The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-12-13 00:00:00

r t t 4 4 it "I t . . • t i i• 4 i I • 4 . , . . 4 i I' . 1,1 1 1 i t 1 1, +1 * i I V 4 . THE STATESMAN. toed, and threatened to shoot with's% and his wpanion, if he could lay hold of his fire-arms. fl r. Salmon staid about twenty minutes milli the I'rn.s•examined-•The threat to shoot reason the Satur d.►►, the 3d of June, in the garden. Ile was very % . o.lent from the time witness came into the house, until he left on the Sunday night, as often as he raw 14111. (*mild not say that he observed any particular arts of insanity ; he was muttering and speaking to liiniself ; did nut discover his insanity until the Satur-, da►• : not on the Friday, though he thotight he uas insane at the time. Plaintiff was not violent on Sun day eveninz when he left him; reme►nbered asking the plaintiff for some supper that night. They went an ay of their oa•n accord. James Type 4poke to the plaintiff,' insanity in May, • I!1, having been employed as one of his keepers; he him three months, the plaintiff was es ti-, 3111 ly violent ; lie used to speak of evil spirits were coming for him, and paid lie should like Mr. Salmon's certificate of the plaintiffs insanity, the :id of ,Inne, was then tendered in evidence. plaintiffsfhe Counsel objected that this piece of esidenee could not be received. The trespass was al leged to have taken place on the 2.1 of June, whereas ertilicate was dated on the 3d of Jon., after the trespass. There was no proof that it existed before the trespass. The objection was, however, waved. It %%as proved thou. Mi. Salmnu was the Visiting Surgeon of li.e defendant's house ; it was a lucrative employ. writ. The defendant's ease here elo.•ed. The finuerrowlizmnstst. then addressed the Jury las an able and powerful reply. The l'utr.r Jr %tU t S ttttt med up the rase fur the Jura• with great minuteness and impartiality. The Jury retired fur about half au hour, awl found a veatlict fur the plaintiff—Damages, 3001. TB E QUEEN. 3tELTING. Yesterdav a very nun...nous and respertahlr tneetinc of the Par:shof 51auy-le-lione, was held at Poly's I owls Manufactory, Great Portland -street, fur the purpose of tasking into consideration the propri,ty of presert hag an Addres. of Cuing•ratulation to her Majc•ty ; as Cso fur the purpose of presenting a Petition to the king, to dismiss his present 31inisters. About' balf-post one o'clock, Mr. Heron!, M.P., Mr, Joseph House, M.P., and Mr. I'. Moore, M.P., and several Gentlemen who comp—rut the Parochial Com o.itte", appeared at the hustings, and were loudly tl erred. On the motion of alt. Peter Moore, Mr. Ilernal was called to the 1 . 11 . • The Hon. Gentleman, on taking the Chair, shortly aslaressed the Ilecting. It was but lately that the larxe and respectable parish of Nlary-le-hone had begun to bold political meetings: since, however, they had begun, they acted with the decorum, spirit, and in dependence whirls WAS worthy their chars( ter. Ile had no doubt hut thAt the same admirable qualities "wild mark the proceedings of that day ; by firmness and ttod-t.ttion they would give effect and dignity to llic:r dectsions. lie laid only to say, that as Chair loam, he was roatly to hear the opinions of every lien- Gewalt who Hai lit be disposed to address the meeting. As it was, Imo ever. but a Parish Meeting, he hoped that none but Parishioners would present themselves. 'Else Hun. Chairman then read the Requisition for calling the Meeting, signed by about three hundred InhabPant Householders, which had been presented to Lord Kenyon, the Clitirchwarslen. His Lordship, eu receiving the Requisition, addressed a letter in answer thereto to f4ir Gerard Noel, Bert., which con tained the following passage For my own part, as a lit er, having had much gratification in opposing the Bill of Pains and Penalties against her Majesty, which, under all the 'lrene/Istria' es, I considered odious, ttn- just. and ienchriNtiasi. I should think that I must over look soy own duty, if I took any part on the subject nut of Parliament. Had the consent of the Church. scardens been ncc rrrrr v, to enable the Parish of St. Mary-le-bone to hold the Meeting. I should not have acenpled to give my consent.-1 son, kc." (Applause.) 