The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-01-30 00:00:00

to principle, even arairst their wordly interests.—(Ap planse).--Iltit when he saw individnals step out of their proper place, not to advise, to reclaim, or to persuade, I.nt e.tht:tosiate the people, to impute to them inten tions whirl, they abhorred, lie did not think that a more acceptable duty could be performed, than to hold such filen before the country in their proper colours.—(Ap planse).—The Worthy Alderman next alluded to what was called '° A Meeting of the Constitutional Associa tion for opposing the progress of disloyal and seditious principles, field on Friday, the twenty-second of Decem ber, ES2O, at the King's hoed Tavern, in the Poultry, London. Sir John Sewell, Knight. LLD., in the Chair."—That Meeting put forth.an Address, in which! they stated that what were called Loyal Addresses were framed by bodies of men in different parts of the king. dom, without, concert or communication.—Now it was a notorious fact, that all these Addresses were manufac tured in the same shop, and were transmitted front the Treaonry to different parts of the kingdoai.—(Applatise.) The Livery would recollect, that by the law passed in lhlj, it was enacted, that no meetings should be held tinder the name or in the form of Clubs, and that no Corresponding Societies should be permitted, yet in c: ,,0 1 defiance of that statute this Loyal Association agreed to appoint a Committee for conducting the business of the Society."—And secondly, " To adopt u system of correspondence with those members who live at a distance, and with such associations as may he williew to co-operate in promoting the same oisleeto." When he (Alderman %V.) first saw the Address which is sued from that Meeting, he really thought it was a oivindling transaction.—(A laugh.) He bad never heard of the name of sir John Sea-ell, Knight—he inquired after him in rain, and not haring been able to find it any where else, he looked into the Red Rook, and there he found the none of the worthy Knight regularly enrolled as a Judge of the Admiralty fur Malta, with a salary of VOW. a year, and a pension of 4001. a year. He was not able to ascertain bow many attended at that cele brated Meeting; but be would not be surprised if it re sembled the Loyal Meetings which had already had the merit of giving to the world the celebrated placard of tio it my boys." He had seen some of the publications which ("We from that quarter, and he would not hesitate to say that he never read any thing more disgraceful, brutal, or obscene. One publication was called " A Parody on the Pilgrim's Progress," which gave in the vino; emblazoned and exaggerated way the most disgust ing parts of the evidence on the Queen's trial, evidence , which he need not remind the Meeting was proved to be equally false and scandalous.—(.lpplanse.) There, how ever, it was put forth with prints of the most digusting i'vscription, by way of illustration. It was a pity that Society for the Snppression of Vice did not turn its uttentinn to those publications they would find there tit subjects for punishment. Ile did not misrepresent those fold publications, hut if any Gentleman wished for fur er satisfaction, he hall only to go to Wright's, in Fleet s-reet, and satisfy himself. - The Worthy Alderman said, tl.at he would not at that late hour take up more of the tine of the Livery. He hoped that when the friends of I:hertv were attacked, they would not only he able to de fend themselves, but to throw back etery foul imputation upon their enemies. The Resolutions were then put and unanimously agreed to, as were Petitions to both Houses of Par- I:ament. 3lr. Canoes moved, that the Petition to the House oi Lords should be presented by the Mike of Bedford ; and tl at to the House of Commons, by Mr. Alderman Wood. .tgreed to. Mr. Alderman Worst) said, that it was unnecessary for 1 int to say that he would on this occasion be happy to di';ey the instrtictions of his cosistitieents. He was glad that the meeting was 1141 after the discussion on Lord A. Hamilton's motion. The fate of that motion would pretty clearly chew the little regard that the House of Commons paid to the Petitions of the people. The very right when that motion was brought on, Petitions from all parts of EuelAnd were presented in such numbers, no to take up foot hours in the brief description of them; and yet, in defiance of those Petitions, in direct oppo s'tion to the declared wishes of the nation, the House