The Statesman. — London, England, 1819-09-02 00:00:00

PURITY OF ELECTION. NORWICH ELECTION FOR SIIERirF. The political feeling of the inhalsitants of this pa pules' city may be correctly appreciated from the late Election for Sheriff. On Te•srlay last, the day ap. pointed by the charter for the (freemen to elect a citi zen to 611 this MO and important office, Mr. Edward Taylor, a decided friend to Ramat. Revolt., end Mr. T. S. Day, the President of a Society called m she King and Constit 'lion Club," were respectively pet in nomination. After • spirited poll. which con. Mooed the whole day, the MAYOR declared the nem. bets, before a crowded Court, to be— Mr. Kenefel Taylor tiol Mr. T. S. Dan 5:0 1 m.jority Mr. TATLefa then said—" Fellow Cilizese,—The office to which you have now elected me was neither desired no impeded on my part ; bet there are times when it is the duty of those who vales the laws and the Constitution of their country not to shrink from the discharge of those Mseisterial duties, by which the rights and liberties of the People may be affected : and If ever there was sects a period is the history of our reentry, it Is the present. The late dreadful and bloody scene which has been acted at Manchester has taught iheoPeople an insportaut lesson.—(Applanse ) Wo have Seen the right of petitioning violated, and a wanton sod eaprovoked attack made upon the people who were met t•exerciseit —by those whosedety it was t o h a ve protecoml and preserved the public peace.— .4pplourc.)—Unforteetately for the inhabitants of Manchester they have es voice in the election of their Magistrates. Instead of those old and vette. table constitutional Officers, the Mayor, Aldermen, end Sheriffs, whose very titles mark their high sae liquify, they are prettied by men with modern, rew-fangled, and odious names of Stipendiary Police idagistraics. No wonder that each Officers should have very little feeling in common with the People. We have reason to rejoice that we live ender a different jurisdiction.---All our local instil.. lions bespeak a constant refereoce to the will of the People, and thereby manifest their high &otiosity, and their entice conformity to the genies end spirit of our Constilation. Take, for instance, the office to which you have jest elected me. The sari I practice throughout the kingdom in those times which gave birth to the brightest end noblest of our laws and institetions, was for the People to elect their own Sheriff. This right is now possessed by few places in the kingdom. It is a right whirls you almost peculiarly enjoy. Long may you hold lt, and may you vindicate, by the discretion and public topi. sit with which you esercise it, the wisdom of those laws and customs which were framed by our patri %tic ancestors. Is Gentlemen, I feel most sensibly the high import. once of the office to which you hare elected me.— I need not remind you, that one of its duties is the preservation of the public peace. This part of my office, I am confident,will be a very easy one. Amnion I feel it to be my duty most distinctly to state, that if it shall be year pleasure at any time to meet in • legal and constitational way to petition for a redress atom grievance", er to esprem your opinion with regard' to any public measure, I shall feel it my duty to be present. Not, indeed, to let loose upon you a mill. tary force, but to assist and protect you to the best of my ability in the discharge of so important a duty.— (Shouts of applause.) " I am very glad that this contest hat taken place. It is of vest Importance in the present siteation of the country, that the opinion of the People should be clearly and strongly espressos!. The event of this Election has shown what is the opinion of the cithens of Norwich. You well know my political opinions. and you have declared, by the decided ma• jority which appears on the poll, that you regard an advocate for Itsdical Reform in the Commons House of Pirliament, as a fie anti proper person to be your Sr e, tR —( Lend applause). " This contest he. teen conducted in • way the most gratifting to all who vale* Parity of Election. Mere