The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-11-28 00:00:00

a ~' I •stahlishment of complete despotism, and in pnrsnit of that object thiy had nut only rendered " Marriage votes es false as Dicer's oaths," hot religion itself a mere rhapsody of words. For such consequences he considered Ministers alone responsible, as it was int-1 possible that the King could he a willing agent lit the en : leavours made to degrade his Queen. The King was to be the first gentleman in Europe, and yet be sr Is held forth as a party in a transaction in which be oas persuaded any man who beard him would he a , hameil to have the slightest co ncern.--(Applause.)-- lle . was sure, indeed, that the meanest blackguard in .4i-wry would shrink from the coulluet imputed to the king in this case, and vet those men, who had fixed the imputation upon him, who was mire the friend and companion of Erskine, Fox, and Sheridan, were still permitted to continue his Majesty's Ministers. — WA. , this to he borne by the King or by the coos try ? The latter, at least, for its own credit, should 4.411 fir the dismissal of such Ministers. The company were no doubt nequainted with the anecdote of Nell Uwynne and her footman. When the latter was covered with blood in consequenee of haring fought with a man who called his mistress a w—, she told him not to notice any such trifling charge in future. " Then," exclaimed the footman, " if your Ladyship be contented to be called a w—, Lithe hanged if I continue to he the footman of a w--." Then, said Mr. N., if the King will continue such Ministers, let u 4 take care, for our on n justification, to shew that we cannot be the approving subjects of such a Monarch. ----; Loud applause.) --Bu: the injury done by the late rovoluet of Ministers to our holy religion, was almost isittnite. After the ark of human nature was seen "satin; about the world, or s!riking against the quick sands of prejudice, it was thought to have found an ;yltim in the nor: religion of the English church, rot illy secure from the wildness of fanaticism, and t` s absurdities of infidelity. Rut what must he the esrect upon that religion. if the disputes which had Leen recently witnessed among, its principal Bishops, 0... re corrected by a Nobleto , n who was one of the g neatest debauchees in the coitotry ? Such Mecum s! titres. hr thought, notch more calculated to injure e character of religion than all the a ritingsof the in& OA Mir: proceeding at some length in the same strain, Mr. N. animadverted upon the Italian wit -I.^ sex against the Queen, contrasted the Statesmanlike al I legal qualifications of Lords (ivy, Erskine, anti Loridowne, Waits. Tierney, Brougham. Burdett, and Denman. with those of Lords Castlereagh, Eldon, and S'amouth, Messrs. Vansittart. Clifford, Copies. and Itallurst, and declared himself a Whig Advocate for r-form. Ihe Honorable (gentleman concluded with proiossingthe first Resointiow calling for the dismissal 44 Ministers, and that uo farther proceedings should F.• 'when against the Qtieen. :The above is only a sketch of Mr. Northhonse's s i ,.. er h, If a s have room we will give the whole of it to-morrow.] Mr. Ct..taar seconded the Resolution, which was pot and carried unanimously. Mr. t'uii.i.ses moved that an address be presented to l;sr Slajes'y the Queen, congratulating her upon the el4nal triumph which she bad obtained over her vie/WM' Thlsilesolution was seconded by Mr..it•ontx., and cat:led shiattiutomity. Mr. itionuouse moved, that the Petition adopted by ti is Alerting, be presented to his Majesty by his (irate the Duke of Redford. it's M. 401416044 was pot and carried unanimously. .! r . TiIt:MALL read the Address to her Majesty. Upon the motion of Mr. Ccanar, it tens agreed, ti at the Address he presented to her Majesty by lord rm. Russell and the two Representatives of the City 4.1 Westminster. accompanied by a Denotation of the na-ishioners. M. NOR Mini,: said, another Resolution hail just been put Into his bends, in which there could be no 414-tit of the unanimous concurrence of this Sleeting. • ...reposed the thanks of the Meeting to the desert:- t of the Illnstrinit House of Russell, a name tnz - tern on the hearts of Englishmen, for his sites ;it this Sleeting, and his patriotic conduct in P.triiansent. The Resolution was curie,' amidst the acclama tions of the Mretine. Mr. Psi ILLIPP moved the thanks of the Meeting ta John Cam llobbouse, Eq. for his able and impartial conduct