The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-12-30 00:00:00

r • ii . red ; but he contended that it was never greater than it was at the present moment, when it might be said to he earned to a pitch of infamous licentiousness. Toone ',ranch of those publications he must allude : he alludes' to the answers given to the addresses presented to the Queen. More indammatory or traitorous language never limiest from the press than what they contained ; and he would say that the man who wrote those answers was no better than a traitor to his country.—(Hisses anal applause.—lf ever there was a time when it behoved zoos' Englishmen to stand forward in defence of their euuntry, it was the present. After urging this strain fur some time, and inveighing against aßepublican form of ilovernment, and the designs of the Whigs. the lion. t)►nt. concluded by moving as an amendment, that this satires he taken into consideration on the 29th Dec. l's2.7s.—{A loud laugh.) • 11r. Paeans seconded the amendment in a short speech, in which he contended that it was impossible to go up to the Queen with an address of congratulation, a hen so many Piers had voted that the preamble of the .ill hail been proved. The Rev. M. ATSTONIC supported the original address an able and convincing argument, and was followed by Mr. nearest, who advocated the cause of the Queen with great eloquence. Mr. 11. PeLLer attacked the Whigs for the support of t':e corn laws. Mr. Eunice in a neat speech supported the address. Nit. 111:vtt opposed it, and passed a high ealogium on t'ie !louse of Peers—asking, at the same time, how such insignificant creatures as the meeting then assembled (s loud laugh) could pretend to decide wore accurately en elle case. The Rev. S. HILLI SOD, a dissenting minister, in an tic *peed); remarked that he had always prayed tar the Queen., Mr. ['At mien briefly replied, and utterly denied that he r.:is a party man. The addresses anti petitions were then put to the vote. Mr. H. PI7LLST proposed that they should adjourn to the fittest Hall, particularly as there was a reporter of The Times present, and they were in tile habit in that piper of frequently adding ciphers* to units, and thereby waking thousands of thm. l'hey were every slab offering apologies for the rrrurs they e iiiiii edited. The MAIOR said, he hoped the reporter of The limei WAtalil set down the result as faithfully as hr would dis• ttnetly stale it. The Meeting then adjourned to the Hall ; and after .li,•tr of hands the MAYOR declared that the numbers Ip,ared to biro to be about five to four in favour of the it.tdresses and petitions. Several voices cried on', " there are four to one in fiener of them: - which seemed to us wore correct than V.e Mayor's calculation. The 3lston then said that it appeared to him t' at the sense of the meeting was in favour of the two atldr, saes and the two petition.. The meeting then, after voting thanks to the Queen's Counsel, and the Editors of the independent London Fetters, dispersed quietly about a quarter before four e• !rusk. • Nobody, says the Ea{tor of The Timer. will expect us t•• gas a word in refutation of this ridiculous and con tr.uptitAe falsehood. PLI.VOCTH PATRIOTIC MEETING. highly re•pectahle Meeting was held on Tuesday, tl v Pith inst. at the London Inn, Plymouth, to take into • •ansideraticn the propriety of voting an Address to his 11,11esty. avpressiie of their attachment to his person, ar I praying him to dismiss for ever from his councils I • peetwas advisers. The proeoedlaire of the Meeting revumeneed at eleven &clod . , when knots Mecum Esq. was unanimously called to the chair. l'ertet as Blau, Esq. proposeil the first Resolution.- 7 - I Neg. w ild be. to congratulate you on having so respect !;,le a Chait min, and a man whom you know to be so tra i t patriotie. I hare likewise to congratitlate you on IL defeat of the Bill of Pains and Penalties against her ilisjestc. I have read in some Journals that the Minis terial liantling was strangled by that magnanimous po -1 t:cal midwife, Lord Liverpool (hind laughter); but my o;lttion is. that it was stunned by the deep-toned thuti wof the British voice (loud cheering). It was that i• defr4teol the Wilt, and nut , t eventually srve the c.,-'ntry. In preparing the resolutions which I shall V.is stay submit to von. I hare abstained f Wad . which could inflame the public mind, aria what is contained in them I trust will meet your appro bation ; they comprehend a general state of the distress the country is now in (lieu, h .ar.) I feel most con saieniissoslb loaf, lint for the public feeling excited in the case of nor Queen, the blond and treasure of the • ountry wo:t'd hare been spilt and squandered in an unhaNumwd crusade against the liberty of Naples. — he British nation is in such a state at this time, it is impassible to say what events will o:cur: that a black timid darkens our political horizon, is evident to the r. ost superficial ob . I wish I mild say, there was Bo- least prOspeet that floe persecution of our Queen was not to be Persisted in; at all events , my prayer is that it may b e . defeated if again attempted. There is on, 3 010.1 which I must not shatters without observing to yor—it has been said to one, in a pointed manner, ours nsav have numbers. hat we shall have respectability. 