The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-10-14 00:00:00

To THE EDITOR OF TQL STATES'3I4.V. stn,—The very , conduct of Crowned treads de. gin perpetual warfare, and inflicting oppressions t i.e multitude hn feed and clothe them, is a proof o f their atheism.—Sir, the very conduct of Crowned proves their disbelief of the religion they pro fess ; their wanton oppressions at honie, and their osevainary tuts abroad, and the profligacy in which ron y of them have passed their worse than useless lives, sufficieotly demonstrate that they do not be_ lire in the doctrine of future reward.: and punish. meats—(r if such an impression had happily been e ande on their minds, they would not daily dare the wo o l of otf , nded Heaven by crimes w hide wo u ld 0 ,,„ 5 i 0 them, according to such a belief, to eternal p u oislitneot. Sir, the conduct of Crooned Heads, 1 mean such as we lid secor.!eil in listory, and such as we have s e in our time dishonour their sceptres, authorises v . assert that it is ATHEISM they rrectice, though •i I 'IIiiISTIANITY they profess, and when st:Ci. EN coeimand Te perms to be sung for their 1a0,..-- sacrifice of their fellow-creatures, and cider public 's to be ebserved by those who have scarcely the means to pi. , .•fiase food and raiment (for few else obey the iropioe , ^iaorlate), in order, as it is prttended, to avert the o • of God, and sione for ": , ,aisifold offences"—a hat is it but a so;cliti mocker) of the common sense of man. hind, and an insult to that Divinity whose c;emeo-y they pretend to invoke?" Can you he surprised, Sr.! at the general profligacy of the loaer orders of society—at their practising on a s o.n:lrr scale, what their [Loyal Masters too often fat i.tm Kith impunity on a grand one ? The punish. remit inflicted on the former compared with the lat ter exceeds all reasonable bounds of distributive ivi c e —it is indeed " Larlimus rift:tem &Ili," when compared with the other. We ar , told from the pulpit by the far more formidable abettors of tyranny than the soldiery, that Paradise hereafter will be the reward allotted for our faith in their doctrines, and for our loyalty to the Sovereign, accompayied by a terrible denunciation, if we presume to rej• et the former and refuse the latter, 1 making it as it were the complete surrender of our understanding, and an entire renunciation of the common right of mankind, the sole condition of eternal happiness in the world to come ! What is this but an insult to common sense, aggravated by the blrophemy of the menace? What is it but ntekitig religion the ally, not mere. ly of legitimate Coverement, with which, by-the-b: e, it has nothing to do, hut even of xasurpation and tytanny ? The Clercy are leo apt to be panders to authority in i e hope of being admitted to a share of il l it, or in such stances as such a miserable wretch as Irentwso 0. Spain bring on the throne, mono. poli7ire the whole of it. Tlit-y offer paradiae to the people as the price of their absolute submissive to the Church and State ; but when do we hear a Bishop or a Chaplain holding out a menace of divine anger to his Royal M tater, who, in the plentitude of his arrogance, violates all the obli4atious of religion and morals. end abuses the confidence reposed in him ? Whence comes this in. du!geace to 011 e, and severity to the other? Why should men, pretendina to rule by " the Grace of God," and who should better respect the laws of Cod, escape the censure of the Church, and be ex empted from the threats and admonitions bestowed with so much liberality and seeming piety on the rest of mankind ? Why should revolt from oppres sion be branded as rebellion and punished as such ? And, Orate all, what must we think of the virtue and utility of n priesthood, who tells us that a servile dishonourable submission to a tyrant who oppresses us, and whom the% impiously call the" Lord's anoint ed," is loyalty ?—Let all such loyally be dis claimed and abhorred—let manly sentiments be every %there adopted as a more legiqinate fence against all illegitimate tyrants, and their authority will no longer exist. Sir, there is something so hor• ride in despotism—it is a vice of so flagitious a the. rrcter, that it w iil not admit of any compromise. I.lllvltl'y or DEATII should be the universal ex clamation whenever and WHEREVER it makes its oprearance. I mean that rational practicable liber ty, dm:ion:fed by wisdom and soured hy Legislative enactments, which, no less assures r* iience and rcspect to the constituted authorities Hurt the rights of the people from a rbitrary and caprkions Miler "eels. If I have expressed myself with warmth on this sllbifTf, it ii. that the cause I would defend ap ea'trs to be in more imminent danger than ever, front the conduct of the combined Powers in Fiance, who j.:,.(1.g0tl themselves bs. their Do-dm:lions previous to the Aiinguitiary battle of Waterloo not to it !