The Sun. — London, England, 1819-11-13 00:00:00

-teark which had been placed in the_nnsedneed Mind - of man, to guard him feein ti - scese who would tempt him to a violation of his duty. Let this ledwark be:once destroyed, and whet would be left .to man ? He was among the warmest friends of civil and religious liberty, and therefore Ice would raise his voice to defend that Constitu tion which secured, the true and proper enjoy ment of real liberty. To speak of the British Conssitution—the work,of lemirrianhandi, as being absolutely perfect, would be presit!pptipn. It - must inevitably partake of the infirmities of our coin mon nature, but it contained within itself the means of correcting any serious public evils that might arise, and it ensured the redress of private injuries. This Constityion, he hoped, would be handed down unimpaired to the rising posterity, and with this feeling he most cordially concurred in the . Address which had just been - moved. 'Mr. LOCKHART said, it had been trule Observ ed that the people of the County of Oxford, had ever been distinguished by their loyalty to . their Sovereign and attachment to the Constitution.— The illustrious Person at the head of the State bad not now to learn the strength of their loyalty and time - extent of their attacleneut. Knowing this, be would not now stand forvVard to' address them, if it were not the practice of those persons who were opposed to the Coustitivion falsely to , boast diet their opinions were making progress among the people. What they called progress be Would call' corruption.—(Flere - a hiss was again heard, but-it was itumetrately drowned in ap 'plause )—When time disaffected boastfully exhi bited their nenthers—nnesterrs of men ddUtled Or brought together by bbud delegation—and - when even, in that loyalfassembly, something of die approbation bad been manifested, while they were about to express their lOyalmy to their Sovereign, ' and their attachment ,to the Constitution of their country, it became necessary 'for every man to speak out, end afford the sanction mind influence of his example to those valued insmitutionS which the evil disposed had dared to'asseil. 7 -(4pplense.)—lt w as eeresenuilYthe fact, that ateempts had long been making tO substitute the will of man for Isis judgment, and tender the pretence of reforming our Consiitwion, to effect the total overthroW of our liberty. Those who entertained such designs, had also laboured:tn' put down -religion. Some blind - creatures haaendeavoured to set up Atheism. They had flies endeavoured to give a negative to society, and io leave man nothing to -repose by ivithdi awing floes him his Iwpe in the awful Providence of the Deity. Happily however these incendiaries had been able to make but few con verts to their pernicioes docirines. They in fact defeated themselves. Others had more cautiously, but not less rancorously, assailed the Religion of the Slate, approaching it as Deists. These, though they admitted the , existence of the Deity,dinied that he had ever made any communication of his divine 'ill to the frail creatures be bad called into being. What was the object of these persons ? It was ob viously to destroy our inward monitor—to take from man his conscience which alight protect him from sin e for what would the Deity be to man if no communication bad ever been made of his will to his creatures ? Man, if these succeeded, would, in our state of society, become but a civilized savage, and a fit instrument to overcome the Go vernment, in time hands of the remorseless beings whose desperate, bloody, and . treasonable intene tions it was the dqty of every good man to op pose.--e(Applause.)—The disaffected, in acting the part whiels he'had described, hail not acted wiih 'out a master, nor without a - precedent, They had, closely copied the horrible - examples fur nished in the course of the Frenel, Re-voln lien. Nothing had escaped their observation; they hail copied even the fooleries - and the fop peries of the French Revolution, their flags and their caps of Liberty, and they had seen their Goddesses of Liberty also, in the persons of shameless women, devoted to the cause.— (Applause.)—He trusted every'one would see the infamous object'of the fooleries and fopperies and blaspeemies which had thus been sent abroad, and he leaped every one would see that it was impos sible for human reason to comprehend the Deity and his ways without revelation. . Without this it was impossible for small to comprehend great.