The Statesman. — London, England, 1810-05-03 00:00:00

0 , 1 11u:fled to lament, and - the-essre , Willi which it m i 4 ht be corrected,, forms an.additional cause of re get that it should be allewmi t to continue. The Report of the Cointatiac,wu pidered to be received to.morrow:. , ARMY EXTRAORIifWv(to ' . • ". Mr. LONG pv'r optics, thatisepie rMtimittee o f Supply on that4lay se'onigkt, he. wdUl4 move the Army Eatrourainaries., An account was•ortiereil to be laid ,before the Housed the sums gaf Arlene' that, hatl"been pall to the families of Local ikillitioupen in rrelatid, &c. The Irish Stagecoach Bill y vis read is second time, and ordered to be committed on Monday. Mr. LUSHINGTON brought up the Report of the Committee oe the Insurance Acts, which was agreed to, and a Bill ordered accordingly. The house resolved itself into a Committee to consider the Salaries of the Clerks of Session in Scotland. Several Resolutions were agreed to, and the House having been resumed, the Report was or thred to be received to-tnorrow. The third reading of the Canal Rubbery Bill haring been 'moved, Mr. Herbert rose to oppose it ; but out the suggestion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir S. Rotnilly being absent (in consequence, it was presumed, of not anticipating any objection to the Bill), the third reading was postponed until to-morrow.—Adjourued. TO cOItRESPONLIENTS. .• WE have received Letter 11. from Mr. SIICPUERD tt the lion. Mr. I.YTTLCTON ; and it shall aipear to-morrow. PRICE OF STOCKS nil! 5 per resit. Con?. 70ii per (*eat. Reduced, 694 4 per Cent. AM 5 per Colt. Navy Ml} Cooed , for Arc. t)Ay AT ONE O'CLOCK. Lour,. Atm. India Bonds Exch. Bill Lottery Tickett STATESMAN. LONDON: TMURSDAY, MAY 3, 1810. 'LURE has seldom happened a more interesting Debate in the House of Commons than that of last night—interesting fur the subject matter of it, and still more so, for the events it is likely to produce. The House never foresees any thing—we beg its pardon—we mean, not the House, but the MI NISTERS who steer the vessel, BUT NEVER WILL WEATHER. THE STORM.—The Facet Ministers never foresee any thing. — And they are at this moment, and in.this instance s more than usually blind. If the Middlesex Peti: Con does insult the House, the wisdom of the House will be—to pocket the affront, and let it. be forgotten as soon as possible. Other Petitions of like nature will follow from every part' of the country, whether the House receives this Petition or not; but, if Ministers aro wise (even in the poorest and most ordinary sense of the word) they will let this and every such Petition pass in si. leuee, and not double the public iadigoatiou by debates that bring the temper of the public to bear more and osoie on this fatal point. We wish the House to escape, whatever our wishes are re specting Ministers and tbetefure sincerely gives this advice. lkit tins . .H.Ouse then considered. (to speak of it, and leave • these wretched Mi. nisters to their fate)—has it revolved in its mind tke serious question of—hore it will dispose of int W116./.2 PECIPLE or ENSIA4 ND ?- - That is impossible, or it would net haverentertainedflie kind of debate it did last night. • .:11 the House can shut their doors against the Freeholders of Middlesex, will it not be a dangeious experiment to reject in like manner the. whole ,population of England ? We wish the House to consider this, because we respect the House, not for the good it her done, but for the good of which (by the ge. twine principle of its existence, when that shall be restored, as 'restored it will be), it is fully capable, and will happily produce. This is a melancholy situation into which the House has got ! The People cannot petition, and express their real sentiments respecting the pro , ceedings of the House, without insulting the House—that is to say, without speaking facts which a less dignified body titan the House could not hear without disgrace. But who has done this for the REPRESENTATIVES of the PEOPLE? have the People themselves done it ? Oh, no ! They would save that House, which, if their Re presentatives would permit, they would love as their lives. The People are libelled, and most basely, when they are called inimical to the House of Commons, or men indulging in a passion of insulting the House o f Commons. They may insult such of the House as get into that place by . means which arc even too low to be described in decent terms. But the House they do love, and will sore—at least, so prays every honest man among them. It is such men as the present Mi nisters, who have done all this for the House of Commons of which the House complains, and of which Ministers are so ridiculous as to complain. We must pause a little,, and correct a small finis. tale. Mr. WINIIIIAX is. not such a man as any of the present Ministers—forwhe has more talent than all of them put togethet;. and •Itts believe he has a great deal of right feeling it last.. Yet Mr. Wisen,tm is one of those who i las contributed I.l* as much as soy individual to beittpthe House into that condition we have been "speaking of,; and the WHIGS, if they return to power, will do well ta ceusider if Mr. WINDUA X can ever again do '77 I lie them any service. —But this by the irpty.