The Statesman. — London, England, 1810-05-16 00:00:00

CITY BUgINESS. Yesterday a Court of Aldermen was held at Guildhall, at which the LORD MAiron presided ; 19 Aldermen, and the City Officers, being present. The thanks of the Court were voted to the Lord Mayor's Chaplain (the Rev. Mr. WOOD), for his Sermon at St. Paul's, on the first Sunday in Term. The following Gentlemen were ordered to be pot in nomination to the Livery, on Midsummer. day next, for their choke of two of them to serve the office of Sheriffs of London ind Middlesex for the year ensuing. FISH, Esq. Citizen and Wheelwright. %JOHN BLADES. Esq. Citizen and Ironmonger. ions ItLAY, Esq. Citizen and Vintner. All ten a EL Hoy, Esq. Citizen and ironmonger. THOMAS FOSiti, Esq. Citizen and Ironmonger. Axonal. JORDA IX C, Esq. Citizen and Grover. thIHN Galtorign, Esq. Citizen and Haberdasher. limtaxts Saran's, Esq. Citizen and blebrehant Taybir. Jamas. BIOME*, Esq. Citizen ani Wheelwright. - • The Court ordered an increase of pay to the Deputy Coal Meters and Coal Whippers, or working in a certain extent down the River. The Report of the Committee appointed to in. Vestigate by what means, and under what circum. stances, some persons were killed or wounded by the military within the City, on the 9th of April last, which was pseseiitcd at the last Court and read, was again read. The Court proceeded to consider the propriety of offering a reward for discovering the person who fired the loaded pistol by which Thomas w4s killed in the shop of Mr. Goodeve, at the corner of Mincing-lace. A discossion took place upon this subject, wherein it was proposed that a reward of ' l 2OOl. should be offered for the discovery of the man who fired the fatal ball. A Resolution, destruc tive of this, was hereupon, we understand, pro posed by Sir Cu tat,es PRICE, returning thanks to the military fur their greet moderation and for. bearatice, and fur preserving the peace of the City This prriposilion being likewise rejected, the one which follows was finally adopted by a majority of 9 to 6 of the Aldermen who had re. Resolved. That this Court, after a very long and careful examination to 4 ' di,cover by what Caafiti and under what eirrumstances some persons were killed or wounded by the military, on Mundav, the 9th of April last," have duly weighed and compared the great body of evidence which bas come berme theta, and end that no shot *as bred by the holdiery on their Way with Sir Francis Burdett to the Tower, although much provoration on the part of the populace had discovered itself, by assailing them with stones, bricks, .aod other cheerer, sub4lancess as they approached it, and der lug their stay there; and that front the general testisommy given, the military endured this treatment with the geostest patience and forliearance. That as their return from the Totter, through a part of this City, the violence of the as benefit.' on the rear-guard became excessive. so that thidr lives appear, i to he endanger, and that in consequence some of theta tired; and this Court have'stost seriously to la me nt that suel tiring of the rear-guard has been in two tang fatal, by the deaths of -- Bryant and Thomas Ebrall. 'rad it appears front the concurrent testimony of many re spectatee witnesses, that the soldiers took no particular aim, but for the mast part tired over the heads of their assailants sad that. bad they been soiaelined, it was within their power to have destroyed many of the individuals who attacked them. That the bring is represented to have been Indiscrimi.-, nate, sore to keep toe mob back than to slestrar. That this COUTO, touch as they regret that a single life should have 'KW ' lust on the occasion, cannot hat declare it as their (Tinier!, from an impartial review of the whole of the testiamoy takes t og ether, snot time bring was occasioned by the losswerfal avid nattiral impulse of self-drfenee, in awe w*vot bees were he the inos! imminent peril, from a formidable and furious po pa,ee, whogfailowed them up, Watling stows of great Donde upon them, and utaer substemees, eulogised se • or destroy. A Reqnisition has been signed, and forwarded to the L ,no Nlayon, requesting his Lordship to' take an early opportunity of convening a Coal. mull