— Such finite beings could not lift up their eyes to infinity if some portion of sacred light were not bestowed from on high, to enable them to under stand the sublime and awful truths of our religion. It was pretended by those who called for aPatlia mentary Reform, that they bade right to Universal 3uffrage ; and this, with Annual Parliament's,' they declared to have- been formerly the law of , the land. This statement was historically false, and no single book, nor even a solitary tra dition, could he %trimmed to beer out the asset tion. But if it were trite that such had beets the'Coniti infirm of England, what was time consequence that followed i Why e it would follow, that the Govern meet, undcr which thii system hail existed, was so weak and vicious in its organization, so little ca pable of duration, that it had, Speedily perished, without leaving even the fragment of a record in history to attest that it had existed.—(Applaitse.) Under such a system, it nttts4 be this conviction of every roan of sober judgineut, it would he impos that liberty could be preserved: Many countries had tried the experiment (though Eng land never had) of a palmier and anarchical Re volntioo; and the result was found , to be, that. the Gayernment thus established :Could scarcely outlive a month. In Naples,' under - such a sys tem, be believed the populace had been ire the habit of setting up a .tyrant,, whom, in A period as short as that which he had named, - they commonly found it necessary to haeg or Shoot.. Some person bad mentioned America , as an exame pie of _Revolutionary Government. In America . Universal Suffeeige was not sanetioned. There women and - children were not 'allowed io vote. Nobody ebere-enjoyed that right but those who paid teeei,.''and tliret,4 'taxes too. But even if it were easee that Thri versal Suffrage hall been succes billy:l:led in Amer ice,-Was the 'period during which this could have been the ease, sufficiently extended to jertify oth e ekenatinns in-departing from their estOlished 4,sferits adopt'afe system of. the: UVrted Stati4i on the experience of twenty' years, such a course were to he pursued, no vernment wotild have time 'io gain strength, from the changes which Would be perpenseily: tisk e-ee' place in: its policy tied lonisation. One proof of the. goodness „of..the British Consli tution was ftiund in fact that it had endured for Tine - IThrtdred years. It never could have existed - sriTilMg had it been destrite . Live - of the liberties of mankind: ' If-funnd to pro mote social misey, itiitead of lasting nearly, a thousandears, conlq . noti.ua ; ve_been sustained for a singl e century. lie uteri .descanted on the blessin g s flowing ,front the Btill4l Constitution. which from sinall beginning s had m mcreased the happiness' and renown of the people, and raised the nation to the'lii;-ltest . pil male of glory. He again condemned the proCee . diligs of the disaffeet and,,reverting to the Ft etieh'ROordotion, he showed elfat it was not alone Royal* but the and. the great who. stilfered . at "that period. The poor peasantry had -,been brought to the market places of France, like cattle tra' the slaugh ter, and decapitated. Women had beet; butelier'ecf in the same way ; and it had not.been uncommon to tie the wretched virgin to.the hack of her lover, and then send then: both to sea and knock the keel out of the vessel, or to thro,w them into the River Loire. This !lad been fannliarly spoken of by the infamous ruffians . Who perpetrated_sneh enormities (and who, of - cou'rsk, had lost all feeling,) is oothing, morellian frePUbliCan He hoped the people' of this country, Would never be guilty of such crimes; but once s:educed front their duty, it was impossible lo say what horrors they might not be let! 03 to - ',prove and abet.— He enlarged on the calamities -inseparaide front. Revolution,. again eulogized . the- Eugli,ll Consti tilticb, and spoke with 'ttowli_ satisfaction of the failure of the schemes of thelltforrners.in various parts of England. On reviewing the events which had transpired, since the Pt ince Regent had been called to exercise the, funetioiri of the Sovereign, he beggt d to say., pot wit hvanding the libels by which . his Royal Highness had been assailed, that impartial history would hereafter record that no British Sovereign had ever stood on a firmer basis of glory. He strongly supeorted the Ad dress, though, 'for theinselves, it wai liarilly ne cessary that they should come forward with that display of their loyalty, and of their determina tion,to resist to the utmost the machinations of the enemies- of social- - order and the happiness, of mankind.