The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-07-06 00:00:00

iniE 814A'tkgMA1st. brief authorit) ," n mad, in A Confect for property as well ac right, deprite Englishmen of these merles of public discussion it Well are prescribed in the practice of our fathers, and which, though not absolutely ne cessary to initiate our proceedings, were certainly necessary to secure to them the prompt, the marked attention and the reverence of Parliament. My friend near me (Mr. Roscoe. jun.) has stated to you the cause of Mr. Rathbone's absence, he has de scribed the service which that Gentleman has render ed, and in his name has acknowledged the vole of thanks which you have very properly and unani mously recorded. Gentlemen, 1 allude to Mr. Rath bone, because you all must reeollect what passed be-. tween him and the present Mae or of Liverpool, a man whom I will not mere pert icularly name, from considerations which it noted be idle to explain to any respectable assembly. its reply to a requisition, the object of which was tee public discuession of the Orders in Council, in the Town-hall, his Worship not only declined a compliance tvith the purpose of the requisition, but did not deem it at all necessary to 'mint out any other wayin which a design, affecting the great and leading interests of the town of Liverpool, could be executed. Such was the treatment received by that immense moss of the people concerned in the, issue of this most important subject? Such was the treatment received by our truly worthy and respectable friesel Mr. Rattsbone, the son, the immediate de ecendant. of that good, and great, and enlightened chancee —teat MAN so honoured, so revered, so lore!, so lamented ! Weil, Gentlemen, the whole amount of Liis bri.ioess i that one man was against eiscossion, that atuneer was for it, and you all know the consequeece. Mr. Brougham too was for dis cession. and nix Worship was agliast it. I shall not trouble ye. , with any comparadve estimate of the intellectim i romp of thee, Gentlemen. A ;rest constitutional object, as applied, to the Magistracy, it was fit and necessary to mention. If it merely regarded the individual, I certaiuly would no' have stooped to votice it. He who now hap pen., to he Mayor, 1 dare say, did not dream of °face three weeks before his entrance upon it. If such a sisiou crossed his mind, i think I can, with great safety, assure him that no such dream or vision di:- tabu', the rest of any other man. Gentlemen, to the skilful, the splendid, and the triumphant exertions of Mr. Broughem, whose best and wittiest consolations must be found in the heatt. felt rejoicings of a grateful a n ti gladdened land, J would add that humble tribute of approval tad admiration, which, 1 very well know, amounts to veiling more than a mere attestation of my own fecline,s. 'the disieterested, the ardent, and !min ter:Meet] devotion ef himself and Isis talents—the way in which you are t! , ;; ttav told, that he has al most torn himself to pieces ia your service—his rea dy attendance, his useeasitig liens for his country — Nis talents, his diligence, his vis tree, command your grate(l acknowledgments ; they remind you of better day:. and, united with the exertions of others, are devilled to procure for 1' see.. pro!:1. be cause better, days. 'Mr. Breegliaurcesseet cell of suc cess. Ills wisdom is his eloquence, and ids country is his object. Ile is not the tool, or the submissive slave, of any of those Parliamentary combinations which invariably end in the destruction of indivi dual integrity; and, Gentlemen, I do most solemnly declare, that I cannot picture to my imagination a spectacle more impressively grand, than the continued advance, and the rapid march to greatness of a young man, by the unmixed force, and by the persevering agency of his own genius, his wisdom, his eloquence. his courage, and integrity. How, then, arc you to reward these signal services? My worthy friend, Mr. Itichardson,in pointing your attention to Parliament, has pninted out the most splendid and suitable reward. Let the theatre of Mr. 13, ougham's greatness ho the scene of yout gratitude. Let the dissolution of Par liament be the bond and the tnentento of the heaty ob ligations you are under to this dlstlispielted charac ter. It will also