The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-06-22 00:00:00

ate language suitable to the wants of the People, and th e cause of the Empire . :— . I Resotved, That we de forthwith renew our humble, but earnest application by Petition to the Legislature, praying the total and unqu allied repeal of the Penal Laws which aggrieve the Catholics of these Realms, Infringe the sacred rights of Re lizious Liberty, and endanger the existence of tbe Bridal Em pire. c 2, That the charge of preparing such Petitions, and of carr. ing them to be duly presented without delay, he confided to t be individuals (possessing the confidence of the Catholler of Ireland) named at the last Aggregate Meeting of the Catisella of Ireland. _ _ 3. That the said Persons arc sa nominated, not to represent the People of those Realms, or any portion thereof, but merely for the purposes, solely and esclusively, already prescribed, and for no other purpose whatsoever. 4. That from authentic documents now before us, We learn with deep disappointment and anguish, how cruelly the promised boon of Catholic freedom has been intercepted, by the fatal :,itcherq of an unworthy secret infiuence, hostile to our Esirest hopes, spurning alike the sanctions of public and private virtue, the demands of personal gratitude, and the sacred obligations of plighted honour. 5. That to this impure source we trace, but too distinctly, our baffled hopes and protracted servitude—the arrogant inva sion of the undoubted Hight of Petitioning—the acrimony ;II Illegal State Prosecutions—the surrender of Ireland to prolonged oppreaion and insult- -apd the many experiments, equally piti fdAnd perilous, recently practised upon. the habitual passive._ ness of an ill-treated, but high-spirited People. 6. That cheerless indeed would be air prospects, and faint our hopes of success, were they to rest upon the constancy of Courtiers, or the pompous patronage of men, who can coldly sacrifice the feelings and interests of millions ai the shrine of perishable power; or, deluded by the blandishments of a too lusurium Court, can hazard the safety of a People for ill-timed courtly compliment. The pageants of a Court coma:add sot our respect,—our great came rests upon the immutable founda tions of troth, and justice, and reason.—Equal constitutional rights, unconditional,. unstipulated, unpurchased by'dishonour, are objects dear to our hearts.—They consist with wisdom, vir tue, humanity, true religion, and unaffected honour; and can never be abandoned by men who deserve to he free. 7. That for the complete attainment of this, oar constitutional object, we firmly confide in our own persevering exertions, in the enlightened wisdom and growing liberality of our Fellow- Citizens (recently and gloriously exhibited in their Petitions to Parliament in our behalf); and, above nil, in that overruling l'rovidence which - presides over the destinies of Nations, and permits not the oppression of man by his fellow-creature a ith impunity. 8. That, turning with disgust from the gloomy wreck of Poblic Character, presented in recent events, we recognize with esteem and admiration the truly noble elevation. of sentiment which has distinguished Lords flaw and Gucci/n.12, and the other Personages who, with them, lace stood .tloof from the al lurements of intrigue, and maintained the high station of rigid lndependenee. We respect their recent eonduct as dictated by - sound wisdom, by well-founded motion, and by an honest ant lety as well for the secure attainment of great public benefits, • as for the conservation of their personnl honour. 9. That we have found in the Earl of Donotiottatonza steady, earnest, and intrepid Advocate of our ffights --an ever-faithful Sentinel of our interests—an undaunted and judicious assertor of truths awfully important to our country. That the flight Bon flamer (ilea's-Tax has eloquently sustained our applica tion to the House of Commons, and has again deserved our c er nal gratitude, and that our Chairman be requested to traustuit these our sentiment, in attitaHe terms. 10. That we have viewed with inexprewible pie:lsere and ad miration the generous exertions of our Fellow-Citizens of other persuasions in our behalf, their solicitude in subscribing and re. crimmmtling Petitions to Parliament for our relief, their spon taneous support at public nseetings—we hope to merit their bo. nourable con6•!ence by a continuance of the same tempenste,bat Arm conduct, which has already conciliated their esteems and, though we cannot, in sincerity, proffer those securities or ar rangements (amounting, if practicable, to the new evelmilige or one species of servitude for anothen.yet we must e`•errfully ten der to their kind acceptance the only equivalent in our power, our warm affections and lasting gratitude—our oaths of allegi. anee—our past loyalty and merits—nor present willingness to assist (whenever by law permitted) in the arduous enterprise of saving the sinking vessel of tbe.State. 