— To retain to what is infinitely more law. tint. What will the House of Commons now t do ? Will they still permit themselves to be guided 't4it his MAJESTY'S present Ministers ? Can they be so lost to that common sense which seeks for AUlf.preservatiOn, and is necessary to self.preser. •vation ? We trust nut. It is unfortunate, however, that a Member of that House, who has often saved it from disgrace by his advice, and his prevailing in that advic e, is accidentally absent—We speak of Mr. WUIT. BIiEAD. He has more than once spoken so forcibly on the subject of Petitions, that he has carried the House away from Ministers, for the moment into the right path ; and we laming much that the true friends of the Rouse of Comm Ons halve not that chance in their favour on the present occasion. But, Mr. PEIMEVAL saki in the House last I night, —" He would ask any Gentleman, if this 46 was the language of Petition, which they had 44 heard to-night ? Instead of praying (or a rest. " sion of the proceedings of the House, the Pe.. 46 titioners enter their protest against the con. 66 duct of the House s and dictate to it the mode it "u to !name." ..• Mr. PERCEVAL is remarkably ignorant of the laws of his country—we beg his pardon, we mean England. The object of a Petition to the House, the le;ral, constitutional object, is often. PROTEST in the form of Petition. It is al ways so, when it comes from the People stating public misconduct in the House. The intention is, to PROTEST against that misconduct. A Peti. lion may be called a Remonstrance, and often has been so called. But what is a REMONSTRANCE ? it is something more than a Protest. It not only protests against the proceedings of the House, but argues with the House against its wrongs. But whatever name may be given to this PROTESTING of the People against any misconduct of the House, it is the pillar of safety to the State and the Coital. tution ; it calls back the House to the right path, by legal and peaceable means, and shuts.the doer against the practices of those, who, under the pie. fence of correcting abuses, would destroy the frame of Government. It as principally for this reason we were sorry, alit! truly sorry, that Mr. YORKE and Mr. WINDHAM have tried to bar out the people from a knox ledge of the-proceed ings. of the House. Public opinion is the proper controul upon that llouse,anti he is really the enemy of the House, of the State, and of the Constitution, who would remove that controul, or check its power and operation—for such a one would in fact substitute fur a peaceable and wholesome con. troul the overwhelming indignation of the people, which would aid must crush their enemies, sq. probably the public fabric of the Constitution along with those enemies. Mr. Paacar %I. and Mr. You=r are IhOrt.lighted men ; and Mr. WINDUAM Is a rash one—but we hope the House has by this time reflected upon what it is to do to-night, and will not only preserve itself, but partly restore its own true dignity, by re. raising the Middlesex Petition, and thus &Allow. ledging the right (against the opinion of all their ql advisers) of the people to speak to them as from those who have only delegated power to them, led do claim the privilege of PROTESTING against any abuse of that power. NVc learn, by a private letter from Liverpool, that there will be this day presented to the MOTOR of that place, a Requisition to call a Meeting, to take into consideration the condudt of the House of Commons towards Sir FRANCIS BURDETT. The MAlrolt s it is whispered, will refuse to call a Meet.. indfor such purpose; and therefore the eminent persons who have agitated the Requisition, have re. solved, in case of such refusal, to draw up, and present to the MAYOR a Memorial, suitable to the occasion. This Spirit, there Si now little ques. Lion, will run through the whole country. We have received Paris pepera to the 27th ult. The articles of chief importance are those which relate to Spain. Tranquillity