The Statesman. — London, England, 1813-03-31 00:00:00

11.4 Princm, did you suffer her husband Master, to labour under a load of on • for delaying her justification? Why him to incur the reproaches of Mr, Lord Eldon ? Why, my Gold, if ridence were such as you nous state kto (Inset:Maas after receiving it, report • entirely unnecessary for his Royal iotice the rumours against his wife Is Nay, why, my Lord, if Kenny' injurious, was Lord Eardly iaformed your desire, that his conception, of " wen inaccurate =" Lord Eardlera Jng no more than what you now now one. • I have before intimated, that an event common course of nature, cannot be may place that person whom your letter deeply affects, on the throne of before you are many days' sail from But, though a severe one, it would the most extraordinary dispensations 2, if even he, from whom you derive the important functions which you are now taking upon you to execute, should unhappily not survive to honour their close with his wonted approbation. 'Were there a spot upon the globe a thousand times more remote than India, it would, of course, be the first act of his successor's reign, to draw you into her presence ; and demand front your own mouth, an expla. station of the charge which you have at your departure levelled against a persecuted parent,—that the Royal sufferer's advisers did not dare to speak of your con. ver.ation with Kenny, tiil after the death of that man. /Cow, thorefore, my Lord, before you quit the Bri- CO capital, not only the Metuttets of this Lodge, but e very matt in England, who has the honour and dig. of the throne at heart, calls upon you, to re. tra-t your insinuations against his future Queen. — There is no act of justice, that awaits your arrival in kutlia, of a thousandth part of the importance which belongs to this. I have the honour to remain, Your Lordship's obcdiet servant, A FRE 141 SON OF THE. GRAND LODGE, &v. To ?as OFFICER COMMANDING :Hz 1111.1i1,4 Or QUARTEREI) AT lIULL. 'Sts,—On authority the most respectable, I can inform you of what it highly imports you to know. Some of the Militia men under your command, Signed the Petition to the House of Commons for a Reform in the fiepreseatation of the People in Par liament, which Petition is now lying open at Bull for signatures ; and expected, as they said, that al most all their comrades would do so too. But an intimation was certainly circulated, that, by so do ing, " they might get their backs tickled ;" and it is as certain, that a sudden slop took place to the sign ing of the Petition by the military. It.is not credible, Sir, that a Field Officer of the 5 ‘ Constitutional force" of our country, could himself put in circulation such an intimation • but it is possible that, in the present state of the 'Militia, in respect to its Subaltern Officers, there might be men ignorant enough of the law and Constitution, end regardless enough of the nerties of their coun try, to be capable of originating such an intimi dation, It oil!, Sir, be easy for you to ascertain the facts of which I speak; and as your own cliaracter must, of course, be implicated, unless you make it publicly known that this obstruction to the exercise of the sac.od right of petitioning had not your sanction, but on the contrary has your highest reprobation, I tare thought it only due to you to give you the op rol tunity,through public orders, or on the parade,or cil.er%ise, as you shall think most proper, to assure the soldiers under your command, that tloy let:e nothing to fear for conscientiously :Laing, as citizens, according to their own judgment. As it is highly, Sir, to the honour of your Militia men that they have shown so toueli knoo ledge of, and attachment to, the liberties of their country, as to be desirous of signing a Petition for a Reform, ithout which liberty cannot be said to exist. It is coulidently to be hoped, that the disgraceful intinia can ab o ve-mentioned will be