The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-12-29 00:00:00

p istening to the sentiments which the Ministers had tolled forth throughout the kingdom, lie would cordi-1 ally vote for any address that might be proposed. Not believing that likely to be the case, he must still record his disapproval of the measure. Mr. Suswa, of Skew., rose, and said he hail'so much conviction that there was a private intention to' support ministers by means of the address, that he was determined to oppose it. That at a meeting of the county some tints ago the Laird Lieutenant had, in the most handsome manner, declared, that there was the utmost loyalty and tranquillity in this part of the country, and that so meeting like the present was necessary. Did his lordship mean to say that lie had slow altered his opinion, ardd that we were now disaf fected and in a state of rebellion? For himself be hail the 'strum loyalty and attachment to the throne, and, so far as that went, there was not a man more ready than himself to express it; but at present, he saw no necessity for such a measure nor such a meet- 1 in4—(Applause)—; and unless the address should bear to be confined to the Royal Family alone, he would oppose it. He was always ready and willing to support the just and constitutional prerogatives of the King, and was well satisfied of the blessings we en joyed under our free and happy constitution, if pro perly administered ; but he would never consent, by a side %hod, to give a possibility to Minister, to say, that be approved of their conduct, which he thought no man either did or eould.—(Applause.) Mr. Maus's, asked why it could be supposed the Address was intended to support Ministers: He had already said the reverse was the case. Mr. SaaNc said the Address itself was sufficient to convince him of the intention. He asked what ores- Sioo was there for an Address at all ? A gond deal had been said about blasphemy and sedition : he had heard from one end of the country to the other in a very dif ferent strain, and condemning Ministers: anal it was evidently the object of the present one, by a side ind, to counteract, if possible, the effect of the others. —(Applaue.) Lord Foiiiies again explained that the Address was confined to the Throne, and could have no effect in supporting Ministers, whose conduct he by no means wished to touch upon. But he did think, that when sedition and blasphemy were stalking abroad— Mr. Sucxx.--My Lord, I am much obliged to you. You have now let out the secret.---(firrat applause).— Your Address is not to the Throne, hut to Ministers, against whom any discontent that dues exist is di rocted. Lord Fir,nEs again explained. Mr. 31eNstas also spoke again. Mr. SkENC said he was unwilling to trespass fur- tier on the time of the Meeting : he could only say, ti..it he considered any Address at all to be perfectly w.ue::essary. Hut, if it must be voted and sent, he lield in his hand another Address, which he hened I •are to propose as an amendment. He then moved the following Address—(Much approbation :) IVe. your 3lajesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the lobleto+•n, Deputy Lieutenants, Justices of the Peace, and Commissioners of Supply of the county of Aberdeen, approach your Majesty with renewed as surances of attachment to your Majesty's person and to the Constitution of these realms. " While deeply impressed with these sentiments, and determined upon all occasions to afford support to the stability of the Throne, we cannot, without re gret, contemplate the sentiments of dissatisfaction ex pressed bye large proportion of your Majesty's sub jects, nor refrain from stating to your Majesty our st jab to avoid any expression that might he construed into an approval of the measures adopted by your Ma jesty's Ministers, whidi have produced a sensation in the ',labile mind deeply to be deplored by all iv:10 are impressed with those feelings of loyalty and devotion which we never cease to entertain to your Majesty's august person, and to the laws and liberties of the conutry."—(Gre..t applause.) Major HAY said, that after the clear and able 1111111- ter in which his friend Mr. Slone, had expressed hint sit, be considered it untie, y fur him to say much iu secondin: the amendment His loyalty to his :sovereign, and attachment to the Constitution, he wunid venture to say, was equal to that of any man in the country : and he hoped that the constitution wetild yet long flourish, notwithstanding the late itabads which Lad been made upon it.