The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-08-11 00:00:00

'T 74, 1 J I I - iamass__.. . L.46y down your arms, and J Lave recourse to cuessure, which •UP nay (Min**. Submit to the laws • .gistrates. Convince me that you are i•s ir of completely effacing your crime. 1 solemnly promise you that I shall poirdon all, and shall make uo inquiries either into the cause of the revolt, or its insti gators, if you now listen to my voice, and feel remorse for laving made 5o bads return to any affection. N apks, J uiy FRANCISCO, Vicar-General. FITR 4t"lr OP • BITTEN, DATED NAPLES, JILT 21. In the afternoon of the 19th arrived here from Pa- 1 lento" the Viceroy of Sidly, Don Diego Nisei'', in company of the King's Lieutenant (Tenente del Re), Colonel Tattfana, some other public functionaries and a few of the guards, all of whom lied a very narrow escape from the general massacre that was Kaiag on there of the Neapolitans, functionaries, vr not, on the lath and 17th inst., two days after the constitittiou had been published at Palermo. Lieut.- tieneral Richard Church, (a lietitetiant-colotiel on the . half-pay of the late Week light infantry,) who bad ar rived only a few days before from Naples to assume the tailitury command, is stated ;.. having given rise to the di-turbance by tearing in the public street a yellow ri band from off the breast of an individual oho wore it Beat the national colours, red, blue, and black; after which violent act, he had just tune to betake himself lo his heels, mid get out of the reach of the infuriated populace, who went to his quarters in search of him, and, not finding him there, demolished the bona carried his uniform on a pole through the streets, and burnt it, together with himself, in etfigv. Naselli will be tried immediately by a court-martial. Medicia, Minister of 'Finance, Tosumasi, Minister of Justice, with the Dukes of Stages; and of Ascoli, have been arrested early this morning, on suspicion of planning a touster-revolution. 'The Neapolitan squadron, consisting of the Capri, 74, the Siren, frigate, and two sloops, is just going oat of the bay, bound to Palermo. They have got the P.ince of Cassaro, Lord High Steward, and, in 1799 1990, Viceroy of Naples, a Palermian nobleman, on beard, to try to conciliate matters with his country men. who, it would seem, do not like the idea of re c.' Ling laws from the Neapolitans. The English re a dents at Palermo. I am happy to say, have been re spected, and only those travellers who lodged in the hotel where fleneral Church lived have been plundered, I.;i their persons have not been touched. We are au:Musty looking out for the first arrivals from Patera o : en the 17th, not a I fit for sea remained in the port of Palermo. At Messina the Con stitution had been published, and every thing was quiet there on the 15th inst. The Spy, British sloop of war, arrived in this bay two or three days ago front Malta. Her officers went in a body this morning on board :he Capri, line of battle-ship, to congratulate the Neapolitan officers on the happy change in their Hovernment. Extract of a letter, dated Helios, J uly 29 :—The re ports of disturbances at Palermo, and in Sicily gene rally, have been to-day fully confirmed. Palermo is nearly destroyed by cannon and fire—the slaves and prisoners let loose front prison, and committing every excess and havoc : this, we fear, will hurt the cause of • true constitutional freedom which had begun to mani fe•st itself in these quarters, and will afford a pretext for the Austrian Army marching into Naples and other countries, and which, it is said, is already on the route, 00.0041 strong. Other letters state, that the fortresses were taken airl re-taken, and finally remained in the possession of the Sicilians. In the contest %WM men are said to have bees killed, sad 3,000 wounded. A MILITARY CHAPLAIN PLACED UNDER ARREST FOR PRAYING FOR THE QUEEN!!! We hear from °allows, that the Rey. William Gilles pi -, sulaister ef Kills, is about to publish a discourse, •. der s irciunstanees that spar be well deemed extra ordinary. This reverend gentleman has fur some years acted as chaplain to the stewartry yeomanry, and on Surd.sy week he preached before the corp', which was then assembled at Kirkcudbright, one of the most loyal set p itriotic discourses ever delivered from a pulpit. In Lis prayer, however, after many petitions In behalf of his