The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-10-31 00:00:00

he M O. we IS t it. !?.... lit otS ant) to the ties by %bide Noce% weed ego• fi n ed, and overthrow the hedges by *filch the re semi r i g hts, privileges, and properties of the sub jects are fenced about, tempts es Pry . I'sloce to become sI) rant, and to inn ke all his !woken slues. All previous agreements, stipulatiotss, and laws, are mo de insignificant b . ) that pernicious and adulatory d oc trine of non•resistance, then our rights are ar bitrarily invaded, and the Constitution and Gesell'. v ent openly stutter, : such a doctrine tricks and c h e sts those that neve antecedently free, .into a noos e, and state of thraldom end bondage, under the specious and gilded pretence of the disiue rights of Print.* A , it i s by sit 'tie of comport:4 stipplatione, and agreements, that all legal Governments else their o,igiu and estal•lishment, that various and diOinct brims obtain in different countries, and that fide and right to exercise authority, and the me. thief of arriving at it, is provided (or and procured, so every subject's allegiance is first owing to the Con stitution, and to the Ruler only, in the force and virtue of what every member of the political society is bound to, by the terms of the original pact and set. l i en , se t. We wench no new doctrine whets we say, that a bstracting from the Constitution, and the obliga tions alti•li lays us under, no man can challenge a sight of Cosintasttling us, nor do is e owe hint any duty of sul j. taloa end °homiletics% busoeser he tie th a t. visitor a prPiettee of being constituted Sovereign, insole and subvert the fundamental laws of the 11 ,60 1 , dee% thereby, ipso facto, annul all the l ee' t right le• lied to govern, anti absolves all who s tew 1-etote his subjects from the legal engagements tboy were limier of yielding him obedience; se ihot 11. e imm. dive and hatersl effect of a Prince's claim leg %s he the Rules of the Constitution are so far from iolitlitot; hint to, that they preclude him from it, is the prising himself of all right to claim any thing, and of the people to their state and condition of 1 hoe , is e freedom ; of which, as they only divest. et; tamselses by anti upon the terms of the letioe. so they did not depart from it any longer tf.ai t it should be kept sacred and isaviolable, nor ao% further than was covenanted and sitipubeed in, s t .atie !he terms and agreements therein specifirfJ stu d e . on t,hiP(l. And %Mel it proceeds from the efficacy of the ferementhieed contracts, that one per. son becomes eilsntic.al foim the common level to the title sod of a Solves eign, still that all others are, anis own consent, put into the condition of at bj•ete, there vise , ' Worn thence, not only a mutual relation het itt him that governs, and them that are g lewd; but the fos. and highest treason is that a lich is committed against the Ctinstitotion, and such and such crimes against the person and dignity of she supreme Magistrate, are only made and de clared to be so, by reason of the capacity he is put intn by the Constitution, of presersing 'and defend g the society, and because it is necessary, in order to the preservation of the peace, welfare, -and safety of thus commatisity, that hp should be c o ve r ed f ro m all tlinger, and rendered sacred in his person, and in v'elahle in his regal' honour, while he answers the tow which the people, upon the assembling and uni , ing into a toely politic, committed to Litn, and duet nrither depart from the essential and fondamen. I:1 terms of she original compact, nor from their op. ' provisions afterwards added, and enacted for ' peen., g else Government in its primitive state and haul.. So that they neither are, nor can be traitors, who reidesieur to preserve and maintain the Coma. tution; but they ate the traitors who design and pursue the salivelsion of it ; they are the rebels thilt go about to overth tam the Government of their coats. try ; whereas such as seek to support said defend*, are else truly loyal persons, and act enaformable bo . the ties and obligations of fealty. Nor -is it merely the fist and highest treason in it self, that a Member of a political Society is capable of committing, to go about to sulivert the Copstitution ; but it is also the ve,4leit tremors he can perpetrate against the peisoli, crown, and dignity of the King ; for 0t..11 an endeavour bwit annuls and vacates all his title hi superiority over those above whom he was eta; rd from the common level, by virtue of the Con. • stitwi , n, and deprives him of all rightful and legal shoo of rectorul authority over the society, by de. strayi ng the alone foundation upon which it was tte:•nel, slid by whit h he became invested with it.