--(Applause.) Mr. Messtas proposed to divide the house. Mr. SIILMIL" Before dividing, I wish to ask, is the amendment objected to?" Mr. Mavens — " I certainly object to it ; I mean I would object to it." Mr. FRAOCR i of Inverallochy, said, that he was sure the vote would decide whether there was a necessity ler addressing, and which of the addresses should be adopted. He said something about "no allusion to politics," and regretted that the 111111. lientleman should disturb the unanimity of the meeting. The meeting then divided, when there appeared-- For the original Address..9l For the emenduient..l4 Majorjty 77. . Each of the votes for amendment was loudly cheered, and the annonnoeMent of *the division received with much disapprobation. SaKwa. protested against the derision, and would state his sentiments afterwards in writing. Ile trusted that, in future, when the Lord Lieutenant, or convener of the county, called meetings, on the re quisition of gentleman, they would publish the names of the requisitionists, that it might be seen who and what they were. Lord HUSTLY complimented the convener, and raid his opinion was still the same with regard to the loyalty and peaceable conduct of this district. He said he himself disliked public meetings very much, but he felt it necessary to call the present one, inconsequence of the requisition sent hint. good deal of convarmtion then took place with re• propriety of publishing the names of se : the right of the Lord Lieutenant and assemble the County without any requisi convener :strenuously contended fur, fikamn ably and as strenuously denied, bwa gift concerts if they were upon be draigetforivard-to public meetings inclination of* convener. moved the thanks of the meeting to Huntly, the Lord Lieutenant. A good deal of garfi to the props tiliiitiouistik, and t coweeaer to sane this. which the bot,whicb Mr. Si saying. it would all occasions to at tie will or iac laid Volume I tbe Blarvials of H "4,6 rIE STATESMAN Mr. Muices .a;.l that votes of thanks were Kens rally passe , ' and e , ,n-,idered as mere matters of form, and wilbed that thi, meeting should eapress, in a par licalar manner, that the rote was not a mere =atter of form. Mr. SWIM,. said, that whatever difference of opinion) might exist between Lord Huntly and bitnself, on any) points, he was satisfied nothing would ever occur to alter his esteem for his Lordship. Lord ilusru returned thanks, and the meeting dispersed. His Lordship did not appear to feel at all easy in the chair ; and we are sorry to add, that as he retired to the inn, some marks of disapprobation were shown by persons at the door of the Court-house. This is the more to he regretted, considering the popularity he once enjoyed in this town. In rorrolioration of what was so emphatically ex pressed by the convener of the rounty, that " so far from wishing to approve of the conduct of Allsninis tration, directly the reverse was the case," it is re. markalde that, in a meeting containing the must furious snpporter. of ministers, not a single individual had the hardihood to offer one sentiment in their favour: In a Scotch county, this hare circumstance speak. volumes. ST. I'M-YAWS. SHOREDITCH. - ~-- Public Nleetine of the Inhabitants of St. !Ar naud's, Slia.reditch, was held last night in the Parish Church, to rasn,ider, as the licapiisition to the Church wardens :Oalett, the propriety of signing a Declaration expressive of their sentimews at the present alarming crisis; anal also, to (she into consideration the 'Merl sity of presenting a loyal tk:iini to his to a.lopt ?olds other mew U reit ac should h e d eem ed rimptitiai to Bice publicity to tha'ir !arid ciples of attachment I') the Constitution, as by law established. The Chair h: Tint beCII taLco by Mr. I'Lacsc, the junior I:hucelowarden, Mr. SII It I. came forward to move the Itesolutiunt, on Which the Address was founded. They had azscia bled, he said, to dilirtlSP the propriety of presenting a loyal and dutiful Address to their !• . tivereign, and in so doing, to rescue themselves (tom the unjustifiable aspersions which were indirectly cast upon them in the mock ultra-loyal Address, which had been clan. destinely got up, and whirls was intended to be relined upon the Sovereign as an Address, expressing the sentiments of their large and populous parish. The persons who had got up that Address were evi dently actuated by a desire to deceive the Sovereign, and to disguise the state of public affairs. These, however. %tyre not titnes to trifle; such was the alarm ing conoliti:Ao to which a lung course of wicked and unconstitu.inal measures had reduced this country, that no reflecting man could contemplate it without, horror, and without feeling that the present system of government presented nothing but a scents of wretchedness, lie% astation, and ruin. Was it not an insult to the !-overeign to address him in the language of the fictitious Address, at a time when disgust mitt indignation at the conduct of Ministers pervaded the Whole country, and W hen our dungeons were crowded with the victim. of political vengeance—with *men sacrificed to the arbitrary power of a selfish and de- testable faction ? Such %vas the deplorable state of, public affairs, that he dill not think them capable mi l l being ameliorated by a change of Ministers, without an entire change of measures. lie concluded by moving the first Resolution: Mr.lll.scanruse. seconded the Resolution. Ile disclaimed all intention of itit.ifering with the right of private judgment, and he thought the rondurt of the persons who had signed the fictitious Address, was only blameable, in so far as they assumed a character which did not belong to them. They had a right to express their opinions, whatever tho,e opinions might be, hut they bad no tight to call their AililreNs the Address of the Inhabitants of the Parish of St. Leo nard's. At the head of the signatures