Majesty, he added the words .4 Bless aloe the Spleen ;" and for this hih crime and misdemeanour he aas the same (treeing p laced ander twitiferi a :rrest by li.s roustamatling officer ! This proceeding cyclist' a strong feeling of surprise—perhaps of indignation, a rticularly among the members of the presbytery of Kirkcudbright, who are as strangers to the soundness of Mr. Gillespie's political principles, and who are then selves I. the general practice of preying for bar fe! , jesity. How the matter will end we know not; but she oh why suppose the clergy of this country will be apt to view the arrest of Mr. Gillespie as an insult of to the whole oyster, especially after the lodges d nce of the Kirk of Scotiand,--a thing imised that x •rtr could he doubted,--was so distinctly recognised in the last 0 I Assembly. The chaplain of a geoinient Is no doubt bound to ectoderm himself to the w.shes of his Colonel, to as far as regards time and piece, bet farther than this no officer has any right to interfere ; and it would certainly be very strange if the wise beads and bold hearts who, in imitation of John Knox, have. 00111 W ceased to ..... t the indepen dence fifths Presbyterian fens of worship, would con trite, to a military officer, a power which cannot be rVinsed eves by the King upon the throne. We also oVerstand that a yeomanry corps are only under mar ties law when milled into _al service, and that con sequently no chaplain Ili - 111M to be arrested whets the carps le which be happens to officiate is merely assent bk4 for the. purpose of training. If this view of the snbjeet be correct, it follows that Mr. Gillespie was il legally arrested, and that consequently he has good %rounds for an action of damages, provided he were inetinedM carry his resionmeet so far. Besides it is quite elseleeistlmthe seal el this esslonel alluded to must in the end defeat its 00111 pol9lllos. A reverend gentleman in thiaisbourbooC•oled for his talents and loyalty, when seal iltas be prayed for the Queen, replied, "Ao; bat I obalbeeetMaly de 110 the moment I MI inter dicted;' and Mead ether elergyinen, we understand, who bad pratiously abstained from praying for her Majesty, manneami the ea on Snatray last, with She express view of what they conceive to be a rimi ce s i Freaked eserosebasesst ea liberty of the Chunk.— (Dregtio °gorier.) , C.Oss Yard la to balettillad as all Mss, larlag dal &Wells a the fart i rr eitaserms again.* dre Orem and fear pkwas et t kid miaow have. we ande a wand. boa wined frau Woolsrieh.—(Marwiat Poe.) THE STATESMAN. of proving themselves to be good shepherds, caring fur the dock, bare rather shewn the tlnth of the observation, that the hireling careth not for the Gear, because he is $ hireling'." Mr. BLacitnitax said, that after the rapturous ap- 1 please with which this Resolution had been received, he was sure the Meeting meld give him credit for a more than ordinary degree of courage, when be rose to express his firm dissent to the pie seology of this hese- 1 ludo's. He was sorry that, In a proceeding in which perfect harmony was so desirable, any thing should occur to create a difference of opinion; but he could not forbear expressing his dissent to a I:notation, which cast a centime not only upon some of the high est Dignitaries of the Church, who had advised the omission of her Majesty's name in the Litnrgy, but' upon the inferior Clergy, who were placed in such cir cumstances that they could not possibly refuse to comply with the order. It was a harsh and unne cessary .censure upon a body of men who were tied down by forms, from which, thank Hod, the laws per mitted him (Mr. H.) to dissent, and which many of that body themselves deemed severe, though perhaps they had not the courage to break the bond asunder. Though he perceived but little disposition in the Meeting to accede to his proposition, be still felt it his duty to move that the sixth Resolution be omitted. Mr. LAl:mance supported the original Resolution, and observed, that the amendment seemed to be pro posed from an interested motive, as the Heideman who had just sat down probably felt that he cause in for some share of the censure expressed in the latter part of the Mr. ilLscitsenx appealed to the candour of the Clentleman who spoke last, whether, in rising to defend the members of the e.tablished church, he, who dis sented from that establishment, could be justly charged