The Statesman. — London, England, 1810-12-04 00:00:00

0 trklik.iitiTrk . , 'p.. TO ME LUITOR OW THE STATSSMAIf.. do not . knysr . 'frith what tensphiPAM (4 ,,, dr y at large at RI -receive the' intelligence o f: wither Adjuurnment, 60 how long it nil! patiently' „ r o ut e an usurpation, as ttietwecefultu the character O f t he nation, as it ia mimeses * ea je t iv erest ,,.—e, i s i h i ficult to calculate uo these*, of forbearance,' s hoe the spirit of resistasimioemps to have been io n out, and totally aityaed lty a series of opines. aeons shich habit has rendered familiar a miser. , e we selfishness, the joint production of avarice and l of penury, have rendered. men insensible to the hi. t her duties of the citizen, and the mind has been to t e s, debased by au Inordieette thirst of gain, than t h e pressure 'Ur taxes, width have filched from it ,,,.. !5 t industry .the means of ,subsistence. It is „ iir ,:ely possible' that the spirit of patriotism can i et i,t whero public virtu is scouted, as it were by scslataation, . and the terriers or the law are em. ?toyed to hunt and' worry it wherever it appears. tiafeili Sir, it is sufficiently distressing tQ ho el with subjitgatiae by a [beefy Despot, with very inadequate Means of resistance, without being in r aised by a pitiful domestic tyranny in advance, u g it were the object uttltlolettieefengled Oligarchy to prepare us for The yoke, and. deliver us. bound tad s ad f oo t, to the Sis t eiti g t,. Pied for the uses to ' white would put beats r ip ....making us first riser. t ient to that of their own.:—Sir, I beg you to take &fact as it is—l hope thd'peuple, awakened to a pm of else ewes, and Waits they have long en. i sre e, Kill look at it as it is, and act as their f o refathers would have done nutter similar cireum. owes. ThOliing is declared to be incapable of i jo ilis to Parliament, or attending to any public 4404ratiuts was made kuown to the country on the Ist of last month j it was repeated 41 the lids; (a - itµ again di:e1:44 .. 04 the 2iith ult.—lt is foreienAu the purpose to ep l quire bow long his Majesty bud lees in this deplorable copal. lieu PREVIOUS to its public avowal on the Ist Of A m eba ; and aar-little to the purpOsell it to asuac ourselves mitts.*l4olealde duration of the iiiicate which inespatillient the ilovestagn for the dutirs of kis. isiols *gas:. . The iiplaion of Meitital Men, independent of its hing liable to error, as opinion ever must be, is liable to be iiidueoosd but upon whatever round thew Gentlemen spay have formed them tweicctures, it is nos boconjectures that the peas plc of these kiegiloms, and their representative", are to be 'everted, on an occasion of such importance! ta the vital interests of the tomtit?. Mr. Peace: vAL iodirer.tly admits the Ari‘l4/ 4f this doctrine, g ra t cl i 1 ". 1 1 4 .21 ._ 1 4.41ta *eV feet looana to take Yarliamentary eippurei to supply the deftLiency in the Executive Government!, IF, ft the termination of the adjournment be propelled, to reasonable hope should appear of his MAJESTY bag LIKELY to recover! The mut offensive part of this affected cundisoension, is the cant sisal the quibble with which Wendt. The Evangelists may probably have fernished Mr. PERCILTAL with the one, and his knowledge of the statutes with the other; 'but this Gentleman, versed as be may lst :bw,o legal'cahl literatur e, o ug ht e, a gro h grounded notnded t ar o b i s i e e t may ad be iat this period of his life, and in the situation into which he has wriggled himself, that the preserve. lion of the Constitution must not be a coutingen'cy 01 th.: suspicious opinion of Medical Men, or on the full and change of the mop. It is, however, worthy of remark, that with all the validity he larc to the Physician's report before the packed Jury ()this own chusing, he peremptorily objected to their being °strained at the