The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-08-07 00:00:00

0• 0 • " - / JON THE 3T.4TE3M4N -NEP TO LORI) ELLEN :Olt. Mr 1 , 00 ,. —le these eventful times, when your a s a British Peer, has chosen to step for- M sa nction a mode of proceeding against your awl ", eta teat a novel description, and to give waded stactioa to the anomalous charges exhi oof 6,A whist her Majesty, containing, amongst other a we, that of having hired a servant who had been o wl, is a for station, it may not be thought ins ediaos to avert to your Lordship's newly acquiredl Mk law. then, that your Lordship's family had the l owest to be of the class of the Commoners of this g em seal your Moistness father, fr his high bp i sc eptirenseate, I presume, was elevated to the dig it/ of a Law Bann, by patent, conveying his title to cis lawfa heir, by virtue of which, your Lordship is htitkd * a seat In the House of Peers. !k ik". also, that notwithstanding your Lordship's * kid a salary of only 4,500/. a-year as Chief ja d e ., ke had the good fortune, by means of -the ap rada fns attacked to his office, to realise somewhere s u e t MANN. during the last twenty years. ao oddities to this, if I greatly err not, your Lord. oksegh a Peer, condescends most graciously at mat w eerve your country, in , the humble capacity k a t:loM the Court of King's Bench, which pro arm g olf about 30001. a-year, or the interest of s outwithout euctoachisg at all upon your Lord % q i i iity osbio time. throbs.% that your Lordship may, by Isrt, command leisure sufficient to read joker, I have ventured to address you, just to put the felleasg queries : &gist any twelve or fourteen persons, had it La co ssimpla ea to drive the King from his throne, and it that pages. conspired together, and agreed to appoint an agent to mace an offer of a larger revenue tens Meersty than is at present allowed by Parli seat, to induce him to renounce the Crown; and at the time time to threaten his Majesty, that if he did not amply with their offer, that they would imitating a alum ni prOsetution against him for adultery, as king in itself a crime, which "deeply affects the honour et the King and the dignity of the Crown," would set such a aniepleacy, consummated by the actual snout of such costliness, amount to an overt act of treason? If suck coadact woad be an overt net of treason, will yore Lordship have the condescension to explain, what differeace isi hew, or in reason, exists between sash a bribe sad threat tendered to the King or to the Queer, whose issue is heir appareat to the Throne, knowing as your lordship must know, that the law masa make soy reference in this decision to the pro bability of her Majesty having any future issue ? PHI LOLZGHS. HAYMARKET THRATR E. The manager of this theatre, with a laudable anxiety to meet the public approbation, has, since The Beggar's Were was laid aside, employed hinsielf in preparing fur the'eshilation of other pieces, which, we predict, ' will prove espial!? attractive. On Saturday last, The Juices Nlfe was performed In the finest style. The 11111.1114110"-ises saes sessaiase by Mr. C. MINOLIt, lit.Tainn, Mr. Jonas, and Mr. Cosmos. The "me K Raids followed, lu which Mies K. Coaas added soother karel to the wreath which her previoge pet. hamar* had aimaired. Nothing could surpass the pleasing manner is which this promising actress sae *siva the principal character. She executed the several airs in a most sweet and captivating style, presort:Bg all the beauties of the melodies, while she E aye °cushion troches of brilliancy that rendered toe whole the adajoratias and delight of the endless/. Prom this early specimen of excellent'', we thin,/ we may venture to hope that Miss Coast will speedily arrive at the highest point of her profession. We have seldom witnessed a theatrical career which com menced under more deterring prospects of success. 'I be whole of the amusements of the evening were ieeeived in the most favourable manner. The Address from the city of Canterbury was on Friday presented to her Majesty by Mr. Alderman Wand. Mr. Lathington, sad even Lord Clinton. the members for that city, had previously deeliaed pre wain it. es the plea that they wished to avoid prejadg- Mg the matters at lame. To this address her Majesty returned the Miming most grantees answer:— " To the Proamen sad Inhabitants of the Ancient mid iletrepolhott City and County of the City of Canter bury : 4 * bolas glowed with omotloos of gratitude when I read the bpi and atectleostit Address from the free men sad inhabitants of the modest sad metropolitan Oty &ad Gaiety of the sty of Castetbary. Their sea- Mimesis of Anodes coogratalatios apes my Teton' to inland, and if soothing elsatleisoco upon the heavy demsede allistiaas I have sistalasd: will be ludelibly leteriatad oa my memory through the agency of my Mart. " 1 at askew Mopped ., e Pier of Dever, after 1% 66111 .. Iry Westmont I had n on the than I irk that, It I W17 .