The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-06-15 00:00:00

o w erity of their attachment to a man who has done po re to expose abuses and Cottaurrion in the State, on a consequently to uphold the Ricans of the sub. I IK E, than any other' writer of the present day. We lic e no particular attachment to Mr.Coancrr, but as pu blic character, nor even the slightest acquaintance gith him; for although Mr. LOYLLL has been upwards o f is Months in the same prison, he has never seen Cosatrr during his confinement. It is reported that a public dinner is intended to g iven to Mr. COBBETT on the day of his liberation 0 „ ; ., yvwgate; but we should hope something more ~;! t intircl than eating and drinking will be thought hofore that day arrives, as Mr. Conncrr will have , !c ro , it 10001. befere he can partake of the re past. It may be said, and said truly, that Mr. c ol or rr has obtained a fortune by his writings—and aft afford to bear his owu losses ; but suppose he had l os e e..e, as many individuals have done in the same pursuits, we should like to know win; *ould have rei ay. hursed him. It is therefore quite evident, that his success I t i n life, which has been the effect of his own talents and industry, ought not to preclude him from recehing a remuneration for the losses which he has sustained in defending the Punic Caust ; and unless men of his description are supported by those people whose cause they espouse, it is to be feared, that all such PUBLIC WRITERS will disappear, and others-'of very DITFMKT Dzscairrios rise in their OA; •••••■••••..... 11ISISTtftIAL NEGOCIATIONS. We have this day to call the attention of our Read ers to two fresh documents of the utmost import ance; the first is a letter from Lord Mot RA to Lord Gaff, and the second, Lord Gary's answer, both of the 31st of May. These documents are of the utmost importance in every point of view in which they can be considered. They prove to demonstra tion this fact l —that from the 23d of May, the day on which Lord WELLEsscy first conversed with Lords Gar and Gasaytt.LE, respecting the pro- spcctus of an extended administration, until the 31st, AN OILILCTION PERSONAL TO LORD GREY con WORDS STOLEN DY HIM IN PARLIAMENT, existed in that quarter, which, by the constitution, is supposed it be always free from such feelings. We can wonder uo longer, therefore, that during this interval, the clorts of his Royal Highness to carry into execution the vote of the House of Commons, should have been exclusively confined to producing an uniod be tween the old Administration on the one side, and the Marquis WELLE;LEY, Mr. CaxsrNc, and their respective friends, on the other; and that it was only on the complete failure of that attempt, evinced by the absolute ►efusal of all the members of Adminis t•atiou to come into a cabinet with the noble Marquis Witaxstee, that an authority was, in a manner, extorted from his Royal Ilighness by his Lord ship, to confer personally with Lord Gate on the intended arrangements. Now we will ask any dis passionate man living, whether, with this evidence on their mind ,- , that means the most unconstitutional as I well as the most unjust and base, had been employed with such complete success to poison the PatNex's I Ellin! against Lord GREY personally, the Opposition could do otherwise than require that the Administra tion, of which Lord GREY was called upon to make part, should be distinguised in its outset by some act which night prove to the public that tho . se prejudices , were done away, and that Lord Gary possessed the confidence of the Sovereign whom he was to advise. Uteler circumstances of such marked personal objec tion, we might ask - , whether Lord Gary would not nave been justified in requiring even some ertraor iiiaary proof of its removak but surely the most pioiudiced enemy of Lord GREY must be compelled tow to admit, that the least he could do was to re- Tiire that which is stated in Lord Morita's minute, six. " the appointments to those great offices of the household, which have been risually included in the political arrangement made on a change iu Adminis tration." But what will be thought of this proceeding, %viten it is also seen from the same minute, that the %hole negotiation was suddenly broken off by Lord MoInA himself, on a simple questiow-beiug put to leis Lord ship relative to these appointments, accompanied by an intimation from • Lords GREY and GnEsvli4E, " of their opinion, that it would be necessary, toad the same principle on the preterit occasioir Was nit his Lordship aware that this was note corn. anon case ?"—That there were objections personal to Lord tincy in the mind of his Royal Highness, which did render it necessari , to act on this priuci. ple?