The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-01-25 00:00:00

. Pr it stated that at the end of time, even at the latest mo-1 mentof the world's essistence. " there will be marriages' and I , ; :ving in marriage:" and Burke says, in a worl4of his, that at the time the walk of Constantinople were surrounded by the enemy, the Senators were debating• on •• free will," &e.; and a British Parliament were Ile bating in 1819 about his two-penny trash, while a whole "nation were Ai-Kr nit to he saved from ruin by r•xres sire taxation. Mr. lobbett concluded by returning thinks for the attention that had been paid to bins during the observations that he bad tittered to their con • sideration.—(Continued arclamations.) Mr. WELL!' rose.—As Chairman. he said. it was his to catch the public feeling. They, as well as him s,:f, had been gratifiod n•ith hearing the most luminous .t.itetnett that he tail ever heard io his life. Ile would thereforvpropose that they sho u ld give three times three.for Mr. Cobbat's unanswerable speech. It was drank with enthusiasm. The CHAIRMAN then proposed the following toast " That Mend of mankind, the venerable and beloved Earl Fitzwilliam."—(Three times three.) Mr. Witt.t.s then rose to propose a Petition for the adoption of the 3leeting. The Meeting, he said, par took of conviviality as well as business. Had it been a Futility Meeting they would ►ave been deprived of the .raosceadant talents of Mr. Cobbett. as he was not a freeholder of the ennnty. He therefore hail thiaped his measures (he called them his measures for the " Committee," the " Chairman," and the " Reqni sitionists." were bat one person after all.—(Laughter.) —Weed his situation put him in mind of a story of Lord Merril, who said that if the French landed in Irelaoil, he would raise a regiment of light horse.— The French did land, and in the Town Ilall his Lord• s'Jip was asked, " Where is your regiment of light horse?" A ragged fellow, almost without breeches, at the lower end of the hall, exclaimed—" I am Lord Donegal's Light Hone—(Laughing;)—so might he exclaim—" I sin the Committee, the Chairman, &c." All the nark had fallen on his shoulders—he was the whole and sole "person that bad got up the Meeting, ' and he invited Mr. Cohbett to attend; so that they were it so small degree indebted to him for the high g►atifcation they had experienced in having Mr. l:•ubbett that Slay at Huntingdon. The petition lie had to propose was couched Is the language recommended by howl John Komi'. His Lordship says, " petition boldly and resolutely fur a reduction of the tax a;" and he agreed with his Lordship that they ought to petition " boldly and resolutely." The petition he held in his hand did not partake of the qualities of either the milk of Mr. Cobbett, or the water of his ems (they were drinking milk and water only), but was formed of at.,ster stuff;" and he hoped it would have ■n effect on certain minds which could only be dose by giving it a formidable appearance by the great somber of their signatures. Ile begged them sot so Adak front doing their duty. He should he sorry if his petition was rejected ; but he wished it to ►e fairly discussed, clause by claim. if they thought proper; and if it was approved, he called upon the Meeting to give it their assistance in Kett* It signed in the differ's* parishes throughout the country. Mr. Altman. Wau.s, the brother of the Chairman, a freeholder of the county. in a loud voice, exclaimed SI No.l. The Comastax hoped he would hear the petition read, before be objected to it; be did not wish to stifle discussion, he wished it fret as air, like trade aml commerce, and it would cause general happiaess. Mr. 31. WEhha asked if the clauses were to be dis missed singly ? The CHAIRMAN. who expressed his surprise at sp• position from the quarter whence it came, said that he should propose each clause singly. 3ft. 31. Waht.s—l object to the petition altogether. The Chairman then read the petition. Mr. AI. WILLS begged to move an amendment to the petition proposed for their adoption. They hail beim c died upon in a Mate of great distress, to petition Par liatnect for relief, gni therefore ought to do it in that in inner that appeared to be most likely to obtain the end they sought fur. He did not disagree with the con tents of the petition, but with the tootle in which it had be is brought forward.—(Considerable noise.)—He, as th • proprietor of a farm in the aounty, must know the 114tilr• of the diatrese of that class of persons to which he belonged were sufferiog. He called upon the !met ing not to cast aside such men as Lord Milton and Lord John Russell—men of the most independent minds— and bring a foreigner into the comitv.—(tlreat confu sion, and hear, hear.)—He admitted 31r. Cobliett was a very great man, as a statistical writer; but to bring a stranger into the county, in opposition to such men as Lords Milton and Johu Russell, was what lie should op pose. though it was the act of his own br:ther.