of Commons refused to censure the order which excluded the name of her Majesty from the Liturgy. lie was glad to see the resolutions of time Livery of London; aley would, lie had no doubt, give a tone to the whole country—all England, he hail no doubt, would follow the example of the City of London. It really became a intestion whether the people of England, who were in Vie right, should he put down by the Minister, who was in time wrong. Englishmen were not in the habit of submitting to insult or oppression, and Ministers were much mistaken if they thought that one decision of the House of Commons would put down the spirit of the country. He hoped that a Learned Gentleman (Mr. Wetherell), whose speech on the question pronounced Cie other night in the House of Commons, was allowed or all bands to be a muter-piece of clear and forcible I .gal argument, would bring the main question before P.mriisimient. The question was by no 1111.211% disposed of. It was impossible that her Majesty ever would give v p that point.—(Loud Cheers.)—Ministers might make the absurd calculation, that by allowing her a large slim of money she would go Own:A—that the people would tors eke her, and no more wonld be heard about the Li tergy. They knew little of the proud and indignant feelingwof her Majesty. The very day of Lord A. Ha milton's motion, she assured Mr. l)enman and Mr. Brougham that she would not give np that right as long as she existed.—(Continued cheers.)—As to money, she felt indifferent on that point. It was never her wish to waste the money of the people.—(Applause.)—One dinner a day, would serve her; she required little for herself. Site only wished for the means of rewarding Close who had a fair claim upon her; money considera tions were not, therefore, what she regarded, but her rights as Queen she was determined to maintain. She knew that her great support was the People of England. 'fit were not for them she would have been trampled upon; the only sought for her right*, and, inlonking for them, . looliem! forward with confidence to the unabated and generous assistance of a noble hearted people. It was said, bedew', that tale looked for merre•thas.bee riglits— . it was asserted thit, Ih some of her Answers, she called the people her subjects; that was not trite. Ile would defy any person to put his hand on a single Answer tr.litstwilme railed the people her subjects. Indeed, every circumstance connected with her 3iajesty, was tortured' and misrepresented. Even one circumstance. which he dire not state, and which regarded Ter only beloved child—which. if he were at liberty to state, would extort the applause of every feeling beatt, yet even that cir cumstance was attempted to be turned against her ,Ma jesty by her unfeeling enemies. Mr. FAVELL came forward to propose a vote of thanks to the Lord Mayor, whose independent conduct al a public man was a subject of general applause. His Lordship was a very patient man, and never was leis patience put to so great a test as it was lately by a cer tain faction of traders and bankers who met at his own }mouse.—(Applause.)—Those Gentlemen thought fit to hiss Mr. Baring, and even the Lord Mayor himself, and by the force of clamour disturbed the whole of the proceedings. Yet these were the men who accused the people of disorderly conelnct; they inveighed against Public Meetings, though it was in the recollection of many wen that Mr. Pitt and his friends constantly had mourse to Public Meetings; but they no longer an swered the objaets of Ministers, and therefore they were discountenanced. He hoped, however, that the people would penmen and preserve those rights, in the de- - - • _. 46. fence of which the best Mood of their ancestors had been shed. - -- - The motion was put and carried with great applause. The LORD NLIVOR said, that he received the thanks of Isis fellow-citizens wiiit great satisfaction. lie hoped he would ever maintain, as far as he could, the rights of his fellow-citizen.. The Hall then dissolved. The following are the Letters alluded to by the Lord Mayor : "MT Loan,—l beg that you will do me the honour to communicate my sincere tlinnks for the notice so kindly and partially taken of me at the Meeting of the Lord 1 , Mayor, Aldermen. and Livery of the several Comps-' nies of the City of London, in Comuton Fall assem bled, on Friday. the I.lth December jest. I feel with pride and satisfaction that the principles which through a long •Rte I have uniformly maintained in our itarliatnents and Courts of Justice, are the same which animate and distin relish the Citizens of London. I acted in conformity with them during the late proceedings In the House of Lords, and they may depend upon m r constant and invariable sup port of the free principles of thelltilish Government: " I have the honour to he. with great respect and regard, " Your Lordship's most faithful bumble Servant. " ERSKINE.