The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-12-15 00:00:00

~,, 46177 t • rie•• • 1 4 I • • WIN by those who protons the control • , I can peollese those Gentlemen, that, if ' t heir object, they will he os vigilantly heir predecessors, by the Independent constitutional freedom. Shall T , however from the merits of Mr. Brougham, in . endeatoors to wsest from the grasp of lord) the'pro'perty of tile poor, because, in his da to Stay fancy - dso osants.go.— , t .y - C 1 At , orttey• General l—Shell (invidiously character of that good many Mr. Bennett, or vilify his meritorious exertions to alleviate the miseries of imprisonmeot, because be generally votes with a /,arty? Or shall I disturb the ashes of • Romilly, •nd taint thefait lame which he acquired by his en deavours to lessen the horrors of our Criminal Law, because his voice was usually raised from the benches Of the regular Opposition? Sooner would I cut off this right hand, than be guilty of any such injustice . But thus mach I must be permitted to say, on he. til( of the Concentric Society, that rbilst we dero. gale not from the merits of others, • still higher pie PO of praise is, in our opinion, due to that man vita, in the integrity of his Parliantentarx conduct, looks for on reward but the still small vorcsof ppproving conscience, and, it may be, ar. ikrity .4 be, the approbation of the intelligent m1.00,1* boos. 6• Gentlemen, en these grounds, I now call upon yea to give expression to your feelings of respect end esteem for the Parliamentary conduct of the I3arooet, by drinking his health, nlib three times three cheers." :~ -41 14 r•i 4 oa 4.4VG11 P4PERS. -i(inson• • ) le, • •. Pisan, 11.—Yesterday (Thorwlay) Ike 10th December, 1818, the King opened the Session of the tChembers in the Hell of the Chamber of Deputies. 4141 a Majesty set out frosts the Palace of the 'f huilleries St 'so o'elock in greet state. la the Kiog's carriages were remarked the Peers of freuge i theMersliels, the Chevaliers of the Royal .. 0 0 1 41 us the Gelled Geosses of the Royal and Mili ,taey Order of SC Loeb, of the Royal Order of the .14/ioa of :Honour, do Grand Officers of this Order, end the Commanders of the Order St. Louis. . Tie National Guard, the Royal Guard, and 'Viol troops of the line in praises at Paris, formed a *sae along the King's passage. • Salvoes of artillery announced the arrival and .departure of his Majesty. A Deputation of twelve Peer., and one of twenty-five Members of the Chamber of Deputies, received the King at the foot' of the staircase of the Grand Peristyle. The King placed himself on his Throne, haring „Monsieur nu his right trend, sod the Duke of Berri on hip left. The Duke of Orleans was on the right of the King, next to Monsieur. The Duchess of :Berri, the Duchess of Orleans, and Mademoiselle d'Orleans. occupied a tribune in front of the King's Throne. The Assembly rose, and was uncovered. ,The King said, " Messieurs, the Peers, take your mats." The Chancellor of France, in the name of ids Majesty, gave the Deputies permission to sit. Ail being seated, the King pronounced his speech. [His Majeste's Speech was • published in • the AriTESSI4 IV of yesterday.] , His Majesty's Speech was beard with a profonaill And respectful intention ; but w hen his Majesty pro. moroced the words, " I depend on your concurrence to repel those pernicious principles which, under the ,mask of liberty, attack social order, conduct by anarchy to absolute power, arid whose fatal success has cost the world so much blood nod tears," a spontaneous and general burst, acclamations and cries .of " Vice le Roi!" a thousand times repeated, corn. yelled his Majesty to suspend his Speech. When the King rose to retire, acclamations burst forth anew,artd cries of Vire le Roii Vine los !jean-. bons! were heard from every quarter of .the Hall.— (tlentileur.) • The Commission named by the Allied Menarche tra.regelate at Frankfort the different affairs of Ger. inskny, not yet terminated, will be composed on the feet of Austria by the Baron de Wesseuberg ; on that of Rassis by the Baron d'A 00,11 ; on that of lorgland by Lord Clanrarty ; rite , oathatof Prussia by the Baron d'Humboldt. Freock Funds, Dec. 10.—Five per Cuts. 65 f. 70c. W• eak Stock, 1545 f. per Cent "My - India Rondo 79 Long Ann. Exchequer ellh 16 10 p Opiniunt • . _ _~.