The Sun. — London, England, 1820-04-04 00:00:00

MR. CANNING'B srEECHES, A 1"11-1E(;.INNING CLUB, AFTER HIS HEALTH HAD BEEN DRUNK. CittlslTLEMßN—Among.t the sensations excited in icy i - nind by the wanner in which you have now done me the honour to receive me, there is but one that is not of the most pleasing kind It is this—tiliat in proportion ,as these detnonstra tlifns of good-will increase, I find it impossible . to matte my acknowledgments keep pace with thent. This is the fourth time that I have come to Liverpool ; it is the third time that I have had the honour of meeting this association, the off spring of our first victory, the promise and se curity of all that have followed or may follow it. Gentlemen, this association has thus been both effect and cause. It was instituted to perpetuate the triumph of those princlples, of which I was selected by you as a nut inefficient, thotiO in,ade pidte representative. The continuance of your and the repetHon of those triumphs, are a sufficient guatantee, that so long as I am faithful to ihose principles, I shalt be placed in a ino to vindicate and uphold theist. Gentlemen, the times when I first came amongst you \vete times pottentaus and awful, and big ' , WI the fate not wily of England, but of the world. But the dangers and the difficulties of those times createti in us an animating spitit, which nerved our arms ani steeled our hearts to oppose and overcome them. The dangers and the difficulties of the present times are of a diffe rent character; and, whilst they thteaten the cxistence of ail that is dear to ns, the strtiggle . ‘eitieh we have to sustain is one in which there is not the saute wholesome animation, because it is with antagoniits who dare not face the day; and the victory, when achieved, is void of exulta tion, because it is. over those who ought never-to bate been other than our friends. But, Gentlemen, it is against the same spirit, though exhibited different formi, though wield- tug di tie' cut weapons—it is against the same spi rit that we contended abroad for our own safety and that of Europe,' and are contending now for our political existence at home; a spirit then as now gfiver,;e to rational freedom; a spirit then as now hostile to national tranquillity ; a spirit then as now seeking to subvert society itself, by separating the elements of which it is composed, and settiug them in array against each other ; and to undermine the foundation of man's happiness iu this world, by destroying his hopes of an here atter. Were I to have my choice, I confess I would rasher have to contend with this spirit embodied and armed ; I would rather cross the sea to com bat it, :vhether on the plains of the Peninsula, or on the field of Waterloo, than have to guard against it here, in the various disguises of affect ed phihnthropy and fanatical reform, in which it is to be found every day at our elbows and by our firesides. _ . There is, however, one consolation 16 be derived front the extretne degree of malignity to which this spirit has been lately exasperated. lo the ordinary agitations and contests which disturb society, there is seldom any line which so distinctly marks the boundaries of opposite opinions and interests, as to nt:ske it quite impossible that stragglers from either ci iss st j oidd be confounded with the other.. In ordina7 divisions something roust be allowed for hesitation and timidity, something for the possi bility of mistake or delusion ; and neutrality is the refuge of those who have not the leisure to exa mine or the firmness to decide. But things are now brought so plainly home to every man's un derstanding, that he who runs may read; and he mho listens to the doctrines with which the, Con sti:ution of the country is assailed, with which rite twit'sty of the Throne is insulted, with which the rights of all orders of the people are proposed to be sacrificed to an over.vhelming despotism and a fierce and levelling anarchy ; he who eau hear these things, and doubt whether there be a design among those who speak such language, to pull down all authority, to subvert all institutions, and to confound the fair degrees by which a peo ple are a nation, must either he altogether reck less o f a ll t h at i s p ass ing around him, or indiffe rent about the preservation of blessings which be is unworthy to enjoy. These are times which admit not of neutrality. When the most sacred institutions of the country are assailed with more than - foreign enmity, be who is not for them is against them. It has sometimes been doubted, whether asso ciations of the sort which . I have now the honour of addressing be or he not useful and . praise worthy. But of this there can be no doubt, that where bad men combine, the good must associate, if they mean to stand to their defence on equal terms. What may he the bond of association signifies little, provided only, that the principle of union be the defence of all that is sound in morali ty, of all that is solid in principle, of all that is a source of glory to