The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-07-18 00:00:00

11 1 W" that alluded to by the Noble Lord, passages appeared calculated to inflame the public oiled, and even going the tragtis of encouraging the destruction of witnesses. He most sincerely hoped that her Majesty would come est of the investigation as pure as her warmest friends "mid wish her to appear. He most sincerely hoped Viet if she should appear to have been persecuted, pu sisbnient sad disgrace might be beeped on her perse cutor? But all be asked, and all that he detnanded, cis impartial justice ; and that no means of intimida• tioa should be resorted to, either within those walls o r elsrwhete ; because any such proceeding would b ar e a teadency to prevent the great public Authori t.es from fulfilling the sacred duty entrusted to them. Lord HtIiILTON explained. li r . S. WonTLaT declared, that it was a great re lief to him, and must have been a great relief to the lbw, and even to the Hon. and Learned Dentleman w ipe d, to hear the satisfactory explanation of the s o bk L o rd. He hoped this circumstance would be a 14 ,,,, e to the public and to the House, and that they „AM gaud against the attempts which were constantly os kiag to &lade and deceive, and to create a false ',remiss on this subject. He most conscientiously believed that the Hun. and Learned Gentleman would wildlife brought the present motion forward if he b ol d hews the facts ; bat it certainly appeared front the Kohie Lord's statement, that either the Queen, or los elady about her Majesty, must hats known that holsioug was sot entitled to the plate in question, ai drarerisre that the claim was made only to agitate sa d lame the public mind. Mr. Wauseon said, that it was not competent to the Crews to dispose of any property in the custody o; the Lord Chamberlain, as the property of the Crown, wittiest the sanction of its responsible advisers. To saws. for a moment that it was a personal present trom b s late Majesty to the Princess of Wales was a ssep s this wholly unsupported by facts. When the piste was delivered, in an entry (as described hr lb Noble Friend) was made by the Lord Chamber lain, that it was his Majesty's plate, lent for the specific use of the Princess of Wales in Kensington Palate. In all cases it was merely an accommodation suited to the specific residence granted by the King for the time. A personal present from her Majesty it mild not be, unless it had been purchased out of the Pciry Parse. Dr. Le m I N GTON was persuaded that, after the various 1 observations which had been levelled at him in the course I of the prescat discussion. the House would have the can dour to indulge him for a few minutes. It had been said I that. motions of this description were made for the sole i purpose of inflaming the passions of the people. and nciting out of doors as agitation extremely inimical to impartial justice. He (Dr. Lnshington) declared, that if he had known any better way than by an appli ratios ta that House, of securing the object in view, he would not have resorted to such an application; for as far as his humble advice might influeuce her Majesty, her Majesty should Inver intrude on the notice of the V,except in a case of deep and unavoidable necessity. wi e s decidedly of sp inier that her Majesty bad not imperluated from his Majesty's Ministers the liberal and migrairmr., +hick , as their Soiresuph. she • *stance of this be world call to the recasellus of the House. and he would appeal to the justice mid miser of the House if it did slut bear him out is the resnarlt which he had just made. The Horse would resseribes, that when her Majesty wrote to the hobk Lprel at the head of the Admiralty, requesting that a yacht might be provided to convey her Majta•y to this comitn, that Noble Lord simply stated, in his answer, that Majesty was out of town, and therefore that he could sot reply to her Majesty's request. Now be (Hr. Lushington) said this, that when the Queen of the country made such as application, it was the duty of the ruble Lord at the bead of the Admiralty to go, whithersoever ids Majesty might happen to be at the time, and without delay, to comumaicate her Majesty's request to the King. When her Majesty received a note of that description, so worded—when site saw that her request was neglected, and that she was com pe,ied to take refuge in a common packet-boat, it was certainly no great encouragement to her Jla jes•)• to and* to his Majesty's Ministers again on any snineet connected with her comfort and accommodation. Whatever might