04„/Iatsmi. next came forward to move the first Re -0911111c*,0,11lie Resolution was one against which, lie hoped. oqi Air objection could be made ; it carefully alc o lsaptd e very harsh expression against the ronsti 4041vorities of the country. For his own part be svould+say, and he thought be might ray the same for, the lientlemen who surrounded him, that they were as free from factious principles--as much opposed to dangerous innovations—as perfectly loyal, as those who met in secret, and who claimed to themselves ex clusive loyalty.—(Applanse.)—He hoped that a loyal man might still look the situation of his country in the face, and might, without danger, proclaim her wrongs to the world. What was the state of that country ? Ifo would not observe upon the manlier in which the late war was conducted—he would confine his observations to the time since the war euded. The Hou.oentleman . then proceeded to take a very enlarged view of the po htici of this country fur the last three years. He did not, however, mention any frets with which the public are out already acquainted ; but when he took notice . . of the inroad. lately made on the liberty of discussion. and of the Acts of Parliament passed preventing meet ings, except inparis hes, be observed, that now if aly in .ditf illttal calling himself a Magistrate, thought fit to in terrupt a public meeting, no matter on what occasion it might have been called—no 'matter how urgent its object—no matter bow peaceful, bow regular, and how decorous its proceedings—if any one Magistrate desired them to be gone, they could not say one word more. They should desist, or if they persevered. they should do so •t their peril, and subject themselves to all the severities and penalties -of the law. The peo pld of England were not to supposelhat they had the right to meet to consider of their grievances and to •indicate their rights. That right, indeed, their fa thers possessed. They once possessed it themselves, but they had it no more. They met only • by permis sion. To such a point, at length, was the boasted liberty of Englishmen reduced—(Lund murmurs.) — The Press bad also now shackles put on it. Any per son who might make a statement of perfect truth, yet if it were construed to be disrespectful to certain indi-, . . • victuals, he might be fined awl imprisoned for the first ettrenee and trar•pol ted for the seeond—(Cries of " shame '..)—The fieutleman next observed with I much aisimation on the late triumphant efforts of Spain, Portugal, and Naples, and said that it was dis graceful to Aliaisters loot to► have tendered their assist ance at least, to the two latter States. which were more immediately witliiii their reach. He next con trasted the present military establishments with those of 1792. At present the military establishment cost eleven millions; its 1792, it amounted to sixteen hun dred thousaml pounds. The nary in 1792 cost two millions too hundred thousand pounds, at pre sent it cost six millions and a half; although there were but fifteen thousand sailors, a smaller number than was ever known in Englaud since the American war. The fact was, that the public money was toot expended on the brave tars of England, but It was expended on Admiralty Courts, useless Boards and Commissioners. The people toed not he surprised that some impotent attempts hail been made to uphold the odious power of Ministers--•-no oar could be surprised at that, when it was cuu,isle►rrl that there were no less than two millions and a half paid in pensions, and four millions and a half paid to tax-gatherers, and three millions and a half paid to half-pay officers (to the last class, who deserved well of their country, he dill not object to those receiving a recotnpcnce from their country, but many of :hs•w, unfortunately, praised the hand that paid, and not the pe that supplied the motley.) There was also another class, a class too important to he overlooked, be meant the Clergy— the Clerey received of the public money about five minim's awl a half. Ile hoped be had stated enough to induce the Meeting to think with him, that men who had brought so much misfortune upon the coun try, ought 1111 longer to continue in the public runnel's —they woo hl there-foie petition the King for their dismissal- 2 (Applause!).—Bat they should not stop there, they should demand that salutary and necessary Reform which alone %twilit strike at the root of the • 11—(Iirrat applause !).