us as Englishmen, and of hope as hurnau kind. That such an association should be booed together by the name of any particular individual, must be to the individual whose name is so honoured, matter of hornility as well as of pride; of humility, because lie cannot but com pare the greatness of the things signified with the unworthiness of the symbol ; of pride that his name, all unworthy as it may be, should, by its association with such rim:inks and with such an institetion be likely to survive his own existence. Gen:lemen, I understand you have, within these few days, added to your number another person bearing my name, a potion so dear to myself, that his a doption into your society has been, in the highest degree, grateful to my feel jugs. Upon being shown the book in which my son's name has born enrolled, I perceive that, either from inadvertence or timidity, he has sup . pressed a part of his denomination. His name is Will;am Pitt Canning. The illustrious person whose name he bears was his godfather. Gentle men, the political principles which I inherit from the godfather, I shall endeavour to instil *into my thrnugh hint I hope to transmit them to my iale•l posteri!y. Gentlemen, 1 have only again to thank you for the ooit.atcd !dodoes , : with which you have re cc:yeti the this evening, and to assure you, that one of the greatest pleasures which I derive from visi►ing Licerp-pol, is the pleasure of Liming y here asse►►ibled. and Qt expressing all ►he ackuw+. ,- - ledgn►en►s which I am peculiarly bounden to teel towards tl►is society. Al' THE BActilioNE CLUB. AFTER MS HEALTH HAD BERN DRUNK. GIINTLEMEN—My first duty, as well as inclina tion, is to express the gratitude which 1 feel for the manner in which you have done nie the ho nour to receive rue, not now for the first time, but at each of my successive visits to Liverpool. Gentlemen, my second duty, however, is to dis claim for myself personally eny part of the com pliments paid to me by your Society, and to set them down to the 'account of those pri.ciples which we hold in common, and ‘vhich you first called upon me to defend. llentlemen, the period at which I first came among you was one in which the strife of political parties ran high ; the same parties are now in vio lent conflict upon questions of domestic polity, importing nothing less - than whether Englishmen shall maintain inviolate the happy a nd t e mpered Monarchy under which rite country has so long flotoished ; or whethrr they shall waste their stiength in intrstine commotions, provoked tinder the pretence of improving the Constitution, but riski tg, in their consequences, its utter confusion and overthrow. Geatleinen, the question which is pot pro minently forward, but which involves ail the others, is that of a more strict and personal representation of the people. It I wanted an il lustration of that species of representation, 'which I have always thought and always con tended' to be sufficient for the purpose of the State, I would desite no better a one than that which this room affords me. You are here, Geri tlemeo, comparatively few, when compared with the great body of which you are a part. But does it follow, Gentlemen, that because all the mem bers of the Backbone Club are not here assent bled in person ; that because those who are here to-night have not been specially selected for mit occasion by those who are absent—does it follow that the spirit, that the sense of the Backbone Club are not tairly collected io this room ; or that within this room, if any thing Were proposed, any thing could be agaiest its feelings and its interest ? As completely do 1 believe the [louse of Commons to be identified in feelings anti in interests with the great body of the people, and to represent thetas as carefully and effectually, as if there were no Member of the House of Commons upon whom some portion of the community could not lay its finger, (as you Gentlemen eau on me,) and say, " To the services of this man I have a specific and particular claim ;" or as it there 'were no indivi dual in the community who could not thus point out the delegate of his own particular selection. They who call for a more distinct and personal representation, do, in effect mean nothing less than to let into the House of Commons, not the deliberate collective sense of the nation, but the direct and daily influence of their temporary pas sinus and prejudices ; wid to give a mastery over all its votes to those who would array against pro perty and intelligence the physical strength of ilutobeis. Gentlemen, whatever may be the form of Go vernment, whatever the tot at of the social insti tutions under Which they live, the balk of man kind must gain their daily bread by their daily labour. To quarrel with this condition of ❑tan, is to quarrel, not with the devices of man, but with the ordination of Providence. T o transfer to those classes whose lot is necessarily cast in penury and toil, the exclusive c onduct of political affairs, or a direct and permanent controul over