The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-12-26 00:00:00

THE STATF.SNiAN. themselves and a onntre to destrurtion ?. It might be indeed, that little faith could he put in the conver• o f a desperate and abandoned radical, and un. doubtedly Ow would often be the rase; but the Tories had reason to he th.tokfol, rat hrr than otherwise, for this condoct or the II hugs, for the radicals could only he gralttall drawn from their opinions, and it would be absolute v necessary that they should pant through tile porgat!!ry of at loitrainno, loefure they could arrive at t h e Elyse m tieloln of the Tories.—(Laughter )—There tore they shoshouldrcher thank than bl ame th em f or handing then' over in .1 r o ue and tr.setahle condition.— (Confirmed Laughter.)—lle confessed at the same time I that he bail no great relish fur the task of converting he m an d desperate radicals, flomigh certainly the gates of merry and penitence ot mild be shut against no man. —(lAoghter.)—lint the object of the Whigs was not to convert that school!, but to impress on the minds of the tanltitnale that there is s intermediate class between Them awl the potters, and to repress that ten .tencv which minty of them have to revulastio•at ore doe grimes, from the very &retonstanee of their seeing no thing between them aml their proud revilers amid oe pressors.—(-Ipi lans...)—lt was there they made their !stand; they would oreopy that ground, opposed alike to the encroachments and despotism of power, and the d enims and visions of wild and reckless demagogues. lie trnseeol hr mode intelligil le to his Lordship the g mi nds it his opposition. Ilia 'tat anent hail been ex t rawly desultory, and he would beg . to remind the Meet ing that lie uottl.l not sign the address, nor allow it to go ont, and be held as a general testimony in favour of th e coercive system of the present Cover:men% or any thin, at all about them, without an advice and recom mendation to remove them. Every lover of his countre was called upon to express his sentiments sin the agita tion and distress that were so prevalent, and to say what would be the most effectual war to remedy them ; and he would only say fir himself, that if Otis system of force and unkindness were persisted in, it condo' hardly fail of increasing the-evils—it outdo' tear np the roots, not prone an.sy the branches—it wool', hurl a hrand amidst the combustible elements of society, in whirls all thinkiag, and wealthy, and worthy individuals would be corolottmled, and our ours 'sappy and free country at las: he %%tallowy.' np in the g gra of a bloody anal remorseless revolution. (Mr. J.-11rev sat down amid hold and continneal elseering; and we have to regret that, tram the lateness of the hour, and the ronsegnent dark ness, we hate hem able to do so little justice to his truly splendid elooptence.) The vote was then pat or .tololtess, or Amendment, when the former was carried by a llajority of-110 •26. The thank% of the Meeting. wrre then moved to be given to the Chairmen, and the 3feeting broke up. 111011 w ATER AT LONDON 111211XJK To-raitanw. Morning. 30 ads. after 41.—Ereaing, IS min. OW 7. St. Stephea.-11oliday at the Public nice.. Cbg iettatriimatt. Ties onirtsn 3TATR.Y VC . IS &&&&& WITH " THE STATUE A /, 0 N 0 0 X : TCIIIID•T SI - ENING, Pi:CS/lOU 2G. The result of the meeting of the Freeholders of F..linburgh, of which we yesterday gave a brief &Tomtit, and now present a more extended outline, has afforded a subject of gratulation to the ministerial journals. At the meeting of the inhabitants of the city of Edinburgh a few days before, where they admit there was " a degree of decency very notch to be approve'," they had been mortified to find, that " the speakers were all on one side, and the resolutions of course went to the expul.lon of his M uwaTt's pre sent Ministers." At the meeting of the Freeholders of the county of Edinburgh, where the great Whig speaker, as they call him, Mr. Flamm* Jurrary, also spoke, " the eloquence which a few days ago bad produced such wonderful effects wets now wholly powerless ILA Mr. Jar. racy spos.e uith the tongue of an angel from Heaven, his impression upon such an audience as was then collected would have been the same, unless his words had been accompanied with such a simper natural power as could have opened the eyes of the r..ised the dead to life, or at once made the corrupt, the sordid, and the selfish, liberal, l public spirited and pore. Constituted as the County Meetings of Scotland are, their suffrages crn aftw-d no more subject of gratulation t the numbers of Administration than the servility of vassals to their lords. As a testimony of generous or grateful feeling their addresses can never be deemed ; as an cxyression of the collective body of the people of the country, they bate no pretension to be taken. The p.pa:4liiin of that part of the United Kingdom amounts, we believe, to about two mill:ons ; and the whole number of freeholders qualified to vote, only, if we remember right, to little more than two thousand seven hundred. They are qualified, not as in England, by the acquisition of a certain extent of landed property, but by what It called a superiority, which does not depend upon the value of the land. The holders of these posses si-ns, too, lihe the Magistrates of close corporations, know the ;aloe of their powers in Miuisterial scales, and shape their votes accordingly. It is idle, there fare, to refer to the addresses of such bodies as a test of pnliiie opinion. In one respect, however, we may Wer to them as a test, and that is of .Ministerial views. .