—I f the people had a reformed Parliament, HU one would say that the country would have so muels to deplore ; the people would not have to witness such an jut tease to their Wahines—such daring attacks on their remaining liberties, and such an heartless ir.diffeseure to the public nikfortun-s. The Itevolutiou ass then pot, and carried uualti :Dowdy. P 5.11.11 %wail next came forward to move the Address to Isis %lajest• for the dismissal of kis :Mi nisters. Ile was tee-rive,' in a very flattering man• tier. It was, he said, because lie had at all times alone hi• dotty that lie was so received. On the for mer occasion the meeting hail all that was fair as well as all that teas wanly. Ile regretted that a more ill merous assemblage of Ladies was not present ; the Ladies, throughout the contest, had done their duty—thr sawn would continue to do theirs— , (Applause). His Iluoourable Friend had turned . Ministers inside silt ; there was another wit to he accomplished, whirli could only he accomplished by the l's•opls•. Whilst the Ministers remained in power, there was no hope—no security for the people. He would say to thesis, in the language of the Impe►ial General when he tool, lientsa, its 1746, " if you do not get rid of them, they will leave yon nothing but your eyes to behold vo n r miserirs--(Applause)." For himself, lie nab no Pew:inner or Plaresuan ; he might have beets b o lls—lse lit hate participated in the , plunder of the country pith those drones who op pressed it, lead he consented to give tip his c wit integ rity and Isis love for England—(Applause). The Honourable Gentleman, after :adverting, its the strongest terms of reprobation, to the Corn Hill, which he called ass infamous law to starve the country. proceeded to say, that the late proceedings against her Majesty, were, its fact, intended as au indemnity for Itlinisteis ; they had sounded themselves by leav ing leer Majesty's name out of the Liturgy ; they saw the consequences of their own act when it was too late to remedy it—hence the necessity of a Parliamentary indemnity, hence the trial, which was falsely called the trial of her Jlajrsty—(.lpplause). The People, throughout the struggle, had remained faithful to the Queen, and, lie neighs add, to themselves. ,Without the People, be. would give little credit to her Ma jesty's Counsel, or to the ninety-five Noble Loids ; without the powerful voice of the people, their efforts would have beets unavailing, and her slajrsty would have been saerifieeil.—(Applause.)—After dwelling on many of the faults of Ministers, he c pared them to a celebrated Ueneral, who once declared that he would spare the people nothing but their tears. Those Ministers had brunght the country down to the lowest pitch of national distress; they answered the public complaints by fresh burthens—they surrounded the Throne, and kept from the knowledge of his Majesty the real state of his subjects. Kings were generally disliked, but they were often themselves the vie tines of falsehood and deception. King James the First, on his arrival in England, was sur rounded by the different powerful parties in the State ; he entertained, however, a great distrust of them all, and perhaps in that he was very rightes— langh.)---One trailer proposed one line of acting,l another proposed a different course. They offered a speech to his Majesty to deliver before the Parliament.' " No," said the King, " I shall deliver one of our own." He did so; and after making some observations on the state of the country, he added there memorable words:--" But shove all, preserve to use the *tree tions of the people.—•(Ureat applause.)---Let Die be on good terms with the people—let use live in their bearts—(Loud applause.)—fur I know full well that the people cats do without a Kiug, but a King cannot do withotst the people."--(Applause.)—This, said the Honourable (Sentleman, ass language worthy of a King ; and it was to be !uncross' that Kingsof Eugland did not always, like James the First, speak their own sentiments and judge fur themselves. But the object of had Ministers was to cut off all communica tion between the Sovereign and, his people, the better to carry on measures which were often iojuriows to both ; they had gone on front one step to another to impoverish and enslave the people of England, who, if properly treated, would have been the richest as well as the happiest and freest people on earth. The purest and 'nest independent public men were selected out as the victim.' of oppression. Such was the case of that illustrious patriot, Sir F. Burdett-.