--(Lund applause .) • ••. • Mr. Peangs said Ise sllotridleespasi• but a few . moments on the time of the Meet iikg ; he should not perhaps have risen upon,the present occasion to express his sentiments were it not for the ob servation that had fallen. from his Learned Friend (Mr. Lockart). He. juitly'Observed, that it was, under existing circums ta nces, the . dtry of every loyal and well-disposed rerFon to come forward and boldly avow his attachment to the Constitu tion, and his detertninott` to support it against tbe attempts of those who would overturn both IA Iv and religion. This invitati(vn he was disposed to accept, and he came 'forwiird the moirwillingly to .avow his entire concurrence in the Address, because he perceivuil some slight tendency in the Hall to a - differenCe of He flat tered himself that the County of Oxford was as pure and as.free horn political contagion as any other County in England. There might be a few, a very few individuals to whom it had "reached, but the great majority were -sound and loyal.—(Applause.),---They knew the views, the machinations, and principles -:of those who would overthrow every thing great anti valuable both iii Church and State ; those views and principles they were determined to resis!. Whatever dif ference of opinion might prevail among those who were friendly to a temperate and well-considered. reform, he would not enter into them at present. Their business now was not with such a question, and it would be unnecessary to offer Iris senti ments on it. But with respect to Annual Parlia mews, Universal Suffrage, and Election by Bal lot, that mad and sweeping system, of which they lately heard so much, no man in "'is senses, no man in the slightest degree acquainted with poli tical subjects, could for a moment suppose that society could exist under the operation of such principles, that they were at all practicable in this or any other country. Upon this subject he should not have touched, were it not that the circum stances of the times, and the object for which they were met, naturally' invited to it. Nothing could be more fallacious, more absurd, titan the• arguments of those who supported Vote by Bel lot and Universal Suffrage. Tire former was cried' up as the infallible - remedy for venality, as if un -11 der the present system, when votes were p'rbiicly and openly given, under the solemn sanction of an oath, when the name and residence of the elector were recorded, when he 'had to encounter public opinion, and was liable, in the event of detection, to opprobrium, and to the punishment of venality, as if these-and all other guards were insufficient, and nothing could secure purity of election but vote by ballot. What security could this give against venality ? Was it not more likely, on tire contrary, to be practised under a system which would take away tire possibility of detection, and tree the elector from the influence of every consideration which at present must ope-• rate so powerfully ou his cerpluct I With respect' to I.Tei7ersal Sutltage, it was ably treated, and' its fallacy refitted, in the speech of his Learned Friend (Mr. toddle:O. lie justly, and at the same time truly slated . , Mot it was rejected by all the Governments of 'the world, from republican. America to regenerated France. But Annual Parlisments were to be the great rernetly of all evils—the universal. panacea for every disease that could affect the State. The persons who main tained these principles seemed to think legislatiOn was the most plain and easy thing in the world; that every . ..man, every woman, and even every child, wai' adequate to the task.. They re minded burn - of the great poet's - faCefirius de.; .scription of Dogberry and Verges, ther:' - titain . rained, that, however diflictilt of attainiiient other qualifications might be, reading and ing came by nature.