The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-12-09 00:00:00

1 PI ^ - - 7 1 . • r- - . • • .:... a 5.,. , really, I scarcely 'e s te em ' s, amoimt is 10,000 th „, r -, part of the present ineltitede. In one parish they w e mosiered en assembly of %ye ; est of thew fi v e, w ed sent eel the invltetinns, the other two came to visit them.--(Lasghter.)*Ain another parish they alas- tered the enormous number of niue—(Lass ghler again) ; —bet these, though few in quantity, were greet in passer. First came the boodle of the parish. —( Loud lotighler.)—i myself recognised him es a deliverer of Sir Murray" placards, in the last elec tion—next came the tat gatherer —then the over seer. I mean no reflections On the overseers —some are goof, some bads suffice it, howfitr, to say, that all the party lived on the public perm, cud therefore met together for the dispirit of their own bnsiness, became you most be aware that as taxation it SO* car „ tried on. the means and effect are reciprocal bone an other,one sea merely serving to generate another. This it is you dwty to recoltect,as else that in putting Sir M. Maswell, whols &supporter of the present lases, into Farliument,ybo are putting him in to act for himself,' and ho. non interest; and not for yes and your ante. rest. Year adversaries also talk of the base, mean, e n d dirty arts committed by the Reformers at the last Elertlen; whet they mean by it I mat aloes to dls. e-e., ; hot there were base, mean, sod dirty acts com mit edOlut not by the Reformers. A time shall be found for recounting the whale tissue of them. If not done before, I VIII do it at the Hultiogs in la. weary ; mid In all peolabitity they • ill be kind en ough to formai so• with some new caws before that time arrives. I hive heard, too, of Select Vestries; *hat Select Vestries are I can acutely tell, unless they be one efthe wassy moierte pled is cheat, gull, 4 %jars, sod atiMem the :of the People. i ad. f i ohs' thesw•tarbe eatdieee in their proteeditios ; ' those who Itrit dee mrs AO have their past Pon. ) duct esimeed span the Hestiaga ; end. f t there. are once mom bid them, stet. as • titmice, bet e a pollen, to consider , carefully what they are i. • &grog. 1 *pp that they will do so; that they will throw aside their Weary tbat they will go along Wart le a bind with the People ter whose benefit ! they tight to art; and that they will pursue that • system of which they *ill haven° occasion to repent. - Many of *wham repented• and have told me that they have repeated, of the infamous solicitations, the harsh threats, She decided violence which they were ordered to . employ in the lest election. Mee ;Mt used to cr :hot given to the melted mood, repeated ly told m n the coarse of the last canvass, " Sir, if 4 , - we vote or Sir Francis Burdett, wears reined in our fortunes ; if we d o not vote far him, we are ruined in our peace of mind." The miseries,` which this s t a tement is no embellishm en t of elott, who figure of rhetoric, but the truth as it oc cerred to our n otice rime after time, were occasioned by. these Select Vestries; and I therefore ask whether we shall allow a recurrence of the same mean arts from the same quarter. or whether we shall spurn at their attempts to force down our throats a man who was rejected by a still greater wail sna j m iry • of voters than those whose names now appear ag ai ns t him, on the poll-book ? There are n o. thing like facts. In the coarse of my canvass the other day, I went into the .hop of a respectable tradesman ter Piccadilly, end solicited his vote and intr•rest. He replied, that he should have great plea sure In voting for me, if the Duke of York did not seed him ostlers to the contaary. This .sewer was given me in the presence of litte.lisd.tirenty - persons. The name of tl• tradesman I shall coaceal, because I do not wish to Wittig :he velipance of the Doke o f I rk down upon his head; but I give you my ho re. non-, as a g entleman, that the fact occurred as I tare it to you ; and if the Duke of York will come o Atom, I will there inform him more dearly to th e II o n the ,objem. That Royal Duke, with wh ore I have no a :squalotance, has the character of an amiable end good-natured maa. Amiable lila good-ustured as he is. he is not so go.id.sietuied as Dot to ruin a a tradesmen in his own good opinion. Doting the interval which has elapsed since the last election, I can assure you, Gentlemen, that the Committee has she beep idle. 11.11 that they hare discovered shall be Imposed as well as my abilities can do it. In the first place, I have to inform you, that all the money subscribed for Sir Mersa) , 'Mat well's election comes nut of the pockets of those who hate reined year pocket.