disdained by yourself, and by every Gentleman of education and honour in your iegtment, with indignation : and, for the ho. sour of - the Militia, km 4.!tich the writer himself long served, he hopes that, in a Parliamentary enquiry into the high misdemeanour of obstructing Petitions to the Legislature, which he trusts will shortly take place, no instance wilt occur in which Officers of the " Constitutional Force" will be chargeable with a crime so odious. CIVIS. PARMAIMENTARY REFORM. As the people of several Counties appear to be pre- paring to petition for a Reform in Parliament; the following remarks may be useful to show how times and circumstances (unnoticed by the generality of ',unkind), have changed and disproportiossed our present representation in Parliament:— . Zlectors. Members. Landon ban • Westminster. ,,10,110 * Middlesex 5,500 2 Surrey -toutbwark 27,000 --(.... .... Newton, Ramie.— ... I •••••••111 OM Sarum. Wilts 1 I Midhant, SiliKl Castle R ising, Norfolk,. ,e 2 Marlborouet. Wilts.... 2 ... t Downtos, Wilts ...... 4 II 0 • Great as the disproportion of 27,000 is to II Elec tors ! yet it is no less singular, that Manchester, Bin. mingliam, and Leeds, containing jointly, no less than 2 . :0,000 inhabitants, do not send a single Member to Parliament !! ! Can any man of common sense, think on this subject for a moment, and not he con vinced, that the people of this Country are not rem a. ntt d in Parliament, as our excellent Constitution originally intended ?—(Leeds Mercury.) It was not wonderfnl to hear Lord CA‘TLERE4GH and his colleagues rising tip in defence of sinecure:. " For this, among the rest, were they ordained." yaw; Nati imitate t p he : T A s oar Mast mer ited odium I did you permit percent 1 " 41 K e am's widen be. did you in ‘t that it was highness to ) Si( any SbaPC •" evidence were ii by )o°,,c'r by that evi dence , conception heir :n be a just one m y Lord, I --11, by the ftr n I.wllship i s lets !: , .$e realms, t their shores. not be among of Providence, • TI LONDON: WEDIPMAT, There is an unusual stillness 1 the political et_ mosphere at this moment, which necessarily resin& °sof what may by expected ere long. Not Spin the commercial horizon. The repossession of Cushaven tusk expulsion of the French from Hamhurgh, has ivivified the hopes of a renewed and vigorous trade through that vast entrepot of German conaemption. lOur countrymen, however, must not consider all ' the ground over which the Russians are spreading themselves, as galloping ground. The tide itself brings oar allies far beyond.the point they expected. to Wein; and the very weight of water itself, by a kind of re-action after agglomeration, *ill find its level again. The wind, which for a long time blows north, must, by the law of nature, return southerly. Our hopes of Standing firm, somewhere' k near where we are, would be stronger, if Dantzic i were in other hands than those of the French. But 1 our Readers will recollect what we said of it, when i all our competitors pronounced its fall. No, we undertake to say, that BONAPARTE counts on it, and has fixed it in his plan as the appuye for flank. ing the left of his next Grand Army : and this it may be made while his right moves for 500 miles Itogether. We do cot like his profound silence on all this. He has leant to be more taciturn since Lord WRITWOUTH so pointedly and openly satirized his loquacity. We would rather hear him bluster, vaunt, and threaten : that is the least injurious way lof exhausting his power sans malice. We were but too right in our conjectures of the disposition of the ' Court of Denmark. Without ample compensation i for the cruel mischiefs we have done that Power, we never shall bring it cordially to aid our views. Ever since the famous Manifesto ,of its in- i trepid and wise Statesman, the Count BERNSTOFP t it I I has been of the same opinion with respect to the , measures of the British Cabinet. The haughty Mi nister, whose