- sallad by Ilse of a few. I was protected krille sympaibies of the law. My heart thrills with fteibt. a.d that Might is nstil with so small pow ties of gra/ad% whoa I reraatsst the tistrotedaess to my kommte which has bees to tudaresally amolfeated eine ar_ Mora. " I Le liaghmd with tearsof regret 1 but I no sooner ' saw its white ellts del limps the ocean, than I was tompowered with easstldw of joy. There, said I. if T y Ido JIM _ lad a Wage tam - dare. I shall at loam expeweitee ewes alma sod - / Isepport, Mier every attack 'apes say Imams j5. 6i , The warm alba thous of his Majestp's sa • Wreak made me ample compeasatims he the mallgalty of my adversaries. " WM* my aseasere Wend to load me with wvalth. ea amageo of &trivia/ me of homtar, my habitual dialatemsteinese, and my commious Worthy, made me sputa are plus lore. Illy moles have wept taught me. Got wealth Is desiniltio'whea it Is coupled with in famy. " The mann la wheel' the Mum of Loris Imo re jected myhe several reassaabla Petitioso. has omit me kel pity ratr than rommiamat. If the Ilawitatable Maw Mos of that *pourable Haw lima war maws ill as aped the rights of their Istrial gaols. thoi Fil lad that they have bows arenhealag their .wa. Their sighs I" klesperable from those of the Maaareity. lei the :grei !ha Woes are a part of oar kloasrehkal Cos . THE STATESMAN. SPORTING IN?RLLIGE.VCE. itiGHTON RACE.--41ATURIDAY, Ay.. 1. SWIRPITAITS OF TAM Tat LAST rim Lord kgreasones br. f. Caroline... Mr. Bouverte's eh e. Zadia H. R. 11. the Dake of York's br. c. by Harkasard iat WATIRLOO STAUB, WITH (Rigs. ADDS, ST TVS TOWN. TWO astkrs AND THUS OVARTIM. • Mr. Kiagston's Woevernsaas Mr. Turas?. br. f. Coral • MAIIDICAp SWRIPITAIIRS OF ligs HACH. WITH Sep •mmsm, FOR TIIR DIII. of Richmond's Roocesvallos Mr. Heatheote's Cardenio Mr. Northey's f. by Hadley I 3dr Mr. R. Walker's bl. f. Own II 6 $ Mr. M aplesden's eh. h. by Bobtail Mr. Pearce's Young Caroline f--- --.-- 3 3 dr FATAL AFFRAY AT GREE.VOCK. —aso.-- (PCRTII2II PARTICULARS.) A melancholy and disagreeable task has again de volved upon us. On Saterdar night (the 29th ult.) seven men belonging to the !Sib regiment, of which a Detachment is at present stationed herr, being then off duty, were drinking together at the quarters of two of the party, in a house in Shannan's Close, in be vici nity of the harbour. When in a state of intoxication, it appears that soma of them had sallied oat accedes ally to the street, with every disposition to indulge in the quarrelsome humour which intoxication had ex cited. la this state, the first person with whom they appear to have come into particular contact, was a sea man, named M'lntosh, who had joist left his lodgings adjacent, at the request of his landlady, felts, repose of ringing her its two pails of water, when the soldiers 4aiterupting Illus, began to use insulting and bestial language. To pacify them. Ili'l stash, coated thee into their lodgings, and accompanied them with his water pails, saying he would perhaps give them a tiram.l but left the hose immediately, without drinking with them. On coming to the street, he fell in with two or three of the soldiers at the door, who, as he thinks, mistaking him for one of two sailors with had previously been quarrelliog, knocked and boat him till he was insensible. 1114 about midnight. M'lntosh was carried free t6Ol to his lodgings, by some females who had sees Idlii thus maltreated. The soldiers continued in the die" swaggering alert, and seeking opportunity to Odle quarrel with any person who came in their way, ad daring them to fight; and not long after, three eta.