The Statesman. — London, England, 1819-07-23 00:00:00

ler in lay one of the counties far the peace of which Ilse prevision in question Ims been, or shall has• been made, it mere my misfortune to feel myself ender the ashligstitvn of assigning, on this occasion, an ;wen tints, corresponding in its comprehensiveness to that of the incomprehensive minds in question, I sue not bow It could be less comp►ehensive than this— samelys than the intention the, if by word of mouth, or by writing, It shall have happen►d to me to have uttered any thing in f f Reform in any shop, I shall, by she official persons in gees. Roo, with the support and amistance of 6 the Yens Emmy Cavalry' in the said letter mentioned, be arrested anti imprisoned, bayoneted, shot, or banged, If the ease might require; and that. if impris toned, I shell, in persuasive of th is great State Pity. . . . sician's favoarite ;wipe (extracted frOas the Plmy''. eel tee of noly Roman Inquisition) for the pre• •eution eT all abase, be kept and appliorl (I am as- semi) to practice. in •b, Ws, of the w ililltl;tik Peni• tentisry, by the Jailers, in • state of invisibility to every other aortal e)e, with the "sception of such as shall hue been Insured with a *Finial permit from his Lordship, or some official person specially bo ns/1,7.d with his Lordship's confidence. el For say own port, 1 sm neither resident, nor bare it St present in contemplation to become • Ira. yeller, in any one of the only counties to the Lord Livetenatits of which this Circular his )et, to my knoulede, been 'damped. Bot, !mid's that, Ilia fate of otber pe►sons embarked in the moo Clem cannot be altngether an object of indifference to me, 1 know not how soon the bitoefit of the same p►udeoce may be extended to the county in which I live ; and accordingly, seeing sty danger, I cannot but be de. sirens that, in the same point of 'kw, it should be seen by all those who are partakers in it, and who, If they know how (which I am sere is more than I do, incept peradvewtere, by doing according to the proverb, as men do in Rome or Spain), would, of course, not be sorry to obtain security e t piost it. •' In a Paper, purporting to be a Copy of the Bill of Indictment found at the Chester Quarter Sessions, leo Tuesday, the 13th of July, 1819, against Sir Charles Wolnky, Baronet, and J. Harrison, School master, I find It therged, amongst other things, that they ' being persons of • turbulent and seditious disposition,' &c. with force of arms,' dm did con spire,' ' invite and stir op the People to hatred and contempt of the Government and Constitution,' &c. Now whet is certain is—that Ido oot, in my own mind, ascribe to Lord Sidmooth, or to any of his Lordship's colleagues, any such intestine, es that of inciting the People to hatred and contempt of the Government and Constitotiou in question :—no, nor of any other Government, if any such there were, under which they could enjoy so many good things in such fall security, giving themselves, at the mime time, the smueement of doing so many evil things, if it were in their nature to do evil things, with or witiout the formality of Acts of Indemnity, with such fall impunity. Ear be it from me so much as to inti. nuate, that in anything they do,howsoever may be the case with some things which they soy, there is so much as a tendency to mitt in the People, ■s towards the said Gurernmewt and Constitution, any such senti-1 swot as contempt. Neither by the Emperor of Con stantinople, nor by the Emperor of Morocco, black us his Imperial Majesty is said to be, nor eves by the Rio ( of *tie, does it appose to me, how any such sentiesent ran generally bare b e es ex c ited in the breasts of their respective subjects. Hot as to hatred —hatred towards the Government sod Constitution in question—if it were really smog my objects to excite in the breasts of the People the sentiment that draomiaated, I can not immediately think of any other course wove promising, than that which I see p ur sued, in sod by those several interesting documents —the late Speech from the Throne, the late Circular