The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-05-05 00:00:00

p ~~ ~± it VIE STATESMAN. WRNS AM) TORIES. as to their talents of serving the }Millie, shows all that religion tan do nothing hut good, toeless it is per- In the third Parliament of the reign of James the vert d by the Legislature or people to base and sleds- I' . ttat, in the year 1621, arose th e di s ti nct i on i nto par - t e r purposes. .es al Whigs and Twice', a distinction which has toe • The division into Whigs and Tories comes home ten ':ca superseded the love of the country, and the often to every stean's bosom. In a free State, like Ear . igues of eith er ride have acted alike injurious to its - land, where the people know their rights, there most e•ereses. The principle of the 'fortes is, in every ;be always souse solicitude lest these rights should be to 'trete!' thee prerogative of the Crown as a takeu from them ; but this solicitude is nut to be kept h;g:i as possible: the principle of the Whigs is to alive at every momcnt, our should the grand primal kr .p it within due [mussels, and to preserve the rights pies of the two hearties he urged when the coolest is r.iel privileges of the people,. Hence the language ; merely whether this or that set of individuals should need by ether party, frequently without any founds- come into administration. The question is now of a ',on at all, supp ose s th a t th e o th er s e ts nu bounds to I very ditfe:ent nature fruit what it was nearly two .ts principle; that the Tory would place the King hundred years ago. The civil war in the time of :dare all law, and make him a Monarch, a despot, a Charles the First, and the Revolution in 1048, have 'pant : that the Whigs would destroy the Throne, fur ever fixed many questions of prerogative., which make a Republic, raise the lowest of the people, de- in those slays occasioned so much disquietude; and press the highest, introduce anarchy and confusion. there is as little 'hanger of the Tories placing unliwit- King James, by his absurd language, and his heerpotual I eel power in the Cross se, as of the Whigs miming into as cell as childish fondness fur prerogative, introduced the execs.-es af anarchy. this evil into the country ;an evil, however, which Patriotism is a rare quality, and, where it appears still not be productive of any very had effects, as hil t ; I pu re and unmixed, is often the subject of derision, -as the leaders of both parties see that the principle of and held out as a rover fur bad purposes. Hampden either carried to excess must ruin the country. deserved, asset has justly received, every honour that The next epoch brings us to those Holes when the remid be pai,l to his /111.11Illry. The Sovereign had Sovereign, mislead hey Isis passions, and the idle .A Me beyond th e li n e o f his office ; l ee had aereil ille giddy set of courtiers around Lies, determined ;le ; the subject dill neither rise up in arm', seer did %ern without a Parliament. Ile carried sin for some fle resist leis Sovereign's came's:olds by force. Ile ap time his plan with apparent success ; but the resistance pealed to the proper tribunal fur redress; and the etc hr suet froth a public spirited gentleman sleight leave tts;;nil of tweetty shillings, which he' could easily have checked his career, and brought him to reflect on the paid, led hive into ast expense of many htuedrrd pounds danger of his situation. ('harks the First, not liay. to defend Isis eaust.. Steele .1 Mill as Hangeelen ;ire the ieeg a Parliament to grant him .applies, was put to' honour of a nation, and of such men a wise Sovereign several shifts to •extort money from his subjects.— • would, with jis•stier, he prowl. However they may be Among them was the demand tor ship-money, or um- upler.eieled, they ar • the real hover: of their Sovereign; my for the purchase and mainteuance of a fleet for • for ever) one who prevents an o th er f rom d o ing wr o ng the defence of' the realm. For this purpose 20s. was, eno-le osei , re Isis friend, than anothe r who encourages in the year 1636, demanded of the patriotic 'I r. him i:s a vic' s 4.1.111-‘0• of action. We cannot hut la- Hampden, of Buckinghamshire, a man of forteree, set that a Court of Judicature should have tarnished wise, insignificant as the sum was, chose rather to its honour in so disgraceful a maoner as was done stand a trial and the indignation of the Court than to 'yells this occasion. What a height office is that of a submit to an illegal imposition. The rause ar- ,fudge, when