The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-05-24 00:00:00

I row !~ .. - ... . ' [Loral Grenville hero appe:red to be taken cud. denly 111, and tonclodell rather abruptly by stating, illr. C or the reasons he bad stated, he should support ttP 1 Idr , s4.] • • The House then divided, and the numbers were, • proxies included, •• r•• , * , ••• anstratment. - e 4 Arsii.t.i: - 156 MA tit! - ---tl2 The original Address WWI then carried without a division.—Adjourned. f , 4 _ 110 VS R . OF 'COM M ONS. Mu• / • This at the Donpattirk Et#e"nis Iltillat 114. and it k heirg Trilobite in t.rrik •iy:lFlnnsit OW i eh ore:Wimp. thus 1 0 Members iltoakt he p,eleat, tlwre uppeariug but 77 at four o'cllick, the HOW MIS accordingly, al.strned, TRIUMPH OP IrENTMINSTER, AND PURITY OF ELECTION. Tha Eighth Anniversary of the Triumph of Parity of Election in Westminster was yesterday eelebreret . l at the Crown and Anchor Tavern. Soon a f te r five o'clock, Sir Francis Burdett, accompanied by Ma ier Cartwright, Mr. Hunt, of Bristol, Mt. P. Walker, Mr. Brooks, and several other Genttempo; entered the room, amidst the applause of ogwirdirof 300 Electors of Westminster. Sir •F. Burdett im mediately took the Chair. . Unit*? having been conoluded, the CHAIRMAN proposed — The Peeple. the only smartest( legitimate power—which was doe* with three times three. ' Tout—The Prince Repeat—and may the principles whirls Prated kis Family on the Throne, govern his wince conduct.— Great applause. Tent - May the people of Figland determine to follow Cie example of the City of Westminster, nod elect their uwa yresruiatives.—Three times three. Mr. W. ADAMS, in a short .speech, in which he highly eulogised the character of Sir Francis Burdett, as an honest and faithful steward of the trust which the Electors of Westminster had reposed in him, pro posed— Westminster's pale and Fnelarid's hope—Sir Fiaiwis Burdett —which was drunk with three times mince, and loiveoutinued • apptossa. Sir F. Suanrre rose amidst the most lively de. monstrations of respect, and proceeded, when si. home was obtained, to address the Assembly.—The Wm. Baronet observed, that it could not but be very gratifying to a Representative of the People— one who was really elected by their fair suffrages— to meet periodically for a series of years, with the approbation of his enlightened, independent, and unsolicited constituents.—[Loud applause.]--The very flattering manner in mm 66 the company had been pleased, on this, as on other occasions, to testify to him . the confidence they still reposed in his conduct, could not but ensure from him, in re turn, every exertion within his power to ef fect those groat purposes which the Electors of Westminster had in view, in common with him self, when thief selected him. in consequence of the principles he had uniformly professed, to re. present them in that House, called, for form's sake, the Commons House of Parliament. It was, however, a considernble drawback from the satis faction be would otherwise experience, on meeting with the approbation of his constituents, as he had done, on this day to reflect on the awful sites tion in which the country was again placed—after hating suffered so many calamities in a former war, undertaken, as lie believed, for the purpose of sup porting the same principles, and of effecting the game objects, as were avowed to give rise to the war into which they were again about to be plunged, after so short a breathing-time of peace. It had happened to him, year after year, except during the shout period of the last peace, that he was uniform. •1y obliged to speak in a despondikg tone, when he noticed the situation of the people of thus country. When he adverted to that which should be done to insure their happiness—when he stated the wishes he entertained for the permanent benefit and snfety of the population of England—when he mentioned these sejects, he hod therefore been compelled to speak despondingly ; and, he regretted deeply,l that he was obliged, on the present occasion, to adopt a similar tone. All those who heard him must be aware, that, 20 years ago, the country stood pre.i teisely ht the same predicament in which it was at .present placed. The only difference was, that we •ntere not then burdened with that load of taxation which now weighed the' people to the earth, and .seemed to paralyse all their faculties.