1 am °Weed to ask these tirntletnen what is the fair criterion of respectability? If these doctrines are car ried mooch NMI*, they will divide the country into two public paupers. and the parochial paupers, A nd Alen the breach which too unhappily exists be tween the higher and lower orders of the State, and put off tow distant day that personal concord and national harmony which atone ea% best thedieseactiensaf ettr R e speerattilitr can be in action only, and tot I. hirtit or fortr e z: weld address each in the lan gsage of the lay allies nobility, ye gilded Wain • Does virtue give 4, or can gold amnia Blooms the form fairer. if the hirtit be high; Or takes the vital stream a richer dye! What ! tbo . a loag Patrician line ye claim, Are no' le souls antaii'd upon a name ? Cenqu'rors may ermine out the lordly earth; Virtue's the herald that proclaims its worth. Vice levels all, however high or low, Aod all the difference but et:Artists in show. Who asks for alms. or, supplicates' a place, Alike is beggar, tho' in rags or leer! Alike his Coss 's scandal and its mime. Who resets a or who purloins a purse r* I will now call your attention again to the Resolutions; I their object is to convey, not only our own sentiments, but that which is of match snore ronsequence—the state of your country, to the font of the Throne. There art indt viditals who say. dist the Loyal Alidtestres now Sow ing in to the Throne, are meant us a set of against the Addresses presented to the Queen.; such is not ant pnion. I believe them to be p urse p the Ministry, to impose upon the King, and in urea his Wed that the country km approved of their uterine*. Tho Learned Gentleman now proposed the first Resoletioa, whim Joust Waite CLARK. gal. seedaded it and said--I wen cenrieeed of the necessity of this ) Jeetlag; I am certala, that whatever may be said as le ear being Ra . (Scale, we are the persons we* *IA to see lite laws le gally executed. If it be Ratite:dim to wish to see tlw W f THE STATESMAN.. Houte of Peers administering the laws to the people with eqtilti, awl the House of Commons doing the *opt...mute, then, bleetienten, I am a Radical, and glory in the name. All genuine lovers of their coon try•must wish for a Reform, and what I want to See. is the hottest 111.111 live by the sweat of his brow. The Resolution was carried unanimously, when Mr. limo again rose, and moved the second Resolu tion, which WAS seconded by JOHN SAUNDKII3, Esq. and also carried unanimously with loud cheers. The Learned tietoleman, previously to pntting the thirst Resointion, sahl, if there is a person who can dis prove the troth of this Resolution, let him. itt mercy to the country and mankind, start forward and do so. He then read it, and it was seconded by Capt. W. 11. Ras- NKTT, and also carried unanimously. Mr. BIRD then proposed the fourth Resolution. which , was seconded by Mr. J. Hiss. in a speech which was mock cheered, and a trr:ed also unanimously. Mr. Worms; Junior. proposed a vote of thanks to Chas. Bird, Esq. for his prompt and manly conduct in stepping forward, at the solicitation of his independent townsmen, in support of their rights and privileges as British subjects. The motion was seconded by Mr. lit.sxvi tax and un ahitnnosly carried. Mr. !lino returned thanhs, and then proceeded to-pro- pose an Address to his Majesty, incorporating the first boor Resolution.. It was m'olllll.ll .11MES HOOKE, Esq. supported by Mr. Sr. Jots, and carried by acclamation. Other Resoltitions as to the presenting the Address were then gone into, &r. '.'he Meeting then gave cheers, three times three for the Kim:- -the same for the queen—awl three times for the . .an‘titittiolial and Independent Tao 11444141 ml Free own of Norwirh, who pr..tested aKainst the Freedom of that I ity lining presented to the Milo. of Wellington ; and also three cheers were then given for the Independent I tilt.ll.l!;ttwc of Duck, Statehouse, Plympton, Valitipton, and the vir:lsits. At two o'clock the Meeting broke up. you, and of that frankness which forts/ s tile boils of our policy. " Receive the assurance of the distinguished consi deration and 'matter rble attachment with which I am your Majesty's Kai? brother. Son-in-law and ally, (Signed) " Masers." Letters wore also addri•ssed to the King of Naples by the Emperor of Rassia and the King of Prussia, hut yreciiely in the same terms. ADDRESS FC.RDIN %ND I. HY THU OR Mt OF GOD AND TUC cosavirc MN OP Tan MONARCHY, KING THR TWO 3tC11,1“, tie. W. TU HIS fAITHIPVL DBPCTIRS OF PARLIAMENT. " The Sovereigns of Austria, Russia, and Prussia, I united in Congress at Troppau, have