from his Majesty's Secretary of State, Lord Viscount Malinnoth, and the Bill of Indictment so found easiest S Charles Wolseley, Befoul, and J. Harrison, Schoolmaster, as aforesaid. " If any doubt can yet be entertained, respecting thtenmprehensi of his Lordship's views, a clause in a Stature of the year before last, may be found amply sufficient for the removal of it. By that Art (57 GPO. II I.c. 19 s. 2S) referring for its completion toe former Act (39 Geo. 111. c. 79. s. 8 ) two years lutprisonanest, or, at the option of the Judges, seven years transportation, is, I see, provided,—for him, who, being a member of any Society or Club' shell, as such, eutertain arty correspondence with any individual —or, being en indisidnal, shell entertaip any correspondence with the mem bore of any Society or Glob, as such ; and that —whatsoever be the purpose f o r whi c h suc h S o eiety or Club was instituted or kept on foot, and whether it had or had not any relation to politic': with tialy a few special ezemptious, in f the Freemasons Society of which se many por wises of Royal blood are members,—certain go. eirties of • religions eomplesion—and tuck other So. ditties, in which those persons for whose use all other persons are kept alive, are likely to foid themselves. —sro fill op the measure of his Lordship's security, sue thing yet remains : and that is—to inhibit, an der the same or other more effectual penalties, every communication between individual sod individual foe any purpose whatsoever. In the mess time, such as above is the condition, in which, under this our ' happy Constitution,' as it is called, we live : such, as above described—so replete with hatred towards the Government—would, in the opinion of the framers of these Acts, be the sentiments of the People, if any free interchsege of sentiments were capable of hiking place. Thrice happy Constitution ! seder chick, without being liable to be imprisoned or transported (certain privileged orders escepted), no two persons dare interchange sentizeuts with any third ! JF.RF.MY BLITIIAM• Wedarsday maraisp, July 11, 1119." DINNER r. GENERAL D'EI'EREUX. DIMAS, JOLT 19. —The Dialler to ha given to our distinguished coaritroman, General Invereus, of th► Smith American Patriot Service, will take place thi4 d•y at Morrisson's. It will be one of the most splendid and most nousemrsly, as well no respectably attended that was ewer given in Dublin on any former oecavinn.—That patriotic and truly Mittel Iridium, Rill take the Chat. herd Cloncorry, I TIIE STATESMAN The following are ropies of the letter of invitetion sad the General's answer Ksrws-•tart, Joh 1.1, " qia,—The Irish Fr►ends.ef South American In. depenelence, natetist thehonrier of soereumpsaysts public r, en Monde,. the 19th instant. Q Thy ore aosittus to .Iter you this humble testi. stony, not only of the sense they entertain of the ells. rector you have acquired, bet of th►ir anticipation *at your future s►rvices •ill prove alike valuable to your cause and hrinourstelo to your country.—i have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient faithful tertllttl, Elora) " DANIEL O'CONNELL, See. " To Maw-Gretna D`Ltereet, &r. &c. &c. !NMI: OF FOCILS THli Hank to k 22S iirf (rni. Iteo.;(1.0 1 per Crud. Co., ow 70 wil l 91 r. t Few. I prr Cent. 89_144 Lame& lb DAY AT ONE .111.1 t per COW. •ns • IC3 101iU holm N.M. 7, 9 pa , ton Asa. 194 j I 9•19 litrowver 15,,,. p.a. thisrumn Ij t=i pa. ler. 0911 70§ 70. TH I STAT fof .4 N. LONDON • FRIDAY, JULY 23, il3i9. The Lon° Magog will, doubtless, toiday, ltr Common Council, relate what be may say he thoeght it his duty to do in respect to giving power to the warrant for arresting the Rev. Mr. flanutsort, IP Smithfield, on the charge of sedition. His Lord. ship, it seems, derived no information from the active Members of the Government • hen be wished to con• salt them, bet instead of being back ward on account of his receiving no Instruction, he seems to have outstrip. ped all his predecessors fur promptitude of action. This •is evinced in barking, with such celerity, a Provn cial Justice's