is said to have pre vailed at Malaga, under the auspices . of SEBASTIA• NI; and the Madrid Gazette of the 13th states, that Granada was likewise quiet: "the inhabitants there. of t being undeceived, thought only of living peace. ably under the paternal Governmeneof the King." The Papers likewise mention, that the French EM PEROR was upon the point of making an . excursion to his new Dutch dominions ; and private ae. counts coincide with these in adding, that their Majesties the Emperor and Empress of FRANCE were at Antwerp on Sunday last, the 29th. The name of Antwerp must create an uneasy emotion in the mind of every honest Englishman 1 Yesterday, at one o'clock, Mr. Sheriff WOOD / accompanied by Mr. BENG, one of the Members for the County of Middlesez, went to the Tower, to present to Sir FRANCIS BURDETT the late Reno. lotions and Address of the Freeholders of Middle sex. The procession was attended by a vast con. course of people, and cheered, 111 it paste along, by enthusiastic plaudits, and repeated should of 66 BURDETT and the Conatitution !" >, • , • 14*„,: i tt i v s i . • J IP Alia- • • ♦'A' To the EDITOR of the Sht Sot—Will you make room in your respectabld Piper for the coinplaint of a mtich.injured indivi dual, who complains not • on his own account only, but of his whole race, who have long been , in jured, insulted, and abused in every town, parish, and hamlet in the kingdom. But, tint to keep you in_ suspence, know, Sir, that I am a Bull that was the other day most shockingly baited— baited, Sir, with all that sarege delight that has distinguished bull-baiting in every age: I ant de scended from a large •and numerous family of Bulls, all of whom, more or less, have been brought to the baiting-ring, and I much *fear the praatice is increasing in severity, making me tremble for the future fate of my numerous calves not yet arrived -at the years of discretion. My apprehensions are, indeed, somewhat abated by a report brought to my car of the conduct of one of my most noble race of Bulls, who has re. sisted, in a most noble and bull-like manner. It seems' they took him for a common Bull, but he has shcwn his baiters that he knows how to use hir horns and his tail against' he vermin that beset him ; and although they have him surrounded by a very deep ditch and high wall, and, as they think, very secure, yet it is whispered they wish they had let him alone. They first be. set him with a whole pack of dogs accustomed to the sport, and in a very large herd, thus chewing that they were dogs of the true blood-hound breed. It was at first supposed that the breed of Bulls would - have protected him bat many of them being very inexperienced, and, as•l may say, mere calves, and in their minority, and others par tially exempted from baiting, and privileged with better pastime, they sided with the hounds, and, would you believe it, tiir ! ! ! they actually assist. ed the hounds against him ! First, they barked at him, but the sight of his tail and threatening dis. play of his hones kept them at a distance : it was fine fun to sec these dogs at bay. There was Vic, Pierceall, and many others, whose names I do not remember; but all would nest do, and therefore they requested their whippers-in to fOrge a very strong chain, and . have him secured, which was agreed to with all convenient speed; but in their haste they for. got how the chain was to be applied, and they went, weak and-silly as they were, and requested of this noble Bull that he would him , let` them chain hi quietly : it was, they tok him, 'his duty, and what all other Bulls had evef done. ' But nu! he would. not submit. " Catch 'me, • and have tie," was his motto; and''Sit saying, he shut himself up' in *his stall, and left the hounds at fault, otherwise PUZZLED.--Vic was con sulted, but he could 'only say born-wow. They then met together in a very secret kennel, to con trive how this chain should be put on ; and here theybarked, and snarled, and growled, that the whole neighbourhood was disturbed, and it was thought they would have run mad altogether. How. ever, at last (such is the sad fate of the Bull fa. wily), they overpowered him with a forte that WU -*ever brought against a single Bull before, and conveyed him to his place otconfinemear,the strong. est parish pound in the kingdom. Here, how. ever, he is not dismayed, bat his bellowing, are heard all over the country, asserting that he nor fellow bulls hap any right to be eoefiued or kited. And, although he is a very' quiet and petlce. able animal, if let alone (hut being thus oppressed). he has Oven a challenge to meet the