— Ilv rancellilig the Charter, from which he derives and lipids his governing power, he not only makes his title Se sovereignty precarious, but renders every claim of that kind, and every challenge of governing the community, to be au invasion anti usurpation. To all which we will only further add under this brad, Olt as all legal Government is founded upon let, an the first and from this agreement, the People; whereas the said contract and themselves unto to. olary and conditional. from the rest of the upon a foregoing and tituttity, lie becomes, fund absolutely, and hem according to the have agreed and sti. he tenor of the laws, scribed and confined deuce and fealty wild' have rendered them-' urJained and created' RIO t 11 mutual stipulation and compel wir most ahvolute obligation arising lies apott the Prince towards II the fealty and duty, which by ti coveliant they bind and engage Imo "awls him, is in order bit *semi( 114 Whenever any person is chosen to onciety, and raised to Kingship previous contract with the comm ra• alma the very accepting it, lint tKI *igloo reserve, to govern ;het terms and measures which they the Puitted, and to rule them by the tre into which they have circunts aw• lira. Whereas all the uherlienc ei pod they, w !mil that a greemen t h ielyea subjects ; owe unto their I tos • •;, " "r•OpP. inEsTA.r . Sovereign, do derive their obligatory power over them, and become due unto hint, upon gevcrniog 'them according to the concerted and stiptOated con ditions, acid his preserving unto them their reseried privileges, liberties and rights. As Great Britain has been the most president and careful of all countries In resertieg to itself upon the first institution of, and sutenission to reptl go- . vernmerst, all such rights, privileges, liberties, as were necessary to render it either renowned and ho nourable abroad, or safe, happy, and prosperous at home; so it bath, with a courage and megnookeity peculiar to it, maintained its privilege. and liber ties through a long series of ages, and either re.as_ sured and secured them by new awl superadded laws, when there were endeavours to undermine- end sup plant them, or else bath vindicated them with • gene roes courage, even to the deposition and abdication of treacherous, usurping, and tyrannical Prnces, when more gentle, mild, and eenalorial methods were found weak and ineffectual to cover and protect them to themselses, and to convey and transmit them to'such as were to come after. The people of Britain have the same title to, and security for theeejoyment of their liberties and ptoperties that par Kings have to their Crowns, or for ()crevice of the regal dignity. For as they cats plead nothing for what they enjoy nr claim u Kings, but fundamental and positive law.; so the suhject's interest iu his liberty sud pro perty is conveyed unto him, by the same terms and channels, and fenced about with the same hedges and pales. HENRY 1. wrote to the Pore, when at tacked by him about the matter of investitures, viz. That he could not diminish the rights either of the Crown or of the Kingdom, and that if he should be an abject and mean as to attempt it, the Barons and People of England represented in Parliament,Nvould nor allow or permit it. It is upon this account af fi•meJ of an English King, That he can do no wrong, because he can do nothing but . what the law empowers him. Fur though he bath ell things sub jected to his authority, while be acts according to the law, yet there is nothing left to his arbitrary will. W 11•11 we consider with what laudable jealousy - .he British people basil regarded their rights, and striven to curb the approtrches of arbitrary power— * hen we consider that the public law of Europe is very much modified by examples, and that what is now dniug in France may hereafter be quoted as affecting the rights of the Throne or of the People 'in Great Britain, we mount but condemn that apathy in our own countrymen which can look with indif ference on the efforts of that combination of power which has been formed to complete the ruin of human liberty in France, merely because it is at A lithe diva trance, and still more that slavish, unmanly, and un priecipled exultation in which many indulge at seeing brutal force triumphing over reason, and all the ba r . riers to tyranny and iejtr.tice everthrown. We can not but wonder that Britons should be so eager to lend tl,eir aid to establish assumed. rights, the jus tice of which they deny in their •wn Sovereign: and we cannot but raise our warning voice against that blind disposition which would welcome tyranny to our bosom, and profane those hands which should aid and assist liberty in every clime, in the erection of a power which owns no law, and admits of no re straint, and whose chief principle and effort is to make slavery permanent and universal. THE GALE ON SUNDAY NIGHT LAST. Tt will be seen by referring to the Port 