The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-12-21 00:00:00

.d. ti~ Ir' - f - me, nor a single allegation which was not capable proof. Mr. J. fistavrras said, that in voting for the late Ad ress, he would contend he had done no more than every Rood son was bound to do when Ise saw his father's ser rants acting wrong. Ile thought they had done wrong. and he did not skulk into boles and corners to tell them so—having done so he was satisfied, and would rote fur the ameadosent. Mr. Jury supported the original motion. The peti tion had been hours under consideration in the Commit tee, and was in all respects manly, dignified, and re spectful. Mr. OLDHAM spoke for the original motion. He had witnessed with astonishment and indignation the con duct of a Noble Duke wile had fought the battles of his country, and a Nelble Marquis, who stood by with a broad grin on their faces during the whole time the petition was read, thus at once offering an indignity to the King, and an limit to the people. Ile was much mistaken if such conduct as this. and the general cha racter of the measures pursued by administration, were likely to reconcile the people to the Uoverninent of the country. Mr. Cn.tnLea Paansos opposed the Amendment, be. cause he considered that it was calculated to mislead his klajesty by an affectation of submission to the caprice of his Ministers which was not sincere, and that it would Lying discredit upon the Corporation, and dishonour upon the character, which, as Englishmen, they ought to preserve. He had carefully read over the Address since these obser-ations had been made, and he could not find one expression in the Address of which, both in matter and in language, he did not most highly ap prove. The Address was strong, he granted; and ought It not to be The circumstances that called for that Address were novel and unprecedented. lie defied the lion. gentleman on the other side to point out an ex pression in the Address which betrays such a contempt of the ordinary rules of respect which govern cis nisei! society, as one of them whirli d ec isgraces the answer that has been eulogised by som.y of the Members. It will be observed, that strong as may he the expressions of the d:ssatisfication of the Corporation at the measures ! adopted by the Ministers, the Address does not impugn the motives of those who have, by their actions, brought • the country to the very brink sof ruin. Whereas, the Address ',resumes to attack the intentions of the authors of the Addres- with a want of ceremony, supposed to be inconsistent with the conthirt of a public officer, as of a private gentlentan. Mr. Pearson observed, that it was as possible for a person to assert an affirmative proposi tion, and at the same time to give double force by the negative latignage in which it might be clothed. " I da sot know (observed the Minister), the motives of the trainers of the Address, but its tendency is to aggravate the e;:le with which we have to contend." A sentence which, while it asks the question, gives more than an answer—it impugns the motives of the Corporation, and were it not! resr.nteil by sock a motion as we have now before us, would mash Its as the veriest slaves of servility and syco phancy. Mr. Pearson also remarked upon the ohserea- Lou a one of the speakers on the door of the Court, who Ii id objected to the Address because it imputed to the Ministers conduct intended to excite truisms and seili ti•oi. This hail been properly reset by the Honorable .11.1erniais, who had disdained such an inference from ally part of the Address ; but who had contended that toe recent detection of the Placard Conspiracy would have justified such an assertion. He (Mr. Pearson) sateaded, that there were not evidence to trace this house directly to the Ministers, still their midis& after wariLs, and the conduct of their officers was trite sioli cient to supply the want of proof 1111011 this point. The Ministers, by themselves, by their officers. their !sliest magistrates, their supple lawyers. had contrived to get np and remove from the purposes of public jetstiee all the evidences d this man's gnilt whirls came within their power; and seeing a certain Alderman in his place, he (lir. Pearson) called ups* him to answer for his con duct. in massifs*. from the Mansion House all the placards and hand-hills which, during his mayoralty, were brought by the officers to the office ; and haying been deposited there, were no more his property than the sword or the mace