The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-10-24 00:00:00

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tEDITIOUS PLAC.4IWS.

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Mr. Farm'. n. aecompaniell by Vickery; returned late
on Sunday night from Franee„ after a eneressless purshit
of Fletcher. Yesterday hie. Pearson was informed be
Mr. Birnie at the office, that a Hier had been received
from the fugitive, ridiculing all attempts to apprehend
him. Mr. Pearson ionne;li.orly tit•ur tothe Home Office,
and requested Sir Robert hiker to %hew him the letter,
that he might be enabled to ascertain whether it was in
the hand-writing of the accused. Sir Robert said that
it was in the possession of Mr. llohh.oise Ilse Under Se-
cretary of State, who was gone with it to Lord Sisimouthi,
in the House of Peer 3, and that the letter in question
Contained on the part of the licensed,. a NIl confession
of having published the placards, and entered eery fully
into his motives and reasons for their puiSlieitibn. Bit
Robert Bolter admitted that the rraseds addriced wet*
very ritlienlone, and farther observed,.that the letter wit!
written and sent by Fletcher with a vie* to publication,
Mr. Pearson then waited upon glr. liobbrifse, and was
treated with a view of the sefierseriptiose cad sipeettere
of the letter, vrhick titled three sides of w *beet of-paper
closely irritten, and was dated the Pith instant, mid
bore the post-mark of •Dunkirit. There was also re-
duced for the first. time, a "'rood letter from Mr.
Fletcher to Sir Robert Baker, but whence it had been
sent, or what were its contents, Mr. Pearson could nut
learn. As, however, Sir Robert kindly informed that
gentle Man that the letter was written by Mr. Pletcher'
and sent with a cite to poilieation, Mr. Fletcher's wish
will, of course, he gratifiert; and the politic may be fur-
nished with some explanation of the .r motives and rea-
sons" of Mr. Fletcher, not only in potilishing the pla-
cards, but also in thus confidentially corresponding with
Sir Robert Baker. If that worthy !Magistrate shmild he
hereafter called before a Committee of the Mose, it
would he a little extraordinary if this letter •shotriti etsm
tain an entire exculpation of the Ministers from ant
guilty participation in the transaction; and incite espe
cially so, if it should turn out that the letter •ireelf was
of home toenerfartrre.
In one of the infirmities which Mr. Pearson bad with
Mr. Birnie, he was informed by him, th it among other
communications which he had received upon this sub-
ject, was an anonymous letter, bearing a country poste
mark, assuring him that Fletcher was in a lilacs of
_pet
feet security, and was laughing at his pursuers.' Thtli
letter was considered a mere hoax.

The Diet recently as.umbled at ;e'er. ate, debstei
with much warmth, for three days successively, tbe
subject of the criminal code recommended by the Ru*
Sian Ministers, and finished by rejecting it almost mu•
nimonsly, flat being against the law, and only tin*
in its favour. The objections principally toreettligt
the want of security to the general freedom of theist%
Jett, which was risible throughout the whets em)it:
and more especially the absence of any provision foe
a trial by jury. .
An eminent writer, after detailing events it the rsign
.of Richard the 2d, which proved the occasion of that
Monarch being deposed, observes. " that these ex'
1 titles fell upon Rieksed the 24, at a time when
' every' thing seem,* Ni *WMWaIe le bis +Milton, in the
exereise of that arbitrary politer, which he had ai-
-1 sumed. Those whom he had most reason to fear, 'revs
removed either by violent death, or banishineit ; awl
other. were sectored in his interest by places or favours
lat Court. The great offices of the Crown, and the
magistracy of the whole kingdom, were put into such
hands as were fit for his designs; betides which, he,
I had a parliament entirely at his devotion; but all them
! advantageous circumstances served only to prove, that
a Prince can have no real security against the just
! resentments of an injured and exasperated nation."
On Tuesday last, the public.crier announced to the
I inhabitants of Traro, that a meeting would be held as
1 the Ebenezer Chapel, Pydar-street, that evening, for
I the purpose of considering the propriety of addressing
I ter Majesty. At the hour appointed a number of per-
! sons assembled there, and au AddresO to bet Majetty
was proposed by Mr. John Davy, as that of the Minis-
II ter and Congregation assembling at that Chapel, a$
i other inhabitanm of Truro, and was imanimoulp
adopted.
At the close of the Poll, at a wardmnte of Fittings
don Within, for the choice of a Common Conseil-mall
in the room of JohnWhehle, Esq., the numbers weal*
! for Mr. Phonnott. 175. for Mr. Woodward,•ll4; wheat
Mr. Plummer was declared duly elected: ' • :
A 0000 Sire ot.ow.—An Italian praise; at tie :ips
and Hounds public-house in Huddersfield, for a
wager, lately undertook to eat a Clothier's won .
apron fried in kitchen fat, Which achievement he • .
formed even to the strings.--What is this feat et
Italian pedlar, however, to the swallow of Conte io ear
own onsitryntea, •erbe• eats gulp down the whole tree"
of Italian witnesses ?. . • -
• Fain • Coangstantset'Vely the ;44 a lIIN •
Hatsell, Chief Clerk of .the Hotta of ISlSiitiohij die
vast arnosatof lees. imaging to that Aker* low,
i' by an Act passed in the b2d year of thelatatint. ti
I be vested in Commissioners% of wheat libriplabr it •
lone. to be disteibutet by them in Willis ail sit
lowans,' to the cletits.of the House. Iltrodholgokior
to the three principal duke. aim. %trope the
4 I are fixed by she Act ; and ample.tamens, is e .
will remain for the better prevision tiXgognther eject ket; ~
some of whom are very inadequately provided
conskieting the leerth of yeses they, have Nob ilibi •
ployed in the Ankh Aides of the House. S
• no permanent alloiniels whatever, sad are as dry
pendent oa thistisall.feet contingent on mots act 4116.•
priveie hominess.
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Enacrorsox.—This facitiasng were exetatefiesWilfft.
the slaw( doer of Nucleate, Henry Marilkslot Weill/t_ .•
breaking% 'and Jame* Marsha • and heist Sail* 6r- :
utterininnied Hank notes. The utttippy obi wait *
the staati apptaiei realgaed re their .edillffietfrifik
while sagged in singing " the 1441111tailiell of a deli.'
liter," the Una drop fell, and they were latioithed ad •
1 eteraity. . ~.
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b1051511...111. Mak* between Mortis stle-opitriftt f-
, Iftralown; fur 4 gianeu Nide, fellithe Otighbekia.o4lg.• • .
IS milet teem Loniek They art boa". Alit ll ell .
of the ofai; six tot oil Mettle-
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Three lesions eo • *Alas 1aie.4,01:46 ,
when the molt attacked' heo:iiii. us, tho• -es
yf thiftßofelsid ifett*.,4 . been foitOci pig* ot• 44: •
oc%
ffeestilik,' and impthated ler eight, sip sal 1400

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