—That an Administration, setting out in its ca. veer of public service, under the existence of a separate power t .and advising. a Sovereign whose mind hid been avowedly prejudiced against one of its chief Mem. bers, could not possess " that character of efficiency j and stability which were required to enable it to act usefully for the public service," unless it also pos. sensed the usual marks of the constitutional Suppost of the Crown? Must not Lord•Motea have seen and felt this when he put an•end to the conference, with out even offering to lay this part of it before his Royal Master for his farther commands ? A-nd what other interpretation can be given to his abrupt termination of that conference, than this plain and obvious one— " True it is Oct Lord Gael' has been calumniated to the Patrice ; true it is that part of the Household are pledged to oppose the measures of his Administra tion ; true it is, that if those Members so opposlog the new Administration are preserved in it, the Court will be notoriously separate from the Governmeat ; but there is no help for this—Lord GRIM mast begin Tilt STIATESMAN. by swallowing all this in the first instance ; and for the future—alors comme alum" Holland House, May 31 1 1112. Mt Diu Lown,—l cadent sufficiently thank you for your kind anxiety to procure an accurate statement of the words spoken by me in the House of Lords. It is difficult to remem ber precise expressions so long after they were spoken ; but I am sure I cannot be far wrong in stating the substance of what I said, as follows ! Perhaps, however, in a tit of candour, the de fenders of the Court may admit, as a general princi ple, that such a separate power in the State, con trouling the regular Administration, or eves distinct from it, ought not to be suffered to exist. They will admit the principle ,and deny the application.— They will deny that the continuance of Lords Herr- TOAD and YARSIOLTU in their offices could he said to constitute such a Separate power. We reply to this from AUTHORITY ;—from the MODEST autho rity ;—from the lips of Lord YARMOUTH him self. We reply to it in the words pointedly and diberately used by that Noble Lord in the House' of Commons on Thursday, in communicating his own and his father's intentions to resign, if Lords Gm and GRENVILLE had been appointed to ministerial situations.—ln talking ,of the offi ces held by his father and himself in the House hold, his Lordship used these express and most luminous words—" Offices which we received from his Royal Highness ALONE !"--Most of the Newspapers have omitted these remarkable expressions in their reports of the debate ; but the expressions were used, and were emphatically marked by Isis Lordship when he pronounced them. ~ .a-.What did he mean by them ?—What could he mean, but that he . Eindlsielether owed their high' offices to the Patsce, In contradistinction from his Ministers ?—Now'what would have been the case if Lord Gitrirlad consented to their continu ing?—Would they have owed their continuance to him as the PRINCE'S Minister, or would they have owed it to the PRINCE? and if they had owed it to the PRINCE, and to the Pauscc ALONE, would they, or would they not, have constituted that ver An order has been issued from the War-o ffi ce for Y all officers absent from the army in the Peninsula to jifin their respective regiments immediately ; and this description of power against which Lords GREY and Gets:VILLE were contending; against which Lord order is issued in a limner that would imply that all laves of absence will otherwise be cancelled. CHATHA Ns, the Marquis of ROCKINGHAM, Mr. BURKE, and Mr. Fox had contended before them ; against BONAPARTE'S guard of Mamelukes, which had whiCh every principle of the British Constitution is teen ordered to join him, passed through Frankfort on the 20th Mt.; precedetkby upwards of 60 oaggons in direct hostility, namely, a Power within the Go- I pith frame-work for portable barracks. vernment, separate from the responsible advisers of Another Meeting was held at Fife House, on Sa the Crown ! arday, respecting the Orders in Council, which was But to return to the prejudices against Lord GILT. At ended by several of the Gentlemen who are iute- If it be said that these prejudices were actually done acted, and who have been deputed from the country 6 give evidence before Parliament on the subject. It away by the authority given to Lord WELLE•sLet b, perhaps, right that we should observe, that in the Ist of June to enter into a negotiation with him, our statement on Saturday of the interview at Lord evidence of the direct contrary will be found in the L IVERPOOL'S the preceding Thursday, we were led nature of the proposal then made to his Lordship and to a different expectation as to the result from that Lord GRENVILLE. That proposal we feel ourselves which some of the parties entertain; and there Is a aped that it is the intention of Ministers to substi relieved from the necessity of discussing, by the ac- lute, instead of the Orders in Council, some other knowledgemeut of even Mr. WORTLEY himself—that regulations. it teas inadmissable. Butin another sense, namely, The weight and near approach of the Loan con as evidence that the hostile feeling towards Lord tinue to depvss the Funds. Consols for opening, GREY was not removed, it is too important, and in- at the beginning of the week, were 61 }, and left off deed too conclusive to be passed over. Lord MOIRA, on Saturday at Mllt; 3 per Cents. Reduced fell in proportion.