—( o at oneotof his 1001. eabscribers but receives at least 1,0001. *leer from theta:ft. Thus the tas-censurnets take money from you, and use it against you ; or, in other words, ruin you with your own money. in the nest place, I have to inform yos, that the majo rity of the list of Stewards to Sir M. Mow h ellis election.dinr caudated of young Officers in the ne Guards. What these young Gentlemen may call cam. paigning I do not know ; their valour is indisputable, or I should have thought that their time might have been better spent than in feasting and rioting at the espence ef year liberties. I would pray them to sheath their swords against yos, and if they cannot act for yos, at least not to act against you. I would de. men of them total inaction ; I would advise them to recollect that it Was your iron out of which their ' swords were beaten, your gold out of which the lace on their coats was fabricated, and year birds from' w hom the feathers were placket' . to form their plumage; and I would then entreat them nee t es: ploy their swords , their lace,, and thili , 6 p l um age to your injury and your disadvantags. ..I do tint mention their nam a Lieutenes, because I hope ant- they Colo. will r epeat ; one of time* h owever , net in she army, bas made himself so conspicuous in • Cumberland, on a similar occasion, that bad he been Chairman of Sir Murray Maswell" dinner, he would most undoubtedly have won the day.— This great man, whose minions must not be passed over in silence, must bes known better' at the Hust ings. lie is an amiable man in:Private life, 1 am told; but I may be allowed to say, that for once he has mistaken his warfare. It has been said, that the Ladies were all for Sir Murray Maswell, be cause bison , * was their own! His cause their own t I admire the phrase: if any cause was theirs, it was yours * because that which adds dignity to man most always give security to woman : and nothing can add greater dignity to matt than a sense of independeece. The fac t , h owever, is quite the con. trary of what our adversaries state: the bodies , were for yea end Sir Francis Burdett. There were, • iadoed, sons, L o dies who went about in their car ' . rtages, intimidating tradesmen, seating themselves In their shops, and protesting that they woula not ~. ,i i ' rir-V r '~ } ~. • I r :. ~' - r- • • -N ' • •• leave them till a premise of a Into was gins. them; eedlbessa Ladies must be brought to them** tribe. old to *hid' I hro i lltrestened to bring titfiers ; . It shall be deine ititisemt shy 1604160 n Of thii ' dee to their set. or hey,tuftiogerespeof say of the decenciel of Wet for, thank God, I belong to . that station in life from which nothing insetting or bee& listing to a woman can possibly come: their letters, however, shall be read, their mottoes mentioned; their deeds ezposed, and all their d 4 lerecticee told to the Public. . - * Mr. Hobbes:se here begged leamaio freer * words liberty, order, and allure, once more, es he thought he could give the Meeting the real meaning of the words in the mood's of rho* ‘ who used thee. Hy liberty, was meant the liberty of potting their Osseds info your pockete; by order, the order whirls Caleb Baldwin and hig erame-riband men establish. ed when they commenced their affray in the last Election ; end by virtue-4e°, Virtue! she bid never been introduced auto such bad company before) —did they mean that virtue which orders each mall to act to his neighbour ea be would have MC neigh. boor act towards him; or did they mean that Tyree' by which every great men is enabled to crush a petty. individual? I cannot find any other meaning for it than the one I have just mentioned, unless it be that sense in %which Milton makes Satan use it, ei4n he addresses his legions in Pandasmonium, and calls them— .' Thrones. kinedinasi dominations. Wages. powers." lie calls 'he devils virtees, and in that song., Isop. pose, the German author of the placard hiyd most certainly used it. The union why they talk, of vote. 1 14 jobbers,is because they trade in votes. We who on amt., 1,1401. upon the Election, could net inh mu for.eotes. As greet esiarepregentatioase . had gonia abroad op that point. I overletskerl tlte.atitaunst which may be esimined by See individial who chooses; and I pledge my honour, that not a singles. farthing has bees impeded which is oat there et.. I counted for. Mr. Bathhouse that referred to die rig doctrine of Tazation without Representation, and discoursed se some length on the present Steeding Armies of &rope. He sad that he had no doubt bat that the taxes, which would be levied on the coteettfortee Session, had Wee settled at Congress ; kiid . lolW that Lord Castlereagh, who for oar sins wait retesn;ne to &tibia, was earryi..g them is his packet. He con gratulated the Reformers upon their present union, and hoped that, as a remedy had been found for their miseries, they would no t be sloe in applying it, 1 and would not be in the number of those 'who thought the remedy worse than the disesie. The other Resolution, were then pet ; the Thanks of the Meeting vitteft to Mr. Richardson; the Chair. 