The Statesman. — London, England, 1819-02-25 00:00:00

width Buie adverseries palmated on the gross poll. &fete be retired from the Heating., he hid one re quest to make of the friends who were assembled be fore him ; he hoped that no party would think him either peesemptemas or arrogant in making it, when he mated that the regent was, that they wereW hoer his antagoeist. He had beendeterred from making It at an earlier period of this earnest by the impute. tins of arroyo% presemptimi, which bad been cast upon r frlei.d of his in the last Electioo, wbo mad. a simile, ',quests on behalf of Sir M. Mazwell. Ile eiwisinted any presumptuous feeling in submitting it to their notice, and concluded his speech by earnest ly otheeting the Electors to grant him this boon which he requested of them. Mr. Ilobhouse then retired amid load cheering.. Mr. Lana afterwards stepped forward, when the cheering, were immediately converted into the atrrotest bootlegs. He, however, persisted in at. tempting lo ,gain a hearing, end al far as we beard, spoke to the following effect:— He commenced by observing, that he could very much wish to °blahs a hearing from them, as he had a few comments to make upon the conduct of their adversaries.—(Off, off! )—Those Gentlemen, whe ther the day was teeter not, made a point of imputing their want of retail to the state of the weather. (Ho, fon, ha ! free. the crowd.)—The Hon. Baronet had, the day before, said, that as he (Mr. Lamb) was net allowed to answer Mr. Hobbes/0i speeche., be was placed in a very diugromble alteetion—he world beseech them to release the Baronet from this disagreeable sitsatioe, and to permit ides (Mr. Lamb) to eay a few words to release him. The clamoer, which, till this port of Mr. Lamb's speech, had not been very general, though it was very great, here became so nisi I, that it was impossible for either Mr. Lamb or any other ;tertian to hear what he sakl: he therefore bowed to the melikede, end was retiring, when he wes bit nn the tweeds by a snow-ball, hurled at him. This brought him nn the platform a second time, to return thanks for the f which he bad jest received at their hands. He again attempted to obtain silence • but finding it impossible, goori•naturedly wishe d tie Electors good sight, end retired from the Hosting.. Sir F. Bcaorrr then stepped forward, and was received with even more than the usual enthusiasm. As soon as silence could-be procured for him, he le formed the Electors, that after the eloquent speech which they had heard from Mr. Ilobhouse, he should be very sorry to detain them above a few nswellellaS in the present slate of the weather.—(" Oh, lee don't mind the snore," frost the neskitiade.)—tic could mot congratulate them on the slate of the Pell that day, nor en the successful appeuritte• of the reuse which they were booed to support; he costa, however, congratulate the Hoe. Coadidate on le not being any longer seen in that unseemly compost, In which be had before been standing; mod be did congratulate him from his very soul on his befog re leased front the disgrace of epeskiag on the ems board with the Ingivideel to whom he alluded.—He offered these congratulations to the Learned Geode man in return for the, condolence u hich he bed of• fered him for haring lost, as he said, the good opi. aeon of his couatrymen.—[/:ear II —The loss of their good opinion was an evil that might befall him under the various deletions end false im pressions which soma people were so bogy in propagating, regarding his intentions; bet he should should, from pursuing what he deemed his line of duty by any fear of losing their good opinion, Of the good opinion of any other set of men. If he acted on jest end honourable principles, be was well aware, that though for a time they might mios conceive his intentions, in the course of years they would see through their error, and willingly re-esta blish him in that favour which they at present assigned him. One of the great reasons which be had for preseutiog himself to their notice was, to ascertain the fact with regard to himself, whether be bed lost their good opinion: another was to show them that be was not afraid to face Isis msemiew, or to avow and eindicete any part of his public conduct. The reason which most particularly pressed him to come before them that day was to read to them the charges which Mr. Bowie bad brought upins( him the day before, end which at that lime they would not allow him to veld.—(" Netter redact limas, hres 0 turncoat," from: the crowd.)—Wbetber that person was a tern. cost or ao was immaterial, as the charge origiaated from Major Cartwright. The first question put to him te,ae, bow he know that Major Cartwright did not wish to be retuned Member of Parliament for Westminster? The second v.., why he would not support the Mejor's return? and the third, what were the charges of falsehood brought forward by Cobbeit, and knowingly sanctioned by Major Cart. 