--The lists of the respective Candidates it is true, endeavours to explain it, but he explains hove not been t il led rp with the usual facility. We only his own sense of it ; but when Lord Wri.x.ra- understand that, instead of having numerous applies- LEY applies for permission from the PRINCE to el- tions, as heretofore, and being able to make a selec plain it, that permission is positively refused. What lion of the applicants, the preparers of lists have does Lorl WELLESLEY expressly say upon this sub - been obliged to apply for contributors. , Mr. VASSITTART, in his conversation with the jest ?—He says, in referring to Lord MOIRA'S ex - Gentlemen who mean to bid for the Louis, told them planatory letter, " The form of such a letter, either with great frankness, that he would not be tied up from Lord MoutA or me, must have been P--' l "ie , from raising a farther Loan, if the necessities of the as neither of us possessed any authority from the State should require it, before the last payment on PRINCE REGENT to open any further communication the Loan now to be raised. Does not this glance at with your Lordship or Lord GRESIVILLT ; A cIRCUM-the probability of a subsidy_ to some of the Northern Powers? STANCE WUICH I DEEPLY LAMENT, under a sanguine It was rumoured un Saturday, that the Govern ; , hope that additional explanation, sanctioned by au- meet of Ireland had been offered to Lord Mein*, thority, might have removed the existing obstacles to and that his Lordship had weed sconsider the an amicable arrangement." proposal, on an understarotingiliat the claims of the Now we sill again ask any man capable of dig- Catholics should be takes' into consideration. It is understood that Mr. Snettiesn is this day to tinguishing truth from falsehood, whether if his give notice of it motion, upon which he states that he Royal Highness had found his mind relieved from the will satisfactorily justify himself from the turn which prejudices instilled into it against Lord GREY, and has been given Co the Earl of YARMOUTH'S declara had been desirous, consequently, of settling an Ad- tion. ministration, as soon as possible, on the principles Lord CHICHESTER, Postmaster-General, it is said, expressed in the vote of the House of Commons, he succeeds Lord BATHeasT as President of the Boa rd of Trade. would have had the smallest hesitation in authorising Sir RICHARD STRACHAN is said to have relin either Lord MoinA or Lord WELLaSLEY, or indeed • quished the command he has so long held in the fleet, both of them; to enter into those additional expla- under the orders of Admiral Youxo, off the Scheldt. nations ? Lord COCHRANE had on Saturday a long inter- Could any further testimony be wanting of the view with Lord MELvILLE, at the Admiralty. Several merchants have arrived lately from Ostend propriety of Lord Guise's conduct, and of the ma- and Dunkirk, to take in a suffic i ent quantity of Co lignity as well as the falsehood of the charge uttered lonia l produce, viz. 5k per ton to entitle them of a sgenst Isles by Lord YARMOUTH, viz. that he had licence to load in France. insisted on the changes in the Household merely for This morning the three following, unfortunate men the sake of wounding the feeliags ' o f th e p asas ea seime executed before the Debtors Door in Newgate, REGENT—we shall find that testimony in Lord for forgery, viz. Thomas Flanagan , George Smith, GREY'S own words, addressed to Lord MOIRA, on niVeit Del)]. They met their fate with great fide,forti and died, seemingly, very peuitent. this very point of pesonal feelings. " If, in cense- We have this last week experienced an enjoyment quence of it" (the words spoken by him in Portia- I we thought not again to have been delighted with, meat) " the PRINCE feels a strong personal objet- that of seeing our old acquaintance BRADaeRY, re tiou to me, I can only repeat what! have already ; stored to us again. In the more serious parts of Pantomime his late sufferingsleve given a finish and said to you, THAT I ASS PERFECTLY READY TO STAND heartpathetic tone to the colouring that speaks more to the, Ole OUT O TUE WAY; that my friends shall have my full con curreuce and approbation in taking Office with. I are unwilling to intrude ou our Rerders a recapitala out me, and sot MOST CORDIAL SUPPORT in the Go. , tion of an event almost forgotten. But we are happy , vernment of the Country, if their measures ar e di- in undeceiving