with interested motives ? Mr. ARIWRIIT regretted that any observations of • personal nature had b en applid to Mr. Blackburn, but expressed a strung disapprobation of the conduct of the Established Clergy, in prejudging her Majesty by excluding her name fr ,in the Liturgy, and of the inferior Clergy for their obsequious compliance with the order, which had emanated from the Dignitaries of the Chitty's. Mr. Bi.sc•notx said, be should have felt less stir- I prise at some of the observations which he had just heard if they had nut fallen from one of those fientle-1 men who were designated by courtesy, learned in the law. The Book of Common Prayer was subject to alteration, not by Bishops and Archbishops, but by his Majesty's Privy Council, and it was to the Privy Council therefore that the Learned Clentlemen's cen sures should have been applied. He (Mr. B.) was not prepared to say that the Clergy ought not to hare sa crificed their private interests upon this occasion; but when the present state of society was considered, and when it was recollected that the Clergy were not always placed in the situations which they held be cause they were eminent for superior sanctity of cha racter, it was not, perhaps, surprising that views of duty had upon this occasion been in some degree super sedes' by considerations of a secular nature. He re tested, that the censure conveyed in the Resolution ought to be applied to the Privy Council, and not to Sim aligaisaries of' the getaldished Church, and the whole body of the Clergy. Mr. Baaattata a said, that if any thing could make him change his religious opinions—if any thing could induce him to believe that there was something wrong hi the Protestant religion, it would be the conduct of the High Churchmen, and all the proceedings which they bad sanctioned and supported against the Queen. Mr. laxrisar said, that the inferior Protestant Clergy were not so censurable as the high Clergy; but still he did not think that they hail ID done their duty as they ought. Ile recollected reading somewhere, that the Bishop of St. David's on one occasion required a clergyman to comply with a man date of his ; the clergyman refused—he said that be could not conscientiously do what the Bishop re quired. " Then," said the Bishop in a rage, "if you do not, I will strip you of your gown." "My Lord," said the clergywzn, " you may strip me of my gown— of my cuat—uay, of my skin itself, hot still I will ad here to my deterusitmtion whom am I to serve, my Lord, Hod or man ?" [applause). So, in his opinion, should the Clergy have said on a late occasion. Ne one could say that they had conscientiously done their duty. A ORNTLEMAN (we believe Mr. Laurence) said, Is was surprised at the observations made by the Gen tleman near hint (Mr. Blackburn); from what had been asserted, he could almost collect thit the clergy men welts bound to consult, not their duty, not the New Testament, not the charter of the church, but their own iuterest; he thought their conduct was very censurable, though certainly a wide differenee existed between the Curate, subsisting on 75/. a year, and the rich Archbishop, with almost as many thousands. Mr. Pulses said, that so much had been said as to praying for the King and praylug for the Queen, be had no objection to pray 'for them, but he thought share *ea another party who ought to be prayed for, they stood in need of prayer—he meant the wicked wretches who persecuted her 514esty ; he prayed to Hod, if possible, to turn their wicked hearts.--(A laugh.) Mr. St-no said, that even if he were, for the sake of argument, to allow that the Queen were guilty, as she was believed by the people of England to be inno cent, still the prayers of the Church should not be withheld from her. The Clergy, if they believed that she had fallen into the ways of error, ought to pray for her conversion—to pray that she might become as religions, as moral, and as gracious, as her worthy Consort. The Resolution was then pet and carried. Mr. Tet.t.su next moved a Resolution of Thanks to Mr. Alderman IVood The conduct of the Worthy Alderman, he believed, was applauded by every true and honest linglishturn ; the enemies of her Majesty, and of justice, alone attempted to sneer at him. He saw a caricature intended to ridicule the Alarmist), in which he was represented as standing at his door, on which was written these words," The Refuge for the