has been no bribery, nn treating, on canvassing, no persuading, no threatening. Seth, fellow-citizens, ought to be all elections, and such they volt be when the People shall, in deed aid in troth, enjoy that share in the legislature of the moor'', which is now usurped by a faction of Iltroothotoores•—(4 , - plaza )-11 hive DOW only to thank you for the ho steler which yon hove conferred upon me ; and to as aire you, that if at the end of my year of office I shall twelve the approbation of my fellow.citisena, it will be the highest reward I can experience." Long continued shouts of applause followed this eddies,. DASH AT TUB SUBLIMI...-(11ROM AN AMERICAN PAPER.)-1, " The Hermit of the Rock," the he roine, standing ON a part of the coast of Sardinis, thinks it ►ighly probable that the nose at her feet may be the very acme which gowned her lover o year befureat Mertinigeo. Earl Firewticust has left Leamington Spa for Yorkshire. Ile has friend a friend in the IW'afe►s of that place we treat the flame of Liberty will not Want for °nolo his Lordship, who never was o Corr. tier. Getters; D'Extatux If said to here arrived at the Tsvistock Hotel, Covent-garden, from Ireland. On Toesday tbe Doke of Yomc, as Commander in -Chief, held a Levee at his office in the Horse Guards, which, being the first since his return from Brighton, was very numerously Wended. The parties intending to contract for the New Lottery waited on Lord Ltvaaroot. yesterday. The proposals, um examination. proved to be all alike, and the sum offered was 131. ss. a Ticket, bet this its Lordship related to accept. A definite pries was then named as the lowest Government will receive, and the parties ere to deliver their determination on the 'object this day. If they refits to accede to the terms proposed, the management of the Lottery must either de►olve On Government, or this mode of tags. ties be abandon►d. Cove•t.Rarden Theatre opens neat Monday. A 'mod improvement, we ere informed, has been mac!• oe the stage, by a bold and ingertious piece of ■a• shiner, : the whole proscenium can now be raised up so as to discover (when required) • height of above 40 fort, and the lest row of the one 'billing Buttery can have a perfect view of the most eaten give aceoe of spectacle. 'i'tlES 1 A'l'L~llA\: REFORM, /NB TN NRCESSITY or (INIO,V 43101 VG RRE.ORMERS. That a peculiar lone of thinking has of late edema among et it too apparent not to be seen and acknow• ledger!. Not very long ago the ides of " Reform,' and the name of " Reformer," were consider./ os little better than the schemes of designing men, sod a term of reproach. Two parties divided the public attention ; and while maoy support, I the Tory prin. ciples, the remainder were quite satisfied that the professed doctrines of Whiggism were sufficient for all the purposes of the People, end all the ends of liberty : it is net to be wondered at that this was the state of the nation ; seeing tbet the country bad com paratively not long before escaped from those chains •f despotism which a weak Monarch was week , enough to forge for his People. The Revolution of 1688 followed, sod producing much benefit, was for some tints looked back to as the revisal of Liberty. liut time, which, eve■ in well-regulated States, I and perhaps more especially in States like our owe, brier along with it correptino, has, in the sense proportion as it has at/famed the evil, opened to the eyes of the Nation the seagnitoJe of it. At first we tolerate tome little i a lion on the principles of the Constitution, and thus the work of Corruption goes on, gradually and almost imperceptibly, at least for • time, unnoticed by the many, and winked at by the few who may discover its progress. le time of war, ton, this corruption and innovation on the rights of the People, makes its most rapid and most certain strides; blinded by the glory of conquest, and the noise and pomp of armies, the People little gine what a source of evil ;4;11 result from it; they forget the increased power which it Kites to those who are their enemies. end who, while the People are blinded by the glare of victory, are