afford yoU the opportunity of shew:l leg your sense of obligation for those services which our fiend, Mr. Yates, has mentioned; for he very truly and very gravely has told you, that of our pre eel( Represeutatives he c 3 ortc of them twice. Now. Gent!. men, with some little respect for myself and my time, rather than see one of them twice, I would See f:ro of them once. fly ail o:at it due to your :wives, and to this great community, I call upon you to rest ee the town from its present degraded state of representation. Rescue the town from tile ha bitual slavishness of one member, and from the sor did and prevaricatiug politics of the other. Rescue the town from the ignorance of both. Where now can you look for the image or the representation of, your comn.ercial skill, your public spirit, your wis dom. your proud and distinguished advancement itt all teat conduces to benefit or to adorn society ?- lou look for it almost every where, except in that Place Where it is most needed. Where is your de fen' e or your security, if you distrust the ceutinel ? —Where is your consistency or discernment in s snaking those the objects of your choice, in whom' infatuation itself would be ashamed to confide? I think he who knows, without blushing for, the pre sent representatives of Liverpool, must be miserably destitute either of blood or modesty. All that is mean in conception or miserable in effort, all that is insuperable in folly, appear to me to be abundantly represented—but nothing else. The ignorance, the thickest darkness of the town is caricatured, is re.' presented to excess, like the increasing shadow of a declining sun, where the projection is greater even ! than the body it represents! Gentlemen, the ob. i led of this day's celebration is a Clear and convinc- ' jag proof of what perseverance and public spirit, when exerted in a peaceable and legal way, can, it all times, accomplish. It would be net difficult or nnpleasing task to prove to you, by those lights and illustrations afforded by the laws, as well as the ge neral history of your country, and indeed it is in the laws of your country, that you will find the most accurate and luminous history of it; I say these sources will afford you ample proof that all restric.i tints upon innocent commerce is not only repugnant' of the spirit of the Constitution, but in direct viola. I tion of existing statutes. Security and encourage,: meld were established, not only for your own trade and navigation, but protection and even indulgence were extended to foreigners. It is, Gentlemen, to the operation of this wise and benignant principle , that you are to refer the extension of your commerce, the improvement of your manufactures, and your an- Arr. doubted maritime pre-eminence. Such were the schemes of your fathers, and I wish to GOD I could told that this, the ancient law, was the present %is, dom of the land. Politically, as well as commercial ly, all we ask of our constituted bodies, in.tbe per formante of their great functions, is to revolve in their gen orbits. All we ask et them is to keep within the lines, or if I may so express myself, to keep within the tropics of the Constitution : not by going too far north or south, to lead us into darkness, into night and error.' I call upon them to be governed and guided by the superintending lights of .the Constitu tion, and pause at that line, at which the sun, that . 1 bright and blessed orb itself turns bick. One word more, and I have done.—The disconti nuance of a bad practice has subdued or averted the hostility of America. The origination of a good one may conquer France. It is no degradation : offer peace upon such terms, with reference to both court ' tries, and with such dispositions as ought to be re spected. If received, a wearied, a grateful, and a bleeding world will adore you. If rejected the world must still respect you. This was the clear and• direct policy of Mr. Fox, a statesman of deathless : fame, a man of as much power and light of mind as ever graced this or. any other nation—the senator who exulted in greatness, but was silent in victory —a man not less distinguished for his gigantic tin. derstanding, than for the kindness and benignity of his disposition—this was the artless policy of Fox, the workings of whose mind were