the torah), lies between King and suit gued with the utmost skill on both sides; it involved jeer, or the Minister and one who opposes him! It is the whole question of the King's prerogative, and the easy to do justice when the individuals in the action, right of raising a tax without the consent of Parlia- as well as the s'iltiSe itself, are indifferent to the Judge; went : and the Judges, unhappily for themselves and but when the interests, or pretended interests of the tier the Court, which they thought they were serving, Sovereign or Isis 31inist r, are brought into question, gave judgment against Mr. Hampden, and lie was then mast the Judge he most upon him guard then condemned to pay the tax. Thus the Sill/ilia was left , will his conduct be least reprehensible, if the balance without redress ; the King's power was ; is smile to tend rather more to the weaker side—to the tax was established; and from that moment we the side, too fr,ctently, of an oppressed subject. 'I Isis may date the overthrow of kingly government, and the cannot too often be repeated in the ears of English ruin of the Constitution. • , Judges, for the case of Hampden is not the only one Charles the First found himself, after a time, unal,le when they leave in their judgments violated every to govern without a Parliament ; his necessities tom. principle of justice. pulled him to call one; and it was naturally to be • The rash conduct of Charles th- First, in attempt gined, after so many haus& upon the Conetitution, , lug to seise in person the live 31einhers of the Lower that the meeting would scarcely take place In a very ; House, chews how railed a Sovereign 'nay he who amicable manner. The same pauiun and was.t of once transgressed the limits of the Coostitution. Ile judgment that had marked the former part of this ; had ruled without a Parliament for a few years only ; the reign were predominant in the King's conduct towards l House of Bveerieun ruled France in a similar manner, I.:s Parliament. Ha expected so awe 4 viulencel without tier e.eteretrrence of the Statetelluseral, fur where the most soothing measures were requisite; and, , nearly tell cream-it s; the result in both cartes was idler repeated violent actions, be took one on January ; nearly tier ie. The Constitutional Body,' on its the 4116;1642, which was of such a nature as to pre- meeting, wits sensible of the wrongs that the iingilont ride all hopes of matters being terminated hereafter had suffered, and that necessity was the only reason t • his satisfaction. He had, on the day before, order- fir their hein; a ss e mlel e el. It sass natural for them to 1 his Attorney-General to.prosecute live Members of take advantage of this neeessitv, mod every movement the House of Co 11111 l ons for high treason ; and on this of the Sovereign, a hieh was in its nature irregular, day he came himself in person, attended by his guards, was hurried into an engine against hill. Thus the to the House of Commons, to seize the supposed ern- attempt to seize the five 31embers rendered Charles toi viinals. He addressed the House from the Spe.ker's popular, and increased the power of the CinIIIIIOIIII ; chair, was heard with a respectful silence.; aced the the keeping of the Ti 4 J I' 'al out of their room of meet moment he bail quitted the House, it was voted that Her, sent them to the famous Teunis Court, where the he had violated its privileges, and measures were oath was taken of taut separating till their grievances taken as if the safety of each individuM was in danger. were redressed. In both cases, what the hing lost The King could gain nothing by the step lie had taken ; his adversaries gained, and Isis ruin was inevitable.— I at his dignity suffered essentially; and, as the. rupture , Nature pennies to Mall certain actions ; their conse ha I commenced in so inauspicious a manner, it is not quences are out of his power. Had our Charles the to be wondered at that he suffered a similar disgrace First foreseen that, to reign twelve. years without a h 'fore the gates of Hull. Every thing was now lea! Parliament, lie must afterwards he driven from his p ired for a determination of the question between the throne, be prisoner (I/ Isis people, he tried for his life, Sovereign and his Parliament, the prerogative of the' and exeruted, he would have paused before he adopted king, and the rights of the people by force of wins.. such a measure: but his example will not prevent A civil war took plate much bravery was displayed