—(Great cheers). —Did the powers that rule.; care for his body ? No, but they wished to withdraw his mind from the public cause; they wished, by placing him in a pri son, to deprive the cause of liberty of the aid of Isis splendid talents, his high character, his bold, manly, unchangeable independence.—(Applanse.)—After some other observations, the Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving a Petition to his Majesty, praying, that he would be pleased to dismiss his present Ministers from his presence and counsels fur ever, which was read, and unanimously agreed to. Mr. Prrsosctisl.D moved the next Resolution, which he introduced with a speech of considerable length. Mr. Ctittactisess moved the Resolution fur an Ati dress to her Majesty. The Addre!s was then read and moved by Mr. Heel nest, and unanimously adopted. Thanks were then voted to Sir G. Noel, and to the independent part of the Public Press. The Resolution of Thanks to Mr. 111111iC and Mr. P. Moore was next pnt and carried. Mr. P. Moose returned thanks. Mr. Ikea RIM/ begged to return Lk acknowledg filelliS to the Meeting. The llouuurahle Gentleman took siczasion to observe, that he would always put the highest value upon the public declarations of his countrymen. The thanks of Englishmen could only be purchased by integrity; nu arts, no influence, no, not the influence of Kings, could otherwise obtain it —(Applausr). Ile could not, he said, retire from the luting without taking notice of the wanner in which the City of London had been lately received at the Fours, and, Without cundessosing, as he sincerely did, •tlac insolent language which on that occasion Mem bers had put into the mouth of the King—(.tpplause). If his .11.,je•ty were to act Com himself, different no demist would have been his language to the first city in the w"rld, not sully fur wealth and power, but for honour, independence, and virtue—(Applause). It was the part of Ministers to insult, and if possible, to irritate every class of Isis Majesty's subjects. 'thanks were next voted to the Chairman, Mr. BER- N IL.—The lion. Gentleman, in returning thanks, twat occasion to observe, that he had never been pre sent at a Sleeting which hail been conducted with so snitch decorum and good order. The people acting thud would ultimately triumph in a rightful cause. The tiovernment Press might describe them as unshorn mechanics—so it described one of the most respect able 3leetings that had ever been held in the county of ; but the people would despise language which was at once foolish and indecent. They would pursue their course with a calm, manly, and unbend ing spirit. if he (Mr. Bernal) coma be of any fu ture service to his fellow parishioners, whether as Chairman, or as an humble but lie hoped not a useless, member of the general body, they might always command his services, and rely upon his fidelity and his zeal---(.Applause.)--He then dissolved the Meeting. CORPORATIONS reraw: CIVIL, !ARNIM awl PCRIAC PROSPERITY. SECOND SERIES.-LETTLR 1. At home surrounded by n servile crowd, Prompt to 1111/11!tr, and in detraction load ; Abroad begirt with men, and swords, and spears. llis ver) state acknowledging bib fears. Pitinie. Sie—The nation must needs be in a miserable con dition, when it is thought necessary to surround nut only the Chief Magistrate, but the Senate, with sol diers ; and when even the petty tyrants of corporations ate desirous of being placed in similar security. Finding that their hopes of seeing the ardor of the people, in the cause of their Queen, of justice, and of freed , abate with the roll, and descend to Zero by the Meeting of Parliament, on the 211 of January, the Green Bat; administration have now turned their great powers of mind to the creating what they call a re action of those canker-worms, or rather those cancers of the ronstitation, called privileged corporations, in favor of themselves, and against public freedom. The base language of these bodies, as well as their baser sentiments, bring all derived from the same cognition stock, are necessarily all of the same tenor. They consist of expressions of their exclusive loyalty, and their exclusive attachment to every abuse; of their great concern at beholding the progress of insnburtli nation and discontent ; and imputing all these evils, not to themselves and their I atrons, but to " factious and designing men," and to the " abuse of the liber ty of the Press." It is not, however, that