The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-08-20 00:00:00

~.~ ~~ f_ / I Aft Will f I. -~..._ SUBSCRIPTION FOR JAMS BYRNE. In consequence consequeoce of a letterfroomMr. Parkins, in some of the newspapers, ingitiog a public Meeting to be held at the White Lion public-house, St. Albans-place, St. James's, at seven o'clock on Monday evening, to enter into a subscription fro James Byrne. a number of per. eons, apparently tradespeople, assembled yesterday at the time and place appointed. The first floor of the house was quite fell about half-past 7 and at 9 o'clock Mr. Ex-Sheriff Parities entered the roan, accompanied by a Captain Harris sod about half a dozen more gentlemen. Mr. Pawnees 'mein been warmly greeted, and being, by the unaminione voice of those in the room, called fo the Chair, proceeded to state the objects for which be had taken on himself lo call the meeting. He observed that it was not necessary to explain to them the injus tice and the pssseeutions intlicterfon the unhappy James Byrne. A shameful crime, committed, or attempted to be committed lately in the very house they were then sesembled Is, was the cause by which the sufferings and persecutions of Byrne were made known from one end . of the country to the other. That unfortunate, but in noceot mss, had become the victim of a dire conspiracy, because be had the honesty and the courage to stand forward and charge a high and distinguished personage with an attempt to escarole a shocking crime. Mr. Par. kins here gave a history of Byrne's suffering*, wide • which the public have been already made acquainted. He said it was incumbent on all classes, whether Eng lish, Scotch, or Irish (for they were all still bet one people), to come f,rward,and attest their abhorrence of the man. by whose iuktuity Byrne was persecuted, as well as their svmpathy for his sufferings, by contribut ing to relieve him aid his poor family from poverty and wretchedness. He was able to state to deem that there was only the small sum of fd. is oddities to 5/. sent by himself (Mr. Parities) yet banded to Byrne, although It might have been expected that in his own country a large SUM would have been subscribed for him. He was fled to lee eo large an assembly on the present occasion, particularly after so short and limited a no- Ike. That they had not earlier and fuller notice was not his fault. He bad written letters to all the news papers in tows, to the somber he believed 0f42, and he was sorry to say, that only four of the daily papers inserted dun. Some of the other daily papers demanded three goioess for the insertion. That sum was asked by two particularly ; one the scavenger of the city, the other the nightnian of the city. Some of the Sooday papers oleo seconded his wishes. By the conductors of The, Weehig Dispatch it was replied. that they would take up the cause themselves. He believed the proprietor sal conductor of that p aper was a lawyer; but if die Resign was to make aj ob of Byroe's case. he would be mistake°, for be (Mr. arkias) would have an eye after bits. With respect to the place is which-they had met, - he would make only one observation. No place was more appropriate for each a meeting than the house, in which the base criminal had been detected by the intre pidity of the honest proprietor. whose silence would have been purchased with thousands, but Mr. Lea pre ferred the dictates of a good conscience to base lucre. A person. mood CATANNAS, addressed the Meeting. and said he had been an eye-witaess of the punishment indicted on Byrne, in Midis, in 1811. The unfortunate man was whipped behind a cart moving slowly the dip., tance of a mile and a half. Such was the horror enter- dined of the charge on which Byrne was found guilty, that the populace heaped the greatest possible abuse on li;in while suffering the sentence of the law. So severe was the whipping that the dab was stripped o ff the un fortunate mans back. He would only add that he was, Chairman of a Meeting at the York Minster public ises'', in North Audley-etroet, which subscribed 61.165. 