1 man ; and the assembly quietly dispersed. 9 • --., .-- - ',.: : ' .• ~- -.4,,, o'' , - cluAN's E-- _, q"l'A r r THE sal* to eu press forgery by issuin s zo4tritot • ...irgi.,bs ' ere never yet was that thinit of bnettp aftity'esecoted, botsingenious tier Mao' itilo‘d to imitate it ; bet wee h bonefit most . ~. • tiftleecommonity, and the cause of nioralit : Me check which has thus been given to conch mint unfeeling. and projects the most setfi 'esevamery. This new proof of the inestimable 14 the Trig by Jury has-come in time to-cooni *jobbing stratagem to wt ich the Mooey.brokers fiasissrliki, us s moans of extricating themselves lirtiin'theveril of their own inordinate specolations.• •Wil hips it has also come in time to save the lives of die terievoi mentioned in o u r Paper of yetterday, of .-Olaned to suffer eSeCotion on Tuesday neat, for _ littering Forged Notes. Ito ppears b y the notiee of r e sealed to As Reco BOER'S Report , which wait p illai Flung' REGENT in Council on Monday, that 140 eleven persons, two of whom were women, convicted of uttering Forged Note', last September lii4ions, three were ordered for execution next Tuesday. Sorely this sentence cannot be persisted l in t in the face of the late ver dicts of swivel, and the acknowledgment of the Bank, by its with. . drawinilthe rest of the indictments, thst its cry for the punishment of death on the offence of (forgery is unsupported by the aanciton of legality.— Yle Weld of mercy most slow be interposed to these 4 te ‘ I I e it :b l ifi l tnce m e i t: m b le l o bi 'i necessarily e'bcY r e t i i f : a e sh lj i re n u ko g g ff li t sh o wnl C gn e w e s l , b4l: a tcein t o t s :: d d: c i ri a n le n i thos e dg y f no: gro u nd s thingurwit:tiatnhdAois: impossible. 4 a : ifdstketeahipetfisl escape d ,ae: ri p :ei t a i to:1 as. Fity of the punishment, the verdicts say enough. here is not, and ought not to be, one measure of .? .leetice for one person, and-another for another tied; Ivo-1y situated. If there be evil in the times of theft iseonsistencies, it is fee those to remedy it who have t ether+ upon themselves the responsibility of that duty: ;ap artful responsibility it is, if the blood of human 4iveatures is to be shed to bolster up such a system as that which has afflicted Ibis country with so man) calamities. A Meeting of the Common Council is to be held foosorrow, for a purpose the most important to bu panity, namely, " To consider of the propriety of petitioning Parliament to revise the Criminal Code, in which numerous petty offences are visited with the same punishment as the most atrocious murders ; and as minor offenders are seldom mooted accord. ing to law, crimes have been thereby increased rather than diminished ;—and praying that a more rigorous system of prison discipline may be adopted, whereby capital penishtnent may be mitigated, and criminals reformed." The attention of the country has long been anxiously directed to this point, and with the egression of public feeling so decidedly con- Itheinatory of the casting jv. act u re, it is perhaps not a little surprising that the consideration of this most Import. ant subject has pot been forced upon the atten tion of the Legislature before this time. We should think that it will be altogether impossible for Perna. "tent to decline entering upon the most prominent 'parts of this sanguinary system in the course of the ensuing Session. The disproportion of punishments, ender the law of England, as compared with crimes, end with each other, has long been the subject of just complaint. No one can doubt, that by enact. ing for any given offence a penalty more severe than the feelings of mankind have assigned to it, the ex cessive punishment becomes, in effect, a declaration •f practical impunity, and so far an encouragement to renewed transgression. Equally certain is it, that if some punishments be unjust and impolitic in their degree, others are, by the mode of their applics• 'ion, the fruitful source and active instrument of repeated and multiplied offences. That branch, however, of our Penal Code which demands the the earliest attention of Parliament, relates to the laws respecting the forgery of the Notes of the Bank of England. It is said that Mr. VANSITTAET has been advised to bring in a Bill to put an end to the punishment of death for the crime of Forgery, and we sincerely trust that such a suggestion will be adopted, for the principle i$ Christian. The law, as it stands, is abhorrent to our nature—but no modification of that law could now make the continuance of the Bank Restliction palatable to the community. We recommend to the attention of our Readers two important articles in our Paper of this day, re. !alive to the subjects thus under consideration. The one is the opinion of a most respectable and intelli gent Correspondent on the Bank Restriction Act ; and the other is the prefatory observations published by the Committee for Prison Discipline, its the speech of the Marqois of LANSDOWNE upon that subject.