The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-03-05 00:00:00

• F 1. ciple that we are indeseed to publish a Declaration that has jnst reached es from Palermo. in presenting this document to our readers, we are actuated by no other motive than a desire that both parties should be beard; for, while the grievances of Sicily are suf fered to remain unnoticed or concealed, it is not likely thatany effectual steps will be taken to effect a recon ciliation; without which, the independence and free dom of both countries can never be consolith.ted. In thus calling public attention to the points at issue between Naples and Sicily, we must differ with those of our contemporaries, who have suggested the propriety of occupying the latter by a British military force. Convinced that no measure would tend so much to compromise us with the rest of Europe. A ssuall sqnadron at Messina will be a sufficient barrier So the Austrian hordes, and seconded by a spirited amenstrance from our minister at Naples, every pur pose will be fully answered, and our character, for rood faith, so frequently called in question, in some degree re-established. With regard to the ulterior steps proper to be pur sued io this important matter, it will more properly form the subject of a future article. Meanwhile, our readers will hare time to reflect on the various causes of complaint contained in the declaration. The people of England have, with a spirit worthy of their ancestors in the best of times, performed their duty, in the cue of the first subject of the realm, her lIIAJISTY the Queue. They are now called upon by circumstances to evince, with a similar spirit, their attachment to a man, whom we do not hesitate to consider as second to no subject in the state, if rank, it the scale of subjects, be awarded according to merit. It is of little consequence to Sir FRANI IS licaoarr whether the people pay the fine, which has been imposed upon Lim, or not ; but it is of very great consequence to themselves. By making his cause their own, they shew a due attachment to, those constitutional principles, which, for five-and-twenty years, he alone has uniformly and strenuously ad vocated, which others have only occasionally, and to suit particular purposes, maintained ; and with the value of which the whole population of the United Kingdom, are now, from tiro pressure of distress, even more than from the progress of knowledge, becoming duly impressed. It is upon an occasion like this that the friends of reform ought to come forward, and, by showing their attachment to the man, shew their attachment to his principles. If it were possible that the decisions of Parliament, the verdicts ofJurits, and the sentences of Judges, should invariably be made wholly to depend upon the party or measure before them, without the smallest reference to the justice or law of the case, the number of victims might be en creased at the pleasure of their persecutors, and liberty would then indeed be only is same. We can conceive Parliaments, Juries, and Benches, to become so corrupt, or so badly organised, as to be a nuisance, instead of a blessing, to a state. We can conceive a Parliament, than which an absolute despotism would be infinitely preferable; Juries, to which drum-head Courts-martial would be a decided blessing; anti benches enveloped with all the forms of 14w, to which a Turkish Cadi might be a desirable substitute. When such things arise in any State, its institutions must be approaching their dissolution ; and certainly he must be the beet sub ject of a State, whose efforts are all directed to a re storation to their first principles of such of its instils lions as are tending to decay. With ourselves, the most able and upright men have, fur a long time, held all danger to our liberties to depend upon the increasing corruption of our ,Par liaments. To illustrate this doctrine, and to obiiate this danger, has Sir FRAIL BIIRDITT devoted thewhole of a political life of no inconsiderable duration, and of no ordinary spleudor. It was in resisting, is the case of one individual, the power assumed by that House s of imprisoning for what they call a •• breath of privi• lege," that Sir FRANCIS BUillingiT. as the public will recollect, was committed to the Tower, in 1810. by skier of Speaker's warrant, which Sir Faencts per. sisted in considering an illegal instrument, and to the *outwit: of which lit refused to yield obedience. As the exercise of authority on the part of that branch of the legislature has not certainly been diesiaished white that period, and as many are at thin moment of opinion that it constitutes the principal source of al the Finances of the country, it may be useful to wards the illustration of its character and skated's', as writes the appreciation of the merits of our illustrious patrio►, ►o present our readers on a future occasion, with a cirsory view of these transactions. In the sumustime i.e are glad to find from different parts of the ementry, that a disposition to evince a doe respect to the worthy Baronet, appears to be spreading and as an evidence of this we insert to-day an address transmitted to him from the scene of that out rage on account of which he is at present soffering; /Nue a respectable holly of gentlemen of Manchester and Salford. The Queen, we understand, has maimed to re eeive the 50,000/. a year vetesl M asi/Mas — ines sad seppert w Parlianient. 