them ;—is there any one so visionary as not to understand, or so disingenuous as not to allow, that this would hare no other effect than to de lude the classes whom you pretended to benefit, to disturb the relations of life, and to throw society into confusion. In the assembly now collected here, 1 see vir tually represersted the conunercial wealth, and skill, and industry of Liverpool. It repr e se n t s , in a peculiar degree, that most valuable part of the population, the middle classes of society, in which the staple interest as well as the staple gond sense of the community reside. In times like the present, when the higher and the lower ranks of society are placed, by the coiriivanees of designing men, in a relation, 1 had almost said of enmity, but certainly of mutual watchfulness and jealousy towards each other ; the higher standing on an eminence, which exposes every action and _every • word to a scrutinizing malignity of_cri!i cism, such as human imperfection can scarcely bear; the lowest, labouring (it is but too true) under severe pressure and privation, - and taught to ascribe their sufferings to causes which have no concern in producing them, and the removal Of which would not in any degree abate them ; the best chance of safety for the whole resides mainly in that body which is interposed between the two extremes. On the one hand, they have nothing to gain by contusion ; on the other hand, the rights which they have to guard are of the least iuvidious nature. They are those to whom the high can look / with most confidence for the preservation of a state of society in which they ate as deeply interested as ,the proudest and wealthiest Peer ; and to whom the lower look up with confidence from the friendliness of daily in tercourse, and from the necessity of mutual co operation. On you, therefore, Gentlemen, is peculiarly in cumbent the doty,and you have happily, beyond all others, the means of reconciling and keeping together the different divisions, whose attitude is, apparently-, the most adverse to each other, by steadily discountenancing I pi_nc_p.es which are aimed at the destruction of all alit e. On the *sober, just, and well-regulated conduct of the middle classes ; on their attachment_ to the laws, to the constitution of their country ;. on their loyalty and zeal ; on their example of a courteona but manly deference to what is above them, and of a firm but gentle and soothing demeanour to what is below them in the scale of society, rests, in a great measure, the hopes of safety to the State, Of that most important and conservative por tion of society, I repeat, I 'know not where I could lock for a bow specimen than I now 4eU Itare me ; of these hopes I know not where I could lie d a surer asylum cl►an the p:ace in which I now stand. Accept, Gentlemen, once again, my warmest thanks for your kindness ; and allow me to take leave of you with the best wishes for your health and happiness. After the health of his Mmjesty's Ministers, had been drank, Gentlemen—The acknowledgments which a little while ago I offered for myself, I now feel bound to oUer on behalf of that body of which I am one. When I shall report to my colleagues, the honour you have done them, they will, I am sure, be highly gratified with your unanimous ap probation of their labours: Gentlemen, in upholding the Constitution which. they are sworn to administer, they do not deserve praise ; they simply do their duty. So long as they receive from the country the cordifil support which they have of late received ; so long as in their endeavours to meet the dangers of the times they are encouraged.by tlte approbation of the loyal and the good ; they will, hi defiance of factio►►, and in spite of any interested miscon struction of their conduct, continue to do that duty to the best of their power ; they will de cline no unpopularity and shrink from no dan ger which may attend the conscientious discharge of it. JUVENILE DE,TREDATIONS. The house of Colonel Willvams, of Truro, was entered early on Sunday morning last, and a va luable writing-desk stolen therritrom, containing 931. in notes of the Miners' Batik, A gold snuff which had beets pteseiited to hint by the Officers of the Cornwall Militia, several gold seals, valuable rings, and papers.—On Monday two lads, shabbily di essed, were apprehended, on sits pieioti, in Stonehonse, by Day, the constable.