kind of abuse, which is practised by The (eerier, 17te Post, sad New Timers, against the Queen and the People, but the abuse, which is made of it by a part of the Press, against the amiable corruptions, to which we have been so long accustomed. All these bodies, in their corporate raped ties. from the A Idermanie band of the Metropolis, to the Mayor, Bailiffs and Burgesses of the meanest borough, are In site of understanding, disinteresteduess, and integrity, upon a perfect level. They are coosequently equally well qualified to instruct his Majesty, and to lecture the public upon their respec tive duties. Ito these despieable bodies, then, testily think (ifilm operations of their mind can indeed be called thinking) that either the king or the people are to be any longer imposed upon by their feigned apprehensions of danger, by their hypocritical cant about factions and designing men, or their unmeauing jargon of the Con stitution in danger, the Constitution as by Castlereagh and Cm established, "Me earN snerovading mations, and Mr admirathin Vthe world. ' We have already had soineu hat too much of this, and the trick. is by much too stale to be any longer capable of deceiving any but fools; for, the very persons, who utter such nonsense, although they may, bur their private gains, hope to deceive others, are by uo means deceived themselves. They do not, and cannot believe, that either the king or the country stands in need of, or can be benefited by their support. any more th an a soun d man could be henefited by a cancer, or a horse go the swifter of being heavily laden. 'this, I say, thev cannot believe, if they have the smallest particle of ttoderstand ing, even a gdwinering of common sense; and, there fore, although they may perfectly well understand the distinct and separate interests of their corporations, they are, in respect to the public good, in a state of thorough ign o rance, or deliberate impostors. But, their assurance and insolence are extreme, in presenting to attempt to identify their own interests with dune of the biog. whose safety and whose throne they have done more to undermine than eve• the base mee who are nnhap pity his ministers. It is by the aid o f t h ose empires within empires, of those diseased clusters on the surface . 4 • „ of society, of those corroding a nd undertuini nt rt. crescences, of those most selh s h and most knavi s h dies, that Castlereagh and Co. have been able t o hri ,4. this great country into that mo s t unhappy sitter,:,which those vile causes of all our calamities have re* the ineffable effrontery, the gross s t u pidi ty, and ioc. summate ignorance, to impute t o the CO tNplaints o f a suffering and gallant people. But f ur t h em, the Br etßag administration would long ago hav e seen the m a i 4 their weer. And they are both mi s t a k en, i f they in, gine that either of them can keep the o th er long f, sinking. They are, I trust, also widely tistakeo, if thee expect to imince the ling, chose true interees i c y i n a n opposite direction, to make conitnou ems / sinh them. The throne I consider in the situation of iii expert swimmer, who, alibiing's sorrooneleil by Ila agrri. is sure, by consulting his own interests exclisively It reach the shore in safety; whilst, if he allows sorted , who cannot swim, to attack their stupid mea n r , his legs or arms, without the possibility of savisg % to, he is certain of being himself drowned. But, although the tricks of these buffoons are at this time of day contemptible and unavailing, yet, As " know they are quite ready to sacrifice the throne is 4 the people to the chance of being able to perpetuate,. even to preserve fur a little longer, their exclusive pc. ' vileges, it is fitting that they should receive exemplary chastisement. It shall therefore be Inv Witness, wilt some degree of nvitinteness, to dissect the patriotic do. sinus sat these worthies, as they appear, cud to boie theism up to the public in their true coluurs.