in the Chair. The mn ion was received with much applause, and carried unanimously. Ilonnocss. Wt. to return thanks. lie assured the Meetieg that he regretted the accidental circum stance which had trcvented their Noble Chairman from ce:lt'uttinz his attendance, soil readered it move s ow for hint to supply a place which wonlai !Mire been mach more wordily occupied. After the very able se..nner iii obieli the business of the day hail been ex- N itrified to them, he felt it moreeerenty to occupy any c4•:isiderable r ov don of their time. There was another c;reunistance which disqualified ,him for addressing them at any length, and that was, that he had ale:oily attended lien et three Meetings this day, and he could assure thew, that whether at St..larnee's, or St. Pant's, at one end of the City of Westminster or the other, Fig lintoble talents would be constantly and implicitly a! the dispneal of his Constitnents. It was not his ',Alt to feel any backwardness in lending his humble asaistance to the people of England, and in this great qatestion be Lad from the beginning entered a heart and hand into the cans.; he had always considered i t a s a qu estion of vital importanee, not merely as it *fringe , ' the interests of the Queen, for it was imposts bible for any man to consider it withont feeling that it involved not only his own life, liberty, and pro- rertv, hut the life, liberty, anal property of posterity. Porionatelv, the !told'. of England had triumphed ; thee bad obtained for themselves, a triumph which could have hero achieved in no other country in the world. The people bad come forward manfully t they roused themselves from the apathy in which they had tithed() been placed ; they had exerted those energies %Odell, when they resole, to exert theta, are . always irresistible, and decl ared with a voice whorls Mi nisters dared not disregard, their ananintons opi. riOn of this last attempt to destroy the rights and privileges of Englisleown in the person of their Queen, who was not only entitled to all the dig lei! ire of her exalted station. but who bad rhewn hbereself worthy of the honors of the throne, because understoed and appreciated the liberties of thus. *"" :-"'"'"111/10- THE ST, Line whom alone the throne seas fonnded—Opplanse). Re recollected that when the sic Acts, of which 1141 In nil' had been said, and Under which the pro piewere now suffering, were i'ehated, it was said,' hr the Alinister of tbe Crown, that in large meet- ings the sense of the people conld not he collected in conseipience of the intrusion of itinerant demagogues, but that small parish meetings would always convey the teat sentiments of the people of England. Happily the ' people of this country had made good Lord Liverpool's pledge ; and had proved that that Nobleman knew t perfectly the temper and character of Englishmen, and ; that he iva.. right in his opinion of small meeting's, i however wrong he might be in his infer:qv-es as to . large noes. Restricted as they see.r in the right of! assembling, the people had resolved. that if one hand i was tied down, they would make the best light 'WS" sible with the other.--(Applause.)—Fortunately teat other hand had been too much fur :he Hoverninent opp r . d and crippled as they were, their means had still been sufficient to intimidate the King's Ministers, for without that intinti:;ation they would rer.ainly have effeeted the de s truction of the Queen. It had hero confessed by Ministers, it had been confessed by 1 4 wil Liverpool, Lord Elfenburough, the Margolis of Stafford, he believed, and many other Noble Lords, that the loud and unanimous expression of the public displeasure Irendered it impossible to attempt carrying the Iii:1 of Pains and Penalties with t risking the Crown itself. After this, said Mr. Iloblionse, let its never more hear of popular clamour—let us us Ter more be told that the vole." of the people is so much empty breath ; it is the lir ettli that tills the sails, and will, I trust, finally carry the people into the safe harbour of their constitutional rielits. Ile confessed that he was one of those oho thought that Ole Bill of Pains and Pe nalties would pass Houses; not because lie thont ht w.. 11 of the Bill, lint because he thought ill of the Parliament. When he entertained that 0,.i -nion, it was itripos•li!e to foresee the miserable shifts to which Ministers hail been refluced. The aitnessen against the Queen had told so many lies, that