appeared the names of the citrate of the parish, one of the church wardens, and four overseers ; and the official designa tions of these persons were carefully annexed to their names, that the Address might appear to be that of the Inhabitants of the Parish, legally assembled in Vestry. Ile emu Amara with touch severity upon the conduct of clergymen, %%Ito came forward to take the lead in polities. It was impossible that parochial clergymen could hr independent men. They must of necessity be subservient to the ruling powers ; and the late Act of Parliament, which made them removeable at the pleasure of the Bishop of the Diocese. made them, if possible, still more dependent. The clergy had, on all occasions, been hostile to the liberties of the people, and their rtfoserviency in these days fell very little short of that of the Bishop, who, bring asked by James the First whether he could tax the people without an Act of Parliament, replied, " Most certainly, my liege ; for we are but the breath of your nostrils." With respect to the moek Address, it nsa really of that milk and water description, that though there was little to object to, there was at the same time nothing to approve. It complained of abounding in sedition anti blasphemy, evils which no i!oulat to a certain extent existed, but which mould long since have ceased to exist, if the laws had been properly en forced against them. The people of England were dissatisfied with the measures of Ministers, and that dissatisfsction hail been falsely termed disloyalty. The mock Address was an attempt to b, , lster up an Admi nistration which had rendered itself contemptible. to deceive the King, and at the sante time to procure certain benefits to the persons who had been must ac tive in promoting it. The present Meeting was ii dispensahly necessary to rescue this large and pope , lons parish front the implied imputation, that they were not ready to agree to a loyal and dutiful Address to the Sovereign, Mr. Lawnenee supported the next resolution. It was evident that the persons who got op the fictitious Address were afraid or ashamed to meet their fellow parishioners They felt that the sentiments which they exp d were nut the sentiments of the great body of the parish, and they were obliged, therefore, to meet in holes and corners. The Clergy bad in this. as in other parishes. 'beton great activity in 'promoting clandestine Addresses. That body of men had always been most zealous in promoting every measure which was calculated to destroy the happiness and abridge the liberties of the people.—Whether they retired to, I holes and corners to get up fictitious Addresses, or reared their mitred heads in Parliament, their conduct was equally marked by cringing subserviency and po. lilies! prostration. Every thing, in short, charac terised them but the religion they professed (applause.) How was it possible that the people of this country, could look up to the hierarchy with Trivet, *hen it had been declared by one of the heads of the Church that the King could do no wrong—even in a moral sense, thus distorting a mere political maxim, °linos ions and inconsistent perhaps even in its technical ap.' plication, for the purpose of pa . 'lig an obsequious homage to power? The interference of the clergy in the case of the Queen bad done more to destroy eccle siastical influence than any thing which had happened in this country for centuries ; in many places the peo ple were already quitting the churches in disgust, and he believed there would be no occasion for increasing the number of churches, if the clergy persisted in pro moting measures which were calculated to alienate the people from the religious institut ona of the country, by renewing the perserution of the Queen. He con cluded by expressing his entire concurrence in the sen timents contained in the resolution. The neat resolution was moved by Mr. ASHUPST. This Gentleman dwelt at some length on the unwise and injudicious conduct of Ministers. It was. be sail, by opposing the just claims of the American peo ple, who wklied to be represented in Parliament—it was by conduct at once arbitrary, insulting, and op pressive, that the Ministers of the late King lost Ame rica. The fate of the unfortunate Louis the 16th might he traced to the same cause. After dwelling at some length on the state of publie affairs, he said, that the people of England were now by far too en lightened to he deceived by the arts of power, and too firm to ne intimidated by its threats. The people wished fur a reform of abuses ; they wished for civil and religious liberty, for the removal of great public burthens ; these were their just, rational, and Consti tutional objects, and they would persevere until these objects were attained. The Resolution WAS put and carried unanimously. Mr. Jscoasox moved the next resolution. lie said, that Ministers had done every thing to oppose the wishes of the people; the whole country called fur Reform ; Ministers and the House of Commons resisted that call ; lie hoped they would yet yield to the voice of the nation, lest the thing should be car ded by more violent means. This Resolution basing been also agreed to, An Address to the King was then mo►ed and carried. Mr. SIIANP next rose and said, that some persons having agreed to an Address, which they very impro perly called an Address from the parish of St. Leo nard's, Shoreditch, it was rigid for the inhabitants, assembled, as they were, in public Vestry, to disclaim in the mpg marked manner a document, to which they were most impudently made parties, without their knowledge—a document too, which they could not approve of; he therehre moved, that the " Ultra Address" should be excluded from the Vestry Room. IFTere it 11441 been left for signatures. After some conversation this Resolution was agreed t., and the Meeting adjourned. NORTIIU.IIBERLAND cOUNTY MEETING. To THE EDITOR Or THE TYNE SISICI'IIT. Betsey, Dec. 23. Iwo. SlR.