11. That from recent obsorvation of political duplicity, we feel it necessary to recommend most earnestly to all Catholic Freeholders throoghont Ireland, steadily to resist the preten sions of any Candidates, who shall hesitate to pledge themselves publicly to the uniform support of Catholic Emancipations or who shall have lent, or are likely to lend, their support to any Administration, founded in itaolerance, and hostile to the full en joymeot of Religions Liberty. _ 12. That the exponces, unavoidably attendant upon the con duet of Catholic Petition+, and the defence of the invaded Rights of Petitioniug. call for the liberal aid of our Fellow-country men, and we collide to the public spirit and zeal of the Catholic Body, throughout every district, for ample peenniary snpport. 13. That throe our Resolutions he published in the Public Prints—four times in four of the Loudon Newspapers, and six times in six of the Dublin Newspapers. 14. That the most cordial gratitude of the Catholics of Ireland is due to the Author of the " Statement of the Penal Laws." lately published—a Work in which we recognize all the ac curacy of great legal knowledge, combined with the classic elegance of the Scholar, and the profound observation of the thilosopher. Counsellor O'GonaList begged it might be distinct- Iy undfrsto )1, that any arrangementi or conditions which might be connected with Mr. CANNING'S Mo tion in the House of Commons, would have no in fluence on the conduct of the Catholics of Ireland, as they were determined to obtain their Freedom un aontlitionally.—[Loud applause.] • A Resolution then passed for callinglnother Ag gregate Meeting on this day fortnight . , and that the Board, thus authorised to prepare the Pititiens, should have the same ready for the consideration of the Meeting on that day. Thanks were returned, with acelsuuation, to Lord Ft NG ALL. Lord KILLEEN, lion. Mr. BanwaraLt, and Conn atltors O'GORMAN, O'CONNELL ) and Fumay, se verally spole at great length. All the Resolutions were put, and carried by ae clasuation.—The Meeting aMourned. It was the understanding of every man in the coun try that Mr. BROUGHAM consented to cast a veil over the frail standing , of Ministers, on Tuesday night last, by abitaiuing from a division of the 'louse on the question of the Orders in Council, on the promise of Lord CASTLEREAGH, that a Predates'. tion should be immediately issued, declaratory of the total abrogation of this ruinous system —a sys tem that, to the end of time, will mark' the igne nnoe, weakness, and folly of the councils of the nation, which, for 'so long a period, could permit the er4toilics of mums is, every ssme ito . , ~: +snail I* • _ injurious to the best. interests of this country of getting the arrears due by the manufacturers paid up, furnished them with more bread. Thousands of al most famished men, women,,and children, who, for want of sufficiency of food to nourish them, were reduced to skeletons—crteping into puberty in forMs more like the puny inhabitants of Hindostan than like these of Englishmen, were once more cheered and re-animate&with enough to satisfy the cravings of nature. Such a glad day had not for a long time past been seen in this country. Even the battles and slaughters of our enemies at the Nile, at Trafalgar, and the seizure of the fleet of our Ally at Copenhagen did not excite such pleasurable sense tions. But what must be the contrast when the news reaches the country that Ministers have deluded Mr. BuovdnAm, and those who gave their support is his motion ; and that the Orders in Council will not be repealed, except on conditions which, it is I perfectly well known, the American Government wilt not accept of, who will therefore neither take ! our goods, nor give us their flour ? We may go to war with America to be sure ; we may capture a few of her ships, and batter down some of her towns ; but this will only stimulate her anger, and as she possesses within herself all the ma terials for manufactures of every kind, she may I, form the resolution of laying enormous duties ! on oar goods which, even in time of peace, will ex elude our products for ever. Such then is the preci ipica on which this nation stands—such is the condi tion to which it has been reduced by the wretched policy of our Rulers. We must conciliate America, or our poor Manufacturers must continue to be pau pers as long as charity can be extended to them ; and then they will be left to rob and murder, for which they will undoubtedly be hanged or shot. —a system that has enabled the enemy to ef fect his great object of turning the attention of the people of the Continent from Maritime to internal commerce, ,where it is unassailable by our • t. navy-y•-a system which has enabled BONIPARTE to break there people of (heir old and almost riveted hatlts—the use of colonial produce and our manu factures; which has caused them to use substitutes for the first, and to set them to spinning and weav ing the latter—objects which not ten thousand of NAPOLEON'S vapid Decrees could, in one hundred years,have accomplished, unaided by our most perni cious Orders in Council—a system which has in material degree turned the American States from an agricultural to a Manufacturing nation, and lost us, perhaps for ever, a vent to that country for our ma- nufactures to the amount of at least twelve millions per annum, and m hicli was naturally increasing in the ratio of th e i ncr ease of their population and wealth —a system which his thrown our manufactures into a state of almost total stagnation, and is causing the starvation, by inches, of thousands and thousands of our ingenious and dexterous artizaos.