busily employed lin devising the means of continuing their Weise -1 lion. Like all other a} stems, when once began, it must be persevered in ; and the longer it is peeve ; feted in, the kresivr esertiness are necessary to np hold and carry on the work. Bat a state of peace Idoes much fur liberty—it points oar attention to our actual state; we wake as from a dream, and then I perceive hoe much ear strength has decayed ; and that, like Samson. though we had lain dose in ; strength, are awoke in weakens. Thus, therefore, while peace n,domell thirties of de People, their distresses do so I.ltervise, and serve to the same purpose. Nothing can be more erring than to sir, that by removing 4ie we should calm the People, and present them from demanding their rights: true it is that much cla•rrour and hustle neces sarily reaolts from the stagoetiori of trade, but the stagnation being bet the roosegoences of a certain system, leads to the conviction how fatal that system has been, and how necessary it is to prevent its being acted on hereafter. B•dh the nlll parties, however opposed to each I other, in minor matters, agree io this—that the People mast be shot out from the possibility of die. turtling their vie•s—tbst while they contend with each niLer, the play most be in their nun bends.— Hence there has naturally arisen another party (or, I perhaps, m-fr properly speaking), hence has Munn • spirit in the People of demanding for themselves • ft form of throe Osseo which they find will never be changed by Whig or 'rely ; since both parties are re solutely minket to hold them sacred. The nitres. oily of this Reform is ton apparent, upon general principles, to need the additional evidence in its fa. your which the late prncerd;ne,s in the North Varnish es with. To attain, hnweter. sov good fie. Is from this conviction, it Is indispensable that there be am union of conduct among the Reformers themselves— if there is not, the common cause will be greatly re. larded—and this it has been already. more from the disputes of its favor,' than the hostility of its one. mice. In this respect, the Reformers stay with some advantage take • lesson from the two State parties ; and leant to make all their measures tend to the ad vancement of their object; they may, perhaps, erect to despise the idea of a systematic party ; but let them tonsideo the they hate parties to oppose, re. golarly disciplined and gni rsha.led in all the arts of political warfare, Above all, they should avoid that petty keno; of political pride—that love of leader s)+, which displays itself so much among them ; and not oppose plans, because they do not go all the length they wish; but be content that their work foamed, even in a little, and whatever may be the hand that produces it. A change of system is nut the less desirable, because it takes place by degrees. Ilept.l, 1I!9. X 13. BRIGHTON, Aun. 31. All is gaiety here ; miser was a greeter eonceutra. lion of basely than at the present time. The liberally of Brunton in the management of the Theatre meets with the greatest encooragemeot frees the Nobility and fashionable visitor,. Novelties follow each other in rapid locression. We lose Mist Brunton at the end of the we►k, who reliant to her professional duties at Covent-garden Theatre. It is with the utmost gratification (we *bowie in The Herald) a sew Master of the Ceremonies is spoken of hi the higher circles, and the Assemblies at the Castle will, soder his direction, shortly open for the season. We lament to soononee, that during the storm of yesterday, a host, containing six persons from the Castom•betee, was upset, when, notwithstanding the insertions from land, one of the essfertonates ass drowned ; after struggling for some time in vain, he sock, and his body was not, op to this lime, foetid. BAIRCELOXA, AUG. 18.—Arrited on the 12th inst. the Spanish brig El Soldedo Espanol, to finish load. ing on the coast, and than proceed for Africa, in the Slave Trade. It is statati that Major-General sir Toon SI Btuo• ems, K C.B. is to h. sppoint►d V _ifinassistler of the Forces in tirntlsnd, is the rooms of Lieetetseot Ge sterol JOUR 110P1. Tits lion. Capt. Stance*, second sou of Earl SIPINCSII, IS appointed to command tbs Owe 4 GIN• dower, of 42 pas, at Clutha. To ins EDITOR or ris STA 7 ERMAN. --...