The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-06-05 00:00:00

_ _ which he has endured for the good of this kingdom andof mankiod in general, it is sufficient for me to I say, that on- the Grand Question upon which w e have been called together, he is and has been; for nearly 18 years that he has sat in Parliament, the most powerful, most honourable, and most consistent advocate; and I think I am warranted in saying, the only one of the Members of that House which calls itself the House of Commons, whose constant um-1 formity of conduct has convinced the sober and thinking part of mankind of the sincerity of his pro-1 fessions.—[Applause.] Gentlemen, —The English Constitution is in itself, and has been so called, in days that are past, the no blest effort of human wisdom. Of such import are , laws, and were so esteemed by nor ancestors, that the making df them was entrusted to none but the nation at large—neither the King nor the Aristo cracy were, by oar ancestors, thought fit to be trust ed with the power of taking sixpence from the pocket of the subject, moth less to make laws affecting vise* lives and their liberties ; and the morality of this Constitution iv admirable, making every one con sent and agree triall laws made to bind him : hence the law or act being his own, no man that was rot devoid of all honour and conscience would evade or infringe it in the slightest degree. Gentlemen,—We have three estates—King— Lords—and COmmons :—The powers of the two first have suffered no diminution or infringement in the slightest degree, while that of the Commons has virtually become annihilated; and as, in the 17th eentury, the House of Commons destroyed the House of Lords, so in the present the Lords and Treasury, and Boroughs united, have rendered representation a mockery. Gentlemen,-162 Peers and the s Treasury. eturn 306 Members; and 2611 persons .return to Parlia ment 327. Thus, those who pretend to be repre sentatives of eight millions of persons, are returned by 2611 individuals. Now, were those 2611 individuals in a state of Freedom, it might be possible they would return disinterested men ; but they are the dependants either of the Aristocracy or the Treasury, and hence has . tnisen an interest hostile to that of the community, which has nal ursily become a locust, consuming every green thing, and the industry of the nation has been found unah!e to support the waste which its cupidity has occasioned. What evils were only contemplated in the days of Locke and Harrington, are now prac tically, and, I fear, fatally felt; and it has become doubtful whether the day of Reform has not been so long protracted, that all remedies will be unavailing, and that we must fall a prey either to Foreign Con quest or Domestic Anarchy . -- [ Hear, hear! Time now will act permit the reatpitulation . of the woes _ _ brought upon us by this interest above-mentioned, i nothing, a, .„. _ ty ci ~ - or rather faction. A ;aebt 0ft1000,000,000 has men of various descriptions in party politics, but been contracted;—anannual taxationofk9o,ooo,ooo l none whose fidelity. to the Constitution has been extorted ;—Revenue Laws, at which the generous proved, one solitary instance excepted. Hb will find pride of our ancestors w o uld have sperned;—Capi- most or all of those to whom he will be advised tat Punishments, at which their humanity would have ' to resort, either men who pTuktged us originally into revolted, have been enacted.—These are only leading : the War, and are enjoying pensions, the reward of features, but it is impossible not to advert to the state their political delinquency, and claiming them by in which the trading part of the community be; be. the , same right that we hold our estatet—or others to come involved.--Numbers of persons, by the loss of; whom, war and the taxation which it generates, and trade, and the iuexorihility of the taxation, whohuve the.harvest which it affords to them, their families, been used to live in competence, have bees brought and dependants, stands in the place of a pogitive to the lowest state of beggary ; and in some of our , good—or others, whose noisy verbosity has been fil-1 largest tnwns it is stated, that one-fifth of the popula- 1 .114 the , ears of the people with complaints of the in- 1 t ott is relieved from the poor's ritei . atid that many friuginient of their rights, and puffing off themselves! who have lived in affluence are begging in the streets. as friends of. reforM, but whom, whenever the ran- Hot °fleet the worst of the evils which has arisen from sure has been brought forward, have always proved , the defect of the representation ( and the generation cowards, and have found some excuse or other, l of this Borough Faction, is„ that the waste which it which in the eyes of thinking men will have the ef- j has made and the taxation which it has created, have : feet it ought to have, however ' talkative they may formed an Imperitsm in Imperio—a corporation in prove hereafter. —[A pplause.] —Surely then, the , the heart of the country, against which, and the se- Prince Regent is en t i tled to our s y m pathy , for he cret influence emanating therefrom, man must be more , cannot, like tit, when we find a thing knotty, either i than man to preserve his integrity.