The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-03-14 00:00:00

• blessing . hut • • • • II • this increase of knowledge in the public, at which he rejoiced, observe, required a correspond ing increase in the influence of the Crown !—So that. this" blessing"; this thing at which Mr. ROBINSON rejoiced ;. . this is to be counteracted by the raising of millions of money upon the people, in order to coun tenet the effect of this " blessing" !—We will inter rupt our observations here for a moment is avert for a moment to a late expression of Lord CASTLEREAGH, namely, that Parliament was not to be influenced by what was said in assemblages called County Meetings. bat by the property and education of the Country. — Now, here we have one Minister telling us, that the country is inundated with knowledge, intelligence, po litical information in every branch, and that money must be raised to counteract their effects, and another Minister telling u, that the education of the country is not to be found at a County Meeting, while a third (a perfect Mammoth is the ta:•eatiog way) calls a County Meeting a " farce," though composed, as the one par• titularly alluded to was, of ten thousand land-owners and land-occupiers in one of the fairest counties of England. But, was there ever any thing so monstrous as the argument of Mr. Routysorr. Is it not built upon the preposterous, nay, the savage notion that men of sense, roes who know their duties, and the duties of their mitre. are not to be governed according to the laws and the Constitution; that the prerogatives of the Kixo, the just powers of the Parliament, the due administration of the laws, ►he moral principles of re. ligios.; that these are insufficient for the governing of men of understanding; and that, therefore, resort most be had to an influence, which the laws and Constitution hold in abhorrence ; and the use of which it has been messed for our «ay to be openly avowed to be necessary; but. the strangest thing of all is, that Mr. ROBINSON should tall that a " blessing" which has rendered this n.ost expensive influence so nee ss sss y '. That he should call it a " blessing" and " rejoice" at it. There is hnt one interpretation to be given to this, namely, th►t Mr. ROBINSOV rejoices at the increase of intelli• geoce, because the increase of intelligence calls (2r, as he asserts, an increase of the descrip• till; of that which is enjoyed by the Post. master General.—Mr. HOLME SUMNER went a little into a eteseription of this influence. He said, that he was not one of those who thought that the influence of the Crown had become too great in Parliament. It was not, he said, whether this office required one or two Lords, bat whether the influence of the Crow■ was too great ; and lie thought it " not greed enoogla"„ and, therefore, he should vote against , the motion. Mr. FREEMANTLE (Lately come lets office), considered the influence of the Crown to have bees diminished; and "thought the proposed redaction to be highly dangerous." lllr. STewAaT WORTLIY called it an attempt to pull down the in fluence of the Crown; and said, that it would be making an approach towards a Republican form of Government; and, therefore, he should "fearlessly " and honestly" give his vote against the motion. If Mr. ti ORTLEY really do wish to keep the desire of haring a Republican form of Government out of the minds of the people, wo would advise him not to tell them that there is mother way of obtaining a reduction if enormous expenditure. He has here, unwisely we think, held out a very tempting bait to the people to embrace Republicanism. We, for our parts, who re collect that the whole of the taxes in the reign of Queen ANN, when England was able to beat down Louts the Fourteenth, did not amount to so much as the bare collection of our taxes now &MORRIS to we who recollect that, in the year of ex tended warfare of 1782, the whole of the taxes dill not amount to but little more than a fourth of what they now amount to in a season of profound peace ; we, sew recollect that a navy of a hundred thousand seamen and marines then cost only one million more (and in time of war too) than a navy of twenty thousand seamen and marines now cost in time of peace, we, who recollect, that a navy of twenty thousand sea seen and marines cost two millions in 1790. and that a navy of twenty thousand seamen cad marines • now cost six millions ; we, who recollect all these things, would fain hope, that a Kingly Government can be carried on without this tremendously expensive influence; but, if Mr. STEWART WORTLEY will hare it otherwise; if he will insist that these enormous ex penses are indispensible in order to have a Kingly Go vernment, let him take to himself all the merit that is due for having set in motion a train of ideas, the result of which it is so very easy to guess at, that we thiak it wholly unnecessary to girls it a description. Our readers will begin to think