bar of the !louse of Cumnons s as Mr. Turamzir and Xstssr,te Tchrom proposed. AU this may him. him .pol'w fixity excusable in Mr. PCICIVIAL, but what'ssio veto think of the integrity of those who supported hits in resisting so equitable a proposition? In the neat of a general election, it is to be hoped that lie people, taught by experience, will be more cir,- (utui,tect in their choice of representitives. Bet %MIMI to the questkm. To the well-ascertained fill, stripped of Ministerial trick avid duplicity, of the Throne being vacant, it Mioisters had re.: teeteJ the Constitution as . sincerely 'as they pre. tend to understand it,. they woukl have felt it to be sir duty, in the first instance, to communicant disastrous state of his bls/Isrit's health td thlt Pria:c of Wascs,the immediate heir to the CfOlani "(I have implored his Royal Highness, lindec,4te to:nuances so delicate, dieting, and important, "eve supplied, under Parliameatary authe. 'ly, the vacancy, until the declared commies. 'lx of his Royal Father should happily en. able hint to resume the reins of Goverunieut 431 this line of condeet was the more Juana butt in the present seneants of the Crows t° bate observed, as the lOW, its • which they hail come into office, and their Stogies moat teriinaciously kept the King, ever silica he latfao° !moldy called them to hiseuuseila t odeldo Shines* kilt circle, bad excited eespicions tekleh 16,11- of tumour and of !Luling *odd bate buesimpatient Its 'date. Neither the itstezests of thtl Crolms n " t he rights of the people *mild have hems issistridi graded by the PRIM( Z assuming the Regamejleakalw the illness of the King ; sod the MAW of the uutry demanded such an assaimplies 111 Ili Or/ 3 " .►` 'tl E e. I . ~.. I. t C .. . it _ r e re. t. It r i . I'lf: rif l 7lll7yrrichis7 l l;7o74 . 74 n ft at - iht7 _._ the Monarch; bye or tlse empire. '' But this way k Onions, course wai,evoided by those epprentlc;i` l!latesasen s , retuned tunas their isnlontures tig the death of their muter, and now setting utter than. 'Miens It was avoided, nor because it -Mae .the couftellkyought to hive taken, but that it'Wouldi have led, to their instant dlsniiisiqn ha* Aces' which . they obtained by trick, sod would *williogly l hold by fraud ; because it would hate revealed to as I insulted and ill.governed country greater proofs of ineepacithor rather of delinquency, and roused per. haps the dormant treogbike of au oppressed pee. plc to punish the authors of so mesh public cala. miry and dishonour. What man of common din. emir:tent, who is acquainted with the history of the times, and with the character of the present Ad. ministration, but must feel convinced that the Bri. tish diadem would, on the first appearance of insa. fifty at Windsor, have been laid at the feet of the Paisce, and his Royal Highness most humbly implored to fill the vacancy ,. ik ~#lThrone dnring, his Father's illness, if tbewatstienten who dare. to exercise the rights of sovereignty in the absence . a.the Monarch, could. have been assured of having their lease of office renewed ? They are pleased*. 1 011 the immediate Heir to the Crown, not in a manly direct way, but through their Parliament:lvy I brangues that if his MAJESTY 41101114 not 'hew! , inny signs of inemedialeameadamet 'et the esPits-' 1 lion of another fortnight ; !bey will graciously al. 1 low his eldest son to beconsetonditionally Ail ,re. presentative ! Mr. ,Pester tar., by an estMor lanai) , effort at humility, assures us, that he Mould submit such a season: to the consider. alien of Parliament (if a Parliament it can le. 