tlsep might aptly enough address tlinisters in the language of Fog, in Tne Ifieft/s--" if we must lie, have lb* goofiness at least to let us lie a little consistently." (Laughter) 1 hey had not lied consistently , for tie. lie of one witness hail contradicted the lie of the other s the consequence of which was, that before toe Bill came to a close it was impossible for any man living tell come down to thellonse of Lor.ls,and say conscientiously that he thought the Queen guilty. '1 he gentleman! who stuo.l near him hail eulogised Parliament, but he . was a young mall. not know Parliament su well as lie (Mr. Iliihhonse) knew it. It should not be fmgotten that 123 persons had been found in the House of Lords, who thought, or rather declared by their votes, that this rotten, patched up evidence was sufficient to c.inviet-•—not one of the rabble---::ot one of the vilified people of Eiteland----brit the Queen of England, the Consort and Cousin of the King, the sis ter of a Prince who bad fallen in battle for them, the daright , : of a Prince who had also fallen in battle, beloved by the late Sovereign. and otiose wrongs, even if she had been guilty, ought to bar: Atelier) her Cron persecution. Ile firmly believed, that in no other as sembly in the world could there have been found, not one hundred a;.d twenty-three men, but twenty-three men, who would hare convicted her %Ton such evi- I fence. 31utty analyses bad been made of the majo rity, as it was cane.% Litt he hail hearl one to day, wh eh plaer.l the harneter of that majority in n point of view suffieiently striking. Out attic 123 Peers ti Ito voted against her Majesty. $ I had either been creatvil, or raised by steps in the Peerage since the year 17e I. This nituierical calculation was of gicat imps:tame, becanse it skewed that the majority of the men Whil voted the Queen guilty, merely said content to that ,system of which taey were in fart the mushrooms. Very merely said c intent to that system, out of whirls they sprung, and upon which they flourished, a system which bail been designated after the Mall who, left it ; l as a fatal inheritance to his conntry, (it was mincers , miry, in speaking of the calamities of the country, to name 31r. Pitt, as the author of them) a 'Mem, which hail grown with their growth, and hien strengthened with their strength—a system, of %ditch matiy, trho mow heard him, bad been victims frum their very birth, which Wit already struck at the vitals of the , Coustitution, and which, if continued, would he at lance the cause and wituess of its dissolution. In ; Wolfing er the protests of some of these Nob!e Peers, it IVA% in.iic.rnc Its observe that one of them was actually signed by the last ereeted Peer, who had obtained that ills incti..n fur shooting a eerteiti nuns her of tan ney naheil tenons ins the other side of the tropic. That protest was also signed by a Royal Bow all this light, tvlsielt had failed to illu minate lord Liverpool and Lord Eldon, the framers of the Bill, bail !truck only upon this Noble Lord, and the litsyal !hike who had signed this, anal lie be lieved every other protest, no matter haw imiinsistent their contents, it was difficult to conceive_ They had valibitittl a fearless anal uuslieerimiesding anent its slp-• lug protests, to which the framers of the 11111 them • selves were ashamed or unwilling to put their hands. They might protest, if they pleased; but fortunately their protest had n.it the same effect as the protests of the people. The people of England hail done honour to themselves, and saved the Illustrious Individual, who not o n ly tli4mitied her station, but grieril human nature itself. Notwithstanding all the efforts which they bail nook continued, even greater exertions , were still required at their hands, and he entreated them not to relax. One of the schemes of the pre- ! sent Ministers W4l to •an a race against time. They thought to tire the people out; but he trusted the people would convince them, that it was only of there and their n ...mires that they were heartily tired. Ile (31r. Iltdilionse) entirely couctirred in the sentiments expressed in the Petition to the Ring. He detested null abhorred the present Ministers from the b o rrow of Isis .0111 ; and if he did not detest them., lie should think himself naming in those honest and patriotic feelings, which ought to animate the hermit of every matt who wished well to his eountry.--(Cmas' tiuued a pplause.)