that the lucid and gentle Statesman, that man of powerful persuasion, Lord CAs•rt.eneacu, was silent upon this occasioa ! Not so, indeed. Pity would it have been If that convinc ing tongue bad not been in motion when such a prize was at stake. Seeing the fate of Mr. Roam sofs's curious doctrine, he did not amend, that use less offices must be continued merely for the support of the influence of the Crown. He " denied as " strongly as any Member, that influence ought to " be used fur the purposes of corruption, or to induce " is Member to swerve front his duty!" Oh, bless us, no! we have heard of any Mr. MADDOCIA'S mo tion. This burdened, distressed, II d, distract 0, and insulted nation have never heard of such per- LOOS as Mr. PIRCIVAL and Mr. QUENTIN DUE! But, to proceed. This great political phi!osopher, this great patron of purity, was disposed to look at " the i ° 4.- ' 4- THE "ntechine in a larger tittw, as is was in the Coseetits " hoe! Descending a little (in charity, we sup pose, to our uneducated minds); earravriog a littli this larger view of tbe matter, he graciously cooties - muscled to tell us, that there was always,'in the House of Commons " a strong corps of attack upon the " Administration of the country, and, if there " were not a mass of official personages to de• fend it, the citadel of Government would soon •' be destroyed; and, therefore, he contend " ed, that the office on which they were debating " was absolutely necessary to the au .chine of govern " ment."—Now, whe►her this be a true desefiption or not, of this machine, of this citadel, or of whatever else this philosopher may call it, we pretend not to say; bat we venture to say ; we venture to offer it as our decided opinion, that, if this be a just description of it, the sooner the machine undergoes some sort of change the better it will be fur the country ; and when we say country, we, of course include his MA. Jsent and his family, whose real interests must be inseparable from his people.—What a droll idea, that there should be a thing called Government to be corn pared to a citadel, constantly in a state of siege! This idea would be natural esuugh if re 'apposed an open rebellion always to be in existence. But Government is a thing for the whole people to love and cherish; and what a monstrous notion it is, then, in this philosopher, to look upon it as a thing to be constantly attacked by the representatives of the people; and, which is still more monstrous, that a part of those representatives should be paid in order to defend this citadel against the attacks of the other part ! This profound philoso pher began his career as a Parliamentary Reformer; bat never did be, in his whole life time, put forth an argument in favour of Reform so cogent as this. The discussion of this question will do a great deal of good, and we are sure the peo ple will participate with us in thanks to Lord NORMANDY for having produced it. It is not the 2,5001. a-year ; but it is the principle upon which the thing has been attempted to be defended.—Wecon dude with remarking, that Me. CANNING was silent upon an occasion so peculiarly suited to the exercise of his talents ; but we suspect, that the Gentleman, who is not deficient in point of sagacity, begins to yell that there is a change approaching. We lament to find that the Irish papers received to centain some painful recitals of further outrages ; the details of which we are compelled to omit. It does not appear, as the Dublin Hondo:. Pool oh ser yrs, that the severe measures whirl boos beessear ried into effect la the Counties of Coritead Limerick, have produced much good effect—on the seats►J. Mute seems to amuse a deeper aid 1111014 malignant hue, as if a motive of revenge were anperadded to the pre-existing causes of these unhappy doings. lenient measures, wherever tried, appear to have ; boo attend ed with better success. Paris papers to the 12th instant have wired. Sa- turday and Sunday appear to have passed off without any fresh agitation in the capital. The' number of persons arrested on Friday night is said to amount to 230. Some rumours were afloat that tbk schools of ; Law and Medicine were about to be illtessved from Paris. No account is hitherto given of the fate of Betthon, though The Alcmiteur asserts that do. Intel- ligence from the West is as satisfactory as could be expected. Another tumult, we are concerned to learn, had arisen in Barcelona, and fur ea whits prey tented a very serious aspect; but it was happilral layed without bloodshed. A letter from (Mesas, dated Feb. 12, says, " You may rely upon it that every thing is settled between Rimais and Turkey." Private letters from Paris to Monday evening memion the closing price of the Five per Cents. au that day at M. 50c. ea din. Foacrc.:l FuNns.