The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-11-10 00:00:00

1 117:1' 1 i '' e ' a ..., v : 1 . !.. i f i 4 . 1 v I, ... ‘ 4 ‘, ) f . ' • i .. '. sli ',. I. • I ( 1 71 i .. 1 i a. ..... i P i t 4 A \ l4 el THE S 1 ATESMAN. rIFFEr."f.VI; THE Qt.'ECS AND Cilf - NTRY. Notwitlistut t ling the Latiporarily superior interest • filch the persecotion of the Queen confers on her ale in preference to every other. strong symptoms of toe declining state of the Country will ham themselves upon public, attention. The universal complaint', ethonrt the Fermiers, of the manners in which the osertv% are taken, the everywhere declining market., and the renewed attempts to retest) the custom of sell itig corn exclusively by the Winchester measure, are all rytnptotels of this kind, exhibiting the embarrassed vat, of the Agricultural interest ; whilst, on the uther hand, the infamous tricks which have been de tected,. in procuring false retur n s, so :Is to a ff ect the opening of the ports unduly, and in opposition to the spirit of the existing lams, together with the com plaints of loss of trade now becoming g I. prove the accumulating distresses under which the torn. niercial world at present labours. Of the state of the creel Manufacturing concerns we want no other ymptum than the known inability of the master to alord his aurknont (as in some branches of the cotton trade) higher st.les than from Nix to eight and ten shillings r week for the maintenance of a family But, of all the alarming proofs of national decay reeently exhibited, the accurately ascertained state ..f the Thole and immense population of Birmingham and itt neighbourhood claims a frightful pre-eminence. :;either the quarter from which the information came respecting the sitsatton of that groat boon, the man ner in which it has been procured, nor the nature of the evidence, can he objected to. What are published are evidently Tat-Ill'a—truths no doubt of a most electrifying kind, but TSUTIIS Nrc::so.titir to us xtrowx, whether as th .t knowledge may be explawl. tory if the ramie of almost incredible distress, ur con tributory to its relief. " Your Committee are concerned to report," says the public statement. " that in almost every instance they hare found to exist a most abtrn.ing fliminotion Of ,t.araptian in all the articles cons:ouch by the lower a , rf classes of the population oldie town. The general average of the answers *Lich your Committee are 'Twelves' is. that the consumption of beer and rreat anal other net . ins has fallen off more than one.tltir4l in the last taro corn! It is with grief that your Coninntteenek-nowledge that, even in the article 4.f nal- to, nearly a similar falling off of con• omption a..pears to have taken place. - -" It is is also with • h rear. t that your Committee Report that a great :et u • the present redo , rdeirosiniiption In this ton n is 4.••:y ouppii.tral upon credit : the laneksters, grocers, seal other tradeiwople, hating found thesoodvel emu. ye!!ed, in most instances, either to serve the working ' amts urn credit or not to since them at all; and in way great numbers of respertable individuals have q the exhausted the capital which hail been al'eallatt. rated by years of succeasfill industry ill better times. ...he extent to which this systmn appears to be carried I V•reatens the most tliaastemus consequences to the e. entry : for It is evident that. when the labour of working-chasses4ineralii Weenies thus mortgaged t soy considerable sitgreo. fieir onoti-es to oasis: is .s p•iterra•io,• ooe:af order mast be materially di etil which at all time. is much to be regretted, and in the present inonientnom stoic of thin/f • lot be solfivi,ntly deplored:'-- From all the Jo pities your Consmittee have bent able to make, and !islet. the best judgment they have been able to form, th'y are 4.‘ opinion that the distress and dimioution of tiveindiplititi 14,-44.- 3 444.••• the _....M.sriefirete, /mg arid itt tu:rns aro/ 11114tliell V . th e r oo n t r y ji at 444 11141'Al. To via r oaten exists IN B111311Xi.:11t31.