-- e,—When nor brethren in North America op. posed the oppressive measures attempred to be prac ticed upon them, by the orders of the then Ministers of this country, it was little calculsted •hat might be the stupendous results, from the soldiers firing open the townsmen of Baton ; bet the blood spilt that day, raised • feeling ise the breasts of the de. scetidenis of Englishmen, whose foietathers had left the tombs of their ancestors to dwell in the uncelti. sated forests of North Americo, to avoid the tram.' mils of slavery, a feeling *hick vibrated is so Strong and general a manner as not to be repressed. The brave and injured Americans flee to arms from one extremity of the reentry to the other. The happy termination for suffering freedom was received with joy by all civiliied men. Whci could have jodg.rl that the indecent anti oppressive conduct of • brutal tam-gatherer, should bare roused socli so asiembly us that led to the field by the injured but breve %VAT TYLER, which asventhly had nearly destroyed the Imhof's of the:, opplessi.m; hut the melancholy fate of RICIIAUD U. expiated his tj tinny. When Masstschhb, the fisherman at Naples, headed a few market people, it was little contero. plated, that the Government of Naples shoeld be dissroyed by this rode but oppressed assembly. When • piola ass demanded (which amounted to ten.pence) by a Genoese tas-gstherer, and the goods of a Corsican old woman seized for that sem, it was ; littlerjedged that the foreign oppressor should bedsit., from the island from so trilling a ciecomstsoce. Who could hare thought that such dreadful melts should arise from the Governer of the Beadle, DC LALITIT, ordering lhe soldiers to fire upon the no erased citizens; could it have been cooterplated that the Government would bare been overwrite& the King hroeght to the scaffold, and millions of lives sacrificed ? The massacre of Glance shows the danger of a Standing Atinv in a Gee State; fur no doubt the creel and enjest orders of Kiog WILLIAM for this bloody business led to the Rebellion of the years fifteen sad forty-five. The sheeting young ALLEN, in St. Goorp'ea fields, was a most unjustifiable and creel ac ; and although the soldiers were brought le trial fir the offence, no punishment followed. The melancholy but just fate of Capt. Potytus, of Edinburgh, arilettug the soldiers to fire or • t the people, is a strung pouf of the danger to a fts . Slate from the frequent calling upon military, instead of the constitutional ciail power. When the English Liturgy was attempted to be I furred upon the Scotch in 1637, and p it of the , Common Prayer was attempted to be read frqn the pulpit, en old woman, named J*arr Guy's, rose, sod taking the stool she tat on, threw it at the Reader's head, ea, ini, " Away yes loon; are yes going to say Mass at my lug?" A most es Wipe of isma3 immediately took place, the dowel was surly destroyed. This circems'ance seamed to have some effect, in producing the melancholy fate jut Arrbb shop LAVE, and his master. The besine4 at Manchester, call it by what name you •ill; is a much.to•be•lansented occurrence, aria int from a tote want of manly feeling in the Yee - menu towards their poor but 'offering brethren.— ; Indeed, the present measures attempted to be perused bear a strong resemblance to those prectired dories ; the reigns of the Stuauv,; and what makes it tether singular, u. SUM' MT is .