'right ? He tben defended himself against these charges ',orally, asserting that in the first two tease he had acted as any other man who had the good of his country et heart would bare acted ender similar circumstances, sod showing that in the latter Major Cartwright had sanctioned the lies which Cobbott had spread regarding the 'sciences trimmed by himself and his Committees daring the last Elec tion. Cobbett had stated, that be (Sir Francis llordett) had paid large sums of mosey to his different Committees, and that he bad paid Clary for cooing to the fleeting. and insulting Hoot.— Now would it be believed that Cleary we the agent and private secretary of Major Cartwright, and, therefore, that he mutt have known that Ms part of Cobbett's accusation was false? Know. kg this, ought he not to have exposed the falsehood*, son the Electors, to have warned them of the china& ter of the writer, and to have shown thous, that as one part of the charge was false, no great credit oiled to be attached to the other. The Hors. Bart. then proceeded to advert to the conduct of the 3forn kg Chronicle, end said, that out of the many accusa tions which that Paper had brought @phial him there was one to which honest plead guilty ; mid yet, whose he said se, be only meant that it was tree to the word, bet not to the spirit. The Editor of the Mermen( Chroside says, " We hams est salt alto gether." This. if it sweet any thin, meant that thete was some degree of intimacy between them.— There was, however, onne—he had indeed once dined with that Geetissaan, bat he could assure them that it was the may act in his life of which he was ashamed. mi. matters ware, however, trilling in comperisen with ipthert 'high he wilked :2 impress 90 tint, st tendon. The principlithese were the necessity or coming early to the novibef i li delusion hid pared to hate any ellset-44•0 cionqn Ilion wilt at !Peed ---,though a stead pertlie the Independent Elms. tors kid yet poilak Mau necessary that limy should keep In view the Importance of the struggle it whisk she, meseengeeed,aml stet merely give their geed wishes, but also their personal *zealous to the cease In which all of them were engaged. He treat. id that en the morrow their rouse *mild wear a sate. smiling aspect : bat whether it did or mot, he entreat ed them to do every thing they could to (vassal it, that they might compel even their adversaries to Miy, that if they did not obtain ;access, at least they de serted it. Sir French Burdett then retired amid the loudest cheers. 'Mt crowd then dispersed. We ore informed, anC we heilf•P. correctly, that Major Ca rteright's ft Muds haye withdrawn his nesse from the Poll. TilV, RI'VrESM 1,1 DAY AT ONE O'cLOCA. &per rest. Nagy LA Will Nook 64 66 Loft As.. 1•1 t Ktehnieet l 0 Ofergera Lon of the Eutaw:ha are surprisingly skilled lo ibis artificial assetomy—but then they are ignorant of the MIND Of MON. A lecture will ere len; be read to thee on this divine *abject. Some now Paosstsuxus will by sore le arise, and re-animate the lifeless emu. Let the enemies of the rights and pri vileges of a generous and indignant People take care and keep at a distance from one of the limbs of the newly vivified Ream" when he is pet in motion: Bet why say we privileges of the People ? We beg the People's pardon—they have RlGHTS—they have I Pewees, bet they confer Privileges. They are the sovereign disposers and &leviers of authority; and washout those who abase that authority. This is lan pogo we will not only twain England, bet we would employ it, if necessary, at Alz-la-Chapelle, if the Emperors and Kings were there again assembled. Re not dismayed, therefore, my fellow-patriots; if 'kiwis possible that our ads Its could gain this tie& victory at Westminster, which however revery enlikely, we may fairly promise you that they will not long enjoy the triumph. The real Max of the Pro. rte, who■ we hive ■ow before us, appears too i graceful, too allering, too solidly beneficial to the I grand work we have in baud not to b• made the pro f totype of thousands. Remember that he is new exactly what he was twenty-three years ago. Ile had the courage then to take his pest where few dared to stand by him. Now others are ready to join him.