similar effects, because Kings are Ism apt, in their ae on both sides: the best men of each party fell a gavel- vated situation, to forget that they are, like the mean tier to their respective principles ; and the Sovereign, ; est indivi•luals, subject to the common laws of nature. too late, discovered his error in attempting to rule by reeve so high spirited a nation as the English then were. To what reflections do these epochs give rise ? We cannot reflect upon the atrocious plot, which sti:l goes by the name of the gunpowder-plot, with tu: lamenting that depravity which is to be found sometimes in men, who, to advance their own seheines, I.ttle think of the horrors by which they are to he promoted. It does not appear that the conspirators upon this occasion had any reasonable ground of sue caul ; nor had they grievances to complain of which I might have authorised a degree of resistance, though none could justify the proceeding which they lead adopted. If they conceived the penalties under which I the Catholic religion laboured to be as injudicious as we now know them to be,they were felt only by a small bide of the people; and to redress them by the resin of the nation was a plan that could scarcely enter into th! minds of any not. deranged in their understand- I inp, or carried away by their prejudices. This is, I lufwever, a species of insanity which too frequently attacks people. All Europe felt it, when they entered iuto their visiusary projects for the deliverance of the Holy land ; anti many, who thought themselves at tuated by the principles of religion, were, in the year 1780, under the same delusion, when they showed I tteir abhorrence of popery, by burning down the i betimes of very respectable characters who followed . the religion of their ancestors. The use-we are to I ;Lake of these lessons is to guard ourselves against ' this madness and these prejudices. We are not to ac-' ense the Catholic religion, because some vile charm.- tsrs of that persuasion aimed a blow at Parliament two hundred years ago; for, if so, what are we doing but accusing ot s tr own ancestors as the vilest wretches upon earth, sface fur upwards of a thousand years they were of this persuasion ? In the same manner, the Protestant religion is not accountable for the mad ness that twat place in the riots of 1780. There are aid will be hid men in every religion; but that State acts the most• wisely which does not give these bad men the opportunity of inflaming the p ass i ons , an d which, by universal toleration, by employing indi videals indiscriminately as to religion, but strictly His Majesty was ou Friday last pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood on Lieurge Lettish' Tuthill, M. 1). of tionville and Cain. college, physician to the rural hospitals of Bridewell and BetMem. The Tea plant, of the Hymn species, ii said to be growing in e-nsidcrable quantities, at a settlement of the Friends, on Biue River, in Jackson County, In diana. S • seeds were found by one of the Society a few years since, in a lot of tea purchased at Louis ville; were planted, and succeeded so well, that some of the families in the us•ighhourlsood raise a sufficiency for their own consumption. Masimic Asimuire.—At an inn, in west of Ragland, several people were sit Are in a lirge kitchen, through which ther e was a sage to other apartments of the house, and among the company there was a travelling woulau and a tailor.— In this inn there was a Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons held, and it being lodge night, several o the members passed through the kitchen in their way to the lodge apartments; this introduces! observations .sta the principles of masonry, and the occult signs by Which masons could he known to each other. The woman said there was not so mmls mystery as people hosgined, for that she could show any body the mason's Aga: "What," said the tailor, "that of the Fret sad Accepted. " Yes," she replied ; " and I will hold you a half-crown howl of.punch, to he confirmed by any of the members whom you please to nominate." " Ally," i said he, .4 a woman was never admitted, and how is it . possible von could procure it ?" • " No matter for that." added she, " I will readily forfeit the waeer if I Jo mg establish the fact." The company urged the unfair. nate tailor to accept the challenge, which he at last agreed to, and the bet was deposited. The woman got 1 up, and took hold of the tailor b y the collar,. saying, •, Come , follow me, which he did, trembling alive, fear ing he was to underg o some part of the discipline in the i making a mason, of which he had heard a most dread. fal report. She led him into the street, anti pointing to the sign of the Lige cad Lemlo,asked him whoa. sign lit was? Ile answered, " It is Mr. Loder's" (the same i of the inn-keeper). " Is he a Free Mason ?"