— [ Marl ,do it or let it alone. Act he must, and that under Gentlemen,—Figure to yourselves a body of men an impulse irresistible. The Constitution. alone can having the power of annually drawing from the pockets protect him ; and' that. Constitution is the King, of the public 90;000,000 of money under the strongest ' Lords, and the real representatives of the people.— compulsory laws. -Imagine the influence of this sum i The Borough-sovereigns, hie good sense will see on the public motility, When aided by the dependent; have done what they cans and they have ruled on state into ehich the raising of the same has brought a tit they can no longer afford us the safety of the very large portion of the public. I say, Gentlemen, laws; but we args,alled upon to associate for the pur- Y 6 that has taken place in Mr. Wortley's sontiments, behas made a motion, and been seconded by Lord Milton, to turn out the Pitt and Perceval Admini stration. What a change! hut some say he to represent the County of York ?" Gentlemen, this did not cause the least surprise to me. When I' recollected the practice of the great political leaders and their puffers, during the wholp of this unfortunate reign, and also that report said his grandfather was the - great favourite and director of the Royal Council, from the day of the Kines ac cession :—1 considered it only as that. Mr. Wortley saw more clearly and earlier than some persons, that the frequent necessity for making op new Adminis trations, and the yearly increase of difficulty from the dreadful financial circumstances of•the country, attended with the loss of public. - confidence in •the House of Commons, that the.secret influence behind , the Throne which had been so long and so often felt alluded to must give way, and no one can blame a person from running out of a falling house.--:-What , has been the glorious effect of this motion ?—Whe this,—that with his and a few others leaving his party (for his speech shews that he approved of the , Pitt and Perceval measures) ,they have joined the, Party Whigs and taken the Prince Regent prisoner. Here.is a posittre• proof of fire mass of corruption . ' and its effects which was bottomed by the establishment of the funding system, and accelerated by tengthen ini oration of the ',louse of Commons, and which , version of the whole human race into our Courtenemies. of Criminal Law ;—we must recollect thattord I ' -womb— , Swoin with pride, and claiming, like the builder; t Mansfield then first made the attempt, to make truth' Yesterday his Majesty completed his 74th year, of Babel, powers imeompatible with man's stature, a libel :--The New Testament tells us, that a Judeol which was observed by the morning being ushered in nothing forsooth 'would serve us but we would of that period, upon asking in his itourt what truth wa s, i with the ringing of bells, and the colours and stand lord it over the elements, and appropriate to our- I did not choose to wait for au answer. The truisins •• arils were displayed from the steeples. In the e el. selves that which the all wise Creator had made for ',contained in the Petition alluded to was the real cause ing the mail-coaches went in grand procession ; the the common benefit of his creatures. By a dash !that it met with such a reception, and spoke more coachmen and guards, in their slew cloths, went of the isen, in the year 1806, they declared all the forcibly in its fisvour than could be endured. Lord past the Palaces, Carlton-hoese, and through sere ports of France in a state of siege ; ' while they Milton, in the Newspapers, is reported to have said ' rat public streets, to the Post Office. The Public were doing, they might with equal propriety have , in his place in the llouse, " he should be glad to !Offices and places of amusement, the subscription extended their fiat to every port in the world.