The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-06-05 00:00:00

~~. r r 1 "`. • I • • I • • • • • • • • • • • t, . Lord'cosnuAsie Ml* entented the table, and when the plaohlts.4 she Mretiog bad subsided., he said— ,l6 Genllemen--We are 'petite understand, that pro. NM" .in p very few days theta will devolve on the People that tight which .should always rest with .the People7-tharight of giving their votes for these who gni #mpirwered to dispose of Altair property. I speak „psetic.derlf of the Electors of Westesioster—of these; who wed their own Representatives tato 0 1 1*1 1100 ' of Commons—and are not content to retire Mee - Who are the tools and instruments of °then. - I Will not trespiss long upon your time, -bet shall give a brief sketch of matters with which you must all be acquainted: Upwards of eleven• years' ezperience proves to me, that the Iloope of Commons never will • !peak the . ..sense of the Pebple, until it is reformed, and And Reform can be broeglit aboothy the People 1f,., et the Entitling General . Election, the 4 reiTi. sent men of talent, of 'Seal, of integrity, _into the Linos. , Mire would be some belie that their caotawotsid be Soccessfel ; bat h is my fized and • tiret.emprespion,' thst such will not bathe result of • the approachiag Election. On the contray, I , tat, elk..rib tome. few populous places, the same " sale of torreption and wickedness will be acted, • hei so Inngtisgritoid the country......-Thatime *ben a chertge Is likely to be broug ht sOlst fiery. problematic; but I think it never wilf CO* untie Mi.. sisters and their frieods bring Ake ) Nellie to 'seek a 'Weer distress and degradation, as will o. longer be • einlarable.—(4pplause.)-Them is one glorious pre • ardent-4s prededent of days long gone by-4 Reform • In that Boole. It ewes its existence to a person • -who is said to hate usurped the reins of Government. He reformed the House of Commons, and, perhaps, the course be• took wee the °only one by which a roßeferm could be effected. Whether a Reform, in • illfr present time, will be accompanied with the same t ,. .lll4llllrders which: marked tbat•periad, it is impossi. "-Ma to• solve--but,. unless the House of Commons • be Reformed firm without, there is little hope that the ' wishes of the People can he realised•—(4lpplortse.)- 1 Froth within they have nothieg to expect—all de. pelvis at their exertions from without. In but one '2 ,4l T i e et tWo instances !nitre I •egreed with majorities of Flouse—firtunately or anfortonately I Will not . pretend to determine. Whether I have voted right' or wrong, it is for you to decide—but this I will "Odor, 10 say, that I aiweys voted according to the - diem!" of - Amy conscience.—(Applause.)--For ' WOW time - tight,. I base determined on leaving this ."Ileantry, fat purposes which will hereafter be better • known to you—but which purposes I consider to ." be intimately blended with those principles I have tnit along 4111tertelsed.—(Applause.)—When I had forated.thattletetdtinition, even if there had been no dimetution of Parliament, I should have felt it to be my: duty,to•resign into your hands that sac r e d trust --fifth ye, had reposed in ste.--(Applause.)—How evet great the weight and importance I should have • derived le•gning where I am aboutto go, feeling my - i self•the Representative of so' numerous and respect. 4 4ble s body-whatever consideration that circom rwtance might have given to me, in whatever place I • height proceed tae-still I should have surrendered into , '• lett heaths trust which my absence would not permit -Any to execute.—(H 0 his Lordship was much of. S jected.)-u*As thitit probably tlie last time, for a con. "slderable peritrd, atieast, dist I shall have the ho• • "'nest of iddretileg-you, I shall use the freedom of - shaking, with respect to myself, a few observations. and very great, have been the misrepresents ‘isiltis of my comfact. In what source those misre milltiMentations .oriltinated, it is difficult for me to de. 'lllloentine: l•havelnot yet folly been ablb to lay be . foe* you an explanation on'this subject—i hoped to s have done so tete Wore this—bat I pledge myself, • that althoigh'ivie nit already effected, it shall ter. • seinly be itene: ,, i 4 There is ••ehain of circumstances, *kith leads awe to to think, that those who are en. *lilted in Ilifealohrepreaentations, are persons not at f4ll suspected" by the Public.--(Great applause.)