warrant with the City power to take op, whom? A murderer? No. A cut.perse, the enemy of every man ? No. A mao of clerical Unction, of moral character, and who is accused only of speaking disrepectfully of that estrarragent system of Govern. merit which to all but the westisuperficial in onderstend• ing must he checked, or the country is undone. We remember the time when the whole power of the Crown coshd not make the Chief Magistrate back a general warrant. An ATKIN', it is true, was not the Masor at that time! We not long ago support. , ed his Lordship in what appeeted signer towards young culprit ; for we considered the severity es a kintlitebs towards the depraved youth, awalcking him, as it were, from a mole ignominious fete. We did tint, however, suspect that any other than our owe , teniment actqlted the Magiltrate's skied and band In Isis determinedly hasty committal. His condect open this more recent occasion, however forcibly sod against our wishes, puts us in mind of Ilegber►yr, in one of Sit.titsertea's •mating plays, osier busy in office. % end where his (+ Minim's, occasions hitti to be I celled by tech a tome, that he eacialms—s" There now, write me dnwn an sus." But in respect to the high eflice this distinguished t ilium bolds, we will not run thvoegh Any frillier scene of thereat de lineator of Nature. We may safely say, and with net offence, that it is well for the flight Honourable Magistrate that Mr. Foots, the modern Autsro ►ttANEt, at he wet properly called, is not now alive; for if he were, we assure him he would play him off as welt as he played of the Duchess of K vocalism, Sir T. iitenscce, or any other character rendered notorious by are out-of•tbe•way act. Independently of the green eye thus cast on the patriotism manifested in the proceeding which bis Lordship so sedulously appeared to watch over: and laying aside the merit or demerit of Mr. HARRISON. against whom he was aiming the civil force of the Mention.boase, we doubt the legality, and, at any rate, deny the regularity of the whole course his Lordship lock. For instance, he is said to bare dated the attraction of the warrant the Mansion house, sod yet that he wrote it at the Gilispor.street Prison. If a Royal variant should be dated SC. Jam's',, and it could be proved that it was egned in Cterken i welt Bridewell, would it be operative ? Dues not the smallest technical emission or irregularity vi tiate every legal proceeding, whether involving the smallest property or the life and death of the accused? This is a circumstance that ought to be cleared op.— With regard to the step itself, as a contemporary says with great propriety, the tranquillity with which this estraottlinary measure was emulated, confers no merit onthe Loan M ATOR ; on the contrary, he incurred the hazard of great mischief, for the danger was jinni went. It is a fad boyond dispute that such an arrow. went hod been Tootle by the Commander in Chief in the orders to the military, composed of hors►, foot, and turnery. that 6000 troops could hue been poured into Smithfield in the course of half an hoar. It is not, therefore, to the prudence of the Loan MAYOR that the ossidto swords of • number of rune Officers have been pre eeeee d from the stain of iluod. At 'neon as Mr. flt x? returned from tha Meeting In Smithfield, he Oitpatched twn confidential friends to enqiiire for the Rea. Mr. ll.tuatsou. to 941, that if he wished for bail in London it should be promoted for hint in the mntnine. 'Diem Gentlemen found Mr. IlAant.oo in G.lo , per-streel !triton, and on their Warn in Mo. HVNT informed Lim, that Mr. Bata- itigom wag shoo 00 hr spot off with the Officer. to th► rr ,onf y of Chesser (where he had beia reedy), in the night, or et d.y.hr►.ak in !hemming. Httreeeer, steno rl►Cen rt ck in the morning, Mr. IlttvT re• - _ refit-C1 met.sie 10 Fay. that Mr. llAµ•ti...v was 51111 io Gillaret-Stitet prison, •rsd reighvd for bail ; upon •birb Mr Neat procur►r! ton friends, responsible wident citla.ns and househnlJers, and procecal.rl •ilh them to the e tison, where he lsdd the Jail►r that (hey •etc come to lime bail f.