~ y rested in these prosecutions as was generally sop posed,sud that its practice in this respect was founded on the most merciful considerations. Really, this is a modest assertion after the numberless prosecutions and executions that the Public have witnessed for forgeries on the Threadneedle-strert paper. The Bsuk has indeed taken especial care to soffer as little as possible by the imitation of its Notes ; but if it is so little interested in the prosecutions—if the re tail traders (shame to its considerations!) ore the persons in general who take the forged Notes, end suffer by them, how does the Bank always appear in the indictment as the prosecutor and the sufferer ? and if such an assertion be acknowledged to be false, how can such an indictment stand ? The Bank is not the sufferer in any case of forgery ; and, there fore, not the prosecutor, if justice were not cor rupted in all her sources. Let it not, however, be supposed we advocate the cause of Forgers. No ; let item be detected—brought to justice—and con. victed on rood and sufficient evidence; but 'let no humanity be outraged by mock trials and the esi deuce of " oracles." The French Papers to the 12th inst. have been re ceived. They are nearly filled with the details of the opening of the Legislative Session by the King in person. A copy of the King's Speech appeared in our Paper of yesterday. The Chambers were to meet yesterday for the dispatch of business. It is said that one of the first measures to be proposed will be a prosisional law to continue the existing imposts till the Budget for 1819 shall have been adopted by them. The Duke of Racuer.ten, we are sorry to learn, has beets for some days seriously ill. The French Funds continue to decline. The closing price on Thursday was 65f. 70c. On Saturday (ac cording to an express received in the City yesterday) they fell sO low as 634 (some accounts say GOD; but it is added, that when the express left Paris, at five o'clock in the afternoon, they had rallied con siderably, add left off et 65. Dutch am) Hamburg,' Mails, with Papers from Brussels, have also arrived. It is affirmed, on the authority of letters from Paris, the propriety of suf. feting thoestorn of the Eailes incioded in the Pali- , mince of Banishment, , his been discussed In tlfig Prench Cabinet ; and At yersbel Sort.T, MOWN of Doogy, and AestAol,,Aiws to be 'allowed to re turn. CAuctois .I.elleitjte, one of these exiles, has published at the Hague a bold Petition to the Second Chamber of the Slates General, in which he says that a duty has been imposed on her to teach the People hut la read their rivressots. Count F• B ERNST qi the Prussian Minister for Foreign Affairs, i is said, to proceed to Brussels, to re. Oc t SUMP the n °dation, for a cession of territory by 1 the kingdom of the Netherlands in favour of Prussia. 1 Wtmovon, DEC. 14.—The Bishop of Lownom went not of waitivg on Saturday, from having the care of the Kix°, mid left here. His Lordship was relieved by Lord ARDEN. Soon after breakfast on Saturday morning, the Duchess of GLOCCEsThIt left the Castle and proceeded to her residence at lisgshot.pirk, where her Royal Highness remained some time view. ing the repairs, alterations, and improvem•nls that have been going on for some months post ; llfternards her Royal Highness returned here to dinner. The Princevi SOPHIA'S health is much improved. Iler Royal Highness rides out in her carriage daily, ex cept when prevented by the weather. The Duke of YORK arrived at the Castle on S.ttorday, anon after two o'clock, on ot visit 111 his Royal Sisters, arid afterwards proceeded to Oallands. Yesterday, soon after one o'clock's tbe Duke of Yodw arrived at his Molise in St. Jailefll Plitt', from Oatlands. 0 . Colonel JOSEPH *BATLEY k appointed Grnom of the Bedchamber, in the room of the late Colonel BRADYLL. The complements Ivf thit tibis ten. brigs employed on home service ere ordered to be incroaaed to their foil war ritiblishment,• which• will employ an addi tional Lieutenant and nine moo in each of theme• !tear-Admiral the Hon. Sir HENRY BLACKWOOD, flirt. it is Said, will succeed Sir ittcnAun Klnts i : l Bart. as Commander-in-Chief in the Kist I odies.l , o' Lord ELLENDOIROCCII was the son of Dr. LAM", formerly Bishop of Carlisle. After rising In some eminence at the bar, he was appointed Atturney• General in 1801 (without baring previorrsly been So. ' licitor•General,in Consequence of both offices becom ing vacant at the sometime), and the next year, in con. sequence of the death Of Lord K mom. he was ap pointed to the distinguished situation of Odor JOI ice, of England. On the lat April, 1802, he was created a Peer by. the 'title of Lord Ellenborough, Bar4n Of Ellenhorough, in the county of Cumberland. lie was also a GoverrroV of the Charter.houce, and F.S.A. lie married in October, 1782, Miss 'town's', daughter of GEORGE PHILLIPS 'Poway, Esq. by whom he had issue, 1. Eirwonn (a Member a the House of Commons in the 14.4 Parliament), now I, , vril ' 14kr.vraoitoucn, who married December 11, 1813, (.arty OCTAVI A STEWABT tioughter of the Marquis of Lonnonticeler; 'end sisturto Lord CAirmaKracti —2. CuAwl.thc'Ew/LN, married May et, 1811, ELIZABETH Sopela'Malepor Sir CH AN Lel RTHEIATON NIOIMPIGALE, haft:-B.Meutir.