—" Yes. - ' " Then" said the woman, " I hare a sliewn you the sign of a Free and Accepted Mason." The laugh was so 1 much against poor Snip, for having been rake. is, lbst it was with some difficulty he could be prevailed min partake of the punch. . town in ANNIVERSARY ur rug' LI FEILMY FUND. Yesterday the Anniversary FestivDl of the Sbekty for the Establishment of a Literary Fund, was cele brated at the Freetnasons"favern. 'lhe Earl of Blesington presided, and was supported on the right by the Earl of Pomfret, and by Lord Bolton on the left. ,%in mrs the ci,iitparay we observed, Sir w . Clayton, G. Watson Taylor, Esq., Don. 1). Kin naird, Kev. Dr. Booker, Richard Heber, Esq., Rev: C. Parr Burney, Key. Dr. Symonds, &c. After the cloth had been removed, No *obis Da mime was sung by Messrs. Dignutn, Taylor; Evans, tie. with their usual excellenee. The N.ible UIIAIKMAN then flare "The king, obi munilirent Patron."—" The loyal Family;" Olen, Glorious Apollo.'—" The Army and Nary;" Air, ' Rule Britannia.' Tile CHAIRMAN stated, that he had received a letter from his lirare the Duke of Somertrt, stating, that lie nas prevented by a recent domestic loss, from pre siding upon this urea , and eCnitaining a further proof of the munificent patronage which be had uni formly extended to this Institution. lie concluded by proposing " The heaith of their Noble President." This toast was followed by a glee, romposed by Shield, for the Anniversary of the Literary .Fund. ' The l'itsinsivs then proposed, in an excellent speech, " Prosperity to the Literary Fun I." Mr. W. T. Fyrzimant.o then reeitell,.for the 24th time, a I'.win composed for this occasion, in which the praises of Nelson, the Duke of Wellington, his' late and present Alajesty, were recorded with his ac customed poetical fire. The Karl of Poursorr then proposed " The health of the Noble Chairman, - which was drank with much applanse. The l'it.vinmvs returned thanks in an appropriate speech, and a tare, composed fur the Ann:versary by Mr. Fitzgerald, was sung with exquisite taste and feeling by Mr. Brabant, bir. The Secretary then read the Treasurer's Report, in which, among other interesting statements, it was an nounced flint T. Newton, Esq., the lineal descendant of Sir Isaac Newton, had, in his :lid! year, exclaimed This is the Institution for the representative of Newton," and hequeath. d the %thole of his property to the Literary Fund. The t•IIAIRMAN nest gave, The Vice .Presidents of the Society ;" and matt a is tier from Sir Benjamin llobhouse, in which he regretted that the state of his health dill nut permit him to attend at a public (Honer, and assured tfie Society that there was no object which he w•as tuore•desirous of promoting than the prosperity of the Literary Fnuil. " The Earl of thtilfinsl, and the University cf the lonian Isles," and several other toasts were then given. Mr. Brahmin snug several songs in his best style, and the eienitte: was spviat nith the utmost harmony and convi►•iality. ;,. LOUIS BONAPARTE. "it iitionpiontitedly true that this family is of Hallos On because, before the cession of the Island to nlet., it belonged to ltaly, and the Bonaparte. were lir a s s e ttled in Tuscany sea the Venetian dominions. One of their Tuscan ancestors settled at Mariano, in the ape of Beam, removed to the small town of Aisecio, in the time of th wars of the thielphs and IlimbeHines; but the Bonaparte. are nut the less French on that ac count. Their name was spelt originally Bnonaparte; and they were called dr Bnonaparte before the revolu tion. It was only when the use of the ankle de was suppressed that they began to write Bonaparte. " Charles Bonaparte was very much distinguished on account of his Meth, his intellectual attainments, and his `character. He tough;, it is true, fur the independence of his country with Paoli, and even quitted the island with that lichen!; but, retailed hrlamis XV. and his relations, he returned to his family, and became a good Feenchnian. He was several times sent as deputy from the noblesse to the Court, from which be received many favours. His tons, Joseph and Napoleon, were educated in the loyal military schools. His daughter, Eliza, bad