Homeless." He thought, hownor, that so far front turning bite hoe ridicuk, it redacted honest upon kiss, and he trusted tnere was ao Ragliehman that 'mild not follow the example of the worthy Al ma, and afford to the Queen, of to any man or woman, who f like her, was left ',ousel's', i 4i i ts4, and oppressed, every possible shelter and proterii, ‘ The conduct perused against her Maj..ssy, whilst cur her it created the wannest sympathy, filled the whol. peopk of England with just alarm for themselves... The measures of the King, or rather, indeed, of hi, unconstitutional advise: s, directed towards h er m b . jesty, might, to-morrow or the next day be direes w i ak.aWst the liberties of England. This Con t i nua next proceeded to say, that the course pursued by Mi. nisters against her Majesty, held out a dangerous e%. ample ; others might be tried,—other inquiries ei g h t be institattesialthe proceeding therefore might be dll. gerous to other persona as well as those who were called the people. The people, however, were bound with all their might to resist them. In this age of re. volution, when the nations of the Continent threw id their chairs—when slaves assumed the post and dig. nits of freemen , was Ragland to fall back in the road of liberty ? If they should do so—if they would allow this pernicious coarse to be followed, their fiberfi ll might not long survive, and tint might live to h a w down to their children nothing 'Jut their chains aid dishonour --a sad inheritance, which would be colon• tered by the reflection that their fathers we. km, freemen. The Resolution was passed unanimously. Mr. Btu nuns"( rose to propose a vote of thanks to Lord John Russell. His Lordship had done nu e b to enlighten the country, and, he hoped, to infers ad direct the King. His Lordship on this malice, as upon ail others, bad acted with that indepeni esto , spirit sell patriotism', which was wortbsbe illastristo • name of Russell. The meeting seemed unanimous in their appreb o ,. tion of his Lordship's conduct, b=it as his Lordship was virtually included in a previous Resolution, the niajori.y considered that the rote of thanks to kis Lordship ass nunecessary. Mr. Lit:oases moved an Address to her Majesty, echoing the language of the Resolutions, which was unanimously agreed to. After much desultory conversation, it was at leach agreed that the Churchwardens should wait on line Majesty, to know at what time she would be pleased to receive the Address, and that then a Dep t m a ti os o f Householders should wait upon her Majesty, is re . sent the same. The Meeting adjourned about nine o'clock. ADDRESS TO THE yuiiw.v. --...- A public vestry was held yesterday, in the church of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, pursuant to a requisition tu the Churchwardens, signed by the must respectable inhabitants of that parish, tu take into consideration the propriety of addres:.:ng her Majesty the Queen. Shortly after five o'clock the Chair was taken by W. Jennings, EaWi. the Churt hivarden, and the requisition having been read, Mr. Ryon rote to address the meeting. He express ed his satisfaction at observing so numerous and rts- 1 pectable a meeting of the inhabitants of this parish, especially•as they bad been convened at so short a DO.l tice. Ile observed that the question which they were met to consider was one of the highest importance, nut only as it effected her Majesty the Queen, but 1111 involved the freedom and independence of English men. He would nut detain the meeting by dwelling upon the series of persecutions to which this Illustri ous Lady had been subjected almost since the hour of bet marriage, but he would proceed at once to propose certain resolutiuns to the meeting. The resolutions haring been read, 'I he Rev. Mr. PtEncx observed, that the importance of a subject, whether political, domestic, or religious, might be estimated from the general interest which it excited. Many important meetings had been held in that place, but they had never yet met upon a subject of such momentous interest as that to which their at tention was now called. Vestries had been convened here for the purpose of opposing undue influence, nt just rates, unprincipled men, and unconstitutional mea sures ; they had been held too in this place, most pro perly, for the purpose of expressing their abhorrence of those monsters in human shape, the at Manchester