•• An these the " eherti.ty peospeeta of the /stare." o4iol Lord Castlereagh and his colleagues openly e.el e.i in Pariiatuent. near too years ago? Ara 11:4o: the ti•tuor try :r otsitions to a state of peace fr..m a state ut u tr n bid) has ceased nearly sir years ? A-e tt.rse rout; of politic il wisdom in the governors, or of prosiority in the governed ? Is it any conso lation to tic starvioy manufacturers, or to the sinking soot rattiarrized .diddle Classes, to know that Mini sters (as tenadotta of th..ir places amidst all this ry of their creation as of their lives) riot in the erjsrsuomit of salaries as ample, a .d of places more alate.dato and expensive to the country, than during war'---or that a Minister has been able to buy op SW'S a potion of the Cutiot he is said tat represent, or tbat his Lady, covered with jewels at the Cotigress. resider its MIS.' Chan would port base a German Prins oil aiity. excited at once th.• astonishment anal indigna tion of Europe ? •• It is fir the good of nations, and not fur the emolument or ae L trendisetneut of partico. Car in.itvidaals, that a Hot ernment ought to he eNt4- I.li,7hcii„ 311.1 that teatthind ate at the a xpeoce of •ttp portieg it. Dahl Lord Erskine, in his admirable speech in the yeir 17V2. What a load of present raillery might have been spared t • the great mass of the pro pie of this country. if this incontrovertible truth bad been a.,bnatatilc toolormed to by those who have bad tkedireml it ut Pettish rounrils since that time. or if the pit...ltr f.ntolic upiuiuu, ensaiiating from a due sense a ,femoral interest, had comp lied its prac tical o..eertance ! But, mil:‘ , ! without genuine, de• voi.e4l, and tto..or rapt channel for the regular eaves. biau of the will ut the people un objects of primary impo:tatace to their own welfare, or, in other word., ! at ithoo• t!,.• sill anal the interests of the People at large Lein; fairly, ,lusilly, honestly, and mu-. solici tously r..pres , tited in the Legisleture of the Nation,— public of. ki.lll 11111.1 he more of a come , ler than a pert-74014er •44t1 the People must ever be doomed to sillier, anal •he tranquillity of the State be endangered. b e fore ro.utrion justice ran be rendered them. This instrnetioti of Representatives, in this country, is tar the must part, and for any valuable purpose, be come (and is treated as) a mere farce—a sere sign that the rept cieet•rtiee is independent of the reprraented, and that the interests of the latter are, as ale have roostantiv of late seen thew to be, ;m4.664-4.41 to th o se of the former. "Thus it is that. in this country. the great mass of the ;work, though the most intrlli grata the most industrious, the moat deserving tin the face of the earth, are doomed everlastimekv to labour either whit their heads or their hands—to eat the bewail of carefulness, anal to till the earth with the • eat of their brows; whilst such a portion of the proceeds of their to:I is taken by Ilorernasest, or goes W swell the overgrown wealth of tile Capitalist, that a precarinas lirehihu xl. iasatheient provielon tar feast lies, privirlions or downright pauperisai, with the heart ache :antiprematitie exhatwinti of the powers of tore, are their sole i:ilwritan-e. Is this as it ought to be ? Is this as it it ould he, if the great noels of the people, on whom C.,. Ytait lkpewls fur support. really, truly, and fairly in in thrir own affairs for them selves. thron.Ci nie.s.!l:: of their real Representa tives, chosen free;y, yip:ill, and unbiessedly, or thr m.rh the agency of !owl) p..rsons as eonsitleretl the business of their pr,ll..ipils to he their proper busi ness, and the intere•N of whose r 1111 l m i s si o n they bear to b.. their own pryer and paramount interest ? ."f here is somehing," s.vs the Historian of the Mid dle Aces. " more s terra than the prerocative or even the ronstitution,—Tll:; 1.1:01.1.