% declaration of t.:e LOUD Aorocsra's at the Edin burgh County Meeting, sway be considered as indicative of the measures of Government ro s.ec•ing the Quces. T. following Proclamation was issued after the intrince of Houtz into the Cape, and is the latest intelligence received in town PtuCIAIWATIIIN TO TOO SIATTIANS. VT JtAN TIME ino%ta, Plib:striENT or HAITI. ilaytians!—The period of discord and division has Pas*til ; the day of reconciliation and harmony, the most pleasant of my life, has at length arri►ed. MI liken of the same fausily, you are all rallied andet the shade of the sacred tree of liberty; the constitution of the state is recognized throughout Hayti, from North to South, from East to West. The republic relies upon the citizens as devoted to her welfare and inde pendence. I will not recal to your minds the history of your misfortunes ; they should only be remem bered to be avoided in future. IVloen we took up arms to destroy slavery, to which our ancestors and we have for the last two centuries been sub jected—when we spilt our blood and made the greatest sacrifices fur our country, we did not imagine that we would become the victims of these ambitious men, who in revolution lose sight of the public good, in their own aggrandizement. You are acquainted with these persons, whose fatal cele brity has only brought misfortunes on the nation, and left, as an inheritance to their Ninnies, the execration of their memories. You now behold the picture of the iniquitous government of CIIRIS ropm z, whose prin. ciple acts where marked by caprice. You must be convinced that the moment the Chief of the State is not guided by the laws of the people, that moment their rights became visionary, and the national edifier must tumble. The Constitution of the Republic, the work of Representatives from all the de partments, has established wise safeguards against despotism. If, during fourteen years, it has rendered those happy who have remained faithful, it will make such equally so whom the rebel Citatsrormc has drawn into error. But to effect this, we must, Hay. fiat's, lay aside all personal feelings, all private pre tensions, and bring our tributes, disdaining all advan- I tages arising from intrigue ur favour. Let us never ! forget those brave patriots, whose struggles against despotism have only ceased with their lives; those also who, in the late transactions, have aided the people in recovering their liberty are worthy of, and will too doubt obtain the thanks of the nation. I regret that blood (which I have been so solicitous to spare,) should have been spilt un the Itith of this month. My order of the 17th sent express to the Cape did not arrive in time to save the lives of CHRISTOVIICSSOII and some officers, who were conspicuous in executing their barbarous orders. Ilaytians !--I solemnly request that the past events be forgotten. Offer your hearts to confidence, and hasten to act in concert with Government, in consoli dating the independence of the country. The President of Ilayti, the first to whom is en trusted the public tranquillity and property, will spare no pains to do his duty. May the citizens all imitate his example, and the wounds inflicted on the country by civil war will soon be healed. Haytiaus! Let us return thanks to the Supreme Being who has permitted us to re-unite. Let us pray that we may be inspired with ideas of peace and wisdom, that we may leave to oar children a certain existence---a country free and independent. Lung live the Republic! the Constitution! long live liberty Ind equality! Given at the National Palace of Cape Hayti, the Stith October, WO, and 17th year of independence. Botta, President. B. I NGINAC. Secretary-Ucneral. Yesterday being Christmas Day, there was no bet ting whatever at Tattersall's. It is announced, in a Ilatnburgli paper of the ISth inst., that certain intelligence had reached St. Peters burgh of the death of the Emperor of China. The Emperor Alexander has ordered several of the officers belonging to th• regiment which lately muti nied to be tried by a court martial, for not having enforced obedience. According to advice. from Qnehec, to the 31st the number of settlers arrived at that port during the season has been 11,239. The number of vessels entered. 