Hail, for the puryisse of taking into consi. deration the rd-etiou of the Petition of the Li.. laymen by the House of Commons. Mr. Matt, in his History, speaking of the Great Charter, divides its provisions into three' parts :—Thnse which relate to rights granted to the Prelates ; those to the Barons ; and lastly" those claimed in behalf of the people. It is to be observed, that among the last of these is that article which has been so much insisted on by Sir FRANCIS Boaverr, as circumscribing the power of the House of Commons to imprison at will; namely, that 64 no Freeman shall be takes at " imprisoned, or dispossessed of his free tenement " and liberties, ice. unless by the legal jades " merit of his Peers :" and it is upon the subjtet of these last prOvisions in behalf of the people, comprising that which we hays :just cited, that 111 r. Huss, an historian b no means partial to eivil liberty, remarks, dod, " they involve all the chief outlines of s laid " government, and provide for the equal client. " bution of justice, and the tree enjoyment of " property (the great objects fur which political `• society was at first founded by men) which the " people have a perpetual and unalienable right " to reed, and which no time, nor precedent, " nor statute, nor positive institution, ought " to deter them from keeping ever uppermost " in their thoughts end attention."—Houg, His. chap. xi. , On the 9th inst. Allan Hart, an American she.- man, was committed to Glasgow jail by the Mo.: ' gistrates, charged with attempting to seduce seta.' ral recruits of the glith regiment from his Majesty's s-rvice, Mu a merchant ship belonging to the, United States. The prisoner says, that his real' 'tame is Thome: Walker, that he was born et ] Lith, and belongs to the (,oust Wellington, aII American ship, but with Spanish papers, now at Greenock. He is a lad a little above twenty, niiidle sized, dark complexion, and his face mark 4 ed with gun.powder. .. AIPPRANTICES.—By a clause in the Mutiny Act passed the ght of March last, it is enacted that tie muter in England shall be entitled to claim soy apprentice who shall, after the passing of this Act, enlist as a soldier in his Majesty's land service, en. less such apprentice shall have been bound to him for the full term of seven years. We have heard with moth plessure of the great ARCMS that Mr. sad MfiI.WILLIAM, the Oculists, of 98 1 High Holborn, have met with; some thou. sands having received benefit from their simple but avetusl application; and malty othcn have ac tually been restored to sight by them, after being in a state of total darkness fur upwards of forty pars!. -s , .. .1 THE STATESMAN. IV LORD MILTON. --rr..r. LETTER t. MY Lono—Re neither affronted nor alarmed at the novelty of this address; it comes from one who, though distrustful of aristocratical influence, yet hailed with transport your just triumph over that worse than Indian war-whoop of persecuting bigotry—of bigotry embodied in a contemptible faction s and seconded by all the wealth of, all the LAscaLets. Had you tesembled the unhappy spawn of young nobility, who lose their days in dreaming over the profligate dissipation of their nights, I should not have so misemployed my time, nor so insulted .your understanding, as to have intruded on the sanctity of an asylum; which I acknowledge and abhor. The Peer, who by systematic education has ran the gauntlet of vice and folly, and . who has matured to ripeness the seeds of native genius, till his groom declines the disgraceful emulation, and the black-leg shrinks from the contamination of his presence, deserves nut to be rescued by his coronet from the silent contempt to which his character is entitled. Such examples contradict their essence, and prove sa lutary warnings ; whilst satire is unfelt by him, whose Intellect cannot comprehend its force, and rebuke changes its nature, when the wretch glories in his shame.