—Those who are 'interested io such things ought to be very touch on their gaited against the tricks of stork jobbing newspapers. i r ides end ra-' moues are continually hatching; nesetioasand of the sharpest knaves in Christendom are incessantly on eke watch for gulls ; every third man you meet within a great distance of the Royal Exchange you may set down for a shark that has a design upon some one or other, or upon all mankind in a mass. Oar very good way, just at this time, as to foreign affairs, le, to discover what the Old Ti.oacs newspaper emote yen to believe ; and then believe jest the efateary. I. this respect the Ministerial papers nay be read IN the same way. fe Wove is a Stove ?—Some suppose only a preen., I who is made to work, in some wry fatter. to work at all, is nut essential to the alienates of slave. Nay, persons may he very touch cherished, and even beloved, by those to whom they are slave's. For, are nut the women, in the Seraglios of the Dry of Al giers, his slaves' A man may he a mimicr and a azne at one and the same time ; and, bow many cases could we point out, in which the most gaudy, gay looking, hig-looking, hectoring, swaggering, thun dering bullies, who will hardly suffer their underlings to speak above their breath ; how many cases, in which these Hectors of Troy will, if they receive the word of command, literally lick the spittle of crea tures wheat, in their beasts, they despise! And, are not these hectors " slaves "? Ti., and the basest of " slaves "; because they are slaves not by compulsion, but for the sake of lucre and fur that of leading a lazy life. Amongst those slaves, who, when out of, the sight of their muter., assume all She airs of free dom sod even of loftiness, wo,find all the choice pimps, parasites, and instruments of ontelty. They are the very scam of slavery ; yet, if you nil them :latex, they affect surprise and anger! /niece how they will, however, they are, and they will always be called, "slaves". -,--• LOANS TO LANDLORDS. Some of the public priats, notoriously attached to the Ministers, and always *append, as& in general, ant unfairly millpond, to speak their sentiments. have openly justified, or attempted to justify before hand, the lettdiag of Exchequer Bills to Landlords, at 3 per cents., in order to amble them to pay off mort gages, for which they pay 5 per cent. Now, if this were to take place, and, really, the conduct of some of the landlords has been such that we think Mey west expect some such thing, here would be a menet bribery and corruption such as even this country never heard of, and never dreamt of, before. Every oar., to be sire, who has borrowed money, at 5 per cent. and who cannot pay off the debt, will want to get part of this 3 per cent. loan. Ten times, or twenty times, the four millions will be waited. A fey, compara tively, can be gratified. Those few will, of course, be selected by the Ministers.—" Oh, no ! by erniunissiox ers !" And, play, willselect the Commissioners —Nonsense ! impossible that snail a thing can be at tempted ! Impossible that bribery, that Airing so direct and open can take place. The Ministers dare not, we think, attempt so barefaced, so insolent, so infamous a thing ! What ! Actually take Landlords (some of whom may be Members of Parlitnemt, or relatives of Members) into open pay! This never can be thought of. We, without any conjecturing about. the matter, say, as in the case of • repeal of Peel's 11111, the thin; is too infernos. to be attempted! Of coarse we conclude, that the mercenary prints have, in this instance, overstepped their bounds. But, what must the minds of the conductors be made of ? They, at any rate, think of the thing, and are prepared, if it bad been, or could be, adopted, to justify it. That Is to say, they are prepared to justify a measure, which world be neither more nor less than a purchasiog, an open, an avowed, purchasing of the landlords with money taking out of the taxes raised on the people at large ! Such is the mercenary press of England! TRIAL ST BATTLII.—ThIS may be very well in a profession where, as Congreve (the poet we mean) has it, the brains are lodged in the Leily; but, we think it a very imperfect mode, under any ciretnnstasces of the parties, to decide questions of morality, law, poli tics, and arithmetic. If the jury and judge, for in stance, were to be called on to revise their decision by appealing to the pistol, we should soon see the sharp shooters our masters. If he who brings forward charges of peculation and p:under will but admit the right of the accused party ro apocal to the test of powder and ball, the chances must always be in favour of the accused and against the accuser. Wbo would be a judge, if be were compelled tofight every villain that returned from traosportatioa ? A crimi nal is a criminal, in. rliatever rank of life be may be. The calling of himself a gentleman is nothing. And no unconvicted man ought ever to think himself as heiag, in any respect, upon a level with one that he 'accuses qi crimes, whether those crimes be of a public or of a private nature. Whea Sir FRANCIS