whipper-in and all his dogs; uponfatir ground, thereto try the cons. bat, and much sport is expected. Vic, the prin. eipal blood-hound, is sharpening up his fangs for the attack ; and well he may, for such a pair of horns he never yet bad to contend with : I think they 'call one burn Magna and the other Charts, which, if used aright, must ensure the victory--s victory " devoutly to be Wished." Fatigued and ,jaded as I am, Sir, with the bakings of the week, I must be excused from adding more to this, only to beg all good folks to set their faces against this cruel spurt. I forgot to say, that• my master's children and servants have always 'given me the name of Jack; there eae, therefore , be. nu im propriety in signing myself," Your very °bedtime; and injured • Birmingham, May I. • JOHN BULL. Letters fromPirisstaie, that Loots the XVlth, during the period he was in confinement, wrote a History of his own Reign, and sent it Irk Madame ADELASDE, his aunt, at Rome. At her death the manuscript passed into the posiession of her sister, whci died at Trieste l and afteriiiards into the hands of the Coentess of N A RBON NE, and her son disposed of it to BONAPARTE, who, it is said,, means to de. posit the Royet.Manuscript in the Archives of the Senate.=—Some doubts, however, are eutertained, whether be would mit clute.it to latt. published first. . On Tueiday afternooth -Lord Ro'ykros, the only surviving son of the Eert oh s IfatieivitaE, and the nephew of Mr. YonxE, died . at 'Cam bridge. The Noble }:arl has been singularly moos fortunate. A year or two ago, his eldest ar44 perished in a storm in the Baltic ; his other hat just been snatched from him. • Mr,:CIiARI:EII YORKE is now the heir to the Earldom. The negotiation for Mr. CANNINO re-admis. sion to a seat in the Cabinet; has terminated in. effectually. His treachery to Lord CASTLEREAGH has made ts• deeper impression than this flippant Statesman had expected to find. The Duke of PORTLAND has not voted with Administration since thedeath of his Noble Father. Tuesday the first division of Sir. Saxe et. Atce iho 103 d, commanded by Col. . m ill r a T cu is t.e reg s iinn SCOTT, et marched into Gosport for en. barkatinn ; the 2d division was to march in this, day, w hen Sir Sastrar.. will see both. of awn,. - Mr. Thomson, who went over to Morlaii with Mr. MACKENZIE to negociate a Cartel, Is returned with dispatches fur our Government. Tim Commissioners remain at Morlaix, where the negotiation will be carried on. It is,. said' that it will soon be brought to a succession ter. urination. In the cartel that brought Afr. Dtexessow, came about osebundred English prisoners, among whom were scveraf Icemett of the Durham Militia, captured on their voyage h o me from Portmootb, by a French privateer. . • • ' , • ' I F • "-Z. • To Vie EDITOR, of TUE STATHS'AGIN. Tsdis rem sis e utiatee noster ewes Shit,--••The want of leisure has I►revented my sooner noticing an instance of the most fascinating simplicity, lately exhibited by one of our " pis. tolling Privy Counsellors, and which 1 am sure prized has seemingly attracted so little attention for I have seldom met with such a beautiful 'pee clown of ►what the French call naive(. I ready was quite ena►rioured with it, when I read the above quotation under - the report of a speech doe livered by the Right Honourable Geostoe CA,. NINA, in tl;e debate which concluded by sending Sir Feasters Iluttortr to the Tower. It appears that Mr. CAmnftro, with the most amiable condescension, was pleased, an that occae slop, Jo afford thetestimony of his high authority, to the extraordinary talents of the worthy Baronet 3 but what is more striking, considering that this Gentleman's reputation for candour and sincerity lately recpored the aid of a duel, is, that he should declare the sentiment contains d in the words of his quotation, which are those of my motto, to be always ready to force itself upon his mind, when the character of Sir Faancts CROW under his high consideration. As all the amiable candour so justly attributable, in this instance, to Mr. CANNINa, is comprised in the Valuable Latin scrap he has favoured us with, it is necessary, for the benefit of these who do not understand the language, to furnish them, as I undertake to do, with a faithful translation. It will appear unaccountable that.so few Latin words should require such amplification in English, l►m&r 1 such is the fact. It here becomes me to say, that I should most willingly borrow the pen of the Ez.Sreretary, to• product an elegant translation ; but I will emu. Jenny, at least, appeal to his newly.acquired candour, to