-4.Joame-6. ELI. s ABETH-6. ANNE—and 7.1 daughter ; bora Jab uo ry 11, 1812. sari any subject of less importance tha n politics, this dilemma would be of little conseqatese s to the Public. If any of your ingersioea.Ceeest spondettis affirmed and undertook to prove that snow n ithin the Arctic Circle fell red from the clouds, con. trading that colour from the rays of the eon being condensed by the cold, aed mixed with the flocutiof such snow, some of your Readers of such an analysis of a new phenomenon might he amused, and none of them injured in their feelings ; hut in the case which makes me now addre,ts ou it is very different.... With respect to the necessity of a REFORM, I be. Here from my soul, that a very large majority of the People are now agreed in, and not the smallest per. lion of that majority insist, that to be effectual in saving the Stale from dissolution, or at least from a violent convulsion, it moat not be long deferred... _ . There is no doubt then but that in the approaching meeting of Parliament the important ;abject will be earnestly taken up ; on which occasion we may es. pea that the enemies of the People's freedom will offer their old objection to taking up the question, by seeing, " it is idle and wain to enter upon the discussion of this topic of dangerous innovation and experiment, for the very Reformers themselves are not agreed about what they wish for or want. " Leave them (it will be said) to exhaust their arguMents and their oratory against one another, and let us pass to the order of the day, or some more feasible subject." How much then must the real friend le freedom be mortified to see such able disputantsas Timoxice TRUEMAN (this, however, is only the now d. guerre of this able and eloquent warrior against despotism and tyranny, he is a Gentleman of consider. able furlone, es e ell as of learning, in the county of Btu ks) and Major CARTWRIGHT, employing their lime and exhausting their energy in endeavouring to reconcile each other to dissimilar measures, or to convince each the other how far the subject of Reform should go. I will undertake to say, that although the former inclines to stnpat a nearer point in carry ieg the Elec. tire Franchise, yst is he equally honest and sincere in his desires of benefiting the oppressed pert of the community. Ilis benevolence towards this class of sufferers and complainants, has been manifested over and over again in his former writings, from the first of them down to that Leiter which celled up the ;gin rags ardour of the veteran Major, who hes nem tte•one Moment chased to deserve well of his country, since the castigation of the Doke of NEWCASTLIC, then Lord Lieutenant of the county of Nottingham. In perusing the letters before alluded to between these Champions for Freedom, who can help re. gretting that so much philosophical fire is not fut. mintied against the 'common enemy of man's rights, rather than spent in a cross direction, which wounds and disheartens their friends, and emboldens their foes. Allow me therefore, Sir, through your Paper, to ad jure these worthies not to continue to operate that mischief which they in their philanthropic minds will not fail to deplore. I know these able disputants well, and have an equal respect for both. I could have listened with complacent attention to their contrary opinions epee the length to which the Elective Franchise ought to go ; if delivered in a private room, the effect would then have been transitory, the Impression upon the hearers evanescent and harmles4,,Bet literae scripts manent. The opposers of all:Reform will throw the record of their disunion inAseir teeth, and affirm that nothing consistent or solitlweee arise out of such discordant principles. One comfort however remain*, should I and other mutual friends not be able to reconcile these eminent disputants, and that is, that TRUTH, the emanation from divine intelligence, is now *wakened, and has taken her stand (a bbeil, as the French more woo. ly eipress it), wed viiWfinally adjudicate fer the be.