61 for the benefit of Byrne and his family. A person, whose name was Mawr, next addressed the wetting, but went mere Into the field of general politic.. Dr. WATSON followed in nearly the same strain. A person, named Root's. observed that it was the work of Divine Providence to reserve Byrne, until guilt should be detected, and his innocence proved. The de tectien, exposure, and flight of the culprit, left little doubt of the innocence of Byrne. Mr. Haw. said be felt it necessary to address a few words to the meeting, in order to correct a mistatement, which had been (unintentionally, no doubt) 'made by . the worthy Gentleman in the Chair, for whom he had - a ligh respect.—Mr. B. said he was the Editor of the •)I 'eeirly Dispateh, the paper alluded to by the Chairman; and it was true that he did decline inserting Mr. Parki ns's letter; but it was sot from any indisposition to serve the unfortunate Byrne, whose cense he came there that night to advocate, and for whose relief he was ready to give his iui•e. His reason fur omitting the letter was, that it contained expressions, which, however true they might Le, would be offensive to many of his readers: besides, he did not conceive that the publication of such an arti cle is the manner it was worded, was likely to promote the object they all hal in view , that of affording re ref to the unhappy and persecuted man. Mr. Bell then tool: occasion to dwell for some time on the peculiar in terest which this case ought to excite in the public cried. 'this was not a erestioo whether charity should he exten•led to a man reduced to misfortune, or over whelmed by any unforeseen calamity—cases of that kind were occurring every day, and in many instances the be. nevolcnce of individuate had the effect cf preventing numbers from being frugal and industrious—but here was the case of a man, who had fallen a victim to a most horrible conspiracy, carried on against him f o r the sole purpose of screening a titleddelinquent from infamy and punishment; a man who had been overwhelmed by the force of wealth sad power— whose character had been utterly ruined, and rho lied suffered under long impri eontneut and torture. Such a cosi: as this involved in it a great poli::cal as well as a marsh principle, and he had no doubt hut that the generous and public spirited people of England would come forward os such an occa sion with an indignant feeling against those wha hail siolate.l the laws of the country, as much as for th e poi , . rose of extending read to the nnbappyman who had suffered through such perversion of justice. After some remarks from other Gentlemen who at tended the meeting, a Bharat subscription was raised in the room ; mid the following resolutions were agreed to: " That houses in various parts of the metropolis be opened to receive subscriptions for the safortunate and muck-Inbred James Berne, the victim of the diabolical Bishop of Clogher. 'that the Chairman (Mr. Parkins) ✓ed his friends give public notice of the houses where such subscriptions shall be received. " That on the present occasion this Meeting cannot avoid expressing its abhorrence of the imperfect and par. yid mintier in which justice has been administered iu Ireland, as is evident from the Report of the Trial of Jellies livened:l the year 1311, when it appeared that his (*otiose "gave up the cause of their client ; that the Lord Mayor of Dublin bad not only refused to admit him to hail, but detained certain papers of his which were necessary for his defence ; 1111.1 that the Judge, when passing sentence on him, acted more like a par. tizan than an administrator of justice. " That as there is reason to suspect that certain per eons in Dublin bad conspired together for the purpose of utterly destroying James Byrne, with a view of screening Bishop Jocelyn from the consequences of the charge which had been preferred against him by the I said Janata Byrne. whose 11100Cant0 is DOW fully esta blished by the recent conduct of the said Bishop is this taco,., the present Meeting is of opinion that a subsoi l) . 1 tion ought to be raised for the purpose of instituting eel in•joiry. whether the pasties sn suspected may not be proaecuted for the emptier" Ft L THE STATESMAN. DUB. . U 0 0 IAY. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. gone In a manner to perform miracles in the opening of these persons eyes. They now see. that it easy have been a mad-man that they were listeniag to in stead of en oracle. Men are apt to roe bsekwerd as fast as they have been running forward ; and we shall be very much deceived. if we do not see *hie numb verified wins the Parliament shall meet egain. The stupidest of animals are sot easily caught a second time in the sense trap; and we shall be much de ceived, if the Country Gentlemen of Ragland be a second time Induced to look up with admiration ; and to drag on a mental servitude to any one who *ball talk of sadden transitions from war to peace; of digging holes one day and filling them up the nese! and of preserving Melones! Faith by stripping the Landlords of their Estates. the Farmers sad Trades men of their capital, and the Labourers and Journey mita of their wages. A change of ,Ministry arising from a chant of this sort, will be a change indeed. There is a complete stagaation Is the market. — Cassels, however. remain steady at 800, and re. slimed at ell. All foreigo securities are rather dull, aad there is very little doing is them this morning. Ore o'CLocc—The Commissioners hare purchased in Reduced at 80i. Consols are 801. with a fiat market. There is very little doing is the foreign fends. New 9peniell, 6113-01 d. 641—New Presides. 0614-01 d. —Russia NSNle—Ctslll, P4l--Daniels,974—Neapolitea,7 l 4 -Colombian, 86—Serlp, 861. Paris papers, which have arri►ed to the 18th lest. icoatain the following article, dated Vises*. the 6th. " The Best sod the West occupy at this sanest the Reimpose Cabinets. Whilst a Courier from Madrid brought bore important news, dispatches were arriving through the Constantinople gate. from the Imperial latereaseia, Covet de Lutsow. The coatents of these dispatches are theight to be the more interesting, be cause the Court Chancery maintains the most myste. Hon silting ea the subject. It Is rumoured, however, that It was with leech difficulty that a ►evoletloa was pretested from blaming sot at Constantinople. There engin, It is said, in that city, so great as agitation, tint Intelligence of an effectual erplosins,ttnuM sur phi sti Int" The anoints from Spoilt. Qat'. to 4a.i•ergenta. am as usual contradictory; bat It is *eldest t►ey are still in force. The Preach Anshan,. dor 1 ; 1 4 kvis recalled from Madrid, and a simple Cheer, d'Affaires was is future to 611 his place.— Th!. Cbaselser of Peers boring ad..ptsd the Rifget h-Lin fee 1823, the Session Of the French Legislature non% be closed on the 18th (Sunday last). The death jaiii loodoefleray "pears, from. th ♦ Wes. space , ,# . o,r, Pitt:sal, /wet. to the donna al asst nist. l Of 'mini yeas interest through Pram* elitthe'eoe• Boost. nevem Portal, Avo. 17.—Five per Cent. Connie *posed at 93f. 40c.; closed at 93f, 50c.— Bank Stock 1720f.—Neepelitais 5 per Cent,. 731.—Elebagire os Leaden, isivinukth c 25f. 40r. ; three ditto, 251. 23c. Pone Bee sig.--W• are happy to find that the dis position of t►e public to contribute to the relief of the unfortunate 'Verse, is beginniog to manifest itself 'extensively and with effect. At the meeting held yesterday evening, at the bones where his infamous persecutor waa detected, our readers will observe that another meeting of a few b•aevolent persons had pre. 'ions!) , taken place at the York ?Cuter, North And- ley-street, and had already subscribed between six and seven pounds, for the benefit of Byrne and his family We have before us a copy of the Resolutions which this social circle have agreed to on the subject ; and are highly gratified to observe t►at, in the event of Byrne coming to London, which it is thought might be greatly to his advantage, it is proposed that the expense of his residence here, daring a month, shall be defrayed by the Committee, not out of the funds "treed, subscribed, but oat of ether contribution" that shall be raised. The object of this meeting is, by their example, to stimulate all classes in the United Ring ing' to rains sea a sum as may be the means of put ting Ittros jots a respectable way of life, as a small compensation for kis wounded feelings, and unmerited sufferings ; and for this pow', the members propose to meet every Thursday evening, to receive 'Ascrip tions, an I adopt each measures as appear calculated to promote the eta in view. The Duke et Wellington and Mr. Arbuthnot left town for Coombe Wood yesterday. His Royal Highness Prince Leopold of Sate- Coburg is expected to return to England during the stay of the Duchess of Kent at Ramegate, and will meet his Royal Sister there. Earl Bathurst, the Secretary of State for the Colo nial Department, now acts as Secretary of