— , know in what particular this rotteoesss was to be houses, the tradesmen's houses of the Royal Family, This is the root from which the commercial distresses ' found ;he should be glad to come to close guar- were illuminated. The Park and Tovier guns were of the cation sprung, and this was a declaration of , ten with those men called Refointers I" Having my- . t fired at one o'clock. war against every neutral State in the world. The self been active in exertions at th e g eneral election At night the illuminations were brillialt and taste. folly of it was equally visible then as now, but be- :In Lord Milton's favour, I have been frequently 1 cause the result was not immediately felt, such was asked, what I could say now ,—I am free to own, . fol. The 86svair Vivre Club e:hibited G. R. Crown, and. star. The theatres (Covent -garden, the improper conduct of those who are now pet'- ''hat although (from his father sending five Members the Lyceum, and - the Haymarket), and the Opera Boning for the rescinding the Orders in Council, that' to the House .of Commons) I did apprehend he although the injustice wa i t so glaring they could.not would not he active in promoting a Reform (as I al- House, displayed festoons, G. It. aid a Crown, in •0 . , it,i variegated lamps. but see yet hoping to receive more of gain to '! ways found, that persons who had inclosed coml. At sits o'clock in the morning, the %mtlemen of themselves from the measure • than otherwise, they 1 . demble quantities of Common ,opposed inclosures, 10 ,...,. in i''' Inatiftition at Charlictirt * co - Mo''.. net only made no complaint, but by their party op. i unless they could manage so to restrict the period ! "'" —fillilP . , s 1 • " ment to his .Majesty's Birth-day,. firhttfrom a bat 'position to those who were then disposed to petition, i as. tn. bring such inclosures within the time, and ;levy constructed by the pnpils, a saute of 21 rounds, have themselves been accessary to .the measures they ,thereby keep what they had purloined from their ! also trn wellies with their small arms. now are to strenuous to undo. neighbours)—yet I certainly Mold 'mot 'have ima- . isose.--- -- Candour obliges me to say that the people are now gined that he would . prove the strenuous sup smarting under ills to the generation of which them- porter of corruption which his various speeches in selves have been . accessary ; and there is truth in the 'House prove—withimt he fancies his electors what Ministers have alleged when they have declared think that corruption in his hand, or that of his that, in their most extravagant measures, they have party, ceases to be so, and by their skilful manage had strong defenders among the people: and it would meta proves advantageous to theomettry. I should have been much more honourable to the people had not have mentioned Lord Milton, had it not been they come forward twenty years ago by petitions for the part of his late speech as quoted above, and against the war, than now, to seem so uneasy and which I call a public challenge ; and this knowledge harass the Government with complaints against the we 'lei ire front the stand that was made early in this necessary effects of it only. reign, to prevent any printing of them being defeated. War is the greatest of all human ills, as peace is the The printed speech said to be made at the Cutlers' greatest of blessings; yet war we have chosen, and Hall, in 18•10 s which was so completely an 'leered now for twenty years has this scourge been by us in the Shefflad. Iris of the following week, precludes fostered to the great disgrace of the Christian name. the'neoessity of any further remark. • Professing to be followers of him who preached peace [Here Mr. Rawson adverted to the -reply of Sir and good will to mankind, and at the same time %mad Romilly to Lord Milton, which was par lighting the flame of discord all over the world, and tially noticed in our Parliamentary Report at that as far as their faculties allowed, forward in The work time.] of blood and desolation. As a general election will be the time when Lord Trampled on and insulted as the English Consti- Milton may have an opportunity of knowing the tutiou has been in our day, both King and People sentiments of the Yorkshire Freeholders and the will find .it their truest guardian, and I trust will Friends of Reform, as to his Parliamentary speeches soon find themselves glad to resort to it, even though . and votes —I think it would have been as well to it should be so late that it can no longer give them have wail ed for the result of such an appeal, before its protection. The Regent is now in a most diffi- he had shewn such• marked contempt for the opi cult.situation indeed, and though Mr. Stuart Wort- , nious of at ;east a great majority of his present ley advised him to form an efficient Administration ' Constituents. I trust when that time comes, and he he.has net told him where to look for it. Let any ' feetsilisposed to make such an offer, the result still candid person look *to both our Nooses of Puna- !he entirety different to his expectations.