—To them the country was indebted for the intrthen of 600 millions of debt--t.. them I bey , were indebted fur two millions of paupers--tu them they owed a standing army of V 4.000 men, a ereater army than that v 'which the Duke of Marlborough was enabled to humble the power of Fraser. almost tat carry his victorious 'teethed. to the gates of Paris,-- ,N. to them they were indebted for the invasion of their best rights and privileges, fur the destruction of all those domestic comforts for which Englishmen were once distinguished, and for the introduction of an or trollied kind of spies, paid by secret service money to !sprout the comforts of the people, for it was a fiset that the people paid no less than 140,000/. a-year to be themselves betrayed.---(Applause.)---These were a few ! of the item , in the score which the people ofl England would at no distant day set np in the, face of the Ministers. Before concluding he would make one or two observations with reference to his worthy collea g ue, the verdict against whom they who administered justice in this country had thought fit this day to confirm. (Cries of " shame !") He would only say, that in the better days of Euglish juris-1 pro le• .e the ease set up against his worthy col league woul I have been scouted from that Cosa is which it tww found a willing reception. When diet distinguished individual first heard of the verdict' ! against him, his observation was, " all I can say that I hope it will tend to the public good." He had no doubt that he would have received the decision of i the King's Bench with the same feelings, and that for the rake of the people of England, he was resolved to hear whatever persecution might be heaped upon hie bead, with the same undaunted spirit which he hail ever manifested in their cause. With respect to that part of the petition which prayed for a change in the, Administration of the country, he thought the condi tion of the people too desperate to derive any inate-! vial benefit from a change of Ministry, without a total change of system. 'flies.. were not times to con ceal from themselves the real state of the country. It was the duty of the people to be tranquil, but. idea ; and if in the struggle which wound inevit ably result from a perseverance in the present sys tem. blood should be spilt, let it he npon the *steads of these who were the real cause of theii ilesperatilin. He would speak his mind at all risks and hazards, and even the fate of his distinguished colleague should sot deter him from boldly speakiug Isis sentiments at a I times and in all places. Ile had not the boniest' of a personal acquaintance with Lord tirey, Lord Lateelo and the other distinguished persons who had named as likely to form an able and efficient Ailminie tration ; but lie had too much respect for them to nisb to see them, under existing eircuinstanges, occupying the places of the present Ministy. lie would apply to thesis what Mr. Pitt said in the year 175.1, that under the present system, no Minister could do any good, oe could in fact come into Administration, without be c • x a bad Minister. Without a Reform in Parliael went, no good could result truest a change of Adminis tration. At the same time, if Lord Urey, with all his distinguished talents, rendered still more conspicuous by the part which lie had taken in thee late proceedings, came into power with a sincere desire of effecting that Reform, he hail no doubt that a reformed Atituinistra tiou, headed by Noblemen, might still save the coun try, and such an Administration should receive all the support which be was capable of giving it. He con elniled by again exhorting the Meeting not to relax in tarir exertions to protect the Queen against the perse vering toalevolence of her persecutors. That Mettle, adjourned at half-past eight. DIERTINO OF ALDERSOATE WARD. Yesterday, a meeting of the inhabitant household- era of the above Ward was held in the Dispensary, in Aldersgate-strect, to address her Majesty on her recent ' triumph over the proceedings against her. The chair was taken at one o'clock by R. A. Cox, Esq., Alder man, attended by his deputy. The requisition was then read, after which the Wor thy Alderman stated the object fur which the ward mote was held. He observed that it might he nece.