—[4pplause.) —Rut, in point of principle, in point of conduct, as pursued by our Government, we were placed exactly I in the same situation as we- were at the beginning of •the last war. To speak the fact, it was almost, avowed, in terms, that war was to be waged, for the purpose of placing a discarded Sovereign over a -free people in a neighbouring country. —Pppiause ...It was necessary fur him, shortly, to call to the .minds of those whom he was now addressing, the • various pretences which were, at a former period, ,held forth to delude the people, by Mr. Pitt and Abe Members of his Administration. The arts made Ase of at that time did, to a great extent, delude flue people—hut, he hoped, they would not be im posed upon a second time. The ,olject of the war, though, at that time, Ministers had not the egrets. tery to avow it, was at the present moment witted. That object was to shed the blood, and .hour forth the treasure of the people of England, -for the vile purpose of enslaving the people of ,France. At the commencement of the war with France much public feeling and spirit existed' in this country. Numerous Gentlemen of great weight, 'from their talent, as well as from other considera tions, were ready to support the public sentiment, in oppositiou to that war. It was, however, proceeded -in on various pretexts, but with one object in view. One assigned cause was the miserable pretest of as• sisting our Ally, the Dutch Republic, against the ag gressioa of France—that Republic which we had out. selves since annihilated—for, instead of that country .being governed by a Republic, an upstart King, by our exertions, was, now placed at the head of the State. —[Applauee.]—Sometimes Belgium—sometimes Sici ly—sometimes Italy—was made the watchword of . hostilities. But, in fact, the real cause was the same —the cause of despotism against liberty—the es .sumed right of certain families to rule over the people of the earth, as if they were so many cat tle.—[Appluure.]—This odious and detestable priuciple never could, he was assured, meet with Jot support of the people of England—[No, no !":1 i } ~, THE STATESMAN. —lt was a principle that ought to unite the people of and honour of Britons and of mankind ; and in the ever) country, for the put pose of giving it the mast course of his observations informed the meeting, that forcible app Atoll. It was contrary to every dictate the cause of Parliaremenry Reform was gaining of reason—it as at variance with every principle ground daily in many parts of the kingdom, where of human freedom—it militated Rafting every ve•itis he suspected its friends in the capital knew but little meet connected with human happiness.—[Applause.] of the support it had received. It was a fact that —Yet, odious as such a principle was, the) were clubs, whose object was to procure a Reform in Par celled on, even at the present enlightened period, in liament,were establishing and had been established in pretty plain terms, to expend their treasure, a.d Dublin, and even in the remotest parts of Ireland, shed their blood, to place the House 'of Bourbou Scotland, and Wales, and he had yet hopes of seeing on the throne of France. How flimsy were the the great cause triumph, and the Constitution rescued pretences, how thin were the veils, by which it from the foul gripe of Cep-option. 'was attempted to cover this, the real object of the Ttlar —The Liberty of the Press—it is like the air we war. Ministers allowed it was their wish to re-in-breathe, if we have it not, we die. esa.t—The health of the Independent Livery of London. state the House of Bourbon, but they denied that T Mr. Hews, of Bristol. returned thanks and such was their object—thus making a fine dis- 1 delivered as speech replete with s•And argument and useful in tinction between their wishes and their objects. , formation. %Ye regret that our (-Anglin are so occupied with But every person must see, that what they wished artier ow ner , 44 tant we cannot even venture upon an online :they would endeavour to effect ; sod the whole ; y r n it ; b.. . e u r tfi w e%it d, t ni n n s: n ty lra t t li sn a ns t N o t;. th H e u n n i t m sv os a t s su tte e :g e t se . o ar• meaning of the distinction between ,their wishes solicitations to proceed. He avowed the same principles as Sir and objects was this, that, if they saw no opportunity leig n o e ut h e ui . lAtzlied . e ml.sol n o l for Ami sti t Cu i of carrying what they desired, why they would be , pu rpose r.ary M eet h ig s sof l am were esm i als ,, ne : g . mat hod bee.me so magnanimous 81110 give it up—because they could ' on Elector of Westminster, for she piwpane of evincing his not accomplish it.