—This ment for names, to whom the destinies of ten mil- ' brings to my mind the surprize that has been gene lions of people ought td be entrusted, he will find rat in this part of the country, and repeatedly men 'hi--- alas! but 4, Might !ham. He will find Retied to me.—" Have you heard of the change NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, Jun* 4. Sailed the Juuon frigate, Captain Sanders, with the Cannar. then, Apollo, Emetic, Alexander, Earl Howe, and Marchioness of Ely, for India. Arrived the liotspor frigate, Captain Price, from convoying a dirt of Indiamen to a certain latitude ;. and the Diadem, Cap tain Philemore, from Chatham. PLYMOUTH, June S. • Arrived the American schooner Purse, Capt. Turner, from Rotirdeaux hound to America, detained by the Amide frigate, Capt. Dunn. This vessels was detained in December last, on ber voyage from America to France, by the Niemen frigate, Sir Michael Seymour, Commander, and a Mr. Sanders, Midshipman, and 10 men, put on hoard to navigate her to this port; but Capt. Turner having waited 'an opportunity when the greater part of the Niemen's men were below, shot Mr. Sanders dead on the spot, and with some American ‘camelt, part of her crew, which had been left oil board. carried her into France. Capt. Turner and the crew are stated to have been put under confine ment on hoard the Armide frigate, and will be brought here to take their trial for the murder. Sailed the Venerable, of 74 guns, Sir Haute Popham, Com mander, for the station oil Brat; and the Hannan ship Union, Kraft, for Chatham. Arrived the Russian brig St. Michael, Capt. Baker, from St. Mary's ; the Ceres, lungmead; and Mercury, Adams, both • front Wales; and Unity, Tay' tr, from Weymouth. FALMOUTH, June 'l.. Arrived laet evening the Echo cutter, &weirdo, front M. sins, 3.1 days passage, brings a report that the Dispatch packet, Kirk:tem, had been wrecked near Trapani. This day arrived the. Sandwich packet, Sebuykr, from New York, (rein whence - she whiled on the Vtli of May; she has brought . dispatches, which were immediately wilt Uff for London, by ex j press. The Princess Mary packet sailed from New York for Halifax on the 2fith of April ; the Sandwich came direct from New York. wit Cont going to Halifax; she left at tlerinuda on 'the 10th of April, his Majesty's ships Spartan, 3P; Indian; IS; tJulia, 16; and GINA schooner yesterday, bettered the Li;ard • • and *illy, snit a frigate in elutee of and firing at asusitisio, looking 'dowser, bteeringlsits all sail to the southytard. ^ .. _ • . 7 1 11 E MARKEI'S. CORN EXCHANGE, /Own 5. arrivalsr This day the -Markef - agaills bat blot mat,' fresh O Wheat. but tolerable quantities on hued, partly from the North. • conutry ; sales dull, and continue at Lute fluctuation—Barley in Jiort .apply, and somewhat deer—hl. .I also rather higher —Pea', and the two sorts of Deans keep their pritCe--f hire are middling otpplies of Oats, aqd this trade mnta aiins the late ad.. vance—Flmar remains at the late quoted prices. Wheat Floc ditty ........134 1-8 Do. (Fine Old) .. 74 75 Itye Barley - hid Ad i Poland do. ?...! 55 bli 5hdt.......... •. 4 • SO 97 ; Potatrie du. White Pale (1;i11er ) SO 86 Rape Seed fleey do. ..V7-,.... •72 id Fine Flour Scams .. ."..5..... 71) 761 ilecoudi ..-: . SMITIiFiELD 11ARKE•.- T.Jure b. •-' • . . 'Pi 4i44 'hi' 0861, per stone of nth.' "4 1 . Peer ... 5.. td. to Bs. 4.1. I bietod of clin . ipAlkio67 g N 1.01• -n • .5.t.' 43. to 64. 4 4.1 Re act. ' " ' .. t . Veal ....is. OA us 81. Od. Sheep ..,: 1 4 jet.set Pork ....fa. Od. lo 74. V . Calves Immb •.. .7.. Od. tip /U. 0-1. Pitt . f .• . .... ••••• BA V-WAR KJ:T. Huy ...... 41. 'Oh Od. to st. le . 01. Statue .... 41. 10.. 00. to S, 0, Od. Clover .... 