The Statesman. — London, England, 1819-07-16 00:00:00

east nembers of whom are, at the present time, des titute of emplorniest. Mr. THOSI4S FaiaTISAN was celled to the Chair, end he opened the Meeting by reading the Wrists,- lion for calling the same. He concluded by 'short ing the anemblage to conduct themselves peaceably end orderly. Mr. R. faction then Came frieward. and read the Resolutions Os In neinher). which were in substance 40. 4. That the principles of Nature never authorised one men to man to make laws for another without his consent; that 'hawser authority any man pos. sasses is solely derived from the Peepte—coosequent ly, if any Government cease to answer the perpese for which it was eppoisted, the People have • right to cell their Governors to account; that the distress which we now safer has (relegated In a base and preflight expenditure of the piddle mosey, which has hresght seethe to such an extent as le have swirly destroyed our mensfacturers and COlaaeffet, bed precipitated the country from lbw pinned' of prosperity to the verge of rein; that the mew who compose the prefect Parliament, by their conduct In sorporting a system of profile(' estravagasee, and the imposition of new team, have shown that they do not repremst the People--they have basely be t.ayeri the isteresu of the mallets, end shows to the world that they are unworthy of gestational I! That the eternal principles of justice @stifle every man of mitirmege, who Is sot disqualified by came or mental dersegemest, to an equal rote in choosing the National Representetives. Lastly, In order to guard spinet the *ben of power, it is necessary that the People should elect their Representatives oonsslly." After agresdeg t• the Resolutions, the Meeting broke up, led the mnltitede dispersed to their re spective homes. At the close of the proceedings, though every tile; went os peaceably before, an attempt was made by some persons, in the garb of Gentlemen, to !educe the People to commit acts of violence; bat the good seem of the populace happily frustrated their hese attempt, and they separated peaceably without any accident occurring. TO CORIMPONDENTS. • e • Tummy Tauracri Boaacris Metier for P.ataarrary Refers, r (arty r parbk. PRICE OF STOCKS THI Pawl Reek 140, 9 pet Call- Hed.eihili pet Gin. Co. 6716 pertlent. :141 4 per Cost. Sid; Lem& for DAY A'r 0,414 O'CuICA. per Cent. NM, 104;103] ilia bus& 4 ki pia Wag ANA. IN Birdliming Stitr lair-par Orolima f 1 0$ Cs. or. laj Ififf. THE STATESMAN. LONDON: JCLY 16, 1819. Oar Readers wilt see that we bate considered the Birmingham Meeting as, it really is in itself, an im portant political *bidet. The proceediep are of that astral, that loam es very little space to espatistat in t►is place epos other saliest., according to oar daily fasten. The Letter if Tanen, width vs this day pub lish, confides reflections well worthy she eiwiders. tine of she Psiiikisii end the Steinman, mud is peril• . eelsily well qstlilind le Impress willies, end moist sings oho 'ilea of • Gee it Peewit, sad were especial. ly in imprnre the shed sighted gaudily of elle present We ire compelled, from a mere genet of jolliest, to adieu to Mt. Owan's plan race more before the Ge. Beni Moetin4, which he has called for Monday neat. The reason which imorliately indoees us to do so is the spp►eranre of fieport of Mr. Case; Artier!. torsi Meeting, et Holkhena, lu the Coonig Herald. —ln Ibis report Mr. Owes is described as having exhibited his plan to the other visitors ; but the writer sarcastically assures us, that he did not con. since any oar of them. This has been copied by the Time. mod t►e Chronicle, by the latter rather con. tetertnously. Orr reply would be, that the state ment is very probable; but as we are not aware ass the Ilolkhaus Meeting and the County Herald are skilled in all the civil and legislative compacts that have ever tinted in the world, or ire acquainted with the precise effects of every error which can possibly creep into the consultation of any society, we do sot flask It deny immediate importance that Mr. Coar's guests could not concur with Mr. Owes. This is said without the least loteallon of disrespect to the Gen. intern there assembled, who were, upon the whole, as respectable and intelligent a company as could have bees collected en each an occasion. But the time is vapidly petting away, in which semis are to be non. 