- " It Arabella-row. Lower Grosvenor-plare, Jan. le, HMI. " To the Right lion. the Lord Mayor." " Old Burlington-street, Dec. SI, lstO. "My Lora n MAYOR-1 am much gratified in the comma& cation of the Resolution of the Mayor, Aldermen. and LIMP rymen of the City of London. in which they were pleased to notice. with approbation, my opposition to the Rill of Pairs and Penalties. which was lately under the consideration of the Hence of Lords. I ant hardly entitled to so flattering a distinction. Nothing hot the orders of the House would have induced me to attend so irregular. unnecessary and dis ruling a proceeding ; and when compelled to do so. I did eothiug but my duty in voting. against it. It is. however. some compensation for the time unprofitably and unplea santly spent in the inquiry, to find that my conduct during It has met with the approbation of so greet and respectable a body of my fellow-countrymen, as the Common Hall of the City of London. I heg you. my Lord, for them and your self, to accept my acknowledgments and to believe me with every consideration and respect, " Your Lordship's obliged and obedient bumble serv ant, " VASS %LI. HOLLAND." FOR THE SFATESMA.V. PARLIAMENTARY REFORIL—Fora Lerritsg. LFTTFR I. TO THE PUBLIC. In the disastrons eiremnstanees of a nation, it is admitted to he the duty of evert• citizen, by atir means in his power, to contribute to its redress. On this ground the following views are submitted at the present time to the candid consideration of sty countrymen. Wherever we turn we meet the sound, or sight of distress. The opulent are pertiorlied ; the commercial world is convulsed ; onr matinfarturers and shop keepers without employment ; of the remaining part of our trailing community. how comparatively few those neither ruining nor retreating; %chile of all are daily added to the enormous lists ef hankruptcy. Occupiers of the soil arc alike dismayed ; their re sources wasting z awl themselves awl families fast • winking into poverty. lint how can he contemplated the ravages of our laborious community Agricultural labourers, and to which now must be added, our handicraft aml manufacturers, without eus ployment, or hope of relief, sinking into despair. flow numerous the Catalogues of crime! From murders the most gross, and acts the most atrocious, to the lowest pilfering. of the infant, how are we assailed ! In defiance of the threatened steel-trap at almost every corner, what village lessees are destroy ed ; orchards ; cattle are not safe in our fields, nor goods on our rivers ; depredations in the streets at noonday so notorious, as even to convey the, idea of a licensed trade ; and yet bands of military, and police. so anomalous to our country's habits, are found in every direction. That such complirated evils should have been per mitted, is certainly attributable to that dread of inno vation which is so roach the characteristic of our nation, and throngh which influence ills are often borne even after their pressure and applicable relief have been ascertained. The hour is however arrived when the application of the suitable moans is become the general demand. The Itritiah lion arises, Ile arises, and slan!.ser is no longer. To discover t h e re medies for such a miserable state of things, let us at tend to the established axiom which exhorts us when seeking a removal of evils, to estatuiue into the causes which have prodneed them. For a series of years have we to lament, itoth in the conduct of our civil economy, and of our external re lations, the total absence of the principles of equity, which raised our island to greatness. The usinds of the most eissioent statesmen have been alarmed at the progress of opinions and measures which could not fail to engender dissatisfaction and confusion. Wurs, undertaken with our colonies, and with inde pendent states, originating in the post nefarious. gad. mistaken policy, and marked In their hideous career by a consistency its error the most frantic ; the waste of treasure too aitenslant on such widespread hostility. connected in every department with a profligacy of expenditure the