'pally he railed) ; and he even condescends to ad. mit the necessity of such submission ; but if he ecknow ledges that such a step may be necessary wt. the 13th inst. can he deny, nay, will he have the 'effrontery to deny that the same necessity' tor supplying. the chasm in the Constitution did not exist oil the Ist of November ; and as it did exist, what excuse has he to offer for converting the Monarchy into a Republic, and endangering not only the legitimate rights of inheritance, but the Islet) , of the Empire ? It is perfectly understood ;that rho Plumes can only be ftegoat during the in: capacity of his Royal Father to discharge the functions of the Crown ; and could not this condi. tion have been' annexed to the nomination of his Royal Highness in November, as well ai in Decem ber ; or,, ii it meant to establish, by precedent, a right toe little interregnum of their own, a kind of MinissariaiNhilee.for tweet three months, fur the benefit of future Administration*, who may find HIORISRITIS rehoused by a visitor visitation, ftbrif 101 iontroul sod superintendence of the Regal Autb*; rity ? If so, these Gentlemen Should be. Mid that the farce of High Life 134010 Stairs, which they are actually performing, may ultimately end in e tragedy, lu which the sacrifice of their lives may afford no 'compensation—no atonement for the wide ruin they.will have occasioned. I do aver, that the Constitution admits of no sus: pension of the Vonarchy ; on. the contrary, it ab solutely denies the possibility of any such suspen sion, by declaring that the' King never dies. In the ease of demise, the neat in succession instantly *mends the Throne, as a matter of course, and he must, iiideed, be a most* consummate and incorrigible casuist who will maintain that, with respect to offitial capacity, a difference exists between a 'King defunct and a Kim in. sane. What, in point of practical ellect;' . ll the absence of his MAJ EST r,. labouring le t. Hili" 41) 111 went under mental derangennonti s kim a . ,41. leave to Sir VICKERY GIIIKKAKII to iIiIIIMIKVO Ste trofession, the quibbling - vpob words be Win to extinguish or Confotind trellis' 'I prefer illkilleelest natural logic—the plain and Wee dtduclHillie of Common sense, from plain intelligible date, se *ell.) 'established facts to reason from, to+ellphlstry and refinements, the objeetilliehicle is ?to violate and undermine the principles of law and justice, with an appearanCe of the most profound respect fur both. It is on this ground of fair and legiti. ' mate argument I take upon me to Wert, that (14 1 capacity for carrying on the besieges of Goveco- 1 went is as completely null at preseet in Gitottin 111. according to the confeesions of his Tres. surer and Chancellor, iti it is in that of his grand. father, Gxusou 11. who has been dead thug 30 year'. The Sovereign, it the fernier instance, s iiiy recover his faculties, :but is the country to be kit without an efficient Cxecutive,Girfernment on the mere chance of the king being 'enteral he his sasses? The man who would haie maintained such Trine at the commencement of the pretent reign, weinhl hese been laughed at as a fool or a knave ; sad if a Minister, and he had attempted to act pen it, he would have been sent to the Tower.-- But (heti:nes are changed without being mended, and we here not only to deplore an imp:genet of pewee hitherto unknown in this conntry, but a meanness, II poor and timid servility, thatquelilles us for any submission which men grown wantoo with,authoriti exact"from us. If my conception of the Constitution if correct ; Pity reading has not misled me, and I have not misooticeiwed our historians, as well as BLACK• szoNt; and other exposition of Eagtish Law and .0 '• '• • :: . ;, - - j cement-I)MM Aliefteekel, *ewe*, the'fierdreigOlabi bb hi full Posstesit*trot only of kii dideriiindllClAt` of all his senses mid faculties. If thesti, rorai hit- prete6.. 