1t is to couttallase from &a Stl January, IS2O. Hee Majesty has paid 15,0001. for Cambridge flame, by a draft en Messrs. Counts and Co. A Messenger arrived at Lord Castlereagh's oSAis Saturday, with dispatches from Sir William Allegan at Naples. lie sou also the bearer of dispatches' frets Adouirsi Sir Orakato Moore. Co h. by sty lent trj lisk sore card died thug te of et of iT• 40, idet 'riot g reoli 'I? 1 r . 1 'AtO_,BMAN. ADDRESS TO SIR F. BURDSZT. • The following Address has been agreed to by several Gentlemen of Manchester, and is now rApidly receiv ing signatnres:— TO MR iIitA!CCTS BURDETT, BART. M.P. Ste—We; the undersigned, inhabitants of the towns of Manchister and Salford, and of their vieleity, deem it our indispensible duty to be amongst the first of your fellow-countrymen in presenting to you, on the occa sion of your recent sentence by the King's Bends; the respectful assurances of our sympathy and regard. As the scene of that memorable and unparalleled outrage, for the prompt and indignant denunciation of which yon are now suffering, it behoves the inhabitants of this place to assert (for it is the fact) that thOse representations, under the influence of which your letter to your constituents was willies. not only did not exaggerate but fell short of the truth. It behoves them to state in the fain et their country and of the world, that by the dread.' ful outrage of the 16th of August, not less than ten of their fellow-countrymen lost their lives, whilst men, women, and children to the number of at least six hundred, were maimed, ttruised, or sabred. Nor must it be forgotten that io this country, where we are daily assured that the pro tection of the law is afforded equally to the poor and to the rich—that there can exist no wrung without a legal remedy—these deeds of violence and blood still remain not only neatened, bet tree without inquiry. Whilst he who presided at, and some of those who called the enertiog on the 16th of August, peaceful in its character, and laudible in its avowed object, have been lung since prosecuted to con viction, and sentenced to punishments of extended tin ration and unexpected severity, fur some supposed ille gality in their proceedings, which to this moment re mains undefined, and is nut charged to have been form seen or intended; whilst others who Lave merely placed on record the history of events which excited the horror and astonishment of the whole country,-H or avowed those feelings of indignation which such events were so well calculated to create,—have beeeo sentenced to heavy fines and rigorous iusprisournent v l we are still without any assurance that the woes& and sufferings of our fellow-countrymen will be see dressed, or Justice overtake those by whom they have. been injured. .• The dispersion of the Meeting of the lGth of Augnsi, not only involved the rights of a great body of the People of England, but hazarded their lives; and upon such an occasion it was to be expected, from your attachment to the great cause of public Liberty,...., from your known and well-improved humanity, thith you would at once express your horror at the pro. cemling, and call upon your Constituents, the Citizen*. of the first city in the Empire, to join you in the adop• tion of such measures as might suffice to obtain for the People—indemnity for their past sufferings, and sect rity from future aggression. The verdict of a Jury having stamped upon your memorable Letter to your Constituents the name of !Abel, it is not for us (perhaps it might not he prudent) to question the applicability of the term; but .41 should we have deemed of the feelings of him, wile, in addressing the Public ear upon so foul an 4• strove a transaction, .14 hive stopped to.sciactll 'Phraseology with cold an calculating wariness. Desirous as we are of viewing the administration of the law, and the proceedings of our Courts with sincere and undeviating respect, we cannot but eat press our regret, that his 11ajesty's Attorney-lieneral should have chosen to proceed against you in what we must consider as the unconstitutional manner of au ex-officio information; and to appeal from the en lightened inhabitants of the Metropolis, where the actual publication of your letter took place, to a county, for his preference of which we can assign no motive but au expectation, fully justified by the event, that it offered greater facility for your conviction ; and, further, that that conviction should have taken place upon evidence, of the insufficiency of which the learned father of the King's 'leech has so decidedly expressed his opinion. And, Sir, since it is unquestionable that your letter would have possessed an aggravated character of guilt, had its allegations been false, we cannot but think, that the evidence yon offered of their truth, both on your trial and when called up for judgment, ought to have been