- sar for Lion t.o state why he had so long delayed to Call the late meeting. The requisition then was as respectably signed as the present was; but he ball kept the former by him, as the proceedings were then pending, and evidence was adducing against the Qne.n. A sense of propriety, therefore, induced him to petiole before he called the wardmote. The ws►inert, however, that the evidence for the prosecution closed, he hail attended to the requisition, he had read all the evidence, not indeed with the eye of a lawyer, but with ■ll the dispassionate and scrutinous aotention of which he was capable, and his candid con viction was, that not one single instance had been proolneed, which ougut to make the least impression a►;ainst the Queen. He must own, in justice to the Wu •d, that be was verb• much prejudiced against the Queen when she rattle home last summer, because he heard so many accounts respecting her alleged impro prieties, that be w•as convinced there must he some foundation for them. The evidence adduced against 1 her was so defective, that in his opinion it was a vie ' teal acquittal of the Queen. The evidence for her had don very little good, and might perhaps have as w•:II been omitted altogether. lie was fully satisfied •of her Innocence, because he really expected some thing of a wore satisfactory nature would have re toothed from mit powerful exertions and malignity. He, therciore, hail now convened the present meeting, having received a most respectably signed requisition on the _►d of November, and feeling it was his date, in every such case, to sacrifice private opinion to public duty. Mr. Cottiewr then rose to move the ilesolocions. He regretted very much that the cause load not fallen into abl •r hands, and also that persons living in the parish, and posseastul of respectable talents, should he deficient in coming forward on public or-casino's, He therefore had laboured under much embarrassment, ......___ _ . from which be had happily, in . • degree, been re lieved by the able address of their Worthy Alder man. He had likewise some pleasure in romping forward, whets he recollected th it by so doing t e meeting was agreeing with the constituted moth°. . rities of the country. Public peace and public pros-, perity were always sure of being prmuoted n hen the people acted in unison with the Constitti:i•ol Au , thurities. The last time be addressed them, titer i lied been assembled to 1.,* , ress their con•bilenre with her Majesty ; and they bad then most solemnly pledged themselves to see her through all diflietil ties. It was but fair that those who had fought in the itielil should enjoy the triumph. This was, indeed, de nies! to be irietory by the enemies of the Queen ; hut their majority was only nine, and therefore its despair the 411 , , , 0 lii L , 1 Hill was relinquished. The character of E nv liehmen was marked by some warmth, but t 'aw ful-tit that the cause of such warmth erased, then En. lisitneen forgave and forgot. In vain, howeyrr, did Ministers suppose that the people would at lenzth come tired of tits Queen's business ; for, on the CO. tram•, the ardour of the public scented every day to increase with tenfold energy. I,ly then► it was said that the King could do no wrong, while their conduct ,hewed them to be of one opieton, that the Quee n could 411.) no right. She was vilified f.tr accepting th e hospitsbie "tier of Mr. Alderman Wood, though no residence had been patvided for her. sow, when she was coming to St. Paul's to offer her thanks to the Almighty, her motives were misrepresented, and he-- self charged with wishing to collect a mob. Even in this latter instance the usual r..strictions were to he evaded, and every inducement held out fo► the rom siii?sion of riot. In such circumstances, it was their duty to be vigilant, anti not permit such malignant efforts t.f succeed. He conclmiesl by moving a series of Resolutions, which, being seconded by the D e p ut y of the Ward, were mianititot sly agreed to, as was also an Address to the Queen. The Alderman then read a notice he had received from the Lord Mayor, respecting special constables, and he strongly urged the propriety of the inhabitants immediately coming forward to enroll their names. A considerable number signed their names as spe cial constables for protecting the public peace on Wednesday (tmtnorrow.) The Meeting, after thanks to the Alderman, who declared his intention to proceed with the address, was then dissolved in the usual manner. MEETINO PARISH IW ST. BOTOLPH WITHOUT, ALDOATE, Yesterday afternoon a very numerous and reepeeta ble Meeting of the inhabitants of the above Parish was held in