The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-01-24 00:00:00

15 - Ft; . ;A fj f f• ~. et—s. • * THE STA' 011105•100- - C. possessed the most transcendent talents. Not only b:roself, hot every man present moat feel, or ought to feel. honoured by the attendance of such a man as M r. C. who, he did not hesitate to assert. bad dose more to dispel the dark clouds and &lesions that bad for sub a Tenet of time overwhelmed them—had done more to take the thick Mm from their eyes, and abow them Itre teuridtwatbn in widcio thew wen unfortenately Aced. Mod hold oat more rational means of relief than e asy ether Ina*. They NM knew the cense of their di.true. eat they knew the only way to obtain an ef fectual relief. Mr. Cobbett had clearly peinted it oat us them. and they might • accept or rejectthere lay 'their nit; and there therm ealation ; it was for them to decide: Wu it •at all enrptising, he asked, that the Coast/ of Huntingdon should he sble to boast of the Ignites• of each a man as Mr. Cobbett in its 'earseal No. it was Mr. Cebhett's writings that loadl opened their eyes, and shown them their almost hope-1 Tess coaditlik, and' belled also pointed out the renadpi 'as Weil le the disease. They Auld not, or ought to be devised at the .existink prejudice against Mr. 'Catlett. They knew..that for 40 years, he (the 'Clialresas) himself had bit to combat with the bunt 'and mat neprincipled chiracters In the County ; he 'hate with them. and borne their vile calumn ies -lute pluentations. knedieg that the time woalli evantritilltanlve when they w ould be compelled to del }abate lolls intention'. et time had now arrived.l • the'enonati ranks were thinaet. and even they wonisi • now *postponed to admit. that soesetbing was " rott olt aye state." He could not be charged with being late ilk the field ojposing the enemies of corruption ; lolled tot joined the standard of freedom at the ele nada boor, he bad battled with them in their strong kolas ; mod whet they taw success wailing to crown their toile tot struggles, they - coed not but feel son ' salons of tbd dust pleasing deuription, which amply rewarded them for all the odious lies and detestable falsehoods 'propagated spits% them by their Met. nntrafiteluting enemies. But if he was en • lose ated; s •how mach more was it to be espected that sub A Inn as Mr. Cabbed weals) be reviled sod tor period bfs e n emies very existence depended tiro . do. 'atroyingaeh an opponent as Mr. Cobbett ; but with all 'their detestable, base, and inwardly conduct towards that glut man, they had fatted that he was not to he saidlied--that ziAbt was not to be overcome bJ might. He was convinced that Mr. Cabbed de served the affections of every honest man in the empire. tie was the most powerful writer of the age. au the country was more isdehted to him for his evenderfai talents than to any other political character is potisteen, or that ever bad preceded him. He might •be charged with aging the language of Lottery ; he despised 'artery; he would not stoop to tatter any sus. hot he would do justice, as far as lay in his power to a man who was so deservieg of the general appro bation of his countrymen. The conduit o f as honest pan deserved to be eulogised. and it was but proper that the friends of freedom should eulogise a man who was the grand object pointed at by the poisoned shafts of the venal And the base. He (tbr Chairman) bad n't escaped their assaults. but their malice was harm- Jess ; he felt conscious of the justice of his 'noodles .tioresghout his political life. and it was a feeling of b reetitade that had anpported him. Mr. Cobbett bad (eaglet the enemies of corruption while he was wielding likpeassfal talents; tad while exercising his mighty pores to the sereie,e of his country, he mast feel helve in seeing his predictions fulfilled. He (Mr. C lobett) wu the man who *mild so direct their coarse as to enable them to weather the Owe, to disperse the dark clouds that now Guiltily/ ~:tio• political hemi sphere. and bring them safe thinagistkapupest which they wore buffeting. They were int. nor could not be. if they would consider for an Wilmot, surprised at Mr. Cobbett's being abused, reviled, slandered, and • persecuted. They mast know that there was not a tax eater that had not been employed