The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-11-02 00:00:00

Y. --,. r. 12711DIENCrof PIRLIAMENTAR r REFORM The purity of our constitution many enlightened men have conceived has been contaminated, and there fore a radical reform should take place. first, by a more equal representation of the people in the House of Commons, and lastly by an immediate reform in the domestic economy, by the abolition of all sine cures, useless offices, and unmerited pensions, etc. • Chagas nation doit se gouverner scion le besoin de see anima et la conservation du Bi en publique:"— " Secii - nation ought to govern herself according to late Sumas anti the conservation of the public good." Thits ides also coincides with the popular sentiment that has prevailed many years past ; which has by soma been deemed indispensible to our national wel fare, and particularly as our tides at this present dme art necessarily very heavy. It is therefore hoped that the Committees of the Moose of Commons will be prothietive of much good. Every candid person must admit, that when Ministers themselves acknow led (by certain newspapers) that the sale of seats in Parliament has been the practice and established canoes of their predecessors, as well known &e. as that the sun do:h shine at noon day, it is time fur oath a subject to be again and again discussed (if necessary) by their delegates In Parliament; for when an innovation of this dangerous complexion begins to foal the spring of purity, we know nut to what ex tent the stream may be tainted with it in process of time, if a remedy be nut soon applied to the bleeding monad. Montesquieu says, " When once a republic Is tempted, there is no possibility of remedyiog any athe rising evils but by removing the corruption and mitering lost principles: every other correction is either useless or a new evil." And again he says, " When once the principles of government are cos elapsed, the very best laws become bad and turn against the state." It must be recollected, " moribre antigaie star Reiss,"—.Rome stands by her ancient morals ; but who the renowned !alert could nut he drank without a MI profusion of roses and perfumes, which intro deem! e•eruption and civil wars, she fell by her oN n strength: "Sri, et ipso. Roma viriluis ruit." Whatever veneration the people of the present day stied have for the practice and precedents of their atteeltark yet when the former is bad and the latter laappileahle, measures and resolutions founded on then; dial's' be justified. As to precedents, both states men and lawyers, In my humble conception, pay too much deference to them: and Certain it is, that one president eta rarely be found to he completely appli cable w two eases at remote periods ; therefore, Omagh precedents might assist and be useful, implicit deftest* ought not be paid to them ; for if we do, (Met a time) we shall become mere mechanics, and be apt to adopt precedents for principles, and thereby newer surds. ear own judgment sufficiently, and canon sense would be shouldered oat of the question. lea 'chisel sad important case of national moment cow bathe, our present ministers, I should hope and Netter* they are fatly adequate to display as mach wletiont in their measures or resolves as any of their pretimpeolors s and why should we dot..it it ? lam nil itsetieced that NM of the present age (take them neerally) are inferior in rapacity to their fore faints,: that certainly the exigencies of the times should be Arm considered before precedents. By way of strengthening my argument, I will now Wit the liberty of quoting a sentiment from Sir Thomas ''echo's speech os the question of the regency; he said, the absurdity of acting implicitly upon prece dents brought to his recollection some lines he bad leotard at school : " Hero stands a precedes., Who pet it dere t A better sea than ou. Tame it If you d ire." Bat I. fakirs M my position oa the subject of re teem. The cry. of inaeration, cad these are not the time. by the opposeets of velem, seems absurd when the eseilter worm is supposed to be still consuming the very vitals of oar eoustitution : and I believe no na tiessal consequences can arise by taking away certain privileges. the loaves and Ashes, from a few close cringing ministerial boroughs and rich monopolizing emplaced's.. (with respect to returning Members of Paidiameat). sad pasting sad distributing the same prleileges ad fromehises elsewhere upon popular and strand coalitational prieeiples. Metygeedsmen who choose to attach themselv e s to essiliatehrwa, are unjustly otigneatized with the Aloes epithets of lereliers and jseobies, who de servedly merit the name of Inn patriots, and are in dZithe rimy host friends and protectors o f the c tattoo. and would. in my opinion, be the grit aid forommat to rally round and preserve the sacred et~Hee.