been re cognised neither by the people on whom its leaders reckoned, nor by the army which they have in vain songlst to mislead. Four days after it had commenced they preyed unable to divert its course. The revolution has already turned against them. Events which they sli.l oat suppose possible—the resistance of the King—his refusal to receive law from his subjects—the titin and hoW measure of his abdication—changed the situation 'of our affairs. "The duchy of Savor has remained at peace, a stran ger to all the public troubles. the city of Chamberry has been menaced by the want of discipline in some of the troops, whose imperior officers have always maintain ed the most prudent conduct, but who were seduced by the deceitfel promises of the subaltern officers, entirely gained by the deceitful promises of the conspirators. Hut the prudence of our governor, Count Andezeuo. in removing these disaffected troops, has saved its from the dangers that menaced ns. Yesterday the brave chasseds of Savoy were assembled, when the governor read to them the proclamation of the Duke of Genevois, amidst repeated cries of • Live the King,' and the aCciitissaitieh. of the people. " Orders have been issued to assemble at Chambers-sr the provincial contingents of the brigade of Savoy. .Yt the head of these troops the governor is eonflient. not only that he wi 11 be able to maintain order in Savoy. but also that lie will render important service to the royal cause. " It is gratifying to be able to state, that all those per uses honoured by the King with his esteem and einlti denCe have rivalled the zeal and activity of our guserior. All have sleets n themselves faithful to their duty, and to their oaths. Among the citizens no one has attempted to withdraw his obedience to lawful authority. '` Thus, after 13 slays of troubles, our country, so se verely menaced, resumes its peace and its repose. 'llse revolters, without hope, without reisoorces, possess only the citadels of Turin and Alessandria. in %%hide they have shut up soldier,: of all arms, 11 riven frosts !hem by the mass of their brethren in anus, and collie students, whose enthusiasm will soon he extinguished by fatigue and privation, as well as by their foresidit of the lot that *waits tliesis.•' The Neapolitan news which follows, ronveyesl through the same channel, a ill also be received with similar re serve : Pasts, APRIL 2.—The accounts from Naples which have successively arrived for s o me days at Paris, were oft* strange a name?, and presented so many con tradictions and incohevences, that the distrust they na tural!, excited necessarily produced reserve in publish ing attn. Now, however, all doubts are reusoa ed the Neapolitans have opened their glare iv the Austrians. sail yesterday a semi-official journal announced, on the andeority of a telege.spleir despatch. that the Austrians entered Naples on the 'MI of lain month. This was Eft inevitable consequence of the convention of Capin. The details, the first causes of this deaurrostent, are not yet known r but the facts and results are sufficient to make them be conjectured. The events of Piedmont present in certain respects the same obscurity which for some time enveloped the affairs of Naples. Despatches arrived yesterday to the Neapolitan Am hassidor brought him the intelligetire that the fames,. Pepe, the Insdirgent General. hail embarked on the 21st on board of vessels prepared for his fight, carrying with him 300,000 Neapolitan ducats.—(i;a:eite uc Fruitee.) in another article is given a proclamation, which is said to have been jutted by General Ambrosio immedi ately after the signature of the. Contention of t'apua. Of this document, whether authentic or nut, the first two sentences are a sufficient sample:— " Neapolitans:—The time is come when it is nut only the interest and the duty of all good subjects to adhere to aid obey the laws, but when It is absolutely necessary, from the state of affairs, that they should resign all hopes of resistance. " The efforts of the ills:A.oM. and of those misguided individuals who imagined that .remission to the autho• rity of the King would lead to foreign sobjstgation, have failed in every quarter, and the Austrian armies have approached the ..apital, compelled to appear as enemies, when, in the first instance, their greatest anxiety was to 6a as friends. The only other article in the-e papers for which we have room at present, is the following : Vienna. ,111 A 22.—The troubles of Wallachia hare rendered precautionary measures necessary on the part of our government. Orders bare been given to form a corps of observation on the frontiers. The length of the various which occupy our colonial; this evening, preclude the admission of any comments of ours. The importance of their general subjects is. Indeed, too obvious to require illus tration ; but at the earliest opportunity we shall not fail to follow up the objects of the highly interesting Meeting for Reform, as well as that of the admirable address of the Concentric Society of Liverpool. The Funds to day appear to be affected, nit merely by the speculations on the /3:eil account, but by a more Important cause, a gloomy sort of apprehension about the sate of the national revenue. This apprehension, it is probable. is not entirely groundless; fur a Mi. uisterial paper of this nioruing, adverting to the ac counts made up to Saturday last, professes to hose had uo means of determining their result with accuracy. but admits " that they may at that time have exhi bited BOMB TairLlNt; !" A private letter from Paris, dated the tend inst. represents the Wilke Decases as having experienced *almost mortifying evidences of the King's disple..sure. The writer adds •• the full of Dresses is not, 1 on derstand, from the royal favour alone ; but be has also lost the support and sympathy of the liberal party, who charge him with having betrayed them. As for she Ultras, they are extravagant in their expressions of joy." We leers thatJantes Orilfiths, igsq. is be to appoint ed Deputy of the Ward oft:sole Deputed, to succeed W. Dos. isi., whose death We announced yesterday. The tried services of this Venerable Patriot essineetly entitle him to consideration., sad et doubt not, that he will bssble to fulfil the duties of this trust with tieguished beset and 'riot. • • EAST INDIA HOUSE. Trsteriloy a General Court of East India Proprie-* tors was held, which was most numerously and respect ably attended ; A. Rost ssov, Esq. in the Moir. "As ion as the u-otal routine business was dispatched, the Court prnceede.l, par u at to the special