be the facts as to the plate being locally snacked, and possessing au irremovable character, it was lot to be 'opposed that her Majesty could possibly be asare of them. This was still wore apparent from the eircnnistsoce mentioned by the Noble Lord, namely, that iu ISI4 the Qtreen sought to take the plate with her to the Continent, which showed her conviction that it was bet property ; and that when she was abroad she again applied (or it, which proved that her conviction en the subject remained unchanged. It was not, then fore, just to suppose that lie hiol been emplo ed to ad vocate a claim which was not believed to be hi traill aid justice. The Right Honourable tilminlest tot Chichester had stated, that it was not in the power of the Crown to grant such plate as that which was Ile subject of this motion. That was a fact which he Leshington) would sot dispute. Bat would the Right on. Omdurman say that it was not usual for the King to Wake presents oat of the Civil List 1 lie (Dr. Lushiugton) believed that It was very usual; and how, therefore, could It be expereed that bee Majesty should be acquainted with fie roam himalldies of the subject? Helmeted, that what "lst might be thew formalities. the House would agree with btu. Thalia subdue* bee Majesty's request could not, with " regardrtocli bera lf and 111 x. Hcrctstxsox elPlained- Tim stones was then put, sad negatived without a division, ADJOURNMENT OF Till HOUSE.—Lord CAset.n. alum gate nodes that he would to-morrow more, that, at Its rising, the House should adjourn to Monday neat. NEW POST -OFPICE.—Sir W. CunTte brought pp t:le Report of the Committee on the New Post-Office. C it.vene stated the hard case of an individual, Mr. August.:l Brows, whose peouotoos bed been destroyed tar the purpose of meting the intended edMee, but who had bars "Able. 'Wheel* be had petitioned Parliament on the Abject, to oblate the compensation to which he was un doubtedly entitled. Mr. P. Moons supported Mr. Brown's claim. If there were time (which there unfortunately was not), be !mid more to refer the Report to the re-tvonsideralloo of tlr ommittee, that they might comprehend in it a notice of kr. Brown's petition, w they had been Instructed to e•ati4ler. The Comoiltid th too were onsotrooos In favour of Mr. v "r". 4 risks; but the dillealty was, by whom he was to be Mid —the city, or the Treasury tHe should advise that emirates to proceed against the City fur the amount of his e ezik i . Sir r W. L as Chairman of the Committee, Ira..? bound t o ma k e t h e R epor t w hi c h b e b a d b roug ht u p. 3 1• cheerfully, however, allowed the validity of Mr. Brown's elai s, and ihoe his ' fellow citizens had been highly to llr e 0 1 the ;oboe. Blame was likewise imputable else " We. Between the two Mr. Brows was the *utterer; bet Zia *edemas opposite woaid bring In a Bill to 60 , it should have his cordial seppurt. Mr. CALTaar declined doing this. The Bill, the Ib bort ssfavalch had just beets brought up, although a Pri- ~,.. THE rate Rill. had cost 19,000 i. ; that espenee world make ratbek too large a hole in the V7AIUIM. which was the extant of Isis friend's claim. Ile would no doubt, obtala puttee is ems offset was. The Report was then ordered to be priatad,.. 7 Adjourned. FRICF. OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONK O'CLOCK. Hank Stork 1 India Stock S per Cent. Red. 09111 Ditto Bonds 19s. 995. put. 3 per Ct. Cons. Mitt Old Annuities 31 per Cent. 714 El. Rills td. 4s. bs. pm. 4 per Cents. 8: &I Ditto Cum. I Is. pm. b pr Ct. Nay. 104 Omelets Left Ann. IS 1.1 0 Con. for Ang. On 09 Imp. 3 per Cent. Ann. 084 Lott. Tickets a tit ktattifmatt: " TIIR /RIM* STATIONAN" IA ipiromPolurres WITIII " TUN +111.1111." LON I) 0 : TrZIDIT EVIININO, JULY IS, MIL THE FUNDS.-Thig being settling day at the Stuck Exchange, we do nut hear up to the present hoar (one o'clock) of *ay failures having taken place. The Funds through the whole of the Account have been of rather a stationary description, and the fluctuations have not been tuore than from to I per cent. It is expected that after this days business the Rands will improve. French Papers to Sunday last have arrived this morning. The Chamber of Peers assembled on the 14th inst. The business gone into was unimportant. By an article dated Madrid, July 3, it appears that there have been two preparatory meetings of the Mena ben of the Cortes ; a third was enpected to take place on the 6th inst. and Congress to be opened on the 9tli, with proper solemnities.—French Funds, Five per Cents. 