The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-03-07 00:00:00

ri t 11 . r f . c • -. 1 • /• . --nasiiisa.s - 7:1.671 - r —-- - r - -- - - "''' --An -...._ —_ _ s. _.. • THE ST AI'ESMAN• . ItIOT IN PALACE YARD. uslaw . • , STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONK (MU:Malin. The dseellingshouse of Mr. RoateSOfe, the in • and the great landowners say, if you permit us to -, PRICE (IV 1 Lette.Ami. —. olo .—_. Batik starve the people into one prices, and to keep up 3 per Cent. Ned. India Bonds 5 6 p traducer of the Bill, in Burlington-street, was et- _ s . w e lament to state, that several outrages were co of you to pick their -t per Cent. C0a5..631 u s eti . eesser bins 1 4 p tour high rents, ne will suffertacked with the utmost fury, and every thing Yalu. milted last night at the entrance of the House o f cents. • I Ornate= pockets as much as vou please:'—[Loud cries of 1 I I Consuls for Ace. 6•ls 4 able in it destroyed. The Earl of Dinette's house • Commons aga i nst those Members who hare . ' Bravo, bravo !]— Mr. Thompson contended , that 5 ppeerr 'er Cent. Navy there was no necessity for the proposed alterations, ! for if free importation reduced the rents it would l' HE STATESMAN.-- they also assailed with equal violence, and the Lord ported the Corn Bill. The crowd in old Pal ace. , CHANCELLOR'S and Lord Etteenoneuett's were like yard, which in the early part of the night did „ t . 1 „.. ill 1 every thing else in proportion ; but there should he also a public reduction of our expences. Ile did 1 --e - - • wiseconsiderably injured bytheir fury. This we under- exceed six or seven hundred in number, increased to several thousands about ten o ' c l oc k , andsto p , not speak of a trifling reduction, but a great one : LONDON: stand was the case in every other part of the town pedl.------- the Members as they approached in their car. • he hoped, too, that his Royal Highness the Prince • Regent would now come forward and reduce his TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1815. *here the assailants appeared. riages, for the purpose of ascertaining wilies er * Bill— 1 1 ° income, which bad been so much increased in --me-- We are SO pressed for room, in order to give place i they were the friends or opponents of th e consequence of the former dearness of provisions : Westminster has been in motion all this day, and his debts had been paid over and over, but now to the particulars of these proceedings, that we can. 1 The former were hooted, hissed, and iii sever!! • • crowds have been pressing from all quarters towards not eater i nto a recapitulation of what occurred in ' instances prevented by violence from ente r i ng the I that bread and cheese were cheap,—[a laugh]—he hoped we should have no more such debts to pay. — ; Pa lace-yard since morning. The whole of the-arena the Houses of Parliament, beyond saying, that this house of Commons. Some were exposed t o t h e •t i Ile had the same hopes from the Queen, and the in front of the houses of parliament, and theadjaceet grossest indignities, and the populace, not cost , 4 other branches of the Royal Family, who received ,streets were filled before twelve o'clock. At one the much deprecated Bill was read a third time ' after a , I with reviling them in the most abusive Linguag el SMU large incomes from the country. These had also long discussion, and after Petitions had been pre- t the business of the Meeting to considet the subject attempted by threats to compel them to vote as they ,The been much increased. aid be hoped they would now of the Corn Bill, and the necessity of petitioning sented against it (in one night), bearing signatures to 1 The doors of three caress were forced The • • s be reduced. Mr. Thompson then spoke at con- . it 1 ia ul the number of above three hundred thousand.— in, and one was completely wrested fro m • h against commenced.Nei. ' wished. i ' Rio it 1 siderable length on the mysterious manlier in whic • this Bill teas hurried through the House, and then I Mr. k were . &ream stated its object, and proposed the. Among those which held a conspicuous ran I Mr. Croker, the 'Secretary to the Admiralty, was one of the Members who prinripilly suffered •; Ng t• rire, l aer adverted tow hat he termed the . greet cause of all Resolutions. In doing this, he descanted largely and Petitions from the Merchants, Bankers, arid Traders 1 1 carriage door was burst open, he was seized by the _ - the mils of the country, the want of a radical re- forcibly on the ruinous, unjust, and dangerous ten- • of the City of London, from Manchester, Glasgow, collar, and commanded to tell ass name, anti the fo.rn is Par l iament ;if t hi s did not take place, he •• dency of the proposed measure; and in the course Birmingham, Chatham, Rochester, Leicester, Not- I , side on which he Wended . to vote. Tt.is, however, . niuhiteined that evils would flow on them until the , of his observations that as a. roof