* tve.st.,:•/r which all powers are granted, and to which they most all be re ferred." It is very taste. as is rout eloquently observed in tier I Answer of the Queen tee the Addressor the. Inhabitants of Coventry., that " in this age, when knowledge is generalised, and i:Nreiry unrestrained, the pourer eel I publir opinion is lee, oesee ado great, that every other 'nest tivally bend its decrees. - Not only is this true, but it is just also; vet. as trivet's to tier trageqiiillity and repose of the contatry, most earnestly do we desire to see tier people is such a political state as to be table effeetually to express tlerir opinion, " to which all others must finally bend, - tit roulth the ',trillion of I th,ir Ittpreacatotiver 1,. Porlimmeat asseoshlcd, rather that, individually or collectively congregated in groat meetings suddenly called, and held mure as matter of emergency and necessity, than in the regular, ordi nary, and desirable course of things. Nothing can show more strongly the necessity which exists for a thorough Parliamentary Reform, than the ferment into which the country is ver:oelically thrown by the meetings which take place .en any great public ques tion for installrV, as on the present momen tous proceedings which leave taken place respecting the Queen. tier great body of tier people were really represented, on all such occasions the Represcntativrs would speak the seeeeiturrees of their Constituents, or they might be quietly, regularly, and peaceably bi ll:T(11'W where there seas any apprehended necessity— all this would lee deem., awl (Lose effectually, without eteelanzering the public oe tee and without agitating violently the pellelie. tunnel. It is therefitee those who oppose reform, or the establishment of such a state of things us would insure the sense of the gnat bee :y of the people being cor rectly and leotre•rly spoken and acted upon in Parlia intent, that err the real voewiri to the peace and Iran 'sillily of ;lee couNtry. Ity opposing refome, by ob- I jecting to the Co ons' 'loose of Parliament being that which it: very re.ime as weil as its spirit and constitution implies, they throw the power, sooner or later, into the hands of the great mass of the people, and compel Nee )4 to 1;)r theasseleca. The absurd as well as illegal coneletct of the Anti-Re formers goes to make all the ditterenve, in this country, between the whole people of a country assembling anti acting in person, and the whole people being di vided into properly apportioueel and known diadem, and deputing the power of aping for them to iminpa ratively a few individuals. In tine. those who oppose Parliamentary Retinae. and caletniniate its frienis, rut every thing to hazard, in a country like this t they are not only thee Ignorant lot thee artful enemies of Reform, but they are tl.e best frien.ll and surest hope of Revolution. '1 he occurrence.% of every day, in this must ey Netted period, discover to es, more and wore, the truth of Mr. Pitt's solemn declaration that the present state of the Representation is the " n a tional disease." Corruption has made enormous progress In the bodly politic since the date of that declaration ; amt if those who are t interested in the real pro perty of the country and in the preservation of ate peace and tranquillity rot:tiner tee look on with their accustomed apatite and criminal, set.risttLt criminal, neglect, that which Mr. Pitt predicated, as political o:sr:Asc, this a e will hoer h, 'mane as tiro? Dv I,TII. "No honest loan can, mailer the system at present pursued, continue 31inister," said that saga- Mous s'atesenan. What right has the Country, there fore, to affect woueler at the proceedings nisi-deer against the Queen or the People ?—And what better than those consequent-es which have resul'ed, and which may further result therefrom, have any of us a right to expect ? PRE IWSPED PROTN.II* OF MR DUKE OF UHL A west eurioug and extr.iormlinuy paper has been recently circulated in Fr ince, p or/mill-tin t ( to hr a Pretest by 11. S. 11. the Duke of Orleans against the lagititirmey of the Priory lately born. as the premiums dye heir to the French Throne. It is positively Died to be genuine, as indeed out readers will rim. elude (tutu the test, as well ag tram its being iaron rigtent whim the atsoi.mble rharaeter of the illustrious Mike: but it sheirg time spirit of the time.; tie ex treme pains Lye been taken to circulate it in *very !rut of France, and mph.% of it fiat* been sAilterted to the Anshaaaatiors of every ermeneil !lead in Etatope. 