The National Register.
London, England, 1819-12-12 00:00:00

SMITUFIELD MEETISG.

That small portion of the riblde of I.ondon, known
by the name of met on Wedorsday among
toe shrep-priis of udder the pre,l(iing allS.
pices of the w.ll.ktiown orator. lie spoke X 110,1411 troai
that eia%idcal etillo in of railical•sin, a n,i,.4.t0n,
in nl.t-
-tatiou of his Greek protdti:e Thespis, used front
such a !Lige to enteriant the woos of old %‘ ith a nit,.
lane of rehannii alliroons, todfoott :out per-
iiiVective So Mr. limit uu Wednesday nrscautrd,
in a p.ithet IC W.llllOll the trliaions persecutions of
tile Irish Cansolira then dvc aced into act aniti,iiis 01y.
1:11011 110 tha lacdnirs ,if poidteg down lit'Slooolll,
and military, by abstattong from
tea, spirits, wile, porter, and tobacco , and laoly,
wade a grand politi.ial peroration on Ille neeessin ~f
exiiiniiiistuna, the debt, by Teol,olg. in pay I',
and 011 the cruelty of C 441111111114 111/041;0ft! 111 a 11,1(11.01
wheti hr tot6dit no doubt lir so notch Netter eni•
ploved for the Iced lit of 111;111k.11111, 111 3th OVillil1e: reStllll.
110101 for radical rrforits, Like the old itinerant drama.

1131 above refined ?ii, Mr. Iluut was the sole performer
in the piece; fur Messrs Lewis and IVa:ker, %%hit were
present with hint, were mere adjuncts of form jitti not
nl use. In describing this exitiblinin, we must not

forget its decoramillt and !wenn: appendages : the Ilall. 1
flags and ensign, of the company " mocked the all won
colours idly spread ;" the only novelty tieing one wheel'
was nearly as big as the drop-curtain at the King's
Toe:tire, aml hieh contained the allurement of a
inseriptinti for such of the spectators as the
" Gods might have made poetical." As the Radicals,
to do any thing like any body else, our readers
may be amused to see a specimen of tactical metre; it
is as follows :

CRIPPLEGATE UNION.
The Union shall live when tyrants; are dead,
This Union. so firm, fills thtm with dread ;
This Union, so tliendly, it joins hand and hearts.
:Cu dungeons nor axes this Union shall part.
The amusements ot• the day passed oh with muck
gnoillitittiour, and without the smallest disturbane,•,
though some ill-disposed per.on—perhaps that rival per.
former Dr. Watson, who at present is not engaged in
Hunt's company, and whose genius seems to incline as
h to tragedy as the Orator's clues to Circe—had'
tualieinti.lv sent among them a huge black flat, wilts
doletut and terrific emuleins, to mar the ha, mossy of the
entertainment. Hunt, however, indignantly di,claitneil
any property in that tragic streamer ; and the iiffietuus
standard-bearer being ordered to depart, proceeded to
disturb another assembly, where he and his emblem met
with a catastrophe consonant to the risks Iwth of politi-
cal and " poette justice."

TEA.

(FROM A FRENEH PAPER.).

It is now certain that the plant which produces
Tea, has been transplanted in Smith America, and
that its products have been sent from the Brazils to
France. The English carry on a insist extensive
commerce with China in Teas of all qualities. This
trade is productive of great advantages to the En-
glish Navy,immense profits to the national industry,.
and valuable resources to the State. The English
annually export merchandize of the value of a
million and a half sterling, in the first class of ships,
and the returns produce multiplied benefits to the
India Company as well as the retailers. The Teas
purchased in China for a sum of 1,50,/,0001. ster-
ling, will produce in the hands of the retail dealers,
not less than nine or ten millions sterling. The
7,.500,0001. are consequently divided among the
East India Company, the dealers, and Government.
The annual consumption of Tea in England amounts
to 23,000,0001b5. weight, and if Tea was the regular
drink of every individual 130,000,0001b5. would
be scarce sufficient. %%lac then is the quantity of
this article annually fibricated by the unprincipled
dealers, who suprly the defijency in imports trout
China ?—This qoestion is very difficult to answer,
but as the country dealers have not enough of the
genuine article to answer the consumption, it must
necessarily follow that they have resorted to some
means fin' making up the deficit. If the poor of
Great Brituin made use of Tea in the sane: proportims
as the ing the consumption to be seven
pounds a year Ihr each persor, the quantity netts.
sary for 10,000,000 of souls, would be seventy
millions pounds of Tea, instead of the ::5,000,000
imported by the Company. It is clear from tae
calculation that some subJance is imposed on the
Public f.ir Tea, which is not. Tea. The Tea which
is commonly drunk in France, is boiling water to.
loured by the infusion of the leaves of some
and it is not very difficult primps to find aromatic
herbs which may Le a substitute fur the Tea Itotu
China.