sent m e three let ters, in whirl, they Wrier one to repair in person to Lay : bach, to form part of a new Congress to be held in that piece. " You will collect from the letter themselves, copies of which will he laid before yon by my Minister for Foreign Atfaies, the importance of the object of such an invitation, which is that of interposing myself as mediator between the above-named Sovereigns and the nation. " Duly penetrated with the rircnmstanees tinder which we are placed, and desirous to make any sacrifice, Ito establish the happiness of the nation on a solid basis, I turn with avidity to every expedient that presents to me the hope of effecting that object. Consequently I aut resolved to overcome all the obstacles offered by l imy advanced age and the rigour of the season, and to comply promptly with the invitation, since the above lnamed Sovereigns have caused it to be declared to me : that there can he no other medium for treating, even were it one of the Primes of my Royal Family. I set out wills the confidence that Divine Providence will I laird me the means of giving the last proof of my love for you, in saving the nation from the scourge of war. " Far be the thought from me and from you, that the adoption of this project can make me compromise the good of my people ; and in parting from you I owe it to ; myself to give yon a new and solemn gurrantee. I tie ' dare then, to qua and to the station that has resolved to make every carrion for the enjoyment of a liberal and wise constitution, that whatever measures circumstances may exact relatively to oar actual political state, all my efforts will be directed that it may remain for ever fixed upon time following bases:— ▪ I. That the individual and real liberty of my be loved subjects may be secured by a fundamental law of the state. " .2. That birth sisal confer no privileges in the cow position of the legislative body of the state. " 3. That no taxes shall he imposed without the con sent of the nation in its legitimate representation. " 4. That the accounts of public expenditure shall be referred to the station itself, and to its representatives. • 3. That laws shall be made in accord with the na tional representatives. " 6. That the judicial power shall be independent. " 7. That the press shall remain free, except from the operation of laws enacted ageism the abuses of its liberty. " S. That the Ministers he responsible. " 9. That the Civil List shall be fixed. " I further declare that none of my subjects shall ever receive molestation on accnnnt of past political events. " %fy f sitisful deputies—ln taking on me this rare to convhsce yon of my love and solicitude for the nation, I desire that a deputation of four members, selected from the Parliament, may accompany me, and he witness of the dangers that threaten, and the endeavours that may be Divie so enslave us. PRICE OF STOCKS TII Rink Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 70 3 per Cent. Con. shat. 3, per Cent. 4 per Cents. 9711 nr Ot. Navy shut. prr t eat. der pt lee..g A.M. IS I- S per Cent. D.ll - AT oNF: irmocK. Irish 3 per Cent. India coca flizto !loads —s. 254.475. pin. !loath-Sos Plow Ann. ks.Hil ate. par. Is. pas. Ditto talt) 2s. trainmen fur Aloney Cou. for Reel 701 711 Lott. 'rickets 211. 3s. etc SttattOman. •• THIS BRITISH STATEs%IVs" I•rAHPohp.fsn WITH " TRH sIATIcsI4.OI." LONDON: SATIMIDAT EVENING, DECEMBER 3P. Our readers cannot have failed to notices report in circulation yesterday, that many Members PArna mud have written to the Treasury, stating, that bnsi• min will proven: their attendance on the 4311 of JJ. unary. Without vouching for the tru:ll of the state tent, we can, however, venture to assert, that the intimation obscurely conveyed in this aunount eaten', appears to he well founded. We have reason to 6su licre, that Parliament, tiottgh appointed to he he'd on the 2311 of January fur dispatch of bu•iotes, rid not then assemble. Win titer the further prorogation now in view arises must from the backwardness which Ministers experience on the part of their friends, or front the divisions that prevail among themselves, we will no; presume to decide. That they begin to feel the consequences of their infatuation, in inst i tuting their proceedings against the lja.Estx, is now abun dantly manifest. The agitation they had spread through the country, has, by its re-action, set them in a tottering state; and the men who were their staunchest adherents, while they appeared to stand firm, are now cautiously keeping aloof, and wait ing fur their fall. Even the lee! fii:k of the North, who are the last to forfeit their allegi ance to the servants of the Crown, have been led, by second sight no doubt, to suppress, at their meeting in Aberdeen, their devotion to the Mini•- ters, aui limit all their loyalty to the KING. These are portentous omens. To what degree they way alfect our Ministers, or what strange steps they may urge them to take, Iv^ wait with route