'Wend equal to demonstrations, in the educe of political economy. Esperience is Weaning to make us lodepeadest either of faction or favouritism.— System after system has sprung op, and the loud to. larks have !linseed with fatal doatimeness, mad deans in their see!, we had almost said in proper ties to thei► disappointment, till ruin has neatly es. gelphed every class. We shall take nothing, shortly, open the credit or eloquence of any man, or number of mem, and ill ear points of agreement must be de. sided, as it were, by the slate and pencil. It is this useful, though costly, kind of knowledge which Mr. Otago is anal... to ba our att►ntion upon ; he wishes us to calculate for ourselves the capabi lities which oar soil and labour possess, and lasting found in the abstract what quantity of predate may be groWo end manufactured by such given quantities of power and territory, to compare the result with that which Is actually produced, and t►e* endeavour to discover what causes the differ ence. This is *bat ho himself has done, sod from the curled's. of his owe Bind s caused by this most TIT STATESMAN, demonstrable manner of 'lamination, be has deter. mined on tbe necessity of those establishments, the plan of which ha is in the habit of proposing to the Public. That such a moo, pursuing so elver aid candid a course, and filing 64 argument arithmeti cally, in proportion to the limits of the soil sad the ascertained power of labour and machinery, should be called or considered as a visionary, in times wherein not or.. of the fashionable dogmas will hold he proof, shows a most lamentable degree of blinded self-conceit, and a fatuity of original faith such as no villariancir can vet right. One rotation put by Dr. Rios" was considered as a teachsteue; be &shad if popelation had entreated at Lanark ender Mr. Owan's meuegement, and signified that if it had, that alone would be proof of its impolicy. Mr. °wet is reported to have evaded the question. and very properly; the answer was to be taken without more coevideration for his own condesseatiou.— Whereas Mr. Owca professes to prove (which Judead was the belief of almost all law.gieers, 11111 Mr. MALTHUS frightemed Our own), that the labouring population are the strength and riche" of tevery country, and that its Increase must be a is. tional ackaotage so long as there a►e waste lands to cultivate, or the mass for manufacturing comforts end necessaries remain. Mr. Owair might well re. few Oleo to hilt at the first credo sleeve, which was avowedly pet, sot to carry on bat to still* enquiry. And ender what circumstances is this aseeitioo, that the population roam& the means, enforced? For the Doctor's question merely represented the philosophy of t►e Malthesians, who sow form a considerable mejnrity of the juridical sages etas klogdose. Whet reason does experience glee as to induce s belief that we have out.peopled Ike means of the soil ? If we are referred to the distress of the peer generally. shall we not be allowed, iodependest of political feeling, _ . . to set off on the other hand, the voloptue;' end consuming leaury of the rich? Whether the system of Government has been right or wrong, this la certain i—thet as the laboeriug population have descended in the smile of existence sod enjoyment, the wealth and geandeur of the privileged ranks have increased; pleasure anJ pomp hese not only lug ' mooted the erijoyneeots of the great in the esenstural end contrasted ratio of popular wretchedness, but they have also cossetted a large mass of the precise. tile population into unprofitable agents, and purvey ors, to their voloptiess perposes. If the Pablie were to see, as we have seen, the increased and increasing proportion of persons that the preseut system has withdrawn from profitable labour to fill up the banking and law