The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-09-02 00:00:00

p.ssrectlings been' distinguished above its fellows for :ro otless of its stile and the tintlenee of its chan,,ed the more formidable. tone of it!. ii,liettitv into expressions of spite, and contents itself thattcriag the lowest language of scurrility. Let a nv one but read the columns of the ~arm Ti me s d i ...Worming Poet, and he svill be convinced they hoe u ndergone a 'willow/ ollerh:i,h, theinolt not a re 4,,,hofitrer. It is impossible for the parties to coo eol from themseli es the failure of the ev idenre to otablish a eve against the Qt.crx ; but they labour to „offal their convictions from their readers. If any ~.multi &obi their disposition to elisonise opinions, 1.141 m only observe their misre:oescutations of facts. It has Wu the constant labour of n.. 'sin. , Post „ : „.6,111, in conjunction with The Cgs' , to repre ,eut the rause of the QUEEN as sin!sing dry by dm jail the estimation of her 31area ry proportion alit i n the minds of the people. Those who have L a i is opportunity of c paring their descrip tions with the occurrences that actually happen, o • fou ling their accounts of her declining popu i„iic, and of h.aring the en•h s'artic cheers with ,he bas been continually received, will be at t:t loss lii assign the eleoree of confidence due to roertions, bow muck soeser they may be to ac ciao t far their assurance. It had been observed by six Of BONAP.MTE's opponents, and repeated often as a reppiach by these writers themselves, that the Ex- Emperor of France Walt not disposed to hesitate about the circulation of a falsehood, ashen it served his pur rose, though it lasted but an hour. The use of these temporary expedients, however, has not been banished by the ill fateil Bimetal, but like every French inven tion, it has been improved by English imitators. These falsehoods cannot indeed retain an hour's credit in London : but they may last a week, by circulation in tit contory. It appears a matter of surprise, we Cud fr Im the Editors of Provincial prints, how such contra dictory s atemeots as they are led to read, can appear to issue from the Lindon press. They bad it as difficult to determine the popularity of the Q.:Lts, as to decide upon her conduct towards Ber trand. By thus distorting truth, the work of preju dice is promoted through the country, and prepara utaile for the admission of even perjury itself. Well did her 31 trEsTv observe, in the admirable lett r noticed yesterday, that her adversaries might " remott their charge avid' an impre,vol artifice, more t: directed, and with a malice inflamed, rather t ian abated, hy their disappointment." These fire b tlinos hare unfortnnately been fulfilled to the very letter. Infinite industry. infinite address, and infinite eapence have been employ:4l in arranging the attempt now iu action against her. All that money could effect akuad, has been obtained ha procuring reisleece and all that money can effect at lionse in giving that evidence credence, is instantly produced. Bat after all how inadequate is the wont compared with the ar pirates ; how weak the impres-1..0 on the public mind compared with the efforts made to prepossess it. The remembrance of the false and malicious statements made I. Lally lkwitt.t.i, and of the depositions of the wititesse s who were examined in support of that former thane can n , ver be forgotten. Much aunt infinitely more than has been advanced by the wit nesses bronoht forward in the present case, would we venture t • affirm, have beets necessary to convince the I.eiiitle that the present charges hail any better foun dation or source than the former. But that impression which they derived from inference, is now about to be confirmed by the disclosure of facts. At length the hmte is arrived When we can con gratulate the country on the fulfilment of our expec tations. The curtain is drawn—the mask" are re moved—and the two principal actors in this national Drama are exhibited to the world in their real colour', Signor Non ;Ili Ricurde, and Mademoiselle Je ne me rnpellr• a.. " ! Sore a pair there ne'er was seen, ‘o justly formed to meet Its• nation•." It is curious to observe, what various ways pro ♦idence is pleased to dispense its favours. Hut, perhaps the greatest of all ►venders is the wo►►derful capacity with which these high gifted individuals are endowed. It would altmoq ..eent as if their memorie► were formed for this ter}• °erasion. Quick and precise, and accnra•e to a when any thing against the Q :EEN 1 4 asked ; but the very moment the slightest favourable hire. rotatory is put to them, a thick and cloudy tiiu► itnniedintelv covers their intellectual vision. But all will not do ; truth may be for a while concealed, but it must ultimately triumph. The edifice -must totter, where the foundation is weak. Awl an odious system founded in bribery and corrnption, cannot long exist. Such must be