of the light tiugham, Derby, Southampton, Newcastle, Bolton,', he re f use d t o d o , and was only preserved from farther . Constitution was destroyed ; that reform alone' stated, P . It I • I - le Plymouth, Wakefield, Northampton, Soutliwnr , , eioletice ty lice aggressorequerre ing among latest. Mild save it from destruction. He concluded, lin which many of the farmers themselves regarded it, Wards amidst the acclamations of the Meeting, by moving, I and the little relief they exPected from it, he would and a long list of other places, and several . , 9 .... selves when he succeeded in effecting his e,c a pp,„:. T. . I I •T he rallying ery of the populace was—" No Cora • a strifes of Resolutions: The Resolutions expressed l read to the Meeting the copy of a petition against it, and Parishes in the Metropolis and the vicinity.— Bill it and the disturbances at one torte threatened great sorrow at seeing the.extraorditsary hurry with . r signed by four thousand farmers in the county of That from Manchester and its neighbourhood was 'the most serious consequenses, %Shia were, however, Salt which the Bill was cart ied. through the House of ' Commons; the apprehension of the many evils which Essex. stated in the House of Lords to have 52,000 names I appily pre , e „s e a b y t h e arr i va l of two strong de. Bei •dre, would result from it, and the determination of th e Major V —ARTWRioitT seconded the Resolutions, affixed to it. achments of the Horse-Gourds. vale , • The Speaker being hammed by the Members who A I R ' Meeting, that if the Bill should pass both Houses, Riad Mr. Alderman Woon followed. They warTlitY Pressed as we are for room, we cannot refrain from entered the House from time to time of the riotous Brass they would address the Printe Regent, and My inveighed against the Bill, and recommended a perse- directing particular attention to the admirable speech I d oors, ant of t he personal insults conduct withont I • i that lie might not give his satiction to it. verance in petitioning—if this should fail, the whole of Sir GILBERT IIEATIICOTE, which we are enabled I t h ey hnd sustained, made a formal' application for ' 11It.Taniten seconded the Resolutions. He was 1111 ( country ought to exert its constitutional privilege of (from personal attendance) to give more' correctly I the interference of the military. The first detach: - eery, sorry that the task of seconding and supporting reeresentinz to his R Royal Highne.s the necessity of than the Morning Prints. The causes of the evils : meat reached the spot about- a gnarter-past ten, at I thenidiffSiot fall on some gentleman more competent • •-• ' than We has to perform-it ; he; however , should not dissolving Parliament, and of withholding his . which now afflict and menace this country, and the 'l i lac which time the multitude was little short of 10 000 , • . Guards iminediatioy proceeded to disperse Oen, 1 seriek from it, as he was convinced that it required Royal assent to the intended law. This proceed- only remedy of which they will now admit, a ar s iandwith the ' fthe second • no great eloquence or argument to prole the evil ten- log, on the part of the persons who were called there set forth with the discrimination of a States- ' shortly afterwards arrived, Old Palace-yard and drucy ortheltlill, to petition against which they had the Representatives of the people showed mote man , and the fearless ardour of a Patriot. the line *of ground from the said cif : Whitehall Zvi • nssf-mbled. The people of -this country had been than any thing else • the necessity of 'lt Reform ai-i , through Parliament-street were completely c l eare d • taxed beyond measure or precedent, their blood and Lord Csorteter tau appeared in his place, and , e ,ree. in parliament . The speakers earnestly entreated the . before eleven o'clock. Daring this task, in the axe - Isla - 1 . , treasure had been exhausted to supiffirt a horne t , estructive ,spoke and voted in favour of 80sf being the pro- I i cation of which the di ffi culty of distinguishing the ha- and untietewary war, hut they had all this in e their opposition to res tful but poputaue to confin pee . tecting pots. On the subject of his mission to ' • Gen guilty from the'innocelit must have been very great, I') the expectation that peace and its attendant plenty firm remonstrances. We observed - a oeiversal mani- Vienna, his Lordship showed.as much unwillingness I it i 5 to be feared that several mast have severely se& toill tihar It would at length put an end to the burdens ;but scarce- festation of a strong feeling of detestation and in- to answer questions as any of his dumb Colleagues. ' fared. Clll ly had the din of war ceased, while }et the fields of dignation at the mention of this obnoxious 834.; A regular motion must be made before his Lordship i The alarm spread through the interior of the • the Continent were moist with oar blood, and fo- and though there is much reason