received, on the first occasion as a necessary means of estimating the nature of your con duct, and subsequently of duly apportioning the sen tence to be passed upon you. In the situation in which you are placed, you, .however, will enjoy that inward complacency of wind, which a self-approving conscience can alone bestow : whilst for your own sake we reflect on this with ple..sure, We cannot bat lament, that the reverential deference with which the public interest teaches us to regard the decisions of our courts of law, should on this occasion have bolo lessened by the refection, that the motives which pai d need the act for which you are punished, Awe those which impartial history will record with approbation, which even your prosecutor himself did not venture to impugn, and which the friends of virtue, of free dom and humanity, cannot fail to sanction and applaud. We trust, however, that the time will yet come, tardily as it seems to approach, when justice shall be procured for the victims of the 16th of August, and those who have suffered in their cause; and when you, sir, shall obtain the reward of a long and consistent public life, in witnessing the attainment of those important psslitistal objects which the intelligence of the age retress. and which will at once conduce to the stability of the British noverotnent, and the prosperity, the freedom. and the happiness of the British people. With sincere wishes for your health and welfare, We are, Sir, &c. Ow Thursday, a public Meeting was held at the Audit House, Southampton, when it was agreed to petition Parliament to institute a revision Of those parts of the Criminal Code, which relate to the intik tioa of the punishment of Death—The subject was opened by Lord Ashtown, and supported by A. Mac kienon, Ng., Mr. !lunar, sad Mr. Stanton. The Petitions are now lying at the Audit Homo for sig natures I ind we earnestly, but respectfully, In►ite ' tie inhabitants to sign them. At a meeting held at Both on Wednesday, it was' meolved ion the motion of the Duke of Somerset, se sanded by Sir John C. Hipposley, Hart., that a subs sceiptios should be opened to purchase a Piece of PLate to be presented by Capt. W. E. Party, the explorer of the Polar Sea. . . • _ . 1 • • I k • :V UMBEHLAND Lifler .1kglI1'6; . : the Cumberland Aransas, which resinseaced on Wednesday last, the following ceases were tried in the Nisi Priusi.:outt:— • • LowitY, Garr. E. HOLNC. TM" emit eteited very grioli attention hi raili4e (tom its being immediately connected kith the proreediik, the late eleedon for a itepresetitadre it Parliament, :test also from many individuali being more or less invo:ved is its result. It was an action commenced by Mr. pichar.l Lowry, a solicitor of that place, against Mr. John cleriCiu the banking-house of Metiers Oraliain Mal Co. to recover from him the sum of 1031. whirl had been dtpu shell by the plaintiff, together with 3 like ISM of /Of. by Mr. Bowes and other., in defendant's hands at stsl.-- ii . older in a wager, to be determined by the 'access ut Mf. James or Sir Philip Musgrave. After hearing. Counsel, and the testimony of wit nesses, the Judge nonsuited the plaintiff for wain of legal evidence in not pioduciug the agreement of Wager, or !laving served a notice for its production. This decision eliiited a boil of approbation in tie Court, particularly when his Lordship stated. that he Was not sorry at the derision, inasmuch as it would be a proper lesson to those wbo were in the MOM of illegally betting money on tht issue of tin/tested electionf: utaatt.t. Dottersawr, GEHT. qtr.CoiirtenAy said this was an meth* to recover £73 fur meat drink, .the. provided by the plaintiff to several of the voters for Mr. James, at the last ell`ctie . : in Mat,z—The bill hid originally amounted to ..t - 85, but, deidident had paid a part of it, by a cheque upon his banker;—to prove hie ease he called several a it neross ; bat on Mr. Alderson andressiug the. Jure, and adducing other evidence. the Counsel for the plaintiff being convinced of the illegality of the: of their client agreed to contest the point us further. add the defendant stepped forward and tolnntatily david topay his own costs; upon which his Lordship stated to the Jury and the Court, that the plaintk: was wire to ;mule it so, as it was inapiseilsie he coltil.l recover a farthing either in law or equity from the de !indent; and that the genermis conduct of the latter was eminently Louorable to him both as a lawver era as a genii man. TUE Al*li s d* THE PaHEECI!TIOX OF CIrAALS4 KIVAIJ:s :6..11 Or QUIEINHattaT, E. C. ANI J. JOWL This was as indictment for libel, institeted by tl.l Nobk Plaintiff against the Defendants who are the PI o • 'flirter" of the Carlisle Journal. The alleged Wm: was a passage in that paper, is the month of Jun, last, ralesting by Wingate on the Noble Martinis for throwing into one large farm several small tenements. which respectively 'Maintained four or five families *I:, decent comfort; the inmates of which, being thefts: oat in order to make way for the opulent holders are obliged to become servants sr cotters to the latter. M r. COCHTEXAT