— We trust that the Sessions will not pass over with out some of the evils we have now alluded to being effectually and finally removed. -.i..-- .' The Speech of Mr. 1101110 USE, at a Meeting of the Inhabitants of Westminster yesterday, which we insert in this day's STATELY" still, we doubt not, be perused with much pleasure and interest by many of our Readers. That Gentleman, it will be observed, unequivocally avows himself the warm and determined Friend of Reform, and states some particulars respecting the [ conduct of the heads and sepparters•of Correptioe ' 1 •peak, thos breathes bit Una eloquence in [aloof of Re. ferm i for tbis'is what Westminster and the country depend, sad nothing but Reform can save ibis na tion from alt the erns of micgovernment l and the most progigoto and vicious corruption. Paris Papers Io the Ogtiod.ltave been received.-- A new order has been liatteat by the French Court, according to K hich the Ilsintiting-for our late Qur.e t e was to commence on Sunday. It hto last 21 day s— eleven black and ten wilte. The celebrated CABI4 BACERES, fo , inerly Fellow-Consul witb BONAPART6 (or rather the second in command in the Consular Government), and afterwards Arch-Chancellor of the Empire, arrived at Pails on Friday last. The statement of the price of the French Finds in these Papers is not of so late a date as that which we yes. terday published. They only mention the price o n Friday; which was from 68f. 35c. to 68f. 70e.; but according to the mire's that reached town on Mon. thy (as mentioned in our Parer of yesterday) the Five per Cents. reached 69 r.n Saturday. The price of bread at Paris forms a striking eon. frost to that in London. In the French capital the loaf of 41b. finest quality is now sold for 70 cents. .(7d.) second quality 50 cents. (5t1.) Yesterday the Duke of YORK transacted, military business with the PRINCE REGENT at Ceriton-house. Hatchments ere now placed over tie princiapal tn. t ran ces o f St. James's Palace, Buckitigham.house, Windsor Castle, and Krogmore. His Majesty's German Chapel at St. James's, having undergone repairs, will De opened for Divine Service on Sunday nest. THE QUEEN'S WILL.—It was stated some time since that a will would be found, which was execut et! in June, 1817. That will is now in the hands of a high Civilian. The document alluded to, at the time of her MAJOUVademise, which we said to he a will executed the day previous to the melancholy event, was only a codicil to the will of June, 1817. The Court in Doctors' Commas, have no precedent on a claim for a Royal will to be deposited theteiu, except that Of HENRY VIII., whose will is register. ed there. TOE KING'S Jews:ca.—The search Ass been re. new ed in every direction, tismey, at the late (lotto's Palace, at Frogmore, in the Lower Lodge, sod in Windsor Castle, without success! The case in which they were usually deposited was round some time since, empty! A Morning Paper says, it is au thovised to state, ,that the only Jewels of his MA JESTY which are My miming, re his Star sort Garter. The former was very splendid, being stud ' ded all over with diamonds; and the buckle of the garter was also richly studded in the same manner. Their value is estimated at between six and seven thousand pounds. It is generally believed among the Officers of his Matures Household, that they have been deposited in some place of secret safety by the Kira himself. Letters received from Savannah, Berbice, Demi. rare, and the Bahamas, agree In stating that the crops of the season just closed have been most abundant and excellent ; with the exception of some small districts in Georgia, which had been affected with the rot, but not in 'o extensive a degree as had been represented in previous accounts. The London Gazette of last night contains an offi• del account of the funeral of her late MAJESTY, and of the order of the Procession which attendei her res mains to the Royal vault. The Admiralty Sessions will commence et the 'Old Bailey on Monday, the 11th of Jauuary nest.— ( Gazelle.) The price of Bread at Paris was fired on Saturday et 7d. for the loaf of 41b. of the finest quality, ant sd. for the same weight ogilitsd guality. Theatrics! propeity itethe Country seems rapidly on the decline. A very few years ago, Mr. Bays- Tors gave eight hundred guineas a year for the Brighton Theatre: on Mr. TROTTER'S taking the lease, Me rent was reduced to 6001. per annum. Between the 23d ult. and the Ist inst. the French Papers state, that 15 packets left Calais ta D,vor. with 304 passengers, and 136 transports, with 10G officers, 3,550 soldiers, 377 women, 311 children, and 1,857 horses. There remained 30 officers, 30 soldiers, and GO horses to embark, to comilete the evacuation. During the same Mind, 16 packets entered Calais from Dover with 119 passengers. It is a singular fact, that at the present time spices are at a price so much below their value, that they ore shipping back again to India; as appears by toe enstom-house books of last week, where there were entered for Bombay upeards of 22,0001b5. of nut megs and cloves only. STOLEN Cnitn.