to apprehend such a House was at one period extreme. It was reported , reigners were enjoying the fruits of oar mss-spent will condescend to enter into detail. multitude will not disperse to their respective homes that the population was 20,000 strong, and that treasure, than the Minister hinted his intention of ' without committing some outrage, considerable order . continuing the Property Tax.. The p aple assembling in every. part • of, the kingdom raised their voices reigned at the time we left the scene. - We shall get the rest of the ballad some day or multitude vies so great that it was apprehendmithe • i against this, and he was obliged to give it up. Next Sir FRANCIS BURDETT was on the hustings, and other, iron gates, which had been closed about eight o'clock:, 1 the'great landowner came forth, and making a tool we were assured would deliver his sentiments against - it 4a-: admitted in all hands, that the Speaker manifested a dignity and coltil i tie %., 1 of the farmer, endeavoured to lay on us the worst of all taxes—a • tat en the.bread of the poor man.— the Bill before the meeting broke up. (2 o'clock.) • Yesterday, at 12 o'clock. Viscount r ....Atrt.tREAGII • worthy in every respect of the high shuttle', W IL T : i--....—. -- . [Loud app l ause. ] — B u t lie earnestly hoped that the had a long audience of the PRINCE REGENT. • I DESTRUCTION OF MR. ROBINSON'S HOUSE. • ' people would also raise their voice against that All power of description is now insufficient to The QUEEN, Princesses ELIZABETH and MARY, I While the riot was quelled steer ' the House of i measure, and he hail no doubt but it would be at- convey an adequate idea of the effects of that -un- are espected i n t o w n t o - morrow , f or a f ew d a y s . --Commons, it broke out ra another quieter with e • tended with the same success.—[(tear, hear, hear!) I d'ff in • • between the people and iappy i erence opinion - fury the greater as it found no resistance. it op. Mr. Parker then went on to prove that it was idle. • pears that a party finding every attempt - to ittsult and t Y the Legislature of this country to which the Corn hirers of Birmingham, attended Lord MULGRAYE at , • to suppose that it e could grow so much corn as : intimidate the Members rendered unavailing by the it' , would render us completely independent of foreign Bill has given rise. Never was the necessity on the the _gourd of Ordnance to remonstrate against the prophsed new establishment of an Armorial Foundery ; , ' exertions of the Horse separa ted f the Guards, ' countries, and that if we 440% , shut our markets part of the Government of attending to the respect- at Waltham Abbey, in Esser, which, in their opi- ' body a 4, I proceededquietly and i s small mult- i main ( 1 , against-fareivi corn, we should not be able to pro- ful representations of the subjects more apparent than . i hers to Burtingtouestreet, for the purpose of at- . ' care it at a time when a dearth at home might snake it has now become. Members may well say, that if • nion, must prove ruinous to t housands of workmen T tacking the house of the Right Honourable F. J. tr,tr us most in want of it. lit the extensive rennofacturing districts, in and around tart once the respect due to the House should cease or bewithout producing any national all: Birmingham, Robinson, the • proposer of .the Corn Bill. —i Lot Mr. GIIIYIITH then begged leave to say a few Uterine mustered about the centre of the street, • diminished, the Houses themselves would soon de- vantage to compensate for the deprivation of so lar ge , n, words. lie should not have obtruded himself on the The / and not amounting -at their arrival to . attere than generate into a part of the mob. who impugn their a class of people of their customary employ. fleeting, hut to remark on what he conceived fifty or sixy, one (we understand a persim well Gentlemen thus deputed were accompanied on this ' QV thegreat inconsistency between the Petition of the decisions. This respect, however, let us say, can • Y I occasion ry the Members for the counties of Warrcick . dressed) was selected to ascertain the residence of , City of Loudon an d the conduct of its Represen. only be obtained by corresponding respectful atten- d S an d /afford. Mr, Robinson. He knocked at the door, and being Olives. The Petition prayed that no alteration Owls on the part of those claiming it to the parties On Thursday last, a most respectable and numer- informed [het Mr. Robinson was not at home, C it whatever should be made in the Corn Laws, while who think it is their doe and that it is withheld from he continued for a short time in conversation le A ons Meeting of the inhabitants of Newcastle-upon-their Representatives in the House of Commons them.with the servant The deliberative ' fPa t o the Legislature, we wanted to insist on 7 25. Ile conceived that in this , ,- r Tyne, was held nt the Town-hall, to consider of the concerted signet being I bluish