34 if to lay a foundation for acting upon the allega tions it contain% hereafter. PanTri4TATION DE A IR C . . Ilis Serene Highness the hike of Orleans declares hy these present+, that he protest+, b►' all itinnotr of right, against the procel terlcil, dated the ty t h s e p.„ tenant., 1320, whirl► ptirpult+ to establish that the itsfant, named H►sas Ilt.►at.t.s I'►:uiii'tNu BIY.NI►U\NK ig the imtitral and legitimate sun of her !loyal Iligl►ue+s 31adatite the Dotrlietbs of Ile RV. The Itti - ke of Orleans will produce, at the proper time anti plat..., the witnesses who Call snake known the origin and true mother of the sail, infant. He will exhibit all the uee 44 Arr y road* to make it manifest thlt the Duchess of 'Jerry was never cwritiatr after the un happy death of her hipihntill . and he will point out the authars of the enaelsitistioil of which this very fee ble Princess was the ;Lott unieut. Until the t'avunra6lr ~,,, went 411:111 arrive to make smelt a disclosure. the Duke of Ortrams cannot avoid calling attention to the taistastie ceue which the *hove Proves Verbsl states to have been exhibited at the Pavilion de Marian. TheJunrital de Pas is, which all the world news to tu be a confidential Journal, apinuuneeJ, un the fifth of August last, the aerwerAcmpost in the fallowing tenon :—" PerfoUl wlw Lye the humour tu approach t'.e Princes. a ssure u., that the ac•enecbrMUMt of her Royal Ilighne.s will not take place till between the 30th and •P4th September nest. - When the 2tifli of September arrived, what passed at the Dochea.'s hotel la the itig:tt of the 2t4th or 2911 t, at two o'clock in the sacwoinL:, all the family were in bed, and thelights extinguished. At half an hour past two the Princess called, but the Dame tie Vallsaire, her first femme de ehosollec, was asleep; the Dante Dougesil, her ordinary femme Jr elision -1% was asleep; the Dante Le 3loine, bet nurse, absent; and the Sirur Doneux, the aerioweieur, was undrebt. Then the scene was changed; the Dame Donrgesil lighted a candle, avid all the persons who arrived in the chainlki of the Duchess, •aw there au infant, not diem &ludic(' jiona its Oneher. But how was this infant placed 1 he Physician, 11.trom declares, that he saw the in fant /time...lon its mother, ansFunt detached from her. The Sorze on, llotigon, derl.tres. that the infant was placed on its mother, and was still attached to her by the umbilical cord. These two medical practitioners are aware him important it is not to explain more particularly in what manner the infant was placed on its mother ; but Umlau►e the Duchess of Reggio has made the lot luw declaration :—" I was made acquainted ear le Champ that her Royal Highness felt the pains of child bearing ; I hurried to the chamber on the instant even, and en entering. I saw. the infant on Me Ged, nut yet detached from its mother." Thus the infan: was laying on Me bed, the Ditehesi is' the bed, and the umbilical cord introduced under the coverlet of the bed. Hetnark what was observed by the Sieur Donets, the Accondieur, who at half past two was itiforstiel that the Duchess felt the pains of child-birth, who run on Out instant, without taking time to dress him self wholly, to the apartment of the Princess, whom he found in her bed, and he heard the child cry. iteuiark what Madame de Goulard says, who at half after two etas apprised that the Duchess felt the pains of child-birth, who went inimetliteely and heard the first cry of :he child. Newark what was seen by the Sieur Franque, the Garde de Corps of lutasieur., who was on duty at the door of her lto:.al Highness, who was the first person informed of the event by a Lady who desired him to enter. Remark whet was seen by the Sim* Laine, Garde Natione:, who was on duty at the gate of the Pavilion tie Marsatt, who was des;red by a Lady to ascend, and who instantly went up, and was introduced into the chamber of the Princess, where there was only the Sii or ihienx, and another person of the household, and who, at the moment when he entered, observed that the cluck was at Nu hours thirty-fire minutes. Remark what was ,cen !.y the Physician, Baron, who arrived at thirty-lice minutes past two, sad by