The Statesman. — London, England, 1819-06-28 00:00:00

IWIPIAII thaw parts at is which wets. t.vot wilJ slut 4 1. r.st., sad iisprote end harenussitse she moat savage and es. ssii • hseneti parts of the earth. Uhl rutted Mal- the. h. 41 hill nwn view ft( the auhjett, written so •hiv au papal•ii..a.... as/ the fear which ha kid lb; s fisetfon ibis wind• oith• most intollispot by Ills superior power of reasoning (suppesitsu dstJ to be low"), ihsl be (Mr, 0) dill slot espeet that ally .. . . thing bot farm rebid now give ',lief to the winds at statesmen. when a child is barn am..ni the lailsnerimg elutes. When the hinnies and qualities of infants bliell he bogy/ oodefeinntl, then for many ages. at toast, scold mankind orioles et sees a elreetwetanee4 and at 130 Vetere period of the world emelt! we 'ape. alnico say tkiug like dm sauna evils end misery from ow earns of population, as from gross ignenuer inflict •Iron ourreltes final the fear of It.• 66 Sheeld the world," isid blr.o4en, ever at- We OW fell eaten' of population that will Aloe to tech individual the utmost benefit that the earth sod 11..eiet y ran •fford, which must be • very distant I period, it will he then, hi the improved Stale of tociosy which espesience will necessarily create, meth tont. rally to limit population, without crime ee misery, than at present ; bet, in troth, this is so M. mole a contingeory, that it is the very essence of folly to waste one thought upon tbe subject.—osi These, then, ace the causes which induced tee to tern my attention to toe subject before yoe, and to form tint combination, oil the part of which cow 'apish, to detail. la the progress of =yelped men's, I discovered tint, to give permanent benefi cisl productive employment to the working chases, it was necessary to combine land, labour, good ha. bite, and intelleciesl power, is such a manner that esti should mutually aid the other, and that the re sult of this en-operation, when carried into its full effect, should tint bjore any other past of society. — Permit see, boomer, to request you will steadily bear Iw mindohat tbr whole of the arrangements be fore you are devised for the most poor and destitute somber , of society, whom tole dependence for subsist eoetit (for want of employment) on their own parishes. Ono great consideration with ea was, hew said their labour he most advantagepusly employed for themselves and sa t iety ? This I soon discovered re quired that bade and manufactetes should be coot. bind with agriculture; bet that this part of the are raegeterni could not be advantageously adopted with. cut adding ethers that should secure to each indiri deal good habits from infancy, and a *slut educe. Teen followed the important contideration, bow the thousand individuals could he arranged to obtain the (fewest permanent economy in all their domestic arrangements? and yet by that economy in cream thecomforts of the poor, and of the workiog elates, as nisch as experience and the present habits of the world mill permit. The combination before you is formed with a view to effect ell the objects which bare been mentioued. I have tried many of these parts in combination seder circumstances greatly more disadvantageous than those before you. and In pretties they rested the most sanguine @spec- Wilms I had formrd of them previous to trial. Without you had missed throne the same experience which I bate had in arranging a gist multiplicity of different and distinct operations, to suite for one purpose; end the espetiese also which I have had Its re-modelling or changiog the habits of a whole people, opposed to me by all the prejudices of strong le t tings, a ri.ing from different habits, notions, and supposed Interests. you can form bet a eery inside.. quote conception of the simmers which may be ac quired by loch arrangements. In the first place, the form of the "idler combine, more economy, comfort, and advantages, then perhaps any other disposition of houses end public offices. It admits of 'co ttony of building, of feel, of cooking, of cleans leg, of ponce. of inspection, of labour of all kinds In a very remarkable manner. It combines the cheap but invaluable comfort of air, light, and space, and the patties ere in the midst of all their neeupstiono—Sech are some of the bone fits arising host the form of the village. The two farming establishments, each of them bring placed its the centre of ball of the lied, and the workshop, sod manufactories being situated at a short distance from the village, have been arranged on the same principles of economy of labour and convenience. The same principles proven in the disposition of the schools. kitchens, paling-rooms, chetah, lettere-rooms, gar• dens, and in abort of all the to:spender's to the plan." Mr. 0. went hod some farther eXplanasions Imped ing the dispooitions of the establishment. Upon that part of them which related to the training of infants. M t . Owen witched to be better understood. " bee.," said he," tried dm effects of this part of the arrangement for thrws years eaci• half, and the result Is quite satisfactory, and beyond the most sanguine hopes I bad ehtertilioed. This infant wheel abuts the seeps by which chilsirtio may be patented from acquiring bed habite, and no human being, I believe, Can yet estimate the benefits which may be given to mankind. by this simple, economical, and certain means, for the prevention of bad habits in the citing generation of the poor; they may be made almost • new race of human beings.