the fate of that Green Bag system, with the very name of which all that is revolting to the feelings of Englishmen is as aoelated. The two great pillars, upon which mainly depends its support, have already lost their centre, and we have no hesitation in propitecying, that before mas►yr days elapse, that stupendous piece of architecture will crumble into ruins. Time only can tell whether its .odious contrivers shall be crushed in its fall. `--- THE STATESMAN. TILE QUEEN. it is with no ordinary satisfaction that we con gratulate our r aders upon the result of Monday and Tuctoksy's debate, the substance of which will be found in our cooluriird. It will hr reettentbereol, that do the preceding Saturday, the great tinestion w. I, *limber her Majesty's Counsel should be permitted to cross-examine the witnesses for the frown, and yet retain the right to call them back for re-examination in a fittitre stage of the proceedings. This clear, and now solemnly decided right of the Queen's Counsel was sturdily opposed Ity the Ministry: and they con tended that the Counsel ought to proceed at once to the cross-examination, .t ht not afterwards to be at liborty t., re.exansine any of these witnesses with out the special grace and favour of the House. Their Lordships, however, condescended to hear her Ma jesty's Counsel against those of the Crown, upon this janitor:ant point ; and thence arose the before-men tioned debate. The speeches of Messrs. Brougham and Denman on this stibect will be read with the liveliest interest ; and we think few will hesitate to athetit, that for Oolitic:tee aml sound argument, these performances stand unrivalled. It is nut front the Queen alone that these Gentlemen are entitled to thanks. The whole country is indebted to them. It is not the Queen's case which is so mach in agitation as the liberties of the people at large, which • are ac tually under trial in the course of these monstrous proceedings before Parliament ; and it is never to be forgotten that the Queen's case of to day may be the case of every r•-an to-morrow. The effect of thus• speeches may he collected from the circumstances, that up to 3lunda}• afternoon, the Ministry mo•t strenuously opposed this right of the Quer u's Counsel, and appeared •tetermined to resist it with all their influence: that, on 3londay afternoon, Mr, Brougham finished his address, and that on Tuesday morning, the 3linistry retraced their steps. From the circutustanees which °craned afterwards. it may be reasonably concluded, that on 3100(13y ni g ht, th e Council sat in grand divan ; for, on the "fuestlay morn. in' in question, to the a•toni'hment of all the world. Lord Liverpool came down to the !louse, and in a short and hasty address, which savoured marvellously of an apology, proposed to the point in dis pute to the Queen's Counsel. Indeed, such was his Lordship's hurry to make the concession. that be in advertently broke through Parliamentary rule, and , moved an amendment upon his own previous motion ! When the laugh caused by this blunder had sub sided, House roceeded to discus Lord Liver pool's motion ; and then came out the begirt, that all was not as it should be at head quaiters, and that the Ministry were divided in opinion. The Lord High Chancellor opposed his brother Ministers' motion : and so equally was the strength of the House divided. that on a division, there appeared. HO for, and Teti against the-motion t leatissg a issaitority alai in fear of the glory'', and leaving the poor Chancellor by the same number in the minority As we have a few words to say about his Lordship, we think it hut iiroper to inform such of our Readers as have not the happiness o f k now in g hi m . th at t hi s Noble and Learned Lord is a man of I•Xt ; that he has been known to %lied tears in and out of Parliament; that h' frequently, and almost daily, rubs up our memories as to Ilk honesty and con science: and last, though not least, that he is as re. helot,. as Mr. Wilberforce. Such a man, one would 1111.101 W. must be a warm supporter to an unprotected ' Queen, as far as consi.-ts with his office. However, from some rause or other, notwithstanding the power ! full appeal of the Queen's Couusel. anti notwitlistand- I Tug the concession of his colleagues, this Lord mast resolutely opposed that which has been decided to be the Queen's right. He made a speech ; lie again re mind:4l ns of his honesty and his conscience: aye. and he wept. (Heaven Ides% the mark !) into the baroain. He told the Lords that in his " honest opinion" they would do very wrong ; they would commit an act of injustice and lead themselves into interminable diffi culties; they would do all this, if they granted the point in question to the Queen; " but, - added his Lordship (and observe, Reader, the ingenuity with which he broke his fall)" hut, if your Lordships' bet " ter opinion should differ from mine, I will codes " your to wade through the difficulties as