9 ! sionsonid establish hie right (Ryery . the feectroise of hlajesty—.take sway these facuttiel f and,his rights Of ileetelvsiOns•fall to the ground:. This I *Wei,* teta L tfie hi* of the'laiti likisteit . kiss be strictly+ ge s nOtit s tienall err iiilsei6tii i "to r Ve founded' Ili , 7 ' : ir. ' : . . .. compottioase & and date Op Pa ts 01ficers of the Crows to deny it. What, Sir, shall we be, told, that when a calamity se 'deplorable befalls this country, as that ithitlit'itittinppily afflicts the King 1 at this moment thafilmrOrblienee ot - the Sovereigh• may be dispeniekwith, and All the Ex c cuti7 l .o4 4 ties of Goverment be as ably and .legallyombil as, safely performed, as if be were actually oar the Throne ? What else, than the maintaining of this damnable doctrine, do the three adjoii p finiebts in . succession ainonit t ,to ? What else aro„tlicse ad. h . journments, but oastisain and impudent mockery.' of hereditary right!, personally levelled at the Heir Apparent, in definite of the Constitution, of coins mon sense, and at' the . absolute risk of hivoltipt, the country hi oll,the horrors ,of civil witfilii47—;, 1 The Kok*. fee these adjoarnoteats, founded...el Icalculations,in which science can have no share, is, that his Ml/WITT may possibly recover, and be p for business some time hence ; bit tile real motive for thus, trifling with the honour and. :safety of the Empire, as well as with the rights of .tbe Crown, is to keep the PIIINCC at a distance from these Coun. OS, of which his Royal Highness ought long since to have had theguidance. Sir, we shall have a v . imperfect conception of this fl agrant set,. of a .ti Inisterlal atrocity, an atrocity which appears brand ml with the strongest possible feature of a conspi. racy against the rights of his Royal Highness and or the people, unless we travel back to the admi. isitkatien of, the present Lord SIDMOLITIty when,. In Oiller to supply the defect in the King's vi.ion, $ was placed about the person of his Majesty', 1.1 • 1 " ' c i .e l 7d , 611 public documents and dispatches tends. So that, in point of fact, the country has nbt'ilica sassed, constitutionally speaking, an efficient Mid Magistrate.for several years; and thichinterPreferi as .1 he may be calledoind .who was recommended by the Duke of Yong to the confidential poste 6114 is 'neither a Prier' Councillor, nor linotifinr.i H ` Constitutioa.., Q,OlOindlact.en may 4 4 :11 . . tr i li ) Z noarable man :. Oa presumption is Cettele,,vema ,strongly in. his hoar, for ho is a peufeot Gentle , man, of very Mild 'and amiable mariners, but no , other responsibility is attached tiithire than that 'seutiment of !wooer. which every Genthimau Is l supposed to feel, awl which I hare no hatitalkoap serA 1 _.- -wares -Iris dosimeter .as "follrilltilin7" men in England ; but the Constitution rikairenga ?lc different Seettitt thin *het' sPosiid 'rrh' devised miiiiiiept in ihe itaniaCtions of pr stt liiii. 'The istatt s •lik• our turopikeiates, shpt t, trust. .It la not to whit men will do s .bai istat they caordo, that we are to look : and Itsseolol it be asked, what Occurity has the country I . ' ti, il ‘ ; what security, has the Monarch, that the ' lifhich be alOis are; bona fide the papers that read _.O bilfli The King, is perfect health and perfect *W I haid the dispatches, as they stetted frowhis Ministina at Foreign Courts, transmitted' to Mm without delay, and in the state h whit li theYetriied ; Wit as his 41ajesty Ala 11 . f untorirsiely bereft or bie' .. oo4, .will the :IlliatiP Pretind t ha t I S* a s " -Is observilibibilihmk t, -and that Oolond ' 'EAR his nibi 111PdaitiL tif every' dispateitri WA. - - 1- W f - dale ilit Ai 2:Minister ,hil l ' inisti •i'.4o•-ratifty? lkiiiitver la the dints.. .. . . . • 1104 diti-spea alb, would simile their conscience, union KeliFion is at much a dead letter in their esti. 1 ination as fhiCairstitution. The State Papers to 1 • which 'the etfuntetaign of the Minister Is necessary "to give it,eurrency offers some kind of security, or :pledge, tothe dbutstry of correctness, because the lifinfitht who taunter- signs the document to which "illialliiyal signature is given,charges hi!nself with the t.ospensibility;, but there are many pipers of lin. portance—and even inStructioas under the Sign Manual of the King which are not counter-signed by the Minister el the department ; and as his MR. } KATY . 