—(A laugh:)—What higher degree of madness could take 'possession of the human mind : He trusted that the - tirnewas not yet come when an empire, whose sway extended from the remotest extremity'nf'qbeearth to the other, would be entrusted to the guidance of such men, of such I'aethirieents - ,4i'morsr - be dismissed 'with the ebb' and flow of every tide of popularity. From these Pa . aitiments too, according to the principles of elfil enlightened Reformers of the day, were to be d:ekeliolett'all men' in place, all those persons through,. whom theaGovernment was to become responsible•for its acts, through whom it was to decide ufmoW the most important subjects, etiirtn' explain the grOunds on which it acted. -Were they -to be.held up to public execiation for doieg every thing-- in their power to.pro. mote the service, the glory, wad happiness of their country ? -(Applause,)--Notwithstanding tame obloquy cast on PailiaMent be was con e •fideot - that more high . minded, more ha., nowt able, better informed, or more public - spi 'rited characters, were no where to be found...-. (Applause.-) . ---4f was 'composed of the illmisu ions in birth, the wealthy, and the virtuous ; of men tyho raised themselves to riches by their industry, men distinguished for every species of eminence fin. the pen as well as the sword', persons of ex tensive knowledge civil and -political, instructed in- war, commerce, agriculture,. of great financial. research and mechanical skill. He doubted much if-the - great.' towns of Birmingham, Leeds; and Matschester could be better represented, or their interests better attended to, if they returned as then Representatives; those Orators who were travelling from one end of the country to the other for the purpose of declaiming and proving to the "pea* how greatly they were oppressed.—(Ap s pl aoae doolated much it the medical skill of Dr.Wetsoe woidd be ablror successfully exerted to the- d he wounds at time State, or whether the .other orator so celeht ated among his party, would 'do much by his el-tyleoce to strengthen the integrity of the flouse of Commons. If a sample might be taken from what occurred•at their own meet hies, very little freedom of debate could be ex pected from these gentry. At such meetings no opinions were listened to but their own ; no per son dare vesiture upon opposition ; it he did, he was cert a to be immediately cried or pulled down. Leery roan not of their party was a knave or a fool. There svas nothing sacred in the in stitutions of , he country, civil or religious, they did not attack and revile. Even the justice of Trial by Jury, the impartiality of men acting un der the sacred sanction of an oath, was called in question, because all infaincms parodist aud Wass. 'theme! was declared guilty,—(Loud apphittse.)— He - doubted mach if an assembly composed of such persolia,,could do much - tovt ards the improve meta of the State. He lamented that the' late ,Member for Banbury was not now present.- 1-le would be. the first to .stand forward in de fence of that Constitution handed down to him by his - ancestors, ammd of that Religion which by his example and his virtues he contributed so meet) to extend in his own neighbourhood. He hoped he should be forgiven this tribute of re spect to the name of one who was dear to all that had the happiness of being known to him. Universal Suffrage was preached up as the pana cea that was to cure every malady, and spread universal happiness through the land, to secure the country against want, to force a market for British produce throughout the world, to give a death-blow to corruption, extinguish the national debt, produce by its magic,touch a total and sud den change from misery to universal happiness, "and support time glory of the country upon an itni movable basis, without the aid of taxation. Could any man, not besotted by the grossest ignorance, or stultified by vulgar declamation, expect for a moment that such consequences could follow from the adoption of such a principle? The effects, on the contrary, would inevitably be to pion.' der the rich, and make it felony to drink small beer.—(A laugh)—to bring back the times allud ed to by their great poet, when time parish clerk of Chatham was ordered to the lamp-post for be ing found guilty of knowledge. The experiment of revolution was not a new one. They had a sample of it two centuries back in this country. -.What was the consequence ? A Usurper passed through seas of blood to the possession of guilty power, and at his death the nation, after suffering all the horrors and calamities of civil war for imaginary, and unattainable good, were happy to court the re turn of that Prince, whose father they doomed to imprisonment and death. They witnessed another experiment of time same kind in France, where a Government of Five Hundred was soon superseded by a Government of Five, where such scenes were acted, such frightful atrpcities committed, as made the heed shrink back with horror. He trusted suds evils would be averted from this coun- . try, that they would never witness such an expe riment, They were to be averted by the co-ope ration of all ranks in opposing sedition and blas phemy, by the attention of the rich to the interests of the lower,orders, by sober consideration of the ponrer classes themselves. They should re flect, that the wealthy could not be despoiled of . all they paSsessed without injury to the poor.