— The numerous body, composed of the timid, the he sitatiitg, the watchful, the wavering, cum malls lige, must move up Jo him, for he will eel give way for 1 their sakes. We will promise bins Immortality of I fame, if he comities, honest to the end of his life. And why should he not ? What can all the earth offer him in temptation to swerve from that strait forward course he has takes ? Wealth and title he I has already. These were at first to as teats of his 'Weevily. It is ambition, then, which urges Meson through pod report and ill report. No doebt.Vhat great soul would not be ambitious to be styled the first Patriot of his ago. His esperiesce and his understanding have taught him how it has Iseppened that many a distinguished person has lost a helf-esto- Milked reputation : Sir FRANFIS Bounties will be in his own keeping, sod be knows its value too much to put It on a hazard. Mr. Hosuouses recent I speeches have operated wonders in his behalf. IN FWD. INSTInft kLICTION. State of tile Members polled this day op toTbr►e o'Clock J. C. Hasaposs, Igsq 149 Has. U. Luis 146 J. 4:Antwituass. Seq. State of the Poll, es it closed yesterday : J. C. ileamoost, Seq. 11.• LANs J. C•nwaioK, k&q If it sure only on account of the trimmest suspen sion of the Roberts Corpus Act,, one cannot but wooden there shored be fogad a lukewarm politician in the country. The Habeas Corps* was designed as the most effectual of all the securities skids bat men wisdom has eve► devised against oppression. It Is astonishing that so little has been done i■ fa vour of the liberty of the subject during the lut half century. So long ago as 1770, • struggle we! rade for purifying the Bosse of Commons, and 'otiose means of doing It were seggested. Lord CUATRAM proposed to infuse a new portion of health (as he termed it) into the Constitetion by an addition to t►e Cunt! Members. Nothing was done, although very soon after the tumours Resolution of Mr. Don mho passed the Howse, viz.—that Ma Indiums of the Crown has iscreased, Is increasing, and ought to be diminished. THE FUNDll.—This being Settling Day, a poet bottle took place in the house, which was crowded at an early hour. Consols were yesterday draw at 74k, which decided bets to a great amount, laid at the commencement of ibis @cermet, that they +ovoid not be done at 75. This morning they begins at 76k, seat to;, bet at 14 o'clock fell to 75.—This fail took place previous to die Commissioners being are. ed, who got Reduced at 75i, and were served by I the Jobbers generally. The greeted gloom prevailed rk the City yesterday and this morning, from the depressioe In the Fends, and the auneencemeetof more failures, some of theta houses of the first cre dit. Up to this time (one o'clock) no great de. coulter had been declared, but several ducklings bad waddled, and fears were entertained for to-Morrow, the principal day, as the differences were inertness, and appearances militated much 'glint several hitherto respectable concerns. The trial of the eight persons, charged with con. conspiring with Mr. Mercerun t a late Magistrate, to detrain,' the parish of Bethnal Green, was expected to have come on this morning in the Court of King's Bench : and from the public interest taken, an lat. unease concourse of people from diet and the neigh bearing perishes assembled to hear the reselt ; but the trial was postpooed till the Sittings after nest Term. Welfare, from authority to be depended on, thst the Duchess of Cawaareea is espected to be confined met mou.h, the Duchess of KENT in April. the Duchess of CLARENCE 10 May, mid the DSCINNIP of CusinestLaen in Jone.—(Morning Paper.) The British ship Friendship, of Bombay, has been totally lost no the Nico Bus. Ti,. crew, 125 la number, Were saved, and carried to Palo Panting, by s vessel which bad been dispatched to their relief by Government. A certificate of a pension was lately lassoed at the War Department (United States), in favour of 11am nit FaAnct-co, of Whitehall, New York, aged one hundred and fhb ty year.. Fs VICIICO was • soldier at the coronation of Queen ANNIZ • he is still able I. walk, and retains his mental facu lties. Yetterday a Coen of Di►ectors was held at the East India-lanes', when Captain Haim:row was sworn bon An command of the ship Matilda, con signed to Cbisa TO CORIMSPONDENTS. •.• Agile and again has the Editor to lament the absolute lem peolbility of Measles all parties. Id the unhappy schism which has Woke oat maw the Friends of Freedom. ea the sublet if IM Wertheimer Melo*. A Hemel. a Radical RAAB, is the object is view, Mad to ibtala that, will all big Wet esregies be diverged. He will sot allow hiserif to be warped by any 4-maiden ha of preme. friendship, or of keg acrinailassce, se as. is his optniuu, to vetoed Ant dtvontly•to•be *Liked-foe cossoirmattioo.--. Or this greeted he Wpm it will sot beconsitueo as arm- pot. tf be says— .