bear me• completely out, as a scholar, if any one has the temerity to dispute the correct. ness of my translation, Which is es follows, in the shape of a speech by the Right Honourable GF.ORGE CANNING, winch I lament he did nut himself give at the time, with the original Latin I "Jaili cum sis, utinam nester ewes." ". Mr. SPEAKER ! When 1 reflect on the Iran. 66 scendant abilities of the worthy Baronet ; upon " the inflexible integrity which has distinguished 14 every part of his conduct, public' and private ; 46 when I am obliged to acknoe ledge hiramiabla 64 qualities, and unspotted reputation, in every 66 relation of society ; when I reflect on this ir. " resistible influence of suclt a character with the " public, cvutrasted with the meanness, rapacity, " and corruption, which have pervaded every de. 66 pertinent of the State . ; when • reflect that we 66 arc arrived at that degree of profligacy, that 6 conduct is openly justified in this House, at the bare itseplion of which you say, Sir, our antes. tors would have startled with indignation.; when I duti/ consider, that as ins sad Outs, 'WE could continue, alternately, to divide, to the last shilling, the plunder of at; insulted nation ; and when I perceive that the Baronet, with unshaken constancy, and ut. terly regardless of every selfish consideration, 6 declares he will persevere' at the risk of Wei, 66 and every thing dear to a man, in order to to. . " scats his King and Country front Inch foul de. 66 gradation—considering, in short, the virttrei 66 talent, and courage of this formidable man, 1- 66 cannot dissemble my fears for the danger which 66 threatens pubW robbers, and am ready, from 66 the bottom of my soul, to exclaim, " .vtonzn " TO HEAVEN ' , WE COULD BY ANY MEANS WHAT* 66 EVER INDUCE SUCH A MAN AS YOU, SIR rams. 66 EIS, • TO ABANDON YOUR • PRINCIPLE 4, ANIS 66 UNITE WITH ONE OF OUR FACTIONS!!!"' Now, Mr. Editor ) if I had been present in the Honourable House, I should hate been happy on this occasion, to have caught the Speaker's eye ; and After most significantly shaking m 1 bead, and bestowing a smile of the tenderest pity on Mr. CANNING, to indicate that I could give him no hopes, I should have delivered the following, as conceive, appropriate reply, in the game of the people, to the speech of the Eton scholar, to con: since him that he and JACK FULLER have -not all the learning •between them. If any of your correspondents can spare time to give a faith. ful translation of my speech, for I 'fear it might trespaps too much upon Mr. CANNING ' at a tumneut when. ho is presumed to have all his mind employed on the object of getting back to power, and originating, *for the good of his coup. try, another Walcheren xpeditfon, shall feel much honoured. " Talus est red !loiter est." April 30, 1810. - . VOX P0P1,11.1. 46 44 64 ~ ' . , . I - • . • - LIST OF TILE MIJOILITY - . - . t WHO VOTED 'AG•IIIST wt. sane 111.4k4VOLLY'11 DILL POE • LUE;IDING Tile chtiasstil," Law. Arbuthnot, Rt. Hori.Galdc,•o; • • • PloMer, Sir Wm. Chios. • • Geolhurue, Heggy .Pole, ;Hoh. W. W. Bickerton, Sir R.BLllerbert, H. .... Ryder, Rt. Hun. g. Buller, James Johnstoi. GeOfjP . Salton,' C. H. Cooper, Hun. C. A.Leycester, Ilugb Thompson, SOT. s Critter, J. W. • Loft, J. H.- • • Thralls. Lord John Elliott,. Hon. Win., l i ong, Right Hag. C. Weilace Rt:Liii. T. Farquhar, James • Lushin g ton, S. R. • WOrd, It. Foster, Rt. lion. J.Macdnoultl, Sir -i—Wemos, Was. Franklund, Wni. bliscuaghtuts, G. A. W batten, R. Fitzhugh, Wm. Palmerston, Vise. 'Windham, lit. Hoe.* Gibbs, Sir V. " Perceval , 1it...11n. S.' Wm. . - • • ...-..- . • LIST OF THE M.INORItY WOO VOTED ID PA TOOL OP IT. Aborcroiaby, lin. Jaistchhison, Hon: C.O'flant, Charles Bruhrd, Serape Pi. • Parnell, Henry . Bablogtua, Thus. Lanshe, lien. Wm. Pigott, Sir A. lirongSain, Henry Leitch, John Rupsikly, Sir 5. • Canning, lit. Hoo•Letana,liir Win.'" Sharps, R. George .. • Lemon, John Smith, Wipt. Creefey, Thomas Maedoskal:/„... Supboo,,f. Coodr..ll. C. • Mirryam, J. Tayior, W. - FATtestone, Vise. blaule, Hon. W. R.Taylor, M. A. Greet, Rt. Hoe.. SirMilbaoke, Sir It. Bt.Tlipristos4A . Win. Moore, Peter iIV lareal, oos Greaten, Pascoe Morris, G. * Wilberfsect, l We. - =oolu=tplam . . . On Midday the 45th march into Portsmouth for embarkation, theft the 31st and 35th, with part of• the 25th. Generals Lima mid. Flennoi . , are expected at Portsmouth, to sea and take Ivied of their regiments,' before they• so..abroad on service. . It h said that mote artillery, as well as.seme to. giments of heavy cografty, will be seat out to Lord Wit,Linoxon's **my. • • . r - .• •