—: They must iri consequence be deprived of em- . ployinant, of those munificent institutions for every species ' of misery so liberally supported by the rich. They ought to consider, that even if the Spencean Plan were carried into execution, how small the portiori. must be that could fall to each individual. They should reflect also, that if they -suffered, they did not suffer' alone—they had no - monopoly of misfortunes. • The nations of the Continent were, in all respects; equally as much - dittressed at present as tidal and America, even with - her infant ,liberty, so muChlitoisted , of, and so greatly envied-by some, was at present suffering under much greater pd . - . vat ions aild,dif fi culties than this.. Her trade was at a stand—her merchants bankrupt—her com merce unproductive ; .without specie, or even:a paper currency of credit. Tbesse who visited. that country filled with *ems happiness and wealth, were pow e gfad to return, home in all the bitterness of dieappointmerste a This count's , was now . in a state that required. the vigilance of all interested, in its welfare. Persons were active and zealous in their endeavoura to persuade the people in follow the meteco ic light of a fallacious Ono Saaphy in place of the Polar Star of reason. He hoped that lay their Resolutiotea, tkets,day,they tvotilil.,enee their attachment to the religion; the laws, and the' Constitution .of time -country, that they Would chew those who boasted, of their strength that they too were not weak,, that they Were determined to support that Constitution un- i der which • they enjoyed , the greatest happiness, here, and that religion which afforded the highest comfort in thii world and the best hope in the future—(Applense)—that religion embraced and supported by the iliaest and the best men who i , adorned Kaman nature. .and that Con3ttiutio founded in wisdom, and improved by the exr rience of ages. 7 --(Great applause.) Mr. Moms had great 'pleasure in 511311 01 1 the Address. He pointed out the advantage' ° (I loyalty and attachment to. the Constitution, 51/ dc ,showed that more ample provision had been-M 6 for the relief of the poor in this Country, o° - were known to exist in any other. The Rev. N. Thomas highly approved of t he Address, but wished abeclarazion to be.al*o ed, expressing their loyalty, setting forth the,sta l abhorrence with which flies viewed the abuse s ° the right of petitioning, and of the freedom of -Ilie press, which bad lately been witnessed in the mutinous meetings that had taken place, and al the extensive circulation of blasphemous public° tions. The Rev.. J. Kirg,Torr heartily approved of t", Address, exnityd in the good feeling manifes to, Oxftsrd, where royalty was the predominati n g feature, \ and hoped those who attended to cool the proceedings to the Public would not constc", a solitary despicable hiss into a difference of oi' v Dion, and let it go forth to the world that did were a divided County. The Address was then agreed to,.nnethaisd 0 01 1 being held up against it, amidst the shouts 1 , 0 laughter of the Assembly. it was orderMO ° signed by the High Sheriff, and to lie for the lig' natures of the Freeholders. : The Rev. V. THOMAS rose to move theAddr e ' whic be' had before expressed a wish to g e l adopted. Mr. G. F. STRATTON declared, that if twat! loyal decl ar ati ons were p ro d uce d h e woold them till. The only right way was to ~t,,na bE •the King and Constitution. He soitvetl that tG liberty now enjoyed far exceeded that t/ ,` - c known in " the go o d o ld time s ," a s tie:: il l: called. • He' held traitors in sovereign c o n teiel ir ; but was determined to oppose to a ll th e ir s cheol' the most determined resistance; Mr. LOCKHAnT, apprehensive' that the deci ration might possibly endanger the uffanimitY the Meeting, put it to the Rev. Gentleman titer it might.not be better to withdraw it. The Rev. V. THOMAS expressed himself come t to give up the declaration, rather than risk d , ! 