— I will not now detain you longer b i y doelliiig on this part of the subject; but I can state from experience, that society now possesses the power to do more good to itself, by training all the children of the poor is good habits from infancy, than it coo effect by a tenfold labour and expenditure in any other direction whatever. I speak now under the correction of those who have given themselves mach trouble to investigate the *object ' • I hope some of them who are competent to do justice to the subject will state whet has been already done io this way for some of the poor children of Westminster. The l'oblic is much indebted to several individuals, of whose Wu obis services in this respect they are yet toonforeted. I know all the ordinary emboss and prejudices in the minds of many against this port of the arrangement; but under the system before yes, those objections bare no weight—they are merely the seppositioss of 'beery or of limited experience. The females, be. sides being in the gardens at the proper seams of the • year, will have the general Operiateudauce end occupation of all the domestic concerns; sod when properly trained for the purpose, of many parts of the education of the children also, which, ender this system, will be considered the most in. portant defy of society. The more minute de tills of the employment of etch community, will depend on the locality of soil and osnufactarev, Tim; • hirls rievical soot will readily ennii i rphe n d. lure givel. Liat a alight and hasty sktr•cit of this at• rongement—time will nut admit of more, bet will with plea-ure Kira any further implanst• in my rower, that may be required by any one preserth-- if it *ill not fairly meld every objection that olio I r o ost intelligent minds can liege against it, in my esti mation it ovoid bit of aw males. My sole interest In the object is to relies• the working classes, sad so Moly gonsttatty, frem_tho evils of pauperise and ignorance. 1 hurt no ambition in gratify; I giv ers sill accept reward of any kind from my party for any wake I nsay do to the Politic. lii the act of performing those thing* 1 secure all I nisi, Or seer for owe ingeneut contemplated." The Ahrobly 'cinched their winked satisfied*u as he retiree. His Royal fishiest tie Duke of Sussex thee ren t and said. that after the leminous and candid opening of his Matrices relative, end the able aid minute's. planation of Mr. Owe*, it would be sepe.fteues in him to trouble them at any length. The manes of Mr. Owen had, no doubt, high merit, and its ob jai was certainly one iehich night to be taken up by every person who had the love of his country et heat. At the same time, he begged not to be understood at at all pledging himself either to the practicability of the scheme, or its results. There was one point. he thought, which most strike how far this scheme could be made to asimilate with the tasting hawed the country. Ile ihoeght it pro liable, that in some instances they might materially Interfere with each other. Wheo ha made these au streations, he was very desires. of not bring ender. 'toed as wishing to throw cold wain on the subject ; on the contrary, he thought it one of the highest im portance, well deserving of the psbllc attention, and whatever the result might be, its anther was most unquestionably entitled to the praise and petite& of his county.—( Lord eppleere.)-11i. Royal highness then proposed the following Resolution :- I!..tt the plan mow esplaised to this Meeting Wolves not. demi. on at all Omni. !vermin to soelmv. TAM at thin colas period sue 'skit , ' Is freight with aildirrawal elates so the imitation regard tadtad itation ut every put of the coostaeity panics lady as it admits 01 DO eithlFlTe principle, hat is looted eat de.igaed sabrounlally to bevel' all p mks. Tbat ereadardeg the low sod extensive expriamee from whew* this plats bag originated, and the time sad great expiate whit% the of it has devoted to form she arrooseatems arrow. al. s eamier deotearag she animators and looratigatlna of all now was feel a. layered in annex a .eresistaiire to the rowel see.nnes of the peer, sad to the nosteroos catalog evil. of parspenws Joint SWITII, Esq. (the Member of Pattlautent fur Midbent) seconded this Resolution, and observed, that he agreed entirely with all the eulogies which bad been paid to Mr. Owen. The Ilan. Gentlemen then decribed a 'id' which he had made to the este bliehment of Mr. Owen, et New Lanark. the had "stied there while Mr. Owen was is. Landon, at the very time in which he was engaged in implaioing