--fere with the hvernal r,overunient of filet country. 'I et- declared ear only against Boa aPAUTE and his army— the one i• consigned, if not to oblivion, at least to exile, red the other is disbanded—yet war is continued e,;•tinst the French, with almost as much fury as if N‘roatosr was at the hag,' of hi s fe g i. oi s, Etnperor of France! .\, other inference can be dm. ten from eiis violence—from this indecent departure from C.o.e seleme assurances vs hich induced an immense population to receive foreign troops rattier as friends !lain enenti..s, t h an that a consp . rley is formed le tinxt the ( WI rights, not only of Frenchmen, but of all mankind. It appears to me, tl, the Sore ti'i..tt.s of the present Oa s , frogeti g from whom they deriv e their authority—for whet purposes they were ell:rutted with it s and that those who CO.‘Di• TAE STATESIVIASt TIONALLY conferred it on them; can eesume it whenever it. is forfeited by delinquency or incapacity, have resolved to fence themselves in Mike, and to hold the delegated authority independent of the people from w! , m they received it. They seem to tell us in very intelligible language, that they will no longer beaccountable for their actions. That it is not our affections they covet, but our obedi ence they demand. It is lines of circurnvallation these Gentlemen seem to be drawing round their respec tive Thrones, for protection against revolt, acid the better to ensure impunity to despotism and crime. Their contiiving at the tyranny exercised by one of the Brotherhood ifi Spain,eloquently proclaims to the world in what estimation they hold the civil and religious rights of all mankind. if it be from a sense of delicacy they are restrained from admonishing Gis woo (Mess Kitte—This disgrace to royalty, to a conduct more consonant with his duties, how comes it that the sante sense of delicacy has not prescribed silence to those Sovereigns with respect to the internal uflsirs of France question, I am aware, is embarrassing, but it applies most forcibly to my subject, and points out to the people the absolute necessity of their counteracting every conspiracy, every attack on their legitimate right% by combinations of equal force with that of their hereditary enemies.—Your very able and judicious Correspondent, Mr. Csriff. LoreT, in your Paper of the 7th instant, has most admirably defined the ad so iit;fves and disadvantages to a nation from an lie rrilitary Nobility.—llis arguments are nitatiswerab!e ; nor is he less correct ire stating, that a Republican form of Government is the best adapted for the hap piness of mankind, but that, unfortunately, it is only adapted for small States, uncorrupted by the influx of wealth, from extensive commerce, and in love wills a simplicity of manners.—All this is un questionably true; but whatever nu t> b., the passion of the present day for a monarchical government, and however averse men may be to renounce long established habits and prejudices, an attempt to esta blish an absolutely hereditary authority in the reign ing dynasties, independent of the people, may pos sibly give birth to other sentiments, and force man khd to recur to first principles. In that case every difficulty will be temnsed—great empires may be split and divided into Cantons—motrarr by give place to federative gcvernirents, and America and Swit zerland become examples to tie insulted and op pr.-.s,ed notions of Europe. If these reflections bho ,, ld fall under the inspection of any of the Sow , - reigns on th- C, , ..,;tient, the admonifion may possi bly be of t t them—alt power under (leaven is vultret IWe. ~ f ol the hio ory of the present times Oft rs to !deir contemplation, that bayonets are rot always the test bet:A - Wes for thrones. ()LLB, 181 i REGULVS. To inn ROYAL. HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS or ANGOULEME. Antsi,—l have the honour of inclosing to your Roy al Highness a letter inserted in yesterday's STATEiNINN, concerning some vital interests of the French :11011archy, Inniely the succession in the il lustrious Family of Bounttox. Your Royal High. ness will allow, that the writer of this letter, ap. parent:) , a sensible man, has not sufficiently fathom ed this interesting and delicate question. For in stance, he confines himself to a general statement of your desire to become a metier, without specifying the sex of your much desired cit . :truing, forgetting that the Salic laa-s, established in France for cen turies, grant the succession of the Throne of Sr. Loves to heirs mule, to the exclusion of females. — Supposing, therefore, that it should please. Heaven to grant the prayer of all good and loyal French men, and to operate in your Royal Highness a mi raculous pregnancy ; that after solemn thauksgisings for such die int. favour, you should be delivered of a Princess instead of a Prince, then all these brilliant prospects of succession would prove idle and frus. trated, a circumstance which would again reduce your Royal House to the miseries of your present doleful and joyless barrenness, on account of such sad disoproihintent of the Bay Ghost, so fervently invoked on this occas i on . %Visiting to extricate your Royal Highness from this painful embarrassment, I most humbly and most respectfully beg to submit, that I have invented a safe and infallible remedy for begetting nude or female children, at the option of the parents, a re medy grounded on established and approved prin ciples of medicine, anatomy, and physiology, and demonstrated by fifteen years experience. 