6: A ,l - forging the unanimity which so - happily prev The Declaration was accordingly not [gesso: i f Thanks were then voted to the High Sher: 4 and to he Lord Lieutenant of the County, ',! ,f it was announced that that Address wouid signatures at the Star Inn, and that copies of t 6 would be sent to all the market tow n s ill ll' County for a like purpose. thoi The business of - this important day was conducted with exemplary decorum, and closed "e a glorious unanimity. And beholding - I whene% we have looked around us at thi s b o di n g Cr i 4 /1 other districts festering in their own wounds, Ans tent asunder by party :spirit and the r u de silo", „ of conflicting opinion, we cannot' hoe cottgr s " i f late, with a ,strong and most earnest feeliog respect, the Freeholders of the County of 'oo °l upon the better path 'which they have ch0 5 e 1) ,.: upon having resolved, teat is, with o ne be d ', and one accord, to offer u p t h e h o mage ° , e ; their gratitude and unabated all eg i anc e to 11,1 Prince Regent, for 'the manifold bfessings and p r. vileges which they •themselves are now enjoYi l4 4 ; and the inheritance of which will be ratified . : 4 their children's children, under the tein" - " away and accredited Authorities of this re..3rw Holding, too, in vivid reme m b rance t h a t Cl 1 1; son tide of horrors whi c h fl owe d from i v , j ; death-storm of the French Revolution, they 11 ' 10 wisely determined, so far as in them Ho' o r chase back into the obscure awl loathsome ti"' r l, from whence they originally cra w l e d, t h a t Pc 3 ' f l. lent brood of Anarchists and Blasphemers has lately been littered, with such prolific inlet' s ; over the whole country. From these 1 4 s tic o r agitators deep notes of preparation hare eir e6 t e been sounded forth ; and t o ev e ry dis,,as."" lL „ mind it must be quite clear, w e s h ou ld t hink,ll l % - with callous hearts and d ar ke n ed un d erst anding r; they are deliriously eager to shiv e r int o tragnl e ,%, the beautiful compactoess of the British CousW o f tion—to trample in the dust the distinction s 9r x rank and the sacred rights of property—.to to their 'Way by uprootin g -a n d d eso l at i on , 3 "4 build the monument of their own plituder l , pasiions, their blood-thi rs ti nes q,. an d s e lfi s h I"3ii ira pity over the meditated ruins o f th e Alt a r AO . Throne ! c SEDUCTION.—In the Supreme C ou rt o f jiv e culla, a verdict of 25,000 r u p ees h as _ b ee n ob i3 o ed against a person of the name of:Croff , „ har! seduced the daughter of a M r :C o mbo 3 7 ) cf 0 The injured young Lady, in the c anto - 1)&a 0 s of the horrid depravity o f which bee, the victim, had previously put a n en d to h er c isterice. •le A melancholy accident happened in .the bourhood of 4andalstown on 'Tuesday last' ey e widow woman, named ,Alurray,•.,eeho lives ,"., - „g 6.aigmore, went ou t to dig a few:potatoes, i'!"' n cl with her one of her children to g . a'tlret thei"' I' oo leaving a younger, with a child ab ou t six rii ° " 0 .• old, in the house, and the door pen - i'‘ibe rl ' i o v fortunately, a pig entered the 'cotfage, a n ' A 'bor tack the children—the elder child ran i'u t ' 1,? 1, the younger one .was torn by the aninlal th e shocking manner. One of the. ears and " 11 ,0 cheek 'was torn away, and the rest 'of ' be d. 0 / dreadfully mangled. The child.hkis since d ie i g It is hoped the above recital may, prove a w iLril d to others not to leave their children esP se similar situationC—(lrish Paper.) BIRTH. On Tuesday, in Baker-street, the Lady of Rea r ' , Test, of a daughter. MARRIED. Lieli te.' ' On the 11th inst., at St. Margarers,•W estm i ns ter, - log es; nant and Adjutant Fugion, gist Regiment, to Jan e ' V t lode daughter of the.late Matthew Harpley, Esq . 9 1 . For e Westham, Essex. ' 0 ' , ~,__ t Ltle, The] par " e Perf 1,0004 Y'l I~ 1 rhe hilt 6e 1 44 4itiv : vti. 1/ISI p i , 0 °4 414 41 4 ° s te 4 111 e t i eltt e 14 e 4 ( 6 u ? .71,, t4 e 4,1,4 ' th c \1 . 1 0 4 t e ,; r t "ve - tl eNter ( we 44, • . On the 12th inst. Hastings DlED .ors o Buller, the younge st ta r ' • H. Sutton, Esq. of Palmer's Green, Southgate. f CIAO On the sth inst. Thomas Nettleshipp; Es l• King's, Gloucestershire . CO ' 89 LONDON: Printed by J. B. 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