—Such men I shall nut follow to the tavern or the bagnio. With other feelings I tarn to the name of Mu.. TON. The laudable industry with which you . have resolved to dedicate the first fruits. of youth to your country's service, has not been lost upon the public ; nor were we slow in discovering that the hereditary virtues of an illustrio u s familjOhave been transplanted into your bosom with undimi nished vigour. This satisfaction I enjoy in corn. molt with every Englishman : and human nature I rejoices in the knowledge, that as far as domestic happiness can requite goodness, you are already in possession of full reward. Such is the early lesson which your Lordship will do well ever to hold in sacred remembrance, that virtue brings along with her an immediate remuneration. May you never experience the inseparable consequences of vice I When the line it drawn so strong by the hand of nature, where mutt we Once the foun. fain of unity dereliction from every duty ? Where lies the cause of that short-sighted prosti. -lotion, which discolours the page of history, and blackens the character of the present tones ? Were this corruption confined among the lowest of our species, or to the worst of ages—did it not penetrate the closet of the scholar, and disc temper the projects of th 6 statesman, - we might more readily answer *question, in which we should be less coucerned. I sball leave, however, to others, the investigation of a cause so disgreceful to our nature; and surely' my assistance is not needed to poiut out the general effects so ruinous to this realm. 'Every improvement on the free. dom and purity of our Constitution will aquas n more generous spirit through the various orders, and dignify a more perfect morality among the people. This is a consummation devoutly to be wished for by the patriot and the Christian ; but Such as men moving in the same circle with your `Lordship must determine whether we are to ex pect. This cluing, would strengthen the hands of rank, property, talent, and virtue. It would elevate the pulse of popular feeling, ennoble the soul of national character, and cement in invio. fable brotherhood the artificial classes of comma. nity. Some change must come. Fearful too is the alternative ; for when a mighty machine is put in motion ) I know the difficulty of re. ;elating its operations, and the peril of its Slightest eccentricities. When argument has been sneered out of &Alum by a jest, and reason put to rout by a regiment, I can ill complain of those, who, in the turbulent hour of summary justice, slight that wise moderation, which the example of their opponents has taught them to neglect, and plc.ce it, the seat of judgment those passions, which have so industriously been intiametlegaiust their cause. Yet if a change clothed In such distress. lug colours is finally enforced ; if the bond of our emancipationis written in tears of blood, amid shrieks of etiolation, on whom does the weight of vengeance press? Surely upon those who have shut their ears against the still small voice of truth, against the high-minded remonstrances of an in jured, insetted nation—against every generous tip. r• justice, faith and independence. The are acquitted : Parliament stands condemn. ed. The sword (dl but last week from King CRARLIVI'S MONO : this would be an omen to the superstitious; nor is it unnatural, that Ministers who scorn argument, should place truth in portents. But elm! they deny us the miserable. costsolatioo of finding a shield against the odiousness of their prineiplo in the weakness of their understandings. Solf.love enlists under its banners their inherent , womanish imbecility. Id there was nothing an. Seasonable its an eepecentioo, thit one who al. warp stalks behind the rotten mask of precedent, would hue remembered, how in human Wins the same causes ever lead on the same effects, et bests is a free people, tyrannY generates resistaail.: leilwence is now mightier than ever was Kemp tive : also since its secret form codeeels it from the knowledge of the good and careless, at the same time that it lends the crafty' a specious pre, text of denying .its existence, or ftiavowing its danger, never was there an easier instrument of governing, more starching in lts means,, 'more deadly in its end. Thosgb nis i Parliament in arbitrary assumption of power or corruption its Its-tese, should far out.herod that of CHARLIM, yqt what prudent STUART *would resist it ? Their en. croachments are his own. • It is a mournful tax upon our• fallen nature—a ' bitter satire on the pride of matt, that our best works are more or less imperfect. Moreover, from 1 those never ceasing revolutions which all things? around is' undergo, our booted establislituents, decay. Information daily circulating wider, pro pagates every failing. Ought not then jealous vigilance to be quickened intoangry suspicion, w hen ,our Rulers refuse to repair the breaches madeby time , and the insidious treachery of domestic banditti.