bee education at St. Cyr. Their uncles, Frscb and*La clan. went through their studies in the seminary of Ms. Finally, Louis was destined also to a military school, • when tie revolution broke out. " Madame Bonaparte, the mother, was not of the Feeds but of the Ramo Hui family, of which the origin was also Italian. The Ramolinis were descended from the Counts of eolith°. The first who settled at Ajaccio mar ried the daughter of the Doge of Benoit, and received concessions and distinguished honours from that repub lic. The titles of this family were in the records of the tome of Ajaccio a few years ago. " As to the nobility of the Bonaparte family, what ever libellers may pretend, it is very ancient, and well identified in the annals of Italy. It is said, that when the marriage of Napoleon with the Archtlncliess Marie- Louisa was about to take place, the French Emperor, in ' answer to some remonstrances on the subject, observed, I should not enter into this alliance, if I did not know that her origin is as no:dr as my own. A elliection of documents, extracteti from the archives of different towns of Italy, was then presented to the Emperor Napoleon, from - *Melt It appeared that the Itessopnesee, at a leery remote period, were Lords of Treviso. Napoleon threw it into the tire, energetically observing, " I wish my no bility to cointnence only with myself, and to hold all my titles front the French people."—(flietorieef Doetnnents and 11On-tient on Mt Government of Holland.) The printer of the " Manchester Ohimtver" has been 'sustained on a charge of libel against the Military at Oldham, accusing them of having committed outrages, which Sir James Lyon had ascertained to be false; aad ordered to find security to answer the charge. RAFCTITION OF TOR DIABOLICAL ATTSNIFr to vine liznarnan Cou.nsa.—About a 'putter past Sea last night (Tuesday, the 24 inst.) the inhabitants of this city were again alarmed by the cry of a Ore at war Col lege, and in coneespionce a large nowiller of perm* hastened to render their assistance. The fames went discovered on the north side. in the ceiling of am of the upper room*, which was on lire in two places, and there is no doubt, bet in a very short period, if the providen tial discovery had not taken place, the whole of that jart of the building would have been in fames. The udicious exertions of those who Ant reached di= effectually subdued the Ire, which had made co able progress, and *early burned theme, a large bees and sonic rafters, with great injury * the spartmest. Like the former attempts, this is eAdently the work of some horrible incendiary well waisted with t h e pre mise, and whose detection, althumth deferred, we sla terely hope may yet take place , and his crimes receive the just an ard Which mnst follow etterlithoo--en 1,110. mien:ins death by the hands of the maroon haegerea.— (Hertford Journal.) LAW LYTELLIGENGE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, M•r 4. The Court wa:. occupied the whole day from its sit ting at ten o'clock, until near t.ix in the evt idng, in passing judgment upon persons guilty of offences against the Custon.s and Excise Laws. The 1. Attiring defendants, in addition to those inserted in Tait ST TESMAN of yesterday, were sentenced, en the Wu thin of the SOLICITOR-Gk.:VIRAL William Martin and 1 hoinar Eldritlge, convicted of a riot and assault in aid of smuggling; the former to be ihsprisoned fifteen nmonths ► and the hater twelve months, in the Lewes !louse of Correction. Samuel Spelt?: and David Cook, guilty ►,f a ike of fence ; to imprisoned three months in Lewes caul, and to enter into security for tlieir good behaviour for threv years, in their personal recognizance of My. each. Robert Gardn► r, convicted of rn assanit saloon au Excise officer; to pay a fine of 20/. to the like. John Morris and Daniel Eldridge, convicted of maki►►g signals on the coast of Sovvex in aid of atom . filing; to he imprisoned in the House of Correcti .11. Lewes for three tt►onths, and to give security fur :t.►ir good behaviour for three years. James ltat•man, convicted of attemptin g to a Custotn-house officer, to allow him to re" wougstittl goods ; to be imprisoned two months in t mterbury gaol, and pay a tine of 50/. and give seelt.