- tiefit of mankind."' In the:mean time it may not be amiss in me, perhaps older than oat of the pleaders in dispute, and not a great many years !conger than the other (being more than magenaire), to request them to suspend their argamentshew tar the Reformers ought to go for the benefit of the present enslaved millions, tilt they have at least commenced their journey, since none bat the moat wicked, west be sotted, selfish misanthrope srift openly declare we ought to stead still any longer. e --4 N And now'Sfr,in jllustiptionOf witit are said as twoto men of equal worth in sntiety,aud w -meaning in politiee, hot entertahltbig foi the momen? different propositions, feel myself strpoity impaid to relate what pato/dander the roof of (hit ferret's ble Father cf hom all, as by consent, poy a marked deference. amiat fd A short IA V i tiront half an hour in the company of en. . P. who touched upon the subject us •Rs heart of every patriot who sympathiaes witit bll sunring countrymen ; and who in the course of conversation observed, that he thought if the Reformers would he contented with eaterlding the Elective Franchise to hnuseholderc, that great numbers in the House of Commons onot cordially enter into the question ; adding, that if more were kought for, be could not bee the day when it would be obtained. I communicated on s f a rßefrm o this , occuirence to the first of our Champions m in .a way that he understood it to be my own opinion o:so : and with an indignant warmth, which further raised him in my esteem and I . _~Y:l~_ a 4 I 1 1 i 1 i • J 4 , j . r .... . ... . ~. I ~1 1 1"11111111111"1" . Mn t heir heir cowl from -: . - . . A . 4 5 ..\-\\ '? '..it.4 • ‘ r-. 1 I,- . 4 ;:' .rHE STATIERMAY: . . . • .. . . . . .. . 1 1 . 1 h i - A i itrary. Bat; . " - BAjiguelter, •t- li te rkes so i e d es Agitttes" if: `• lety ouch deceived we appplOhlint•Osc . _ han in. l* Ai r ' Q II 4 t e sy a ir al if y xti aara d a y i : vb .: f they attain sh e Upper 144 p a rh*e awaetin 'dire ?is it L bas his .. fght be produced , the two hitlances, united a ---www--- tr• can watched Ps been , this yi, t friends if warded from Hambu r r l itch " , 7 l) f sili 'sAl Ps' ch cli a t h l o gei ve ;00 .ife ire ib re r. tau conce,ive, tend very twriautsly to shake • Sia, -As y, , ' er, derogate for Maedeberith, and above 300 for Berlin. se he the public con fi dence in the infallibility of a Banl . honest and :if bit wip-ti is laarh,tiee:)./e:ttictliwriec forte jsriiiiitv . 1 illlr s t ill l his arduous' • 1 a ffsebasectil "Itschefirilaioisdiiii 4(11 mid Stb I "Pectas'rvartsted errerteserr-"- - . - - oily avarice, D er .-32. 3. 33. ti, I• . f (Ira ;,‘ i,r, ri CV'S I Mr. Serjesot Bossisieu,wrstupeeeh would also bear rights of the Peopltik lam sorry d day-dreams, . . I ,' ' "-s- 11 -*&`.."-- 5 -`. l " • a remark, had vie ioom to say ell that its defence of into which you are silanetimes thrown from th; eff ort uy becalming _, the Bunk suggests. The. Serjeant endeavoured to of that impertiality, whichrfliffilkyou boidablyte i carp at the PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY ATION11101011.0cli• show that the Bank was by no means so much jute. maintain. On any subject of less i m p ortance than e . lIAMBURGII M4IL. --•••11‘...--- VAtmkostott, DEC. 4.—The Senate has re.publish... ed and enforced the Ordinances which have been al-• ready frequently issued, against secret and untold's& recruiting for forrfign military service. Letestc, Dec. 4.—Snene disturbances have brokeb bort among the Students of this University also, •ashich was otherwise so orderly. For some time past ;re been formed. They got into a dispute , actor who took part in their difference, acid excesses ensued, which at the beginniug were without noise. Soon after, itowever, they . open hostility, which first showed he fencing-rooms, and acts of violence were 1, which rttidered it necdssery to call in the The guilty are new under etaynination, and !tide's will probably be punished by relega., s, Dec. I.—The Gazelle of Venice of the ,emher, ' contains a notice respect►ng the which broke out in the Lazaretto of that city, -bleb, at•tbe publication of the first account, .utters had died. All went on well 'tilt the November, when one of the guards, and ie servants of the I.szaretto were seized, Ise of every assistance died on the 141 k, )6th. They caught the infection from 'their precaution. Happily the passengers from which brought the infection enjoy perfect the separate building in which they were at ced, and •the infection has not passed the 'kith' which the Board of Health had con- New military posts are placed, and every lon taken to prevent communication between led and not infected part of the Lazaretto. guard-ships are stationed without.. The now more for the very few who are In the et the very suspicious patients; bet we may with the aid of Heaven, that the various pre. which have been adopted and are strictly will not be ineffectual even for these. ~;~• ~ . 1.0.•••••• SO, not among 'which was parties hest ' about an Sc 'trilling elm checiced 'broke out . ‘ 4 Ar itself in tin •• committed, Police. the ting-lee NN ‘2oth NoWe plague *hi 14I:41 of shi five pat%ein 13th of IS two of thi Hod in spit' 15th, and] want of p 1 -the vessel 'health in tl first placer; • hounds wi i s fined it. precaution the infects , *feral g' danitir is I alivision of hope, will cautions to colt:44;Bd, • lin ok Stock 3 per Cent. lied. 77iii 3 per Cent. Con..ols 3% Per Cent. 86i Latnenk fee Arr. 7/74 79* 4 per Cent. 94i 95 74 A , LONDON: , . c‘i ,11 ; r e tl ia. go r DECERIBER 15, 1818. .1 ..:7-.1•1 • 0 Notwithstanding . 