—No wonder, indeed, that the authors and supporters of this most impolitic system now skulk oft; and hang down their - _ heads with mortification and shame.—No wonder that the father of this pernicious system, Mr. Stamen, should have declined being present in the House of Commons to witness the condemnation of a =ea. sure, and that, too, without a single argument be- ing adduced hi its defence ? which ) we will venture to assert, has produced more national and individual dis. ress, than it was possible for the enemy to havaintlict- ed on as in 100 years, even with such Ministersas we ha re at the head of ourGovernmenpe condemnation of the Orders in Council by Parliament, is most em phatically the deunnciation of their authors and sup [We had intended to pursue the subject somewhat further, but our limits compel us to delay this till another opportunity.] porters, and the time has been, and may arrive again, when such men would not only have been instantly I discarded from all offices of trust, bat would w havel Government have received dispatches from the Earl of \Yes-lc:roe, dated the 3d instant, but we un been made substantially responsible for mal-admini- de rstand they contain no intelligence of importance. stration. Those Orders in Council have been pro- Recent letters from Lisbon mention, that a fleet flounced and protested against by ford Easx l Nre 1 of transports was fitting out in the Tagus, to proceed and several other Noble Lords, as unconstitutional; i through the Straits, for the purpose of takiag on and we appeal to the sober er common sense of the 'hoard the Spanish troops which had been trained and nation, whether it is fitting that men, whose , disciplined at Majorca. They were then either to be landed in Catalonia, to form a junction with the policy has not only been ruinous, but unconsti -1 force under the Baron D'Eaor.es and General LACY,' tutional, and which they, after the injury has !or by making occasional descents on the coast, when been done to the nation, have ungraciously abaci- : favourable opportunities should arise, to keep Secure Boned themselves—we ask honest men of all par- in a state of alarm, and to prevent him from sending ties, whether it is titling or decent, that each men reinforcements to Soel.T. should be again entstwed with the important desti- Government has permitted a Danish vessel (Vrey. den) to carry out provisions and other necessaries to 'lies of this Empire ? Are we, after what we know of them, again to put into their hands the national laud. the Moravian settlements of that nation in Green.,, The settlements as well as the colonists, , parse, and permit men, who have failed in all their I h ave , b een in great distress for provisions for two or wild and . weak experiments, to try others on u;,' three years past, and have subsisted on small her which will, beyond all doubt, prove equally ruinous ? ! riegs, muscles, and sea-grass. The Vreyden is loading at Leith. The necessity of the abrogation of the Orders in 1 , The following is from our Correspondent at Ash- Commit, has been acknowledg,el by all. The proxi- ~ t on, dated June 16, 1812 : --••• 44 On Sunday morn mate object at (daft is, by effecting a reconciliation ± ing last, about eleven o'clock, between 2 and 304 1 1 with the American States, to obtain a vent for our I Luddites assembled suddenly, like cross coming accnmulated and, at present ) useless stork of manu_ ; overfields, hedges, und . ditehet, upon Hough Hill, factures, and thereby afford employment and bread lin the vicinity of Newton and Staley-Bridge, which commands a view of the country to Manchester, for our idle and famishing who have been workmen, , and several miles round. They formed tnem • driven by hunger to the most daring acts of despera- , selves into ranks, two or three deep, and ap tion,.and for which many misguided, but once in- I peered at a distance to he performing some dustrious.heings are now suffering the infliction of the military evolutions. No stranger was permitted to ap bayonet and the halter. What higher or more co i n. , preach them. One man in getting over a stone wall mendable objects under Heaven can any that may for this purpose, was ordered by the out post to retire, and though he was very obstinate, they soon corn truly be called Statesmen have, than the preservation pelted him to retreat. The particular object of the of peace with a nation with, which it is so decidedly meeting is not known to any, except that description our interest to be in terms of friendship, and likewise of persons who formed it. They seemed to enter into the alleviation of the distresses of our owe people ? close conversation ; and it is said a piper was read by The annunciation of the understanding with Ali- one of the company. After continuing together nisters in Parliament, that the Orders in Council about three quarters of au hour, they dispersed by the signal of a gun or a pistol being fired, the report would be unequievocally repealed, was receivedwhich , 1o f was heard through the neighbourhood.