State f or the three departments (Mr. Peel bring in Edinburgh) and tilt a Secretary of State fur Foreign Affairs is appointed in the room of the Morgans of London. derry. Letters were yesterday received from Comas, dated 27th Jane, which mention, that in the battle in Q-ito, fought on the 7th of !set April, President Bo livia commanded in person. It is represented as bay ins been one of the most important hitherto fought n that country. The account of Hineral Soublette having. been defeated by the Royalist Chief, Murales, with the loss of 200 men, near Coro, is confirmed is these letters. President Bolivar was expect•ed at Ca racc.as at the end of July. The British and foreign troops were a bout to join Senblette. A house was ;treparing for the Archbishop of Cameras, who had ,Sniffed his intention of returning to Cameos from Spa'''. H. Revenge was at earthmen& on his way to grad, • • • FUNERAL OF TIM MARQUESS or Losbol DERRY. The Funeral took place this morning ; but as it he conducted in the most private manner it offered little t 4 call fur any particular notice from us. The hotly had been removed last night front bit ship's seat at Foot's Cray, and deposited at his boo t in: Jaisee's-square. From thence the procession yamme r this morning at about nine. It consisted date lira,- a few mourning coaches ; and about sixty carriszin ' different noblemen and gentlemen. These were by the relatives, friends and colleagues of the dec t ,,, and a few of the opposition Nlembers of the lower b of Parliament. The latter attended, we presses., 1 . show that all party feeling towards the dfteseel h i; ceased with lets life. The procession moved ( 6 1 Charing Cross and Parliament Street toward Weg ee , star Abbey, which it reached at abase half put tier. The erwenl, is the differs,* streets through which it pl.. ea , wee very great ; but did not. as we observed,dieph r any symptom of political feeling. The hearse drew up at the Cloister Gate; see the isonreere and other peso.. composing tie procession, haring farmed is the cloister., r owed . ed to the grave which was destined to receive tie body. Moat half way up the aisle leading to tin grave Is as Iron gate; and as Ibis was closed !rift the procession had gone through. the public were of worse. prevented from epprosebiea the grave. The chief mourner was the sew Fissional h, (b, phew of the deceased) supported by the Earl of Linn. pool, Marquees Camden, and other Noblemen. The Leon Chancellor was one of the pall bearers. V. believe us say say that all the Ministers attended except Mr. Peel, who (as ear readers will remember) is with the kiag is Scotland, and by these who ware connected with t4e departed Minister by marriage. Among them we deed Lord Ellenborough and Colonel Weed, who heel married the half sisters of the deceased. The procession having arrived at the grave, the as. tal resales of the departed Minister were depesito,; within it by the side of these of Mr. Pitt, who was the object of his admiration, and whose councils he steadily followed throegh the whole of his political life. The dirge, and the other religious (weasels bringer shooed. the procession retuned, and the different alas. bees of it separator! and returned in their carriages.— Throughout the whole proceedings there was certainly every appearance of real mourning, especially armor these who by business or friendship had bees Might persotal communication with the anfeetuate (IROM a COiIItSFONDINT4 . At seven o'clock, the great bell of the Abbey Chard Amen to toll, and before the procession seabed dr epee, the space ie front of the West entrance, and the iebele of the Abbey-yard to the railing, were oaapiri by well-dreneil people. The shutters of the wiMrs af.the Horse Unards. War Oace, sod other Pablis Of. tlasr weft closed, bat the windows of al libleireen in the bad of procession, free Bt. James's. sad ewe the tops of the bosses I. Kiegitnet Aistaestassial a view of the Abbey, were StleJ with yeetatehrs. The protrusion began to above oboist Wi pes eight o'clock, amidst profound sikoce. in the fol. 4stritag order Constables to clear the way. A large pease of Constables. :1114 High Constable, en horseback, with his seam of office. arrayed in a wart, silk band, Is. The Undertaker on horseback. Four atteadaus en horseback,2 and IL A rich plass of feathers borne by a ass tie keno- back, attended by supporters; escuiebotows, interspersed among the feathers. 