his system to a Public Meeting which he had called for the lOW ~ one. Ile 'pent three days in inspecting it, being astmitte.t wilhoot previous entice or ceremony by Mei. Owen, aid assitteti by three of the clerks ; so that there was tin possibility of his hang bias--' by any partial feeling which Mr. Owen might be sup. posed to observe is elucidating the pnortpaes of list establishment. Liam the tetrinionr, therefore. of hos own direct •tbservations, he declared himself to be cnnvioced that Mr. Owen', plan of Mention was admirably nlailited to inform the What stied, to give it en undeviating tendency to aired morals and irlditatrlner habits. .end •• it was be sides conducted Imo , . a principle of pose heneso• lean, knotted of rigour awl oortithroent, he mai pronounce it to .be the belt Le aid ever seen.— It was, indeed, en object of the Ai. best *Were. , to observe this ellectionate 'method of train , og, ptr•i.u larly among the children under five year, ..t Ile might he swayed by particular feelings, but h was not ashamed to owe. that he felt the trios' heart felt satisfactine at witnessing this kind mode of treat ment; and Mr. Owen bad pert -al! coaviand him that mote was to be done by it than by any system el coercion whatever. Ile seconded the Resolution. I The Resolution was theu put, sod carried enanl measly. The Duke of KENT then observed that the west step would be to solicit the aid of those Gentles's,. who might ho willing to give attention to this ite , peanut object; and he woad Sot scruple to say, that the country *tight to feel grateful to say oat that would came forward. From his owe prefers dowel pursuits he felt very 'palpitate to the subject, bet if his individual time and talents could he of say service, they should be devoted to 11.--(Cheers.) Upon the motion of the Doke of Seats, a Com mittee front the Gentlemen pteseet was then put in nomination; and upon the name of Mr. Pasinoe, the Barrister, being proposed, that Gentlemen rose, and in an eloquent speech of considerable length, ea. pressed his conviction that Mr. Owee's plan was calcalated to produce great and lasting banal to so. day, if not a total obliteration of the evils which now oppressed the country ; bat he begged to dt• clues being nominated on the Committee, because he felt he should not be able to pay that attention which a saint of such wagnitede demanded. The Committee was then appointed, with pant to add to their flambe'''. Among them were, their Royal Highnesses the Dykes of Kent aid Sasses, Sir W. de Crapiguy, lion. J. W. Ward, Mr. Ricardo, Sir Samuel Clerk Jonas*, Rev. W. Gunny, Gee. Brown, Mr. Rear Ilan, Col. Ogg, T. U. Dodd, I Erg. 'l'. 'l'. Clark, Esq. Sic. Mr. RICAUDO begged to trouble the Meeting with a few observations. As his name was placed upon the Committee, be would gate shortly those circsm• stances in which he agreed, and in which he differed from the last speaker. Ile completely concurred with him in the commendations bestowed upon the Monitions Personsge who presided at the Meeting. it its an wimple of seal for the public good, and of benevolent intention, worthy of the highest praise. la a limited degree he thought the easing likely to succeed, end to produce, where it did succeed, con siderable happiness, comfort, and morality, by give lag employment and instruction to the lower classes. No person could admire snore tilt's he did, or appro. nate more highly the benevolence that led his friend (Mr. Owen) to prosecute his plan with so mach seal, and at the raptors of so mach time and trouble. Ile 'meld not, however, go along with him in the hope of ameliorating the coalition of the lower clause, to tech a degree as be seemed to expect ; nor shoed IN wish it to . go forth to the Public that he thought the plea wield rodeo all the goad anticipated flea it LONDON: MONDAY. JUXE 28, 1819. --.1•.- We have, in Ihi+ dey's Paper,alveu a full account, as we promised, of Mr. Ow's'a plan for tint eat• ployment aid improvement of the poor. That he may be ihnoght enthusiastic Is not anlikely. It is a brneenlent tothosiasm. The design hss been eon- ;wired in much trouble, se well so in much gonelnets of hurt; anti has bets carried so hr an at a very con•;lor•ble outwit* to hioiself. Half a century *go, it would ant hue been believed that sea would ever naligre the air, at the role of fifty miles an hoer ; or that whole Mona coeld be iliontinated by an ignited g fluid: it h not tis,reforo surprising that many well-meaning people ass) doubt a Mr.Owsw realising his beneficent project, and multiplying the productions of art and astute. All great projections should be melted with caution, and even with .Itoebt. They should be seretinised thoroughly be fore they are adopted for experiment. We are not without oar portion of scepticism on all tech ewe .inns; bet we declare conscientiously, that we dis rein no forbidding circumstance, suspect so lewd obs:scle, to discourage the immediate preparation for the impertent essay. To doubt, indeed, of the possibility of obtaining