A deputation of Booksellers and Ptinters had an
interview On Thursday with Lord Liverpool On the
sulject of the Libel Bill, when they urged the in.
tolerable severity of its provisions, and the neeessi!y
of several aineiiihnents, in order to relider it Fossilde
tor stone of thou to carry on their trail,. —His
Lordship 1h,tt0..11 to them vita great attentaon,
and premised to communicate C.: result of his con.
sitieration. at a future meeting.
lia• mold y Cercunisia ond i 11; g nip
WWII We'll 6) the Clop of .Nlc. Nlayoard, rgrVort•
otarkct, ood orderoi st 'mural of beef ►tr...otis
thew St it t..t..411(.11 extremely ardtaicd, threw down a.
chtlliut to p,:y for teem, and soddeiily sexing duo
cliapp.r, lie cut tat three of his Angers and walktd oft.
L ;heat belliudiu tie pt,wasicia of :1-rt•ard..

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rimpartal Par/lam:at matinee,: freetpage4os)
hail 11?.1111 Ille 0/11.11sial. 1141511,:r4 I'l.lo,lllft lie aka think
they (niht to he nolieed ; 411.1 01111 1110•1414.1111 g lie had
Nktin spoil himself the ',trim illauee of whir, (lad knew,
wait an utipleasmil duly He w 45 um trquainted with ally
of the prisons who might he sllllloosusl 10 leave heen en-
gaged in the publication. It had been said, if 11114 libel
were taken notice tii, that 01115.11 ought to he brought be-
fore the House; but in lii• upi .. i)) it this libel (Idiot d ft Mil
. all Ole 11411 receded it. Ii Eventually ails ised die appli.
C4llOll of Muth force its abrogate that Minn>, and 1" an.
phalli what the author deemed in tie essential to the
advantage of the people.— ( Heat, hear,)—He *mild
trouble the House with precedents, but lo- tooth' um help
remarking, that the house had been slow 10 11141 k tie sense
of such libel* as this. Mr. Fox and Mr Sherithot, et ttttt not
other.., had contended within thou; wails. that the II Ig HO
of the House ouulit to he upheld. The language of dies
pamphlet was not that of abuse lam that ..f shire' threat t
mid could such tannage he endured i The fittese would
allow illt.ol to trail the different pat agiaphs, which .1111.1.4 -
ILA to him to be of the most libellous tenth-siva One of
them was as follows : in page 19 the author said—
" What prevents the people from walk int; dow a to the
han•e atid pulling out the meitichi it by the ears, locking up
their doors, and Minting the key 1110 the 'litanies? I. it
soy majesty which lodges in the itienthers of that att•ent-
My i 13. i we love them r Sot at all: we have an instinctive
horror and disgust at the Very :lOW act i.ltil of a borough-
umiak r. Do we • especi throe? Not in the teas'. Do we
legal. them as 011111./aved with any superior qualities? Oa
the COll 1 Lary. indis Mutiny, thee e es imarcely a pout er crea-
ture than your niece member of Pailiatitent ; though, ill
lois cot puratecapacisy, the earth I'lslll6lms not so absolute.
at bully. Died due practical protectors, then-- Ilia real
efficient anti-reformers—ere to be found at the Hor•e•
Guard* and the Knightsbridge-bartacks. Au long as the
House ot COMllltolle 111:4ji t . *es are backed by the regi-
Bimetal muster roll, so long piny those who have gut the
lax-power keep it, and Ilene those who resist." . ~
He collected trona the pasha: cheers wilds lied been
raised duritig.the reading of this paragraph, that there
were /10111 e geeilluntrit in the house who entertained opt
moils similar to those of she author of it. tie was sorry
fur il. Abusive, violently abusive as it was, he did nut
know whether he should have called Ike express notice of
the house to it, if it bad been unaccompanied by others
ot a shinier description. He hail no objection to any maii
expressing as strongly as he pleased his cons lotto) of lilt
necessity of paulternetitary reform ; but lie 1111151 insist
upon his net directing the pen pie to stook it by physical
force: he mast insist upon his nut leading them to think,
that steel* a remedy was the culy reuit-rly left them, and
therefore the only euurae which they ought to adopt.
(Hear.) The pea-ego-apt, which be hail just read to them,
when considered along withithe cuntr•t, evidently expres-
sed Ilse opiuttai of the writer, that it' was by force alone
that parliamemary reform could be accomplished : for,