--FLuud latighing.]—They tie. "tilt" to the "Il'e t.ke , ":" Niel to soPlot. t The health b eing givers of dared it was not their object to restore the Boor- Mr. Jones Bunten and the Independent Electors of the bons to the Throne of France—they stated they Borough of South% ark ; were at wee.with the present Rater of France—and,' Mr. Ksainisit rose, and returned thanks in the ae4tls •aa • sameosseistasnicy„alionst -inconceivable, they name -of the Clemson ver,JinnStrwark. Mr. K. wither/see filo.' told the people, that titis, did not 011/4111 to 117te/Asill _lluenee and atairnatiffis animadverted on thralls and .efforts mutt with the Frreeh ci erereseer, es if it were Pee. by the i t rg e els l if eogu r l t ot y lon w t::ff k ee m : ir thLi s rpurpt r s i ses, suld ex aace to Able to interfere with their election of a particular eiety.and prided themselves in their independence. se be equally person to fill the highest office in the State, without, tbg diligent in their eneravours . and Sim in their resoluti ns ons to stem atlavery the same time, interfering with their Government. an ba r l it r u u t l it i m bd t e mlraTrd re this ireincenvwtrhicliweas free and il inde -Sir Francis next adverted, its pointed terms, to pendent conntrv. tona l nod the corrupt 1)(14, who were. e t r u ec e t to il a tlis o zor i w eln y r. n o n u t s h a t nd nnt de t trndin ose :hof thral ose oduornsanseireirse. the present s) stem of etiormoos taxation, which act ed, in a double manner, to depress and degrade the terests arc concerned in resisting and checking this subversion people. Its severity was so excessive, that it cut of every thing that is goo' and valuable in society, bind them down the means of in middle life salver as closely together fur the purpose of elll.ctlng their more persons , who were h (nimble impose? Old they this, they wou ld he like the subject to it—and; in many instances, obliged bundle of reeds in the fable, strong, incapable of being broken; those, who were annoyed by the visitation of the and, i corruption d would not triumph add make such rapid strides tail-gatherer to look to the Government for some sets- a s T r health of the Stewards was then drank, and the Meeting pert. But he firmly trusted, that thousands who broke up. would not yield to 'this corruption—that thousands who saw the necessity of opposing it—would co operate with the independent Electors of Westmin ster, and the independent Liverymen of Latrine, in exerting themselves to prevent that insane and wicked career, on which Ministers were now about to enter. [Applause. It would be his duty, very shortly, to attend in his place in that Assembly, falsely called the Representative House of Commons, for the purpose of expressing sentiments similar to those he had now delivered, and, therefore, he should detain the assem bly but for a few minutes longer. There was, he ob served, a subject of greater importance than even that of war or peace, to which he bad just called their atten tion--he meant the situation of an Englishman in his own country. Here the Hon. Bart. adverted to the seve rity which had been exercised on those persons who had used their best efforts to procure a just Repre sentation of the People in Parliament. In conti nuation, he saidy when he saw the public so unani mous as to co-operate with the independent Electors of Westminster, and the independent Livery of London, in procuring a Parliamentary Reform, he should then feel it to be his duty, as it would be his pride and satisfaction to enforce, in the House of Commons, that system of Reform, which those whom he addressed were perfectly assured, the Mem bers of that Moose would never agree to, until the voice of the People, from without doors, arrested their attentron, and excited their apprehensions.