like the workings of nature, effecting the grandest purposes by the simplest means. Think you, that a man so gifted, 'whose mind was one mass of light and wisdom, would have fixed Isis whole heart upon that which was not, with hon air and with safety, to be pro. cured for his couier ; or that he could have told the Pecple of En_ lan ~ that that peace, which was unattainable, was to be the first object of their de sire? Impossible! Before the transcendent, the peerless excellence of his mind—before the noble and ' majestic frankness of his nature, even the harsh, and stern Tyrant of the Cootieent ceased to be immove able. For what then do you tight ? Is it for repo ' teflon ? You have it already. The reputation of I year soldiers for discipline, for steadiness and i bravery—the renown of your captains for skill and valour—in fact, your military character can hardly attain a greater elevation, even in the judgment of your enemies. Thus you have little to expect—yos have much more to forfeit. Gentlemen, as peace is, not the immediate or avowed object of this meeting, l I shall not further detain your attention. I have much to say upon this, the greatest of all subjects ; ! hut I think I hnve the authority of our distinguished friend in the chair (and I desire no better) in some of his affroira.ble compositions, not to be so envious to I stir the public mind in the mere contemplation, as in the expected accomplishment of a great measure.-- i That I tiust and believe can be at no great distance. Peace we must have. Mails. Due. Dublin O O O 1 THE STATESMAN. LONDON: MONDAY, JULY 6% 1811. We have received Dublin Papers of Thursday last, the day fixed for the Aggregate Catholic Meeting, by which it appears that a Petition for " Universal fte!ig'ous Freedom " was read and agreed to, and a so:ntion passed that it should be re-committed to the Board of the Irish Catholics, to be presented to Parliament before the close of the second week of the next Session. CJ THOLIC AGGREO4TE IdEETINO, Drstrx, JeLs 2. EARL FINOALL, in the Chair. The Aggregate Meeting of this day was more nu merously attended than any preceding assemblage of the depositaries of the wealth and power of the Ca tholics of Ireland. At one o'clock the Earl of FIN ': A LT. took the Chair, amidst the enthusiastic applause of his countrymen. Mr. M‘DoNxtr.i., seconded by Counsellor O'Cos xsu. proposed that the Petition should be read—it was accordingly read, and it appeared to be a trans cript of the Petition, *midis mulandis, of the Dis- senters of England to Parliament for universal Reli gious Freedom. following Resolutions were then proposed : Resoheil, That the Petition uow read be re-enminitted to the BOARD of the !RIM CAI - lows, to be presented to the Legisla tnrc the first favourable opportunity, so that the same may be presented before the close of the second week of tlieeustsilig Sea sioo of Parliament. Resolved, That the Catholics In the different Constar, and Towm in Ireland be again requested to use their best t scrtions ; to procure the success of our Petition. Counsellor O'CONNELL spoke at considerable length, with his usual felicity of expression, and strength of argument. Chevalier WC tarns., after an introductory speech, which was frequently interrupted by the most unequivocal marks of disapprobation and dis gust, moved the two following Resolutions, as an amendment to the second Resolution, proposed by Mr. ox -z arONNELL Resolved, That, with heartfelt gratification, we observe the daily progress of lineraMennsong our Protestant countrymen — a liberality We coosider as an earnest of the speedy fulfilment of our hopes, and rapturously hail as the cheering dawn of speedy lisaaneipation. Resolved, That determined to persevere in demanding a total Repeal of the Laws add Disabilities by which Catholics are af fected ; we are nevertheless ready to listen to any conciliatory overture which, by removing the prejudices of mousy, and tho alarms of some, may kad 10 &Piot orrovonsmit satisfadesp to. iboth parties. The first part 4Pe Refolatioks was Itisbilly proved, but the Chevalier 141T.teTnit had hardly ut. tered the :ord 'arrangement," when the feelings of the People were irented in marks of thestrongest dis- . approbation and disgust. I Counsellors FINN and O'Gonx.ta