'Letters in. serted to-day, that the gale on Sunday night last bill been most severely felt all along our coast. In the Downs 12 transports, beside other *mei., hate drove from and lost their anchors and cables; two of the transports and the Venue cotter got into Dover, and the Mariner tranapnrt got into Portsmouth—the remainder are at sea. From Sheerness we hear of th loss of three vessels on the Maplin Sand, one of them with all her crew. Two - vessels have been lest on the Seroby Sand, nen. Yarmouth, anal another is nit shore at Winterton. The Ebenezer is on shore at Pool, but expected to be got off. The brig Salvador, on shore near Deal, went to pieces during the plea Sunday night last. Journals from most of the West India islands have arrived. We learn from them, that Goadsloupe, though wholly occupied by the Brills,' forces, is not entirely reduced to a state of submission and trait. quillity. A number of soldiers, who had deserted from the garrison, previously to the surrender of the island, had taken refuge in the woodo, where they carried on a bar !tames and savage warfare against the British authorities. Ahoy of the inhabitants of Point.a.Petra, who formerly lived by privateering, are suspected of holding a correspondence with these insurgents, and even of furnishing them with pro visions sod ammunition. The Antigua Regislet, of the 2d of September, contains the following para. graph on the subject : 66 A Gentleman from Guadeloupe informs us, that the brigands in that island still continue to carry on a state of warfare against the British authorities there, and occasion much trouble to our troops.— On the evening of Monday last, they made a des. Iterate sortie from the woods, and killed IA or 20 grenadiers of the 6th West India regiment. A number of arrests, however, took place the nest day at Point-a-Metre, whence, it is said, they had derived supplies ; and Col. Bitowo, at the saute time sent in pursuit of them. A subscription has been opened at Trinidad by the friends and admirers of the late Sir Tuostas Picros, to defray the eipence, of erecting a tuouunieut to ►u memory in that coloay." ...!4 A :• ••• ~,. Ito. liArit& INTEL LICENCIL HAYTLEIN COURT DRESSES. Ifanwiiii, 30.—Arrived the !tope, Lee; with coals front Seek*dead; Inky, and brought in by a mirage smock ; Argo, Campbell, with herririga, from Dundee for Lomita*, 101 l anchor and ca-tyie end other damage, brought in by a ialsage war!: ; Look Alexander, with chills from Shields, lots of two ancient and cables ; Flora, &sell, with coats frosurieowlterlanal, betoken whir/lass, and had been on skate In he West flocks ; Ceres, Mandell, with l ewd,* from Ct. David's for f don, has beeii ars shore • . • ~ onltidge, is leaky, sod the riadear otoloung; oldoo r irlysberry, from St. Übee, with molt, with 'sal of thin anchors and cables. 'lb, Ditch vessel Oaren. With cheese, 8::e. foundered loot night in the Rolltioli,Prosarls, off this port, from Amsterdam for Losulosco. DOWEII s Oct. 3G.—Came ha this morning Harper transport, with loss of three anchors and cables ; Foinetraosport, with leas of . two anchors, &r ; and Ventre cotter, with - loos of one anchor and cable; they all cat and run from the Downs. PuaTssroeTu, Oct. 30,—Arrived the Alariner transport, from the 'lawns, *irk loss of anchor and cable; also errited a few other transports from ditto, and about thirty sail of colliers, from the North.— Arrived the Lord IVellingtontrensport,froin Quebec. PootA, OCT. Ebeueser, Denny, of (his • port, with coals, from 'Newcastle, is on shore ho Studland Bay, having been obliged to cut from her anchorage in last night's gale. It is expected she will begot of. DEAL, OCT. 30.—Passed by a fleet of Dutch men ' of war, and proceeded down Channel, supposed for the East Indies.—The following transports have cut from their anchors and cables, and run to leeward : Lord Wellington, Rontnltts,• Robert, Henry, Pearl, Albion, Alarmioa, Triton, and Union packet; arse the Venus and (licsocc hired armed aerie's; and Rattlesnake revenue lugger. The following transports remain ail well: Ann, Juno, Thomas, Bolus, Royal George, Elizabeth, Marlin, Friends, Perceval,. Wation, ranee, Ceres, Elizabeth, Ilfracombe, and harmony.--The brig Salvador, mentioned yesterday, as on shore, went all to pieces last night ; most of the cargo sad mate. rials lire saved. Very inprrh dresses for the Queen and Princassei ,of doyti, biro just been livistied by nor of our fa; shiortable Dress-makeri. They are as follow Quain or IlaYti't Datis:—Coniiits of petticoat of white satin, richly entbroitleied in Feld- son; tintietS,tmotittating it theAtottom with a bresd hold fringe, the train of white lathe, ertibroillrred like the prilie9st, loisped op on each ride (toloists ti drapes rv) %skit gold tassels and elutlina • • i•••••44:44 frsd net fall,t tram the lift shoulder; entl fattened entire the right aitit, held up toy large cm-is ofdstildniS nape the thou!ttr; the corner§ add .dg..a fsniithed , taisels st,d; fringe ;. a tick ilume of slJlte feit.liftf4 (tie Itt of iiiittetOrk 944 4 . 