tl:e Surgeon Bon4ou, uhu arrived some instants after the Sieur Baron. Remark what was seen by Marshal Sachet, who was lodged, by order of the King, at the Pavilion sin Plonk who, at the fi:st nwere which was given to him of the pains felt by her Moyal Highness, hastened to proceed to her apartment, but who did sot arrive till forty-fit e minutes past two, and who was called upon to notice the cutting of the .umbilical cord some minitcs afterwards. Remark what %Imola have been seen by Marshal de roigny, who lodged by order of the King, in the Tlsuillerics, who was called when her Royal Highness was delivered, who hastened to proceed to her apart ment, Lot who did net arrive till the moment when the cuttiug of the umbilical curd, which had talsen place. Remark, lastly, what was seen by all the persons who were introduced after half pa-st two, until the mo- agent of rotting the umbilical cord, which took place *INC snioctites st4avintni to . 16)1,y : fire smashes past Rut where then were the relations of the Princess during this scene, a hit+ lasted at tenAt mirsiftest Why, durin g . SO lung a space of time, did they affect to abandon her to the hands of strangers—to those of sentinels, and of military of all ranks ? Is not this at.ecitairto of abandonment precisely the must complete proof of a manifest and gross fraud ? Is it nut evident, that after having arranged the piece, they withdrew at half past lieu, and that,' placing in an adjoining aputment, they waited the moment fur themselves entering on the scene, and playing the characters whieli were assigned to them Yor in the night, even when a f•usale, of whatever class of society, it may be supposed, would be attended upon at the critical period of child-birth, was it ever seen that the lights were extinguished—that the fe male attendants were asleep—that she who was speci ally charged to take care of her was at a distance— that her treeurtrierrit was tvolressed—and that her fa mily, who resided under the same roof, and alustAt in the saute apartment, remained upwards of berets alirriPs without giving the 1-ost sign of presence or of osisv.itee. His Royal Highness the Duke of Orleans is con vince," that the Frends Atm, and all the Sovereigns of Europe, nil' feel all the dangerous consequences of a (taus' so audacious, and so contrary to the prin ciples of herrditu • y and feritimair stsessarchy. Aiteady France anti rus or have b ee n the victim, of this usurpation of Hunaparte. Certainly a new usur pation of a pretended Henry V. would bring bask the saute misfortunes to El.Aser and to Europe. Mae at Parip, the 3'104 Srptrusber. Itklth The I,4)rd Mayor hao calle►l a Court of Common Council for 310n41.ay nest, to c •nsider a petition to the house of Cu►unions against entertaining the Bill of Paius and Penalties, should it !smooth, Lords. We ate requosted to state that the tlrneral Benefit Ih mtraoce t) e, IY9, Aldersgate.street, is upon daily traits ten to three. and from sic to eight, for insuring weekly Awesome) and usedie.ll assistanes during sickness. tisanes of money at deaths, and many other important be •rW•. This company have a permanent subscribed ca. pital of fifty thousand pannds,itidependent of what is paid loy Insurers, whose monthly contributions are far less in amount than the a:Mace• of lieurtit Club*. Books eo•. twining the plies may be had at the 'See. No Asia of entrance miff. ' I ii. PRICE )F STO, KS TII Beat 41 it 1110$ gle • per Cr', .46,1 1i7:31 • per I'l. Curt. (KM S$ per re:lt ;iii{ 4 rifr ('Wt‘. !-.l::',} 3pr Ut. Nat) total Lem Inn. I; :-: ie lop. 3 per l'ent..lnn. MI 111011 W %TER AT I.ONI Morning, 23 msle. lifter 3. n.tv AT ONE O'CLOCK. India %loci . • Illittonettila.ll:4. ?SI. 001Atinottios f7l Es. Nils S.. is. is. pi. Ditto Coon. than.us Von. •nr Irrouni Lott. Tickets t It. 14. 1110 . 11 11111 rlti ro-wont. m. .—Eleueng. id uwo. *Teri. hONDUX: IinIDAT KVILXI744, X•TaMilell 30. TRIUMPH OF THE QUEEN !!! We stop the Press to sesame, that THE BILL OF PUNS AND PENALTIES IS REJECTED.