76 fr. 25 c.; Hank Actions, 1375 fr. New York Papers have arrived this morning, fr,►m which the following are extracts (rams TUB PIIIIL&DFLP1114 GAllerfr, lOTM MIL) Tito fbilowiag is this most correct information fro• the Spanish Main : Cienoral Meatillo, with 1,1100 British troops. and IMO Creoles that had joiciod him, had returned to Vslllo Depart, and marched to Cheragnans, to form a junction with the army of COW men commanded by Urgers! Urdanota. who was in Laois* Zilpah's'. The army of the West was at Banco before Nienpoz. and another divisioo was oil Its march to Maracaibo. The squadron of Admiral Brion 11/114 all in good order, laying at Rio de la fiche, with 8 moats' provisions and 5.0011 staid of arms on board. Cobowel Pa ditto marched on the oth April from Rio de is Hacks. with 400 Creoles and 100 English troops. to join OM. Montille. PRINCE Or WALrs 1111.• ND, J• N. 11.—The epidemic hes et length made its appearance amongst : during the last week the deaths of more than DU nithes hare been reported. The motion of Dr. LI:SIIINUTON relative to the 9er- , vice of plate presented by his late MAJESTY to the PRINCEIS of WALES was negatived without a division. It appears to be usual at the Royal Palaces to have services of plate attached to them as apart of their fur witacwer.sl when her protest Ilisrtirre, then reelects, of Watas,went to reside at the Palace of Kensington, the plate inquestion was prepared for her use by his late M Slisres order, but still considered, it is now contended, as the property of beCrow n. Her Ms" afire, however,had regarded it not as a loan, but as a gift. Having been manufactured by the corder Jf the late Kisco, under her inspection, and according to her taste, and she being totally unapprised of the peculiar tenure on which she held it, her Ma had actually treated it as her own ; and though she had transmitted it to the office of the LUND CII tIIIISRLA IN, she never had conceived that in resigning its puswssion. or removing from a Royal mansion, she was romancing a property with which she had been invested. Little did she think that rightde petled on the accidental circumstances of platy, sad that in being denied accommodation in a Palace, she was deprived of her claim to the ap. pendage in question. When under the impression which her his's:eye had always entertained Con. cernin:! it she now renews her claim, insult is added to the injury she receives, by the imputation of her persecutors, that the application is mule fur the purposes of irritation. What blindness, what hypo crisy, what insolence in the pretext! By what means has the public mind heen irritated and indignant ? By what, but that vindictive spirit which is manifest through the whole of the transaction in question, and appeared from the commencement of the series that has been pursued ? What arts were used to congregate the population of the country on the shores of Kent, and on all the route to London, whets he MAJKSTT'S return was known ? What bet the arts of her persecutori themselves that roused a spirit of resentment through the land, that pervades every feeling and independent breast, and that will never be abated while the persecu tion lasts, or while an injured and insulted Wags re quires the protection of a generous people. It is understood that the Royal Brothers of the Kum are ranch averse to the proposed divorce of the Qu sax, as well as inimical to the manner in which that measure is attempted to be carried into effect by the Ministers. It is asserted that the Duke of Ironic has had repeated interviews with his MAJZSTT, for the pur pose of endeavouring to arrest the proceedings, and to bring about an accommodation of the differences un- happily subsisting between their 31astsms. There is some reason for attaching credit to the latter statement, from the frequent visits which are announced of his Royal Highness the Duke of Yolk to the Kits, and theeffect the projected Divorce must in all probability produce in changing the order of succession ; for should his MajesTY marry again there can be little doubt that the union would be productive of offspring, who would succeed to the Throne, to the exclusion of the present Heir Apparent. The Princes, therefore, and particularly the Duke of Yuma, are peculiarly in terested in the important question pending between the Kite aad Wart. In retard to his Mastery's own private , sentiments ou the subject of the investiga tion, we have heard, and can assert, from good autho rity, that the Ktso has left the manner of her Ma• rv's trial entirely to his Ministers, and all that he has requested has b.