well as I cam" To be sure he would, else must he have given up the seals. Let us examine this a little. Suppose two men were engaged in an undertaking, and in the progress of it, one were to stop short, and say to his coo:paid tttt , " If we do this ur that act, we shall he acting very dishonestly'" Suppose the other were to answer, " I don't think so, and I will do it;" and suppose ihe man of conscience were to reply, " Well then I will join you." What should we say to this? Why, to be sure we should say, " this man has not the undo-swirling or the honesty of the Lord Chan cellor, lint unfortunately he heard his Loalship's speech of Tuesday last." If a Minister, who had the misfortune to differ with his colleagues, were to tell them that a certain course they proposed to take, would not only lead the Par. liatuent into interminable difficulty, but would also be unjust ; anti if his colleagues, notwithstanding his opinion, should persist in that (louse, he ought not to lend himself to the execution of the measures which he had condemned, but ought rather to give up his office. Such a loco, on retiring from public life, would be followed by, at least, the respect of all his opponents. He would go into dignified seclusiol; and should he even feel disposed, occasionally, to re appear in the high Council of Parliament, on any im portant public occasion, he would, as a Peer of the Realm, be listened to with that attention and deference to which his past independent conduct would have en titled him ; and, amid the storms of contending fac tions, he wruld be esteemed and revered by aIL Bet, on the other hand However, our readers will have little difficulty in filling up the converse of our proposition, and still less in the application of it. - I ORIGINAL POETRr. TILE THIRD EPISTLE OF WILL TO MS UNCLE TOM IN Tilt COUNTRT. '• What! again!" you'll exclaim, " why, there's Hoe a week passes " Without a Intl letter.—Wife ! where ars twy gi " I hope the Lad's Well ! or, perhaps the Queen's trial 's esoninenced : for lie promis'd minutely to eye-all '• That pass'd, and report it ; pray, call neighbour Peter, Re quick, for in peeping, I see it's in metre. " Ile hasn't left off yet his odd whinssiealities, " But wants to palm fiction on sis for realities ; " I a isli lie would write me a plain down-right letter, " then comprehend his real meaning much better. 'Tis this you will reason. dear Uncle. I'm certain. Refore you proceed to break seal, or draw curtails ; Rot be not ili‘pleas'il. I will yet send you dotens Of "straight forward" letters; give this to my consin's. ithlorars I am sure. sou're the last that will quibble, its Ware to thank their for the two tr.se and giblets. And flee mutton-hams; tho' I still apprehend. I'm oblig'il more for what they are going to i .- ad ! Without saying go:. you've that gift '• second-sighr." I hese often reutark'il your conjectures will. right. The Queen is my theme, for I see no just reasm, To think a fair comment is now out of season; I ler sufferings hate raised her the hearts orate people So that they mono' on each house-top and steeple. To witness her progress, as onward she passes. Surrounded and bless'd, by all ages and classes ; Who loudly proclaim her ILL-1.'51D. and NPULtlctru. Isid that she shall henceforth by them be protected ! The trial is oa ; the Ilse UP'S Cli•e1051•K ; The :Authovs. sad Agents, in train for exposing Grimm-room. I beg pardon ! Geri 4- Hay reports highly Of effects vrialui ed. at rehearsals held slyly : Of witnesses, who, wills an air at stupidity. Are led oil and on a ith mysterious rigidity ; But perfect in all the by -play of their limn, proves, they limit- merit by has in't by heart.— Rut pray hold your awhile in suspesoe. Till their swearing is NOM, upon the defence •T will then. I trust, cleat!) appear. that the clef They rest on is reflex : their 'shimmy Aar: Light as air ! when array 'd 'gains, her life and her honour, That will pass o'er her head, without liehting sit o l hrs.. -.CANNIIIIIII is i.e,.' when he 11111Itt by his drollery. Pffeet what his colleagues could not by cajolery ; e'er though lie declared he'd not speak to offend her, ll.' stays not at home, you'll obsert e. to defend hrr : 'Tis all a state trick ! a deception a shuffle ! Intended to blind us, while pending the scuffle. hitt 'TIS LATe. and sun know. yonr strict orders debar Me. from keeping such hours ; so Dear Uncle.--" !tux vnie '• I Any. 11. 19*.V. T. 