• 0. his Own trout he will stead sagseved, Add Manse the rubric of the world." to oekttowledelot the favours received front Easy well-wisher* to the STATIMIAX. the Editor has to observe, shut, at they contain etude open other rapers sod Coteinporoies by same, It wed/ be deemed unfair, according to the laws of polkfcal dNaby, fey Me Wervaariseta eemmenee as at tack wpm them. Thegote set a Cerrimglais himself, he ad mire hisspiritcd ante—•• Noon ma impetus teressit." Let his adversaries ghee take the lest lire. A Writer WI LOOM timely gubseribine to Charities, and on Ms validities of Login of root.tor dootaptiolo, spike oar seatimengs. and shall hate plate in the Svevang.gd the lest opporhisky. The proem Lloctigio murk se with ap plications. We gratefully accept the eeriel pee nod able reasoniegy of J. F.—Where shall we direct to him t A TlritTift• of his order cannot fail to inspirit the army (hitherto of Martyry, but now) of Patriots. PRICK OF STOCKS THII Bank Slack 3 per Celli. Red. 761 9 per Cray. Cumuli 43f Si per Cent. innenl. fee Ace. 714 , : 4 per Cent. THR ,srArtsmui LONDON: TIIOIIISDAY. VElratt ART 25, 1819. _—.,..._ The Westminster Election, as long as it lasts, will necessarily occupy the attention of every man who Me the faculty of reasoning, on whichsoever aide be maga. And, indeed, we should suppose that there Van scarcely eclat • hews Greeters (unless an idiot), who does not feel impressed with its importance, as well with Its reference to an amelioration in the este blishments and morals of society, as to the 'tuition 'of his own individual character. The ladrpentionl Electors of the City of Westminster deserve honour i foe their pstriotk conduct. The Committee esprit praise for their unwearied outdo° in the Pustac Cuss. The schism is at an end. Would it had never bees crested ! The good mom t►e schismatics are sorry that their partial dared loot muumuus to the adversary its his imperil enmity. Bat, as Sir F•ANCts DOIROSTT very properly observes, " Lot us do all we can in the Gooe Canis, and act, at least, as if we deserved ISCONI." CATO said, that every citizen who hes the capacity to think, ) should take an interest in the choke of throe men who are to make laws by which he end his posterity ere to be governed. What wretch is he who says, " I'll leave this to wiser heads than any own." Yoke him at once to the sledge. He is tit only to hew wood, and draw water. Ili, chil dren must and will hereafter despise so abject a progenitor. They will be ashamed of his name end memory. If it were only from the consideration of the advance in every other science, that of Govern ment ought to improve. The human mind has te. ceived en impels' within the lest twenty years that has given it the benefit of as many centuries. How in sulting and nauseating then to observe Ministers look back • hundred years for precedents I Why cot then look back to the time of witches and wizards for precedents, and treat all those who assert a fore: knowledge of events, in the same wicked and stupid manner they were. According to the laws of witchcraft, we deserve the punishment anciently iullicted on soothsayers : for we declare that the present system of ruling this country verges to • close. That it cannot long last, appears as certain to the enhood winked eye as the vicissitudes of day and night. Our Ministers have had their day ? The spleudosri of the Crown, and the light of the venal torches may 'sable them sad their supporter to grope their way e little leapt, bet the fat of the land has been too long consumed to furnish them for ever with materials for flambeassa. They have committed waste to the very inch of mulls : sod their poor devoted creatures have been killed of. Thus it is, that taking up an individual topic the mind is insensibly led into g-tierals. The swan drinp, even of the smallest veins, lead to the heart, to the centre, where the corruption is lodged, cud whence it is gargled by • wonderfully and nicely constricted circulation to the very estremities of the bully politic. oin Ca r a► Milileil.ll sod COMICAL. To rns RU/7t R or ris STATESMAN. sentiments uniformly expretsed in your candid end manly Paper, coerespond so ea gerly with my own, that 1 feel more than common interest in its secrets. Your observations on the pending Westminster Election, are founded on the strictest truth, and are decidedly more to the point, than those of any other Drily Journal. They can neither be too widely cir culated, nor too highly apprecisted. Your indefnigeble and endsonled 'lenient in the ncred cam of Liberty, mast insure you the re spect and attachment of every sell-wisher to hie country, and It is, in my estimation, (independent of their good wishes,) the ditty of all such to strog. gle in every I,os.ible manner (directly sod indirect/4 FOIL A Rum:sr. Reruns'. Nothing can contribut• more essentially In (16,, than en exposure of the baseness and cruelty, which have so long conked the onesores of our present corrupt mod prollieete Ministers. This is to lie effected, either by holding Them op to contempt and