— in the Manufacturing districts, and indeed all , 1 —lf they merely intended to alarm the Magistrates, over the country, with feelings of more real , and bring some dragoons from Manchester, their ob joy than any event that has occurred for 1 ject is accomplished; for messengers were sent off years. One Correspondent writes, that the moment immediately to that place, and early on Mondey morning, a party of the Scot's Greys arrived at Ash..l the intelligence, which was received by express on , ton. During the last week, scarcely a night bas' Thursday morning, reached the Staffordshire' Pot- I elapsed without fire-arms being collected in this teries, it " diffused the most lively joy throughout, neighbourhood by the Luddilis. They suddenly ap. , that populous district, which hails the grand deride-1 pear at the door of the hoese, but do not break in, • ratusn of a renewed trade with America, as being t without previously demanding entrance; if resistance the dawn of a fresh era of prosperity to these menu- I be made, insta i nt death is declared to be the coast , quence ; but f the arms be peaceably delivered up, factures." From Liverpool, we learn, that such i they use no violence, and in some instances Mee was " the piomptitude of men in business on Friday i promised to restore them in a very short time." last, that a great many American ships have been ' We leans from Stockport, that in consequence of placarded this morning in the Exchange, in expec- the great success of the Luddites in prosuring arms tation of beneficial freights, from the confidence with ! by nocturnal visits, gr. Hens, and other Alegi which the merchants will look for the abrogation of : strate as in the sicinity ofillanchester, hove been au. • thorized by Government to grant Warrants to the th the Restriction Law on the other side of the Atlantic. , 1 High Constable,'Mr. CARTWRIGIST, to enable him, At Leeds, on Saturday, " the beneficial effects of the, w i t h proper assistance, to seize arms of every de. repeal of the Orders in Council are already apparent , seripsion belonging to the inhabitants, wherever they in the impulse given to the woollen trade. Bates I might be found, as the only means of preventing them of cloth, which bare been stored in the warehouses; from falling into the hands of the disaltected. The of the American merchants for months in some i n- s High Constable commenced his rounds on Thursday s escorted by the Stockport Horse patrole. .. stances we may say for years, are now in transit to 1 : On T ues da y night last, the Luddites obtained a the place of their destination; and we are peculiaryl considerable quantity of arms. From the.widow of happy to state, that there were more purchasers ire' an officer they procured eight swords. The gun/ the Leeds Cloth-halls this morning, than there has . consisted of about 100, and they were beaded by a been on any market-day since the enactment of the person who, from all appearance, was much superior ; celebrated Orders in Couucil." From a Gentleman in rank to a mechanic. They continue to practice their military exercise under cover of night. Last who arrived in town this morning, we are informed Sunday, at day-break, a body of upwards of 2000 that, immediately after the news reached Man-. were observed breaking up in different directions on cheater and Yorkshire, manufactured goods of all' a moor, about sin miles from Stockport, where they. description rose at least 20 per cent. and many of bad assembled during the night. those wkb were out of 'employment were home- i ',otters from Yorkshire state, " that the system of stealing arms and lead, in the neighbourhood of diately set to work. As soon as the Recounts al . . were received at Birmingham and its neighbourhood , assem blages of between two and these hundred men the reviving sound of the hao*ner, the anvil s and' the have bben seen on different nights, in repot* places ; -es mete again beard.- The baker, seeing thspreekes% going thrones aim military stereieee! , ARMS STEALING. Lens, Jose 20.—These dangerous outrages otv the peace of society, and the property of individuals, still continue, and with which is combined a spirit of indiscriminate plunder, and in some cases iise demaecl of arms is only the ostensible pretext, the real ob ject being to obtain money. On Saturday morning, about one o'clock, the family of Mr. Barraclough was roused from sleep, by a party of men, who de manded fire-arms; this demand was immediately com plied with, and a piece was given to them out of the ' window, but ndt content with this, they insisted that the door should be opened to them, which was done; having obtained admittance, they insisted upou ino tog the keys of the desk and drawers, 'which they completely ransacked, but without Endin g tidy money; disappointed in the search, th e y p ro c ee d e d to the bed room of Mr. Barraclough, and insisted upon his gi%ing them all the money lie had, lie gave them about 20s. in