1 aas confident that the superior mind of the lle- I rouge of Bourdeams despises the sneers and oljec lions of prejudice, originating in fake delicacy, likely to be started against the adoption of my system, ' which alone can secure to the 'Throne of France an heir as vigorous as the boasted King of Rome during the late usurpation. Am - aitiog your further commotals on the subjact of an invention so interesting to all Crou.ned Beads, and the Nobility and Gentry in general, which has already engaged the attention of a Prince of the illustrious and enlightened liquae of , I have the honour to be, with the most profound re spect, Madam, your Roval Highness's most obAlient and most humble servant, Lotaitta, oct. 13, 1813. LU CR ETIUS. It k ,nid the PISINCE itMS sent a pack of hounds to old BLUCHER. Ilis Royal llighoehs would hate bet ter consulted the moral% and tasie of the man by sending Nat a pack of cards and a bottle of brandy. To THE EDITOR OF rna STATESMAN. columns of the Times Newspaper have of late been so charged with scurrility and low abuse, that its Editor appears to have takmi up his resi dence in Billingsgate, and to " lice, move, and hare his being," only amidst the fil►h and garbage produced in that foul hotbed. This unhappy and pitiable condition has already exci►ed the notice and called forth the censure of almost every public wtitPr, and I should net babe deemed it necessary to occupy a line of your Paper on the subject, bdt from a fear that the habit will become SO inveterate that the conduct of private inditiduals, as well as public measures, will come in for a share of the Editor's ribaldry. This fear has been octiasioned by the perusal of ti paragraph in the limes of yesterday, respecting the 1 Mayor of Queenborough, in Kent ; a paragraph which appears to me to contain as foul a calumny as ever tins penned, and affecting the character riot merell• of the individual in question, but of the Ma. gistraty in general. Were the story there told of Mr. litigators tree, no person, who had the least pre tensions to delicacy or humanity, would ever again be seen in his company, and the inhabitants of Queeuttorough would consider themselves disgraced by his residence among them. In fact s , :ch a circum stance w outd render the optics of Mayor forever disre petable; nor would any Gentleman chose toitake its duties sit rot bins. or to have his name to,socl sted with it, evi is were the title " Lire to be piefixed.— , Doubtless NI r. NI A 1 Olt it ill show that he has sufii , dent spirit to repol is foul an attack on his character, aid to convince those who elected him to the office he fills, that he is not unworthy their choice, by en-' te,isig the lists with this bless% st Editor, slot by a controti;ction in the columns of Lis ownipollotesi and pollutieg Piper, nor by callie,4 him into the field of I glory and honour, but by an action iss his Majesty's Corset of King's Bench. If ever a case came before that Court, in which a Defendant merited its visita-d lion in the shape of a verdict for heavy damages, this surely is ono. While, however, the paragraph its question forms a wicked libel on a respectable individual and a Ma gists ate, it hears honourable testimony to the clot rade, s of the rest of the inhabitants of govenborough, a. men and as Christians; and especially it records a fact which adds a laurel to the blow of every soldier' in the --- regiment, more honourable than ' those which were won by the corps which was most closely engaged with the enemy on the plains of Wa Moo. ! I trust his Royal Highness the Commander in Chief will not suffer that regiment to go without some special mark of his approbation of their truly honourable conduct on this occasion ; and were I possessed of the means, every man amongst them should receive a gratuity of 51. for so nobly rejecting the temptation of ss. held out to them (at least said to be so by the Tidies), to dishonour their ono individual characters, the army in general, and the King and c,,un try,wllose servants they are. It is impossible. Ur. Ent roe4 for me to find words to el press the high opinion I entertain of these bravefellows, w ho hare shown that though they are paid