on the table. He (Mr. Pearson) thought, perhaps, that it might he too great an eneroach meat upon the Alderinan's sensibility to call upon him to say where the bend-bills and placards came from, but it was nut too much to expect bins to say where they were goue to. Alderman ATitiNs said, that having been engaged in conversation with a Bristlier Alderman, be had but im perfectly beard the charge against bins, and begged that it might be repeated. Mr. PBAKSOM was very sorry that to a gentleman of the Alderman's penetration he could not make him self unildrittlotl ; but he repeated his request in still more forcible terms. Alderman ATK.ren (amid loud calls fur him to come forward), said,that if he might gather the charge against him from a report in a newspaper of what passed at $ recent Common Hall, he could only say that he (Alder man A.) did never, muffled up in a great coat, give any useetin ; to a strauger—that tile statement was entirely untrue, and that, although he had received several anonymous letters, inviting hint to such an interview. he never went, and that perhaps the Honourable tiontletnan gained his information from the writer of those letters. dlr. PRAILION complimented the Alderman's ingenuity, but be said that it must be at the 'manic° of his candour. The Alderman had affected to answer a statement of what be (Mr. P.) was supposed to have said at some other Meeting, where the Alderman was present ; but left unanswered a plais question which he (Air. P.) hall then pat to him to his face. He (Mr. P.) had never said that the Alderman went to the meeting in question " mailed up," but that he went to meet " the mysterious stranger who was muffled up in a great coat, fix. ;" and for the truth of this he bad, to be sore, no other gulp canoe thaa.thr Alderman's word (hear, bear!). lint ^ lie (Mr. P.) again repeated the gender's—what has the worthy Alderman dose with the placards and hand-bills, about which at the time he made so much noise, and which have now di ed from the Mansion House ? Alderman Avut= t tly replied, that a great many of the band-bills be certainly posseoused, also touch in formation upon the subject. The statements which he had made at the time, relating to the plot against the city and its inhabitants, bad been verified by the end of q'histlewood sad his companions. —(Hear, hear ! and a 1 ugh.) The Loan MAYOR observed, that the present discus• skin had perhaps takes a wider range than it ought to have done, and he treated geatleesee would abstain from all personal observations. Mr. PRARROR said, the Worthy Alderman had Off- Niel,' costrived very detteroesly to elude the question whit be bad pet to him. He had scrtainly stated on a Termer emission that be had had an interview sigh • peruse meilwi top la disguise. If the Worthy Ahlernmee could est Worm the Goan from whence the hand-MHO came, be eight tan them, perhaps. whither they had Mr. Mr. Alderman Mutes laid, ohm way respectable persons had ems t• bliss ender lite lelleeece of alarm, at the dere et Thistly end's het be never had as was ter lebitteferw with a person hi ' . There Wily ea Jimmie arew 0 Us is his posses else. Dlr. & Bass rappelled the Aseadisset. The as. seer was the Nest greciees austrer et their Sen. THE STATESMAN. . reirta. and he could not reward it in any other light..no He thought they would show their good sense in t departing from the established custom of entering the answer of his Majesty upon their Journals. Mr. TAYLOR spoke for the original motion. After a short reply from Mr. Fasts.t., the Amend ment teas put and lost by a great majority. Sir C. ilusgen regretted that he had not entered the Court earlier, as it was his intention to have proposed an Aniendisient. He felt the highest esteem and grati tude for the First Lord of the Treamsry, and he enter tained the greatest respect for the rest of his Majesty's Ministers. lie thought, indeed, that those great men had erred in the late affair, but it was not fit for this Court to arrogate to itself the right of judging of their conduct. Mr. Alderman !Ilium said it was his intention to pro pose au Arnettlntent. Much hail hero said in the course of this otheossion, of the insult offered by his Majesty's Ministers, hit there hail not been one word of admission as to the hasn't ofre.red by themselves to the person of their Novereign.—(l.oud cries of order, order.) Mr. F.tyv.i.i. rose to call the Worthy Alderman to or der.