* fell In with Robert Robertson, another seaman was returning home from visiting a friend in Le Close, and who was challenged in the same manner SS ill'lntosh. Robertson told them he did not wish to fight, and desired theme to return peaceably to their quarters. They immediately laid bold of him, dragged Ihis into the public boon kept by Alexander Cochrane, in Shannao's Chase, and which is directly beneath thq base is which they lodged. Here they hawked ewe, and beat their victim about the head sod face, with a asediestick, la a cruel manner, and but for the iates hems piths landlord and landlady, would have seed Me awash worse. The soldiers had meanwhile tie psw. test Interference from without, bolted the den * which the screams of the landlady bad brought lisle; her of parsons. who assailed it for the purpose of roe cuing Robertson ; end amongst others John M.Corquir dale, a pilot, who is also a special constable, and who by that authority demanded admittance. Abet the Anise time, Cochrane, the landlord, got out by a window, and ran to apprise tits guard and to oh. loast. tabs its assistance. While this was going on, the soldiers went up stairs to the lodgings of the two before mentioned, and being provided with upwards of one . hundred rounds of ball cartridge, they loaded tare bets, and 'teethes successively frees the window. Me ant Aar was Arad with *lnset no previous ease and took effecton Archibald Morrison, a young inunia, who was a mere lookor-os. and seeding at the bed of the Close abet twenty paces disease. It p astral-41*s lower part of the belly, and passed through his holy. Oa seeing him fall the persons assembled ne t the Immediately retreated. Unfortunately, k srev.ri Simpson, one of the Harbour watchmen, whose OAS was in the immediate ueighbourisood, little I ending the consequences, went up the lane, till right opposite, and In the most conciliatory language, entreated the soldiers Ito cease firing, assuring thesis that they would receive so molestation from without. One of them asked from the window, Who he was? to which be made loimedier sewer. adding that he had beau in the King's service as well as themselves, being as old mati-of-war's man. On this he was told, with a horrid oath, to begone, or they would shoot him dead, and in a moment the fatal weapon was levelled at him and discharged. He fell dead instantly. All this was the work cat a few minutes — and as weans' followed by a like catastrophe. Henn Pearson. wittier of the Harbour Police, who bad left his statue. is an alarm being given, swing from the bottom of the lase his comrade fall, exclaimed, •• will no one go forward to assist poor Simple:" and im pelled by his humane feelings, was just advasing for ward, whoa a loaded musket was again protruded from the window. and with the most savage threats, from the soldier who held it, if be advanced a step, was fired off and brought him to the ground. After this greyest shots morels a similar way discharged from the win dow, right and loft. which with those previously fired, might meat to 10 or 12. The first three, it is soder. stood, however, were those which took fatal effect. Pearson lived about two hears; as well as his unions ante comrade Simpson, was a quiet man, and a faithful public servant; both were elderly men and have left families. Morrison. who was *se shot, died about mid day on Sunday, Robsteness. who was so maltreated by the soldiers in Coehrea's hese, is the confusion. when those without were attempting to force the door, and the asking were bILIIIISK dIRMISISIVIIII to their firs arms, where he was feted la &Shoed& doe, by the Master of Police. after i ngre ss bad hews ehtahsed br the arrival of t i med. Robertson so won as Macitintdes , are still y, but, we believe, nut dangerously ill. The latter. la particular. has satered much.--(Oreeneek Ad vertiser.) Conti-Rzczanott. Ave. 7.—Tits supply of Wheat Wag very died *is reorileg. awl tie ' weather enfavoorable for lb. lams.. easiest a brisk deartad for the Inset seeiples from IL an. I (set, sod ilefolk, at as Nieuwe of fres ts. to Ile. per qr. on the prices of last Monday. Barley is Is. per qr. lower. Oats hilly support last Friday'. priests, althoogh iv arrivals have been eoadderable. In Beans sad Peat Men is ae alteratioa. a t 7 70 roe IliagllMl o t 78 MI rise BUM 0 0 New DUN 0 0 Rye .. BB 41 Barley_ t• II 40 nee IMO 9 0 Malt ei 76' 0 9 weVi rs (boners) 18 RI 0 II Om Peas 44 40 New Ditto Tick Roses IS 40 Oki Ditto 0 0 Vowel' Ditto 44 46 Feed Otte Potato* Ditto SS II Poload Ditto 57 511 Milo Ditto Flow Flour O5 70 00.•••• 0 Rape Seal. per lag Z:11 41 cr. disk die OM: Woof . . 