ailiffilaledthetiery on the part of the plaintiff, and Mr. Aunts's* on that of the defemdan:. when his Lordship proceeded to deliver his charge, and concluded by stating that the Joey bad only two gut-- doss to consider;—lst. does ibis paper apply to the Nlarquis of Queensherry,-441y, dries it impute rrurl improper coadaut to blens—i.An sinner In the atfirmiti% e would be a verdkt of frailty. The.Jery retired for shoat half an beer, and retarnel a verdict of A Petition to the House of Commons from the Mer chants, Tthitoes of the Cloth-Halls, Manufacturer., Woolstapkrs, and ethers, interested in the Woullt.:, Manufacture of the Leeds district, is now in a conr4e of signature, in which it is Mown, that the anticio dons of the Petitioners thxt the Wool-tax wnn'd he prejudicial to the trade, and to the public interest, have been confirmed by ac•nal eXperience. Under the baneful iniluence of this tax the foreign trade has gt - dually declin •d, and some of the metchanjs are de terred from vesting their capftal the trade, while others are dispirited, impoterished, or ruined ; the workmen lack employment ; and the poor-rates, not wlibstanding the favourable season, are increased M least 5 per cent. in Leeds. The Petitioners iirge like that the tat, so injurious to them, dues nut seen. to have been produrtive to the retenue to any great ainount : and while the tax is doing so little good at home, it is operating irtjarionaly on our annu l's:tares abroad, by enabling foreigners, notwith statediag the superiority of oar machinery, to .alresul woollen goods, particularly Close of an inkriur isality, at a cheaper rate than they can be produrid .ba,tluie country :--all which evils are suffered by the Issiohoase, manufacturers, Ise. without say benefit to I dle British wool-grower, his wool having declined is peke ever since the tax was levied, from wind of fo reiga wool which is requires to week aloe; with it. Under thews circumstances thelpetitioners stressiotelly implore that their case may be taken into consider.- don, and the tax upon the importation of foreign wool repealed. MARKETS. ..• --40.-- CAlLlAlellfitalt, )latter 3.—We had a g.od mtpflly of Wheat this moraing by land carriage sate: from Essex and Kent, but few arrivals from any NM tries; and the demand being rather brisk for that of Rae gmaity, rich descriptions met ready sale, at an advance alb. per qr. on the prices of this day week, but there 'l4 sot the least amendment la the demand for the Interim.- , samples, which , net exceedingly dull sale, at last Mon day's prices.—Fist Barley being scarce, sold Is. p•r qr. higher. Beaus are also Is. per qr. dearer..'rbe ()at trail. was brisker than . last week, bet sot at soy advance n prices.—ln Peas and othorartiala an aheratioa. INOLIIIII. Oalialalla ls PO Wheat. Kest and Po Nese: Dew ilia SIN old 011 Pee/ .. .... IS II Sofa* I 151144 IM/a 61 Floor .... per mat SO -Sh Norfolk .... old NI 36 Rape Sofa, pie last 5111. 111 t. Rye ID 111 . t Is „, Barley Melt ........ ..... SS WI Wheat, Adelstein:, . .ait White Pees SP 14 ... u WIN D ili g s • ' itto boilers - Orev Ditto l6 SD llambeo Mall Bums l6 II Brained Rod .: "le ' 1/1 Tie& Mtge .. q • .. . SinTainstat Nlaaase.—There was a rest sopOrtvat all dateriptlous of Cattle at Martel. Ed' Inesaise, partieslaNy of Sheep which was lower in price. Met Beef, Veal, sad Peek, rossaln I. peke as per last market dap. . ~ (To dig tiNal ; per Stoat of Ilbs.) - 1 t Boer. ... is. OIL to el. ILL carrLs art stammtv. Metes" 4s. lid, to, 1 4. Boasts ....... N.... .. SSW Veal .... 64. ltiG *, It Olivia ........4.- llOll pair .... M. Od *' 01. Sheep amd Limiss •• • • 17•WP' Lamb.... Os. ad: il . OIL Pits Hat-Maßshtt,-444, eters, ain the price of flay. Straw sad Glow asp* oar last gontatho. Hay .... SI. Os. to 41. 04. I *trim IL Si... to ii. 12s Clover .. 41. 4s. to N. ILL A I 1 I I • I • 1 TEE KING'S VISIT TO IRELAND. We have the satisfaction of announcing toms readers, That it is his Majesty's most gracious intention to honour this country with an earlier visit than we were at first led to hope. His Majesty will, it It expected, come direct to Ireland, by the route of Holyhead ; and his Majesty will leave London for this purpose between the 13th and 20th of Mae. so as to reach Dublin about the close of that month.—(Patriot.) An order was this day presented at the Treasury, Dublin Castle, where several chests of the family plate of the Marquis Conyngham are deposited, for their delivery to the Agent of the Noble Marquis. The plate is directed to be forwarded immediately to Slane Castle, and every preparation to be made at this splendid mansion to receive his Maje sty . Our beloved Sovereign will bosons some other noble families in this country with short visits.