'I lie following are the 11:17Ile4 of the Itklior who voted on fleilitesilay, for avid against the Earl of Liverpool and the Lord t hancellor Pon Tim tnunctivver 1.1.0 P . roit LnRD LivenrooL. Canterbury I 1 oil Lt.don Worcester Ttisni l'lsenter BAI l gy ll r 1 4 iloncester St. Asap,' Os ford Ely Pete, Ivor• oi eh I.l.itlatt i fork and Ross , r ze t er 4t. llaritEs. te ntsderststui that flu. Dukes of York and listener, and Lord W'ellinelon. voted with the lord Chancellor. the Duke of Wont:Ester and Lord Sid ttttt uth with the Earl of Liverpool. .1 monument to the nirmary of the late lamented Duke of heist is proposed to be erected by subscription at Plymouth; and we understand, that a Committee is about to be formed there. of those friend.; of his !Loyal High ness, to whom in his life time lie was endeared by nu merous acts of kindness, and those virtues which shed a lustre on his exalted rank. In consequence of the proceedings in the House of Lord,. massy of the apartment% an d nee nsi o ns in the virinity have been !I trantrely diverted from their ori ginal destinations. Ihe apartments destined for the ace 00000 modation of the Judges of the Common Pleas have been converted into guard norm•, for the common soldiers; and the mansion, that it usually the Koyal residence has, in the absence of the chief. become the station of inferior magistrates and their runners. From the character of many of its present occupants, this edifice has the appearance of a police office rather than a palace ; hut, we may therefore hope. that what it has lint in dignity. may be counterbalanced by the addition it has received in the attribute.% atd agency of Joslire. -. Avosecunn, Are.. 19.—The passage which the Austrian Government ha• asked for troops going to Italy could nut be refused under present circums!ances. hut a declaration is said to hare beeu made, that it should not be drawn into a precedent. The Court of Vienna has engatrd to pay all the expellee. . . Captain Barlow, the author of a suec,S7fnl Prama, protium-I.d halt a eat l oll at fli7o vent -parden Theatre, and Mr. lieorge fleeces, the musical compoger, have jointly taken thr Olympic theatre a a place of winter enter tainment*. THE Ecuesr.—Our readers, who desire to possess a full account of the great Solar Eclipse, anal of all the calculations and details resppctitig it and other celestial Phenomena are informed, that they are to be found in Sysire's 13,-ansmwr s ! i' Astronomy, one of the most elegant elementary Treatises in the language. Mr. Mills has contradicted the Police Report which stated that be was convicted on Thursday of swearing twice, profanely, before the Magistrates at Bow-street. The statement he says is false, and that he is not in the habit of swearing at any time. It is true, he acknow ledges, that when Mr. Birnie said, put up the prisoner, who keeps a bawdy house. he exclaimed .. Grarions Clod. how dare you make such an assertion respecting use: My character. Sir, is as unimpeachable as your's. he you who you! may." Upon which he adds, the Gentleman acknowledged a paper had been put into his hand re specting some other person. and which he was sorry for, me tore it with tnarks of indignation. Moan ARTLCM.—.I society has been framed in the Republic of Hayti, for the purpose of aiding the free people of colour in the United States, in removing to, push settling in that island. This Society is sanctioned thio President, and proposes to raise a onthscrikion for e purpose, and to correspond with the American Co lonication, and with any other Societies. religions or benevoltit, which are disposed to aid the object, and 'provide an asylum for these distressed individuals. t . .11 •. ►: •-ide "*" J '. FOR TH4 ST I ITERAIAN: TRR ORANO&CLIPSE, ON THURSDAY . , This Eclipse will insist an appearance which few per sons in this emmlry hatie'ever witnessed. and not msnywill see again. the hint of a similar kind herbtg taken place in F7(11, and the next that elm cterir not happenlmr till 1647. In all the eastern, parts of the !eland. the eclipse will lw ttiutlar. i, r. when complete, it will 'erasion the Sun. by the interposition of the Moon. between his disk aad the earth, to have somewhat of the appearance of a #oldris lag. This annular appearance may be seen in the Shetland Islands and over • great pert of the Ceatineut, exteMling from the North Pole, by Stoat* Islintle to Westphalia, when it 1 ,:t! firrs ! enter the Continent of Europa. it wtll traverse Germany. t.r . r l'•!stearlit, and the Tyrol, skirt the Venetian Gulf. by the (Tern of Italy, by Preeenni and Altatnuen. will pass over the Morten 3 AlextindrTa, by Cmtattie, atut, terminate In the losr.lan Golf; it will sir.; ., -t exreat and ap pearance. neeortline to the eiteatios of the obserier, though the complete 'neuter eppeteence will not extend in breetith, much above PPS miles from the above-named phew.. 0 t the comas of NOrfolk and Seffolk, the erlipse Will he targ.te than to any other plate, in the k;ne ' , ono. and mitre nearly approach to an annular eppeerinre. 'rite digits of the dun's disk eclipsed, will, at Yarmouth. he pearly 11. and at Lon dun. 10 and en half, so that onle ^re-twelfth, or one-twelfth and • half of the Sun's disk will enpear. The annular or ring of light will he he!' a digit. or one twenty-fourth of the Sun's apparent , iientear. . Front the Ir.rge proportion of ti.' Sun's disk obecer l ad the tlarkne.f. ter rather gloom in Lembo, whieit will be oeet siotied by the eschew. twist be very grim, la London it will be 01-sereed to rommence fo toe right hand a rite Sra'• uppermost point, at rt 4 minutes past twelve o'clock. The middle or time co' the greatest olneuration. aitl be at 33 minutes past 09* . : and the eclipse will end at 17 minutes past three. 