—Mr. Horsley appeared yesteiday at she BOw•St sett Of fi ce, to thank Mr. Birnie for Om active assistance which he had lent in pursuit of his child. Ile related most of the particulars contitiord in the letter which appeared in the ST4TESK4N, of Monday, confirming the account there given of Oa despicably abject supplication of Bennet/ for merry. Renuett stated that his reason fur taking iway the child was to lay Mr. Horsley under rontriho , inos who, however, has already given 3 0 1 to his di*• graceful relative. The wife of Rent rt WWI roeom " day, on Mr. liorsley's applic a ti on, i iicharged from _prison. The necessary affidavits were yesterday Cos warded from Lord Bathurst's Oilict ft. r the surrender of Bennett, to be 'tied in England. The child and Mrs. Horsley are very well : the father carries lba marks of the bodily and mental fatigue which he kg' gone through. 70 1— .:IF7 .1 ,-- , . "- 1 1W- F MC 5— ...,. ir'." 4. l• o •'•• . • -...er., ' • . . . news* " in limit redeoesi 'farts to_tistost id a liiitisteris of hoca , t ,„ galtn i t i ei;th i.. .igh I*4ll demarviag a isttenron I % reprobaitoth iihers I sew glycol b n e : s li t t r u i l !% Yong. wfil, *e hop nits fist, kr li ly, f ro m expedients adortli to ward the l o we s t o coati i t he n a v e t h e Candidate, thorigh lb ! vb. el% it a se , of emits en d the Government' party lorproil- . 2 . 11 th atast able o n t loan' raci fail of their object, refloat bot aactie Ail Ind*. ration and cooteept of tile Peblie. M . r: fiailitoust _ ..„,.... speaks the spirit of troth a n d rig ht f eelin g , w h e n hi :ae FRESCII PAPERS. -...i.m.-- CHAMBER OF THE KING, Dec. 5. " The Court will go into oroernini for 21 days, commencing to. morrow, on account of the death of hat Majesty the Queen of Eng Md. The first 11 days the moerniug to toe black, and the taut ten • tt . • 66 The Secretary 01 toe ming s notounr, 4. 14. DE CH AM POLIES." Ptia~;~i~. to Pad% w The Doke of Wellington bad the honour to offer his homage to his Royal ifighness Monsieur and the Deice de Betel. The Duke of Wellington and Lord Castlereagh dined yesterday with the Niece Casteiticala, the Neapolitan Ambassador. Chevalier Piis has bad the honour of presenting to the Kit m g, a Poem, sodded The Defenders of the Holy 4 ll:lance. It is confidently asserted, that the Government is ea:spied respecting a Project of Law, tending to 6s the term of secret confinement, to be presented the eusuiug Session. The Doke d'Angoulerne arrived at Valenciennes en the Ist inst ; everywhere his Ropal Highness is welcomed in the most enthusiastic manner. On the 114 inst. this Prince inspected the eitsdel and foetid. cations. On quitting this town, Ids Koval Highness, it is said, will proceed to Lisle. Intelligence from Sazony states, that conformably to au order of the King, the faunae KlOO4 of which so much has been said in the German Papers), has been transferred some tune' inie to the workboase 'if Colditz. ILo has undergon severs% ezaminatiwes be. fore the Authorities. The Pastor Pietsch frequently visits hist, for the purpose of rectifying his principles. j Five per Cents.—Friday, 68 c. 70 f. -- - A o f Ws have authority to state. that the Fitract of a better fret• Martehester, dated November 2R, which appeared in • tie Sirretswew of the 30tb ult. respecting Mr. NADIN, is net wee ; and the person who brought the Letter to ibis °Ace, is requested to call again the earliest opportunity. _ KOCK OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE'O'CLOCK Komi gawk 270} 5 per Peat. Navy . 3 per Veal. Red. 781 India Hoods 84 86 p S ppr Cosi. Consols Long Ana. 4 2ii 5461 S i } per 42at. lizetiNiser Bin. 19 29 p tomato tar Aee. 790 Osmium 4 per Cee4,96li *US STATESMAN. r LONDON: WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER il l 1818• The Bank, it seems, finds it no longer protlent to resist public opinion, and to press for blood. The late verdicts at the Old Bailey hese bad the salutary effect of cresting a pause in the sanguinary career of the blood cemented system. The remaining indict menu for ',tiering forged Notes hese been with drawn% and the Public are greeted in the meantime with the consolation, that " the Bank of England will Wu* a new Note of much more difficult imi tation than the preseut,early in the next year." We greatly doubt whether the Public *ill gain mach by this r r.