monument is now exhibiting at Guild hall, and whose conduct is boastingly imitated by the creatures who have wriggled themselves into the same power, destroyed for ever the long-existing friendship between Great Britainand Denmark. He ' tell the Danes that if they did not take up urns with him against the French, he should employ his arms against them ! In vain did that philosopher argue that a sovereign state had a right to remain neutral, in a war concerning which its subjects took no inte rest whatever. No; that insolent, sour-minded man would act, by surrounding States, as a Lord Lieu. tenant of a County would by its neighbouring in habitants in calling out the posse comitatus It is laughable to observe the importance given by the time-serving part of our Press to the change in the name of a Continental Newspaper ! All is right now, and must remain so (say the venal scribblers), for the , Journal du Department des Douches de l'Elbe is no ' longer to called, but has again assumed that of the ilumburgh Corrcspondenten. We will not say "oh ye of little faith," but "oh ye of silly faith !" As , much is made of this Wiling circumstance, as though the REGENT of Great Britain had de clared, that, in reviewing the effects of the system which his father's .Ministers have pursued for near half a century, he was convinced that it had impaired the strength and exhausted the wealth of his kingdoms, and that be was determined to change such system, and its abbettors together, immediately. A declaration like this might, indeed, be made the subject of exultation; bat a political and commercial newspaper, adopting a new title in the manner of the foregoing, is no more worthy of notice (except as a proof that the town where print [ed is actually at the moment us new bands) than wonld'be the alteration in the tone of the Post or Courier towards our men in power, from the instant Goy cased to be in power. The examinations or such men as W.tattew Hssr• IWO and Lord TEIGNMOUTH before a Committee of the House of Commons, cannot bet gine weight to whatever may be the decision of Parliament, with respect to the question of laying open the Trade to In dia. We shall, therefore, probably in our neat, make some remarks upon the effects of, their evidence. The eyes and the ears of the commercial world are open to the solution of this great problem. We must, however, premise, that these great men wish particularly well to a Company of Merchants, from whose pursuits they have acquired great wealth, and from whom they hare still much to receive. ' Yesterday Viscount Siowoeru had an audience of the Pourer REGENT, at Carlton-house. Yesterday the Dukes of CumBERLAND and CAS. swung visited the Puma REGENT. Colonel QUium, of the 10th Dragoons, is ex: pected to leave town in a few days for Hanover. Tim Ducnrss oe Baunswica.—.The state coffin was finished at FRANCS and BANTING 9 S, Pall-mall, on Monday night, and removed to the house in Hanover-square, where the corpse in the leaden coffin was put into it. Some tickets were issued yes terday morning, to allow a few select personages to view it, but this was stopped in consequence of the public becoming clamorous for admittauce. Towms- Etsn, the Police Officer, was sent for to cher the people away from the door. The Earl of Mona has a right to complain of Wait coolness of his friends towards a champion wounded in their service, if they.have withheld from the public the manifest of his innocence. Could neither of the Bloody Hands who ha►e recently stood forward in defence of libelled Royalty, have re• ceived instructions to vindicate a brother Knight ? Gen. STUART, who was under orders for Portugal, and had sent his baggege to Portsmouth to be em barked there, has lately received orders to proceed to the North of Germany. A letter from Hamburgh says, that 15,000 Swedes have actually lauded in Pomerania—(This we do not believe.) That in Hanover all are eager for a British . General; and that in Bavaria eery aerioua disturb• ances have broken out against the Goverment.