answered his speech with considerable animation ; bat the Resolu `, tions were not read from the Chair, as out of the three thousand Catholics in the house, a single per,_ son could not be found to second so insidious and so fatal nn Amendment. Thanks were voted to Lord FINGAr.t. On the above the Dublin Evening Post remark, ' 6 that the Catholics of Ireland, with that nobleness of mind and of action, which has hitherto distin guished them, and with all the liberality and wisdom worthy men acting for a great and generous People, had resolved to sink the question of Catholic Emanci pation and TO PETITION UPON TILE PRINCIPLE OF THE DISSENTERS for the removal of all disabilities!!! We have not time or room, now fully to express our appro bation of this enlightened policy on the part cf our Catholic fellow-subjects; it goes to a sincere, a com plete union of all sects and parties—to that Christian and Constitutional Union, before which no intrigue-- no cabal—no witchery can stand 7 .--beforewllich bigotry must melt into an 44 airy nothing," and intolerance become dumb for ever. The call of the last Aggre gate Meeting has been heard—the voice of that As. sembly has reached the limits of our island—the counties begin to come forward—the Catholics of the county and city of Cork are to meet on the loth of August—a Requisition to that purport has been published, signed, by a number of the most respectable Catholic Gentlemen of Cork. Requsitions for as sembling Kerry, Clare, Roscommon, Meath, &c. are, we understand, alsd in a state of forwardness.— The spirit is general, and the Cause must succeed." Another Dublin Journal has the following perti nent remarks on the late discussion in the House of , Commpns respecting Lincoln Prison :—" We have presented our Readers with Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY'S admirable strictures on Prison Abuses.—lt would have been fortunate for Ireland that, during the WI. 1 son of her disturbance, when, 4 a little brief autho.. rity' was permitted to play such fantastic tricks,' a voice clear and intrepid as Sir SAMUEL'S had been raised for the Prisoner. The secrets of the Prison House at Lincoln, monstrous and appalling as they are, fade away before the enormities—the recorded and u neon tradicted enormities of a piste,. gaol. Time has shrouded the perpetrators in oblivion, and healed, we trust, the deep wounds inflicted upon the sufferers; but such scenes might recur, and it is to avert such a direful recurrence that we give eager publicity to this most important document. There is no cau. , •e in which a free Press can be so honourably engaged, as the pro teetion of the Prisener from those harpies, who, in de fiance of law, fatten upongtheir poor and defenceless victims ; defenceless, not from the silence of our laws, for on the subject of Prisons they tre fluffier ous and excellent, but from the gross and scandti- Inns negicct of some, whose boucle(' duty it is to shield the captive from all unnecessary hardship and coercion.—To the honour of this country, there are some gaolers who are above the infamous meanness of wringing an income out of the wretchedness of those committed to their custody ; whose table of . fees is obvious to inspection; nLa extort no money by the terrors of fetters ;—bitt these and other pri vileges of the Prisoner should not be left to the op tion of a Gaoler; they shou!d Le generally extended; and we sincerely trust, that the discussion which has recently occurred will materially contribute to their diffusion ; and that the subject will never cease to be canvassed, till all the . seoret tormentors—the foul persecutors of their fellow-creatures, who, com pared with the highwayman and the pickpocket they plunder, are honourable characters, are brought be fore the tribunal of the Public, and hooted out of their dens by universal execration. We cannot close our remarks upon this subject without depleting, that so great and so good a man as Mew-Ann should have so strongly recommended solitary confinement, a system materially conducive to the induration of the feelings, and the inveterate establishment of bad and vicious propensities— a cruel and sullen punish ment, which palsies every generous and redeeming emotion, and opens the door to the vile machinations of