-en that the allegations against the Queen's conduet should be prosed, either true or false, that she msy either enjoy the honour to which she lays claim, or clear and valicient grounds may be shown for authorising a rsfusaL It is stated, on the same good authority, that his MAJRIIITY, immediately on his accession to the Throne, expressed his wish to render this justice to the Quiets, and to tindieate his own character in the important relation of Sovereign and husband ; but that his advisers, who have shown themsilvez in nowise averse to the cruelest mode of effecting a divorce, sire:mm.ly resisted the Royal do sire for an open itiqury, well knowing the risk they would incur of losing their places, should the allega tions on which they relied be proved false and ground less ; and rather than hazard the result of a trial on their Administration and their beloved sinecures, they would have granted her M AJISTY any pecuniary amount she could have wished, to remain on the Continent, whatever distresses might aMict the people of this country from the unjn•t and extravagant waste of the national resources. Her 1111 AJ MITT, however, by her firmness and prompt rejection of their pecu niary offers, evinced that she was without apprehen sion of the consequences of an investigation into her conduct, and that she was more solicitous for the establishment of her innocence and honour than of enjoying an iguominiona splendour, obtained by adding to the buithene of an already too mach oppenbed and impoverished people. It Is the victory herVasaser bas already acquired over the prohibitory and corrupt influence of selfish and time-serving partizans, which has excited the enmity that seeks to effect her degrada tion by machinations that will not bear the light, and by methods of procuring conviction hitherto unknown TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS LEOPOLD, PRINCE OF SAXII-00113111W. fits- - -4 slide use of the freedom, as an honest Rignehmen, to address your Royal Highness on the 14th of last mouth, regarding your waist of proper feeling towards her Majesty the Queen. lam happy to say, that the expression which I pre to my spon taneous feelings has met with the approbation of every well-regulated heart ; and I am not without hops, that it has operated in some measure nom peva-- llthottgh nut in the way precisely that your atonal** was called to. lam induced to believe this from tateusent made by Lord Castlereagh in the House Commons, to the effect that your Royal Highness hasl taken upon yourself the charge of the maintesaise and education of the infant of her Royal Highnen t►e Duchess of Kent ; and this was " landed to the skies," as a very great and a very generous act of your Royal Highness, that you should, out of your own pocket, be at t►is expense. 1 confess I see nothing more in this than I witness every day of my life, in the tower classes, w►o work hard for, and earn their Income. las 111 to be extremely sulTicions of these generous kind of sets iu Princes, especially when so much is said about them. I look upon them in general as pretty little traps to catch a momentary applause from the vulgar ; but they do not succeed very well in these days; for these vulgar people happen to be furnished wit► suc► excellent eyes, that they see a little further than is de sirable by the higher classes ; at the same time that 1 they admit your generosity, they inquire into year to the practice of civilized judicature. justice, aud this instantly mills to their mind your ne tt appears, from the correspondence which passed glect and inattention, not only towards her Majesty. between Lord Ltvraecom, in the name of the P111,14:11 but towards the memory of her deplored daughter. ReGINT, and her M LUISTT whilst Palaces., of Watts, As a matter of feeling, the people of this country in 1014. that the IiItOVNT and his Ministers were i will be shocked to learn, that yon have not ins aware of the Plummets intention to travel into Italy, bibed front the example of that high spirited Pria snit perhaps into Greece, in search of an agreeable re- eels any of her notions, and indeed acts, of gene sidence, previously to her leaving this country ; and rosity and humanity. She visited the fathers, and that her Royal husband, by a written document, left mothers, and children, of poor people around Liam her entirely to her own discretion in visiting whatever mont ; she devised improvements in and about her places she thought fit to resort to, and to select her residence, and paid her workmen liberally fur their abode wherever