401 "iftetei dreg,. Tat l'itt,st6cstri' Get, a petticoat of lilac estivt, richly trimmed with Ibree rood of gold and silver triage, atrangivil to tertadreprries; thi body ornamented in like man tier, finished al the imsofti with a gold and siliet deltas With a finely eteeeteri . rose, from which is iutipedde'diao etilt4ott sash of grad and silver net ; the train is of eater Oiler, ;richly eas hroidrred round the bottom With larjle lettetsi in clip.: twill (the reins of the tellies ingeltdi and large red rose"; the aleeres are of &het tissee, each with a Gower, the same as round the train; • tett bertutifd frog and Noels finishes the bark ; the whale trim• toed all round with gold and sitter foie* tur:- respond with the petticoat. . , The Second, a pink corded satin pettiiott train, the petticoat covered with a boantirul blond lace, richly winked in silver, the bottom embroider ed with scallopfisi. titter lama, looped ep on each ; side with large bunches of French floaters, Assesi and lilies of the valley; the train ornamented at the lint; tnat with an elegant wreathing of silvsdr hops and Fran; h roses, terminated by a broad blood Ince worked in Sifter lama, like the petticoat ; the sleet*. richly embroidered in silver, as also the body, which is finished at the bottom with a silver cestaa. Front the left shoulder depends a rich drapery of blond and finished on the right 'side by a tory besitiful wreath of roses and other flowers. Extract from a letter, dated Cape of Good Hope, June 12, 1815 :—" Lord Moser` has made • rtle quisition to Lord COARLes - Soxsairt (oarGovernoe ism' Commander in Chief)._ for as essay Kerepeant troops as he can spare.. The war lit the Nepali country, which he is carrying on; yew may be sure is very destructive to oar tronps. : Wei have inconsegorece, consegerece, slimily sent twit dieltnitynrif , ttpeiterts regiment from hence; the last wilt folfaw to-morente... Ant' Sir A. Casseetu. has ;ern (robs die Metarities.. the 87th regiment, with the sink etimpanini of the ! 22J, and the light Companref 'die,' lilth`reginvent.-- Colonel KerrastO f •who - was Isiety (it/o'erslot of the Island of Bourbon, IS gone - with - these .troops to Bengal. Thal era told they will raceett-slirece op to the Nettled . aolintry, although there are only.loo men of the 66th regiment (eft at fort 'l l l l ilJiale:—. Bourbon was detected up to ihe'Freinieen the b ib i.of April. The merchints have beiWthrovisileitdereit ' ~v v _ ir emhartesserente in this. settletneet, by Inotes. '. ,waifs (Sir G. Beattcisi) haVini take, 'on the Cape Mail to Indlit,We learn this from Rio Jeneiro,. where it siaseenealleknown that she stelae) not teeth here. The Centaur., 74, Captale CAtit.llllLo, is about to return to Englund: l i ' ...- About thirty years age, the pritm 'O l l/4144441 grewera iif wheat was nearly the same as at tbe_peme , sent period. The quartero loaf theft gold iip laitie don at from 51. to 7d. It Is now at lieLlie r quartern. • Extract of a letter from Dover, dated Ort. 0:-.... - . - 1. , Baron JACOBI CLEM', EnveyllitiaordinerY esti from the King of Pa pists. 30th Minister Plenipotentiary from Accounts have been received from America, to the 30th ult. It does not appear that the G o v er nesent of arrived last night from Ca'ais, in the Ptirabdh extra 1 packet. Dispatches from Lord Carrixecio u als o In diets tribes ; and the Sacks end Foxes, the United States has as yet made peace with the In k was en d er . arrived in the night from Calais, a*d were forwarded stood, still refused to tryst with the American C o m.lby a Messenger to London.' A strong east wind has t prevented any passage vessel or pact,tet 2 missioners. The accounts from SL Louis would lead getting node( harbour last night or this day ;,and is coeseptinee us to believe that an American war in that quarter i t a large pow boat has Sees sent out, to make either is not at all improbable, and that it would be prose f Calais or Boulogne, with the Mail for France, euted .tits vigour.and The accounts from the West were more favourable. I several bags of dispatches." By advice, of the 17th instant, from ‘ib ra til ir , Gen. Beams and suite arrived on the 26th from the i t we learn that no sickness had taken place there this Niagara, accompastied with many other American Officers,and there was every reason to suppose that an : mum and as the cold weather had set i n , • none advantageous pease would be signed with the Indians ; ; was expected. in that quarter. Detroit is now garrisoned by 1200 f Nearly 300 sail &reenters have arrived in the river or 1300 men, under the command of Ge n . M ILLER .; since Saturday last, from Sunderla n d, Shi e ld., s m. The peace which is talked of, it is supposed, will be • The price of coals, in consequence, ins fallen to very advantageous to the western merchants and about 661. town delivery. traders. 