575--tonage, 146,214. Flour was selling at Alexandria(United States), on the 19th nit., at 3 dollars, 2.1 cents, the barrel, a lower price than has been known for twenty years. The report of Mr. Peel's joining the present Ca- binet, at least in a subordinate situation, appears. says a correspondent, to be unfounded. There are souse persons in the present Cahinet with whom he ran never act. Besides other strong reasons for this belief, that declaration of his cannot be forgotten which he made two sessions ago,—that something was wrong in the system. Mr. Peel, according to our correspondent's opinion (which we should be glad to find correct, but which we apprehend is much too sanguine), is not likely to accept Power, without the power of finding out that wrong, and substitntiog what is right: ! "IXTRiCT OF ♦ LETTIR FROM LIVENTOOL, Dic. 1.13. " The resignation of Mr. Canning has produced a strong sensation amongst the Ultras; and I have just been assured by a Member of the Canning Club, that the Ministerial party are 'trio divided, the Friends being expected to remain neutral. At the last select meeting, most of Ueneral Gascuigne's friends absented themselves, and Mr. 11-11-4 was so disgusted with the language used towards the Queen by a celebrated Back-boner, that he left the room deeply offended. At the meeting thisday, it is said that word -ran high, and nothing was decided on. The cry of distress, may be perceived in the tone of their circular, of which the following is a copy:— " Sir, you are earnestly and particularly requested to attend a meeting, intended to be held at the King's Arms to-morrow, (Saturday,) at one o'clock, for the purpose of proposing a Loyal Address, to be submitted to the Town Meeting called for IVedesesday next, and of considering each other arrangements as may be deemed expedient on that occasion." It is considered here that extreme measures are resolved upon against the Quo. sad the people." GLASGOW .WEETING. Faip.tr, Dse. After the rout sustained here by the cult loyal party at the Town Hall, a requisition wai sented to the acting Chief Magistrate, signed veral names of the first respectability, requesting to call a public meeting, to ro.isider of the propriety of " voting a loyal and dutiful address to his Majesty, representing the unconstitutional and pernicious mea sures adopted by Ministers, especially in the proceed ings against the Queen, and the sudden prorogation of Parliament, and praying his Majesty to dismiss his Ministers and to re-assemble Parliament without de lay, that their advice may be taken as to the measures to be pursued for allaying the present discontent." The Chief Magistrate having declined compliance with this Requisition, public notice was given by the Requisitionists, that such a Meeting would neverthe less be held in St. John-street Church, this day, at twelve o'clock. The church began to fill at an early hour, awl at the time appointed for commencing prceedings, it was crammed in every part. Hundreds went away who conld not obtain admission. Mr. JANis AIVRDOCII, Aith'house, proposed that Mr. Oswald, Shieldhall, should take the (*hair, which he did under great acclamation, and addressed the meeting iu a vtry neat speech. He was followed by Mr. Robert Grahame, Whitehill, who moved the reso lutions, which were similar in spirit to those of other meetings assembled in different parts of the kingdom for the same pui pose. Mr. JAMES Dassirrors, banker, seconded the re solutions, whirls were carried unanimously. Mr. Oswvt.to read an Address to the King, founded on the Resolutions, which was also highly approved of, and passed with equal unanimity. Mr. LA Nla S rest proposed that the Address ••honld be presented by Earls Grey, Lord Erskine, Lord A. Hamilton, and others, whom he named. Dr. Ittenvan Mst.l.lll a cored the thanks of the meeting to the Chairman, and the whole business then concluded. We understand that a Treaty is actnally in negn dation for a couttnercial intercourse with France, upon terms which can alone make it beneficial to both countries.—those of reciprocity. It is said to be in contemplation to reduce the import duties on certain enumerated articles, f 75 to 16 per sent. ad rain rem----a rate which would increase the consumption in both countries of the articles which they respectively want, and which, while it puts an end to the expensive and useless preventive system, would, in all probability, rather add to than diminish the revenue. We sin cerely wish that it may be realised, and that it may lead to the settlement of similar commercial treaties with every other nation. It is only by the liberal principle of giro and tak►, that the equilibrium of which the French King speaks, can be restored. Foreign markets cannot buy our produce if we do not take theirs in exchange; and it is to our interest to make our customers upulent.