after stating how impossible it was for the louse' to reforni
itself, he pi oceedt d to say, in page 3I that " 'twining but
brute 101 et., or the presslog fear of it, wuuld i 14'01 111 the
parliament. Would any man he ft t Ito say that two
meanings could. he pet upon this passage ? Ii there were
no oilier passage iu the book but this, the house would
not do it• duty, if it slid not institute proceedings live it ;
fur in what situation might it be placed. it it did not hike
some notice ot this pamphlet? Supposing that Irby prac-
tical Meets were to result from the ads ice given in it,
(and the following of such advice could lead to nothing
else bus scenes of confusion and ruin, which no man could
contemplate without liortm ), with at hal conscience could
the house proceed to punish the miserable wretches who
bad been deluded by this work, s• hen it had not declared
Its opinion upon the work itself, hl gli !nought before its
metier, or shown that it had the power to ;littlish the
sophistical *liter of it? In bitch a case, waidd net any
person, tovolved in the guilt of rebellien 11010 fillets ing
the rtcol ttttt emlation of thic pamphlet, have a right to say
to the
.huuse, " You have youivelces assisted to mislead
me; you ale flow pouring your vengeance upon me, and
yet you have 111k1.11110 notice of Illy pessen .chose advice
It'd isle into that course of crime for which you now ttnnisli
me?" He bad 110 means of ascertai tt itt g by ulittoi Iles
p.mplil• Latta written; but, from as ha lever float ter it came,
it was clearly she pr oda, huh of a iiti,oll i 41,0 (DILd no
mean situation in lite, who had received no I minium edit-
cation, and WI/II ma, endowed with conaiderable talent.
When, then, every party in the stale was calling fur the
pintishineitt of the twopenny and threepenny plihtisheis
of tr,:ison, was it fitting that they should show atty thing
l!ke a fear of this author, lit-cense lie cojeyed a more ex-
alted rank in society than those wretcht d scribblers?
After ascertaining the author of this pamphlet,. the I -e
could proceed to litrilier nteastirex. tie would now slate
what he thought the 111.,p. 2r cultlle tin the house to adopt.
lie 14/I.a desirous Milt the liven slionitt proceed in the
5110)1 cautious and most deliberate manner ; and that *hat-
CV!, should be done might appear not to arise from imildeu
indignation ut personal feeling, hut to be the result of ri—
rltetion and 11.01111 e CtillS:del align. The fi=st step *inch
la,. proposed to be adopted was, to call to the bar of the
hosossi the individual whose name 'Appealed upon the face
of the publication. ten older that they might get et the
real offender. He thought it in no case proper to pr0....el
....el d against Inc primer or publisher, when the real
offender could be traced. lie should therefore mote, that
I; ebert Stoddatt be eaLeel to the bur of the house. '*thee
mete crises in v Idols the house bud immediately come to a
resolutiuti declering that the patter complained of was of
:5 mike:in chaotic:ter, mud then called the pal ly before
;to :la There *we 01!if r C 0,41-11 111 which they called the
arty before them without having come to any resolution.
Leon the precedent fin nisherl by the latter class of eases
be ptoreeded het-muse it 'lid appear to him more reason-
able, lust iu iniettre atter I lie pei vim who wrote the pul,li.
elltillll, and then to paw a lesolution, expressing whither
it was or aas not a Meech of privilege. In making this
motion, he hoped that no caret mutite would be imputed
to him but is coatmen sense of thu authority of [lit lionse,
stud a c ttttttt soil teeloig of the respect with which it ought
to be:regained Hume:hum the country.
Mr. ,YEAKk:Ii —Hoes the lion. member wish Ilw title
of the pubiicaituti, and the pal Uvular passages to which
Ise hos eefetred, to he lead ?
air. couft'it,NAl. assented, and handed the pamphlet
to the clerk, whir lead bona it the passages oitoted by Mr.
Courteuay in his speech, and also the tulle-page, which
is as faitne,,;—_." A Trifling Mistake ill Thuntas Lord
Erakitie'a recent Preface 414)1'0 . noticed, and I espectfolly
Corrected, iu a Letter to his . rdahip, by the author of
c The Defence of tbe People,, Loudon, published by
,Pawl §tadilard, 81, Strand. 7 -