— --141dividuels e ibiough their rnathinetione, bare been neVrayed aga inst me, who were unworthy of credit, Dint' had notoriously committed perjory-..who bad :asworn to matterrolost contradictory to their know. ledge.—( .4,ploare.)-11t most appear a sttange cir `lttimstaneeo.-it is one I never before disclosed—that, sot the time: when I was a prisoner in the King's Bench, anci.!Wished to coin. out to lay my grievances afore a corrupt 'House .of Commons, I received a • esei•sage from the highest authority in this country, Mating, that if I chose to leery it, I was at liberty to ' do ite. 'My answer was, ' That I would see all the !weirs descendants in this kingdom out of it, before I would depart clantlestittely.'—( Loud cheering.)— . I shall say little more. •All I hare in life I owe to pro. If it hid , not been .for your protection, I. ehmild have been destroyed. I know well, , tbati when the power of the Court is exerted ••:fes• the' deetrectien-•of 'any individual—when the • Coverte'of• haw are inastate of degradation—when •blinistirshringlorward perjured evidence, and when that weidetros ,calved by corrupt Judges—it Is' • aaprelniatri escape from the conspiracy.. .Butastill-all these arts may be overcome if the Peo. • •pleespoose isiistaese.,(Appiause )—Wino we look beck to fire period at witiolt those charges wesemsda tsgaittstee, it will be secollected, it. was then. said, , ' 6 what interstit csaa -Judge on the Bench, or a Jury of the country, or the. Ministers of the Crown, have in procuring Liar' enjoit verdict?' - But, since that • time, you have earn perjured evidence brought for. ward to deprive, men of their lives—you base seen Irltipiea hired to entrap men into illegal acts, that their . 1 lives might be:taken away—their bowels tore out— their heads cut off—in order .to justify the arbitrary t.llllleasuses ablisaisters..—(Applause.)—l hope,Son my *) , vetuts to find somewhat more spirit throughout the - •031Prispie of this coaster than now appears to actuate I fear there lean apathy, that ought to be re. Lemma as speedily as possible. I fear the People do etiot thief!. the. House•of Commons so corrupt as it **batty is.• They da not believe it to be a sink of Vierreption - and • infamy—but think that they may ?Ira hope .sofbething • better from it. How else can !Atte accenut for the- number of Petitions daily *presented to that Boom ? And yet, I will ask, has -soy one Petition of the People been attended to ? .(tio:tise-i)•••-That delusion ought to cease. Go. mieransiost would encouragethe , Peeple to present Pe. titioas, whicteasse be leacisti-its,the oella.ei the llouso of Commons, unknown and unregar'ded, rather than they should cease from pursuing that system, and by their silence chew that they felt their tree situation— poi contemned, than those who sold themselves to the yoke.—(4plaise.)-I'here is no comparison be tween the Roman Senate and the House of Com- Sons.. The latter is ten thousand times worse than the farmer.—(Applause.)—There can be no doubt bet that your choice, Gentlemen, will fall on an individual, who, in your' own minds, you are con- vinced will never acqoleace in any measure pernici ous to the rights of the People; You wiU select tome person in whom you can safely confide interests so very dear to you. I know not what effect great abilities may have in that Mose. it is tight, how ever, that every opportunity should he taken tq expose, through the House itself, its own wicked.: ness. This, perhaps, will not be of much service to you—but it is she only !sty which an efbrient Mem ber can now perform. You have heard of the mis representations in the public Print., when I voted the Other ,night ter the motion of an Wm. Baronet. Whether fortunately, or unfortunately. I. know not, I was the only person who voted with him. It was reported that I said, on that occasion,, ' that I was 'ruined in my mind cud my fortune ; and it was inferred from this, that I was about to ran away.' The fact is, I shall never consider myself ruined in my for tune, till I live at your espence—(Laughter)—and I shall never feel my spirit to be broken, till I am un able to resist oppressiou.—(Applause.)—Wherever I go, I shall still-feel for the situation-of my country'; and whether I opens passage here, or find out a pass age there, my great object shall be your interest.— (iipplause.)