51. Ids. Od. to hi. 103. dii• 'S.: .:1;,:'.., 111111WWr - TRIUMPH OF WESTMI!iSTER. reflect on this, and then say if the power thus exer- pose of preserving the peace in our respective parishes. cised by those who receive the taxes, over those who I New, I deem, is the time for the people to poi- SHEFFIELD. JUNE 2. have them to pay, can possibly have any other effect I lion the R egent , if t h ey have ;thy regard even for lira Amt , /vlßsi y a y of SIR ra.tNcis au RDETT's that, to generate hatred amongst the members of the ; their personal safety, to call such men and such men tate ELACIION TOR W E s T miss T ER. State, and turn the hands of the citizens one against only to his Councils, as are real friends to the Con- The Anniversity of the above Election having the other. And if a stop be not put to such a c o urse j stitution, and w h o b y th e i r U n if orm con d uct i n t h e fallen on Saturday (the ' 23 d nit.) , it was deem e d more as has brought the nation into its present state, un- I causeef reform, c a n give us a p l e d ge o f t h e i r s i ncer ity. e xpedient to celebrate the event in Sheffield, on the ;numbered millions more must every year be added to , Not such men as are c o ming f orwar d w i t h theiesmall Friday following. • An excellent dinner was pro - i the debt, and millions of • fresh Taxes be imposed, I ware, such as buying that w hi c h c l innot b e so ld, an d sided at the Pheasant Inn, when JOHN PAYNE , E sti. i under the pressure of which that part of the people j adding one hundred new knights t o t h e C oun ty r e- i NeWhill, presided to a most numerous. and re- j who-are not participators in the •spoil, will be sunk j presentation ; but men of prope r t y , o f h o n o ur, of o f. !into a degree of slavery n ot inferior to that o f the knoNledge, of probity ;—such may be found. and rifleman company. All appeared eager to behold a roman in the C ha i r ~,h , „ h a d f or many years ; Negroes of Africa, or the ancient Helots of Lice- ' will be found, if the Prince extends his sphere of ob hoeiv the true end •oeteran Friend of Reform . After ;.demon. servation out of the ordinary routine circle into which t h e re moval of the cloth, 'the President gave the fol- ! These, Gentlememen, are melancholy considers- Royalty has heretofore contracted itself; and that lowing toasts : I times, and what renders the case more hopeless is, he may do so / and find such men is my m o st earnest The Prince Regent. i the apathy with which these progressive evils have _prayer. . • The Constitution , the whole Comtitution, and nothing but the I been viewed' by the people at large. Such has been [The above speech was received throughout with ' Constitution'. ! the backviardness of the people to resist these, that , the most marked attention and applaue ; and Mr. The Electors of Weitminster, and thanks to them fur the glo- ' ministers • have frequently jaitified•theniselVes on the Payne was frequently prevented from proceeding by onus example they hive shear n.—With three times three. I si, f• rone iipurdettm-Threetimesthree—unboundedapplause. i ground of their acting conglalently . with'th'e will of the:actlamations of the Company.] Lord CoeltrAnr• a great majority of the Nation ; and it is also a me- The Chairman next gave, Major Cartwright—the consistent and indefatigable Advocate 1 lancholy fact in all their encroachments on the ancient ' William Roscoe, Esq. of Liverpool. o f Reform. The Cause of Liberty all over the World. • The memory of John !borne Tooke. . . i laws and constitution of the kiegdoM, that they have . 4 s p r y and honourable Peace. The Rev, Christopher Wyvill. ' ! met with the support of large bodies of men in every ; Th e Liberty of the Press. -Dietiit Tito/iris R A wso N , of Wavasend, Esq. rose, and large town throughout the kingdoni.--rippfo r li e ,l_;, t mee w hout Fnreigners, and legal means of suppressing have..no . t . i ii i s e ,w nu ttr o iv o it i r l y k e . accution. in a most animated and i m p ress ive speech, compli- These bodies of men, whchave thus acted; mentary to the cha r acte r o f th e R ev . Gentleman excuse but ignorance to plead, save and except such I: (lobe Sutferers in the Cause of Liberty. nnz ,ite w me n eti f; ; .s ,t . m of th kl e 'zr i thedil, une and it ll l 7 4 il iß zi o ui v f o it t izn t is h t whose health they h a d J os t d ran k, as on e of the of .thern as benefit by th e abuses they vindicate ; but,' 1 ,-,M° 4 " Ra - s° ' • q mo st o ld and steady friends of Reform, took occa- ' the time is now come when the actual danger of :Our . ,.rejoeted Petition to the House of Commons, and an Address to sion to advert to the pleasure he receive d from . ob- ' situation will awaken in very Man deserving, the Sir F. Burdev on his committal to the Tower. serving his friend and neighbour who presided strenu- name of Briton, that portion of public spirit; that Mr. RawsoN rose, evidently overpowered .by his ously ranked as the advocate of the same cause; and , regard for the national welfare, without which it is feelings at the applause which the last toast had called concluded by giving at last found out, that neither his life nor his pro.' ' forth, and addressed the company to the following •., John Payne, Esq. ... t ... . I perty i..secure from JO attacks of the leteet. orders i effact :--I rise now, 'as associated with a • number This toast was drank with enthusiasm. ..