bssioesses, the schools of physic and divinity, the servitude of the gentry. the mi litary occupation, the Police, officeclerks, &c. all of them, as Antes SMITII says, onprodoefive pursuits, the agents of which must be fed from the public stock, aid prodice nothing towards their ewe main. tenants, hews espectable or stabilities they may be; if, we say spin, the People at large could see Mr. Owen's models, representing the bulk of these leserioss "gents as they are numerically pro portioned to the balk of the whole population, and were to consider what a mass of the praises it must take to maintain theasond support their employers in proud lottery, they would discover a better res. son for the Wigton of tare poor than that of the incapability of the soil to provide means. Besides, what proof is there of Insufficient means, when be sides the segmented gratifications of the rich. we perceive that there is a general dearth of hosinevi, that is, that there are more means 'hen can he dia. posed of? Are not the markets of the world gt o rteit, and the warehouses at home breaking dew.. f— —Are there nut laws to make corn dear, because its plentifulness inclines to sake it too cheap? Are these indications of defective means?—Or are they not rather proofs that some unilateral principle is secretly at work among es, fir separate the redundant means from the most pro. ;table consumer,. viz. the labouring 'poor, whose efills would repay the enjoyment with better profit ti an any foreign commerce, If the osier, of our pa. litirs wrold allow it ?—The detection and cerrectios of this original and unsespected is the object for which Mr. Owen solicits the public attention ; nothing can be more reasonable, nor can any reasonable thing be more modestly and patiently urged than he has done it. It becomes lb, Public at `large to behave with the same courtesy sad weever. amend nuclear in the examination of Monday tail. By a Mail from Flanders, which arrived last night, we received Brussels Papers to the 13th lust. from which the following article is extracted : •' Faanavoat, Juttr B.—'l'be Prince Royal of PlilieSl4 arrived here yesterday, and will remain here some days to ;my visits to several Courts in our oeighboarbood. It is stated that the King of PRUNIA will leave Berne on the 9th for Top's, and will re torn to his capital about the 13th of August. Prince Fazezetcc of the Netberlands arrived here to-day; be will go to Cobham Ilse day after to-morrow with the Prima Royal of Pawls*. These two Princes will afterwards go together to Switzerland. Loniag, who attempted to inate Mr. Wu., studied at the Usiversity of Heidelberg, which he left only IS mouths ego. Accounts from Perth, in ['sugary, say, that the young Client of Bellesiag, aged 22 years, who committed the d►eadful crime of parricide, was beheaded ow the 21st of June, at six o'clock io the morning." .. A letter from Palermo, dated the 23J ult., states, that ■ military conscription boa been ordrrtd through /let Sicily. The measure was likely to be extremely unpopular, as the Sicilians for • very long period have held themselves 'swept from compulsory service in the army. _ _ _ _ _ Letters - from Cape Henry (St. Domingo), doted May 18, notice the arrival there of Sr hoist Po►. owe, the Iphigenia frigate, sod the Bearer brig. 'l'be Admiral was received by his sable Majevty, Cuat,:n►nr, with every mark of ceremony and re sped. Preparations were making for a series of es. terteinesents to be given to Sir Home Po►rax and Ida °Seers ; and nearly all other business was sus• peoded. To rag EDITOR or roe STAITIISMAK. St a,—Theeondact of the late American war becomes highly interesting, when we consider that through lb. fault of oar Ministers, we may be driven lota soother. We will take a short survey of it. When hostilities were declared, whom did the present Ad misistration teed out ? Ito imbecile old man, to re pair his reload fortune, and pay his debts, if I be credibly informed, to a certain greet Nig Bow was t►is armed negotiation received ? To a man acquainted with the sentiments of the Americans at that time, it is scarcely