them with respect to a report but_ too vetted, as lam sure they must always be, by the current 44 that BRADBURY'S depaytttre for Ireland was occasioned by, overtures of a pecuniary eaters principles on which we have acted together." made him by the family of the aggressor." On Five Letters which passed between Lords MOIRA and Gorr,. May SI, 1812. the contrary it was thought necessary not onl y for the ►My DEAR Loan,—A ju.t anxiety not to leav e any t hi ng sub- restoration of . his health, but in c ompliar . ce . with jest to misunderstanding. mast excuse are if I am troublesome a n o b le and disinterested suggestion of ifs own. to yon. Since 1 quitted you, the necessity of being precise in In the l udicrous p arts of pantomime, Isis peculiar terms h as occurred to me tied, although I Wok I canno t have forte, he is, as ever, the pleasing mimic of laughter- Ini*ta/Lea you, I with to know If 4aw accurate to a hat I loving nature, chastely droll, ingeniously facetious. prebend you to base said. I understood the position, stated by These transitions, from pathetic to comic, prove 700 as Wan be what 7 0 u advanced is the Hume of Lords, him an invaluable acquisition to the Surrey Theatre, to be this :—" That pledges bad bee° given is the Catholics, where he is engaged for a fortnight, f or which mi.- d e partuns from which rendered their present disappointment ' mo re galling s and that you said this in the bearing of persons l i ons the Marn - ger has .granted him a B enefit, which who could contradict you If you were inaccurate. ' Just say takes place on Thursday neat, when, in addition to w artime (hare takes your expression correctly or Dot. his own attractions, Messrs. ELLisTos and RUSSELL, /believe me, &c. rte. The Sari grey. , (Biped) MOIR L will, no doubt, ensure him an overflowing house. I was speaking on the subject of the I r i s h C a th o li c s, aid par- 1 k ticularly on the charge of intemperateronduct which had been i made against them. I stated, that great allowances were to be. I made for this, considering their repeated disappointments ; and 1 I cited, as Instances of these, the recal of Lord Fitz vrillitun, 1 and the Union. I then said, that the most distinct and authentic pledges had been given to them, of the Prince's wish to reline them from the disabilities of which they complained; that I j spoke in the hearing of persons who would contradict me if what I I said was unfounded, and who would, 1 was sure, support its truth, if questioned ; that now, when the fulfilment of these • pledges was confidently expected, to seean Administration con tinued in power, which stood on the express principle of resist ing their claims, was, perhaps, the bitterest disappointment they had yet experienced; and that It was not surprising if, un der such circumstances, they felt and acted in a way that all well whiter, to the peace of the Empire must regret. This I give as the substance, and by no means as a correct repe -1 tition of the particular expressions used by me; and this state- 1 I meat I can neither retract, nor endeavour to explain away.-- • If, in consequence of it, the Prince feels a strong personal ob jection to me, I can only repeat, what I have already said to you, that I am perfectly ready to stand out of the way; that Imy friends shall have my full concurrence and approbation in taking office without me, and my most cordial support in the 1 Government of the country, if their measures are directed, as I t am sure they must always be, by the principles on which we have acted together. .. _. I write this from Lord Holland's in a great hurry, and in the middle of dinner; but I was unwilling to defer, even for a•wi ante., to answer an enquiry, which I feel to be prompted by so filendly a solicitude for me. I bare not Ilse means of taking a copy of this letter. I shall therefore be obliged to you to let me have one ; and l am sure, if, upon recollection, L shall think i it necessary to add any thing to what I have now said, you will i t allow me an opportunity . of doing so. lam, with the sincerest regard, My dear Lord, your's very faidtfally, GREY. 1, ' . MR. PERCEVAL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN. Sin,—The public virtue of the late Mr. PuttttrrAt ) so recently discovered by those very honest Gentle- , men, who, when out of office, are always such warm friends to the people; and to which your no less ho- nest Common Council have borne consistent testi- mony, after having designated him to his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT as an enemy to the country, cannot he better illustrated, than by his having allowed a certain Banker, who, it will be re. membered, became a bankrupt about two years since, to hold, by deputy, the lucrative appointment of Receiver-General of Taxes for a neighbouring county, and to re-appoint him in form to the odic° as soon as his certificate was