1 13u/ilin -- • i 1 - • bo 0 Wsrtord I__ 11' 1110nbro ." ' 1 0. & Jersey - 0 I 1 Prone* - U Lisbon 0 0 IPlpedors, -. U Ooftenituro - 0 - •lIR. MAILS. ' DUI. 1 ARIL • • ITdUns PKICE OF STOOKS. AT ONIS O'CLOCK, THIS i3;;;kitrweic Spr Ct. Red ..... .. SI VI I Dltto Wads 87s. Olt 0/s per. 1 per Ct: Coos— . ..410441 Sleuth nos !took 4 per Cent.. 914 4 f Swath Nes 01d A4S. 4 per Cents. 9944 Ez.flilked ~ New Fours ma Km. 7s Ss es po. bpor Cost. 1797 ----VIOL Os SI 74 p.. Long Ain.... VI 90 IMO Srstall 6s. 9s. as 'IP lop. Ipr Ct OU for Awes SOlif Irish 6 pore-Ant Len. Tickets gate *tateontan. " TOR BRITISH ITATIIIIIAN" II MCORP* DDDDD WIT! " isa rrAwasaus." • - LONDON: TUESDAY ETSNINO, AUGUST 20, 1122. _... i ....--_ CHANGE OF MINISTRY. If we were to give credit to the rumours which ate dolt, we should Ise ready to believe, that this Ptmtwa set would be, at last, broken up. it le said, that, Is a certain garotter, there was a resat:the to snake a change even before oar great hole-digger laid violent bands on himself. We has* no ample to say, that we do not believe a word of Ike wetter. But, if such a resolution were taken I. that spier , ter, we have no doubt that it could be of se Mali; People de not seem to consider, that, to chair the Ministry could oily tend to show the otter impossibiliey of carrying en the system. Those who would come Into power Most come with a resolution to do soinetisin °lrak would give electeal relief to the country; anti it,le impossibly to give such relief wiihoat such sr missiles Ast tam- don as would reader it impossible so pay she interest of the Debt in bill Br eves if the it Ilona weight," as the Ministers call it, and' the live vreitlnitle f m set fared to tamale altogether unpaid., i ; , It b:Wit tra•;:tbills is • olom i ltiticallifdliegtmaki considiiitltia. that eiPiaitoooNsaatioaribauldl have 10 "1.4 41 1 ta M! Pm. who' 411, vie w itind have bees insane while he was leadim lehilaStaJfell• Misistry could not possibly Illicyopeless fitaaw•Masti., ply his Pliet, still they most hare Isite:11114.41110, Hume must, be lid by him, aolsacia. be ewashol Is teaks a radical chimes of the ?system. , 110.14114111sb; we do anticipate a geed 'slat of amongst those who have the power to 00 44* fuse supplies of motley. These persons, anf,poelimi tarty that part of them who have !Dolt weight sod if-• A in the several counties of the kiogdolii 4 been accustomed, for a lose time, to i•to-54 1 - &&&&&;sor as a . sore of emeeesor of say, as a'man abli by some 'mimes or inst 41/oPet them through thole difficulties ; ditheeltim ohialtilmet saw themselves much more clearly than bw4M t bit, still, scores of them, etch with a vast deal been mute and talent than he, leaned on him as's 'pill Mshist their dangers. This miy seem strange; bat it le iot the less true for being strange. We have tot sho.small est Mutt: that Gareaft Goocu, Sir TROAII.II LAMA. canna, Mr. [focus SURNIII, Mr. STUART Worms, and many others, who have appeared to regireliqnl as a superior being, have, each of them, tea tb.ei real judgment and talent that he had ; house. it is mat to impossible for a man to have less of either; and this we have been saying fur years sad have proved a thousand times over. But, there Is a good deal in habit; and in no habit more than that of pinuing noes faith on another's sleeve. Such men as those that we hare in our eye have never thought for themselves; till, at last, to rely on the judgment of others has become part of the character of their meads. The weight of office is also prodigious In pro ducing that species of subjection of which we pre speaking. It we see a man with a gown and wig ow, for installer., it requires positive evidence to make as believe that Le is net 1 d In the law. The very name of Doctor of D: laity demands proof to mak; us believe that the man is not pions; to hare been a Minister for twenty years; to have represented the limo at a Congress of Sovereigns; to bare been a leader of the House of Commons for ten years; to have been, in short, the man selected on all occa sions to bear the brunt in difficult circumstances: — these, upon the face of them, demand a belief is his talents and resources of mind. We tergsrusH they while. who those ere by whom be has been selected and empowered: we take the Ace as