- - The House of Coni.nons should hear a commanding voice from those whose power they have assumed and abused. When the feelings of the people were unequivocally pronounced, however unpleasant the mandate might be, they would be obliged to obey it. —The hest mode of effecting the cure of this great political grievance was, to make the House of Com. mons, which was the cause of the evil, become its own physician—and, in spite of its interested feel ings, submit to such a course, as would insure its , rut are health . [Applause.] —Th e Honourable Ba ronet then took a short review of our two wars with America—each of which, he contended, was initially Y engaged in by the Government of this country.— WEDNESDAY, WA 24, 1815. . To extinguish liberty and trample on the rights of —toss-- man was all the object. To compel the Americans to the French Papers still continue to arrive regu submit to taxation, without representation, although lady. The Paris Papers of Sunday last reached us they had offered to contribute to the wants of the . this forenoon. The interest of their contents is not parent State, much beyond the most sanguine expec.j proportionate to the importance of the present tenons, was the cause of the first war with America— crisis. They are chiefly filled with pacific reports to break down that independence and that republi can form of government which she bad established, from the fortresses on the frontiers, all of which are 1-was the design of the last. But the projects of des.; stated to be in perfect preparation, and with notifi. kpotism had failed in both instances. After a long, cat ions t of the new elections, enumerations of pa an expensive, and ruinous war—after all other con- : triode gifts, and Addresses to the Emperor. tests were concluded, and our whole force was ens barked its the desperate enterprise of crushing The reports in the Foreign Papers of desertions liberty in the most distant hemisphere, Ministers, from the French Army to the Allies and our boasting Ministers, were at last compelled to Loess XVIII., are pronounced to be utterly false. huddle op a peace with America, leaving every " During the months of April and May," say they, disputed point as they found it, to revive end be a' 4t there have been no desertions at all, except a few source of fresh contests whenever hostilities shell persons (whose names are given) connected with the again be commenced in Europe, with an incalculable loss of men, and millions to this country, and with a t emigrants in the suite of the Count de LILLE." still'rnore serious sacrifice of what even time cannot . Lours has plenty of Officers but no men. They -repair—our national character. In the event of a say, " there are 300 French Officers at Ghent, all new war with other nations, Sir Francis observed, Emigrants or Vendeans." A still more important that in respect to America, one of two things must statement is made. The Duke of FRITRE (Clarke, happen—either we most be engaged in hostilities I ours's Minister of War), is said to have abandoned against her, or the Americans, by menus of their the King, and is stated to be again returning to neutral rights, must enjoy almost exclusively the commerce of the world. This must be evident to . France. The Funds are again rising. The folio*. every one, and an appalling prospect it was to the ing appear to us the only articles worthy of quota. trading interests of this country.' He concluded by tion : drinking the health of the company, and shortly COURIER EXTRAORDINARY, Sunday Morning. after left the room, amidst loud plaudits.' Eight thousand Jews of Alsace have embodied Major CARTWRIGHT, who was called to the Chair on the departure of Sir Francis Burdett, proposed— themselves in arms; 1500 have already joined their The health of that victim 'of political corruption i , Lord , new standard. I Cochrane; which was drunk with enthusiasm. The Duke Ds FELTEE (Clarke) is again returning Toast—The glorious Revolution of 1688. and may the people of England continue to assert Ilse right of every lonian t. to F rance. the Executive Power to those whom they must approve.