4a. W. to is. Od. Illettos . is. Od. to ks.lkl. Veal . . is. M. to Os. Od. Perk . . is. Od. to Os Od. Lomb . . • lc ed. to Or. W. O. 114111111A1r. per stow of elbe.) CATTLS AT RAJMIT. Oasts ION Cakes fikeer. . . MAIO rip • NO TRIAL of Major CARTWRIGHT, Mr, WOOLRR • AND OTHERS. WARWICKSHIRE ASSIZES, FIIDAT. Au& 11. TN, KING V. MAJOR CALIMRIGUT, AIR. WOOLRR, &C. Major Cartwright now applied to the Court for permission to have the defence which he had drawn up read to the Jury. It was true it would take up souse time to go through it all, but yet, the necessity of putting the Jury in possession of the reasoning, the facts and reflections which it contained, appeared to him so pressing, that be hoped, unless it - was in consistent with the rules of the Court to hare it read, his Lordship would accede to his request. The Cam Belton said, it was his most anxious wish to give the defendants every opportunity that could be afforded to them to vindicate themeless, and, therefore. if Major Cartwright thought the reading of the written defence at all necessary, the Court would permit it to be read with pleasure. He had refused last night to allow it to be read, &cause it was utterly at variance with the practice of the Court io permit it. Mr. Paeason then rose to read the defence. It was very voluminous, covering no less than eighty thin brief's. It began by expressing the surprise which he, the Major. felt at besting that a bill had been preferred against him for conspiring to overturn the Constitu tion. As soon as he heard the information. be for- wurded a memorial to the King, laying before his Ma jesty a statement of various acts in his life, as well as the testimonies of several distinguished poli tical characters, tending to show how much be had bees guided by contrary motives to those imputed to NE. This memorial, which was of great length, was then read. In this document was inserted a variety of letters from most of the political characters of the day. As soon as Mr. Pearson came to a part of this memo rial which alluded to a plan of political education pro posed by the Major, and contained in a letter to the Prince Regent, and commenced reading it, The Cater BARON interposed, and said, " Surely. Mr. Pearson, you know your business too well, not to be qqat-sensibli that all this is irrelevant. Mr. Pearson—My Lotd, I understand it is produced IO order to manifest more clearly the intentions by I which Major Cartwright had been always actuated, for the good of his country, and the safety of the Coa stitutioo. The CM, BARON—No, no—lt has nothing to do with the case—Oentlemen of the Jury, you have nothing to do with what is now reading to you, but you may go on, Mr. Pearson. The Major's defence then proceeded to state, that upon various occasions he (the Major) had addressed his Majesty ; but in nu case to serve the interests of faction or party, or his own private interests ; but purely to restore the Constitution to its pristine state of purity and perfection. His object in addressing Ms Majesty bad been to expose, and to remove the aback les, which had been imposed upon Royalty, by a small faction, who had filed the House of Commons with their agents, epos whose will the King of Bag land'was dependent for every shilling of revenue. As a roof of his attachment to the real Constitution, con pisting of its civil and military branches, he had, in soe form of two Acs of Parliatmeae, delimited the means of restoring it to its original vigour and spkn door. He thee stated that be was the author of another work. 'the Trident, the object of whisk was to keep alive and cultivate a spirit of heroic virtue and love of glory in the British Navy. His whole anxiety was, not that a dory fairly appointed to try 1 him, but that the country at large should believe him `lncapable of conspiring against the Constitution, which it had been the chief labour of his life to up hold. His family had anxiously hoped, and it was the general opinion, that this prosecution would have ' been abandoned ; but he had invariably felt and et 1p d a contrary with, in order that Parliamentary Reform might be benefited by the investigation. The Boroughmongers who had beta for many years de fendants against the accusations of the advocates of reform, now, by a characteristic maserevre, had as stoned to be plaintiffs sod prosecutors. His prosecu tors charged his, with having violated the Constitu tion; he charged them with having stabbed it to the heart, in the preliminary to this trial, and with having poisoned justice at its source. He (the Major) at tended in person at the Crown Office, at the nomina tion of the Jury, and at the subsequent reduction to 24; on both occasions the packing was protested against, and he told the Master of the Crown Aire, that such parking was not merely a legal assassination of the defendants, but also of the Constitution itself. He, however, acquitted the Jury in participating in this guilt of the packers ; for they, the Jury, were not parties to their own nomination ; nor were