•r Mr. HA•atsoN, hut tin.v fo••td that he had been sent off into the country about t•unty initiates. This was • little after two Among the stratagems which have been resorted to (we cannot say ht the Government, whatever we Ploy is st.k), to taring about misunderstanding among the Reformers, was the dispatching the fotged letter which follows, to Mr. WARD, of Nottingham. who was just preparing to come to loon to attend the Novilafietil Meeting. On his arrival he showed the letter to Mr. BLANDVOIID, whose name is subscribed In it, and who unhesitatingly pronounced it to be a forgery. This ruse forms a part of that pitiful sys tem upon which the New Thies and the Courier so compliment their masters. It prevented Mr. WARD from PprNkisti from the Hastings at the same time r eading the Nottingham Resolutions : Sta.—The London Committee of 400 are surprised at the apathy of the Friends of Reform at Notting. ham. At the present moment a Meeting there, adopt. log similar Resolutions to those of the brave Storks port Reformers, is highly desirable. Orr Meetings should be simultaneous and in onion. In short, es a friend ro Reform, we earorstly tall upon yoe to use your influence to promote such Republic Meetings without loss of time.--The borough. mergers aro slimed, and we know they base something in contemplation against os ; we wish darns to know our strength. Be a d the time is arrived when actions only will distinguish the Re former from the Anti•Reforener. Ficus, this hasty and abrupt epistle; the times and the occasion sill I not allow of ceremony.—Yeees, der. " E. J. KLANDFORD, I...ad.'s. July I.i, ISI9 &trews, t., Committee et 103. To Mr. F. Wt.rd, Nuttieghami." On Wetisiesilsy morning a placard tees posted in and about Smithfield, a copy of which was given in estertlay's Paper, Wog a faithful transcript from the placard itself, as it appeared on the walls. Its manifest lenclet.cy was to levity the assembled Re formers to acts of outrage and violence, though the intemperance of language in which it was coached most have destroyed, and did defeat, Its purpose.— " The Committee" have thought it incumbent upon them to disavow all knowledge of this placard, and have come to a tietermitistion to prosecute the parties cent...reed therein. They have therefore pablisheel the following hand-hill:- - TEN GUINEAS EEWAVD. , s Whereat a tortoise inthmasasory planed. dated July 1919. sending to etehe she People la arts of •Issletter. and In s imolai'. she Public assembled for lieforat to Smishaesd, to vim and e..ssfasian, was pliwed and po•t•st about the lissome. leading thereto; WO ire I. Isere's% Oren, slat it is the lineation or .hir Committee nho called she said Meesing to promeuse she Prin.,. and Poldi.her. 'hereof I and that a Reward of Ten Goiarns will be paid upon sheer convicting. to any person or prr.a• u who will give such iatoneussio• Ind so slier 4. Lim iiien JAq. Bumnroßn. Set. 66 Ple.lo. IllatganCaireet, sear Hackney . " Jay 11 1 ISO." TR R ANSWER. Greshavis Ileiel, July 17, ISIt. " JUAN WEVLIILVX " De Is ()Men iirl Liberie•inr, Mayor Geeersl del ezereito do le It•peltlice de Ve.,eeeele, y Nueva G,saede y Comassadeate de le Legion Irleaden, &e. &e. &e. " Sta,—l have the honour of your teller, con. 'vying to RIP an invitation of the Irish Friends of Swath American Independence to a Public thanes on Monday nest. " I accept the invitation with the liveliest feelings of respect sod gratitude towards thole Gentlemen who thee manifest the interest they take in thecae', of the New World ; for it is to the motifs of this lugs, alone I most consider myself indebted for so distingoished an honour. . " To render my future (medians valuable to Sonar America, and serviceable as well as honourable to Sy cosalry, will be my study and my ambition. " I hear the innoo; in he, Sir, " Year obedient end (AMIN, servant, (Sogne4l) JO:IN D'EVLIILIJX." " Ti Daniel O'Cureell, Esq." GENERAL D'EVFRFUVS LEVEE. YestertiayoWeW held a Military LVOV' at Alorriantes, Dawson-street. Among the company present, which was uunutrous and fashion. able, we observe:l a number of fine women. The General, on 'meting the room, was received with a burst of applause. 