t but the meeting, upon the present occa sion, was of paramount importance, and seemed to take the lead of all. In the issue of the measures new pending against our beloved and foully persecuted Queen, were involved all onr prospects, all our hopes, and all our future felicities. This being the case, we are meto—a privilege which is just left us by our tender and affectionate Governors—for the purpose of address ing her Majesty, and sheering the enemies of truth and justice that we are not ashamed to come forward in a church to vindicate persecuted innocence, and advocate the necessity of reform. He would abstain from using any terms of reproach, even against the Government which oppressed us ; hut it was scarcely possible en tirely to repress that indignation which every friesnl to the constitution must feel, at the conduct of the men who had shackled the press by enacting intolerable laws, who had dragged from their homes, and from the bosom of their families, some of the best friebds of freedom and reform, and who were now directing the same system of persecution and oppression against our universally beloved Queen. lie was proud to de clare his entire concurrence with the sentiments ex pressed in the resolutions. He hoped Heaven would frustrate the diabolical designs of her Majesty's eue mies.—(Applause.)--Surrounding nations were watch ing our movements, and were waiting with anxious so licitude to Ice what steps this nation would take in the cause of an injured Queen, and in the cau:e of free dens spill reform. He trussed that this meeting would set a good example—that they would unite Id* mil lions of his Majesty's subjects—that they would Unite, persevere, and be free. The Rev. Gentleman eon ' eluded by seconding the resolutions. The resolutions were then put separately from the Chair. Upon the third resolution !whi ff put, Mr. lit.trascast rose to offer a few observations, not with reference to any particular molution, but with reference to the whole of the business which bad been brought before them. Upou a former weenies, be had felt it necessary to oppose a measure, which was, is his opinion, calculated to prejudge a question, which was then before a legitimate tribunal, but could he possibly have foreseen the issne of the Coroner's Inquest at Oldham, be certainly should not have ap posed it. For the very same reason which induced him to oppose that measure, he now ruse to express his warm approbation of the object of this mailbag. It was the duty of the country, in the eirctuasstinces under which the Queen was placed, to rally round her, and shew that they felt her to he a persecuted add Jared woman. He had no wish to take any objection to the present resolutions, but be could not help think ing that they scarcely went far enough. He wished' the Address to the Queen to be coupled with an Ast dress to both Houses of Parliament, calling apostates to refuse their sanction to the proceedings against her Majesty. He hoped that every parish in the kingdom would take this course, and if parish meetings did not avail, he hoped every family in the kingdom would separately petition Parliament against a proceeding 1 which wore so tremendous an aspect upon the best in terests of the country. He mshd not trouble the Meeting with any further observations, bat ea he was sometimes reproached as au individual opposed to every thing like popular measures, he begged to express his warm coucurreore ig She eijedt ed the pro seat Meeting. The Fourth Resole dge, The r o t beak pm judged her case, are thellimadoeut mmio11•11.. fair, and free investigation." Mr. LIKDII•T and Mr. lel4llll, made same Ajaa time, upon the ground that the itesolution.p it stood, might be applied to those who presumed the inboeenco of her Majesty. Mr. BLACZBUIN said, that if his Majesty's Ministers bad proceeded to trial in that just and boviourshie course, which every British subject had a right to claim, the sense of this sad other public meetings would not have been so strongly expressed as it now had. The exclusion of her Majesty's name from the Liturgy was undoubtedly calculated to prejudice her cause, and if Ministers were capable of resorting to such a measure in the first instance, it was net likely that they would afterwards primped with that even headed justice from which au equitable decision might be expected. The Resolution was carried umanimosely. The Sixth Resolution was Ikea pat and received with groat applause. “ That this Meeting cannot hut feel. that is olthdrase• log her ilaq same ham the Liturgy. Show el the digaided whe masested se that Order of Co s a. and these w have obeyed it, hereabout's hew eta they can allow the forums whisk asey pram Se sacred, to he converted to partial oijoeu, sad Wised SPAIN. J - Moment, JVLT 2S.