the Vestry Room, Nightingale-lane, I.er. silent to a Requisition signed by upwaris of ferrety of the inhabitants, to take intu consideration a Con gratulatory Address to the Queen, on her Ide tn. umph. and to adopt such other Resolutions as miell 'but thought necessary. *Mr. J. J. lisattut, the l'pper lhu chwarden, was unanimously called to the Chair. The CHAIRMAN then stied forward, and addressed the Meetink in an elan neat speech. He was happy in ItaviLg the pleasure of to •eting so numerous and res pectable a hotly of pe sons, more particularly on inch a glorious co casion as the 'present, that of pre envie,' her injured M tjesty *lib a dutiful and con ger nla ry Address un'the victory she had achiev ed . ver the most wicked conspiracies that ever die; race' the annals of British Ilistory—(Applause;. He hen Averted to her Majesty's ceasing to Englani . , and eco dng the sponse of the then Prince of Wales. Scar ely, Aivid he, hal she been united in the bones of wentoce, before she became, as it were, a widow ; happily she became the mother of a child ; she then hoped that she would he loved by her husband ; but alas! her -anticipations were blunted, (load cries of " shame, !"), wad she was driven from Eng land, pursued by spies and informers, and whilst/he was exploring foreign antiqnities, her wished hemil! ere were heaping scandal and infamy upon her Royel Person (shame !). But unseen band has ever gnat& eel female innocence from foul traducer?, wicked hunt bnuds, and perjured witnesses. He would mai* attention el the Meeting to the day that the lid charges against the Queen were brought before the House of Peers. The heavens declared its anger by the heavy peals of thunder and vivid flashes of light ning that came front above : and at the dose of the vile proceedings, the great eclipse of the dismal day partially hid the beauties of the sun from the laud. lie Loped that the day would soon arrive, that Eng land would demand her Majesty's name to he placed in the prayers of the church again (applause), even by 'flute cowardly vermin that canted it to he erased, sad thereby disgraced our duffel'. 'flies, very wretches still dray our Queen a palace; but notwith. standing site it triumphant over them. He then eott (l, by loping that any of the Gentlemen who wished to address the Meeting might have a patient hearing. Mr. WRITE came forward, and read a string of Resolutions, on which the athletes was founded, and ill strong terms censured the conduct of Ministers for intro.:tieing such a wretched proceeding as the Bill of Pains and Penalties, against an innocent sad hitherto unprotected female (the listeen of England). who hail been deserted, and vilely persecuted by hired spies anti periuresi witnesses.--(Sibante, sliame.)--He then referred to the Douglas's, who endeavoured , with all art and villainy, to degrade and persern'e her Majesty, but fum which she was protected by our late noneh.belored Monarch, her father-in-law; hot scarcely hail he been consig ned to the grave when th e foulest insults were again heaped on her. and she Ira° left frientiless.--(Shauie !)—He then adverted to the Italian witnesses, Majocchi, Madame Peneout, fern. would ask if any snch witnesses had been broad t agaiwd any prisoner at the Old Baikv, What would hay:. been their doom? May the sun in the Owen' cease to shin? If the shores of England should igabl be polluted with such witnesses ! Re then conclude , ' by moring that an :Wilmot of Cangratalation, (used' eel un the rervilnti,vis he bad read, be l resealed to bet Majesty. (Loud Applause.) Me. Roes, in an impressive speech, :.::ceeded th. resoln.ions. Mr. M proposed a Vote of hanks 4164 ,Amer Ilamiltou, and oats seconded by Mr. rarpos:• Sr. ALnaasnx proposed a vote of that'll to 11 _,. 1r * Alderman Wood, f..r hi s i n d e p ous i gu e wa ded throw out the shill, of the prorrerlings. Mr. ATtityroN proposed a rote of thank. W Cli tirres.in, for hi. r tact in the Chair. 1 hr Ctistituss: returned !haulm The resolution' ;vire &overalls. put, and esn iej without Any dissentient tithe ; and an addrrss agreed te. S I beentifal and well-dr.R.ed females ors Pmrat• The Ilreting hrekr np about three t ithe*. The vessel in whirl, Ur. Keau fres fib' pis!! fur Anket:llls CNI o rienced very teutteetnells ther olf the coast of I rrlasol, which se elikrol 4 Kean, that she has either Landed in SNOW. aid ' Itran ha' proceeded to the (;tested St 3loll wit " be I. I si • Li 1 1 1 I 1 il Al