ridicole, or by havi ng recourse to incontrovertinle arguments, which few can make use of with as much skill as yourself. I —Strange as it may eppear to many, and smarm others, perhaps, to yur, Sir, I hart known seve. ral people whose op* ' .tos here been brought to a right bias by a few jingling lines of metre, when all the weight of logic and grave debate was totally disregarded; and what may appear still stranger, though it is No less tree, is, that the anchors of our I misery have voursetvcs bare more stung by a tart I stanza, ore ludicrous sonnet, than by the dosnright !conviction •f their asefariciats condom'. I'or in. I sluice: the Ines which you honoured with insertion ; in the Srsrasscs.v of last Saturday, were, as I hese I been informed by • person wholly deserving of credit, cut from nearly thirty of your Papers, and forwarded to Lord CASTIMILACII end Mr. CASAIIIIO. NO of then enlightened weethies rent than to steins with ifory and iridignation,stid swore that he would sooner I be sr bullied' in the Hume of Commons, during a whole Seas ion, than be attacked as he these was.-- Ile ceocleded his maledictions by charitebly wishing t you sad myself doomed to be burnt to sabots by o ft of the blackguard (hi. very term) Surf:sew:. i New, in sty opinion, be could net have' paned a higher eocomium ; be that as It nay, Sir, I will en . denostr, with your erquiesornae, to keep some of I these usurpers in a pleasant stale of irritation, by I nadir% you, es often es away be agsweble to your . self, stmt gentle stimulant, talcolated for the pur pose. I shell have Nipple means to ascertain the effects of the preatriptioo, sod will not fall to ten port accordiogly. I now enclose you a few lines which play upon the word Calming, though I solemnly as sure you, that I em far from being actuated by any private motives of resestment towards the Individual who la knows by that name; bet I think bias the very worst sf all but are bad, for he positively glories la deriding the sofferiop of oppressed issoceses, sad lwanaltiog with demoniac rapture over the wrongs of the lower orders, from whom be mare immediately Is descended. I subjoin a (Orlin Impromptu on the Etectioo, sad bare the honour to be, Sir, Yoor humble Smear, arid warmest Well-wisher, J. F. Fel.. 24. TER LAST DTIDO OPFLCII AND coatrooms" OF TWAT IL LOSTRIOGI KATI MIL M. cAlin. TO MI SOUND AND PAN MIAS, IRS CILRDRATID DOCTOR ruse. 0 Ni,.. 0 Norm, my mad rum oat, gad away a Om, and plea, /Imo, nest deeply mid tar Liberty, sill row eapire WWI Cats. Mita l 'TI. tree. bee wiags are timely clipp'd, But 'are he was ass.., hum, Te burl her prostrate tot the sate bt a. all the aim of Cams, Nam I A beggar bora. %RAMO( a groat bre" Jbaraey hura, Bat room hi. 6.1e..1s le oppre,s pi/scored a O R E for Carr, Nina S. And whe m palM the pure /Agit. %bleb Owe kis INIIITOW 11111 Nina. When kelpie's ace was modeled By 'pies, ad t AND, o dark les rags with tiger err; Ad all m • a 44es la saw, To rake a acme ..f grit. 11A. .üblr idi,o for CANN, grit, I 'Wiest Labatt'''. brave admen% l always led tie vas, !lass, But '4lll, fear, she'll riot nail.. I% hes Death has IWO year Chas, Iduta I Also ! I feel him km appro.& , our tiresd moo wpm, Nies, AM, then, the laarpreelea.bmis ill sack 'hr bound tars. Num l Sol, Oh soy !Si,., mama 0 7 en. Aad aiseld my MN, MAR. Ante, For milliousselli abase Mom bosh; became disk mate Is Cm, Biwa I J. r. imrrtourrtr. W' .re the Ante of ti.e 11.11 l Wh dr. Velem is reel. rho. p for Ilessousc, erhysido ido fees i The larc•ors Y.ee [...led, Wane hei doe will ammrail. That mar was isa" Wri le *eves dodoes !* We hare received a Ile of Barbarism Papers to the IStb ult., from which the &Bowleg are estrum': " BARZADOCS JAM. 4.—The Governor Word. ford has arrived in 10$ days from St. Thomas's, red reports, it was generally belLred at that Island, ol:st Lord Cots&Am, with the following vessels, had reached M aprons —the Yuma ado, of 64 guns. Peru (formerly the North Sim), 61, Mexico sod Limos, 60 guns oath, end Calib's, 10 gent. " JAN. 9.—Weare happy to hear, that the epi demic, which has lately been the Min of great mor tality in Tobago, is now considerably subsided." By a private ship from Cadiz, letter hare been received from thence to the 10th inst. The trade of that City bad been nearly suspended by the imposi tion of the increased duties by the Spanish Gomm meat. Memorials had not only been promoted from Cadiz, but also from Cartilages''. Malaga, and ether places where the altoratios bad occurred, whic h . represented the ill effects of this new system. NO reply op to the date of these letters had bees given to the Remonstrances by the Government, but the imposts being so estremely herdsman*, it W2 l Im possible that they should to levied for sry 1 "0-' c ! time.