—(!fiat.) DEMISE OF THE IN FANT PRINCESS ELIZABETH. We have to announce the death of the infant Princess Elisabeth, the dattghter of the Duke and Duchess of Clarence, which took place yesterday morning at one o'clock. Notwithstanding the premature birth of her Royal Highness, she continued to enjoy good health, and gained strength so rapidly, that not only her parents, but also her physicians and attendants, entertained the most flattering hopes that she would survive, and that the period of danger was almost over. Every possible care was taken that she should feel as little as possible the vicissitudes of the weather ; yet the very sudden changes during the last few days evi dently affected her very much, and wore so than at any former time since her birth. On Thursday night it was observed , that she was a little feverish, and, in consequence, Sir H. Halford and Sir W. Knighton met Sir A. Halliday in consultation on Friday morn ing, and these tientlemen were in constant attend ance during the whole of that day, and also on Sa turday. The physicians did net separate till eleven o'clock on Saturday night, and Sir Andrew Holliday did not go to bed at all. A little before one yesterilsy morn ing it was thought right focall them, a change having taken place, when the Princess was found to be in a convulsion fit, from which her ltoyol Highness did not recover. Last night the body of the Princes. wa. opened by Peter *Gregor, Esq. Serjeant-Surgeon to the Kiag, when it welt discovered that the cause of her Royal Highness's death was what ie called an introsusteption, one portion of the bowels having become entailkd in the other. BOLTON PUBLIC MEETING. On Friday the 23d instant, about seventy friends to the cause of liberty and justice, met at the house of Oliver Nicholson, Bolton-It-moors, to welcome the return from prison of Robert Pilkington, Richard Kay, John Dogherty, and J. Shaw; the three first having been confined two years in Lancaster Castle for endeavouring to obtain an advance in wages, and the last one year in the same place fur selling Sher win's Letter to the Soldiers. A most excellent dinner was provided on the occasion, a spirit of inde pendence, of philanthropy, benevolence, and hu manity towards those who are still suffering within the cold and comfortless walls of a p rison, fot.the., people,' caote, strongly manifested itself—each latallois 4 deal appearing anxious to he the first to suggest mine plan of relief to soften the rigour of these unmerited sat-rings; and it was unanimously agreed upon, that a Permanent Fund should be established in Bolton for that purpose, which, taking into view the liberal spirit the public have lately evinced to Mr. Hunt, &c. is likely to prove a very efficient one. Messrs. Pilkinton, Kay, Doglierty, and Shaw, se parately addressed the meeting : expressing in warm terms, the gratificstio., they felt at such a welcome' reception, from such a respectable bode as the Re formers of Bolton. Mr. Hayes also, in returning them thanks for the honor they had done him by drink ing his health, made some very diverting and satirical remarks upon a recent prosecution on foot against him, and concluded by expressing a wish that instead of making subscribptions for those wise are suffering for the cause of liberty, the people would crowd in bodies round the prison doors, and cry, "we are guilty, we ere guilty of the same charges with those whom you have in custody, and is the name of the low, we demand admittance, nay, we will be punished for our misdeeds, and that too every one of us." Some other individuals made appropriate and neat speeches, and the meeting concluded at a late hour, after several resolutions had been passed in favour of, and for the furthering subscriptions towards the relief of the different sufferers in the cause of Reform. The day was spent in the utmost harmony and hilarity--many animating songs were sung, and the company parted at a late hour, in the utmost good order and decorum. A letter from Brighton, dated March 1, says, " Dr. Crighton, the Physician in Ordinary to the Emperor of Russia, now Sir Alexander Crighton, had the ho nour of Knighthood conferred us bum by his Majesty at the Parillion this mains." At the late Levee. his Orate the Duke of Bedford presented the Address to his Majesty from the Free. holders and Burgesses of Petersfield, expressive of their loyalty and attachment to his Majesty's Person, and representing the extreme degree of pressure under which they are labouring in consequence of the ex isting agricultural distress, and the present state of the representation of their Borough. A considerable number of persons are preparing to take their departure from the Weald of Sussex, par ticularly from the neighbourhood of Wisborougb Breen, Pnlborough, and Petworth, fur the Caked States. Their object appears to be to form an *qui ' table Association of Capital and Labour is the State olOhie, upon a plan, of which a pamphlet has been published. 'Pim Reformers in the town and neighbourhood of Bolton have lately transmitted to Mr. Hunt the sum of £3O, as a tangible" proof of their sympathy with his sufferings is theca's* of radical reform. and have assured him of their undiminished indignation atthe lawless accurrenees of the 16th of August 1619. This is as it should be; for in every thing emseeted with the outrages at Manchester, Mr. Haat has m yeloid himself with the greatest propriety and ability ; dad we are glad to find that those outrages a►e nut . IlkOly to be forgotten until jastice be obtained. xw