— Is there an assembly so hardy or so ignorant, as to stand forward in oppemitieWto the progress of • - • , 7, • • geoeial illumination. idopposition to those Moe. berating Alterations, which should keep pace with the altered eircumstancei of the times, in opposi tion to the maxim, " That must break, which will not bend ?" Our present system fetters the franchisements of the people; it undermines not only the majestic simplicity of virtue, but that consciousness of honour which alone is a sure foundation of individual respectability or national security. Integrity and policy.are by the decree of Providence united : and it Is not in the little chicanery of man to break a bond so holy. Narrow itoleed is the basis, on which au ephemeral Minister will build, who perstiades the Country Gentlemen that bribery and drunkenness are inseparable from elections, that Government is identified with cur. ruptioo, and society incapable of preservation, unless by the nourishment of vice. It reflects lit. tie efedit un the morality of our Court to triumph in their discovery. For my part, my feelings would never acknowledge the truth of so startling a proposition, if my , judgment were entangled by subtle sophistries ; our can I understand the end proposed by such monstrous conclusions, unless it be to unite good men id an aversion to Elections, Government, and Society itself. However, the field is too wide for one excursion : even volumes would be qo better than waste paper, if you cannot read in the fate of England her prefent condition.— if your own reflections speak not mere toyour be , nom than I dare tell. But pray, myLord, forget not that the path can no longer be lost through igno. ranee or mistake. Where error is, it must be wilful. This it the awful moment of calm decision—the birth of happiness or woe to millions ; for we tremble on the pivot of fearful uncertainty t we stand on the edge of difficulties unparalleled, of dangers inconeeipable. In squabbling for places, the colossal power, and more gigantic ambition of France seem -both to be forgotten : Ministers. have only. leisure to harass - England with their meddling insolence, and insult Ireland by studied contempt. Yet their neglect is kindness, coin. pared with the fatal assiduity of their 'protec tion. What, however, skill we say to suck an Administration, when- France, backed by all Europe, stands threatening at our very doors? Internal commotion is not necessary to prevent stagnation. Even the incredulous may sooth their complacent bosoms with this grateful persuasion, that neither PERCEVAL nor Le GRAND NAPOLSON is in fault, if we slumber at our posts, or die of ennui through want of employment. A YORKSHIREMAN. PARTIES IN 104RL1IMENT. i - •-,• • • - „ • " - _ • • , _. ~; SECOND EDITION. . ) _______ - .. lIALT PAST viast o'cLotit: COUNTER.MRE PING of the MIDDLESEX FREEHOLDERS. Tuts day there was one of the most insidious attempts ever beard of to destroy the Indepen. dence of the County of 'Middlesex. In coose. quake of a paragraph, (not an advertisement), Is some of the Ministerial Papers, at Meeting wul convened at the Freemason's Tavern, of the Freeholders who Were supposed to be adverse to the recent prof eedings at Hackney. For a considerable time there was not more than twenty persons in the room, and they had ben obliged ' to deliver in their names and places of abode-it was soon reported abroad there was such a Meet.. ing, and at last the room began to 611. -Mr. lßyng Came forward and stated that be had at. tended In consequence of a letter from one of his Constituents, but he really thought it was a Meet ing solely for the purpose of those persons who' disapproved of the proceedings of the County at large. Mr. Mellish and his Contralti.e came in whilst Mr. Byng was speaking, ands' most dreadful tumult took place, which Mr. Mellish, for