silver, and having helped themselves to a large loaf, a piece of cheese, and some butter, they took their leave; one of the party almost immediately re turned, and brought hack the piece, saying they had no occasion for it. The same nights robbery, vey: , similar in its circumstances, took place at Kirkbor ton, Tear Huddersfield, but in which the robbers wereAhot so ceremonious as to ask for admittance, but broke into the house, and two of them entered the bed-room of Mr. Savage, and each presenting a pistol to Mr. Savage and his son, who slept in the same room, demanded his money and keys, he gave 'them about 235. and they proceeded to examine his idrawers, but did not meet with th e t r easer e th e y ex pected; Mr. Savage having fortunately been disap i pointed in receiving a very considerable sum of mo ney, which was to have been paid to him the preced ing day. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOU li t Jost 21. Sailed the Escort, 19 ems, with a eanvoy for Jersey ; Sophie: and Aeteon sloop of wars for the Cberhurgh station; Tait ot sloop of war, for Plymouth, with the supernumerary seamen who brought round the Dreadoought, of 98 suns; and the 'flag phone, for her station off Lymington. PLY MOUTH. JUN 2 21. The name of the brig recaptured fro% the French rind*. proves to bp the Mary, of Sunderland, Henry Wardett, Master. The boat that left her with the Frenchmen. ill triard went on shore to the Westward, and the Mary neat up Channel, and pro ceeded on her voyage. DEAL, .14tez 21. Arrived his Majesty's ship Poi c tiers, from acr aise off Flashing. Sailed his Majesty' , " ste, s La Hogue, fur off Flushing ; and the. Coquet, to the Westward. _ _ _ liceeeima large fleet of outward-bound. FALMOU'Iif, Aims :9. Itaze.Pasz Teo o'Czoce,—Arrived the Princess Marlette packet, Captain White s with a Mail from Gibraltar and Malta. DARTMOUTH, Inez 20. Arrived the Providence cart-I from Moitaix ; tames cartels from Portsmouth, with 950 invalided prieciaers booed toFtencr. SUNINAM, Mar 4. The Princess Elizabeth packet has arrived ; they beard& se vere cannonading on the cotut the morning of the 2d inst. which was also distinctly haafd by the Colonial sloop off the Marco wind. Several American ships are receiving British goods and colonial produce at Portsmouth, for exportation> to France, at the freight of 51. for every ton the yes lel admessurec. _ The Rev. W. Ntsrttt.n was on Friday last pre tented to the PRINCE Ritier4Tilt the Levee at Carl ton-house. This Gentlowan is one of the most ac tive Magistrates in the county of Durham. To his exertions the public have been frequently Indebted for the suppression of riots amongst the pitmen, over trhom he has acquired a great ascendancy by the im• partiality of his conduct in administeringjustice,anft by his firm and intrepid manner in the menthol of it. He has for many year. been one of the Chaplains to the Pnivce, though his name bas never appeared in the Court List. The Hind revenue cutter, of Falmouth, command. ed by Mr. BOWDEN, 'the Mate, fell in with &French) lugger privateer last Wednesday, about six miles east of the Dadman, with a brig in company berlprise. Thti Hindimmediately commenced close action; during which the enemy fell alongside, and attempted to carry the cutter by boarding; but met with such re. sistance, that two of her masts were soon cariiech away ; and the cutter's crew took her in the most gallant style by boarding. She proved to be L'ln. conoparaldr, of St. Maloes, list from Hotta', armed with liguns, 12-pounder., and 58 men on board. During the action she had 7 killed and 9 wounded, Owing to the fire from the hind, she received so mach damage, that she soon became in a sinking state; and it getting dark, it was with some diffi culty that the Captain of the privateer s his first officer, and Me of the crew, were got out of her the remain r, it Pi feared, went down in the vessel. On the firn appearance of the cutter, the privateer rude a signal to twelve Frenchmen, who had taken possession of the brig, to rejoin the privateer ; hut by the quick approach of the cutter they were pre. vented. The brig proceeded on her loyage 4.th has crew, THE MARKETS. --mwsw•--. CORN EXCHAN(SI'.. JoirS22. . Ilsearttrats of Wheat for this day's Market make MK a rattll% dliog supply ; early in the forenoon Sue samples fetched some what b e tter prices; but sales, in Iteueral, at little Ilueteatiou. Barley, with Malt, remain nearly at the Is nileie. WS.* AO Grey Peas likewise. Not bavins many Dens of friths' sort, they are named rather dearer. Oats are is shell sip . Iy, and this trade fatly supports the late minim. door at bat • week's prices. Wheat lO4l 13iPs 1504 I Tick do. (leer) .. 70 16 Pine ditto 15.9 /54 i no, (vioe gm) .. .... Rye B4 90 i Oau .. 49 52 56 Barley 64 70 1 Yolanda° ....... 57 69 Malt 92 100, Potatoe do. ... •.. 61 62 White Pens (boilers) 80 86 I Rape seed 4irey do. ........ 72 781 line Flour Haas „,., .. ... . 73 78 : Seconds - SMITHFIELD MARKET:4W , , it. To sink the Oral, per stone of SM. Reef 21. to 6s. yd. Used of Cattle this dove M 111.4.11 ..b' S 4 • fie. 4d. 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