—l have also been attacked for the feelings which I manifested on the occasion I al.; lode to. But, when I had the. wickedness of that House in my mind—when I reflected on the degraded state of my country—when I saw before me those men who had brought it to that situation—when I considered that they might forfeit their lives for their conduct—when these, and a thousand other feelings came rushing across my mind, was it wonderful that I should be agitated ?—(Applause.) , --Those feelings were not dishonourable. Eleven years' experience in that House had not so hardened my heart as to enable me to suppress feelings which even now I can hardly resist.—(Applause.)—l have endeavoored, on the present occasion. to steel myself against them — but the effort is almost vain.—(Applause.) —I hope to return and to see you again, in a more prosperous state, tad with different sensations; for my grief is not of a selfish nature—it is called forth by the si .teation of my country. In leaving my native lend, for a while, I cannot hut experience regret„ which, were it differently situated, I should not indulge' in. In departing from my country, I do not la ment for the land of builders of chorkhes—of those hypocritical men, who do not, like individuals of old, build them, es an atonement for their sins, out of their own pockets, bet 'who thrust their hands into‘yours, when the religious fit is upon them—l do not feel for leaving hypocritical propagators of holiness—l do not regret that I am departing from the supporters of Bible Societies—l do not com plain because I quit the land of tax-gatherers and tax•eaters—of spies and informers ! No, I grieve for leaving my native country in the state in which it is. in leaving it, I leave all that is dear to me— all that is valuable—all that is estimable! I leave "the bones of our ancestors—of those who, at Runny-, libede, root only asserted their own liberties, but made protection to foreigners in this country a part of their. Charter !—(Applause.)—l leave these with regret But, on my return, should your oppres sors be overcome—should you wish to place them in safe custody—l will take theft to *that spot where one of the greatest individuals that ever ciliated is confined—an individual, whose magnanimous see• timents and elevation of mind your oppressors have' never imitated—whose crimes, real or imputed, !they have infinitely surpassed.—(Applause.)—lf no other person will conduct them to St. Helena, I am the man oho will do it.—(Applause..)—l have al ready alluded to a person who reformed, at a distant perintl, the House of Commons, and, should we ever have a corrupt Parliament, trampling on the People and destroying their rights, I should like to undi.rtake a similar reformation. I thank you for your uniform sopport--and, above all, for the feel logs you expressed, at a time when I thought the whole world had (Incited me. Even Own my last breath is about to depart, I shall recollect your con 'duct with gratitude.—(Applause.)—lt was a glorious example of magnanimity (I speak not of myself), when you saw a man attempted to be destroyed, to stand between him and his tyrants.—(.4pplouse.)-- The man yen select, if not called upon to pledge himself specifically, should he one known to he wor thy of your confidence. Where such a man is to be bend, I will not pretend to say. It is not for me to mention any name whatever. I shall now take my leave, assuring you, that I shall ever be devoted to the true cause of liberty and to your interests."— (Thunders of applause.) Mr. P. IVALEttt moved— / " That the best Thank% of the Electors of Westminster are due, and are hereby give* to Lord Cochrane, for his upright mallet is the House of Commons—his esertioesernit times in the cause of Freedom—and his decliniog the high honour of being one of the Representatives of Westminster, when time's,- stances prevented hies from doing his ditty to his Caostiteents." Mr. HAYDOW seconded the motion, which was Cat• tied unanimously. Mr. HARLEY rose amidst an uproar which pre. vented our very distinctly hearing what he said. As we understood, he admitted the seal of Major Cart wright, but observed, that they wanted a man of ho• dily activity as well as seal—one who would.bunt theiloroughmongers fr om their dens, end restorothe popular liberties. He stoold, therefore, put in oti. mination a Gentleman every way fit to represent tido great City. lie had, indeed, been calesolateds lit:eft early a pitiod--=bei it WIN plotting Wes t nritwkhstanding- the attempt made to clamour troiin fitit GentWnan. wipkhed jest been pat in Pa mieation, that an ;rawest majority of the Meeting were favoiribleto his virtu,:--(No, no !)