she pleased tJ reside. It was even labour; but bow mean and narrow the boundaries expressly mentioned in the agreement, upon the faith of your soul must appear compared with her's, when it of which her Royal Highness consented to go abroad is known that your Royal Highness has actually made " for souse yearst,•' that her apartments in Kensington a deduction of two shillings per day from that which Palace should be preserved for her use, and that of she paid to these poor people ? How does this accord her suite, in the same manner as she had occupied with that generosity which my Lord C. trumpets forth them, including, it might he snpposed, the use so loud ? I will not say that it is a robbery of these poor of the plate which the late KING presented to people, but I may venture to say, that itis not justice to her Royal Highness. The Princess, of course, expect- the memory, the feelings, the *salons, and the wishes ed that she should at least have one becoming residence of that amiable Princess, who " did good by stealth, to return to, and little contemplated, we dare say, at and blushed to find it fame." Had it pleased Heaven the time when Mr. CAN m.yo was cajoling her into a l to have spared her to this day, hew would she have reliance on the sincerity of the professions made to her i blushed at your neglect and want of feeling towards by the very men who are now persecuting her, that her insulted and persecuted mother ! Here is scope out only, would Kensington Palace be withheld, and the for just and generous actions, worthy of a Prince. meanest and dirtiest quibbles be adopted to deprive her How noble it would be for your Itoyal Highness to say. of her plate, but that she should be interdicted from its this simple Why—" The mother of my dear and la treading British ground by the heaviest threats of muted wife is accused of offences ; she is without a punishment, though elevated to be the QUFEN of these! amoral friend and protector ; nay, be who should be realms. If, as proved by the correspondence, the cots-) one is against her ; her accusers are also her jolter: seat of the Niece ItestreT was fully given to 'Ter nothing but conscious innocence and fortitude trona Royal Highness to % isit whatever country she pleases', ' Heaven itself could enable her to stand up against all and fix her residence wherever she chose, with what this ! She must be innocent ; at least as a man, and justice is her travelling from place to place made a her Son-in-law, I know it is my duke to believe ber so. complaint against her Instead of leading the lat all events, until she be (if it can be possible) found Roue life imputed to her "in various parts of Europe, - I guilty upon clear and gout/ evidence." What can we find the deserted Princess performing the duties of induce your Royal Highness not to reason has, and virtue and benevolence wherever she went. At every place not to act accordingly ? Is it because the King is a she visited during her travels, her benevolence seems party in the question ? If so, I tell your Royal High to have been on the alert to seek and relieve her fellow 'less very frankly, that you degrade yourself as a man. creatures. In fact, the period of her long exile has you forfeit your independence as • Prince, and you been spent in privation- and exclusion to herself, and will sink in the estimation of that liberal and co in constant acts of liberality to others, her chief lightened people, from whose industry you extract plpasure and employment having been to distribute i ..E50,000 per annum, without making a• y retorts, or Islittey to the pour, to liberate slaves and prisoners fur showing any deference to pablic opinion, by extending ADM, and to bestow benefactions upon orphans and your band to protect, or opening your heart to pity a *blows. There arc virtues Which it may be criminal female exposed to every species of insult, degradation, In the eyes of some persons to exercise ; but it will not and abuse, both in words and deeds. If your Royal lb, adduced as a fault against this persecuted female, Highness read this, I dare say you will act the part of who has proved herself so worthy of a Crown, by those a Prince mighty well ; you will doubtless clap your band who esteem virtue and detest vice aud extravagance, to your sword; but set me advise your Royal Highness that she has nut lavished her uteaus on courtly sycu- to clap your hand to your heart, and say, how is it here. pbants, and spurned at the distresses and the claims that I have nut one impulse of nature in me to afford all of humanity. )es, this for!orn, this calumniated the comfort, counseli, and protection, in my power to Princess, who might have remained in the haunts of ,my suffering mother-in-law ? When you have drawn haturious sloth, has voluntarily incurred toil and breath enough to answer this, you may draw your trouble, and danger, to be the tuinister of relief to the sword, and make such use of it as virtue, honour, and hopeless slave----she has sat amidst the ruins of cities ' justice, only shall point out.