— On one of them was foetid 251 in noes of the Miners' Bank, with a gold suotl-hox, several et the rings, &c. - belonging to Colooel l~'tilya nos, and on the oilier, some of the valuable articles already tlescribed, and 471. in notes of the Miners' Bank were also found under a bed its the room where they were. On being taken before Dr. flemmett, and committed on suspicion of robbery, after giving several incou3istent statements, the elder prisoner sent for Mr. Yeo, one of the coo stables, and gave the following account said his name is John Peowarileo, that ha is 21 years of age ; that his companion, who is 16 years of age, is called Thomas 'Kent, but that he has also gone by the *tame of Smith. They resided at Storehouse, and some weeks since set out on a marrooling expedition throng!' Cornwall, in com pany with another boy called Henry Williams, aged. 14 years. After visiting most of the towns of that county with vat ions success, they came to Fal mouth on the 24th tilt, and that night made an attempt to break into a shop there, in which they did not su-cceed.. They arrived within about a quarter of a mile of 'nitro on Saturday night last, and-took up their quarters in an outhotoe, where they slept until about four o'clock, whets they entered the town. In passing through, they obi served that part of the sash , of the window of the parlour of Colonel Willyams's house Was raised. One of them raised the sash higher, and push ing the shutter, entered the room and carried off the desk, which appeared the only portable article in sight, and which lay on a table. Pro warden says it was the younger boy, Williams, that entered the room ; whilst Kent and Williams say this was done by their elder associate —On gaining possession of the -booty, they wrapped it in a great coat belonging to Kent, and made to wards the fields, where, under a hedge, they forced open the desk. On discovering the valise of the contents, they pot up the papers carefully, lest by being scattered they should lead to a pre mature discovery of the desk, and taking the notes, rings, seals, &c. made off, .and entering an out house on the road, they lay hid under the straw the whole of Sunday, in order to avoid pursuit ; here it was that they chewed some leaves that the younger boy had torn out of a memorandum book they found in the desk, and which were afterwards discovered. At night they quitted their hiding-place, and taking two horses from a field, they.put on them halters they found where they lay, and rode towards Botimin.—Findiog the younger boy was unable to ride, and impeded their speed, they gave hint eight shillings and a gold ring, bidding him make the best of his nay home. Tbey abandoned the horses near Bodinio, walked to Lost withiel, and thence to Liskeard, where they ordered a post-chaise at the King's Arms, saying that they were sailors on their way to Plymouth. To the post-boy they gave an ivory-box and a valuable ring to drive fast. The fellow accompanied the thieves to this town, and went with them to purchase a great coat and a hat each ; he afterwards accompanied thens to a public-house, where they drank together. The younger hely was secured on Tuesday evening, and the ring which he bad given to the driver of the Lord Exmouth Coach to take him from Bost min to Torpoint was recovered, as were the box and ring given by the other to the Liskeard dri ver. They hail spent nearly 201. of the money, having been at a brothel the night before they were secured. The desk was discovered by some children in a field about half a mile from Truro ; is was the great coat of Kent, which they threw away that it might not impede their speed. The whole party underwent an examination on Thurs day, at the Town-hall, Truro, and were•commit ted for trial at the ensuing Assizes.--(Plymouth and Duch Telegraph, April 1.) FOOT—RACK.—RAINtsR, the celebrated pedes trian, undertook for a wager of fifty guineas to run ten miles within the hour, on the Loudon road, opposite the Star, Chatham-bill, on Wed nesday last, halt a mile out and back again ; when after running nine miles in fifty-seven minutes he gave in, having only three minutes to run the last mile. Official notice has hen given that his Mitotts-rY will subscribe 100 guineas, to be run for ht the following places, at the ensuing races :--Newmar ket, Salisbury, Ipswich, GnilittOrd, Nottingliatn, Winchester, Lincoln, York, Lewes, Canterbury, Lichfield, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Doncaqtei, ectlli4le., elseluts:ord, Warwick, anj Ascot Head). STATE Prti.E•iONERS. Yesterday evening copies, of the indictment high treason, found against Arthur Thistlewood , %William Davidson, James logs, John Thomas Brunt, Richard Edit, James William Wilson/- Jain Harrison, Richard Bradburn, John Shaw' Strange, James Gilchrist, and Charles Cooper, were delivered to them respectively in the Towe r' of L:indon, and at the House of Correction for" the county of Middlesex ; with a list of the Jury for their trials, and also a list of the witnesses td be produced for proving the said indictment. The list of the jurors contains the names of upwards of 200 of the beeholders of the county of Mid" dlesex, resident in the different parishes oil places in the county, many of them at a consii derabie distance front the metropolis; the list of witnesses contaitis 162 names, and amongst otheri those of the Earls of Harrowby, Viscounts Pal' merston and Cbetwynd, Lord Castlereagh,. th 6 Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. Charles Bathurst, Robert Baker, Big., the chief inagiv.rate at Bow -street, Richard liirnie, the Bow-street officers and the military present at the apprehension of fhe prisoners, seveial war.' tiers of the Tower, anti others. We understand' the prisoners are to be arraigned on Saturday the . 