- , of the community.-rldear !] '• • ~. , . • ,lof my neighbours; in being itistremental in . balling a • 31r. PAYNE then addressed the Meeting in a speech Geutlenten,—Although the sums expended by Mi. : Meeting at this town, on the Gth of June, 1810.— o f which the following is an abstract : 1 - I sisters have been immense, such as no nation ever That my name was one to that Requisition, I have In these times of public depravity, I think it the . expended since the world had existence, though ;the , always reflected upon with the greatest pleasure, and highest honour to be called upon to •fill the chair at laws they have demanded for their protection and the whole proceedings of that day compel me to say, a meeting to commemorate the return to Parliament assistance have been almost without number — though I , that I consider it" one, of the most fortunate days of of one who was chosen a representative by the spon- they have had from servile Parliaments every thing 7 'lny life." That our Petition/was rejected, or, as some taneous voice of one of the largest bodies-of Elec- they have asked for these 20 years, ,yet no result Say, thrown under the table, I consider as a most ho tors in the Kingdom, and whose conduct since his re-' : has been the consequence but the destruction of `'curable circumstance. If we daffy recollection back turn has so amply proved the wisdom of their choice: liberty in France, he erection of a power and the to the beginning of this reign, we must have forcibly —lt would be the height of presumption in me now consolidation of it also, so gigantic and stupendous brought to our minds the unwearied endeavours of tottwell upon his virtues, or to notice the sufferings as the world till these times never saw, and the con- :the person who at that time presided in the highest - - - - - - - - Le -~~~ - -~ .;:-44•1 M• .., .,.. T TE STATESMAN. has become so unsteady, that the gold of the whole world world scarce suffice to support itsravenousappe tite; therefore abroad-bottomed Administration is, in my opinion, neither more nor less than the tem. porary means of better supplying this destructive waste, and will bring on the dreadful shoat se much sooner, as there will be a greater increase - of morbid matter. You have now, lightning and thtinder with heavy rain,' this proves a cure for the present dis turbed state of the atmosphere by a fortu'ltate charge of the morbid matter, the mean's' aptieinted by Providence of providing renovated air; the experi ence of our feelings suf f iciently declare this, after a storm of lightning and thunder, how much we feel exhilirated and refreshed: Would to God that our great landed pro s )rietors would think before it is too late, of the dreadful situation the country is in, and lend a helping hand to repair that noble structure, the English Constitution, so founded upon a rock, that if the inhabitants will not take- out the deca)ed.stones, as they appear, and replace them by sound ones, so as constant:) , to keep it in good order, it will fall upon them with a dreadful crash, and leave the rock for others to rebuild upon.—lf, as Lord M. tnlks of old times, he was in his readings to compare what history will inform him of, the situation and condector th- old , Barons, and how they came by their large frsets of Land, both in England and Ireland, he must clue' ve, that the practice of those times were for the great Barons to live chiefly at their Country Seats, and that their neighbours and occupiers -of Lands did not consider themselves, as having so slight or feeble as iuterest in the occupancy, as the present practice ad mits of ;, and, perhaps, if maturely considered, it would be difficult to account for, otherwise than by one encroachment after another, and by being car ried too far like corruption in a State, may work its own cure. Mr. RAWSON then proceeded to make some vevere observations on the political conduct of Mr. Wilber , force, and concluded his speech amid the cheers of the company. ! The Evening was spent in the most uniform har mony,, sail the company departed Moly gratified with the proceedings. TIIE BIRTH-DAr. " I 7 . 2 I; 1 •• • ■ 7. • •• T --~ ! I