the moment., pat an end to, by desiring those who were for the Coulter-declaration to withdraw into another Seem. They accordingly did so, Vat the indig• Seaton of the other Freeholders was loudly ex. pressed, and they insisted there should be no proceedings'carried on in privacy, and accord;olg. l i ly they proceeded in a body, and forced open the door in which Mr. Mellish's conclave were de. bating ; a scene of uproar for some time ensued. At last Sir William Gibbons was put into the Chair, and desired .by Mr. Mellish to read the Counter-declaration, the Honourable Member oh. serving, it was of no consequence whether it wag heard or not. Every sentence of the Address was received with unequivocal parks of .abbogrenee. The Mellishites then withdrew; upon which- Mr. ' Bentley was immediately called to the Chair, amidst loud applause,. Mr. Teo/Noe, in a very able speech, reeve.: mended coolness and moderation ; and trusted that no pretence would be given to our wicked Miele. -.` tern to suspend the Habeas Corpse Act, , • t , ifers, 41! Ile then moved a variety of Reaulutions, at. •.,, • pressive of the sense of the Meeting of-elte sea • : •• duct of Mr. Mellish and. his Party;' , Werittuleit.' tlnely going about to eennteriet thiliiiceetipge I of the Freeholders at theie full County Cistrt, k., • gaily assembled. He also armed, and it wass•ear. v . tied without a dissentient voice, that Mr. Meitieh had forfeited the confidence of his: Condlitiumb‘ and was no More *May ta're ' Reptesem. task*. ,••••••• IF • • • • • 116014 , 4,......• 4.1 f; • The Meeting then adjoined, 'happy Wel* VW:. . umph the Friends of Freedom had °Nabbed 'Never secret Junta of plotting dependents of llittMNktttr ' IMPERIAL NOUSE OF COMMONS, MAT 15. • Mr.' FOSTER (the House . having gone info) Committee) propOsed a Resolution granting a Bounty Of . Ss. 4d. upon every barrel of Strong Bear retailed over and above the proportion of the retail of one barrel of beer to that of four gallons of spirits. Mr. HUTCHINSON said, that he could not help expressing his regret, that the Right Hon. Gentleman, in a matter of such importance to the Interests of •the Brewers in Irelaedi had not :thought it necessary to go into setae detail respect. ,ing the grounds and object of the proposed Remo. lotion. As far ai any measure had for its real object - the protection of the breweries in Ireland. so far was he a friend to that measure ; but; however fa. vourable that object might be, there might yet be serious difference of opinion as to the effi •acy of the means proposed in furtherance of it ; the Bill which had been brought forward .by the Right • Hon. - Gentleman had by no means answered the and, it was intended for. (Mr. Hutchinson) -bad resisted it as laying the foundation of all those grievances which could be now reinedied only by the repeal of the Bill which had produced them. r.lle was anxious to be informed how far the pro. posed bounty to the retailer would operate as a .boott to the Irish brewer. Was it certain Coat the - bounty 'would reduce the price—and if it did not, rlt the' consumer did not pay less for the.article He presumed that the bounty would not operate as an inducement to extra consumption. He wart apprehensive that it •woeld rather have a tendency to itterease . .the sale if illicit apirtts and promote perittry, and that prove squally - injurious to the revenue and the utorality of the country. He wished to know also how lee comparative snlef of ." malt liquor and spirits iibithl be ascertained ? ..! '" e 'Hoe valid fraud be provided against In this re. 4 jn" ! spect • ? )low-could tube ascertains t thin the vets. er d er -did not receive the bounties upon the sale of' illicit spirits Who were to keep his accountsdiendano The retailers. Here die Itenoistrable gentleman astitut , commented Oe.the difficulty of such a class of men as' the small reedlers of beer and spirits, keeping I an UM daily journal of the anoint of beer and spirits retailed ; many q( them eoald neither read The following is a copy of the Resolution of the or write,ey the hired and were agency too of c or to supply iyAteetilan ut d e g," 44\ Roman Catholic Prelates, in Synod assembled, in clones, by Dublin : this kind would nece,sarily