for defending their fellow zees, even at the point of the bayonet, they are not destitute of humanity, and can disdain to accept money for exerci.ing the office of the lowest wretch in any country—that of haNtnan. Unworthy, in deed, must that man he in whose mild such an Ora could, for one moment, be haihoured, as that of re. goestitig a soldier to indict the torture of t he lash on an Englishman, at a time when Nlembers of the Le gislature have just succeeded in abolishing it as re : sp-cis himself. Let me remind you, Mr. Ent volt, that these men had a strong, temptation held out to them : the sum of sa. would, probably, have made many a poor fellow in that regiment comparatively hat~py; but I trust they wilt not lose by giving effect to the virtuous indignation which would rise in each man's breast at the degrading proposition. A sub. scription ought immediately to be made for them; and I doubt not the Editor of the Times will nut only in sert the list of subscriptions gratis, but will himself largely contribute on the occasion, and " press" his readers to follow his example. I have to apologise for detaining your Readers so long from something better worthy their perusal ; and am Your most humble servant, day's bin, Oct. 11. A. M. fluitct..titV INn SU ProsED MI;It OF . —The inha. biiantsof the parish of Mar) -le- Bonne, hare 1/PPli in considerable alarm since Thursday last, in cot►se quence of a report being in circulation, that a nornan and girl, left in care of the house, No. 19, Foley. place, had been murdered. The house in question was fitted up last spring as a 1°4;114- house, and was soot, after taken by a family who were little known in the neighbourhood; a few weeks back they went into the country, and since that period, the trades. men, &c. had no communication with the house, but an elderly woman and a girl were occasionally seen there, who were supposed to be left in the care of the house. Last Thursday morning the area gate and kitchen shutter were observed broken, and on further examination it was found that all the fur. niture was taken away, even the Venetian blinds were taken from the windows, the persons before alluded to were also missing, and have not since been heard of. Hence it was inferred by some of the neighbours that they were murdered, and their bodies carried away by the robbers. The immense sums daily received and expected front the ri-derant Bottapae tette Princes, to be vested in our Funds, will readily account for the rise or rather recovery of Stocks, for we can •ee nu reason why Consols, which trete at 79., when in a state of warfare, should fall to 5G now we et•joy universal Peace; except it was to enable Mr. Bicir to contract with Government for the Three Fifty Thoucatol Pound and Four Tit Felt Thousand Pound Prizes,&c. at that low price which gives to Purchases iu this Lottery all the advantage of the ri:e in Stocks above 56, with the option of receiving the t aloe in Motley, if they prefer it, however high the Stocks may l.s; and (tom the appearance of the market we should not be surprised to see Consols at 70 before the 7th of November, on which clay all the Capital Prizes may be drawn. DRURYLA . NE THEATRE: , Yesterday it meeting of the Proprietors or the New Diory-lane Theatre, took place at the Crotare and Anchor. . On the motion of Mr. P. MOORE, The Earl of Esscx was called to the Chair. The Noble Chairman having called the attention of the l'roprietors to the business of the meeting, Mr. P. Moons stated, that six vacanci , s had oc curred in . the General Committee, and the first In.si. ness of the Meeting would be to ill ~p those sAcati. cies. He then nominated Mr. Dent and Lord Byron; who were both unanimously re.elected. On Mr. Brand being nominated, a rather lorig and. uninteresting conversation ensued, on the subject, of attending the meetings of the Committi e, and the use and influence of certain of its Mem tint s. In thii conversation Mr. COCKER, Mr. D. KINNAIRD, Sir ,T. l'otTolir, and Mr. PERRY took part. Mr. Brand ! was then re-elected, as was also Colonel M . Malion ; ' and after a few observation , : of no importance, Mr. Ricarilo nod Mr. I'. Gte , Erell were elected Members of the General Committee, making up the total num ber of vactocies. i The CHAIRMsV then prepovcd the Auditors fek the ensuing year. • , Mr. D. litxts slap said, as there had been some inclination manifested, to elk; rife into the c:laracters of the persons nominates, he a 'sited to say, that the first rntler:'ati named as auditor, was J. Ilasier, Eq. who had been hied to the law, and had since been connected with the rropertc, is sue h a mauler as to command the gratitude of a:1 those inter sled in it ; and the second was Itichttrd Nilsen, Esq. also in the law, and knottn to almost every one io a way advattingeoui. Those gentlemen were then unanimously elected. ! The Noble CitAlastAN slid, the nest duty would he to submit to ac Proprirters the state cf the ac• cOunts of the entice' tr. The statement was then read by Mr. K!NINAIRD. It began 11) advertinA to the loss !