1 The practice of stealing coach-glasses is now'rf ' newed with redoubled activity. Last Friday night • Mackinac was garrisoned by about 400 troops, under Gen. Chambers. Fort Dearborn and Chicago, the premises of Mr. Teokey, coach-maker ' Wigmore- were not to be re-established till next year. The street, Cavendish-square, wets entered and 31 plate. troops are represented to be io a flue state of disci. g l asses t a k en f rom t h e different c arr i age r. S everal ,line. On the 7th S ept. e i f to of t h e now . 3d, co . Gentlemen's private coach-houses hive been attempt. barked at Erie for Detroit. ; ed, and some robbed, in the course of list week. 24 The Niagara Journal, of the 12th September, con. 4 EITRAORDINARY - ACCIDENT. -06 Monday, the taint the following paragraph :.r... 6 4 A Council was instant; -- Copping, about 21 yea r s o f age , a held in this village on this day with the Indian., by servant In'husbandry to J. M. Theobald, Esq. went to Coddepham, Suffolk, to engage. himself , for the ea- Messrs. Parish and Grainger. for the purpose of pur chasing for the State their title to the Islands in /IA suing year; and, at eleven o'clock at night, mistak- Nia ; ;r ra. The Indians consented to the sale. Th e Dog the coping of It 'wall for a stile dividing the yards of two cottages, he jumped over, and .pluttged into* bargain only requires the ratification of the American Getvernment. well, a depth of 95 feet, with eight or nine feet of Covsser-oattoes THEATRE. -Mr. KotaLt per- water at the bottom. la this situation the poor fel -. • formed the part of Coriehteur last bight, to his usual low remained half an hour. His cries, however, .were hie d ; sed a man, named I. Orford, a pumi.. style of pre-eminent excellence, and was rapturous. ly applauded throughout. It Is anyuestionably one maker, iti Caddeohate, at the risk °Chid life, descend_ * of the finest efforts ever witnessed of the bisttionic 'ad into the wells and furnished the sufferer with a art. We regret. howeier, .to sty that this renewed rope. lie was drawn up 40 feet; but, hie strengik failing, hf lost his hold, mein fell, end hurt hierself favourite of the public appeared ae staffer consider*. bly from the effects of a saverecoggh. - ,by strikitek agsinit the bucket. A "second attempt The new Farce of z reofs • - per c ol t announce d proved SOCCPS4OI ; lied we hare the pleasure to learn, gentlemen by whom the poor man is said to be written lay • that the medialfor Thursday at Drury-lane, Mr. IleastaT Wit.t.tunon, who, however, denies :has been attended, consider him to be in a fair way a report that the principal incident is borrowed from ' of recovery. . a circumstance which took place in his own family. f ''' ATTRACTIONS ARE tAittous.—The Sus attracts We know not whether it be worthy of credit, but the Earth, Beauty attracts all created beings; but it is whispered that a young Foreigo (Mier of inns- the greatest attractions of the present moment, are trifles rank Isar claimed the pension as a wounded the Three Prises of Lz , 5A,0 0 0 , and the Four Prizes of ' e 20,000, all of which may be drawn Tuesday 7 th General tater in the British service. A journeyman carpenter of Bodmin has lately November; this accounts for the throng of beatstiful • discovered a eetnealed treasure, amoenting (report , Ladies : daily to be men at tlie Likely Offtces. • states) to 1500 guineas, some of which beer date 143 : years back. The man asserts that the place where be t COAL &I AltKlVit, Oct. Xl. resod the treasure was revealed to him in a dreamt , °tar at Write% galeagold. ' Price. 1 110 N ewcastle .... . but rifest, to give any farther particelari. 4 Ileo4odoml .... . es asset. ..1. i n 0 6 , gd SHEERNESS, Ocr. 30.—The. Thames, Lawson, from Sidelds, with coals, was lost last night in the Meplin Sand—crew saved. The Gems, Altos, from ditto, with coals, also last, same place—crew saved. The Grampian, Sirr, from Aberdeen, arrived with toss of anchor and cable. The Captain of the Thstaies says, that a vessel was loot last night close to him, whose name be could not ascertain, and all hands lost. YAILNIOUTII, OCT. 30.—Pet back with damage and most unload, the Drry Gelrueders, from New. castle for Rotterdam.—S - inssel, Dutch built, is on store at Winterten, name unknown. A inlet, sop. posed a collier, was lost last night on the &ruby. The Friends, mentioned to be on shore yesterday, is sunk in deep water. It blew a gale last night, tawny of the ships in the Roadi druyt, but sustained nos other damage. 4 . ~v . ==&"'' 11111140. • . , . "ar . - • " 41 e , • • ;a ~~ j I 4‘.4. - --~ - --~ ...