to bunt him down ; but he had continued his exertions fearlessly through " good report. and evil report." and then stood higher in the clinic's of his countrymen. and woe at that period more popular than ever lie was at any former time ; as a proof of which. be bad only to refer to his reception at Huntingdon, where be was an entire stranger. Mr. Cobbett was charged with inconsistency, but that charge, like all the rest, was sot, anti could not be supported. If changing from bed to pot, au* following the good for near thirty yeare-was being inconsistent. and was to be censured, this Mr. Cobbett was the most in consistent man Ake. and deserved most to be censured. The fact was, that Mr. Cobbett had caught the feeling of the piddle. and by his extraordinary powers was able to direct the public wind, and be was leading it on to the visual working of the happiness of the people. He did sot mach like the term " inconsistency," apos tasy Was the word, or nothing ; they could not charge Mr. Cobbett with apostasy; but who was sot sug gested at the apostasy of the present age? The speaker then made some very pointed remarks upon some of the Whig Lawyers now filling high judicial situations, who formerly were classed amongst the Reformers, and bad made the people stepping sinus to their present elevation.--(Load applause.)--Even the arch apos tate, Mr. Pitt, be said. was a Reformer before he got Utopian. as well as my Lord Londonderry ; and, in deed, nearly all the pleeenten of the present day had babbled Reform. and bad made the people a stalking horse to enable them to elevate themselves to place sad power. Had ever Mr. Cobbett lived by the taxes? had be. or his family, or any of his conocxione, at any time been supported by the public purse? And ought he be called lecossistent, because he had discovered and exposed the baneful and noconstitutional practices if the Meads of corruption 2 Was he to be charged with ineoesistescy, because be bad changed from doing that' which he believed was not tending to the people's good, sad was then exercising the mighty ta lents with which God had been pleased to endow his mind, for the good of mankind ?---(Loud applause.) — When we find a man gabbling Reform one day. and accepting place the next, then talk of inconsistency if they thought proper. If they could compare Mr. Cobbett with a certain great Lawyer, well known is the county of Cheshire, who was a pretended Re former—who was a whip—who deserted the ranks for place sailer an Administration he had formerly op posed, then they might say the charge of ioconsietency was jest; bat the man who bad fought the up-bill work of Mr. Gobbing was sot to be charged by such ma as these with inconsistency. Who could hear suck a Charge without despising such whist —sod oho was there but wont.' applaud such Mihie qeM aft- cesdect as Alti Colleen's ? Iperitelst aft a Ituelt-ln Jim* oteech • *strata he St pOs• he had done the county of linntiagdon such hot. lie would coached, Ity drinkioti foist, with the. times three, and he knew they would do justice to Ile wapiti give tit plain teruss-a" - William Cobbett. and Ond bless him." - - • 1 Mr. COBIBITT rose to address the Meeting. He hid not the vanity to think that ho deserved all the high eulogiums of the worthy Chairman, though he would not deny that be was deserving of aomething at their hands for his exertions. It would he false delicacy in him if he were to pretend that his exertions were sot deserving of their approval. The honour _they had done him was very great. hot he would not deny that he is some degree merited it. He would proceed to the important hn.inen they were met to discuss. — They knew that there were two documents that bad been circulated in that, and perhaps every other county in England ; he alluded to the letter of Lord John Russell, and the statement of the truly noble conduct of my Lord Fitzwilliatn. Every honest man would not withhold loin mead of praise for such trolly patriotic conduct—he applauded it; but though Bari Fitzwilliam had acted more noble and diilatereated thee soy other great landowner, my Lord Suffieldl excepted, yet be should not be doing justint to them or to himself if he were ROI to insert that the Noble Earl was in error—not an error of the heart. Dena* men, but