to say, is now arive,n to the desperate necessity projected Corn Bill, a. given, the others rushed in the Members did not speak the sense of their Con- B. Sensate, Esq. the Mayor, in i and proceeded to the work of devestatteete The Ilf stituents tier any part of them. [Hear!] T h e of calling in the aid of military forte to protect its the Chair, who stated the object of the Meeting in a t demolition of the furniture- occupied Mitt mere t Coin Bill tended (he observed) to benefit a few iti. Members from insult, and its sanctuaries, w hi c h very concise and impartial manner., WM. AIM. 93 ,., . than an hour. Glasses, tebles, c h a i n bedsteads, elividuals %hike materially injured the great majority ought ever to be held sacred to order, from outrage rreotee, Esq. moved a Whig of Resolutions I ' bedding, china, books, and papers of every de- via eel of the people.—Nlear, hear.]—lt was an e ff ort on and confusion. Those decisions, which ought ever against any alterations in the existing Corn : scription were all sacrificed to the ravages of the tat their part to put the nation on short allowance, that LAWS, in a speech, replete with argument and L n , ol). T P. hey bad in that short Alme at to inspire confidence and beget esteem, now unhapo sr they, the landowners, might enrich themselves.—good sense, and he was seconded by A. EASTER. their number to seven or eight hundred' and they 9 t lie had conversed with several farmers on the sub- pity require the assistance of armed power toobtain B y, E s q. both of whom were received with loud and exercised their rage w' h st.. t the slightest iteteerup- a I int, who all agreed that it was immaterial to them for them that respect and obedience which their nature reiterated acclainations. The Rev. Mr. BENSON lion, without du; ' Ilest 'cheek and by their con. .b I 1 whether importation were restricted or not, if their should command, and a loyal people readily give. moved an amendment to the effect of moderating the fidence they seem convinced that they should have I'l rents were lowered, and yet landowners said that the This was and the policy' orthose measures 'restricting price, which was seconded by T. 9 BATES, no resistance to enconeter. The windows were forced foreseen, i- lowering of the rents would not relieve the farmer.— which h ave Esq. but it appearing that the latter Gentleman was occasioned this desperate recourse, so into the street and the doors broken. This horrible i —Bear, be Griffith concluded by recom- not an inhabitant of the town, lie was objected ter, a l'el in unison with the t 1 e naure of our Constitution scene lasted,for nearly an hour and a half , and der. mending to the Meeting, if the Bill should be passed I and the Mayor decided against him. Mr. JOSEPH Mg the perpetration of these deplorable excesses ncr by the Lords and Commons, to apply in a respect- and that harmony and confidence which ought ever Ca sax then addressed the Meeting, and called upon - attempt was made either by the civil or mi,itary .4 ful manner to th e Prince Regent. They sh o uld to subsist between the people and the Legislature, is any Gentleman present, who was disposed to second 1 • power•to repress them. 4 , ketosis at his door and implere his interference. hence made evidelit beyond the power or necessity of the amendment, to come forward *tad do so. No The Earl of D en. y' tome they assailed with I A young Gentleman, whose name we could not words to express. The scenes which took place last person, however, coming forward, Mr. Cr.ear con- . equal violence; and, strange to say , those of the •t, s tinned, and, in n speech -of considerable team coma forward, and in a u able speech supported night in the n • neighbourhood, and ..within the very length , Lord Chancellor and Lord Ellenborough,• the i argued in favour of the Resolutions, which were car.l the Resolutions ; he contended, that it was the true walls of Parliament, as well as in various quarters of viedunanimously I q acclamation, the usual votes of former in Bedford - square, the latter in St. James's- .t 1 interest of the landowners themselves to oppose t hesquare (although neither of those Noblemen the town, are sufficiently indicative of the popularity th an k s were t h en , Bill, for it would. reduce their expences in a greaterpassed, and the meeting adjourned. have yet spoken upon the of II Corn subjectte proportion than it would their rents. . of the measure now- in progress to raise th e p r i c e o f Yesterday the cr ow d s p ress i ng t o th e Mansion- La ws) were also attacked, and considerably . I : Mr. P ATTENT supported the Resolutions, and bread. As early- as three o'clock all the avenues to house were/such as to baffle description. Thousands injured. Soon after they had commenced their argued against the Bill on the grounds, that if our the Houses were filled up by people brought to. who could not hear the press were obliged to retire assault upon the house of Lord