—[The noise WAS so great, that the voice of the speaker was drowned.] The CHAIRMAN begged that the speaker might not be interrupted. Mr. M. WILLS proceeded.—He called upon the meet ing not to be deluded.—(.\ great uproar.)—They must remember the time when Lord Milton took the Chair in that room ; they knew the manner in which he. as well is Lord John Russell were received, and would they turn their backs on men who had supported the independence of the country, for • stranger 2—(Great confusion.) — He trusted that he was not doing wrong in acting as lie had done ; lie did it with the best intentions, and should therefore proceed to . read his amendment, hich was as follows : ss To the High Sheriff of the county of Huntingdon. We, the undersigned, being respectively Freeholders of the comity of Huntingdon, do hereby respectfully re quest you will be pleased to commie a public meeting of the Nobility, Clergy, Freeholders, and Farmers of the county, to take into consideration the present dis tressed state of the county, the alarming depression in the value of agricultural produce, the overwhelming in- Somme of the public burdens, and to consider of the pro priety of petitioning the Legislature to adopt such mea sures as will arrest the progress of the manifold evils that seem impending over all classes of the community." The CHAIRMAN said, that there was no objection as he knew, to a County Meeting being held ; but a re tinisition for a County Meeting could not, by any possi bility, he an amendment to his petition. lie called upon his Hon. Relation to declare who it was that be charged with deluding the Meeting. Mr. M. Wahhs.-1 charged no one with deludiog.— (Hear, hear!) Cnataatast.—ln reply, be would say, ~ O h that my enemy had done this!" He would inform his relation, and it would convince him of the injustice of his enspi 'ions, that lie had invited Lord John Russell to the Meeting, and he pledged 1 • self to the Noble Lord, that he would forfeit his friendship for ever, if any thing the least offensive to his Lordship should occur at the Meet ing; and if be did not afterwards rejoice at having had ^._... ~ t. ~... _.,_. , 1 ~.. . F._? THE STATE r . opportunity amended ma et biting present. —litear.l hear.)—And wet* they So 'brevet romaing after! r Lords ? What had they got 6ytfi? He bad no favours to ask of them. and let those run after them who wanted to get.altuatione for their reintimmin ttur-fteebte, Cns tom-house, or other offices. He bad formerly been charged with running after Lords, and 'now he was charged with not doing it. It was wet! known that a County Meeting. would not he convened ; he knew the secrets behind the cuet.tin; and the rorruptiititists knew that if the Cnnnty Meetinor.ts called. they v.".11'1 hear the troth from hint and some itch men as him and therefore dare not convene n Conroy Meeting.. !'outer such cireutuatances he invited the County biewher to the present Meeting. Mr. COUTIIITT hefted leave to gay II few words a, to what had fallen from Mr. M. WIS. lie did not think the terinforripur ronlJ be properly applied to him. He knew nothing of the petition, he was totally uncon nected with it, and had proposed to withdraw prior to its being bronight forward ' but was told it would be considered disrespectful to the Meeting. lie had nothing to do with the petition, had never mentioned the con tents of it, or in any way adverted to it, and he begged that those who ilisenswlV,wonld leave him entirely out of the question. He, however, would say that he was no more a stranger to the County of Huntingdon than Lord Milton, who was invited to the Meeting, and he asked if he had spoken wit► asperity towards 140111 John Ramon. or criticised his letters as he might have done, ►at if, ou the contrary, he bad not spoken of him with the greatest respect ? Mr. iihroweLt., of Louth, in Line°lesbire, rose to second the motion of Mr. M. Wells, for a County Meeting. •. • The Cu.► emte informed Mr. Mayabrell, that as be was not a Freeholder of the County, he conid not second the motion. How. Indeed, could lie second a motion for a Requisition to hold a County Meeting which he was not eligible to sign. A Freeholder, whose name we understood was Warner, rose and seconded Mr. M. Wells's motion fur the requi• sition to call a County Meeting. Mr. HATFIELD. proprietor of the Cadderid:re Chrouicle, was sorry that the apple of discord bail bees throws on the present occasion, and thongbt it weald have been much better if the Oentlenme who wished a County Meet ing had exerted himself to have got it convened, and sot have interrupted the present Meetiog. There were a number of persons there, who if they atten led a County Meeting, would have had it dinged in their ears. " You are not Freeholders." He was not one himself, and yet had a right to deliver his opinions. lie saw no wiab to throw ao imputation on the Noble Lords Russell and Milton ; and if their Lordships did not think it was their duty to attend the Meeting, they would not object to those per sons who had thought it their ;lacy to attend, delivering their opinions. If there was anything objectionable in the petition, he wished it to be expiated. He, however, was of opinion there was not t and be hoped, if it was carried, that it would have the effect be thought it me rited. He believed that no petition was ever yet pre. seined to Parliament that called so mneh t for the aeries, consideration of that body.