11. was accompanied by his ! Staff and the Officers of that First Lancers of his I Legion. At ball-past three Colonel Looter entered, I supported by a number of Officers, besting, by de- sire of the Omegal. the new stand of coiner* for Colonel Aylmer's Regiment. General D'Evermaz then addreased the Corps es follow.: 14 BRUTIltit SOLDlllll,—This Standard yots will receive from the bands of a Lads alto admires the motives which prompt you to leave lose country ; and, in the ht.or of danger. 1 feel satisfied that the recollection of this day will animate iota in its de. fence, and stimulate you to dyed, of envy. I treat, and am convinced, I shall over behold this Standard a pledge of your fidelity and yolk hotter; and that, in rallying round if, no sill elays), shed a lostre upon Ireland "—[ll.-isd and reiterated cheer. foi. lowed this Address, • hkb was delivered with grace and feeling The Lady of Cooneellor O'Connell, taking the Co lours from the General, addressed the Colonel and his Waters to this Joel "GZPITLICSIC7I,-.-1 have the honour to present yoe ! this flag, which I awe Mite 'Os VIII nni careatelo less for being handed to yes by an firki's/ran. who admires and lovas th.iie emotions of envier and seolisoests of liberality which bast you far from 'oar native land. May seerVlS and *la inland your strips, and peace and happiness crown your of .It. This, Gentleman, shall he my sweat, prayer "—UM rs. O'Connell was very irreprrissive,i,bot was evidently much effeced t II writs the conclusion of the Address. which was followed by clirierine and vassini hat.) Seldom has that. b►en seen in a single rog.ntent, so fine a corps of ()leers a. those of she Lancets; lhe) were the admission of all present. The General wens round a esst circle, paying his respects so his friend., and at a gassier before five the L►tee broke op—every one drlighted anti she imposing spectacle, so cheering to •arry ftsend ..f solfering hameolly. An immense number of people sorrnalisled the hotel. r,utN: •g, To Tik•sorrolt - voci.A; sut.44 i f g how" 044 to tbi pnpeler caste, to address a word•or Iwo to yne touching the busi. nets of to day in Smithfield. I most acknowledge myself to have been, in some weaver', tlivippointed that the Meeting was nal more nemerno.ly attended, though I do not know that my disappointment in this respect is welt grounded, when it is considered how Mail a proportion of the Friends of Reform are able to leave their houses or employment, at the risk of incurring the censure or hostility of that portion of their Lion, who think the existence of their lives and property wholly dependent on the tontine. once of the present order of things; end its the case of thousands of worthy men in eslnufactories, and other dependent situations, eho dorsi not, at set, se they value the daily bread of themselves sod families, be absent from their employment upon these aces. sions of public duty. We may confidently hope, that a better order of things is now fairly in pro. gross, and that, ere long. every honest man may, and will, fearlessly attend his duty to his comary, his neighbovr, and himself. Tl.e majority of the Friends of Reform are, perhaps, in dependent situations of life ; and when it Is considered that to act in opposi tion to the sentiments of their employers is the sans thing, in numerous instances, as to resolve to run the risk of starvation, it is rather to be admired that there is so great, so general, sod to decided an ex pression of just and indignant feeling, than a source of disappointment or regret that there is not - more. When men can dear', their genuine sentiments, without the fear of immediate rain, persecution, or want, thee the expression of them will be urii I. No jest estimate of the numbers of tt e decided Friends of Reform can L« formed from the numbers .1 those only who have the opportunity, or, as things (mist at present, the resolution of appearing in public upon occasions like the present. Every Fiiend of Reform