— t An Aid-de-Camp of Alua.tv arrived here yester- Drunk with applause. • day. Toast—May tut Coalition of Soverei g ns succeed In erecting a despotism ou the ruins of public liberty. The Duke DE Conic:l4*os° has left Naples for Mr. WALKER, after an appropriate panegyric on Paris, as Ambassador. the public exertions of Major Cartwright, proposed, I The Chamber of Representatives will assemble on Parliamentary Reform, and the health of its veteran advo- the lst of Jgne. cafe, Major Cartwright. I Reports from Spain announce that the Guerilla Major CARTWRIGHT in returning thanks, took a Chiefs are organizing their men to make incursions review of the objects which they were there met to countenance and support; heAlwelt with ouch energy into France in pursuit of plunder. and eloquence on their importance to the Interests norms' or AIISTEIA, MAY 7.—At Vienna bin:, LOVELL'S LIBERATION. After an imprisonment of Four Years and a Half in his Majesty's Gaol of Newgate, in consequence of Ex-officio lnformations,for what has been termed • Libel, Mr. LOVELL informs his Friends, with the feelings which may be supposed to animate the breast of a man in his situation, that he has been this day liberated from the scene-of his long con finement, and of his many severe ajlidiont, and is now returned to•the discharge of those duties in public life, which, at the present extraordinary crisis, so pregnant with events of vital importance to the liberties of mankind, are more than ever 'wee:tory to be fulfilkdond which he assures his Readers and Friends he shall strive to perform to the best of his ability. Ile trusts it will nut be considered egotism to state, that his heath, as may well be supposed, has suf fered much from the continued rigour of his fate ; but his spirits are, as they hare ever been, tin brok..n; and he hopes he need not so, how grateful is his heart for the support which he has received from the Friends of Liberty and Justice under his long and accumulated actions. St ilesman•OSee, tiny 40. 1815.. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS HAT AT ONE. O'CLOCK. Minh Lent. Ann. llj 7-16 I per Cent. Red. 5711 India Bond► it p 3 rer Cent. Conk btlij Exchequer Bills 2 5 p 4 per Cent 71j 2 Omnium 4 per Cent. Navy 86fil . Consols for Acc. 51z114 THE STATESMAN. LONDON: ~._.,. , -~~ they begin to alter the opinion that MURAT would be at once cotupered. Neverthelegs a Treaty has certainly beets concluded betweee Austria and the king of Sicily. The Congress is 4611 setting, and no appearances of the departure of the Sovereigns at present exist. FRENCH rU4DS. 5 per Cents. 58 f.— Bank Bond. 830 f. Frankfort Papers to the 18th also arrived at a tate hour this forenoon. Arcanum from Vienna, of the 7th, confirm the statement in the French rapers that the Congress is' still sitting in a state of irresolution. The density,* of the Sovereigns depends on some circsimsta ncr e over which they seem to have bet little contrn.4.— " AGEEmirs waits until he hears of the lumttug of kit guards in Pomerania. They left Petershuro at the beginning of April." And where goes he after thee shall arrive ? We were told some ti me ago, that the guards who hail set out from p eters . borgh were to convey their FairEnott hack to that city. Pomerania too—landing in P. in ee s n i s _ t h e Crown Prince of SWEDEN is not looking very well pleased in that direction.—The Ge r . man Papers still assure us of the personal friend. ship of the Sovereigns,. Ttai4r friendship is o f the true German cast, and is ditseakbed in the true German style. An instance wilt serve twaliore what dependence can he placed en its sincerity : " The day before yesterday (Ascension Day), the anniversary of the bombardment of Vienna by the French in 18Q9 (an ominous recollection), the two Emperors were frequently seen together at the p a _ lace-windows, which were open. A LEXANDIR seem ed to converse with FRANCIS with great warmth, When the latter suddenly embraced him, and thus again announced to the people their intimate union." 