-34r. A bierni.in Atkins ruse at the same time amid 'tumultuous tries of " OMEN" 111111 " chair." The Lon D 311 TON said it was his anxious wish to give every gentleman a full and fair hearing, lint it was ne cessary to hear the arguments of gentlemen before he could deride upon a point of order. i Mr. Favet.i. apprehended it was hi g hly disorderly to call an Address ti hid' had been age to by this Court, and carried up to the fbut of the Throne, an insult to the Sovereign. Mr. Sheriff W arriimatt said, the Worthy Alderman was entirely out of `Order. No discussion could take glare. After a reply had been made, and the atnendmant dis p•swil of, Mr. Alderman 11111111 contended, that the amendment having been negatived, and the original motion bring the question flaw before the Court, he hail a right, in pro posing an amendment, to take all Slue collateral rise - stutters into ranisiileration. He repeated, that no admis sion hail bee n insole by this Court as to the nature of the Address. They hail no right to notice a domestic rir a. . tante, with a Lich this Court could have nothing to do.--(lomil cries of order.) l'he Lonio 31. av in thought, as the Worthy Alderman was only expressing his own opinion, he was at liberty to pursue this line of observation. ,Ir. Alderman lIIKCH continued. Ile did say that this Court had offered an insult to the person of the Sovereign. They h a d interf e red with th e private aff a irs 1 of the Sovereign on the Throne in a way in which no individual in this Court would have dared to interfere with regard to au equal. Ilis only surprise was, that the reply was so mild, and that it had not gone •11 further. On these rewinds he should more the previous question. 311.. S. Divas seconded the motion. 1 Mr. PE tIVOIS trusted the Court trwil.l not entertain the motion of the Wortliv Altleriiimi--• motion, he be liever). pet fectly unparalleled, since it called upon thoin in effect to take 110 notire whatever of his I:rjesty's answer. Hr (Mr. I'.) could - self a party to mirk an insult upon his Ilajesty. The previous rptestion was lost upon • skew of hands, and the original question was then put, and carried by a great apparent majority. A division was called for,and the nundwrs appeared, Fur the motion, J Aldermen, 93 Commoners, and 2 Tellers—M. Agmust the motiun, 5 Aldermen, 51 Commoners, and 2 Trllers --54. Majority fur the original motion, :Wl. The other Wiliness of the day was then dispose of, sod the Court adj,,uraird. ottoman subject, and their known philanthropy pre vents toe from suspecting that they will lose a moment, too the assembling of Parliament, in laying before .that House all the knowledge they possess of that truly horrible business. But I am digressing. During the month of February last, there was mach talk of ao expected rising; introduced, there can be little doubt,' by bad men. Things had been curried to such a height by these persons, that on Itrednesday the first oflttrcla, the town was inundated with military of every description, from all quarters ; as it was positive. ly said, to use the cant of the day, " that something great was to be attempted by the Radicals that even ing." The Solicitor-General and other law-officers front Edinburgh, were in attendance, but nothing took place. and they returned to their homes. It be came a subject of some doubt among the law autho rities of the capital, whether the disturbers of the pub lic peace had committed an overt act of treason. The Bonnyeatuir party, however, gave a copy of the Ad dress to the serjeant of Hussars whom they stopped on the road, and thereby proved, in some measure, that they were acting on its dictation ; otherwise it is pro bable that neither Baird nor Ilardie would have been found guilty of high treason ; nor would James Wil son, it is supposed, although he had marched 1000 miles, instead of 4, along with his miserable party, with his half of an old rusty sword under his coat, have suffered his awful punishment, unless it bad been rhaiged as one of the overt-acts in his indictment, that he acted upon the views of this infamous production. About the middle of March it began to be whispered, that an Moire's or Proclamation of the Radicals would soon be published ; some believed this to be a hoax, hut others were, day after day, to be seen at every place where (dills are in the habit of bring stuck up, anxiously gazing for the promised manifesto. At length. on Sunday the 2d of April, the placard appeared. On the afternoon of that day, a Proclamation was issued by the magistrates, offering a reward of 3001. for