—His only 'crime was, that he was en independent Country Gen tleman, end a friend to those principles which they had aseembled tosupport—but he was net desired by those wise had not the spirit to gate far as he did.— The Meeting ought to understand .whit•titsl were about. They ought not to' be too sqeamish. The *calk-end-water and beer utter* bad Weis tried long im9ultri - -and it was high time to adopt a more gene rims diet—a glass of wine, orof brandy, might perhaps necessary. —(A laugh.)--Beforethey decided they ought to weigh matters properly. 'When., man was about setting out on a journey, he always enquired what means he possessed for bringing him to his des tination-4nd what benefit he would derive when be get there—lle would advise the Electors to proceed it* a similar way.—( thre variousparsons.exclaised, N Off, off ! you are no Elector.")-He would, 'with their permission, state why he .conceived Mr. Hunt to he the tn,•st pro Per person to eel"' e into Par lialMent.at this period.—(An uproar now took place, which lasted for several minutei.) Mr. Hoer (addressing Mr. G..Jnnes)—" Stead en the bible till you get silence. Drt't wok for it.— If the Chairman don't _command silence, let the Meeting break op. Stand there for three m ouths till you are heard." Mr. STURM, with some difficulty, procured a ces. lotion of hostilities. Mr. G. Joy es continned. 7 —lf the 'EI. 'eters were not sincere in what they had done ars former' Meet ing, let - them say so at once, and let Mr. Hunt be dis missed. What were the objections against Mr. Hunt ? If they were mated he would ,refute them. But the fact was, it west mere senseless ClamoUr.— [Here the confusion, arising from vs doe, Sorts of et pressiotts of misere and contending applause, be. tame so user/111%4ring, that Mr. Jones' was obliged to suspect(' his address for several minutes. During this interval, a person from the crowd cried nut, that Mr. Jones had no right to speak there, as he was not an Elector of Westminster. Mr. Jones replied, that it use a shame for him to say so, when he himself knew that he PIMA householder in the City. The clamour hiving, by great exertion on the part of the Chairmen, a little sobsideel, Mr. Jones proceeded.] He hoped the Meet: leg would not be concerted into a bear-garden, and that their adversaries would net attempt, like Homan Tribune of old, to carry every thirst. vialenee. But if they were for violence, let thani try it, ond they would see whether ehey, or the friends of Mr. Hunt, had the loudest luny, lbe i strongest limbs, or the most determined ,courage.--el Mr. Hunt had not Binched from going the utmost -1 stop; he had come to the point, and manfully ' pledged himself as the advocate of Annual Macedon" and Universal Seffrage.—(4lpplatare.)=-NabAy bad a right to impute any improper osolieeto him in the. coming forward. lie would reduce the matter ti one or two aimpt#poieta:—Did they coincide in the sentinients- of the Resolution of Monday ?—[lle ale laded, we believe, to a 'ftesnlutiori carried at a Meeting of Electors on Monday, •for potting Mr. Hunt in nomination.] —He would read it to them. [Here he read the paper.]—Were they of opinion, that Ministers would never make the least cotter...ism to the cries of the People ?—(" No, nu !" from • few voices.)—Were they convinced of the lines. sity of recurring to the good practices of former times ?-IVere they really persuaded of the twee iity of returning to Anneal Parliaments and Urti versal Suffrage ?—(Partial cries of " IVs pre n— it they were then real friends to universal freedom, were they not ashamed of their conduct in re• fusing to heir what every party Inid to say ? There [ was one other point connected with the Resolution he wished to advert to. U. held in his hand a corrected Resolution, that their enemies might not say, Mr. Hunt and his friends were a set of un grammatical, illiterate blockheads.—[We believe there had been a little unit-spelling, and grammatical inaccuracy in the ltesolutiori.7l—The only oljection that he had ever heard against Mr. Haut *as, that he had had the audacity to meet and address the People •twice under the canopy of heaven. 'lbis mach, in: deed, be saw no blame in, that the spot of meet: ing was too Sear the Cold Beth-fields Prison, and that it held out to view the degeneracy of the People of England, in allowing a dungeon to exist where I free men were dragged at a moment's notice, not for' any crime alleged against them, but on suspicion of, nobody knew what.