—llaving attended the High Sheriff of Northum berland with a Requisition fur a County Meeting, and received Irons him a refusal to that Requisition, I oin de sirous to make known to the other Requisitors, as speedily possible, the failure of our application: I therefore request yon to insert in your newspaper the inclosed paper, which contains copies of the Requisition and signature, and of the letters between the High Sheriff and me. For my pint, I have always esteemed the privilege of the people to meet and discuss matters of Church and State, and to make complaints thereupon to the King or Parliament, as a main pillar of our free ConAtitittion ; and I am alarmed to see the Sheriff arro gate to himself the power of refusing a County Meet ing, without assigning some constitutional ground of such refusal. I aui, Sir, your very obedient servant, (HARLEM MONIA. TOTH F. RICH !ill KR tit OF :HE COUNTT oF NORT II IL 111 Ogil LAND. Sts,—We the undersigned, request you to call a alerting of the Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, Freeholders, and other Inhabitants of the County of Northumher• land, at as early a day as may be convenient, for the purpose of taking into consideration the measures lately pursued for the degradation of the Queen, and tb • pro priety of presenting an Address to his Majesty, and pe titions to both !louses of Parliament, praying that they will take such steps as may effectnally tranquillise the public mind, by preventing the further agitation of a question which has already proved so injurious to the interests, and may in its continuance be attended with the greatest danger to the of the comstry. l' asikerville, Grey, (I to , H. O. Bennet, H. firer (F.tiowilen), J. K. Swrne, W. Ord (Whitfield), L. Swinburne, M. W. Ridley, 'l'. W. Beaumont, J. O. Lanthton, Chas. M. L. Monck, (leo. Silvertop, Ralph Bidden (Felton), Chas. Wen. Biggs, 0. 0. Shafto, 11. Tulip, Ralph Riddell (Cheeseburn Orange), William Dent, George Bainbridge, C. B. Bewicke, Thomas Wil kinson (Benoit House), Win. John Charlton (Beaky side), John Smart, Wm. Lynn Smart, George Baker, Henry 'Power, R. Fenwick, Chas. Bacon, John Wm. B acon , J o hn cre•sswell Johling, James Losh, M. fully, P. J. Selby, T. 11. Biggr, Warren M. Lamb, John Bowes Wright, IVto. Wright, Oro. Thos. Dunn, Henry Dale, Quititin Blackburn', Wm. Richmond, Wm. Horner, Wm. Armstrong, John Rayne, Armorer Dunkin, Thom Carr, A. L. Potter, Thomas Ilaggerston, Robert Belt. Benton house, 4lst Dec. 16.20. Deer SIR—To the subject of our interview of yester day I have endeavoured to give every due consideration, and regret exceedingly to state that I cannot feel warranted io acceding to the wishes of the Requisi tionists. I remain, dear Sir, with great respect. Your must obedient servant, (Signed) Wm. CLANK, Sheriff. To Sir Chas. M. L. Mooch, Bart. Betsey Castle. Belsay, December tl, 1620. Dean Ste—l am surprised and disappointed at your refusal of a Courty Meeting to the Requisition which I had the honour of putting into your hands yesterday s and being left be your letter uninforosed of the grotto I of your refusal, I feel it my duty to those who cliaried me with the application, to request that you will snake sue acquainted with that ground. If the purposes of the Requisition are deemed by you nocumstitudosal, then the point is at issue between you and us the limoissi -1 doltish. If the twins., of the Requisition only hasbeen deemed exceptionable, I have so doubt that the awe V • tJentlemen would authorise one to snake a second apps;. cation Ito you upon any other form which woald isslua.t the save propositions. - • • I have the honour to remain, dear Sir, Your very humble Servant, ruaRLISS MoNce. To Win. Clark, Esq. Benton Huse. Benton House, 22d Dec. DWI 811111-1 have this moment received your letter ~ f yesterday's date, requesting, in the name of the Rep: . sitionists, to he " etude acquainted with the ground," &c. &c. on which I declined to call a Connty Mertinp. In reply (though entertaining the highest respect for the private worth of a very large proportion o f il l .. Noblemen and Hentlesuen whos e names the Reqois.. tion bears), I cannot consider myself b oun d e i t h er to answer the interrogations that are put to m e , or explain the irasons which influence sue in the discharge of my public duties. Our sentiments, 011 this occasion, being so unhappily at variance, I fear we shall alwa)s he at issue on the points to which you allit•le ; I must, therefore, be yoa to consider my answers to the Requisition through p a u anal. I remain, dear Sir, very respectfully, Your most oheilieist servant, WM. CLARK, Sheriff . To Sir Charles Munch, Bart. Relsay Castle. FRENCH PAPERS. The following are extracts from the Paris papers of Saturday, Sunday, and Monday:— The King of the Two Siciliea sailed from Naples 6n the 13th, under the British and French flag, to meet the Allied Powers at Laybach, or such other places as should be mutually fixed upan.