the authors or publishers of the treasonable hand-bill. All this looked sere welisa-it was now the inquiry of every ' person, if the authorities had been searching the Print- i ing-offices. The search was made on Wednesday: the! Bill was printed on the Sunday! At a very early period this bill was supposed to have been manufac- ' tnred in Englaud ; for the Editor of one of our news papers. who is certainly nothing behind any of his co temporaries in acuteness, says, on Monday the 3d, the very day after the publication of the placard:—" This paper is supposed to hare been printed in England ; anal we should suppose it of English composition, from its dwelling much upon Magna Charts and the Bill of Rights, it, which Scotland has no interest." The history of the following two months ; the arrests, and solitary confinement of numerous individuals ; the ex ecutions and decapitations, are yet fresh in the me mory of every 111811 in Britain. I shall now, in as con cise a manner as I am capable of, advert to what I ron:sider the most extraordinary part of this business ; indeed, to mention the detached facts which follow, was soy ptincipal reason for troub-1 ling y o u with this communication ; and with out making a single observation of my own, I leave them for the impartial retlection of the public. On a late 04:Cablegl, when Mr. Home declared, in the House of C MOO; that Franklin was the author of the plal'ard, the Glasgow, Coo:rico- of the 21st of Oc tober, after contradicting this statement, says, " three well known persons in Parkbead composed the Ad dress, and employed two boys (mentioning their names) to print it." The following answer appeared in the Glasgow eliromiele of the 24th of October, written by a person who knew the three individuals alluded to perfee:ly Referring to the snit) , that the tree - amiable placards were written by three men in Park head, I can inform, that the individuals in question (now out of the tray) were incapable of composing a single line of such a paper. not one of them having received the most ordinary grammatical education." The editor of T.oe Chronicle, who has been at immense labour to obtain information relative to this Address, (which we hope soon to see published), says again on the 28th of Nov. " We believe that provincial Frank limo might he found, if there were provincial Pearson'. The late Radical Rebellion has not yet been traced to its source." Two of the persons alluded to above, as being the assistant authors of this placard, I know no thing about, never even having heard their names mentioned ; but nigh regard to the other, I can give I a little information. The person I allude to, was a weaver, but latterly kept a small public-house. For a long time back he had been idd the habit of attending all the Meetings for Reform, far and near, and of • making spreebes. in his own way, of the most ir.flatn-1 matory description. Neither wind nor rain, frost nor, snow, detained him from his post on the hustings at every meeting. In short, be was considered a staunch tritn] to the cause which he advocated so unwearieolly, and was trusted accordingly. At one of the Union ' Meetings which were numerous in the suburbs of ! this town about nine or ten months ago, this man fist introduced the far-famed Address, stating that it was in general circulation in England, and suggesting that it would hex most paramount good, if the meeting, by any means, could get an impression thrown off for 41lesgew. This was no difficult task. .An appren tice boy to the Printing business, who belonged to the Society, was inveigled by the machinations of this vil lain, to throw off I t or 1200 copies, assisted by his fellow-apprentice, to whom he communicated the se cret. and fur which, in a few days after, they were ob liged to flee from their country and friends for ever.