— No Englishman will wish to Isar ancde r vrmi upon the sukcct. I►IVISIUY'. Contents . Non-contents Lord LIVIIRPOOL then wowed that the Dill be read THIS DAY SIX MONTHS. New York papers to the 14th of Oct., and Bale papers to the 17th arrived this morning, from wrii h the following are extracts:—" Our Davannalt papers are principally filled with the proceedings of the P ro . uncial Deputation, which, in its nature and porcr, resembles the State Legislature of this country. The members appointed to represent the Island of Cu* in the Cotta, were to proceed to Spain, in the Spanish frigate Sabin., which was expected from Vera Cray." A litter from Savannah of the 2d of Oct. states,th2t the sickness bad not at all abated. The whole nine. her of deaths from the Ist. to the 30th of Sept. incl.. sire, is 234. Extract of a letter, dated Ship Hornet, Island of 80. navies, 27th of August :—" On our arrival at Sierra Leone, we learned the painful intelligence that all the colony, except one man, had fallen a sacrifice ft the climate. Our stay at Sierra Leone was font days, three of which we experienced au incessant torrent of rain, night and day. We leave this day to mite among the islands". The accounts from Paris to the 7th instant are saint. portant. Accounts received from Naples state, that amen 8ri..1 flit; ships of war h.►d entered the Bay, which somewhat alarmed the authorities, ulio resuonstrati4l with the Ailmirai on the subject; the answer received was under. stood to he satisfactory on that point, and the Admiral was about to put to sea again immediately. A Tad her of couriers are continually passing through Frankfort going to Troppan. From Toulon they state that one ship of the line and a frig-ate is to cruise between Naples and Palermo. French Funds, use per cents 76 f. 50 e, Extract of a Letter from Sanarilla Bay, August 341 :—" I wrote you last, per lirutuf, giving you the particulars of oar slow moveuients in this part of the world ; since which, operations of a more deter mined character have taken place. Santa Martha will certainly fall in a few days, being , besieger' by tiOW) men and 5'2 run boats. The Columbian brig of war, tieueral Urdanetta, was run on the Negrilas, and went down head foremost." During the continnance of the proceeding* against the. QUIKEN. MAW'S °l earning kinds hare at different times been cineplated, and 'obtained very general be lief. At no period, however, have we beard of reports so strange, so passing strange, as those which hare been disseminated this morning. " TAO mmeb *leo demi oritmeem .114jorchi," it is now said, overcome with the feelings of coin punctionow u nder the i eillegnee of some other conflirting spell,has at lengtheotelessed Isis perjery. That something. of an extraordinary stature has cuffed, no doubt can be entertained. Lurd Livoze- DALE and the A Iroux it :41ENILRAL have had a private conference which has lasted during the greater Pert ri the Intoning. Mr. DENMAN we learn too, LP , beet with MAJOVVIII iU CUUoll(larelne. If it be true that MAJOITIII has acknowledged his crime, it is also tins that he has denounced his seducer, who is of AW Wirt mon stamp. That any person kileting as % feat: situation in Mit country, alionlil have descended so low we neyvt. could %metro. Nut. di, we ;tug* "IWO that any one cutinect°4 with oldie., will prove to have h iwn th e suborner. Caarsss roe T lVa.vrasomition.—lre are ng.sin ;ors?, rd, n•sol tllll an authority in whirls onr Readers, ire he, lieve, sissy Confide, that Mricatl....asts is eCillally rating" . ing the rite of iVe.truissaterri 'Else Iwo isl.iee in whi..l, we heard .f Isis exertions wait s arki.t. ground on which the floss. tieutlernan .pesnlors, srs now understand is be, the eelsoetatioss that Sir Fr•sneis Burdett. may, this Terns, be s•entreeesl to 11 long ronfitseateat, sod ofterwar.is expelled the lbw* of Cinamon!!! Private lettertfroso Naples 'neuritis theft:Priem' lir has !seen saaptuolell by his florpoosisent (Finn the note' *Anil ta the *nor. fist Isariitx riteeple.l Isis orders is graMing t o ankles of raisitulalitm. lb° "Pm , of ttttai.t s t rived et Troppau on Cie 311th ult. The Priner Russ! of Prussia has also s t rived, and the Kish was esiwuvd there 4 e th a tic ittattiSman. '• Tie 1111111Tili STATisIIA% .* IS I•cOßrolta tap .11% " Tv eTlSTltsia..••