b e p ro d uc ti ve o f a great Resoieed ananinsously, 'that the thanks of this Meithq - anemias •of revenue officers to keep these accounts, and consequently serious additi o n t o th e es be, and are hereby gireu, to th e Right Row, Dr. blitassa, Bishop of Costabala, fear the faithful discharge of his duty, cep CP 'as Agent to the Roman Catholic Bishops of this part of the or toe country. In etferi ng th ese o b servat i ons he United Kingdom. and more particularly for his t a te aposton- wished to be distinctly understood as- no t a ppl y i ng '• • ' cal Artattess. so dissenting from, and t!pposiag a scone, finite declaration or resolution, pledging Raman, Catholics to them to whatever me asure i t m i g h t b e t h e i ntention nn eventual acquiesome i"" ange ,„ ents preitediad of. the Right Honourable Gentleman to ground I. the imegrity sod safety Of oar chorea "O RYAN. upon Ms proposed Resolution, h ut rath er , .as a • • " Sigel Bithop of Gerraaalca t .Settiusry. o ‘ linEllftry of his objections to the Leil• Maly is .• , . • • . . . . • • -- 'I . • The following attempt at a classification of the different parties in Parliament, may, perhaps, be interesting to some of our readers. . 1. Those who support ministers, upon the ground of upholding the royal prerogative, at the head of whom is Mr. Yorke, and among whom may be numbered such officers of the household as are in parliament, and the'velatites and connec. tions of those entrusted with the administration of public affairs. 2. Those who support ministers, chiefly upon the principle of excluding " The Talents," from their having been unfortunate and unskilful in the management of the war. They prefer sound prio. eipier,vieith-sveir minor ialoirts, to what they coo. eider the want, or rather the perversion of both these qualities in their opponents. To these be. long many county members, particularly of Suf:. I folk, Lincolnshire, NOrthamptoe, Somerset, Dor. at, Rants, &c. and the representatives of the high lsource interest, in large boroughs: • 3. The friends of. Lord Castlereagh • they are 1, in number, but he it morn popu lar la the Boise than his rival. 4. Mr. Cann supporters are avowedly so, in consideration of his superior abilities, and are some of them, men of great intellectual talent.' Mr. hluskisson, Mr. Sturges Bourne, Lord Gren. trifle Leeeson'Gower, and Mr. Ellis, are his prin. dpal friends. They amount to about 12 or 14. b. The votaries of Lord Sidmouth are more numerous, but less decided ; Mr. Bathurst, a very able man ; Mr. Riley Addiogton, Mr. Davies Giddy, &c. 6. Another, and an interesting class, Is formed by Mr. Wilberforce, the Thornton!, at times,. Mr. Babington, &c. These Gentlemen claim the character of independence, joined to strict reli. gious principle. With them may be included the economists, of whom Mr. Bankes is the chief. 7. The Grenvilles are too remarkable not to be distinctly noticed; they act avowedly upon -par. tial aristocratical principles, and are forriidable from their connexions, and still more formidable from their perseverance and inflexibility. Mr. Windham, however eccentric, may be included within the circle of their charm, and they hate the: support of the houses of Cavendish, Stanley, Wentworth, Russel, &c.. . • 8. The ancient Posited may be divided into three parties, toting together; first those who, .in supporting the principles of Mr. Foe, may be considered as having attached' tnemselves to the Grenvilles, and as hating united themselves them. Mr. tierney may be viewed as the first of f this class, although, peeing's, ;rather inclining to the. Second, who, with ,Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Cal. craft, Mr; Adam, are uuderitood to have that' highest veneration for the lieir.apparent. Third are unquestionably independent and holiest' men. Mr. Whitbread it the great and able Sider of-this party. I , • The 9th party is also perfectly independent, and supports the cause of UM thee Constitution with great steadiness and abilities; Sir Fniescis iliscdett, Lord .Fulkeetone, Lord Cochrane, Mr. Wardle, and Mr. Mattocks, are amen; thew. , I . Z . •, ,' • •I *1 *v. . I r~ . I - ,- r -, sms•rjai , :frrc s ; 3- ... . , . ' .: ~+~ ~" I • K. r. .~ ;^:v~ Wt 453,141