vindictive despotism. In Philadelphia, where the economy of a prison is carrried to its completest perfection, this expedient is never resorted to but as a punishment for the refrxtory ; the instant they are submissive they are restored to the society of their fellow prisoners, during the working hours of the day, and only locked up during the night in separate apartments. Man unsocialised must soon become a Monster ; and the' sooner the theoretical error of HOWARD is corrected, the better will it be for those who were the objects of his anxious, but, in this in stance, mistaken solicitude." I French Papers have reached town to the 30th ult. BONAPARTE arrived on the 18th at Insterburg, which is only 50 miles from the nearest frontier of Russian Poland, 150 miles from Wilda, and 190 from Riga. An extraordinary Diet Arts to assemble at Warsaw, on the 15th of last month, for the purpose, as was supposed, 'of carrying into-effect tiw project of NA rohtox for• ties re-establishment of the Kingdom of Poland. Letters from Sicily repeat. the report, that the Kiso and Quirtm are about *o kale that island ; and it is supposed that their Fitl proceed to Vienna.— One of the first proceedings of the Parliament, which was to meet on the 13th of last month, it was under ftood "mold be, to appoint a Committee.to draw up the phui of a new Coastitatioa.' . • IM2 M.11M..- .:::;:~ The following letter was posted rni Setortinv at Lloyd's;—:" tosr.eut M 4.1 1 3. c Pour Friends, from London, and Amazon, frecsl :Aver pool, and the. United Stales, from the same part (but all of Mein last front Amelia Islttoid), were ad. mitted to enter here • this day; the same louden,: far duties as if the trade was open. The l'air Amerieur, from Liverpool. elly also he admitted." By a ship- which- has reached the dat•port, have the acceptable intelligenze that she pass..d the Mediterranean fleet, all wen t a kw leagues to the west of the Scilly Islands. A Dublin Paper, intimates, that a proposition of another security, equivalent to the Vcto, and to be substituted for that measure, would be brovglit for ward by the Catholics. This new security is cs:ied a Domestic Non:taut/on: and when applied to the appointment of the Catholic Bishops, to which the Veto also was applicable, means, we suppose, that., although the Catholics will not allow the Crown to have a prohibitory influence in the appointment of their Bishops, they µill nppoiht them among Oven selves, without any reference whatsoeier to the Pope. _ . Sven, in one of hii dedications, observes—that the only diffidence betwixt the• Church of Rome and our oxen on their opinions of the certainty of their doctrine is, that the former flanks it is al ca.yl in fallible, and the Idler that it is never in the wrong. An Algerine squadron, consisting of two frignt•s,, two sloops, and two brigs, has for some time past ' been cruising in the Mediterraaean. On the 27th of April, the Ilaughtg gun-brig, Lieutenant IlAttrty, proceeding with a convoy for Malta, fell in with it, when the Algerine Commodore, after examining the ships, ordered the detention of a Greek vessel, laden corn. On this order being notified to Lieutenant IlAavrT, he immediately went on board the Alga• rine, accompanied by his Surgeon, as int.•rpeter, to remonstrate against this unfriendly act, and to request the liberation of the vessel. Instead, how• ever, of his reqnest being complied with, he re. ceived the most gross and abusive language ; hie own ship was threatened to be seized ; and, on re. fusing to deliver up some papers belonging to the Greek vessel, he was knocked down, repeatedly kicked, and his pockets rifled. He was ittstat:ly obliged to depart, without obtaining the release of the vessel, and proceeded to Cagliari. A representation of the affair had been made to Sir E. PELLEW, but there was no probability of redress being obtained from these ruffians. The Abbe BOMANELLI has visited lately all the.. catacombs which surround Naples. Be likewise ens tered the subterraneous caverns of the church of St. Janvier, and, assisted by a guide, explored them to the extent of two miles and a half, in the midst of human ashes, broken coffins, skeletons, and ruins. lle beheld on all sides Greek inscriptions, cnlptured upon stone or marble ; and paintings of