•n• of the principal manger. in oar present sfftirs; his conduct in Ireland lei I b Viet in our remembrance: it is Our fault if we eras I him to carry forward sorb scenes in this country. W. chose a Protestant family to role a nation of tee. men to the total 4.2(11351in of a detested tyrattn;cal race, which the present family should bear is membrance. - I tryst, Sir, the military mania, which seems to here gslnrd so much upon our infatuated rulers, In direct imitation of despotic Powers, will soon be pal an end to by in immediate call upon the People to meet for the purpose of di'missiug from the Council of the Panics Nrcatur, such Sin ell SieWART. Vi,. count CASTLZISAGU t be being an unfit man to be a Minister to a limited Sovereign. Then loose recollections being merely peened from memory, ere not in regular order, this most be aide up by the header—►efficient it is the facts halo taken place; facts which should be a caution to head ►trong Statesmen, and prevent thorn from throwiag their country into confusion by their iil jadied sea sorer. As insulin the above may hring to the re• collection of your numerous Headers nun historic facts, to show the imprudence of our State Pilots; the insertion sill oblige your constant Header, AN ENGLISHMAN. Ai.gnit 30, 1619. INTRI.I.IB DIAL, Stet. I. Arrived and tele(' for the R4l4'. the Ramble', ; If•to, relbester ; sod Morio l ilerri4on, firm, Qupher ; Ilebo, Cicero, from G r . sot; Boddingtuo, Perrot, fro • Jamaica; Ants, Wilkir, from Aneon• ,• Lintimrs, itobin.on, from Berbier. ; M.r i pkret. M•filso”.n. from Toilet° ; Henry, Atkins in, from S. Mirr)'• fn. N•wrcost;,; Vynus. Lawson, fr,.rn 110 i. 1%., If .10),41411; and Lady Caepboll, Marquis, from B neat—rated the January, from hladtta to h roi..ary, end St. Ilrieus 3d July. The G•••-rol Camera's, tailed from St. Helens for Eisjand ihr tam. day.— Caws down from the River, the Aleon•ell. Morgan, for imolai; Lord Ptosnuth, Mai., Co. Gibraltar; Bud Thames, rot, for Nelefouodland.—S..ited teteral. of Ole out ward-boood. POKT•1101;111, Sin. I.—Arrived the Elise, Shaw, from Quebec; sod ['alternate, flee 1, it. from (46..04; the latter with her eseitt•roett heed eptoog. w um. melt apreng, entin.yard carried es.), end • t of anchor and eable.—Sailed hi, klajeway's slip Hy. patriot', for S oath America. PLY1101:711. Atc.. 51.—Atrivral hi. M•jesty's ship Vengeur, frew. Port-mowt.. ; De G.N. Ditch man of vier. Thar., from flatland for the Iff•-ditero reams ; end Active, Brown, from S.. f.trow's. New. foOnal:stid. I' ALIIYCTIt, Ave. 30 —Paas.d II la P-rt. lass Canada, Sheerly, Isom St. John'a. R• w B o sigirk, fur Loodon.—Arrived the Bayard, D te, from Pow tersbargh (Virginia) blancscs. Scrr. 1.- -Aral, off thio place the Cornwallis, Futility, from the Cap of Goad Ilope, end has leaded a Mall. I.trze.voc., AuG. 31.-11 has blown a erong gels all day, attended with heavy rain, which bet d•ame great damage among the shipping.—The I. Batwing vessels have suffered by the storm:—Margaret e llro n, on shore sear the Mill Rocks; Dee, Dickson, on shore near Mow-boner l and lost he anchor, cables, and rudder, but expected to he git off; :14 mph. Clover, lost bar anchor and tables; Rodoey, Moor. sots, on shore near Jackson's Dam ; Cybele, on shore near the Regent's D rek ; Supply, on shore near Moent.bvgger oho a tut; riot Dimes 111.1toown ;sod the Waterloo steaut.bast lost her fore. , mast.Tae Wirer of a fishing boat arriied brie, reports he saw five wee on the wreck of a vessel off this port, bet he eoald not sae/ them ; they ell disappeared. CU :US DOZ,U.UENT. CH SUMAS ASSIZES. ~: SINOUL Alb FURGIETVA.MI3I.--During the past week, • Gentlemen, 'vision a large black portean. lean with him, arrived at the Globe Ina, In Midge. grater, whirls place he left on the ensuing day for Taunton, by the Bath coach. On his arrival at Taunton, upon claiming his luggage, the portman teau, which was placed on the coach when he took his place at Bridgewater, was produced ; all know. ledge of which the traveller warmly denied, stating that the portmanteau produced did not bear the slightest similarity to his own ; end upon befog as sured that there was no other in the coach, he io. 'tangly posted back to Bridgewater, taking with him the doebtful luggage. Os arriving at the Globe len, The first persi.te tried ow iseeste.it et the landlord sod waiters were summoned, from when teedings In the mangfacterine he demanded, is accents not over mild, the mdse. Adamson, at the Lanc.ster ni lion of his own portmanteau, which he stated con. this day. He stands committed for •• has Mined many voluble matters. In vain the landlord the character of • Delegate or R0101.4.01' surf his attendants attempted to prove the one pro. Public NieefinC, unlawfoi'y tmt‘en.. l doted to be the same as was brought to their house ' Burnley ; and with hating, in the e h, by the enraged claimant, who eerily replied-- !said, at the slid Meeting. used serum. " Don't you think I ought to know my own port. I prestinist with intent t. otote cur. ...opt matitesr ? I will take my oath this is not Win.!"