(ssr moostitution inviolate from the shock of (Miles and the insiJious attacks of lurking cor. rafiles. The fear of a revolution In accomplishing this great end of ridbrin even at this juncture is, presume, grosetileas sad imaginary, although 1 bare been lately tartrate — Hsi pulpit, by as old divine, that this re leasers aesi their demagogues have nothing to lose, sad that their sole object was to produce anarchy and confissien Is the state, and an equal partition of pro perty! Pray have Sir Friuli Barden, Mr. Nob home, and Sir Charles Wolseley nothing to lase? lard Treasurer Berleigb, kaowing the revenue of Raglasi he be so lasmantse, says, m itogland can sever be rained bat by the sorreptkut other Parliament." - • • ' • • • It it imesho one held by te wise in all ages " th at whim the morale of a Prise, are corrupt, the Plebeians generally follow tha.same evil propensities; mini Ohne slse nation gradually slabs into effeminacy and isemsetsent decay." I have gusted this academe •atetely to shew the coStagisji of vim sad the .4as/brow eonseqneact of ern •eseesplot sad is sey II Ws opiaies if a public Aimee" of task sad forum falls and indulges him self Is vise mai Polly, suck a perms sins doubly ; or ov l bays Jae 'MIMOSA, vulgar salads are generally inibenood by the ewe of their superiors in rack. Much Is vela L Si.ipapi preached from pulpit. to the peer. if OM d illiasenvaid elevated sinuitioes is Rh• Mae aR lie prapia.slllo issigaileutes sad I have Wilms Os R Jos*. esnapdos Pairadi" star. decry, sad malty. but i se Mere happy to THE STA' remark, that throughout all the war, and in all tat tles and contests in which the English arms have bees fairly engaged, both by sea and land, that they have shone conspicuously and gloriously; in fact, the va lour, courage, and physical strength of the English troops have nit been excelled. It might therefore be tralisaid, England has arrived at the summit of mi litary renown, as the pare of history will record. I believe our national debt now exceeds eight hundred millions of pounds, which of course mast he the cause of a heavy taxatisn for many years to conic. _ Mr. Hume says, that ‘, Either the nation must destroy the public credit, or public credit will de stroy the nation." However true this assertion might prove by any possibility, it must be admitted that it behoves every patriot to promote pnblie credit. It may perhaps he here impertinent to remark Baron Montesquien's observations on the character of the Illnglish nation : hd says we are incapable of bearing the delays, the details, and the coolnen of negnciations. "In these they are mare unlikely to succeed than and other nation ; hence they are apt to lose by treaties *hat they obtain by their arms." In eonrluding this subject. I am sorry to have occasion I to remark, that although England is rich in soil. sad, productive of the necessaries of life ; and although' the late harvest has been abundant, yet provisions ue now dearer in this country, than perhaps any other in Europe. It is therefore an indisputable fact, that, the ways of men have presented the ways of Pro- 1 videner. 11.ne Regis. B. REVOLUTIONS. The revolution of America in 1776 would have been a bloodless one. if the English Ministry had not deter mined the contrary. The revolution in Poland, in 1793, was effected without a single act of turbulence, and would have rendered the Poles a happy people, if the Archie, of Russia, Prussia, and Austria deter mined otherwise, by partitioning the country between them. The revolution of Prance in 1792 would hare, been a bloodless one, if the crowned heads of Enrope bad not advised a weak Prince to fly from his country and to order foreign t.oops to fire upon his country men. The revolution in Spain is 1812 was a blood ied one. and would have been erownel with the hap piest effects, if the crowned heads had not furnished millions to put down the Cortes, and to imprison the heave Patriots who were basely surrendered) by the English, when they fled to Hibral:ar for safety. The revo:ution in France, or Napoleoo's return front Elba, would have been a bloodless one, If ()rent Britain and the Holy Alliance had permitted the people of that country to settle their affairs in their own way. But the power of the holy alliance really seems to have been at last vanquished ; hu manity begins to hope that the day is . not distant when the fur.:e of pnblie opinion will curb the fortis firations of prejudice and armed force. 