necessary to observe, that the conduct pursued daring the early part of the war was the subject of every coolie jest to our encodes. Even whoa vigor... measures were resorted to, boo were they followed ap ? Not with the magnanimity of an Englishman, bet with the ferocity or the usage. Was it noble, was It 6t for a generous People to at tack the defenceless husbandman to revenge ma selves on a Govoramout ? What, my Lord CASTLIMEAOU, has recommended Admiral Cocancen to the notice of Administration ? Was it that pitiless ploodering of the poor man's rot, which was Ile train fester. of his coodect ;1 or is it the refined elegance of his mangers, which bath placed him at the Admiralty ? I base, Sir, as yet stated bet a very small rod of our Dimwit to• swards these People. After eneeareeinc the stales of the planter to desert, we received the neke.l, mi serable wretches into Oaf ships; disease was MO no.: emery atteedens ; they died in kindred. • hot of those that survived, some were sent 11.1ifas, others were dispersed anyone the West Indio blends. sad I am folly correct In affirming. that not (toe ing of these who embarked ere now in rsistence.— The very mop of liberty is justly dear to oar hearts; bet can we say we benefit a poor, miserable, senseless creators, when we seed hies tow reentry Where he may perish by disease. I honour the feelings of my countrymen for their zeal in favouring the liberty of another. This is not, however, a method of carry log es war becoming to a great 'main. What alteeli we have said, had slaves been taken from ear colo nies to be involved in misery and distress ? Would we not have justly milliard wino the barbarity of tech a proceeding? The latter port of the war was Indeed conducted with more credit to Gamlen earl honour to the Ministry. Let us pass en to thr pel... Instead of openly assertiog set right r.f search, or generously giviog it er, we come ,ed In a scan compromise, by letting the tarter reit. Such, Sir, hes been the conduct of this Ministry, who only do things by halves when the country to be benefited. Had we given up the poifst at once; had we treated them u friends and allies, the so i rate part of the Americans would hive gained a vielry over the De. swats, and we should hese liar them in oar in. serest for ever. Animosity did net eren_etatewith the wart we ezcieded them fr. rn cur West India islands ; is return, they prohibit rte vessels belong ing to these Islands from tottehito at their post•. I woolci ask eny man, if a hollo c, patched ep treaty like this elle possibly last r A•! we to be spin embroiled with this nett :t tkro.hh the contemptible conduct of out Ministers ? To talk lightly of a.: American war, is to be ig•o real of the state of ;hat country, mid the nature of the People. They are a heave, en Indepeodenr, and • rising nation—they are conscious of their own strength, and will not submit to be insulted. The disposition of America is evidently hostile towards es; and the prospect if dismal enoegh. Let es see, if we return to our own country, whether the horizon will be clearer. If we slew the manufacturing tissues, what do we behold ? Immense messes of men meeting mid all the horrors of fearful starving misery, to its plots.* Reform in the %beset of the Constitution.— If welook at the face of the country, we shall perceive a large sporting army scattered over it ; if we ermine the state of orrltcrenne, we shall find that it is barely possible to meet the •spendl'ure and pay the interest of the National Doh'. Yet, Sir, this difficelty. dreadful as it certainly Is, might still be surmounted, were our Partiament confided in—but correptloo, Sir, has witted dert.ly into the constitution of our Rppyrooristhres, 'those only provittee now Is. to swell the vole of a Minister, end to plender the Peo ple. I world ether, Sir, *Omit to open ty runny thee suffer a welkin( tempering with Our Represeu wives to be cootioard. Were despotism openly In stew itself ; were the mere farce of pretending so at tention to our interests, while we are daringly in sulted, done away with, we should know what course to