—(.lfositere.) Intelligence from Naples, arrived by an extraordi nary channel, announces that the King had set ut: from that capital on the 13th ; that his Neapolitan Majesty had embarked on board the English ship the Vengeur, with kis suite on board the French ship, Duchess of Berry—that nests had arrived of hi , landing at Leghorn, that the Duke of Campo Ciller° had been impeached by the Parliament, and succeeded by the Duke de Gallo. Other accounts assert that all the Neapolitan Ministers had been impeached, and a new Ministry formed---and lastly, that the King, at his departure, had addressed two Proclamations to the Neapolitan people.—(Conslierlionnel.) VIENNA, Dec. 10.-1 t is very doubtful whether the King of the Two Sicilirs will be present at the Confer ences with the two Emperors. It has been thought that his Majesty would embark at )!anfredonia fur Trieste, and thence proceed to Laybach. lint the unfavourable season of the year, and the dangers of navigation lit present in the Adriatic Gulph, render very uncertain his making a sea-voyage. It is confidently asset:ell that if the King desired that the interview should take plate nearer the frontiers of Naples, the Allied Sovereigns would cowent. The present state of un certainty, however, cannot last many days.-- (Gastric de France.) A courier extraordinary from Naples has brought the intelligence that King Ferdinand IV. has accepted the invitation of the Sovereigns, and that be will g o either to Leybach, or to any other town which shall be appointed for the new Congress, at which he is ro assist. The Neapolitan Pal liament, to whom this determination has been submitted, here given their consent, and the proposition for causing the King In be act onipanied by four members of the National Aa sembly lies not been adopted. Intelligence from Frankfort says,“ within these two days they talk a great deal here of a declaration on the part of the five great Powers assembled at Troppan, relative to the resolutions which were to have been taken with respect to the kingdom of Naples. 7 his declaration they say has been notified to all the other Powers." They write from Bayonne, that a rumour was spread in that town of the Quern of Spain having died sin:- artily; letters from Madrid of the date of the Litlt announce, that on that day a Court was held, and that their Majesties and their Royal Highnesses were in go w health. Narhas, Dac. s.—ln spite of all the reports which hate been recently circulated, we can assure the pub lic that the Austrians have not yet passed the Po, and that they have not advanced as far as Bologna. We are assured, at the same time, that a movement of troops has taken place towards Piacenza. MADRID, Dec. 18.--Within the last few days, the sale of the properties belonging to the Jesuits has been partly ctfec:ed. Four houses of considerable vaine in Madrid, fetched as much as if they had been patri monial property. An individual could not have sold them to greater advantage. We expect that this Junta will prove they have entered with zeal into the discutssioti of the great interests which are confided to them. it is also expected that they will proceed, without delay, to the sale of the property of the Inquisition, and that of the Clergy. The returns of these goods will considerably strength en public credit. The Minister of Jnstice has addressed a circular to accelerate the execution of the law on the sappreuion of Monastic Orders. From the little progress made hitherto in this affair, his Majesty has decided that the Archbishops end Bishops ought to second the po litical Chiefs in its acc miplishiuent. It is stated, in an article fmto Vienna, that a cos. respondence has been seized, relative to the revolution. of Naples, Lisbon, and the Isle of Leon. It was writ ten in mysterious chararters, but these have bees cyphered. Very little credit can, however, be Finn to the above vague report. The French Charm er of Peers assembled on th.: 12d inst. A counninnieation was presented t.i the Chamber by the Presileht, from the Count de tending to establish his hereditary right of the Peerage. This was referred to a Committee of three men • hers, who decided neon the validity of the elaim.••• The Chamber then adjourned. The Chamber of Deputies met on the 22ti sad 234. A ferment was excited on the second day by b Aster of partiality brought by M. Benjamin Coost..ht against the Prrsisients of Colleges, and other rl •ciio,• officers in the department of La Sarthe.----'l he t•ltras have gained cowpl. to poeseesho of Vie liipistrY 1 1 . the accession of M.ll. Ville!, and Corbirres, and have openly proclaimed their triumph. linemen Fenno, Five per Cents, 711 f. Rate. Actions, 143 SE - 411 ) , I I r i ti ti Si