most senseless, n sting, anti de praved ; while attempts to stifle its complaints hare been fearfully invading the rights and privileges of the people. • • It will be easily perceived that these systems of a ge gression, pertinaciously pursued, while enriching some indirldnral, coold not but devastate oar great national, interests. Trade, notwithstanding a temporary ini= pulse, which the cirenmstances of hostility, and espe cially the success of our fleets had given birth to, was evidently undermining. To this the great rents of land, or visioned much by the enormity of taxation, had considerably contributed ; while the nations, by adopting cheap 'accedence of native prOdactiooe,- wodld necessarily, with difficulty, he brought' at time return of a peace so tardy, to replace with otti.own.• The occupiers of the - soilkes, as we hture.sewn, un able to contend with mach rent and importaymtd The overwhelming berth', of Poeni•rsteo‘lhave iteelesealt been involved is common . eilamity. • 4 The suitable *remedy far inch inhappy eireum-, rim 4 44 4 stances, and to rewire droving trade, it is evident, must he preceded by an imperious abstinence from all future schemes of foreign aggressinn an .l i n t er f erence with the rights of independent stater. Certainly our landed proprietors will recognise a common interest in reducing the rents of their lands. It will be essen tial that those restrictions upon our commercial inter course which have, at least in modern times, become obsolete, should he abandoned, and a judicious ar rangement succeed our army be almost wholly re duced, and a system, dictated by the principles of wisdom and experience in the conduct of our national defence, be introduced. Equitable taxation, and approved modes of ma naging our finances will be acted on. lin the collection of the taxes also the plans of jndi cions persons will be adopted. A real and efficient economy must be introduced into every branch of expenditure. Details of these, it is unnecessary here to mention. By these means, and the cultivation and employ ment of all improvensent in sciences and the arts, the perseverinr energy of our countrymen will be doubtless effectually struggling with difficulties as heretofore. DELTA. CORPORATIONS versus Mgt LIBERTY grad PUBLIC PROSPERITY SECOND SERIES:—LErssit IX. " Time lay* open frauds. and after that discovery there is no passing the tame trick upon the mice.--I:EsvaAsoe. Stst—The frauds of the (ireen Bag Administration, and all the other members, tools, and agents of the accursed system, are :low fully exposed to public view, and can never be obliterated from the memories of the p 'or starved mice, the people. Never will the people of this country again suffer themselves to be &Wed by the same set of tricksters, or under the same hollow pretences. The political knowledge which they have so dearly acquired, can never he nnlearnt. The people at large have a full compre hension of their proper interests, and of the umuner in which they have hitherto been deceived. By the discussions of the last six months, the rising gene ration of Britons have become a new race of Beings. In this age of illnmination, the adherents of the pre vailing system of misrule, have alone remained in ignorance. Having but little collision with the ex ternal world, and accustomed to regard their own faction as the universe, they are utterly incapable of judging of the real state of public opiuion, or the protrress of knowledge. Like :genies, whenever a ray of light breaks into their cells, they are ready to try " fire." But on this occasion, they will cry in vain; for no miracle will come to their assistance: nor, ex cepting by their immediate partisans, a single bucket of water he brought to quench the conflagra tion. Their usual watch-words of " sedition," " trea son," " blasphemy," " Ste. which they had heretofore employed With but too much su-cess, are worn thread-bare, and except by a few fanatics or maniacs, now held in the utmost derision. Still they will proceed in their blind and furious career, heedless, or perhaps unaware of the farther calamities which they are about to bring upon the country. in stead of bending their whole attention, as Statesmen of ordinary integrity and understanding would feel themselves bound to do, to an inquiry into the mise ries already afflicting the different classes of the com munity, and into their causes and remedies, all their care seems to.be to stifle inquiry, and to allow the evil to t;:ke its course. It