111 the representations so hu manely made on the subject of the cases of the three men, Joke Driseol, William Weller, end George Cashman, conrietp(l of Forgery—and notwithstand ing all that has been so justly urged on the insuffi ciency of the evidence upon which men's lives are now sacrificed with so much indifference by the Bank, another spectacle, shocking to the feelings and cha. racier of a civilized country, was exhibited this morning at Newgate, in the eaecntion of the above mentioned convicts for uttering Forged Notes; and of Huston IVillianis for burglary. When Wa co!, Weller, and Cashman ascended the scaf fold a general murmer ran throughout the vast crowd of spectators, who seemed to testify, by the horror they felt, their disgust and disapprobation of so nnguioety a proceeding. Weller and Driscol were attended by the Rev. Mr. COTTON, and Cash. man by a Jewish Priest, who was dressed in a black cassock, with a large white sash over his shoulders . Before they were turned' off they shook hands with each other, and died very penitent. Williams was attended by the gev. Mr. DIMIRRAUE, a Catholic Clergyman, to whose admonitione he fettered to pay great attention, but the prospect of his' morel fate did not tippet'r to make the same imprekon *polo Williams as upon the other three. The aibule scene formed a most appalling picture of the state of our Criminal Laws, and a melancholy proof of the ne cessity of a legklative revision of them. As it cannot be supposed that every one is blest with the nerves of Ministers of State and Bank Directors, we earnestly trust that these horrid and multiplied exhibitions of punishment will form a ground for enforcing 'men- , tic's to , ,this subject and the state of the country, -votterepenletttiness vouch the cause of crime and cal spectacles ttoclattgio humanity. It will be observed by the reports which we give of the interesting proceedings at the Old Bailey yester day, that two more of the utterer, of Forged Notes were found guilty, namely William Jones, who had • iiinicted his plea of guilty for the minor of. offence, and nins. Clacker, in whose eases the capital charge was spot persevered in. In the course of the trials yesterday, the distinguishing marks of the Bank came, of course, again under review, and the Inspectors gave the usual, and we suppose the best, explanation that can be given of them. The proofs of Forgery satisfied the Jury, but they would not hive satisfied us; and we think it material to observe, that though these distinguishing characteristics may at the hour of trial be discovered, that is, when it is ton late to be of service to the Public in any other way than in the condemnation of a criminal after he has run his race, they are far from being sufficiently obvious to to the generality of the community who are exposed to imposition. It was stated by Mr. Lees, a Bank Inspector, that the line compriAug the date; and the word " London," were stereotyped ie the genuine Notes, but engraved in those which were tiotgeneine; the same was said with respect to the number of the note, and the letters ' 6 No.;" that the water-mark I was effected in the Note in the making of the paper,l and that with the exception of a general knowledge of the signing clerk's writing, there was ne other means of distinguishing a genuine Note from a Forged Note. Mr. Las, howesatrudded, that the Bank Inspectors were assisted tnucClty long erperlenee, and the constant habit of examining Notes.-- If it were intended by Mr. Lea's evidence to give the Public an assurance that certain infallible means did (mist, enabling the Bank Inspectors, althost it a glance, to detect a forged Note, it would seem to us that this object had not been at tained. It cannot be doubted that other peruse', besides those who work for the Bank of England, could produce, by stereotype, an impression of the line containing the date and the word LONDON. It trill not be pretended that an insuperable difficulty is offered to the ingeosity of the fabricators of notes, in the mode of effecting the watermark, so that the vaunted skill of the Inspectors resolves itself, after all, into their long and cultivated expeoience. It was allowed by Mr. Lccs, that one instance did or+ wherein even an Inspector was deceived in a Note, having taken a forged for a genuine note. It is to be regretted that this come of examination was not ;moved, and that he was not asked, Whether an in. Stance bad ever occurred wherein a genuine Note was rejected, - stamped as one forged ? If his memory served him with even one instance to this effect ; and THE STATESMAN.