the wished-for good, by this or some other such means, would be to impugn Pro widens* itself, in peopling the earth with more lobe bitaots than it is capable of sustaining. Such an in; ference would be cont►ary to the beautiful and wise order of astute. She is not capricious! It is man, •tie man, who, tea certain point, frustrates her designs, and brings, by his perversity and selfish ness, wee and distress ern his fellows. Mach is said in yarnl of the Joornals respecting the Myelitis at Stockport, Leeds, and other places; that tech political associations of the less ioforrned classes of society have always been ender the goidancs of secret directors, whose views have been diametri cally opposite to those they are pleased to call their 1 unconscious tools and followers. This we de •ot believe, nor hove we so poor an opinion of the great number of our fellow-creatures in England as to sop- I pogo they would become t h e designing tools of soy artful person u hewer. Are their privations and sufferings then thought insufficient to escite them to the measures they are pursuing? Can these hard hearted censurers Irish to see them shut op in hugger, and silently left to expire, ruttier then give gaminess le the higher powers? Theo again they are reflected on because their complaints are said to be in the urns tone sod in unison with those of the Jacobins in the commencement of the rrenelt Revelation. Why, to be sure, it is bot natural it should be so. With the didersoce of the two Imo. pages, so doubt, the legitimists of the cemplainiug pieties will almost react', correspond. Is one per : fierier, Indeed, there is a difference; bet that ought to @ache pity and regard for the complainants. Our poor erases@ ark to be transported to some other and more propitious pert of the globe, where, by their labour they may mere themselves of obtaining eelloient sosteneoce to support life. Great portioes of the inhabitants of a nation are elver stirred up in Ithis manner by art. It is by natural seining that they ere arnosed into movement ; otherwise, they would be still as Ittel water. 4l k Ikat Cie wit.e#W .. d.-11; rboscaOt I d 44c1t1 )h Ittllein that the Prig, respe‘ting the fintocial cc ‘ ~ bid lOgis brought to a duo lh i t l ed s , past vd by a majority of Ise to 3. The eieine die. The Chamber of Dopac * rmin . at ear discossinni oil the Budget of Eapend'tore, akd adootod the whole as a law by almost a similar majority, vis. bj 19) voices t , IC We are led to be , imia not only that the matontent was clear but bidli:y aneaceptionable, to obtain al. most Om unanimous votes of ghetto° whole Assemblies. These accounts must be very differently relished, being so very differently received from them which - our Cnancat.t.on of the EXCUEQVIS brings forward in our Mess of Parliament. M. M ANVIL traversed the whole range of the French Government's system, political, lolanda', sad commercial, concluding with recommending the catering into immediate commOr slat relations with the Smith American Independ ents. No doubt Ito has been prompted to sag gest this meow, from seeing the mad proceed.. hags of the BritishG @@@@@ meat, in turning the friend. ly coarse of commonieation between its subjects mod thoscrontenders for (tertian, into mere than Omelet* indifference. If our rivals should succeed in this view pion the interest of t h e British nation, we do hope and treat that Ministers will bo brought to the bar of public opinion, and for once at lest treated as they will have d ed. N. X 1 Anon. in the coarse of his speech me the finances, expressed his sorption that the tat on gosling-house: was not breeght to me. count; if (said he) it is one of which the French Go vernment is ashamed, it were bettor to abolish the whole altogether. American Papers have arrived from almost all parts of the Union. Their Idlest date is Jane R. The United Stales Batik have received orders t• gather in their mayors, and immediately proceed to settle with the Rants of the States. °sprain ntonLe has poblished a long and onimpertast esplasation of his dispute wills Lord COCIBRAIM Jousrrom's sqvadren, consisting of three Me. - beats, hasdepsrted from Shipping•port for the Ifelo low Stone; the Western Engineer, of 700 tons, In just Isencited, mod will icrooediately proceed to St. Levis; it is said that he. machinery was ceestroeted in England, by the Eugieeers who fitted thu stem. frigate. _ _ The deprestilne of commerce and Bonk paper ie. t ln all the Statel ; end many projects are es font for promoting Ovirsitore in prottoretlCO to HMO. The engrav►r, of isolatitible Bank not►+ bid just 11111. barked's, the Papers came away, to o6►r their sere vices to the Batik of England —Tb► electioneering It ruggie condo ties stil I; th► Federalists have recourse to every scores of Internee which Is alienable, not for. getting the pulpits. We shall give further eatract te.motreet. We regret that we have not -pace to give an cc coon, of tile last adjourned Popular Meeting at Homo let Moor, on the subject of the' grientsces or