—(Applause.) Mr. WARNE R. with the consent of Mr. N. Wells, with drew the amendment. and the Chairman put the original .otter is foveae of the peonies. which Mae tarried almost unanimously. There were only tqf-persoes held their hands up against it. The CHAIR3I IN DIVI)0114 the fullowinctoado:— " The Ladies of the County of Hantistdon"—three times three. "Mr. John M. Colabett" (Mr. Cobbett's son), who re• turned thanks. Mr. CORIIIITT propOged Messrs. Hunt, and Wooler, and all those excellent Patriots who are snlkring for their exertions in the cause of Parliameatuy Reform."—Drank with treat Applause. Au individual said—" May they all suffer what they deserve." Mr. Connerr replied, " If they are- euffering what they merit, then I deserve to be hanged."—(Barst of Langhter.) The Chairman's health was then drank. with three times three. Ou his cowing into the room he returned thanks. The CHAIRMAN proposed. " The health of Mr. DrakarJ. the proprietor of the Stamford News, whose exertions in the cause of free door entitled him to their thanks." Mr. DRAICARD, in returning thanks, said that Ite was no orator, and if be were to attempt to make a speech, he should, like the Marquess of Londonderry, only make a fool of himself.—(Laughing and ap planse.) • The health of Mr. Hatfield, of the Camhridge and Huntingilon paper, was given, and drank with great ap plause., ' Mr. H..TIIELD, in returning thanks, entered at some length into the political state of the country— spuke of the opposition of the boroughmongers to Re form of every kind ; but trusted that he hail as,isted in raising the standard of independence in that and the neighbouring counties... . . . . t: - Lord John Russell" was drank with three times three and freest applause. " Lord Viscount Milton"—three times three. The Custassaw race— " Joseph HOW, Esq. 11. P. the friend of economy and retrenchment." Ile could nut girt the toast, however. without stating that he was con►inred the country would never be re. stored to a state of health by the redaction of salaries and dismissal of clerks, it was to be effected by re form only, and not retrenchment ; still be thought Mr. [louse entitled to the thanks of his country for Isis exertions, and would drink his health with plea sure.—(l.oud applause.) " Sir Robert Wilson." The CH tIRRAN gave the health of a Gentleman pre- sent who was connected with the London Press.—He returned thanks " John Cartwright, Esq." " John Ingle, Esq." " Mr. Faux." Malty other toasts were drank. The Petition was signed by nearly the whole of the persons present at the Meeting, and will be presented to Parliament by the county Members. The remainder of the evening was spent with the greatest conviviality. " Qcses Man."—The indictment against the pub lisher of " Queen blab," was yesterday mo►ed to he quashed, in order. it appears, that a fresh indictment might bepreferred. .. . . CO VAT OF CO If vo 4 ( co um: in Yesterdis , • Court of Cuinuton Council was held for the despatch of business. BREACH OF As s.)on as the minutes of the last Court were per through, Mr. SAVAGE 1 , 5* to call the attention laibe-Cipare to a gross breach 45f its privileges by one of its own Members. In the early pa , tof last year he had intro., laced the same question to the Court, and it was then referred to a Committee. lie now again solicited their indulgent attention to it. The consluct of which he had to complain was that of a Member of the Court who bad taken a sum of money from an individual for the purpose and in consid.tratio.s of his prornite to procure for that individual the situation of deputy sea-coal-meter. Ilere a Member rose and snowed that strangers should withdraw.