Christ:las who had suffered martyrdom. Ile also nofired the remains of some altars, the tombs of the first Nea politan Bishops, and one catacomb, the inscriptions on which recorded the ravages of a pestilence in Naples, in 1020. Mr. BETTY is engaged to perform for a few nights • at the Southampton Theatre, prior to his treading the boards of New Drury. Owing to the present low price of the Funds, Farmers and other Persons, under the authority of the Land Tax Act, may make themselves Free- holders for the small sum of about 101. by prchas. Img the Land Tax upon the Farms they occupy, or any other in the neighbourhood ; which will enable them not only to oblige their landlords with a vote for the county, but entitle them and their children to receive Forty Shillings a-year for ever, without the risk or expense of Title Deeds, Parchments, &c. for the Land Tax may now be redeemed so as to produce very near 5 per Cent. Interest for Money. —5l. a-year Land Tax at 55 per Cent. the pre7ent price of 3 per Cents. will cost 1001. 16s. Sd.— Such an opportunity has nct oGred since the year 1804. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PLYMOUTH, JOLT 4. Sailed the 511 n Josef, of Ilt) guns, Admiral Lord Keith, for the station off Brest; and Northumberland of 71 guns, for liasqua Roads; also the Intelligent gun-brig for Basque Roads. Sailed' the Rosamond sloop of war with the onward-hound Newfoundland and Quebec. feet; also the Hermes sloop of war, with convoy for Cominna and Lisbon. Arrived the Talbot sloop of war from a cruise. Sailed the Spaitish ships Aguilla, Felicana, and San Carlo,, for Spain; and General Graham, ftw . Cadiz. The Weymouth, T. Hoskins, Master Commanding, from Malta, Gibraltar, and Cadiz, was released from quarantine, at Portsmouth, on Thursday morning. She left Malta* on the 7th of May, with the Victorious. 74, Captain Talbot ; Acorn, Cap• titan Blight the Rivoli, 80 guns (Victorious's prize), and a COP. yoy fur England. These ships captured a valuable French schooner off Sardinia, laden with silks, which they took into Gibraltar. The WeyWootth left Gibraltar on the filth ult. far Cqdiz. Tile Tr:mead/ills, Acorn, and It ivnli, and convoy, were jto sail for England on t'.e Itith ult. The Victorious and bet prize are to go into Plymouth. T:te St. Domingo arrived on Saturday, at Port/mm/0, from watching the enemy's fleet in the Scheldt, which remains in slabs quo; but the fleet in the Teach is increased to sevon •ail of the line.—Lord /Rawlins Beauclerk was blockading thew, wi h the Royal Oak, Cbri:dian VII. Gloucester, Barham, and Defiance. sir Richard Straehan has resigned his eimmand under Ad , itical Young t and Captain Gill, in consequence, will' be supeneded In the command of the St. Domiego. DARTMOUTH, JULY 4. Arrived the day before yesterday the Coqoelet cartel, from Modals, and sailed again yesterday far ditto. COWES, Jams 5. Arrived the Orlando, Diana, and the Lord Collingornod transports, with part of ilse 18th and 63d Regiments, frotaJeniir. THE MARKETS. CORR EXCHANGE ; Jory 6. fresh arrivals of Wheat to-day make a tolerable good supply ; samples of fine quality in demand, and the general sales fully at last prices qudted. Rye, with Barlei and Malt, each at little fluctuation. NYhite Peas doll in &Ale—very faw Grey; Beans, of each sort, likewise fully keep their price. Oats have arrived in tolerable Papply, and this article is named nearly at the last quotation. Mut without alteratiln. Wheat ..... 141146 1611 s I Tick do. (new) .. 75 go Flneditto ...... 162 1115 Do. ()five Old) .. nye ..... 86 9?. Oats 8ar1ey..... 6l 71 . Poland do. Malt 94 10! Potable do. White Peas (boilers) 76 84 Rape Seed . Grey do. Saw . . Sem& .. , 117 ; r i, ii I tr : . I 1 i . I , ) , If 1 „ , . price. Oats bate s Darned nearly at i t i w) • • 75 80 Id) —.-... i 55 57 60 61 61 . m 1 i I ! ••• • • • 6 4 64 - t ii. ,. .' i X 75 .Elll 1153. 140 s. . I I' l 1' ! 110 U / i „,, S 1 4, . •! ~,, • . „ . ( ..,, a .i. ~,,.. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bunk ' India Bonds 9 db. 3 per Cent. Cons. 554 i ex-div. Exchequer Bills 90.4 1 dig. 3 per Cent. Red. 561 Ditto Sid. par 1 pr. 4 Fr Cents. 71H thallium liii pr. 5 per C-mt. Navy R6l ex-div. Consul. for Acct. 571 Lung. 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