15 jars of 'reading what he Signs, bow . . , s 1 . % ors lie M "toile jtives'bis iignatu re to krovo-Aspityeally, fully, and distinctly road to im ? Thilinatenuostirins of a magnitude to have *farmed" in d f r ' 6 ttamators, had a similar occurrence have ha ~, tie any period of our hittory, even ... the (Jaya , I the TUDORS.; and it reflects little • cre di t , e ith e r en the wisdom or fidelity of l'rlisinent, that this important, not to say alarinieg fact shoald be first noticed in a public journal ! In happier times, sabers the principles of a free Government were halter appreciated, and the Prerogatiros of the Crown bettar.respected, the sinfisrttinate dersqt. in his l a tAjovey'S . ,ibion would have suggested Sluts c o nfidential servants, if they dese rv e his sonfidam , inl th e necessity of a Rejency ; nor wo uld the conntt ' in better times, have patiently submitted to the le.: .miry awl hazard of beholding a gracious sad' N. l loved SOIELMIGN encircled by a Junta, stately fitti. - , bidding all approach to his Royal person without tlil. Sanction of their permission i Wire ersn say that nb advantagehas been takers of his M it .1 ESTI( t's in fi nuityi,' and that information deeply ennnevirs: with hi% ow -gonal interest', anti:the. rstervita qi Witifs it* a f ' , r• • ... .liliM tk, A,'llli • 1 .. c g wliot 4: i - :--- • • l'iWhat. samtkrAllYllol4lll;sii.rmie s as Mr. •ilWattraaahat •wild : ~, (.• " Al t i'S lakes l ithe •Crah Ail' ' . dull& tittis4 adva it. r -1 I awl r ,Rill fi t ,_ _,,t 4 :All /OK! i ef f e t' if tbservi2 ) •rialest itkftettlik 9f: belibitlltsbtemilerraiberstl lie lilselentea ? • Men, - leaks firtpliiitall bijitierp and-sensible at once ortheit ditiljAtbitilditilrMlP abd Ilk i ;: r ottoi; *weld,' Pe tecitit e f ti th 1o( VOiseiy lthig)tis'liii.Jiiich tendon towacds the ileir-stPPartllietiattli ispkareat 'to be:enlightened by , hiivouncils ; - •thriptnitablkheardi subnikted to hirtreyaf - fligl;non the itlidelktflit at their iittiatiotte watt Ai' - kit t r l ilt $ , -n it: up, . dum must beitipOsetl,,,V , rott li; Thrfne!PsalkaCitated, bi b 444 aniopeogouo ir raagesitevit, and Atotill advancedl age 6f oesolne,o three; to discharge tkilinetinal SOF' bli'ininersibit not 117 trick anti intrfiaelfaiti%itafetnittt , iiipriii tts4 l , i. l 4,F E a Of 'Cl!' the qiiiitirtilik:‘l ll 4 1 01 ..w to . govern. .1 can pereelei,latv, asontialt difference between • 'salinity, while olatts,.-sie demise. The functirtivi of - Majratriliddlillkit - bit sospeaded. The voJnetitut 4 An t iiiihuyettren a , ...t a 4 ,16 .• h . there iball beliii 4. ausiiielitdit4.4 Pug . . ,Ace, ln, no .dght, in the former instance, •10 itlie regalia ..of. the. Crown i . 'yet, as ita presses/pa !the and. inivediate , beir, , bsi gis ietibhtiamilef . , 'the'tnest prop*? 'tb 111 th4ran; to tir :r t • =i% • father, —• • 4.414 4 4 tctipy , - the' priikti ,t , 4 . ts , at! ,eo to *Wes him to ‘retnoik . . , autbority k .,' Le i Itid - moo ,that the Law QOM °tithe Crown, od= titipsbadb constitutional.queslibeiletoald have adanni P briiiill and given their 'opinion. °girt with the exception of Sir T. Ty RTO k . " tad gif th . .,t?bi'lk e it:lik• Bar, 41;lels aught by its lega4lnpwl4gw,te, jaw. Out ilightesied Parliament, were iilent. ibikaot - liondir.. 'sil l •Sit, that iu a moment • so - avail, and on a' 'steeithrn of such national luiportince, id whiCh not' only the rights of the Croivn, of ilie RoAltildly * 4 and of the people, are iniotv ed I . 