—(Several voices cried out " No, no.') Mr. SAVAGE hoped that a question of this impor tance would not br discussed with closed doors. The question fur the eat-fusion of rtrgngrrs was car ried. and the Court was cleared. It was nearly two Acura before we were re-admitted, and we then understood that it had been referred to the Committee already appointed on the subject, to lay the minutes of evidence taken by them before the Court. NSW POST-OMM HS. Alderman WAITHMAN brought up a report from the Improvement Committee, In which they recom mended the affixing t►e City Seal to a coeveyance to the Post-Master-Oenstral, plummet to an Act of Parlia ment, of certain laud for the site of a new Post-084e On the motion that it be agreed to, Mr. S. Dittos thought that, before the question was carried, and before the land was rested in the Crown. the Court ought to hare an assarance that the post-office would be built, and that speedily, on the site in question. Mr. (1111FPITHII said the matter was nothing bat a lob. and entered into with the view of getting rid of those who were sot freemen. and resided in tint part of the city whore it was supposed the Office wield I. built. Mr. Alderman WAITIMAN said that the Mos. mam bo!, hod salatacen the questio* altogethe►. The goes Lion was, that this con►eyance should be made, which In fact the Corporation were bound to make pursu ant to act of Parliament, and theie own former agree omit. The Corporation, when they should have done this, would ►ave done their duty, and he bad no doubt that the Government would du theirs. Mr. S. DIXON said, that it could be no obstacle to the performance of this duty that every member of the Court should have a printed copy of the report. and be concluded by moving an amendment to that effect. TM* was seconded by a Member whose name we did net leers, nod who said that he protested against this job altogether. After a reference to the report of a corset commit tee en this ,abject, and a few words from Aldermen Wiithsaan and Scholey, the latter in support of thr amendment, the amended motion nal pet, and lost. The original gawks was then put and carried. DISTUROANCS AT ZNIOOTIORIDOE. The Loan MOTOR appo inted Thursday nest for the comosideratlon of the report and evidence from the lieseral Parposes Committee, relative to the &hub ante at Knightsbridge. The discussion respeeting Ibis affair was repeated to have come on yesterday, and produced a very crowded court. The Court appointed Mr. Edward Eyton, of Corn hill Ward, a(I I Christ's Hospital, and Mr. Jobs nester, of Dowgate Ward, a Governor of St. 13.trtholomew's Hospital, is the room of Messrs. Van dercom and Pears's, sot in Common Council. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. Hank Stork. 3 per Cent. Red .......76if , ONO Reeds 3 per Ct.Coe. 70,1 0 , Soft Iles Stock 34 per Caul 4 per Vests. I RNA Ore Old Are WI I EstANSI.IOOI.II...4s. ie. pm 6 per Cents. Navy ....10711 , --4001...444. fts. pm 3 perCeut Lose Ana i Co.. for Acct .SOn Imp. S per Celt i India for ditto Irish beer Cast I Lott. Tickets IIN. If WWII WATER AT LOllOOll-81116611 TO- W. Morning 11 a. after 4.—Eveoiai 17 a. alter IL Cbt " Tt■ ■\tTIH STATESMAN" IS INCOS STATESMAN." LONDON: IRIDAT EVENING, a . ' 25, 1822. The Irish papers we have received this morning, bring es no farther particulars of the dreadful case we communicated yesterday. A mother instancehowever, will be found, in another part of our paper, of an unfortu nate young man who cone by his death in a diTerent place, but on a similar occasion, in consequeoce of a pistol shot, fired by a which originated by the deceased throwing stones Perhaps each cases are referred to by an Ultra-print this morning, as "the proofs" it mentions "of • sanguinary spirit among the deluded peasantry, and of theirdaring hostility to the power of law ." Bet who can wonderat their hostility to law, when they are used to see the law so hostile to them? They, unhappily, ex perience from the establishments and functionaries of theireounfry. little of the fostering care by which they see a favoured few protected and promoted. They hoots the law chiefly by its inflictions ; by its enforcing the payment of tythes, fur the support of a church of which they are not members, or the payment of rent which it is difficult fur them to discharge ; or by its punishing the persons who engage in illicit distillation, to which they are tempted by the evasion of excessive dnties, in order to supply these inordinate demands. This illicit distillation is justly reprobated as "an abominable trade ;" but its abominations are not hidden from the view of those who lay its snares, by the imposition of excessive duties on she articles of regular traffic. It has bees oar earnest endeavour, ~-- - - , _ - r ~ -~ _ - _~~ _~ wire 0 rib as well as that of many enlightened members of the lecklitore, to warn Ministers of the mischiefs CI which they were answerable, not only in inere.,sin•• dorse exactions, but in the additional obnoxi means they were obliged to employ for the purpose enforcipg then]. It is not among the poor " delmied peasanty of Ireland " alone that tie law which enacts exorbitant fiscal ditties is coutinu. ally evaded and enlisted. It happens to be the seine in every part of, what is called, the civil. lard world. Hew often have we had to record the .trradfal conflicts it has produced of late in the coun ties of Kent and Susses ? It was but on Tuesday we had to &mosso a very fatal instance of it in the county of Cumberland, and eyes today we bay. er casion to state a melancholy consequence arising frost it, in one