'pain is lft 1 - 4 , 104i:14rd without a struggle: A'aples Is relishes lionized without opposition : Italy seems to be pew I paring for souse great event: In the German state, the rrpreartitatire system gains ground: and it a ostil be opposing common sense to imagine, that a people' 'so enlightened as those of tireat Britain would email in their present degraded condition, amidst such gtms. ral changes. It is by reflecting upon these revolutions, and psi the causes of them, that Americans ran best genii against revolutions among themselves. A revolution, however peaceful, has its evils, as well as its benefits; and that state is happiest which stands not in need of great or sudden changes. The degradation, out of which so many European states art emerging, was the consequence of ignorance of rights on the part of the Teeple, and a neglect to exercise them ; of corruptions, small in appearance but polluting in quality; of gradual encroachments on the part of men entrusted with power, until no rights were left to the mass of society; bat it was chiefly owing to the absence of public virtue, the child of intelfigence.—lt is desirable, therefore, to avoid revolutions, that the people have a ditty to perform, which they must not for a moment neglect—they most resist the first inroads of rorrnption; for, if not re• sisted, fresh abases will follow, nntil the power of resist. ante will be greatly weakened, and the strength or the corrupt multiplied at a fearful rate.—(4wrora, Awe• ►iraa Paper.) LOUISE DEMOd'VT. Some enefifielfei relative to the character of LOWS. DRMONT haring been published some .weeks ago, in a ►liai•terial Paper (New Times), we beg leave to point out to our readers the real opinion which the rt.. tremble Clergyman of her on•n Pariah entertain of her cAracter and conduct. [cn.kxstartex.l I, the under‘igned, Mutter ot'Col ombier.bavlng — bie; required on the part of Mr. Barry, delegated by her Majesty the. Queen of England, do declare, that I have never given a certificate of 4.nrod morals to Mademoiselle Lowlife Dewoot, of CollOntiner, shove lilorges, and that the has never applied for ens. I further declare, that in consegnence of certain information wbicb bas reached me,* l would not willingly have given such a certificate to her. In verification of which, I have signed at St. Sephorin, the I ith of October, IWO. . (Signed) Maims :it, Paster of Collomhier. The Judge of the Peace of the circle of rollombier I Option of Vied, in Switzerland, certifies, that the abov e signature of M. liipylau, Pastor of CoUombier, is truly this. Dives under the seal and signature of the Judge of the Peace at Collombler, 14:h of October, lOU. (Signed) DVRAND, Judge of the Peace. Sealed with the Seal of Office. The Chancellor of State of the Canton of Vied, etm , ' titles, that the seal and signature on the other side at* true. (Si The Chancellor Boum?. Lausanne, Octoli gn e l lls, , 9, the undersigned, declare, that the certificate of good morals which I geTe to Mademoiselle Louise Demeet, of Colionobler, above Merge*, had bent given 11 4:7 6V ore her departure to enter the *gni= a lee Mighsees the Primers. of Wales, and absoletely bad a. dad** AL MeTlas ieetorekt to be heeded ht. Her . lidieuist soadaet la public with Muhl.-ed. n ee Mita; besaosagletal of gtok talsiatetala &Hai bet yet tsaidasee at Merger. "'_~.'~ Irelation to any thing except her anterior conduct whilst she lived in-Collombier. Romainmotier, Oct. 13, 1820. (Signed) L. PCACT, Pastor and Deacon, formerly Pastor Suffragant of Collomlifer above Morges. Certified as above by the Judge of the Peace of no- 1 maiomotier, sod verified Lv the Chancellor Holier. 1, the undersigned, certify, that 1 have read a Journal, of Mademoiselle Louise Denant, of Collombier above &forges, of her Travels to Jerusalem ; a journal which appeared to me to he in her hand-writing, and which was lent to me by her mother at Collombier above Merges, in which journal she pronounced elogiums Gel her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, and said that she was not that which she was reputed to be. L. Pears, Pastor and Deacon. Romainmotier, Oct. 13, 1820. Certified like the foregoing by the Judge of Peace and the Chancellor. Di MT. HieIIWATICS AT LONDONRRIIXIK To:amino*. libraing;lV.—Evenieg, II rain. after It. PRICE OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Sank Steak SIB; 1 India Stook II psi Cont. Red. 671 661 67 : D.Dollonds 265. pm. I per Cf. Cosa. On OS enj I Old Annuities SI per Cost. 76 FA. Rills 2d. M. Ss. pm. 2 per Cenb. 861 Ditto Cos. • pc Ct. Navy .1641 104 I °mains L.. An.. IT 7-161 Con. for Account 1171 06 OM Imp ; 6 perpant. Ann. I Lott. Tickets 211. irm. —., . _ tot gotattlimatt. " TSB Sitrnst STATISIIAII .