— I specs (a the laws and Coistit•lien Of 'he Having deactitied the contents of his lost treasure, with having in his possession, oith • the landlord proposed opening the portmanteau i n :tertain *editing. and tiheltow• open! dispute, as it might afford else means of discovering ' tending to vilify the Constitution in its real owner,who might have taken the one missiug, T morr lasting his own mistake. Upon opening It, the lan d- : atTHOLONEW .u• ow h lord and his men were astunialled by lbs (*Bowies 114 . Avon, attended by the City Sis e es to s estimation from their positive claimant— " What a claim r, will proee_ sr., Son iii d---d fool beet I made myself; it l i my per mute., pr Britholousew Fair 0 1 gestorn. after all I" 'XTRACT IRON GREGORY 1C1X6 . 4 ESTIMATE OV TUE STATE Of THE RATIOS, IR TILE TEAR 1693.--estosa Tits BRITISH MUSEUM ANNUAL IRCOSEE, 42 milli a a half Sserling, apposed lone million Iris than 1.. 16:4'5! *lAlti.—Five millions, and he c.i.eu.at , 4 oho the War of that period, could not be sustained b..,orti the rear 15?8, %%Photo mach ia•prorement of 11-e Sodom. .1 Income, ur a general Excite The coined G-i 4 and tiilt•er of the peer 164 4 1 waa re. kgrai *I siev►s. millions and a half, but reduced in 1695 in seven millions and a belt. In 1698, he ealesiated that the Cold and Silver C. lo would he redo/Iced to four utilising and half, eel. to or•lenth of the sunned etpeee • ; -kr, tees rh e. he adds. would not circulate the France was in thia year eillettled 1..11- a pope. Is , lon of fuertern mations. Enesn.l awl Ws file end a half; litasnol lon all ;pea ae I only. Toe inhahi ants of too Ci y is! Gloomy.r were computed, in all, at 4,756, in 1696—at 7,579. is 1801. _ _ The total number of the poor o f the ki ni o ne , maintained i n iiriapitals and Alms *lnv.o4, ma, reckoned at 13.400, and their t•• •1 *tumult, for maintenance, 131.0001. ; and taith 019eers and con. tii , g•nl rewards. 165,0001. k tioaatis for Inn Parish pear are not noticed in this S•atisticdt R.pett. The C arts of the population of Foririial and %V,l. S I t 1801, tras s.ing. millions and a half—an in. cre.so of fuer millions in 105 years, bet it to thought now, that sit and a half to seven millions was nearer than five and a Wit° the true itemiser of the Jolla -it. ants of this kingdom from 1688 to 1895; Ilse ass. ber of houses charged io the Hearth tau book being about 1,320,000. Precious to this time, it bad been the habit to mak• all the estimates of the people to. high; from t 1 1s period it was the fashion to incline to rare them t iia i nn . I n this direction Di. Price mere - steel ready, and nes demonstrably seated, by the eaemesation et 1801. These AWIR‘ commenced yesterday al Chester, before the Mune. able CHAULES WASISII and the ROD. SAIWEL MARSHALL. The Cslender k mom. putatively light, containing the nooses of only 41 Prisoners. In the lilt Janes Purr, sited 36. a clock maker, from Wi. sin I.sinzashite, for sedition and misdemeanour. sin, Harrison, sued 40, a school natter, frost tilockitort, for sedid n. Samuel Barden, aged 28, a wend lorner , from 111 , -eles6•l4l; and Ralph Wright, se., 14, a silk. neater, from Macao -field, fin rinstnu. . . James George Bruce, aged 22, • schoolmaster, from London, for siding sod abetting in an attest* to minder Mr. Wm. Birch, of Stork;) , .it. These are the only cases in the Cairn:l4r eonoticte4 with tits poli iesily ditterbed .14 , • of the reentry. A f the I•le prn. a laid Aa J4has hich C .". 111 'nel toting asanonnali .4.,,,t00050 BO • awl held near i.racter ante* •edition• rt- opt •nd Mire- hi. restos. and putrlisb, ;. • hit a Omega. Cherub •nd w the LORD 4., •rd n'Ant Sonnthno lo . lea is to assail I