—[ilere Mr. Jones was again in terrupted by a noise that no lungs could overcome — when he was allowed to proceed.] —lie never knew -Mr. Hunt before Monday last, swept through the Newspapers—and knowing how the Daily Journals delight in propagating slander, he had disregarded what he reed in them.—Libre M r. Jones wasegain as sailed-by cries of" of—down, down!" and hisses —which his friends 'Retied themselves to vanquish by clapping and shouting " Bravo." Theconfusion, how. ever, continuing, in spite of all efforts to repress it for about a quarter of an hour, several persons hinted to Mr. Janes that prudence required that he should de• *creel, which he showed some disposition to do. Mr. Rant, bowie'', - eshorted him to persevere, adding, that " nothing in heaven or eartteshoculd prevent him from Raying every thing he meant to say ;" and some - one - in the crowd observed that Ur:Jones had spoken half to hoer, and shonhl give place to others. The Chairman then suggested to Mr. Jones, whether it mould not beletterhe ithoeld abridge what he bed to steles , the present. Mr. Jones, however, support. ed by his friends, endeavoured to`get a bearing, but in vain. "The sounds of atl descriptions eewireeente - Mon constant and loud, and the room, notwithstand ing the Aromas nation of Mews; lieet ) Jones) depended * Solved," and quitted the Clij r u t , to . a 1 ..„) Iv .4 . Ws understand that site ref, - Iv Doi S /rod f a her of poisons had left the room s thethalr Sias Wu* by a Mr. lisydena.--thal Mr. ilietfeloted 4611t1 pi eon in the crowd, noted fealtatiag asaulfeated anal', diapositioa thrargbast the whole proceedings, in 14, 4 Morley (a histel-teeper, with whom Mr. Elent lied a iiirml.sonter time. Wiser); and begged . he should he - *reed downstairs,' which order, after a slight oppea , itlon, has executed—that Mr. Hunt was muninsuple •r rather attempted to bl pr n i l ee min d a in te : Or a t e li a . 1 : 4 8 : d . poet. person to repriont the City of p4simi n u or, in Parliament, there being a small shoo ! of h oo d s i s lie favour, whit b . climped the • • -" 4PRICH KW %Teel* THIS HAY Ai' 04% OICLOCK. Haat Stack 4110 4 per Cat. I 6&, .. S per Cent. Red. TV b per Cat. Navy lieu 9 per Ceat.Conmils . India Hands 87 MI 'Si per Cent. 88i Long Aan SJ 8.14 Causal,. for Acc. 791 i lizaeqder Hills Hto p • TILE ST4TBSIKAN. 4 d LONDON) PRIDAY. JUNI $ jam., .. „.., , ~ --Now•--. Public feeling begins to testify itself alriiegly epee political-questions, to the importance .d _ which the People of this country should never be'iMdliferent.-- , The question of who is the most fit person- to been. frosted with the defies of a Representative of a Bri tish community in Parliament, is now universal. ly put and ditcassed with en anxiety that con , 'ingot us our coootrguien are *Wake to the magnitude end taloa of the interests at stake, 'that* seven years experience has at length might 'them the necessity of a strut ezabeiriation into con. duct, charicter, and motive,. and; what is the Wend beneficial result. of intestigation, that ace's rights and principles begin to be better known lad wen correctly estimated. This, at Isast,ls oneet the good .effects of Elections. Meetings of Electors ass sew • taking piece is almost every town and county, ted it is not a little carious and illustratite of the force ,stori necessity, after all, of indepeadent principles, to perceive the meets that—ere now potting on, and the earnest prOteiliOns of independence and regard for tbeConstitotioo which the veriest tools of the Most corrupt Ministry are now • infevieg into the eartt!of , thosa whose interests they have betrayed.— To-this conviction they most come at list. Bot da ception old not obtain so wide a triumph as it has had to boast. The palatally enlightened minds of an injured nation most refuse to be longer the dupes of a self.interested hypocrisy, and range themselves me the side of their own rights, and the eiedoebted sad invariable easertors of these and of Constitutions, Re. form against all the efforts and artifices - of tyranny. A Meeting was held yesterday at the Crown and Anchor, of a number of the. Electors of Westmli. ster, under the sanction of the usual Committee, to nominate two fit and proper persons to represest that City and Liberty. The occerrences at this Meeting are detailed in our other columns. Ills