— Tee satisfaction and enthusiasm of the people el Hamburgh, in all these accounts, public and private s are depicted as incapable of being excelled. The circumstance of the venerable Major CART. watorr being hustled and robbed in Rt. Martin's. lane the other dsy, being doubted and even dented by some, the following extract will verify the fact: " It is, my friend, true that I was robbed of my watch, but without ether injury. It was lost in a good cause; as I was upon duty, going to a meeting of the Union for Parliamentary Reform according to the Constitution. It was a lime-piece, which cost me forty guineas, exclusive of a heavy gold chain ; but the greatest regret I felt, was for the loss of a seal which had belonged to my godfather, Lord Tea- CONNEL, who, when a Member of the House of Gammons, about, seventy years ago, then said, Nothing but a miracle could mend them.'—Years, truly, " *March IL J. CARTWRIGHT." . . /1W ....- -. Si.,---41111111).Wese Crown... 1-to be the lout• ketioir,..lkeve olways eouslieredi t ho panni t • sf iwarFOod Wee led teapot ON* to Sorereira l . firth. partief the setintry4 end *obi* 'llharrt4 or Ms inbsdtsii. f liteelehiring thins. . wi . remin „ d moral aid political ihneeiss reepousible, thrinigit . the siodat Ministers, for a faithful Unction if that g ttest, lied .- usepectoblk that his honker, are to their Clients for property . deposited. takes piece in this' nietropolis i 'Odd' will offer a la their bands. Mr. Bowls has called thin part of virtues sad dlrtinguWied tilnajd. to • 'the . COllOO I the Royal Prerogadre " the ehetp defame q feits. • try, which, we doubt not,. will be: eiebressally fol. doer;" and I have beeillaught totallete that titles lowed. Every man of heourable feeling, is I are the rewards of eminent pubis serviceleatt boned to come forward . mid espouse. the cause of this is the declared purpose for which a fond so inns. this injereB Primus—it is thecae's. of every Judi- ; baustibili noel s t n, salts able has been,Tdefill In the • vident , la the Empire, and all meat feel deeply in. Crown; but if titles ar. to bs drawn from this rich terested In it. , het the shame doe to bet prodigal.' and splendid 6.kb +Mew theta on . impettper or ascimers, of high and low degree, be u publicly in. unworthy oidetts, tbs trait becomes &rued; 'and flitted oa them, as her ussocznarlmilseppily bet! • tiseserthe bomb 'groat cannot bepanished by our blazoned' to the world. • • astute', It r, *public indignation,. that admire. • * ' • Me soppl , our penal laws, against irhich t Ltriamot., Monett reply to "q uirkt nor birth nor rank affords either shield or risotec respecting the Bonne Cltojenne, Capt. WARD ) of , tion. It may, possibly, . from the character of • the., William, reports, that he parted from her in the present Bench, of the Crown.Leiyeret and the 6 deg. with the Montague, in lat. 17. 13. South, long.: citreous of the theali t 'lle considered libellous to *D. ft& irtist; aid it was supposed that Admiral Ocretinite with too much accuracy the pretensions to Disalr would keep the 19 " 8 " Ci 6 Viaas 116 th him , thedignity of Beroneti•which has lately been con. upon a cruise until he fell in eith some British man (erred on a Reverend Gentleman, who, in the coot. of war, in order to clear the coast of Brasil, I Wencement of his career, as Editor of the Morning Post, in 1172, was generally called the Boling Par. • - son, and who is now, it stems, Proprietor of the Morning Herald—but when the ensemble of this man's history and character is considered; when it is combined with recent occurrences, and with other matter fresh in the memery'of all mankind, it will surely be admitted that titles so bestowed lessen the value of distinction, and give us no opportunity to compliment the Sovereign who so bestows them, either on his taste or discernment. I am; Sir. your humble Servant AN ENEMY TO SPURIOUS' NoBILITY, sad a F,kad to the Clergy, "rhea they worth* GOD. lad not MANNION. • FRAGMENT, • FOUND, IT IS SAID, AMONGST THE PAPEK& OW Tug LATH EDMUND BURKE. .......1.-- • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • long such a state so convaled and disgraed, • By creatrares whom chance has se strangely misplaell, Can exist; and submission to laws be eaforc'd Before an such vermin are fairly unhor3'd is a question distressing*, whose painful solution, • afraid must be found la the word—revolution. 0, ye few, le whom honones united with brains, Feel your manhood, and wipe out those National stains: Regardless of danger, like heroes go forth, N•resuar Princes to ftture the more than they're worth. if tilted by nature and art* for high station, Bola them up to the world. for the world's adoration; But, if claiming from birth al exemption from blame, They sun riot in vice and &link shame, Make them feel, though surrounded with guards and Itith pasders, That truths, meant to scourge them, can never be slanders ; Tho' Judges torn'd rankles, and knavish as mean, Would convert their high.ollices into a skreen, And peutitute laws meant for general protection, Oar Juries, I hope, will ne'ertatch tie infection. Let our SIAILIPZAR, oar Nawrews, illailtriors on earth, And all honest mom make a boast of their birth, While we spurn the contemptible, wicked pretence, Of high birth, Independent censors!' and sense ; For high birth, substitute high desert, and bid Fame, With her trumpet, the virtues of Pripet., proclaim; While shame, not less potent, aloud shall declare, Against vice which degrades than. perpetual war; Then high birth, in full splendour, notaraished will shine, And the world own they rale by a right near divine. High birth, pretty talking, bet what does it mean, Men distinguished by talents?' or is it a 'twee ? . A kind of bewitching panties! sorcery, • Making %nets of Princes, deep sunk in dehauciery ? 0, Britons no longer be cosen'd by Nevada, 'Or dazzled by splendour which reason confounds; To the House of Correction let knaves be consip'd, For the sake of example, and good of mankind. • When your Princes no longer are vicious and rah; But enlighten'd, and virtuous, and worthy to reign, Let them boast of their birth, while yeti join lithe boast, And 'nominee each proud name as your favourite toast; froni virtues aid talents let distinctions arise, This stoke will teach Printer you plaudits to prise; These alone give sealkind a legitimate claim, To respect in this life,. and hereafter to (aloe. 7?is vile to pretend, og that titles or pow , Capstone for the absence of hooey and sense ; Yet more vile the submission .4**ms to the drew, • Whom chance, and not merit, his.placed ea a Throne; Wlio,cliarne'd by the praises lib crettrires recite, &retie corcomb'at amen, end a &wain& at MA( ; • And well panipefil, well latterd, amlitined with had wills, hers a sot to tie stye, and these satires She &wise; • .Tilltime, quick revolving, exhibits the beast, the nation a scourge, and his egertlen a jest; A tax as as patience as well as ha poise„ A disgrace to mankind, to the nation a cone. oar weakness, aid not Ise their stessegth, they could% Who, abasing our wain, Walt them oor pride; *Her read is our annals, their error they'd find, Ad Nun what is due to *enmities* mat mankind; hat if lost to eidettion, they danger defy, And their Sinuses Meg* to the chaace of the dye, . Something far store coercive than hatred or sewn, • May revenge ail the evils their suhfrecto have borne; Slay again give a proof that amroke Ott* au, Is UM very best ewe for so bitter a Wt. • Education. The detention of the Expedition for the Coast of America, new in Plymouth Sound, is reported to b~ for the purpose of concentrating and strengthening the squadron. The following are the ships already assembled iq Plymouth Sound :—Diadem, 64 guns, Woolwich, 44, and Romulus, 44 (en flute), Neale. :is 36, Mariner (rocket -ship), and transports.