—" !attar ' in cute novi." I ►now them to the bottom. from within Their shallow center, to tiieir almost skin. AItIoTIDES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STATESMA.Y. Wisberh, Dee. 12. I. Stn--A junta of individuals in this town drew q loyal Address to the King, without convening a ow ing of the inhabitants, which it is presumed they dared nut face. In consequence of this, the einem. stance occurred which is stated in the enclosed haw. bill ; and while the original Address was opened for signatures on Thursday morning mid on Satu r d ay night, it had been only signed by 88 perms. Th e amended one was opened for signatures on Sank morning, and by night it bad been signed by Have the goodness to give this publicity is Tkc Stufeamend leper. J. HILL. LOYAL AI/DRESS. An Address to the King ha►ing been prepared, which does nut suf f iciently express the befitimunts of want sl the Inhabitants of Wished' and the neighbourhood, ai Amendment has been made, which is subjoined with a copy of the original Address. (OPT OF TIIC ADDIEVI. We your 3lajesty's most dutiful and loyal %ejects, the Burgesses of the Corporate town of Wished), LH the Gentlemen and Yeomanry of the said town and neighbourhood, feel it our imperious duty at a crimes when infidelity, sedition, and disloyalty, are so We fatigably and fearlesly disseminated around us, to ap proach time throne with time assurance of our devoted ai legignee and fidelity to your Majesty's person and,' vernment, and the unalterable attachment to our ex cellent and unrivalled Constitution. " We, Sire, are among those of onr fellow country's* who love and esteem the Monarchy of our ancestors us the best safeguard of our national rights and privileges The turbulence of the factious, and the clamour of the seditious, serve only to strengthen and enlarge one pub lic affections, teach us the more earnestly to look to the throne for protection, and convince vs that on yonr Majesty's security, and the due dignity of the crown, — our religion, one laws, and onr liberties are the =Si effectually and most permanently secured. " Hut, Sire, while we lament and deplore the existence of those evils, to which we have already referred, we feel it our duty as Englishmen, to express our firm coo• victim!, that they are the consequences resulting free the cis-rule of your present Ministers. The whole sys tem which they have pursued, evidently proves that they have betrayed their King—insulted their gneen—de spised the People—violated :he Constitution—exhausted the Treasury—impoverished the Nation—disgraced tk Chitrch--deutorelized the Land—scandalized Chrieti anity, and cast a stain tipoti their Country which diet cannot easily efface. " We, therefore, hope your Majesty will dismiss those men from your presence and counsels for ever, aid choose such only as will Wedge themselves to a thorough Reform i• the Commons House or Po u rll l a s, went." TO THE EDITOR OF VIE STATES.II,4S. Stu.—The following ake trh is from nature, and is a compamioa to the story you did we the kindness to ia• scrt in your paper of Friday ; fur its truth I can pledge myself, for I was present. In order to make myself perfectly inteUigible to those whe did nut see the article I allude to, I as obliged to repeat the preamble of that paper. " Ihe late counsellor E. who was chairman of the Quarter-sessions of the County of Dablin, was se remarkable for his lenity to women, that a feuds prisoner was seldom convicted in his court, in come quern e of which he had many fair customers, Not of whom were such constant visitors as to be sees in his calendar at every adjournment." Foremost in her dutiful attachment to this bra Judge was a great!, rowels of the name of Sillg% L., who was as regularly in the dock as his was on the bench, sometimes for petty thefts, bit mostly for gentle asseolts. Mrs.l. was a most fleet' lent performer, and could " enact" introrenee Carer sibility sea admirably that " My Lord E." was mpg' edly touched with her pathos. At one of those adjournments Mrs. L. was, a annul, ;.t the bar. Some rindicticc prosecutor W. in addition to her revel " style and dignity." WO the insulting alias, " othernise Red Peg." When the I. lerk of the Crown in arraigniag het r: nottuced the words " Red Pe A r," she made a most tem r fie scream, and with the voice and , attitude of ifs* assured the Court she was " no Elise," but Mrs. Afr' gore/ L With mach difficulty she was pacified: the triairk ileslled, aid Mistress Innocence was, for the ifeolt di dee I verily believe, &quitted by the mercy of ,_ Court, When she was about to be discharged, with a ADO piteous face, she humbly begtred to say a ward le " his Lordship," when, to his great amusement, sod" the no small amusement of s.he Court. she with a sot respectful curtsey, made the following very sensible motion : " My Lerd—Not to let them put net down, Red Pel Me NEXT