• II INCOI STATKINAN." LONDON: iTFD MTN " TIM • 1111:11,111DAT EVZILNG, NOVENIZR 2. STATASMAN-OFFICE. Toro •'Clock. The proceedings of the House of Lords to-thy, dtrivN additional and affecting interest from the suillded indisposition of Lord ERIIKINZ. Between meth! and one o'clock bis Lordship fainted, in the midst of a most impressive speech ; and the House adjourned, in consequence, for a quarter of an hour, and his Lordship retired. When the House was resumed, with great regret we add, his Lordship was unable to return, DISCOVERY SIIIPS. The following letter has been received this morning from Aberdeen, dated October 29 : " Accoants from the Elisabeth, of this port, from Da►is's Straits, dated Strowness, 26th nit. bring advice' of her arrival there with the Ellison; the former with 14 fish, and the latter with 15. The Ellison spoke . the Heels and Drip*, Discovery ships on their return, is VS. Inn. O. all well; and were informed that those had wintered in lat. 75. lon. H 5." The conductors of the process relative to the QUEEN, are making their arrangements for the ulterior management of the proceedings, in case the Bill of Grins apd Penalties passes from the Lords to the Com illa*. As the Avroanev-thavenst. and the SOLICITOR MIENRRAL, OW Mr. Baocommht, Mr. LIENOI•N, and Dr. LESIIINR7OIIIII, members of the lower House, and not disposed to vacate their seats, they ar.- dis qualified from appearing as Counsel at the Commons' liar. They are expected, however, to exert them selves on their respective sides, with equal effect, in the character of Parliamentary Advocates; and se evidence, we are assured, will be entered into in the House of Commons, the proceedings cannot fail to be extended to a considerable length. In support of the Bill, Mr. °wise, us understand, will act as leading Counsel, supported by Dr. ADAMS, Mr. PAESI, and probably some other of the Gentlemen of the Bar, who are distinguished by their silk.gowns. Against the Bill, we know, there are already retained. Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. TINDALL, and Mr. WILDS, (who have already been employed in the Hours of Lords), and Mr. B. H. ALDERSON. Mr. At tatisox is a younggentleman, highlyrespected for his talents on the northern Circuit. He was distinguished, in the late arduous Contest for Westmoreland, as Counsel during the election for Mr. Baoconsm, and is well known among the members of the profession for the legal knowledge and discrimination he dis- I plays in the Mar's Basch Repods, which he edite s , in conjunction with hi s f r i en d, M r . lisaNawsti.. - Thoth's* hes now arrived for the decision of a qges• lion, important to the Queers, and to all who hale so generomily espoused her cause ; httt most important to those,iitio flew the present proceedings henna Weir wtrfatij Ti ad who therefore consider them wish a jealousy which must be felt by every man who knows sod respects the laws of England. An infraction of those laws is threatened by the Bill against her Ma. ~asrv; and the attempt, if successful, must destroy our safety; individual as well us national; and render ug, wee the subjects of a limited Monarchy, which eommeads obedience because it ensures protection, but the vassals of every profligate Minister who may mime the guidance of the political machine. Upon this subject so much has been offered upon all the bearing, of the question, that argument has been massaged, and the mind him been partially diverted from the tree state of the case, which resolves itself Into three simple questions. The first is, naturally, whether the Wane is guilty ; aye, or no ? If she is guilty, thee is the piesest form of proceeding jest sad amsatiestional And thirdly, if the mode of pro ceeding Is, in itself, jest and constiatiosal, has the amused, In the course of that proceeding had those mew of detseee 'lorded her, which, according to the established 104 at* so much in fan, of the 64814. ant, that Ii is am considered the dirty of the Judge to be his Omega e m h To the Bill. the Peers of England must d ecide each ‘ Me questions in the affirmative; fo r a ~,,. Satire, ipon any one of them, will entitle the Que r , to an acquittal. One of the nsisfortusses brought upon the country by the rashness and misconduct of Handers! is the difficulty in which they hare placed the Parliament; for if the Parliament decide then questions N the alfirseative, it will run counter to th e almost unanimous voice of the country ; which h a , pat a direct negative upon every one of these question'. The people of England say, first that the Qe ro , of England is innocent, notwithstanding such et', donee as that of the Cook at 'f tieste. Next they sa y that, whether the Queen is guilty or not, the pro ceeding against her is illegal; subversive of the vital principles of the Constitution ; and unprecedented to our historical annals, except in the