signed. The failure of that house, which occasioned other failures, en tailing ruin on many, very many families, is too fresh in your memory for me to remind you of this extraordinary bankruptcy ; but when you are told that as yet only the trifling dividend of 6s. Bd. in the pound has been paid, and that the final dividend which is not yet paid, will not exceed 3s. or i ss. 6d. in the pound, I am sure that you will- I not be surprised at our having so many pub. ilie defaulters, and that the people are plundered in. every possible way ; what adds to • the scandal is, r that the Commissioners have recently been applied to Ifor a warrant to distrain the goods and chattlesof this 1 RECEIVER GENERAL Of TAXES, for taxes, which either he cannot, or will not pay, and who lives at i his ease in the Isle of Wight. Lord. Mastasnutur is said to have been the active agent of this Bank rupt Receiver-General, and to have obtained tilts appointment for his creature from the late First Lord of the Treasury ; all this may be true—l have reason to believe the application was from Lord MALMSBURT, but though shame and his Lordship have been strangers to each other, long before he left sc! 001, I do contend, that the indecency only of the application belongs to Lord Mswassuay, wkite the guilt of the appointment was exclusively Mr. PERCEVAL'S, who well knew all the circumstances of the Bankrupt's case, and ought not to have rein stated him in a place of trust. Yet, were all the iniqui ties of his Administration revealed, this would appear but a trivial injury done to the morals and interests of the nation.—Let us then hope that such men as your Lord CLIVES—your House SuIINERS--alid yolk! I FULLERS, though they well profited of the con sternation of the House of Commons at the moment., will not insult the common sense of the country by again talking of the public virtues of a man, who had as little claim to the compliment, as the damsels who parade your Strand, have to chastity. Salisbury. ?day 21. X. Y. P. S. As to the scarcity of grain, it is all a hum. bug; so far from it, do you produce money, and our millers and farmers will produce plenty of wheat.--• I understand there is a fitt over-grown miller near Fawley, or Beaulieu, in Hampshire, who goes re gularly every fortnight to • yoar Corn-market, in Mark-lane.-Lror what purpose does he take such long journies? At whose expellee does he travel ? Why does he not keep iu his mill, and why not thrash out some of his many ricks, and send the m u to market? Is it chat the price is not high enough to please him ? ~~"~' I~ i • , , I . tt • I I • • A 0. • . • • • 11 • k I ,; 4 t P I I I , I I • • I • LAW INTELLIGENCE. • COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JUNE 13. THE KING T. CLEMENT DETHERO JONE 4. The Defendant was brought up to receive the sen tence of the• Court. for a nu6auce, in chopping tim ber in St. John's-street, Clerkenwell, and otherwise annoying the foot passengers in the course of his bu• sines, as a timber-merchant.. He was orderCd to abate the nuisance, and.to give security for doing the same. • THE ICING. V. HENRY WTSE. This Defendant was also brought up to receive th• sentence of the Court, for provoking a Gentleman, named A. 11. Bradley, a native of Kent, to fight a duel. lie was ordered to cuter into recognizance' to keep the peace•towards the Prosecutor. TILE MARKETS. —war. — CORN EXCHANGE, inwtl3. The arrivals of Wheat this day autkejsat a short Supply-110 buyers beim numerous, and in demnottiscs brisk sales, utast increase of about ss. and 6s. per quarter on Friday's prices. Bar ley and Malt each maintain their price. Peas, and the two so t. Beans, at little fluctuation. There are middling supplies of Oats, this article WO iu request sad somewhat dearer. Flu ir mostly named higher, ss. per sack. Wheat Ft ne ditto 146 160 i Do. (Fine Oki) .. 7.1 84 1 Oats 46 52 54 Rye Balley 64 70 l'oland do. M a l t PO 9-1 Putatue do. White Peas (boilers) 80 86 Rape Seed Grey do. Beans —wow— SMITHFIELD MARKET.—Juna 15. To sink the Offal, per stone o f IN,. Beef ....ss. sit. to 6s. 81. Head of Catik this day : Wattle ..5.. 11. it) 6s. 81. Beasts ... 1691.11 Veal ....7s. Orl. to Ss. 01. Sheep . 14,410 Pork ....6v. 0.1. to 7s. Od. Calves .. 124 ! Lamb ....7.. 4d. to 6s. 4d. Pip HAY-MARKET. - Hay ...... 41. 10s. Od. to 51. 154. 01. Suave .... 21. 10.. • Od. to SI. S.. CM. Clover .... 51. Os. 151. as Q. 11,.. fid. On the 9th instant, a box, containing dollars to the amount of 1001. were sent from Bosanquet and Co. the ihntliers, by the Lincoln and Barton coach, to the Bankers at Barton. On the Gth instant, a parcel, containing Bank Notes to the amount of 15001. was sold. by the same house, by the same coach, to the Bankers at Barton : both the box and parcel were stolen. A box and parcel, resembling them, were delivered—but without the contents ; 'which have not been boArd of. ..~ .I' ~ i .~