was, doubtless, in a great measure with a view to divert the attention of the public from their universal and severe sufferings, and to anspend their complaints, as well as from their total incapacity to calculate upon probable results, that Mrnisters au ragerly bewildered themselves in the ne farious proceedings against their Queen, by which their own downfall, if not the ruin of the country, is shout to he accelerated. Bit, neither in their blind ness, selfishness, or perverseness, are the Ministers of the Crown either singular, or unequalled ; nay, I question whether they are unsurpassed. In illustra tion of these remarks, let ns take a view of the con duct, upon the present e mergency, of their rivals for place, the Whigs, as they are usually called. Did they, as a body, conic forward, boldly, manfully, wisely, generously, and at once, as men in their shuts alion would have done, if of free and uncorrupted minds, in defence of an obviously persecuted, and to lie presumed innocent woman, and that woman their (,Inert so! with the exception of a few choice spirits, such as must always exist amongst a numerous body, they meanly skilled and held aloof, until they found that the magnanimous people of England showed an unanimous determination (for the hole and corner men are not worth the eounting upon a division) not to stiffer their illustrious Queen to be persecuted to de struction by any authority +miler Heaven. They thou indeed began to evince, with a degree of cautions ad measurement, just so much integrity and zeal in the cause of justice, as they conceived might entitle them, by the help of some comparative public favour, with out raising premature obstacles to their preferment by pronouncing the Queen decidedly innocent, to replace their foolish and desperate opponents. They have also, in a similar spirit of discernment, generosity, nnd wisdom, pronounced such oracular opinions upon the subject, whirls is utmost of all deserving of considera thin, both as a remedy for present, and a preventive of future evils,--a reform in the representation of the, people,—that they have forfeited all claim to that pub lie confidence, which they were ambitious, upon this occasion, of obtaining : and the lengths, which they have gone in favour of the Queen, although lint paltry, are not likely to recommend them in other quarters. It would he exceedingly amusing for a stranger to heur,..in the " Chambers" of Parliament, the taunts of the veterans of each battalion upon those of the opposite ranks, defending their own transgressions by, the worse, trausgressions of their adversaries, if ho mold wholly abstract his mind from the contempt*. Iles, of thp dire calamities into which their trans gressions respectively have plunged the nation. If the opposition really imagine that they them-• i aches could govern the nation, in its present un happy . state,, without a thorough Reform of Par liament, we must suppose them to be Inferior in slipceroniont even to Ministers, since these may the thee" nnarally be presumed to fall into such a delu sion respecting themselves, froth their long habits •of 'misrule. It is folly, or bulkily % to think of any re- actual and impending, sh ort inetly for our calamities, of a Reform of Parliament ; or of a Reform of Par. liament, short of an extension of suffrage to hotme. holders, and equal representation. This is the smallest quantum of reform, which is compatible with the extinction of corrupt influence ; and therefore, the snit hest for which the nation ought to contend: and, if the opposition are not ready to go this leer* and at once, they shall have no vote of mine. I ds not like the recent declarations either of Lord Grey, or Lord Holland, upon this suhjrct. They are, kr i oho means, sufficiently explicit : they are, on the cos. teary, guarded With a degree. of caution, which is hat 01 calculated to inspire vonfitlence, and quite unwortliv of the high character of their authors. The ides of .r 1 Orey in particula:-, with respect to time, which even in a few months the fate of the country mar br decided. I must, with whatever pain, most earnestly deprecate. A great deal to. lunch time has b ee% already lost: and, in my own humble opinion, the d e . lay of a single clay, ought not to take place, after the lousiness of the Queen is disposed of, in bringing t o . ward this all important question. But it seems, as the affairs of her Majesty are drawing toward amine' s , sion, new tubs for the whale ale to be looked out for, to