lIVRDLTT complained, on Totes day evening (as Mr. Cobbett did years ago) that there wen Sominaries of Infant So/di, re, Lord Palmerston answerad, that the greater part of the soldiers' chil dren were put out to apprenticeships. Indeed ! And why? Why are the soldiers to be favoured thus ? Why their ctildren, any more than those of the la bourers and artisans, who help to prep the soldiers Ind their children ton ? But, as to the fact, are there not barracks for infant soldiers I is there not one at Chelsea, and do we not see them parading and marching about, and do we not hear their infant drawl Is there not a barrack of the same sort at Southampton ? And what does this Island rant with all this? What is, what meet he, the real ilvsi,;,‘ of it? Tita►eutxo MACHINEI.—We are very happy to hear, that the farmers in Norfolk and Suffolk have bad the good sense to lay aside their threshing ma theism. Any thing that they can stow save in this way must go to the Landlord and the Parson. They can, in the present state of things, get nothing for ilsibseins and families. And, why should they make themselves, for the sake of others, the iostrnments of keeping in a state of starvation, the labourers who are in tact their fellow•suferers? If the landlords choose that all the present taxes should be paid, let them pay them. The farmer should resolve, at all events, to give up no more of his capital, if be can, by any means, avoid it. AGRICULTURAL Dmmess may, before the end, as sine many forms; but, we take it, it is hardly Os eible that it should go on, nista all the land be le the actual possession of the g went. The labourers must be fed. The koalas meat be fed too; twilit seems to be a 'potion, whether these latter will lose their all and still remain tranquil. It is possible, that they may, in time, de something of the sort that the labourers in Norfolk and Suffolk have lately been doing. If Mini, distress were to lissome as picedirkg as that of the labourers, consequences might arise the ultimate effects of which we venture not to anticipate. In the meanwhile, however, let of hope that every tenant will thisk"Well of his danger in time. 3lr. SVKISS, member for Hall, in presenting a peti tion, on Monday, from landowmers and occupiers in 'Yorkshire, stated that one of them had estates that had yielded him thirty thottactud pounds a year. It is pleasant to see such uses coming, at last, with their complaints. The MKS of BUCKINGHAM, I. 410 Wing a porta of sispenny sugar a week for Me Ilse of a large farm house, gives us a pretty good idea of the scale of ex pellee and taxation that he has in view. Two onsets of sixpenny sugar a day fur a fa.-at-ltosee convinces us that his Grace mesas the boys and girls to have very few goo.eberry puddings ; but, now we think of it, his Grace does not allot the farmer and his wife any children! A letter from Aix-la-Chapelle, dated the sth inst. in the Journal de Paris of Sunday, contains the following paragraph :—" It is understood that on the occasion of the approaching marriage of King George IV, ' with a Danish Princess, a Treaty of Alliance wilt be concluded between England and Denmark, in which certain modifications will be stipulated relative to the navigation in the Baltic." Mona Success AT HAZARD'S !!!—No. 7839 draw. this day a Prize of Twenty-chousauti potted,. was sold , in shares 467, drawn by Hazard a priz zardan e d or eo.l.*ne.bnotr,alsoousosalad peti dia o sh a area No. s, on the first day of drawing, last Tuesday fortnight. ' -- .. z ,f Ll'l3lll' DISITOR3' COURT. IN THE MATTE* et OLIVE. CALLING BERIELP rata. CCU OH CUMBERLAND. Yesterday atoning the Court wu excessively crowded with persona waitiag In expectation of b.sr. ing the examination at this Lady. who wu to b e brought op to take the beseAt of the Issolrest Debtor's Act. At twelve o'clock tba case of " Olive, Prism% of Cumberland," was mild on by the Clerk of the Court, when the Lady Pile Ur (stance, sad at th e request of Mr. Pollock .'lnto stated tbot she had had the misfortune to fracture her lag lately, she was ac commodated with a mat. The Officer having called—" Who opposes Olive, Princess of Cumbetiaod ?" Mr. Heath said--II op . pose on behalf of Mr."Lengstaff and Mr. James. A creditor, named i.ls appeared io person. Mr. HEATH stimmilhat,,,he intended to oppose 6 , , lady on a prelinslootrihjeddoe, Ilem she had sot in. chided its her soketioli a ceepiu deenoteat relating to property. The Learned Gossett mailed Mrs. Lang. staff to prove the existence of the detarnent. Mr. Pot.Loca objected to the course his feared Friend was pursuing, but the Court overrated the ot. jection. Ales. Longstaff then stated that she Lad seen is the lady's possession, whilst sbe lodged in her spirt. mints, a paper which the lady said was signed with the sign manual of his late Majesty, and va queathed to her the sum of 15,0001. but that it was not to be produced till after his Majesty was dead. Mr. POLLOCK