Ellenborough, his without signing. At one o'clock the signatures j manufacturers were obliged (as they would be be 1 get( on the occasion of the Cora Bill, who took .ordship, in the most intrepid manner, presented this Bill) to pay double for bread, they would never amounted to GO 000. r himself at the door, and enquired the cause of the occasion to express their opinion of the measere, be able to stand the foreign market against those DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—Last night some consi- outrages thus committing open his deviling' The supporters, t . countries which were endeavouring to rival them i n and the conduct of its in terms very dir- derable disappointment was experienced at this reply was, " No Corn Bill, no corn Bill!' on 4 trade. ferent from those used in the respectful language of Theatre. The Tragedy of Richardthe Second, which which his Lordship addressed them in a few words, I , The Resolutioes were then put and carried anani- Petitioners to Parliament. Their numbers soon in- has not been performed for so many years, was an. the purport of which we have not heard, but the er- a mously. creased to a formidable assembly, where order and flounced with considerable promise, both with re- fect was that the mob soon departed. w 1 Mt. Penaen then read a Petition founded on the g Resolutions, after which g ood behaviour could not well be expected to coati- earl to the cast and the accompaniments. The part of Richard was allotted to Mr. K cur nue long. The most alarming tumults then began to • broke was to have beets sustained b N , and Boling- The lamented death of the young . Doke of Down` y .Ir. Lt.eisroe ; is the third fatal loss which has been sustained by ... Mr. Le Mntree said, he could not give his entire prevail. The manner in which many Of the Members • t I assent to the Petition as it did not go the lengths which I ' of Parliament were treated will be found described this Gentleman , booster , was suddenly taken ill, three illustrious families from hooding within ft few and, its I the Resolutions did in praying for Reform in Perl- consequenc e , the performance was postponed years, viz. the Marquis r I o. 'fAYISTOCK, Lord 11Ioes - r- -1 ment, which he contended at some length was ( lie by themselves in the report of the business of the —Macbeth was substituted, and went off well. STUART, and the promising yeast Nobleman whose s,. t great cause of all our burdens. :After a short speech from Mr. Weithman in sup- : Houses. —They were stopped, questioned. as COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.—Last night the play to their votes, maltreated, and bandied about like of the Virgin of the Sun was revived at this theatre. existence was so unfortunately terminated a days since in the chats near Dublin. • few • • , ! 4 • . IN. . port of the Resolutions,- and a few words in reply ' shuttle-cocks between battle -dores. Some et them, No alteration has taken place with respect to the ___ • 141 from Mr. Thompson, the P e titi on was adopted. ' t who are no great favourites with the public, but for. characters, with the exception of the part of Amatili, The • MARRIED. \ 4th inst. at West num, Essex, Thomas Fossils, Em. of ~ 1 i Thanks were then voted to the Chairman and the ' tunately - for themselves were not personally known, which was performed for the fi rst time by Miss STE- Basinghall-street, Lontlo,t, to Miss Ettphein Fair, the youngeft 't • , Churchwardens. I tress. Both she an d M r . S INCLAIR were very sac- ran imminent risks of their lives. The pe ace o ffi cers daughter of tate late Mr. Fail, or Colinshurgh, Flit-shire. $ I cessful in the execution of the fine songs with which '1 . I being unable tO quell the rioters, the were men. • -,‘ A duel was fought on Friday morning in Ken- i rolled to the spot. While disorderly military the piece is interspersed. Mr. Youen sustained the The 3rl inst. at her stephew's, Richard Hem*, Esq. Bit- • 1 , ..... gingen Gardens, between Captain MAYNE and 8 Mr. FLETCHER. A dispute, respecting a female,' ings were going on in the neighbourhood of par. crowded. th e itev..lo:,n Mapleton. Feb. YB, Robert, the infant son ofinhn Power, Esq. Muck- , i led to the rencontre. Happily no blood was shed liament, divisions of infuriated men proceeded to ley, surgeon to the Dukes of Kent and C om bri f ise. 9 BREAD. —The LORD MAYOR, after inspecting the / end the parties after war d s b rea kf aste d together at th e different parts of the town t o a ssa il t h e h ouses o f mealwe i ghers returns ordered m price • of breAti •o - ' ---- s ----- ' ----------- - - --- ss --- . Z--------- ; Cloncester Coffee-itonse. i s uch Mre embers as they considered friendly t o th e C u t belowered Id. in the peck loaf. i lON DON • Printed amid Pohlisheil. by D. 91.0TRA,4 at re . . . ' . • STATESMAN OirTICS, 87, Fleet-sirtet. ' . . • . . .• --T---.......4 ....., . • . . 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