of the head. Still his conduct was noble and generous. though founded on erroneous and mis taken principles; and he (Mr. C.) had thought it hie drty, in the county near where the Noble Earl resided. and had large estates, to state his reasons why he believed that his Lordship was in error. His Lord&ll4 says that prices are come down to the lowest piteh.l that they are reduced to the same standard as in the years 1792 to 1794; and though the Noble Ba s el', could hind his ten:tuts down to their leases, yet he I says, " No, I will not ; 1 will reduce my rents to the same amount as in those years." This was highly praiseworthy; but still his Lordship would find him self mistaken. He spoke with diffidence towards the Noble Earl, not that he bad any the least doubt of the truth of hits assertions, for be would clearly prove' that his Lordship was completely wrong. And my Lord John Russell had also formed very erroneoon: opinions upon the existing situation of the lead . : owners and farmers. His Lordship has two propel.; lions. Ist. That prices have fallen now to the same: reduced „scale as in the year 1795, and would f nu lower. 2nd. That if lie reduces his rents to Met same seals as is 1795, the tenant sill be as well'• off ea at that period. Ile (Mr. C.) begged leave to dissent from his Ler Iship, for the prices bad not fallen to the lowest mark. but would continue io fall lower and lower; but supposing that they had fallen to the very lowest pitch, and the rent the saunas in the years referred tn. the tenant meta not be .swell off. There were other things to be reduced besides his rent. before he would be ae well off as in 1793, and every one must know and feel the truth of his aner tines. He felt himself rather embarrassed by the high enlogium he had received from the Chairman ; but he weld endeavour to convince sham. bela concluded that he was sot undeserving of thank sail as far in him lay he would do justice to the Gentle men's commeadation. His Lordship says. also. that gold and silver sovereigns and shillings are the circa hating medium, as it was at the period alluded to, and rent being the same, the quantity of gold and silver cannot have decreased, and therefore rents ought to be, as the prices are, the same as in the years 1792 to 1795. They know (said Mr. C.) that the cause of the evil was the diminution of the circulating me dium ; and if so he should like to know where that evil would stop, which was sow urged un by the ope ration of Mr. Peel's Bill, which was increased and increasing by the Bank drawing in their notes in Nay last, and which would continue to increase till the Bill was in full effect in 1823. As the circulating medium was decreased in quantity. whether that &- collating medium consisted of Bank notes, gold, or silver, so would prices decrease; and why should it stop, when causes were at work tending to effect a further reduction ? No ; as the Bank drew in their notes, the circulating medians would be lessened. and the evil would in that ratio increase. [From the lateness of the hoer at which the Report arrived from Huotiogdon„ we are compelled to leave the remainder for to-morrow.] The following was the Petition adopted at this Meeting : " TO TN6 NONOURIUL6 TUC COMMONS OF Tire UNITED KINGDOM OF °SPAT BRITAIN AND IRZLAND, IN /AK -I.I•FI6NT Asa6MKLa D. " The Petition of the Land-Owners, Farmers. mid Traders, whose names are undersigned. residing in the vicinity of Iluntingdon and parts adjacent : " Most humbly sheweth—That the affairs of per petitioners are is a state of embarrassment. mail selves and families in • state of distress and alarm of which they are wholly unable to lay an @deviate dr seriptio• before your Honourable House—that it is their sincere conviction, that unless an efficient remedy be speedily applied, a convulsion of the most alarming na ture must be the final consequence; for thew see the hour approaching when rents mast go naiad, taxes and tithes uncollected. relief to the poor emlistributed, and when the labouring classes, raging with hunger, will be induced to satisfy that hunger by acts of vto leoce. " The cause of this state of suffering and danger can not. your petitioners humbly presume. he other than manifest to your Measurable House; bet your humble petitioners beg leave