1$ to' th e rex ur.. istence of the nation, as an independent state, that , the ATTOKSZT.6SWERAL should have preserved his taciturnity.; or is it that feeling a stronger attach.: swent to the Minister mho made him, •then 'td 'the' Crown that oa r him, •he padscd like the 1 ,61.. m tw two pan w iAlsr;sof hay, nut .kn o usto *Jack to glio,themraferettee. • When I recollect llee slrs,a :questa wirier this Gentlemen treePlayie nildleP,llle wages Merciless wer - against'Pelnters 1 It&PISLit, !era, I regret tlit'it has nut . Veen, ilris* . l of Ole Co3st)totinn, 0014aikikad 4fdlighom.igigsge 140 beet,' .and : threatened as it seein!altiviii . s4lllbibilit speedily maibilated. .. , A usi *Kr. ~ - 4, ,,, ..ftv% ? l : )....Itt •• -AMMO • . : l!o • - wmmownsmememeillie tip aids • 4p1.9 (Landis NT • I'IVO Kb 4 LABS 'of fte ST4IT.• 4 tt.lialfts been .taitiuspirasody , asked, those who 011111141 0 ted the ► adjoin:tient—Where is there : 4- is chance Olt his .11IAJ perseni'll jeterpoiqioit a r'telli necelsarY I W 4 th it " v et a e spa e d I man 4. ad ),.We will as boldly- retort the queatian, , and ask **Where is the chance that It trill 'not? Nay moot LaWhere is thliroof that it fitawbf been ? %Ye ha4o access to the olitces . 9f GoviVaintant' but a ,14+ knowledge of 'dui na:itire ,Of public bus!. tiest,,egiabictus twpook with confideace antliis sub. ject. We defy contradiction, and courtallhaoilaiihs upon the pOnt, rbenolltritsse!t positively si that in every 'depaitlifept or....tha *State, either tin want raft Iffial IlailloritY is actually felt, to the great liltritlillso Public Service, er Its place is sup. oat la' hienner unknown to the Constitution, . - it• •o r ~:. i • - mid or Nartil effect Ana ex ample.—the Navy,. the Army, thertivil Offices of GUvertwornt, the All, rbaUgIfiTRATION OF Jus.rics, and the Cute. mettle! Interests of the :Natio*, are sufferinA, and Matt Continue to sitfkr, by lb* fetal stuspetsseett isf niA r titliinrity and discietionaty t poivir ie. the State. During the last nix weeks, 14, h o .S t t i ssi x i's pl e4 . sure ever been signified to Mit CW1%114044111 by sea or by land; or to his Ministers resident abroad? if, %tt has 'been signified, has it been taken ? ' bitilt . las not been signified, has not serious in 'es. teesivo injury to too public service been incurred'? lbe questions which might be raised on the present orate of things. . ace innumerable ; . we believe arose that have bees raised 'tie not few. Vitt the • most . notorlosts eriminals Ist some peculiar AirCpinstanacs, bu taecutcd ? Can those enti/led lo A mo y, h o t repited or pardoned ? Cana General kfloart3lartial (on which the subordination of our Army at home depends) be bell without a *Nor. rent ? . And can such Vt,°arrant be übtainettkA t ro I gor Merchants in ne want of relief;and if sijiiite. ad °ought to be. granted them, can money, cap Ex liehesquer bills, .canloess be homed for that purpose Can all or illicit liven thibit be done, or can they be negtected,rbiotevii4obtfuncil, luithoet: endlrsa embartsetbent,"ahti !Aorta* danger to the country ? If 'the ciffreer*denvendo r whyahis promotion is suspend. oJ, if the Vomnsander inquires whylsk hterectitros ire r Alihbekl 9 114* fTieltiumt aski why his CZ ex,. ~• pethlipa billstdibised, relief is denied, the er mutt We-41w ield-lionses of Pirliament, i'Sstatei bf thb litealbh, *ore - adjourned; they hie ncil time ittOistigatied- Air .. .mm*lo'e/ s thesis in. 16ntredieheet, ifoiliken oiitrithp-lowards the rt. IstoOtt of tittle: If this. NW' 4/eliciiey,.• delicacy al tint etitislif itr effectlete to the terabit. of the 1 a o,''tir atleittiOn 10 the interests: of .tite'Peoilbt. • ppearslods to be; ititerd Osienvictoa -terci. lit , atireiseti it, " tnoiiing: oUe'ii 64elt upon - both r Ct.* iti ilia' Cevytitr..” t si 'it :I ~... s ' :.. - , . ~... ! A ib. i , . of t b4t . b bet . 8,45ir w,, ;( "f.( be ei;, , . ;t Ut a $ t t:nt •-• li)Ected, • • ansar. the" 0. ~Oi