of the principal cities of thts well ordered in. habitants of Scotland, in which the practice of illicit distillation, it is aSemed, very extensively prevails. . We refer to those cases to show thatthe poor "deluded peasantry" of Ireland, are in this respect no greater sinners than their enlightened neighbours, and that there is neither reason nor jostle* is treating them worse. I o Cumberland the death of a poor "deluded" man who was shot by Revenue Officers, while smite/ling three stone weight of salt, and re sisting the officers, was made the subject of a solemn inquest, and the jury, contrary to the opi. Dion of the Coroner, it is said, returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against she officers who fired. We trust therefore that the case that occurred in the county of Cork, where so many lives have been lett, a. d in such as extraordinary manner, will not obtain a less severe inyestigatian. though the p try were deluded" Irishmen, and the corps to which they were opposed was yeomanry. As exercise of even. banded justice displayed In the protection of " laded" Irishmen. might penile/mere. diminish sow. what of is their daring hostility to the law." We have lately had, from oar Scribes, vaunting accounts of the increase of trade in Mill. cheater. keeds, Glasgow, ShOfeld, and Biro/simple/sr; bet we have from thee ma a word of the peer refer being collected weekly. They don't tell us of the blessings a man possessed in a anntrrovs offspring 20 years ago, when all et them timid be profitably employed, instead of being crammed indiscriminately in a parish workbags.. and brought up to iadolest habits, under the degraded name of peepers. The early idea of pauperism become habitual, and the high spirit of a bold Briton lost in his notions of ra• rish support. The respectable tradesman, who, is better slays, oath' earn seven or eight pawls a week by the assistance of his children, is mow unable to earn as many shillings to keep fife and soul together; and those who formerly would have enriched him sod beta his domestic comfort. are mow am lacembramet. 'lli, state if things is attributable to the same nams that oppress the farmers, and the Mir! must came through the same charted. Parish expenditure is homelier. and under the existing mismanagement the burthens of the people must continue. When Pitt commenced the building of Parish Palaces, he tried to unit all the parish officers in his interest. He was well aware how a little power 'tall d a weak mind. He held out a lore to the mobilise of ignorant purse-proud Tradesmen, and by rewards, troselumeints, or by the force of expectation, the Pittitm have ruled the parishes. Addresses poured forth upon every flimsy occasion, sad the numerous herb saddled the country with its present misfortunes aid overloaded pauperism. The misled noodles, whea too late, see what they have done. They cannot now help themselves, and many have fallen victims to their own weakness and imbecility. They see that Reform in the House of Commons, which they hare so long abused and ridiculed, is now the only choose left t• keep the political wheels is modem. Taxes cannot be paid, nor rent by the farmers ; and the only alternative left us. we are told, is not retrenchment, not ecosonty, but a tax on either fended •r real property, Of on both. The hirelings may write and mislead as far as they can, we will continue to expose the glacia l : foUy and iniquity of our enemies, and tell the truths which daily become more manifest. And surely none but stupids will be longer doped by those who are paid for leading them astray. A long reply Las been published in Paris, in th► name of Miss LOVEDAT, to the Petition presented in the name of her father, to the Chamber of Peers ; but we think we can occupy our paper better, than by transferring its contents into our columns. It is the work of some mercenary scribe, who, from iynoranee or artl6ce, alleges, that the in dive which urged the young lady " to attach herself to the Catholic T ell. lion i.y a bond more difficult to be broken", sat tie apprehension •• that her father meant to carry her to Engl.nd, where the Ca.:tulles arc not treated as et Protestants are ia F , oar/ where she would, re • haps, he compelled to adhere to Protestantism." This cannot he the language of any of the multitude of esti. grant Catholic priests, who were protected and sm tained here for so many years, at the expense of rt.. testant England, but must be the dream of 1011/e of the ill-informed and enthusiastic novices who hare lately been admitted into Use priesthood of France. " lately noticed that the Clerical Abuanack of France for this year, states the number of priests in actual employment to be more than thirty-fmr thousand: at whom wore than four thousand acre ordained &wilt the last year. This is such a p:oportion to the r petition of the country, that those who trembled fur tts •:.~ . b► til th, er lel