— There are expected with the battalion of Marines from Torbay (800 strong), the Diomede, 50 guns, Fox, 36, and Success, -36. The battalion of Ma rines in Frankfort Barracks, Plymouth, will em bark, it is supposed, as nowt as the other battalion arrives in the Sound. The two battalions consist of 1600 picked men. . PORTSMOUTH, Maatur 30.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Blake, from the Mediterranean, last from Ply mouth. Sailed the Dapper, with a convoy of triusports, for North Yarmouth. His Majesty's ships Poinone and iris gives instruc.: tions to the trade hound to Corwin*, and the coast of Portugal. FALMOUTH, MARCH 28.—Sailed the Queen Char lotte packet with A. Mail for Lisbon. YARMOUTH, PiIARCII 30.—Sailed his Mijasty's ships Rolla and Cheerful for the Daltio. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 29.—Arrived his Majeity's ships Fox and Diomede, from Torbay, with marines. Sailed the Blake,: for Portsmouth. The Barham 74, is expected to sail to - morrow with a convoy for the Downs. COHN.EicUANGE, MARCH 31.—Wheat as on Monday. Barley 2s. per quarter cheapei, and nearly unsaleable; the supply far exceeding the pro" It appears tow CoOsespoodent teat the f i .0 owas sent consumption. Malt and Oats, dull sole; the so , w . limo boa very lippropriate latter full 2s. per quart pr lower, and a great quaaPity, scription tor any alesemmit . esect , ed , to Ole memory , at market. - White Peas 2s. per (Leader higher, ! hut Grey have declined 4.5. pet quarter. In Beaus I°f " th e Rea""4" Lie heavy on bip earth Unite and other articles there is no alteration. Laid posy a heavy as ph* . Di wiient tto (rialaerflehr.::!* 110 138 N ueass ew " W . M oo KINGSTON, 29.--It inetootioirio__lliate l 100 40 i 4 Tlek de. Uedte fae 4 1 1 r d el 4B 66 01d.... t• • ae Ito Oats 06 100 Floe OHO i • ••• to Peas 105 107 reed ditty frit . 1 1 :0 114111 .. ..... 00 00 Fine Flout erg Peas 711 80, hew& . , ;1. ts,"!..s, . ..>~ 1 1 ~ ~ ~. ~~ . 1 . TM . ? isaiaxamomiummussammilam aZ22 o 4, o4444omassemmaananamig h :Na , - 1 : amissai 1V."'"" ' Sails. . n.. tere'dl4blettlinei iiillk4Filestip' - ? " 4 410 ' 0 0 . 0 /10101 ' • ' 1 -..„.......,,......... .., , ....p........................ WO: ibgaWitil kitir f& I WO* eit,' . f 0 ' tali At PUPS or STOGIES 21110 nilll ./.2,-,UNAI OTAAKN. t _i t ,i,.._ i m . Ail ia 4 4: ?f t &g ees aw e (5143 4.; pule i "OA illuda . .4ll. , ~ 57Au . 1 .•1 girwmi 9 sell pew. !e a . kagei rrwlitis. wet 1 0 , etwoPIX with SO aine " ;;isquisitien, And &we* Ikr ter. Cum. 591 9 Di "' SP 1 64 Wijiaticikprierii Of 4 / I ** '‘, , ,G - 10 linM t alt• Mhz , I per dna. ctarnaA CI per Gat. Navy 871 Clasel liati , Ili iii• am irocasien, Is a sub l ime of general emiptatet. It 'ila amo • • •._ le t however, expected, that the .hteethw 44 be Pile hb Mb 1-I— rin 1 r i'r --- Cf - nr, -- ;; : riiimi6 -I! ,ilt -- .t the post nuiliereni , mid reepental**4 - .hae ever. as bony • i iri ,r 1 0 l -11 A - 1 L 04 . 7 . 41 Ci . 1 7 • 'taken niece in this . nietidoolied iiiiir will 'AT a' in &pip o= l" r agaillataarallBB.4 4 lEnaniAdigr, c. , 40, 4 ?" 14 4 1 11 6 .rk fi,ktrkt * i t ,V.4 ; 70 Of 03 70 Vitt the qpanish ship Solvodur i Ron tedis luf• , II • 70 71 Montevideo, mcith 650 soldiers t toieher with °Earlies t ' 4° oo 06 54 pissettgirs, and the crew (is 'sushi" !JO ii•FasieN lost near MittdotAdo, sil on 1 175 espePt 130 Demons. who /P:Aked Usr &ere to Vaunt up me dhplorsble state,, 4! cmts ti• • . • • • - o w- COMMON HALL, .• In consequence of a Requisition, most numerously and respectably signed, the Loan MAYOR has sere moned a Common Hall for Friday nest, to tate into consideration the propriety of presenting a loyal and affectionate Address• to her Royal Highness the PRINCESS of WALES, to congratulate her on her happy escape from the conspiracy formed against her honour and life, the disgraceful partial. ~'~