prevent us from undertaking too close as examinstiee of our real condition ; and a),plying the only remedy for our distresses ; and the first of these tubs is to be presented to nit by the Whigs. An attsek is to he made on the Press, on Thursday next, and It is to be c om menced by that venerable Whig gentleman aid Irish patriot, Sir John Newport. It seems that some one has questioned the divine right of the two " Chambers " of Parliament of legislating wrung, It is of course a breach of this privilege to say that Castlereagh and Co. do nut possess the confidence of the people, since they possoss the eoafideuce of the House of Commons, and the House of Commons ate the virtual representatives of the people; however unanimously the people then.seives mot express their detestation of them and petition for their dismissal from office. We shot! see how far the proceedings announced by Sir John Newport may be calculated to show that his party are the fittest persons to mead them. Between these two parties, the pithlic eta hive no reasonable ground of preference : and, is faet; they do not care a straw which of them are is office. Their principal reason for wishing the dis missal of their actual misrulers, is their sense of the gross insults and injuries, which they have meetly heaped upon the nation, in the person of our Quell; and their only regret, at their dismissal, would pre. ',ably he that the Whigs should succeed thew These ►►'higs will find that, without the people, Of are politically nothing, and never can h e any inn: whilst, by taking a decided, an unequiroed Part with.the people, they might effect an imturdote isi efficient reform, and avert despotism or rt . oluti". lint, n little longer, and it will be too hte ; is the common ruin, which must succeed, they OH meet tbe fate which their tergiversations merit. tRISTIDO. Hl6ll WATER AT LONDON BRUME ro-nontow Morning, 0 nein. Ow It—Everting, 9Snrin. after!. • CIMARIAII I. 1111Anyvasam.--11oUday Offices. epc Abtatesisitan. " TUN 1111117111111 PTA'S/WAN" IS ISCORPDMIATED 111711" TM STATtsWiTi." LONDON: Tv',DAT vrtxml, JA:rt.diaT 30, MI. Paris Papers to the 29th inst. arrived this mintier. No business of any interest has been transacted either in the Chambers of Peers, or that of the De puties. letters from Laybach, of the 13th inst. state that the Emperor ALIMANDItII arrived there on the 7th. la the morning of the Sth the EMPEROR of Anstria tr psired to Ober-Layhach to receive the KING of Napier. + and at noon the two Monarch, arrived in the tonsil the same carriage. The KING appears older this k really is ; nevertheless he possesses a serene sad vt• : tied air. On the anniversary of his birth-day, the two Emperors paid him a congratulatory visit. Yr reign Ambassadors arrive daily. In an Augsburg article it is stated, that a fresh per motion has taken place in the Austrian army. Letters from Bologna, dated Jan. 14, mention that Cardinal Spina, Ambassador there from his Nohow, has received an order to repair to Laybach. Letters from Bayonne, says a French Ministerial par , contain the following observations. " Our commerce. with the Peninettla becomes every day more liniited; est' to say that it is entirely destroyed. This is less °wally . the establishment of the Dew decrees recently passed i Spain, than to the state of inquietude in which Ida ' and the other principal' towns experience , and whist paralises all speculations. Letters from Madrid, Caits , Seville, and Barcelona, agree in the opinion that I, crisis is inevitable in that kingdom. Many fearsso enterta:ned, as to the ultimate fate of Spain. ERRNCII Fuse us.—Five per cents-81f. 60t. gal Actions, 15001. New York and Boston Papets arrived this 10 ing to the Ilth of January 1821. From these we r the following extracts : Nonvout, Dec. 26...—Captain ETON s of the Alpha lel Omega, reports from Cape Haytien, that four days le. fore he sailed two French frigates, laying off all sent in a flag of trice to President BOYER ; Carla. could not learn the purport of this message, an I oothi° k bad transpired when he sailed from which it might conjectured. It, however, had excited much tril l lion among the inhabitants. PROM TUE NATIONAL :INTILLICIINCeII. INTELLIGENCE FROM AFRICA. Jobs Adams, of the Island de Loss, Oct. / 116 ; 11 " &thalami to my last communication, Pyr_, Hornet, we bare continued cruising o ff the cw front Cape Sierra Leone to Cape Itiulosada• aimed a few days since M Sierra Lowe , 011 ; the Rev'. Mt. Cones, the only surv ivin g ars