an evidence of the talent, and we place oar reliance accordingly. To these we must add the coo6.lent meaner ; the artful ; the sort of oracular phraseology of the man. Perhaps, and most likely, this was not the ef fect of design, but that of a happy confusion of ideas. Impudence was the main ingredient. Men of common modesty, who not equally impudent, could not bring themselves to believe, that there was nothing in the bead of such a man , nor could they reconcile it to any thing like reason, that so many other men could suffer him to stand above theta in (Az* unless upon the ground of their oemviction of his superiority. Hence it was that C t ITLEIMAG:I ground at his heel* men, and many men, of good natural abilities. It must be confessed, that he was a good deal shakes in their opinions, during the last session of parliament. That resource of mind, for which he had so long had credit, was found to be wanting in him ; and he himself was )nade to perceive that the discovery had bees made: ileve►theless, he still retained a large portion of the confidence of the persons of whom w; ha►e been speal,i-g, iyow, howe►er, he is not only gone, bit' Plow attendants of lionitback. t WI. The la s Illarqrsess's Coronet on a velvet cultists, horse' by a man on horseback, with paper attendants. The hearse containing the bodydrawn Isysis haws, snd the sides decorated with the esicoutiamms of the deceased, The Chief al , in a mourning cob draws by six horses. Fourteen mourning coaches. Those occupied by re latives or friends of the deceased drawn by .is hem% and those occupied be domestics by four. The carriages of the nubility and gentry which iv:- lowed ausowerted to 51. The procession prooeeded is great soleesuity and decorous till it reached the west door of the Abbey, when, the company baring been sat down. as goes w the door of the hearse was opened the moot di!• (»dant noises of busses and yells, iotermixed with exclamations of reproach on the deceased, bent forth from the surrounding crowd. As soon as the celr - s MIS carried into the Church, th: gates were shot, and tbsuproar ceased. The eoncoorre of people round Or edifice encreased, however, instead of dimieishieg :Ira the multitude was net eseseileil by that which bad assembled on the sane spot on the day of the t.ro• hation.-0a this day what a huntiliarlog contra.: was furnished by the remains of him, who on that store thee any snijett, wets exalting in the pout,' nay selendour of the occasion TOE Dime or WILLINGTON . 9 Isre been enabled sly' the Coma/a- to procure an authentis copy of the Letter which wee written to Dr. Ilankhrid by the Duke of Weliington, after his Orsce's interview with Lord Londonderry; and we are tits mere tali• one to lay it before our readers, as it will be observed that the lever which form, its way into the politic prints differed in souse material respects from the cor rect copy which wc now publish : " London, An,. 9, Hit 2. " Dun Sts,—l called upon yen with the intention of talking to you about Lord Londonderry, and of request int you would call upon him. He promised me that h. would send for you. Imt lest he should nat.( entreat yea to find some pretence fur ; ming. down to him. " I entertain no doubt teat he is eery upwell. It ap• pear, that he has been over-worked during the session: and that his mind is overpowered (or the moment and labours under a delusion. I state the impression made upon me in the interview I have just bad with him. I told him that this was toy impression; and I tMek it is his ..ro, and lie %t ill probAhly commenicate it to yon : but lest lie should not, I tell von what I think ; bergidir you never to mention to any body what I have told yon. " I am etting out this tountent for the Netherlands. wottld have stated with Lorl !..ntinmi.rrv. but he would not allow me. leh ill be very much obliged to vou, if you will write me • line, and have it left at roy house, to let toe know how yon find Lim; arid particu larly if von think I am mistaken. " Ever, dear Sir, yours most f.ittiftfly, (Signed) " WELLINGTON. ° Dr. Bankhead. " I helievwhe is goinf down to Cray thin afternoon." The bard Chavellor will finish his sittings tailor row at Lincoln's ion Hail. His Lordship a ill then leave town fur the West of England. Tha Countess of Portsninoth was delivered cf I sn3liter last week —(Mororial 1 1 .7 ti I : L 1.