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

ilia COUKTEN AY then moved, lino Hobert Sloddart
he ordreed la appear at the bar of the house on Monday
next.
The motion was seconded. •
SIR FRANCIS HUH DE IT rose, He sale, th.s was
allot tier rental Lable in-toner of the assumed powers of the
noose pow ers against .. ich 11e111U4 :Array h:tmelf. Only
a kw eVeiiliko sure the House had an opportunity to ex-
ercise it • inquisittiridl toil. bone with great advantage to the
country, try enquiry into snow recent events ! hut there it
a, suck course was istjudicions, as they cold not ea-
.on.oe on oath. There, enquiry of u useful tendency
a;4• ah.ulltiolted ; hut here it .wa, to raise .trelf into n Court
..IJ usher, to b. Judge and Jury in 11, own CAW.. and to
deict.e oil own monstrous u.osin... liut here out Charge
was noels—.:o libel nits eslattli,urd ; the whole pamphlet
nugnt to have b lead, hut instead of Ord, they mil. had
a garbled extract. pu course, w..uld lower that
In the opuht,oil of the people— itany thingcould low ea
11 111 the rsliniai.oss of that people. Toe pas-sages alight be
or .ve.l t.. he iru-• and correct it the w hole were ...ad : for
losta,i, I', a hat asor nude rumt was HAts comemptiblc than
the 4114e1.11 idea 4 414441g1111111e,er ? ‘1 hat the intim.
nail sand bail been berme wiser. ed, and even moue skit 1;1
hantoon had ohs, red, that the lin occasioned all
distort., ; and Seidel remarked that their privi-
ltrA.•s constituted the greelel4 1)1111111 111 111 1, 41• Id. Hot
ir.t. 11:11e1 the malt. ? lle el I wlt.n prevented for
jlehyle from aelina in a parlsewitr a.e ; the le aer Mi.!
Det Oat 111' 0111 s bertha• the flouse—lbosHill.
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which hod ihrtidafett no murk d1,,4114 11111/11,.• ..ill the
ernittlf.y. !) soy Ili. same tieing.? Oil 1144 tl•e,
appeal to force ? The. did, and 11w) even entrini..reit
;Boum' the dun...too of unineoilly opormo• tore butor•
Chat 11-mse. Hut a, Ilse upA Of that lionise
the'l,"101,1,10, was not ex .s the. had not et evert
found it to be any °deuce, he ust pioicst ;mains the
in too.

Mr. BANKS strongly supported the Motion. contending
that what had been read errs ~, a.; that it
ought to be noticed; and that the !louse was hound to iii-
terfere ip this instance, to set itself against tile new sect of
auarchy and raw that was every si hide shun iiig itself.
(Hear, hear !)
Lord J. RUi•ELL observed, that a more
nnotiou had never hero brint,..ht foram d.— (Hear; hear.)--
It is proposed to deal out ts siiigular itst,ir use of just e.
Why was this aele, ted from a thou-mid libels %hie. were
abroad, a., a ell as on their tulles i ay was the At torawi -
General ro appear in air Ilouse iu others'
told a third elm; to ko unnoticed ? He therefor.. rusiclnite-
with tnnciug, a; an ainenilinenti that Robert Siodart be did
rected to at lead Jui,it.try lti. (d Piirliatneataey holiday.)
bk. 1). KINN A 1141) denied that the passages wcte au
incitement to a ; it stated the propt•strion that the
laws, that fear alone, prevented the people from behariog
ins particular manor:.

Lord NUGENT said he would support the original Mo.
lino. The iotertr.tl erireuce, as to the outline, showed !hest
sorb individual was 4 No ort by victim for the Clouse to :take
ut, if chose to strike. Having ascertained the &Ai t
thought the Jimmie ought to deice! time Attorney-General to
prosecute. Tilt lie were not lieges to compromise their pri-
vileges, Hum they got their seats was not time question;
he wished certainly that same of them o ere obtained by
other metros ; but flew there, they ought to protect the
privileges, and resist such attacks.
sl' I LUE.HFONC supported the Motion, and de-
clared the missii,„rs to be unquestionably libellous, and
breach of the privileges of the House.
After some further conversation, the coition' Mallon was
put and carried without ir divishol ; and Mr. Studart. was
therefore ordered to attend men Monday.
The Searchingmfor-Arms Bill Knit% been read a second
need the rensalniug Orders having been disposed of, the
House adjLeurind.

SATtril PAY, DtC. Ft.
Thisday the House being met were summoned to Wend the
Lords, where a commission was read appointing the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, and Lord ilarrowby,
Commissioners, for the purpose of giving ti.e Rotel Assent to
•' An Act toprceent the naming of persons to the use of arum-
and to the practice of military evolutions and exercise. The
comnusion having been read the Lot: Chancellor pronounced
tl.e Royal Assent, and the Speaker on his return to the House
having announced the same from the Chair the House adjourned
to Monday.

FROM T►TESDAY NIGIIT'S GAZETTE.
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CROIVN OFFICE, DEC. 7.
MEMBER peturnal to serre in this present PARLIAMENT.
Borough of Cambridge.-I.teut. Col. F. W. Trench, Assistant
Quarter 11a,t!•r General i 1• his 11:linty's army, in the room of
the /ion. E. Finch, wl.o hat accepted tire C:tilteth Ronal-efts. -