“ fur his good behaviour for two years. Henry Mcwre, guilty of assaulting an EN. officer at Liverpool ; to pay a tine of 401. George Lee. convicted of an assault upon an Excise officer at Wrexham, in Denbighshire; to pay a line of 201. Benjamin Draper, convicted of a conspirary and as sault, and false imprisonment, in aid of .aggling purposes; to pay a tine of ; and Peter Atkins, convicted of an assault upon an Ex cise officer ; to be imprisoned in Canterlatry gaul tor three months, and to give security for his good beha viour for two years. THB ILINH V. JOSEPH 41LIRKIL AND DINNT MAIMS. On the motion of Mr. licaNav, these defendants, father and son, were brought up in custody to recehe the judgment of the Conn, having pleaded to an i IJ. dictuieut preferred by the Society for the Suppression of Vice, charging them with publishing ulkcene books and prints. The case disclosed upon the affidavits was of a very aggravated character. The defendants avpearest to have been regular traders in this nefarious traffic for some years. It was stated that the father had been in the business for twelve years. Both were in the habit of hawking their commodities shout town in a bag, containing a mixture of religious tracts and children's primers, and as a blind fur the sale of books and pictures of the most offensive description. The works which were the subject of the present indict ment were described to be of so disgusting a wore. that they were heeded to the Judges for their private inspection only, and were nut publicly exhibited or resit. The slefesdants, who were withest Counsel. threw themselves MI the mercy of the Court. expressing their sincere contrition and repentance for their crime, and urging extreme poverty said wretchodmas is midge- Sion of punishment. Mr. Justice BATLEY, in passing the sentence ti the animadverted upon the offence Imputed to the prisoners in terms of severe reprei,ntrion, sad ad judged the father to be imprisoned fur 115 months, aud the son for 9 months, in the Middlesex House of Cor rection, and both to enter halo their personal recogni vane's, in the sum of 501., to be of good behaviour fur five years. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MAY 4. NALVORD r. DILLON. The Court gave its judgment on the defendant's mo tion for a new trial of this cause, which came on at the Summer Assizes of 1. 19, at Worcester, on a claim set up by Mr. Dillon to the estates of Sir Wm. Par ker, Kart. and for which a rule to show cense was obtained by Mr. Dillon in Michaelmas Tenn folowing. The Court now gave its judgment against Mr. Dillon on all the poims on which the application was founded. and discharged his rale. • P•11111r. }AUK. The Court also discharged a rule which Mr. Dillon had obtained in the Islet lam, to show cause why an attachment should not issue against Mr. Applevard (the Solicitor of Sir Was. Parker), and one of his clerks, for a contempt of Court, In haring caused the arrest of the defendant on the day on which be had at tended the Court, to argue his application for the above new trial. The Court said there was no gronnil for she attachment, but directed that the defendant should hare his costs of the application. Nesbit, the puma esninsitted to Maidstone Gaol on the sharp of murdering Mr. Parker and his houseiteepes. has given information against two artillery into at Wool wish, sea of wham has beeLagsaired. On Tuesday last, at OW Jolla Waite. FIN. oft son. BINTII. tko Lady •f MARRIED. On Tuesday last, at Aldborough, Edward Fairfax, Esq. R. N. foreier4 Master of the Ineet under Earl Bt. Vipers , . Lords Gardner and Umnbier, to Harriet Mary, eldest &Wi ts, of the Rev. Was. Beadier. Vicar of that plasm Yesterday.Oeorge A. A)iwin. Esq. of Lower names street, to Miss Cooper, of Clapham. Oa Monday last. at Weymouth. the Rar..l. lift, Bettor of Illonehiterh sad Out.lhs. Ink of Wight, to has Bikes. daughter of the late Basauel Rae. of PerukUL DINO. Oa Welineeday last. at IL esupbee's, mar Cauterber). PMI'S, fifth daughter of dm ars. Uttar, Plumplire. Oa the With ult.. at lisyswaisr. Allaa Mobs*. Vie" years, the daughter of Colonel Hamlet Wade, C. 13. Brilinne• Os the Mt inst.. Lemke. third daughter of Thomas Voted! liustos. Esq. 91. P.; duns; the Mst month we assumed the death of three other chiklres la the same family. OuTtiesday. the ilith ult., et Jer•Al , Edward NOM". Req. late Deputy - Pay miaster-Oeseral to the Peremfislhat Limed. On Tondo, lest. at Walthamstow, Essex. John WOW `‘ his 79d - Oa Tweeds. lest. at Weltaseistow. Essex. ,row nvemer• Esq. Is Ws 71d Year. _ HIGH TiATER AT 1.0,M0N-BRIDOE TEE IMY. Merriam 10 rim. after 7.—Aftersoes. IS S. Oil: 1 1.11.6137 1 . 1 r Sea. at thrOdee, Melt. elemeat's (Nerd's viler. all ( I dirk sad Atliertisessals Mreqausted — a7 17e 3 : e ..i