anxiety for time tudevelope. At present all that is apparent is iadeekion and imbeci lity. The vacancy admitted to Ir:ve been made by Mr. CANNING is not filled up, user any a range meats visible fur supplying the two other important places in the Cabinet expected soon to be void. Pn the remnants of the present Administration flatter themselves they will at:quite stength by the ac cession of Meatbers who still adopt a severer and more commanding tone? Is 4lte present Pasliament not sufficiently subservient, and a fvesk election to be desired? We know nit what occasion there may be fur asking suc:t questions, any more than for enquiring the objects of the Duke of Witi.xixto Tux in his progress through the country. This day week, we copied from a Morning paper, a paragraph, stating that 3lademoiselle DEzotoxr, Tn uuuue alAJorcui, and several other foreigners of the saute description, bad sailed from Woolwich on the preceding Tuesday, for the Mediterranean, on board the Causeleon sloop of war. Tue Coaiirr, the same et ening contradit tea this assertion, in an article we noticed in our following paper, and &dinned that t'►e Cauldron had only bees, employed in bringing a fine chronometer from France, and had returned to her station at Portsmouth. All this respecting the Came. Iron is probably correct ; but, except that she did not carry frost► England the cargo allege.l, no coots adic tion, it will be observed, was attempted relative t ► the' departure of the Italian witnesses. It might, in. deed, b..re been 'armed even with truth, on Saturday aftermon, that those distinguished per images were then remaining in their wens. toured quarters at Westminster. The fact appears • to be, that on Saturday last, at midnight, and root till that obscure convenient hour of one a the longest ; nights of the year, all the remaining foreign witnesses too[ their departure, by water, from Cotton (larder. They proceeded first to Deptford, ender the care. we ' believe, of the commander of the Tbaink . Popes yeast I; and there immediately were shipped : board one of his 31 ar Eal%'s sloops or hrje, under the j rotection, we are infurwed, of 114 CAPP - 3i of the Alien Office, who was to accompa:ty thew, up their slava borne, as far as Paris. The State papers we this day present relative to Naples will be found of the highest interest. They are singular as documents, and singular As to their occasion. What a view do they develop, of the character of the Holy. Alliance! This is an perium is impede', with ; vengeance! Who could have tweeted, iu the present age, that a con clave of Sovereigns, the friends of order, and she preteeto:s of peace, twilit :impel, to themselves the prerogative to amnion Wore them an independent monarch, to account to them fur the compost between himself and his subject:. pf Iiort•PARTS! Vi has the consequence of FisaitiNawn's compliance limy be, can only be rontesuplated with 111 prehessini. The object of the Sovereigns in detnantliog a air. Strews with this imbecile old man, aloof. sod deter. wining to at-rept of no snitatitite, net even any of the Princes of his family, is obvious enough. SPASIsiI PAPERS. We have received, says the .1/i,rrll•rura of the 14th instant, very important observations on various articles of the pew Tariff of Cost a, and onr atten tion has been called, g others, to th•ote relative to iron hoops, which we receive from England soil Iln:land. These !twills circus) are nut Made in Spain, and what is mare, the art of waking them is unknown, olience it results that it will rust twice as ninth to hoop a cask %ilk hoops of the Peninsula as with foreign ones. The expenees of carriage wiil hr A little more, ur at least as WOO', as from England, • because as we have nu internal means of vottiniunira-: lion, they must be entbarked from our n .rthern ports for Catalonia, where tht-re is the greatest consump tion of them, mind the freight from Ililboa is as great, or greater, than that from Portsmouth. 'flue same observations will apply, fur the saner reasons, to find printell rot:tins, i%ltich our mannfacturrs du not kiit:w bow to execute. We readily agree that our industry should be pro.' terted by hindering the competition of foreigners to the preinilice (dour own manufactures, since, in spi e. of all theories, this is she comagactof the itsust eulirl amid nations. lint allowing that our matinfacretur ought t.. receive encouragentent, we cannot begefill that this should aiolsatise a monopoly to the injury of other interrAs that toes it regard. These tasks. which must hr boo e I, at a triple expence, carry all over tit.. world the line brawn: it of Hens, and this lo grease of expense may up rate very unfavorably on the sale of- that 'mist important article. Ali to the prohibition of nut' printed cottons, it is 'quiet lent to an express order to stauggle them into the kingdom. These cottons areal) very generally worg, that the women hardly wear any thing else at home, especially in stunt