At express their decided opinion that the immediate came is that act of your Honourable House, tan which has, instant, tripled the value of money netepa red with the prictivf produce, and which, leaving the taxes nereduced and itistraets unmodified, has, in fact. tripled those taxes, and disturbed and violated all existing contracts. " Your petitioner*. therefore, humbly pray that your Honourable House will be pleased to adopt measures to rectify oar contracts, SCCOMIIog to the alteration in the value of money—that you will be pleased to abolish all siemens sad grants, all pensions not fully merited by real public services—to discharge the standing army. to curtail the Civil List and reduce the interest of the Pub lic Debt, so that the burthen of taxation may he greatly alleviated ; these measures belay, in the fixed *Olga' of your humble Petitioners. absolutely necessary to pat an end to the present distress sad misery, and to tern aside the dangers which new menace every species of pro pony, as well commercial as agricultnral, and which, in the conviction of your Petitioners, threatea to pledgee scoots of disorder. conk:doe, and violence. which duty '• their families, their country, and their King, compels .1.1 7 - Mt $t . iFate wilt% a degree oldonew and alarm noel epneieserihe. tio rs are not ineenat is to the defertive ntation in the' se of Parliament, constituted, and cannot, therefore. help ex. aril( —.waft their decided. *alga - that 11111-nwasawal“ ...... thpt atpresent afflict this unhappy country are increased, if sot oceasioned. Iv this unfietunote circumstance. We, therefore. garnet 4 bops your Honourable House ,podosson Nill lose no time in institatior an inquiry into the pre- Mma state of such Representation, in order that you and the People at largo may receive that srfrieli they foal istbeir binh-right--a fall, fair, sad free EXETER, .1 414. The Owners and Occupiers of Lands assembled on Friday last, at Congdon's Hotel. judiciously deter mined to request the Sheriff to convene. a Cooney Meeting, instead of adopting resolutions. and present ing a petition, from a small number of the tuff of this great and °see opulent County. The deceptions practised on the farmers to persuade them that their evils are the result of every cases but the right one, cease to produce effect. The goad is their sides make them open their eyes. They begin to see since they beifoo to feel, and the presto-hi-cemolornsi tricks of 'pelltical jugglers no longer soothe their sufferings tir tabs their naiads. The public espenditiere mast be seduced as pearly as possible to the etasdiard of 1799; the interest of the mations, debt must be greatly diva %Oohed sad the lazes which press most heavily oe the productive classes mast be withdrawn. Prices of Ogrimiltural produce are still high. compared with prises in past timer of Pease, and are only relatively low is comparison with the prices obtained diarist*, war. The excess of our expenditure of the Go veinment, above its amount in 1792, amounts to more Chat 19,000,000; whereas the wanks expeoce of governing I. America costs about jolt as many DOLLARS ! Young as is the New World in her progress towards civilisation. yet alAsady it begins to put the old countries to the blush, in matters which respect the happisese of mankind. Economy generally pre vails in her affairs; whilst the more profuse and pro fligate are the governors of the Old World, the more they seem to fancy that they are madded to esteem. As the value of the articles of commerce and agriculture will *tweed to peace-prices. is spit* of all impolitic attempts to raise them. Ministers most be contented to do the work of Oovermsest at a peace-price, or the People will soon be compelled, by necessity, to find Mier managers .for the political machine. No Eng lishman, proud of his Constitution. would wish to de prive the Crown of it, due splendour ; but every Eng lishman; who would preserve the Throne. would en d bees the career of retresehment within the pekoe, and there curtail all extravagant grants and wanton allowaseses 'lf tea millions a year were taken from the expeoces of g ing, which might be done with perfect safety. still we should pay sine millions move than we did 111 1792; and if the nation will allow such useless drains of