they con scions of, or had any participation in the transaction. They were puke!), because they held opinions upon parliamentary reform contrary to his, and their packers hoped that they, the Jury, would be governed in their verdict by their opinions spun that important question. He should consider it shameful, indeed, were he to impute it as criminal in any other perm, that he held different opinions to himself. The present pro. aeration was bat a promention for opinions; he might justly say so, when he, who was a mere spectator at the Birmingham Meeting on the 12th July last, was charged with a conspiracy, and when it was charged as 'editions, malicious, and inilanonatory, to read a resolution, reciting, " That his, the Slaor's Bill of Rights and Liberties, for effecting a Reform in the Commons House, on the simple principle of voting for representatives, which is a common right, being exer cised by all men of naive age, and sound wind, who have not forfeited that right by any crime, the votes bring given by ballot, and the representative body being renewed once a-year." And it was added, "it is the opinion of this Meeting the said Bill ought to be adopted and passed into a law." 1 his resolution was passed in an assembly of near filly thousand per sons ; that was to say, by more than thrice the num ber of persons, who, in a petition, put on the Journals' of Parliament on the 7th of May. 17113, were said to I fleet a Majority of the House of Commons, when proof of the feet was tendered, but not called for. They (the jury) would keep is mild who the prosecutors we; Hwy were the supporters of the present system of Needy a Moose of Commons, The present prose 'waive was evidence with what Mad of spirit it. was 'Net the prosecutors endemismd to perpetuate lalit frightful decay mid mangled condition of representa tive its our Commons Hoeft, from which prolific evil lest sprang the dimmest; American war, and the stil' more disastrous conlict which had deluged the united kingdom with unspeakabie distress and misery; while all that could be imputed to the defendants was, that they honestly and earnest:7 endeavoured to prevent the utter subversion of the Constitution of their room try by seekingy removal of the evil which had bees the true parent, the real cause of such wide-spreading calamities. In this view of the case must they (the jury) not perceive the snare which was (Tinily laid for themselves? In giving a verdict against the de fendants, who had committed no crime, would they not in effect pass a sentence of death on the Cousins don of their country—on that Constitution which must perish if the Commons House of Parliament was not reformed ? They (the jury) were not so mach trying five Englishmen, as the English Constitution., for its resistance to the usurped authority of the pew secators. Next to free Parliament, Juries were the Cumstitutional Safeguards of Liherty, and consequestly ft all that was'valuable to a nation ; and if is trials between individuals and men its power, or, in other IFOOds, between the Crown and she *abject, Jeri(' amid, by misrepresentation and artful sophistry, ' persuaded to give erroneous verdicts, adverse to tural freedom and security, the consequences must unfortunate, and perhaps fatal. The argaseuts . hided to were intended to restore the military branch to the Constitution ; that instead of dying of a stud lag army, (which Hume called a mortal Charmer; it might once more flourish in fall health, by reviving a free Militia. His (the Major's) Bill of " Free rad Sure Defame," was the twin brother of a " Bill . Rights ail Liberties," intended to restore to health the civil branch of the Constitution ; that instead perishing in the way, prophesied by the enlightened Montesquieu, and by Elisabeth's sagacious Minister, Burleigh (which last, as Blackstone stated, observed that Ragland could never be ruined bat by a Podia meat) that Constitution might rise again as a Phenix from its ashes, restored to new life in a. Free Parlia ment. It was the trial by Jury which the Leaned Seldom (Seldon by Bacon, Ed. of 1447-1-94.) said made this nation happy above all others. and whereby the freemen, as they bad the le d rielative power, so likewise the judicial, and thereby next under Cod, as absolute dominion over themselves and their estates. Trial by Jury was antecedent to all law, a vital part of the Constitution, and this before the profession of lawyers existed. Ihe time is which they lived made it particularly expedient that they should become thoroughly acquainted with