64 Good news (continues the illlgemeine Zeitung of the 13th inst.) are said to be come from Switeer. iand ; most of the Cantons wish to co-operate with vigour against the French ; there is however a large party that wishes for ital . ' rality, but It will hardly gain its object." The Vienna accounts farther add, that Prince LEOPOLD of Sicily, son of King FERDINAND, is gene to Italy, taking with him a Declaration of the Con. grass respecting the re-establishment of the House' of &mnon on the Throne of Naples. This Prince is said to have been paying much coed WOO Ileum of Austria, and to base gained favour in her eyes. A curious document, for which we have not mint, is given in these German Journals, purporting to be, as it perhaps is, the ansner of Marshal MARMON/ (Duke of Itagusn) to proposal: said to have been made to him by M. DE Caur.tmcoutrr Oahe of Vicenza), in the name of BuNAPALITE.-These proposals, he gives us to understand, invited him to return to France; but this. guilty:! Marshal and true patriot, as he seems inclined to deno minate himself, spurns at the idea of again hoist. ing any other standard than that of the Bove. soars—at the mention of his former leader, who raised him from the ranks, he is ---- Raging, IremAllos, f-in.trqc Pwors4ed below! Mt./este gayer retatiaCt • and abuses, with the customary terms of the Ghent school, NAPOLEON, CAUI.AINCoURT, end all who adhere to him. The oath," he saps, 64 which li have taken to my King, .till be sealed in a few days with the blood of the traitors; my own arm ( lkar him ! ) shall soon carry. the standard of the My even to the capital!" Italian Gazelles, containing Fi,dcl•Marshal lltay. cat's official accounts of the engagements w ith MURAT, with the particulars of w hid) we have 'hea dy been made acquainted, have been received, hut ws we cannot make room for them. The subject of the war with the present Gaiern• ment of France was discussed in the Hattie of herds last night, and much opposition made to the project* of Ministers; bat the House of Commons presented a total blank, for the reason, or some more operatiae . one, assigned in our Report. • ------ ---- The first stone of the Southwark Bridge was ye ferday laid by Admiral Lord Ykount KEITH, K. B. attended by Sir Joiur JACKSON, Bart. 114.,P. Chair min, and the rest of the Committee of Manag emeat. The stone was laid precisely at 12 o'clock ; the cow pony afterwards repaired to the temporary bridge, erected on the works, where was a cold collation. CORN EXCHANGE, MAY 24.—Very little business done to-day, and prices the same as Monthly. • The price of Bread remains t h e same this week. Yesterday morning, between four and five o'clock, a most alarming fire broke oat at Mr. Dunkin s, a tallow-t,w'ter, Aldersitte-street, whose premises were entirely consumed, with nearly the whole of Mr. Cockerton's, the adjoining house. So rapid ' s was the progress of the flames, that a considerable degree of alarm was excited, as they communica ted Ito the buildings situated in Sinktesbery•phlees p art of which were also damaged. happily we find that no lives were lost. This morning, about one n'cinek, a fire hroke net is Ike' 1 works of tie Cots Gomptuly, in Dor3et stied. which ec rl°° "' !ed tench alarm in that neighbourlio.cl„ After destroying Wl' 1 of the pr. mi•es and a printing oilier adjoining, the Acts! well I IRINDIed R ithoul harlot done further no- ref. 1 MURDER OF MR. MA RR AND FA it i iir„-.:The follow* i a letter Rote Portsmouth, dated the yui 1.... I-- t rooms , beard n 4:reiterant., of his Majestv'sehip Sparsest ll• l et ' ki : few days bark, is it loan on hoard that bliiii am going I° ",,,„ Pmniobed for i.lealing a Si. note from one of I ns ship-mato, Im" . declared he cos the perm a lio rnteroeted hiss. MSU SO child, and that he ltd never had now race in his toned eine , I that their was a gang enrirr, oed , l e, he and th e pyalef Of of them t.fierwards went to the LAst to ties; ;hal the rile soli for East lodia soldier=, and ill it he went halt the NiieS. t " lits being staled to him, that if his statement *a. turret' , /11 "! ,lie given up t o th e civil µowl., but he tires tutAt We've puilienetent for the crime he had peen guilt. of .'ntuJed, I ship, he immed.a ell' cut his throat, hot wee• pre/LIN to O `'" doing it effectually ; hi: wound ha , been since ant toted kY surgeon, mud he *ill be given up t.. lit e eitiii pil: er forthott Ile also says he was concerned in M 54.14111011 s &Are. I.oli DON Printed Slid Published by D. LAMS , 114"1141 ()Mal Fleehatio 1 eel CUM ( 314 OM +C Ere Ise.