pursue. We have petitioned till the very same has become disgusting. We cannot look for redress ; for we may as well demand pilin sense from the madman or the fool, as espect decency or integrity from the present House of Commons. These wretched men, Sir, feel the contempt into which they have fallen; sad crouch ender it. Such, Sir, are our re• Sections—the only reliance we have, most rest on' ourselves; and if we mks a mike of every tie, every sentiment that is dear to us, we deserve to sink into the slave. Moderate language, Sir, is of no avail; and it is necessary to ass esp►essions shirts easy, perhaps, rouse any latest spark of sensibility that does yet re main is the bosom of °ea man, who Is a declaimer against vice, while in the practice of it—who now es• poses the remnant of passion past, mid the wreck of a once fine constitution—a cheremer like this will go down to his grave ',Titled and despised. When our aged and venerable Monarch shell be laid low-- when his death shall give ■ melancholy sort of satis faction to his People, sills what unfeigned senti ments of sorrow sod lamentation will they sttend his funeral—with what generous leers will they sanctify his memory, end hand his name down to posterity in blessings for ever. Thr one of whom I speak might have been in some respects like to ihti man. Let him look at the contrast and think what be Is new— What ►hnald a It of s astbra he Brt areednais /item', the **blest or the free I If sorb be were ant. he sight Site to tiara The symptoms or hi. oeta dospare Night hod that 'hoer trim gave a Threat Cast maw it yet aim their *ism Nast/ see these saes for atom are laws, Rise Indy ion nettie rowel And is PINkIIIIO Shenk/ qvirkie API ?hat rest greatness is a rsop!: • week TACITTIS. RIVAL IN7TLLIOBNCII. DIAL, JULY 15.—Arrived sad sailed for the Mitt the Herlesion, Thornhill, from Andes; end dad Oronake. from 0-msrara. PLTUOUTU.JULYIS. Arrived the Elisir. Chtlltiani from Winsterholm; and Amphitrite, FoneMark, from Poregroood. ff ARVID!. JULY 14. Arrived the Primo of Orange picket, from Holland; and Lnrd Nohow picket, from Culture: bath with Mills. Also rid Emily, Barnes, from Stockholm, when, she leaded I the Ambassador of the Netherlands. POITINIOUTII, JOLT 15 —*rated the Maria,Deteti frigate, from the East Indies for lielland ; Gustave. Heiberg, free Gay; mod Gond Intent, Whitewall, from London fir St. iubis'e, Neefoondiand.—Came late harbour, the Fart Moira and the British Arent I ressporm—fisiled the Royal Sovereign, Smith, let Ream FA LINA MI, it: LT !S.—Arrived the Sistors, Holmes, fr om London for Jamsles ; and Tolson, Smith, In 40 days from Pars for London ; lb. Nestor of the Tol son died sone star she snrherod.—A►►ised off this purl dm Asia, Morris, from Lender for the &It OLD BA ILLY. Thlo utnrning the St tconntic pared wrasrair en the Pei. ~Pr* C.O. If lid due lugoli. &AIM", a. fi•nn.• 1-16 fur 1.-pria ...Rea. r.., .11 umiak, i. she flour at UuSrecii . . with b. 4 labors, and 44 greater pule .., il...in tube sell shipped; reset fur slime .mites, oft'. bard taboo, arta whippings al. Fur serer in•asli•l 10.. f. 4 ..t.e innuilig ..ne for ois net 1.,• g ore Air Moo ioonitts 1 &A..: Ise rube whipped mad -•lect.araid 41 rd. Moon and it foe a .i.d a.ei,n..gr. ne.r nentr•reil Si liaeoperrtaltirin fur to en year. I ii.a fir 14 lean. s 15 tar I r.. ; lire. impflide. .meal log I,lle tr.., s 11 to pal 1.. aid be d,elsareed. S. stew, all drain was p used in John Leeer, fit beirelary. Benjamin Noble, far Arabi% LI. lea dwelling-bactoo—Mary Brows, Game offence—J. Butler, for dealing 41.. a dwelling llotose—W. 11. Born, for sicaltitc 111. in a ilswea,az- haute— Swat. Revd, fir dealing S. in a du rlling-Italre - &grub Lynn. for .lerilisig liii. prevatele Ina ob.,- Imber Levi, sane offence N. Phillip*. ler reenlist 11. in adm telling -banse— Sarni Whit tle fair breaking • aseliiripbusie, aid eisineeltgligg gareeni....; Theca.. Alabaster, fir a riisilar afar.. After whiter the Count adjourned sill tiviesiberi Adders are said le have bete remised from Ma. drid, that, a few weeks sgo,the Government leased order