moat glow with approbation of this spirit of the Resolutions thst were passed in Smithfield this morning. Unity is ell that is wattled. Sameness of principles and determination being judiciously brought to act in a focal, wilt do every thing. Every hottest man in this country, every hottest man in Scotland, every honest !liber ation brother, whether Catholic or Protestant, who supports himself sod family by hit daily industry, should attentively read, and read over again, the Re. solutions of this day, WI he hccemes perfectly fa. miller with their spirit end tenor. He should make them his political creed, as embtatirg his duty to hie- self, his neighbour, and his country. 1 i.e littii.k soldier, lop, should lay it to his heart, whether I. dare act in hostility to such just arid sacred priori plea between man and men, sit the mandate of wretches who lire by the smiles of Printer,—ishn fatten upon the spoliation of industry—and • ho relivd the mass of mankind as heists of burden.—made only for !Leif. u se. The arhi.h Wilier, if not testraioed from hostility in I is fsllos.countrymen bv a spoilt of their sufferings and iosalted rights, would still do well to c-tn•irler whether he might not, by abstaining from lifting his hand agsinsi his costal!) men in a cause sanctioned by God and twine, open to himself the probability of being enabled to lay down tLe mur derous bayonet and sabre, and etching. them for the peaceful and Lonosrahle implements of industry and citizenship. The welfare of the husbanding° and me. thank would provide a Geld of usesl industry for the soldier, who, in most cases it may be presumed, Iwould readily cease to bee hireling is order to become a citizen, stud prefer an honourable livelihood, its i conformity with the welfare and happiness of his countrymen, to the despicable one of being rem. pelted, for a miserable stifend, fel stied their blood its the assertion of their rights,—their nitwit sod sacred rights, at the command of the mercenary, the dependant, stud profligate creatures placed Over them. I Let sameness of principles and objects be ascertained throughout the empire—and let (Mumma, of prin. ciple and object consist in a determination to erect Universal Sarno by Ballot, and Anneal Perlia. meats, and oar emancipation from degradation and lhraldom will be easy sod rapid. 1 am, Sir, your's, very respectfully, AN UNREPIILSLNIED LLTIZLN. Wedonday main, July 1819. We belie given inemedinie imeriion In the n!..ove nninitile and P,runic Letter, in pr.V.vecee to other oiniirr, in nbirh littered Might be &relined Inc the gnomes,. lint ihr Cease. the Pudic Citrus. deverrn and wants toppers; and on do our own hopes.% bids. we coigne. sninesinse. become langend.frnm daily wiinewierg the iriempb of vets:Oily. c.eruptiun.aad penii eel 6.gram...ever Inewssity. benevolence. and peiriniie •wine. Ilene hopes nee thee revived by ex perleociag congeriaisly of geni einem in nlhrr and able writ en. It Is, how ever. op !ramie* , lr 'Sort of abuse want of Minims we complain. A thirty yearn issued stroggk and •liierisig give, a um • prefers-, Sr right to doubt bu living to see the redress of rosue N eigisce. —Le. We understand that an attempt was made on Wm!. nerds' , to create a riot and confusion among the per sons present at the Smithfield Meeting, hy au indiri• dual (who, as sisal, turned net to he a l'ulice•mf. fleet) riding in among the crowd, and spats the peo ple not being able to MUM sufficiently fast from the advances of his horse, ke took from kis pocket a loaded , pistol, and pointing it at 3 Geollemsis is the crowd, Mr. Stmt., of SS, Sinatteet, threatened to blow his brains riot. Mr. Strati. snooped from the menaces of the (Asti, and applied at S . Sops& bre'. church for the ri..i‘taisco of the Police, who short:) , afierwards look the fellow into custody. It is the intention of M r. STCILI , as we are informal, to brirg Si action against the officer, who it appears is curt ors-tad with the Lambeth-street, Police.olict. Y-storcley morning Mr. KKOWS, the rills ((- reign Messenger, mired io town with divatcbes funs Italy. T