then examined the Insolvent, who sail it was a paper signed by Lord Chatham and the Bari of Warwick She had frequently applied through the medium of Sir Benjamin Bloomfield, and it was out of delicacy to his Majesty that it was not made public before. She did not consider it as a debt, but as 4 bequest, and the paper was now in the bands or Mr. Hayfield a proctor, to he regularly proved is a will. Too C H IC, Comm:mamas said, this was arise of every day's occurrence. It was the case of an les.th vent, who, believing that be had moss claim to pro. perry, was hound to state the nature of that claha his schedule, and to produce and file in Court all the papers connected with it; the same must be done is this case. Mr. POLLOCK said he had stated to the Solicitor, that the paper should be produced ; he had biped it would he in Court, and intend/NI to ply to bare it pat in the schedule; but as it t% illtit in Court, he feared an adjournment was necessa4.—The leeelrect said, it had been represented to her, that it was est necessary to return the document; and she could art see her Counsel to advise with hisn. Mr. uteri said, DO one could doubt :hat tit don. meat must be highly important to the creditors. Cuter Cow MISSIONen.—Let the ease be adjoined for fourteen days. and in the wean thus let the paper be delivered in. It was finally fixed, that the ease should be ►each on the 25th inst. MONUMENT TO MIS LATE MIJESTErA meetisgel the Subscribers for a Moans's* to his late Aoki% was held on Tuesday, at the Thatched Haase . laser . The meeting was not numerously Minded, sal sou difference was found to exist &swag the paella m ust, as to the plan that had been hitherto prised. ft was ultimately agreed apo• that a Speak! Caessftfte shoa'd be appointed to receive proposals, wke wield report thereon at the next meeting. By the report that was read, it appeared, that the sass sabseeibed asnotints to 4,6481. 2e. SI. Sir English Debra warmly recommended, that the Lord Lletteanntot is their respective counties, and the Bishops.% their se veral dioceses, be urged to encourage, by &ester re• quests, the natioaal monument proposed to the memory 'of George 111. HATTON Gasnate.—Yesterday a great many preset were snmusoned to attend at this office reepeetieg this barbarous murder, and in the coarse of the day se len than 16 were examined for the porpoise of aseettaisg the extent of the deceased's connexion, and the woes of the persons who were in the habit of calling es her. Blackball and Archer, the two jeareeywro bakers, were also examined in the course of the fore noon; bet nothing appearing against them, led el their proving where they went to after !eerie: Mrs. Chessie's house, they were discharged. lo addition to the above persons, Williams Relit 1 . 5 . was sent in the course of the morning for rill Va rious characters lodged on Tuesday evening is Oat' spar-street Compter, charged with robbery. Their names are Henry Brookes and Henry Judd; the for mer a carpenter, who was tried some time age at the Old Bailey, fur being concerned its the robbery', to* large amount, in trinkets sod jewels, eueseeitted is Arundel-street, Strand, and acquitted, the letter a hackssey coachman. The prisoners were 'Ate ism the room before the Magistrate, and noderwest as examination. The bag which contained the pmfortl of the deceased was produced : it was made of mums and resembled a bag used on shipboard foe koWiag bread, but supposed to have been used by a repeater , as some shavings were attached to the amide. It eas marked on the outbid. 6,7,and a.B undersesth.This lags it will be recollected, was left behind by 11. e enertitrett , and was smeared with blood. A persnn Q(110%1 ,1 + 1(4 Walker, who had seen 4 men running frow place (into which, the usarderers escaped), sad eke, by catching and iltrnggling with one of them, ltod' i opportunity of identifying hint, was called into the presence of the prisoners:, but be could not ide ntli l either of them as the man whom he strop:lea " b " 4 the night of the murder.—The prisoners tom r e ' tuanded. This morning Brookes and Judd, underwent a second private examination, and another matt of tl.e name of 'Edwards was also real:tined in the same 0 13 °' tier. Judd, it is stated, reqnested an *Seer might by' sent to a well known flash•bouse, near Brooks' Mg kelt, to request the attendance of a man David Davis, a professed HuestAeolett to ac c ,... A ` 4l for the way in which Judd was ampo" at the time of the murder. An officer was accotr o i.gly dispatched for that perpose, but retarn e4fltp out his man, who was understood to be out of way. This eircumetance has tended to e xtend !tidos. __.—ottosato. - mmeadr?' -- Laga " , Editor/. Priuted, and Publl•Jled at Mr 061 1 " Tait STATIMIAN" and "Tut CoNrrert. tios" ( Paper). No. 193, Strand, opposite St. Ciesent's.Ohr7 b 3 a. W.kRIALL. LL.B., to whom all Comatricli." Orders, tte. are regerliPi to be adbo4l64* :.i 4 1 )- 4 11. t ~, ~~