claims to renewed and honourable "atm', which are presented in the conduct and character of Sr FRANCIS BURDETT, are of the highest kind. His uurfor‘support of the cause of Freedom and of Radicarßeform, whatever hie enemies may have urged to his prejudice, requires ni•testimooy, and is his best eulogy. He has long struggled to restore is • his countrymen the possession of their ancient rights; and his opposition to the. loroughmongering system, which has deprived the nation of Its right of outings tied confront, has been exempli fi ed with a sincerity said energy of patriotism that history will delight Is trace. If his energies have at any time appeared to telmte of their warmth, we have the best reason to believe, it- has only been to give other professed friends of Reformation an opportuniti of esoblish* ing their professions, and of proving whit their or dekate system could accomplish. They have arrow pliihed nothing effectual in the way of Reform, as every thing that has passed in Parliament, in rels• Lion to the most necessary Reformations, 'winces he' you'd all possibility of doubt, that it is as futile ss it is . unconstitutional to expect that P ar li a ment will reform itself. Sir FRANCIS BouDerr therefore & dares, as be has levariebly done, his opinion of the necessity of Annual Parliaments, and the right of Soffrsge in all who contribute to' the State. Sr FRANCIS Bottom is, therefore, and indeed, the most proper persOn to represent the City of. WesT• mistime, where a practical illustration of poops and Independence is yet happily eflrded, that may be of some use in reply to the cavillers sgoingt 01 tending the Elective Suffrage. Lord Coca OAS let 0 0 tirement from the contest in favour of Phorty is ibis Country, and his approaching depart's', from l b , native land, where his fare has indeed been aWI 01,e, though both have been adornedby his servitor required that a new name should be proposed for rm Office of Itepresentuione—.After a just aCkg.lP ' . • • . I i I A .i. 1 ) c l'. • . . litit BTA.ll4:gm.Asi • . , ~ - -.. . ... _ _____ _:•.-__-_-.:-.::::..1.......=..- -- --- - . .. • - (4plouse.)-.Melillo' Pepelw , leekt.-Ot Aber ;intl. bet. !ion ovitinlii .._.: it allw ' 011 4L e Plot, lent A* ciodratta t , f ac er . or d er • • laai : ~4.. tai t Mk nten t scao f. nr o t , to t ao s i nt id—but pi o on "mitten.' hag a of his e4treLft Oise,. I -RI : . • ~ for nearly ea alder s a weasel tainalt and belfd . lug. Lei. es le* to' the history of !tome. And 4...Ts.tit lit e: . o rillie .i. givesel esa .. that Hear, doll' noooded• De;ir i i kir g r a n oces "gite sional etel ps:m7 ". Weasidd liat lar* Alet Thiltilk i % N 9. flan hilL se here I may be allowed to observe 'that it wadi be' ge uil: g s riWilpie 'of moms diso r neTtii sad U r siverss ".6 l Ss i rrsie l" , well if some of those cheap weekly 'peblicattens, sad lid sense seal is wortimx the Oahu and liberties of jib got on the table to speak to ease l . [The . m mours„ really a lio ire l e v t l i z ag himself to Mr. YrrookaT • tll • e osstrysieu. is wordtlie . preetwedViiiatelvie Amities Of ' Hunt eacleiming "Foal play! foot a r illh • . ' "Whose columns , I ediali, are filled . with valuable mat. basil *se 011ie Represesuttives of this City is Parliament." ___.. i • . illi : s „„ n _ teri, would give the history of-the Bolan Semite. - Oinolialfr - Otell ebiltixbited to 'v014 1 64( . 64* he torrid wit; -* Thu knowledge -of ancient history is not sufficiently n?‘ eof Mr . ant e x cited the nu c a 'I Mr. St arch appealed te promulgated. Let the People not 9 °bit' * 3 • •. • • acid en ttp-• int e lligible . the Cue! este* iddreesed• the a :: peruse the history of l'e tia l eh a et 4 that Senate and see how long the People Endured " Senate, its tyranny. By studiing it, they would be fully Mr. GALE Joins pow case forward, a Mere - to orb* sad impirtitititt " it 4. convinced that thole who were the tools of a Minis- roar commenced, which rands* the treater part of idg, and told thee'thet es he hed.labeored in nit . ter —that those who were the creatures of superior his observations Inaudible. . He said, he hod not et., p ro ceie power—were less to be reprobsted, were less to be Ptclod to bees been called on to eddries the Ane nt . ' • as diTehded on thlsthsineen, the bfaadolo u ta. _ _ . _ . _ _. _ Ililitiit • gui nada iv rtivriad--bet k wen DIPSSIOI to OD• • t o iv i rd.e , an d m at te d t h e m a i e ; •-_ - • - . - ----- ' • r : t, .