— On the morning that the bill was published, the wea ver, in the moat public manner, to the knowledge of at least fifty persons, posted a great number of them in the virile of Parkheaol. A ft er this, he was almost constilittly in the company of two Sheriff's runners, frequently attended a certain office, and this man has now, that he is out of the way, been branded by cer tain authorities as the author of the bill. But if this is the case, did they not know it in April last; and if not. bad they not information that he diligently posted the placard, which crime amounted to High Treason ? Until a tree bill was found by the Grand Jury against James Wilson of Stratisaven, nine week* after the first of April. tin infamous weaver was daily to he seen prowling about the streets of the city. On that day be use observed lounging about the Cart-beetle ; and whenever be heard of the boding be deeaasped aa a piece of policy. nerdy. sod has net since Leta beard of. It is not supposed, aeverthelese. that he bee left the country. Rut I hare &rained you too lens already: this I must say, however, the suspicions of the great body of our citizens is aroused on this busin ess , an d they can no more he allayed, without a fnll and fair inquiry into all the varions windings of the subject. than the present Ministers can convince us that the: are high-minded men. possessed of great exerting it all for the amelioration of t) • condition Of the inhabitants of these Islands. I am, kc. A CITIZEN or Lit..‘,.r.ovr. Glasgow. Dee. Itl. Mtn. HIGH WAWA AT I.ONDON BRIDUE vo-anae.)e. Morning. SS min. after S.—Evening. 14 Ws. after 4. St. Thoatas'a Day.—Holiday at the Public Ma.. EU Matt man. " TOW WRIT'S!! STATICSIMAN" II INCORPORW ICD Rua " Twit LONDON: TIIVRSDAT EVENING. DEMMER 21. STOCK EXCHANGE, ONE O'rhOrK. The Fonds have experienced a trilling declination thi. morning, in consequence of the resignation of 31, . Cs Ns iNG ; but the market has not hod its k!l sway in consequence of to-day being a Holiday ; and the Stock Exchangt shut. Consols for the Acelurt which left off at roi 71 last night, are now 70f sellers. A mail from the Brazils arrived this morning to the 27th of October, sailed from Rio Janeiro 26th of October. Nothing has yet transpired. We have this morning received Paris papers to the 18th inst. The Austrian Obserrer has at length hroken silence on the affairs of Naples. It contains among others, the following remarkable passages :--" The Neapolitan Government, on account of its in , is compelled to defer the augmentation of pay, which had been pro mises( to the troops. The 12th legion of Infantry has already proved refractory in consequence, and mani fested insubordination. Many of the soldiers have been anxious to return home. It was resolved to order this regiment into the Ahrunes; in its mirth an officer was actually shot by his own soldiers, at Teano. " A dangerous explosion has been prevented; but the recruits uniformly refuse to repair to the places of their destination. Disorder and anarchy increase at Naples. Pillage and murder are, inure than ever, the order of the day. No person dare appear in the streets during the night. The rer6oaari exercise the most unlimited power. By open force they resist the Government and Parliament, who lire in dread of their poinards." A letter from Madrid of the Sib instant, contains the following brief untice:—" A courier arrived here yesterday from Burgos : the news which he Wags are of a very alarming. nature." Favica FuNne.---Five per cents. 78 f. Bank Actions 1430 1. Our Readers will not be surprised to learn, that the anticipations we had formed respecting Mr. CAN. Imixt:, are at length confirmed and confessed. The Right Honorable Gentleman has resigned the *See of President of the Board of Control, and it is ac knowledged by the Ministerial Papers that he re tires, " because h.! could not with honor to him -1" self, rennin in Administration, after the turn which " the Q.:llL'ea business has taken, sad Ike Parlieseeee " terry discussions likely to Carrie upon it." Of all the men who bad directed his %Jerry's Councils. Mr. l eavnino is the only one who can deserve the credit of consistency, for his conduct relative to the QVILEN. In his temporary retirement from the kingdom he with held his countenance from the prosecution of a business Ilse condemned, though he retained his name in the cabi; net of his Muter; and on his rehire it appears, he has found certain circumstances subsequent to the derision, which reader his continuance in office so longer practicable. Whether these circumstances most consist in the umbrage given by his previous steps, or in the obnoxious course which his co'. leagues hare since been led to meditate, does not 'efficiently appear. bough, however, say be inferred from the political manoeuvres employed in procuring ultra-loyalist, Addresses, and from other obvions indications that a system of augmented rigour is in contemplatiou. That the press or the people, the nation, or some prominent individuals are marked out • as objects of wrath, we have little room to doubt. I Prom the step which has at length been adopted by Mr. CANNING, who, on former