its treasure to be made, it merits contempt. The mighty mountain of taxation is raised in msseity. and spina in profesiolt. to support the prisdplea of our Ministers. which are openly at war with she irweesiodge sad bappisess of mankind. Even imek.nemisetkommill.osly mad to preserve tranquil lity for a period. long anises to - OA the Legieistare time to eradicate the evils which we suffer from the effects of political folly. Pride and privilege have conteaded spinal the progress of reason, and by thei projects have heaped misery open misery en us.' We mast come at last to this complexion:—Composition with the public creditor and annibilatios of the nation al debt or Revolution! If the creditor will hasten on this event by his obstinacy—if lie will not yield, then the prophecy of the philosopher will be accom plished, and an busdred pounds in the funds will not be worth a Class orange. Fools exclaim, tbe Radi cals threat's to destroy our Constitution ; wise men know that the Tories have undermined it. It still may be repaired; and those who venerate the wisdom of their ancestors. would begin to strong hen its bulwarks sad re-ornament its sanctuary.—(Alfred ) PRICE OF /MOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bask Stork 3 per Cent. R. 760 ( Ditto Bonds 3 per CLCoe. 76} 6 i Smith idea Stock 14 per Coat. et7dl South Sea Old Aso II per Coats 9 61 161.8i11 1id.10001...45. Lis. pm li per CeatcHavy lO7l ---600t...40. de. pon 3 perCeet. — --Small ..4e. de. pm Long Ann Con. for Aeet idi Imp. $ per Coat i India for ditto Irish b eer Ca RISE WATER AT LONOOI9-611 1 11DOI TO -MORROW. Morning 43 a. after 3.—Evealeg 68 ea • after 3. Cbt btataSman. " Tlll ilarrifill IMITZSVAII " II INCOII TAT./MAN." LONDON: THURSDAY ILYRNING. JANUART 24, 1822. Paris papers to the !!d have arrived this morning, and confirm the intelligence we announced yesterday, of the King's acceptance of the resignation of M. Polies. Minister of the interior; U. &Anti. Minis ' ter of Foreign Affairs ; M. Salvador. Minister of War; and M. Vallejo, Misister, ed interns, of Finances. — The first port folio is confided. tiU a successor be ap pointed, to the charge of M. Cano-Mssuel. Minister of Justice; the second, to M. Pekgrini, Minister of the Co oks ; the third to the M ini ster at Marine, M. Bander° ; and the last to U. hoar, who had been Minister of Fi lename, before the establishment of the constitution. The communication. it appears by au article from Madrid. of the 10th inst., was made to the Cortes the preced• leg day, by a message from the Government. By a mesa message the luxe ina,le known to the Certes, that being satisfied with the services of the Ministers of the interior. of War, and of Finance. sad with their attachment to the coastitetios and to his penes, he bed only yielded to their repeated applications fur delivering up their portfolios. from a cessideration of the gravity of prevent circainstances.—The assembly was afterwarda occupied with a Ikport of last year respecting the distribution among the clergy of a moiety of the tole's, end with the repreeentatiowe which relate to the affairs of Cults sad Seville. All - , . -_ ~,,,..F,~ -~ s these papers were referred to Committees. 'file titl e , Pews from Spain is not of much importance, and that revecting F is less. The Editor of the Cow 'ler Francais says, be has been urged to insert a letter from Mademoiselle Roabel, the School-mistress, rely , live to the affair of the Lovedays' ; but declioes plisse', as the truth of the matter will best appea r when Mr. Loveday's Petition is dismissed in the Chamber of Deputies. F s awn; Fooos, Jas. 19.—Five per Cents. 85L 15c. —Bank Actions, 1535 E A regular Me of American papers have been te. ceived this mornieg to the 31st of Dec., froinwhich we copy the following : KINGSTON. (CANADA) Dec. 2.