—Pnblie affain is this csnn• try; since the month of March, hare gone on in a regular and progressive way towards improvement and consolation ; and notwithstanding many We 41- pleasant things which have oecarred, and es it was natural to expect, the march of events his set hem stopped for a single moment, consequently rat dis turbed. The King continue, to give preset II his good faith and sincerity, and those who have been is constant attendance upon him for years, say that Le never was so happy and tranquil in his owe arid. Deputations from Canes and other neighlsearieg ' parts have waited %pea him with felicitations and ad.' dresses, and he has had as opportunity of seeing that the feelings and Spirit he "Massed in the capital extend to the pestles*. The Cores as composed of sound and well iota tiostmll area, and though some few of the members we ' a little hot-headed and hasty, which sometimes impels timer beyond thentark, ad leads them into affairs al as public interest at peeseut, in general their deli bastions have given the greatest satisfaction, and leaded to restore confidence. The generality of them are actuated by the best intentions, and these aberration, arise rather eat Ma wont of ratios than any other motive. It is, however, hoped that they will go on gradually reducing the circle of their yearn. as they become more convinced that they are not tittle/ as the Extraordinary Cortes, when tare practical geed will be done. The Dover:sweat labours incessantly, and with the very best wishes, nor do they seem appalled by the great dilliculties they have before them to set things right, produce order, regulate the ramie, re-organise the army and wavy, in short, to MN a chaos to disappear, and In their Lateen they denim great encouragement from the good spirit missed V . the provinces. In every department activity sod har mony prevail, and already the best diets are visible. that attitude of distrust, or rather that wish to bees the alert and prepared bar •all entergeseim. y the maintenance of distinct bodies of men, each es those still kept together in La Ws, for example, is sow ao longer necessary, so great is the usslos of meanest& that ;serails throughout the nudes; for in the end madder as nothing the few disaffected or rather ' appointed persona we have among us, as /their ear plaints are drowned by the public voice, sad whatever they may plot will be of no avail. I would net with i you to suppose that we are without oar little spans discontent ; under all dreg sstaares this was to be em pected ; but they do no injury, unless it is now sad then to deprive us of a few metubep of social. Ow absence is better that their presses*. Yee will, deal. less,*ao yea reeeiswohie. have kearkaaii peg* le II" •-• 4 very exaggerated tone if your loformadoe reattikill France, of what has happened on the Tortilla"e frontiers and elsewhere. It is briefly as fellow i to us who are near and know the parties, has vent given the smallest alarm. In the Northern Praised Ecbavarri, and a singer of the Royal Chapel, what*: gether with a notary-pablie, were spreadieg sedition. reports, were arrested. h seems they inteadod to term • a party opposed to the present order of things, sat with them some other f w persons were iwpiisu and since arrested. In Seville. half a dem besafirmi ' Clergymen were seat eat to different pieta. SI filib le seditious siectriaes, announcing that General Cassava wee es the eve of entering that city with an man' it gagliskose and &mhos, to overture the atitation. Could say thing be more ridicules'? Oa the frontiers of Portugal. opposite to Darks a party of fugitives had aseembled, and wow tM Preire eastrilies, who sly taking to the' selves the titie of Aposto P rrta, advanced tonne our lines a hasdfid of armed ',meanie. psi Demo of the deserten Sees the Coolie Orioles. Use or try_ aseipasies In garrison awasest to them west sot saet dispersed Its i aid the Sermon's* has sloes acdre• mews* to prevent the roreppessice of ebb. 'mid Apostolic Junta. and tie few (waded reams,