occasions, skewed little tenderness, either to masses or to individuals of the common people, it is apprehended that Ministers have determined to continue their persecutions of the gvegx. If this be the Bee which their rigour take, it cannot, of course, be conned to her NAJIMITT. Her adherents as well as herself will be involved la • suffering; and the course that has already roused mid distracted the country, will be pursued to as 'Mimeo which cannot be contemplated without horror. Were there no other reason than this tor desiring and petitioning a change in his &coast t's maseilsb this alone would be sufficient, and will, we trust, be acted on by all who bare at beam a due regard for the remaining libertiee of the country, for justice or humanity, or only ger domestic pram—Relative to Mr. Csxx Ines ulterior mearefer, it is reported he the lliaisterial orgies, that be intends to repair to the Vositiassot, and there remain fur some time in retirement. Mr. Pau& :is mentiooell as his probaMe swam M the Ake of I President of the Board of Goodrum!. Among the , important etiowoosiestlooo from celess• postleets our wort of thieeireolog, the.letter boo A eithies of tillosirow" cosset fail to obtain row , liar attention. no prereanags of the twain a the inhahienoto of gditeborgh alma, wilt ho read will lively imetreet. TUE NI.VG'S .11.11,E AJVD FIOIALE VISITORS. TO TIIF. F.DITOR OF VIM RTiTESMiN. Sea —Tie. rot, air,. and other Ministerial Journals, hating institnied an inquiry into the parentage, life, and character " The green's Female risiterg," which has reflected considerable honor on the sail visitors, and alto on her Majesty, was nein+ as SOW "of looser morals or with personal interests, ■re foni..l to visit her," an event which The Currier seemed to apprehem ; and as espial justice and the public voice alike densaud, Coat a similar opportunity should be given to prone that the. King's Visitors are equally pare in morals, equally exempt from persottef interests. I hope you will lose no time in advertising for Bio graphical Sketches of the aforesaid King's Visitor•. lii doing this, there are two things which I would humbly rem 444444 end : first, that, as it is unusual to drag Ladies from domestic privacy into the public gaze, unaccompanied by lientlemen ; the male be in• trodnred with the female visitors; and, secondly, that as the King's visitors are far more minmerous than time (ueen's, and the private history of many of them far more eventful, that only a part of the visitors be treat ed of at one time. This will he done most impartially by prone •.lib their names alphabetically: sup pose you take from A. and C. in the first list. We should then illustrate/nerd porky and personal disia• terestedalss, by beginning with the names, ANOLEREA and ATIIOL, and reaching toCASTLItnIAMIN CLanance, and Ccvsm‘ettsm. Tile next list might extend from DON01.011)1014E tO ELDON. and EXAM-T.lor VIATIIIRR; or, if that should be thought too short a list, it might reach to lISOTIOSO, or to LAUARSID tit.% RAd POOL, Or even to MANNERS. NEWEASTLif would then begin a new list, which might stop at t►'Batan or ,Qouvrtx, or extend to SIDNOUTIII and STALE?, or if you please, liniqoitla Tone.—l am, te.c. A litmus* Ta 11461:4Jai4Mg• 1T) THE EDITOR OF TUE STATESMAN. Cu—l bed• to address you, for the purpose of adding a sort of link to the chain of most suspicious circumstances, tending to cowmen Franklin,.or some other incenidiall, with the publication of the Glasgow treasonable 'I tress of the lit of April, and which have been laid before the public by the laudable ex ertions of Mr. Pearson. In doing this, I shall strictly guard that nothing is stated except what every one of my townsmen, who has been at the least trouble to in quire, knows to be true ; leaving altogether out of sty sight the knowledge which I ant well aware some of our eitises. (after the greatest labour and praise. worthy exertions) possess of all the varied ramifications of the diabolical plotting. of ths,l memorable period of our country's history. The ioformatios of these gen tletnen I du not pretend to possess; bat.this 1 know, sad do onsintaiu before God sod the nation, that cer tain peewi t s in Glasgow who might have employed themselves in detecting delinqsests, are deeply impli cated in the publication of the atrocious placard above alluded to. I cannot be more particular at presto ; but Lord Archibald Mandible and Mr. Haste are pos sessed of all the necessary facts relating to this low , 1 i 1 77 !