notice given by an Honourable Proprietor, on the 21st of het month, to take into ronsideration a motion foamiest on a letter addressed by the Chairman and Depute Chairman of the Board of the I it actors, to the Right Honourah'e George Canning, late President of the Board Jr Coutruel, and dated the 22d of Dettinb.t 'last. On the motion of RANDALL 3acesose, Esq. the letter of the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Beard of No-gators to Mr. Canning, was read; and Also the Letter of Mr. Canning in seswer, dated the sth iii DerettSer, and which letters have already aypeared in the Daily papers. Mr. It. Jar-este: then ruse to mule the Resolutions of which he had given notice. He said, that at the last Collin he had pledged himself to abstain, in his ole.ervatliins upon the measure which he was about to ',reps.., relative to Mr. Canning, from all topics of eeneral interest eromected with his n ame, and to con fine himself to the itetement cf the services and be nefits experienced f r om that Itieht ll,nourahle Gen tleman in the last five years, -elely as respected his administration of the affai-s cf hello. What Me. Carline's conduct had been they can't' not dottht, after having read the full and :ample recognition of his service' on the part cf the Directors. That ho bag performed a 1.104 at ;!I:n!ig !all( honontably to h;niself, and beneficially to them, no man could deny ; but that it had been recognized by the puhlic teeli mony of fodr and twenty Directors with an unanimous voice wutild never be forgotten. Those Director% had for the manner in Which he had performed one part Of his duty, which was in its nature ineilitse: and controuling, expressed towards him their very great respect, and offered the sentiments of their very un feigned gratitude. When the power vested in his office by the State was recollected it wa% no small matter, and deserved no ordinary prelve that it was exercised at the same time with fidelitv. urbanity, and general satisfaction.--(Cheers ) The Directors had in their letter referred to some traits in the chat-setr of the Hight Honiatrellle Gentleman, which proved that while they arknowledeed his public wisdom, they hail not overlooked his private virtues; and he (Mr. Jackson) should now, in expressinr the senti ments of the Court, do so in conformity with the Re solution of the Directors. At the last Conrt an Ho nonrable Friend of his bad said, that it would by better if they conhl proceed upon documents, whlen might establish the opinion of the Court of Director*: but hr (31r. J.) then observed, that there could he no higher authority than the paper of the twentr-fear Honourable Gentlemen who formed the EMIR* five of the Company, because they had the meet camphor opportunity of knowin7 those merits w•isieh that hyper reeogni-ed and recorded.—(dear, beerl)'sre The Learned fientlsonen then proceeded at cenobite. able length to expatiate upon the cronnds of his Ines lion, anal especially npon the distinguished judgmest with which Mr. Canning had filled up the high op ',ointments of the government cf India ; and tower& the conclusion of Iris speech adverted to an Redone able person, whose concurrence he coveted, and whe had intimated that he did not feel disposed to agree with him, until evisfied of the conduct of Mr. Cau sing with regard to the Asiatic press. That Honour able Proprietor, he said, bad also intimated his inten ties to more for certain papers ; but, without know ing whether such papers existed or not, or whether it would be regula-, if they did exist, to lay them tw ine the Court, he could state, that they were enabled, ' through another medium—that of the House of Commons, to Inure how that question stood. )got long since, the President of the Board of Comes, had been asked whether ort:ers were sent to revoke the liberty which the Marqness of Wellesley rare the Asiatic Press ? The existing President, Mr. Bathurst, could only state what had happened under the Admi nistration of Mr. Canning, and his answer was, that no such dispatches for restraining the Press of India had been sanctioned by, or proceeded from the Board of Controol, anti according to him no such would be sent to India.—(Hear, hear). Thus it was evident that Mr. Canning. was decidedly opposed to tbe re striction'. He therefore hoped that the propoeis lion which he would now submit, and which had to many and such high considerations in its favour, and which was also borne out by one point in the prece dent relative to Lord Melville, would pass ananimotel ly. Great weight was given by unanimity in such eat , tees. As to himself, lie had dour the beat he could to obtain it by carefully abstaining from all extraneous matter, and he trusted to have the suffrage of all, be cause he was sure that every man present believed Mr. Canning to have been an able, a virtuous, and disin terested Minister in Indian concerns.—(Cheep.j.Tbo Honourable Gendeman then moved the following Ra soletion. That this Court doth cordially concur in the anti meets expressed by the Coen of Directors, is their let ter of Y.d December last, to the Right H 011001111640 George Canning, assuring that Gentleness of their as cere admiration of those high qualities so emp_ballettill noticed, and so unanimously recorded by the Brecettire Government of this Company, and requesting him to accept of this expression of their great respect sea et unfeigned wishes fur his health and happiness, whether acting as a distinguished son of the public, or alloy ing the callowr pleasures of Private lift. s' That the Chairman and Deputy-Cbairsan ho Rs quested to transmit a Copy of this Resolution to Mr. Canning." Mr. J•at a s Pa RRT Said, i n rising to second the milks" of the Hon. and Learned Cieutleman, he was aware tit*, after so able and eloqeent an address as that which he bad prefaced his motion, it was not sena sary for any person to enter into an elaborate arma ment as au apology for not adding much to whit Ow had stated, or increasing the impression which isebtill • produced. He knew that the Resolution Wed .he mere post erfully seconded by a person of were elisel- Iteration than so humble se individual as himself; lest there were circametanees I. his life, and facts tllA nocted with the motion, which made it peceliarigpop-' per that hr should thus caries his cordial ftelbillt• reees with its eentinsests. His counties Alb Ike Periselieal Press made it proper that. where Ito Vbe lee Were seseepted, be Mislaid set be the bat to MO hie opinion. The blessings of a free Press therm nod mild &previa', sad what And bees elleittillh4 K. l fr.