days of !Inset VIII.; who beheaded two of his wives, divorced tee others, and who, in short, spared " neither man ink!, bate, nor woman in his lust.' And th;rilly, th e y contend that the Queers has not had those legal mesa; of defence which us permitted to every man wh a i, tried at the Old Bailey, for any offence in oetrw ar i. nal cede. They say. that when one witness el", i s proved to have suborned others, has been seat oust the country, end been permitted to elude the arm of Justice ; when another, who was an important wit, nears on the part of the accused, has not been forth. coming, from a fear of offending some one here: and when evidence of a conspiracy by tha fu-famed One- TIDE. has been offered and rejected ; when all these things have taken place, in the broad face of day, the people of Ragland are inclined to;hink, and bare pretty plainly expressed their thinking, 'hat the Weer has sot had a legal trial, ens if i she were guilty, and even if the neede of proceeding against her were constitutional is itself. Each of these principal questions has been de cided by the people in favor of the QUEEN. A cen trary decision will fly in the face of the country ; and who can say what may not be the consequence? The Ministerial Editors appear to be in most pitiable state of agony. and roar out that Revolution is at heed. They have called out " Wolf," long enough ; though now they solemnly assure as that the wolf bas come in good earnest; but will they inform us who has brought him ? If their modesty should pie vent their answering, we will answer for them. Those who have caused the present alarming crisis, are the men who set on foot the Milan Commission, and employed the eight-werkieg, assassin-like Our ?RDA ; they are those who told the Queen she was .1 an Adulteress. sod at the same time offered her fifty thousand pounds a-year out of our lobar, to hell away from Eaglaed, with fall permission ft con tine her coarse of life abreast ; who laid a nauseous filthy tale apes the table of the Horse of Commoor, and then seat some members of that Haw, their right worthy Friends, to kite the hand of the person who was the subject of that same nauseous tale. The persons who performed these, and all the subsequent refs of this rational Drama, up to its present mess trophe ; it its they who have brought us to the verge of a Revolution; and these same Ministerial Editors will have little difficulty in telling us who thooe per sons are; or, perhaps, an early impeachment will save these the trouble. Paris papers of the 304 alt. I.are arrived t►ts loom i ng. Frew a Vienna article dated 20th ult. it appears that the Marlene Can AMA 74 heft that Capital fur Trappe on the 17th. Lewd Staysar was expected to set out next day; the Emperor 'Orme would be there on the 22d, and the ling of Ilevinta ahead the same time. The Spasish Comities= the 16th to the Nth =ft =espied with busies= entirely of a local nature. Letters from the frontiers of Italy dated 1511 s alt. state that intelligence of an intended ugmeetation of the Euglish fleet in the Mediterraesan has induced a lively sensation, eipecially in the Neepelitan states. French ftilkls, Five per cents. 75f. 5c.; Bank action', 1331 E Letter front India, dated June 22.--Thcre has been a contplete failure of all the couou crops in laillat list season only 30,000 bales were tLe utmost of &Mee 'prodOttien. News from Manilla, May 30, a t l as dim a stropg reinfoicement . from Europe was daily el petted, as the Governor had received communications from the Patriots in !loads America, threatealag that plum; and one of Lord COCIMAIIII'd frigates had bees dispatched for that pavpooe t but soon after she railed she saptured a vessel with half a million of dollars on boardjand took her into Yalparako. lied she roatisncti her voyage, she toast have fallen in with the two ships which arrived there in May, from Acapala with two millions of dollars on hoard. As there was nominate?' twee at Maaills, it was the determination of the 140 a.m.', if be did not receive any assistance from tie KIN% to surrender it to the English floverasnant. ass( heethapatithei a vessel Os fkalobay to that elect. Yesterday the Dukes of York and Clareace visited the King, at his Mare, in Pail Mall. Orders have boss ewe at the Palace of Caritas lliloaaa for the necessary pepper a ti o n s t o b e ma de fat ' his Majesty's return to Windier to.:ay. Yesterday a Ceart of Itireetors was held at the Ea* long , Hamr whim the noder-mentionetl Cassias were Feet& iota HMI no:simitid Of their respective ship. via. :--Cagtala Timms Leckie', Margaia Gamin; Capt. 'Moues Banydai/e. !DON ; -- BesgbaY . ,__t ili China. Capt. Uwe. allertioel , ' bl'' ow , "m" Bengal and Chins. ... M 7 ^- w II