tilt, poor workmen is Leeds earl its neighbourhood, as well as on Reform, which Meeting ended, after s long and interesting discussion, by a dissolation, not an adjournment. There are other Monists is Tani. oes places, ou the tame subject at this time. One of the solutions corset of tontine is that, for every sew tax or additional impnic upon the tame an . tiele, the Government is obliged to employ new taa•geth , and create sew 01SCOO. Now, be caste lea is taxed higher than before, it becomes an article of tempratios to smugglers. sod therefore it is necessary to have stations erected on every part of the coast, with persons to give notice of the approach of smeggiras sod their movem•ute. What ■embers of wicked bribes, forgeries, and perjuries, might be done away by the repeal of two or three lases, and their amount might be well spored, by abolishing a few sinecure places and santerited pessioos ! What an imputations it it to Iks Ministers of Greet Britain, that IN almost every county of Euglood ws hear of nothing bet emigration. A better order of Government would undoubtedly hese prevented this disgrace spew our political tramway. The tide of emigration from Yorkshire lute sud denly veered from North to South Americo; and many individesla and Wellies (some of them possess. ed of considerable property) are making preparations t • take their departure to that Nem Land of Promise. Several ships have arrived at Liverpool during the present week, freighted with soldiers sod emigrants from Ireland and other parts of the Gaited King dom, for South America. Three vessels are alto Br this out from Liverpool, for the ravels portion of conveying emigrants, its from this part of the tier does. There have been several dreedfel hail•storms in the snuth.western departments of France, which bees done mach mischief in the corn-Gelda. In the night of the Stb sad :•!`, a stem caused seri en overflow of the rims that traverse tke srrondisse meet of Nynns (Draw.), as to throw down bridges sod dikes, end inendate the fields. At St. Eupheesis. 100 sheep were drowned in their fold. On the 4tk the lightning fell in a piece called Vseglais, in the Commune of Chapelle Bate. (Viease), sad killed three oxen. General Barras has published a letter in reply to certain allegations relative to his tendert as • Direc tor, doting his disgrace ender Bonaparte, and is his private life sines the restoration. These allegations are contained in a work recently published. Sr. PAuCtiAli Niw Councw—We understand that the first stogie of a handsome soy Church. intended to b. built in the parish of St. Patient, on the esee , o side of Eustrin.lquere ' adjoioing the wroth side piths New-road, is to be laid by his Royal Higbee,' the Dyke of Yours, on Thersalay Rest, et one o'clock. Prince Laorocooltrodod Divine Service yesteritY at the agape' Boys', St. James's Pellet. L 'ATESMAN, by his •ao;nine friend. As ■ Member of the Com mittee, he should do every thing In his power I. forward the (Netts far which it was appointed. TAO Thanks of the Meeting were th►n unanionev ly voted to his !Loyal Highness the Duke of Kent. Hla Royal Highness returned thanks, sad mid he would by seal and attention, dd every this; in ilia power In melt• up for want of ability. in the investi gation of this important sohjoet. Tb. 'nooks of the Meeting being then proposed to the Doke of Sasses, Sir WILLIAM DC CBLITIGMT took occasies to re mark that, though appointed to serve on the Com mittee, he would not pledge himself that the distress of the country could, in any very material degree, he remedi►d by the proposed plan. He was perfect ly reedy, however, to give it his feeble support, con vinced that any thing in which the two illostrioes persons before them tencorred, mull be praiseworthy and gond in itself. Ile ahnold be always happy to be fnend conuected with say caste that had their Leppert t. The motion bring nulled unanimously, The Duke of Susses warned thanks. lie did oat evict soy merit for attending the present Meeting.— He came there because he less entities to beer what could he said open the important @object, sod from a , desire which he had to simnel his illustrious relation upon ell loch occasions. The Doke of KIST said, that all were agreed le one thing', the trouble, the care, and apiece with which Mr. Owen endeavoured to carry his plan into •fleet, basil; no other view than to terve the Politic, end without any hope of personal. advantage. Ile should, therefore, move :hat the thanks of the Meet ing be given to Mr. Oweo for his exertions. rb. motion was tattled unanimously, and the Meeting broke up. TO CORRESPONDENTS. e r e As the lapin epee the arm of rice it a part of re ba rter r Notrweet, we bate we objectir to fall is sir Aro rad weary' flowea. PK 113 t UP p104:11$ Till annti Poet id tie pet I eat. iw. Cl 664 per Cent. Came. 4 per Cent. meobleg done 4 per Gest. $ 5 44 Carols for THR STATESMAN. DAY AT ONI: LEGW4:I4 pre Cest.Navy India 14446 4 444. Law Am. IT Exelfrquer MI6 113 4 db. U4reitici 2,111 4e4. ee.69