—Our readers may recolloet, that is an abstract we lately made of th e evideeee made is the British Parliament last winter, relative to the timber trade, it was stated. that mitt. eates of origin would be required •n shipmate from the Colonies, sad that all timber thus ship. ped, if not proved to be the growth of his Majesty's Colonies. wand be trobject to the defies exacted on Timber imported directly frem a foreign state. Though this regulation has bees in force only daring the present season. we understand that schemes have bees already devised to introduce Timber from the United States into the market of the Lower Province, sod to export it from theses to Sighed, with certificates declaring it to be the proper growth of Canada. To check this species of fraud, whin' if unmolested, would rapidly increase. it is is comes. elation to form an association for the purpose of em. ploying several trusty individuals along the frostier, and elsewhere, whose business it will be to watch the introduction of American Timber into the Provisc , and to detect and punish every person who may ends's your, by perjury, to procure certificates that it is of Casadian origin. This association is, we ender. stand, already numerous. and it will designees prere beneficial in guarding the British Heyman•. Arri►ed at New Orleans. Dec. I.—Brig Haeml, Pierson. Alexandria , brig le Mime, Lieutenant A►s. strong, Prise Muter, with 230 slaves. This vessel was captured by the fished States sloop of war, Wt. net, togethe► with a Columbia. privateer which had previously captured this vessel and severs/ others*. The privateer . ' demised pert sakaowe. HAVAxstaw.—Neurome, Dec. I.—Whet( the Aloes* left H h 10th iast. there was so political news of mach interest. The Castle of San Juan de I.lllso, at Vera Crux, was still held by the Royalists. sad SDP poops had sailed from U ah about Ilse 6th ise. to relieve it. The Irish papers received tedday bring as ammo of the fatal coulict between a asenlsee et the Anew try is this Weinty sit Cork sad a Corps et Tssnaary. •This dreadful affair. however. bad ha origin. se is Whiteboyism it seems, but private distillation. The state meats hitherto gives are sot saltiest either to justify or condemn the horrible expedient of putting to dui the unfortunate persons who bad Isere takes into els. tody ; but enough is stated to confirms us in the juk• meet we have repeatedly prosounced. cm the baps prirty of employing Yeomanry on Fuels occasion.— The °Seers of the late Royal Cork Voltmeter Corp j of Yeonusnry. have met to consider the ',spline? oil offering their services to Government, with a view te ch re-embodying that Corps on the present emergencyorktr they authorised their late Commander to tumour este with Major General Sir John Lambert as tic subject. We trust the late occurrence will iodate cb Geseral to dispense with their offer. The hirelings of the preas exclaim against the llg 4 cultural meetings throughout the conutry, on accost of the immoral and blasphemous speeches of Noble Lords, Gentlemen and Farmers, who ledge taxation aid tithes to be the ammo( all mu Mica' and civil misfortunes. The diapUtal of all difficalties. they maintain, should be left to tie oriel: of Parliament ! So that, after having completed .mischief they bare so long upheld, they unblushisi call upon the people to resign their senses. to the men who have betrayed them This is 'Heise right, a ported by passive obedience, with a vesgeasee. Ate won't do: Thepeople can read, and understand, too. I promises, the boastings, and delusions of the PIOT gathered Me storm, are still fresh is their recollu His false prophecies ring in their ears, and they not forget the man who shut them out from the of heaven; who, during 23 years. governed E with a rod of iron ; who suspended the Coedit' and rendered MAGNA Cuanva and the Hill of 14 dead letters ; whit laid the foundation of all oar • fortunes; and whose plans have been in.lsolo v followed up by his depraved aneteeuors. And what bt undone, after 23 years of tyranny and misrule, tiny!' finished in 16. So poor OLD EN AAA N A CIO" boast of the world. the depot of commerce sad of liberty. has because almost bankrupt and t ool. in the short apace of 39 years. Still we bra Pitt Clots, Vice Societies. and Br irk (-street Gel• these are the substitutes left us for the bk.:, the Press, the purify of (lethal, an.l the int Va. rights of Juries; but. we are consoled by tios dection, that when "limes are at the worst, mist wend." What the old hacks will lay month must be very difficult to antitipatet their corrupt resources are drying ap. 'lie Et . : Igor is Sett empty, and never tun " .wept by rags. which might give them soother! erring beta.e they are tanked of ilesorliS ~~ WITS " Till