'file duration of the eclipse will he two hours 33 minutes; the duration of the annular is ill not, iu say piece. exreed six minutes. Greatest Oscura lion one hourllB minutes. Should the day prove favourable. it 14 highly probable that durin..; the greatest obscerati-,n many persons will be surprised and gratified with the appearance of the plaaets and some of 'be fixed stars, at a little alter coon day. Venus may be ‘ern about 41 degrees westward of the Sun, and at an Aeration of about 24 degrees. If Mars should he seen, he 'till he 'bout 3 degrees eastward of the Sun. One of the fixed oars 31 least to the northward of the Sun. will pro- batik be as in that direction the greatest darkumes nil ' , retail. Those who hale the as-istance of a good telescope. defended by a coloured Om; to protect the eye fr.,m the will n .t fail to olverve the mountains and other irrereilarities on the cireHmrerritur of the Southern limb of the 'norm, as they are to he seen to the greatest ad vantage daring the time the moon Is upon the Sun's Individuals mho cannot obtain this aid, may observe the general effect of the erl'pse by using two pieces of window glass, of two or three inches long, and about half an inch broad, well smoked in the flame of a candle. and fixed toge ther with a threm: or sealing wax. The German papers received last night, represent the state of Rielly as a prey to all the horrors of anarchy and civil war. The channel, however. through which this intelligence comes, leads us to hope that the accounts are exateemateal.- It is natural for the Austrian Govern ment to state a good excuse for their interference, as it is said that Prince Metternich has caused three notes to be issued, relative to the affairs of Naples. The nest calls the attention of the German Princes to the danzers with which the Revolution at Naples menace the rio ral peace. as well as the public trantinillity annonnees that a con.iderahle body of troops is already on the march for Italy, in order to provide for the seenrity of the Austrian Provinces; and states that the presence of these troops will be sufficient to hinder the propagation of the revolutionary spirit in the Trans-Alpine Peninsula. The Second Note is addressed to the Great Powers. It invites them to concert together the general measures to be adopted at this moment, relative to the affairs of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. The Third Note is addressed to the Italian Ptinees: Austria offers them its protection against every aggres sion. and renews its guarantee of the integrity, as well as the independence of their dominions. The Emperor of Austria is stated to have rennune•d his journey to the interior of Hungary, since he has been officially certified of the approaching arrival of the Em peror Alexander, which will be on the Ist of September. His Majesty will wait at Vienna for the Emperor of Russia, and in all probability they will not set out tor. thee for Perth till about the 15th of September. Extract of a letter from Calais, dated Aortas% 28 : —" A person embarked h. re yesterday, in a packet specially provided for the purpose by the English Consul, to give evidence against the Qu?en. The Consul gut an English Lieutenant of Marines of the name of F. to take charge of the witness to L►ndon. and he was particularly directed to allow of no com munication between the witness and any person on the road. They were not to land at Dover, but somewhere else on the coast." Drury-lane Theatre, previous to its opening for the Winter Season, is to undergo a variety of ju!lieious alterations. The ceiling is to be lowered at least eight feet, which trill exclude from the audience part of the Rouse, the present Upper Gallery and Slip Boxes. The Two Shilling Gallery is to'be formed into the upper one, and the Boxes under, into the Lower Boller•. The Theatre is also to be newpainted sad ornamented. Int•tt P. O*ISION TR.4IIN --We have the iatisfec ' tion to state, that the Victualling Board have Awe to the determination of not • curing, dative; .the Peace, any more English Beef. For the linen VI they have been in the habit of killing froon• 180114, lOUU head of Cotle at Deptford Viers*Hint %lid' , foe the use of the Army and Navy : hut imbue!: eh/ inte riority of the Irish Meat, they •have iitteirldosul to disconinue the ptactiee. 'Twill; be •a -higher satis faction to learn, that, in eatimaparisee, a Mite quaa tity at mit provisions, of Irish Manufacture, well he agreed fur in the Autumn ',strait than is at present I advertised for.—(Seedie rm. Ile cry. : • . 41119 S be.. .S "r 0 • ail ilw% . ; I