—(.horning Citron.) A letter from Madras, dated July 2S, says :—" this Majesty's ship Leander (gag ship) is now at Trinco malee; the Carron, Captain Furneaux, at talentta ; Liverpool, Captain Collier ; and Dauntless, lion. Captain Gardner, at Pith-Penang (Prince of Wales's Island) and China. The Eden, Captain Loch, and Curlew brig, Captain Blackwood, proceed to the (tuff of Per.ia ; and the Topase, Captain Luiuley, now at the Isle of France, is shortly expected at Caylon.— The above ships 1:11111pUie the squadron iu the Indian seas." A meeting of the inhabitants of the parishes of Kenwyn and Kea took place in the Church-yard of the former place. An address to the King was pro. posed by the Rev. It. Po!whew, and amendments de precating the Rill of Psius and Penalties, were moved by Mr. Carpenter and Mr. Budd. '1 he Address pro posed by the latter gentleman was adopted by a large majority, and ordered to be forwarded to Sir William Lemon for presentation. Walter Wood, Esq., the son of Mr. Alderman Wood, was unfortnnately d-oweed in the harbour of Port Praya, on the !lilt of September last. LOVALMIS UV TIIIM Noarii Moue° or Tomestmit.— The ultra-loyal gentlemen every where seem to wish to keep their meetings snug, for the purpose, we suppose, of keeping their loyalty warm. No sooner did the in tention of Mr. Wyvil, as stated in yesterday's viler, get known, that it defeated, as we find by the following letter, the meditated attempt of holding any public titet•ting at Northallertoa. TO TOE NOsLISMICS, GENTLIIMEN, CLP:ROY AND ►RRC HOLDERK 0► TOR ANCIKNT UoROCUII Of NORTUALLER TON AND ITS VICINITY. An Address with the signature of "M. Wyrill" having appeared, callintr upon the inhabit sots of the North Hiding of Yorkshire, to attend a meeting adver tised by me for Saturday next, the 23(1 instant, 1 think it my duty to give this public notice, that the above mentionea meeting was never meant to comprehend the inhabitants of the Riding at large; and therefore, to prevent its being perverted to serve the purposes of a party, it is hereby postponed to a future dry, of which due notice will hr given. H. 111.istativan., Otte of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, for the 7.oitls Riding of Yorkshire. Northallerton, Der. 21. MBITING AT LlineAnn.—At a late hour last even ing we received an account of a public meeting held at Liskaard, on Tuesday last, for the purpose of prepar ing a loyal Address to his Majesty. An amendment, condemning the general conduct of Ministers, and especially the proceedings instituted against her Ma jesty the Queen, and praying for their dismissal from his Majesty's councils, was moved by Mr. John Map ford, and carried by a majority of ten to one. Several hundred persons were present.—The Mayor and Corpo ration retired to sign their loyal Address in private. We shall give the arecunt of the proceedings trans mitted to us next week. A severe gale of wind has been experienced at Ilridliegtun Qnav, on the Yorkshire coast, which lasted two days and ►►ig h ts, and brought so heavy a 6 •a, as to remove . 1 immense large stones on the pier; the waves struck the jetty with serfs vio lence, as to make the ground tremble fur a consider able distance. in the neighbourhood ofiston, In Stafforthshire, a piece of coal land of Bittern acres sold lately for the enormous sus of elco'•a hNNdr.d •ad fbrty posit I 07 acre. 3lessage. It announced that the Lio.:rd of Aldermen had elected ten Aldermen, together with nine in num ber of the Lower Douse, to form a ton aaaa Titre ,to frame an Address to his 3lajestv. After a litt:e dis t ussion, the Address wrs returned, anti Mr. At.t.owtv moved, that, instead of it brine trans mitted to the Throne throu g h roe unniium of the Lord Lieutenant, that roe Right lion. l the Lord Mayor, the Deputy Recorder, tae -and the . ..own Chat, should be ordered to carry lice Address to Loudon. Seconded Ily 11 r. er.ll en. Mr. Whtus said, he conceived that the proposition was a downright iusuit to the Lord Lieutenant. Other 3letoh fl ers opposed t 3lo;ion, on the ground of the expel's,' it wouLd occasion. It being understood thrt the I.teputatiou were to prl• their im expcos,s, the llotion wrs agreed to. Mr. Moonz eno%ed that the High Sheriffs, in the name of the (:totasteonc, ►hould wait slim $ll the Lord Lieutenant, and rr.lne•t tie: the Royal Yacht might be ordered to convey the Lord 31a)or, a:•rusa the Channel. Mr. WILLIS s9ld, the experer ought to betaken let* consider:lC , if graiited, n hich be did not think it would ; the warraut nould cost 3.7:11i, and there was money to the sailors, and money to the captain. lie hail heard of a nobietuan who had got the Dorset Yatrlit to convey hint to E.iglaud, tlctslare it co , t above one brindled pounds—autl if the Corporation made tuck a foolish rquest, they would be 'nookd in honor