--I am, nay it please sod nations which were onee gr e at and prosperous your Royal Highness, your must bumble servant, us ours; she has no donbt marked, and moralized' Leadua. July 17. IMO. I. K. H. weer the CRAMS of their decline; she has seen the desolation of Jerusalem, and sighed over the lonely aneattusents of the mighty PALMYRA : whilst the Princes of the earth were wallowing amidst corruption sad licentiousness, thoughtless of the perishable na ture of all mortal grandeur, and deaf to the cries al distress which the iron hand of their extortion and power were exciting around thew. Which of the Queens or England shall we compare to this perse cuted claimant of the British throne, whose just right is now attempted to be set aside by a Bill of Pains and Penalties, inconsistent with the practice of British law, and at war with every established principle of justice ? SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT AT TATTERSALL'S, Ju Lit tr. The brig William and Matthew, Captain Evans, from Loudon. was wrecked on the night of the 12th instant, on Cape Negro; and what adds to the misfor tune is, that C. Winslow, Esq. the principal owner, in his anxiety to reach the shore, was drowned, with one of t►e seamen. The following is an extract of a letter from the Agent to Lloyd's, at Gibraltar. dated June Y6:---- " By the arrival of the United States' vessels of war, Peacock and Shark, from Leghorn and Algiers, we learn that information was given to them at Leghorn nineteen days ago, by the American Consul, of as Algeria* squadron being at sea, consisting of two sloops of war. two brigs, one schooner, and one row-galley. and that war had bee. declared by the Regency against Tuscany. The Peacock and Shark went in consequence to Algiers, and ascertained this information to be tree. bat could get no tidings of the course the squadron took, although they beard.] every vessel they met on their way down ►ere. " It is tie opinion of the American Officers that the operation's of this force are directed against Tanis. with which State the Algerian are in hostility. " I am mach iaclined, however, to think that their plans are directed igainet t►e weakest of the Italian Slates, and that we shall shortly ►an of rianierous captures." D0NC.407101 Si'. ',RUSS. 8 to 1 apt Lent Exeter's Athenian 10 to I Rest Arbutus. In ‘Veltor. d. Viet* 10 to 1 apt Mr. Loftus's Woodbiae IS to I apt e. by Welton, d. Lisette lOU to 6 apt Lord Pitswillimes b f. Ropoemis DISRBY, 1001. 100 to 0 asst a by Election 100 to 6 apt c. by Walton or Orville, oat of Crumble • 100 to 5 asst Mr. Wilson's e, out of Cowslip A HSTRACT Or BAST INDIA CONDISILCS —The alum rate value of goods (the prodnee-of the But ladies and China) imported front the East Indies, was, la 1818, 8,693,0631.; in 1819, 7,832,9651.; and export ed, in 1818, 3,990,1001.; in 1819, 3,600,433/. ' The aggregate value of goods imported from China was, in 1818,3,598,291 F.; in 1619, 4,256,9511. ; and exported, in 1818, 862,4021.; is 1919, 791,9781. Total value of India and China import., in 1818, 12.291,4541.; in 1919, 12,099,91 61. g and *sputa, la 1818, 4,852,5121.; in 1819. 4,392.441/. The total value of exports, from lima Britain to tho Ent ladies and China, in 1618, 6,889,8 1 t7/. ; in 1819, 2,953,8111. THE FOOT OUARDII.-.../1 paper of this noothe 11 011 1 fed the following statement of the misundendinding re ported to have take. place in a portion of . the ?int Regiment of Foot &karat :-.- .• We eve bappy to find, from eintherity. that no real ground existed for attributing Illesatiefoeties tp the llPlrstlto pewee of Foot awards. The tiresomeness Intl* gave rim to the amplossaat moneys that have gem abroad *a this saltjeet were simply as follows:—Phet of two amnposios, thoesh perfostly prepared for the parade, did ant Maned on seamen of a intsumeeption of the seder, eriefing from sons of the mea having previously solo dm the roil was Se he celled In the Borrea-reme. Nodiseeeteot wee menibensik • and they afterwards toned oat with Cite greatest ohnerity Iwhen ordered by the Adjutant." i ..• .., J F ~+ 1