for irnmenliate returns of all British monistic. tured cotton goads in the different towns of Spaist (which had been allowed for sale since the prohibittr on the English merchants peying a large su■ of mon• y to the Spanish Government). On them re. tarns melting the capital, an Oficial Decree Iry pub. Itshed, compelling the English merchants to pi im mediately the whole amount of the wined stuck is heed, in cash, to the Officers of Government, and ti farther fine of TO per cent. on that amount ; intimat. inn that otherwise their property, of every &Whitlow, would be confiscated. The volunteers destined for South Aortic'', mi. had arrived at this port f►nm Ireland, sailed on Seta: dry morning. General Drvottut 'mends to viel Ireland before be takes his final drpattoro to •swore the command of the army.—( Liverpool Seturelei Alrerliser.) We are sorry to perceive from the St. John's Poi pert, that the dreaded typhus made its eppearenen iw a few caste et St. John's, "opposed to have beet brotsaht from Ireland. The affected persona were immediately removed is an hospital, and every preo caution was taken against contagion. The Grand Jury at th. Quarter genies **Toe,. day, (pond true bill. of indictment against Sikna nuts WeitzLe, Bart. and JOSTPII Ilinaisow, the Dies's,. in` Minister of Stockport, for the torbstent and seal. floss speeches made by them on the 26ili all. at Stock. port, with intent to 'trite tumult sad inserroctioe within this realer.—(Coorier.) The number of informations fled in the Court of &cheerier for oho r vvvvv ry of peosliles gorier the Customs and Excise Lass, from ht of he. 1818,1. In of Jun., 1819, yes 7EI, as appears frees the re. tore mode to the order of the Hoeft of Commons .s this 'milker. _ _ Last night, the PILINCR RTORWT gat,' grand fancy dras.bollat Carlton : boat, to a ascrieroos party. - r- ..- Irest.rday the Drat• of YOIll transacted otilitery bovines% with the Pitt ICE REGERT, at Carlton Moons. Yrwerday Lenroan dined with the Lleks and Doch►ss of Wonict at Yollt •Neese• The Doke De I.llslWio his received permiasio• from tLe French Gormand to reside on the terra• tory of Geneva. An action of Criss. Con. is life, in a foreword state, has recently fallen to At ground, to tho gr►at ilisappoisiment of the Gentlemen of the Inns robe. The Plaintiff is Majne and the Defendant COIIOIIPI 111—T. The unfortunate Lady •h• mu the subject of the action has paid the debt of nature ; and to the additional Grief of the reality, a yowler., sitter of the above lady melted her but a few weeks. Major KELLY died at eve o'clock en the evening of eaterday last, of the woes& he received in a duet with ao English Gelatinise es Theraday the eth i o . stint. It Is confidently 'std. that e yowl English Peer, Lord POWERSCOVRT, offered Madame BLANCHARD 25 Loeb, at Tivoli, to allow him to accompany her in tato ascension. That unfortunate Arronset refused, solely because the application lies not mud. in time to admit the changing et IRO car, sod ether indispensable alterations. _ _ Coax Ezeuascs, JULY 16.—The Market was lierary supplied with Nana this meralite. baying MA •eseril treM a:rivols fra.n Esta, liolepraitmt of a Isere vaned, els.' rensaiiied B.Ter host WO. 88 , 41•1'. mad •At mann bee. g•l ark e *hi were dull 8 a r•dretino of 1.. was •amot.iit•d So in a I w Moaner., but sloe mote may be citimi,!e•ed wail , a.... ibmear for prime 'simples.— Barley dull atle.—Ouse is. eaciper.—la Peas mad Beam an alteration. SmerwroeLoklauWae. Jett 16.—The Market deekse Was 1,..1 week was well satipited with all kind of Fri I Beer tenement dene.—Muttom, Veal, awl P.wk s Ile decline la tab day'. Martel. all kind, and Straw oomewliat dearer elms last as b. lover demer. Tte an/dried is a correct tdatesieft of the *ambers sad piked • at Yokel : 41t.k the HIM. per Nese of Res. 4sit4 4. 01. M. Os. 4S. I /184. 4 Oita. *ls 411 V CAWS .4.01.k5. (t 1. 14640. . . 460 Veal ... 4: 6: '5 &I. Hies; rid Lamb; 7,4 lkirt . 61 t• bi. . 4.. 61. to D. 94. I Pwr• • Y.MARKI.T Hoy . 61. OP. W. t rll l . lA.nd. C 10•11 ... OB. Ckl. I. 71. 10i. 04. Straw 1. 10.. 06. I. M. 0.. OA. i I