the nature and high elk stitutiosal prerogative of Juries ; they should take into consideration the form of a Jnror's oath, "A true ter diet to give according to the evidence." To fat this • of doubt, they (the Jury) would imagine that IPailia mad were capable of so far overleaping the limits its authority as to enact, that if any one should be s. hardy as to declare he believed the House of Commons did sot constitutionally tepreseot the Commons of the realm, such person so offending should be adjudged guilty of treason, and sager death as a traitor. Thes• let it be further supposed that the offending person should, in the usual jargon, be ladicted,; fur that he• lag derived and sedated by the metaphorical gentle man the Devil, with form and arms he did snake 'Minim speeches and harangues to cause is ethers end' a WV: let it next he agreed that the fact • 'the Asnlaraties et the said belief should be proved a thawed trees dumped whereas all epeeist( their widener. And now to the question,—Whether Nut it would be the duty of a Jury to decide eomplance with each a statute, oe what else would be u according to Me evidence." The truth was, that le give elect to a statute of such extreme absurdity and monstrous wickedness, by consigning to an igno nimions sad barbarous death, an inuoceut man, we bees tall, on the part of the Jury, into exa:tly nurse absurdity and wickedness.. But, as in the ping *appear case there could be au imagi..d&k gull, there could be no evidence of grill, and verdict mast be net gritty. It was well haunt . the Jury what absurd fascias, what strained aualogi s, what far-fetched constructions and kiwis of law, be the eteepseition of a Lawyer's opinion ; as when stupid rioter in a mob that cannot withstand a ' ....tables, M a distance of two hundred mils, _ the palace of the King, shall seise a po.ket pistol, it shall be interpreted " a treasonable conspiracy attack, fright, kill, and destroy the soldlem troops, and forces of oar Lord the King," who happened have an army of more thee one hunting thousand these soldiers, as well as kill the King himself, rounded by several regiments of perils, and to turn the state. Such being the monstrous license of eunstrweiion, twin-sister to " the bead direretior. ' full as crafty, bloody, and ineterable in the work despotism', it was incumbeat on Juries never in case whatever to take on trust from the Bench, deference to its learning, what it should be pleased i .all common law. It was important fur his (dm Major's) defence, that the deep artifice couched ender the words " the coastitaticn as by law established," Amid besexposei, that neither the jury nor the leedant should be entangled in the net of sophistical chicanery ; and this he (the major) hoped wuni.' ' a sufficieut apology for resuming . their (the Jinx attention to the axioms and arguments which should speak and quote. He (the Major) coold he adverse to the trouble; he was labouring in vocation, and his feeling towards the Jury were J these of Paul towards Agrippa ; Lr be woul4 to (lea.. that not only the Jury, but all who heard hinssehat .46 y, titre, as he was, a sincere Parliamentary re former. The reeding of the Major's defence occupied four hours. / Mr. Lewis then rose tad addressed the Jury. began by souse observations ea the manner in which the Jury had been impanuelled, and penned the sal sect in nearly the same wale as the other ilef.ndanto who preceded him. The chargesprefe were such aa run mot be proved.. He was satisfied theJarycould'aaf lieve them. HI aad tie other defendants were eased of being nialieimsa and seditious pumas, kill man had ventured to sweat that they were se. " Look at use, 'headmen of the Jury," said be is an satiated Mauer, " Am I edit:ass, or withal,' irenmed heirerds the Constitatlen.—r( a laugh.)—ftlenit at Nigel sta.' rril till 1 titti tile hat eat .r POI ind the aid de- -Icy t . kit tree irk retr- the idy her site be oa• • fi I be al- • 1 stc4. tad- • , Per) jog # , nod • 1 of • tith I of . • Red ter, 'red ." rlia- mitt .. •ard 94.) • and On. part I of Ir bade woe con- into • ref• Mt ilia- • of I e so - moot r tbe • . iged l'heo• TOO. I one- s se- there ct of d by kg ii • ether le in roeld , that .rdity igno- roel•l r the flue- • the Ito to ogi r, go hen a I few from oistol, icy to naps, Hal to .nd ut star- over- ,icense ' I ier ork of , I any ' A, iii• teed to ; (the coder le the- istical • ild be 'try's) cit he w p 14 mot • in Lis • Jibe II Geo.. osthet 7 r*' 4 tua - r. which re *ab- sents Whist meld lot be. re M- ho re Look Knasil at sla4 • p