and honesty to ilis..lear4e the expenetis--and wile e are these to c: tie Rout ift.ail the 7', -art. i t? pay/Arta ." The Motion was carried. The Ilou.e ws% then about to break ty, w: en a Member exelainied, •' What a !Onions ex.intple do the proceedings of this day present to the Itaciicai Corporation of London! We have proved our and their acts have proved any thing but theirs' Air. w !AA , : exclaimed—OA' that's Jia.: 'Tad ig/a Hill oak ! The Assembly then dissolved. The Adilres% will not be printed uutil press wed ; but it was st tared with loyalty. OBJECTS OF .1 sewn COUNTY ADDRBSS DEFE.CIED. In eonseqnence of a requisition %ivied by the Lord Lieutenant and Convener of the County of Aberdeen, a Alerting of the Noblemea, Intputy Lieutenants, aid Justices of the Peace of Aberdeen, took place on the 211th instant, fur the ostensible purpose of voting an Address to the Throne. The business of the Meeting was opened by the Marquis of llnntley, Lord I.h.tite nant, who stated, that in consequence of a requisition signed by several Gentlemen of the Comity, he had called the present lleetin J : ti .ii'lirif an opportunity of expressing their loyalt :til attachment to his Majrst:-. j Au Address was then moved by Mr. Irvine, of Mon , and seconded by Mr. Menzies, of Pitfooidels, Cos ' vetoer of the County, which was immediately opposed, not with reference to the terms in which it was couched, but in consequence of a decided opinion that it was intended indirectly to approve of the conduct of hi{ Majesty's Ministers. This belief having been stater'. the louver and Seconder of the Address strongly and uneoptivo.tally denied that they, in the most olistart manner, intended to approve of the conduct of Admi nistration, or in any respect agitate such a question, their only object heirs g to express their loyalty to the Throne, in which, of course, they had no doubt of an unanimous sentiment pervading the fleeting. In particular, the Seconder of the motion declared, that es fit, from ill/cut/log' by the .44dress to • depprore of the to, dont O' Ministers, directly Me moot:wry "me tSr rose. A second address was then proposed by Mr. Skene, of Skene, more strongly expressive of Loyalty than t'ie for m e r , but no ticing, with regret, the dissatisfaction which appeared to pervade the minds of a large majority of his Majesty's subjects, produced by the measures of Administration. The Meeting then ditioled, and, as might Isere hero anticipated in a Scot's county, the Amendment was lost by a large majority, a result whiTh ought to I. perfectly satisfactory to those who had opposed the original Address, as after the impression on their minds, that even a tacit approval of the conduct of Ministers was disavowed, nothing could be more gratifying than joining in expressions of loyalty and unshaken attachment to his Majesty's Person mid the Constitution of the Country. SCOFCII 4.IIE.VDMENT ofthe PUBLIC N'Ar3. _ ~~ The notice of the new-fashioned pavement in one paper of yesterday, hrmtght to a correspondent's recol lection an epigram that w•as written on the general al teration snails in the pavement of the streets of Londe* at the commencement of the reign of the late King. The method introduced was, like that mentioned yesterday, copied from the mode that pre vailed at PAittburgh. 'bill then, the foot pavement was secured by stone or wooden poes instead of cirhs and the removal of those posts toak place about the time when Lord Bute, then Prime Minister, was ilia. placing certain Knglishmen from office, to make room for some of his own felluw-tonntrytnen. " The aew•fa+hloswe paTesoat's deserting of praise— We meat thank sea the Scotch for ameadiag our ways; Bet, fo► what we can forgive thew, some say, Is, that they have WM* err Parrs all away.•• It appears Cvin The lancelets* Journal of the Ist instant that in rnnsequeuse of the representations which hail been published in the London and other Journals, in 0419, discriptire of the distressed con dition of the mooted Tenants of the Estate of Sutherland, the property of Lord and Lady Stafforl, a soshorription hid been originated in Hengal, for the benevolent purpose of affording relief to those hrare. but unfortunate people, and the ninntfkent Junto( 120/. sterling, has been very lately teritteed by the house of Messrs. Wietosb and Co. of Valenta; &net further sums are expected to be received in the course of this winter fur the holey°lest friends of the Highlande.s is the West.lidks, especially from Jamaica. 11?4 , 111 Ism fedi as .11,411.1 r A' cap «0 tot sllr eq ,d i-J Ildrirerts is • -, . • - • • • • • • CORPOR.•JTJON er rns :-- CTIT1 7 0r11( : 111 'mink Mawr, Dar. 21.—Yepterdar there was n Post As- vs Pre - sembly girld at the 11'illiont-titteet.for by le - the specific purpose of Add r r• s ittg the King'. At t.no ng him o'clock, Alderman 31ontgotnery appeared with the nuriota• . •nutiott• _ P"'