15th inst., and that fire trials will be proceeded in , lie following Monday, under the general cot... mission nt gaol delivery, at the Old Bailey, and that the prisoners will be previously remove() from the To'il'er anti the tlonse of Cur rectlon to tbd gaol of Newgate, in order to give the Court of gaol delivery jurisdiction to ity them. The ltti ooers are each entitled to challenge 35 jurors peremp torily ; therefore, unless they join in their chap lenges, they must be tried separately, .for the Jury panel, numerous as it,is, will not admit of a joint triel, if the prisoht•ls sever in their chat lenges. The- Act of the 3;l 111. direct* !hat the prisoners shall be admitted to their full defence, by Counsel learned in (he law; and the 741 Witliiim ill., that they shall nut be attainred but by and upon the oaths and testimony of two lawful witnesses, either both of them to the sai,nq ov e rt act, or one of them to one, and the other to another overt act of the sante treason, links , ' the party indicted, or arraigned and tried, shall ‘vithout violence, in open Court, con fess the Sallie, or shall stand mute, or refuse td plead. 'flue indictment contains four counts ; the first is un the statute of the 25th of Edward 111., anti . charges the prisoners with compassing, imagin• ing, inventing, devising, and intending to deprive and depose our Lord the King from the style, ho nour, and kingly name of the Imperial Crown di this realm. The second count is on the same statute, and charges the prisoners with compassing, ituagin: . ing, and intending to move and excite instatec tion, rebellion,. and wars against our Lord the King, within this realm, and to subvert and alter the legislature, rule, and government now &di and happily established within this realm, and "" bring and put our said Lord the King to deatii• The third count is on the 36tly.Geo. M., a nd charges the prisoners tvitf; comp as sing, imagining, devising, and intending to levy war against our Lord the King, within this realm, - in older by force and constraint to compel hint to change his measures and counsels. And the overt acts chatted, for manifesting and proving, these acts of treason, are, first, meeting, conspiring, a nd consulting, to devise, arrange, and Motive ping)* and means to'.subvert and destroy the Constitti• (ion and Government of this !calm, as by law Ls' tahlished. 2dly. Conspiring, &c. to stir up, raise, make , and levy insurrection, rebellion, and war against our Lard the King, and to subvert and debut . / the constitution and government of this realm, 0 6 by law established. 3diy. Conspiring, to assassinate, kill, ao a murder divers. of the Privy Council of our Lol a the King. 4tlily. Procuring, providing, and having largo quantities of artily with intent thereby to art themselves and other Trsitors,-in order to ass?ts° sintte, kill, and murder divers of the ?tiYf Council. sthly. Providing arms and ammunition, in or der to raise, make, and levy insurrection, rebellioor and tear against our Lord the King, and to subver t and dtstroy the constitution and government 0 by law established. 6thly. Agreeing to seize and take possession of divers cannon, warlike weapons, and ammuni • tion, with intent thereby to arm themselves, O a other traitors, and to raise, levy, and make in surrection, rebellion, and war, and subvert ao° destroy the constitution and government as by established. 7thly. Consulting and agreeing to set fire t° burn,' and destroy, divers houses and buildiog" and divers barracks used for the reception and re' silence of the soldiers, troops, and forces of tP e King, and to provide and prepare combustibl e° and materials for the purpose of setting fire t ° and burning the same. Bthly. Composing and preparing,. with inten t to publish addresses and proclarnitions, contfli°,: ing solicitations and incitements to the King ' subjects to aid and assist in making and levYjag insurrection, rebellion, and %vat., and in subveF t° ing and destroying the constitution and govert l ‘ meat as by law established. c ibli s Mthly. Preparing, levying, and making war, armed and arrayed in a warlike manner' against our Lord the King within this realat• The ninth overt act is omitted in the chit count. Stit h The 4th coon: is also on the statute of the •a of the late King, for levying end making '"na against our Lord the King within this realm, ; attempting and endeavouring by force and 01;# to subvert and destroy the Coustiintion and vernment of this realm as by kw established' , ° o f to deprive and depose our said Lord the Ding and from the style, honour, and kingly nafttel the Imperial Crown of this realm. ea' LONDON Printed by J. B. CARSTAIRS, of So. 29, 1 , Ormond-street, Qtiven-synare; and published I 7 Y :41 SCRIPPS, of No. 7, Southlton-street, at 'I II A O d e o, Office, No. 114, Strand ; where A ilveitisemenTst Loters, Ate. (post-paid) [Bust be aldrestcd. r 1 ~/