-ustsined in the death of Mt. Whitbiesd, and cookitlersd,ll:4t respect fur his memory could not be better expressed than by followi.tg the course tie would have pursued under similar circumstatt:es, by laying before the Pro. p:ietors a fair statement of the actual situation ut the concern. The Sub-Committee had first to sate, that there would be no dividend for the last season; but this would not operate as a disappoititment In any of the Proprietors, as the most gloomy results hid been anticipated from rumours which had been long in circulation. The period had ti ow arrived when all the original expenses and cl rims mip,ht be considered as liquidated, and the Committee was in a situation to state the results, and to enable the Proprietors to form a judgment for the future. . 1 The statement then goes into a very minute detail of all the financial relations of the properly, the lean: log features of which, both expenditure and receipt, rue as follow : For liquidating the old claims, and obtaining pas tents, licence:, &c. as estimatcd, 143,9351. This, to gether with the expences of Acts of Parliament and either incidental matters, really amounted to 167,9801: being an excess of 2.1,0151. The building bad been estimated at 125,0001.; but eaclosite of alterations, it had cost 117,3431. being an excess of 22,3131. T., purchase the furniture and necessaries of tlin Theatre 25,0001. had been allovrefl; but on this item there had been an excess of 10,6151. The property and old materilis had been estimated at a I!igher suin they had re:lised ; they had been turned into tnattey, and the lISSWS had faliew b.•low tt e estimate 10,0001. Thew hole of these stHo• roomed an aggre grte exeess of expenditur?, amounting to 68,2 t This sum had been virtly liquidated to the amount of f,5,5651. by the sale of p iri.te hose: ; in consequence of u hit i tl.ere was a diminution of Mutual income to the amount of 3i:001. t'er annum. The proveny vested hi the concert; wits ns lows:---The estate, patent, a:ttl licence, ss hich had been estimated in the first It-port at 90,0001., had cost t`25,7451.—The buthiing and cal ; culated at 150.0901., had cost 183,2611.—The value of the new renteis' annuities via + 70,0091., so that the total value given fur the present property was 379,0291. This sum bid been raised in the followire min. Der :—Shares, bonds, rind private boxes, 297,47 W. —\lr. %la , sh's annuli y, 3:/001.—New renters' annul. ties , 7000 0 1 . —BuLtilce bupplied by t he annual receipts to the original expet.ces, 40501. The aggregate re.. eipfs of the Theatre for the !eat three years had been 222 9161., while the azgregate expenditure for , the same period had been '2 12,1921. leaving an Px• cess of expenditure of 19,5871.; this, with the sum as balance of 80501. made '.'7,6371., beltic the actual debt of the property. There had, indeed, been advanced from the annual receipt 17,5001., but of this 90001. hued been r. raid by the sale of two of the new boxes, and the other remained unliqui• dated. The Committee felt it necessary to inform the. Proprietors, that they had receiver! no Report for the I ist year ; in the absence of such a Report, the best possible information would he afforded. The expenses of management for t tie two last yearn had been 58,1961. The receipts of the season of tno hundred nigh's hail been rsti:nated at 6il,ooat, and or this sum the 'Janney liken at ►he doors was co►nputetl at 59,0f:0. r!is part, however, had ac.; toally exceeded the est:mate, and was 63,0001. and notwithstanding the abstraction of 30001. per 111111n:71 by the sale of pirate boxes, the whole rereip!s were a little greater than tie evirnate. The mutes contemplated this with satistrctino, and they hirl no reason to doultt that the receipts would bet equal in future. On the whole three years there, lied only been i•lsi of from 3ln 40001. after paying , . the ft% peoce rauet and '24.00th. divid et o g , The Committee a mint, tired, Coat tittt!er the no* me- tingomelit, they had MIT 'ay I). , ett alio to reduce the expenditure bti more than 30001. and tney 104)kril forbsattl to turilv•r rea: , ttian, as well as to all that success Ithirti the zeal nail hearty co-fp-Woof! of the Nlaingers and i.e:fortit-rs were calculated to insure. The Crimniiitee convldered that if they had not met the wishes of the Prnprietors, by declaring a dividend, they had at least done their duty in af. fording a fair statement of the situation of the pro. vorty. The Report then went to advise discontinue ing the practice of printing tl:e stlteme n t, of their concerns ; and Mr. Kinniud eigni6e.l that the • .• • 1 ti t. • I I i s h 1 1 i . i. .1. I 1 t ' ;,I -, t. ' t , . I . / _ 4 ' 1 c - . 77 ~.