pro%inees. In Catalonia they can not give these artieles those bright and durable co lours which so much re. olumend them, nor have etry that taste and eleganc.: is the patterns, which are their chief merit. " It is necessary, however, that until the termination of , these nr;rotiations Parliament do net propose any new men. sure its the different branches, but that affairs may remain : inithe state in which they are at present, limiting its care to the part it is alreatly called on to take in the organism. .X.IPLKIL lion of the army, and that all the arrangements. diztos i ted by time and circumstances, may continue in the new ar as they were fixed in that which is about to espire. The following o ffi cial dorwinents have been publish- ' e • I I y t is my decided wish that the greatest economy in eim ed at Naples:— i penditure may be adopted in all the departments, ae Cori or A I.IITTIR FROM THR suntans or AVSTRIA soon as the situation of affairs will permit. TO THE KING *1 ISNISNO. I " I leave with you, in parting, all that I hold most is TooMear, Nov. N. dear. You will continue to feel those sentiments of attach " Sir, my Brother. and tety desio•Farher-in-law. . went whirls you have ever professed for toy Royal "Unhappy circumstances have prevented my rereiviag 1 Family. the letters all.tressed to me by your Majesty distil* a I " I confirm my beloved son, the Duke of Calabria, period of foist months. The events, I •ever, to which in Isis functions of toy Vicar-general, as expres:ord lbw letters have probably related have hot ceased to in soy act of the 6th of July, and 11th of October. occupy my most serious *straiten tttt s, as well as those of of this year. t'se Allied Powers assembled at Troppau to deliberete " I a:n convinced that you will receive this coin in unison on the consequences with which these event] aninication as a proof of my sentiments for you, menace the rest of the Italian Peninsula, and perhaps and of that necessity which obliges us to prefer the the whole of &trope. In determining on this commod salvation of our country to every other secondary iu consoltatlon, we hare outy acted In ronformitylvltlpAid West. t r ao s actioss of 'OIL ISIA, mod ISIS--transactioos oil FERDINAND. wibioh peneoilejeetp, as 'tali an linter at lar ge, taw' " Naples, Dee. 7. The Duke of C 4MPOCIIIARO. die charatter as I object, owl upon which that *isles., •• m Pee. of ate and Minister for Foreign Medic " . 5. .......,.......• Sillianee is foowleal-- solely designed to parenting front BRIGHTON Dec. 29.—0 n Thursday, the Mayor of all •danger the l intitie ' d 1"e1)61/41e"re and tle i : el osi t t a ' Cork, and, subsequentiv, the Mayor of Dublin. had integrity of all its states , awl to en s u re the re the te honor b of audiences with Isis Majesty. They were . prosperity of Ettr.me at large by the repose prosperity of each of the conntrles of which it a populous cities , ci t t h i se es, us b u u a t i w n l i t a ic n l i s ie a r r . e t t i o ir ! u n it cl h th t e h i e r n w e a ed y it t i o ni th o e f posed. Your Majesty, then, cannot doubt that lb, jests of the Cabinets assembled litre is to reeonel Lord .tiidanontli, Sir F. lll.mmfiela, Bart.--Lord Co i ititt•rest and well-being, the enjoyment of whin eyeglnue, Sir M. Tierney, Dart. I.orl Folkestone, and paternal solicitude of your Majesty would lead you ii various other Nobleman, honoured the Mayor of Cork ,lrsire for your people, with the ditties of the A with visits, at the York lintel, on Thursday, prior, Monarchs to their own states, awl the rest of the w and after his introduction to the Sovereign.—The But my allies and myself should feel happy to . p it King has taken daily promenades on the enclosed pa these solemu engagements with the co-operation of.rt /1". grounds this week. severe " .Ise weather has - barn, and has sometimes been on horseback in the rid- Majesty. and we now, faithful to the principle. we ing-school. Ills Majesty's health i• said to have bees proclaimed, demand this co-operation. It is solely. Alit Improving since the first hour of his arrival here, amp , this view thin we propose to your Majesty to somosehile arlsich his hale appearance roost amply testifies. CIO with us in the city of Issyleseh. Your present...' ask Thursday. his Majesty paid a visit of general inapt,► ties in the Palace ;sod the royal mandate is aow .armed, we are sure, will hasten a reconciliation almo st hullo p ear a tile; and it is in the name of the dearest intonate of for t h e severa l a p ar t m e n t s , finished or unfinished, to your kingdom, and with that watchful solicited' 'of he pet into immediate condition for use. The Prin. which we believe that we have given more than one tell. reams Aegesta and Sophia, it is said. will honour notedly to your Majesty, that we now invite you to RP this place with their pleseser, as Seen ej the Palace is ceive new proofs of the tree friendship which we bear heist state fur their reception. F; irt ~( 1 I