The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-07-20 00:00:00

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COURT OF Ci,AIMS, Jct.), 19.
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The Earl of Illaartownt took the Chair at twelve
o'clock : his Rovir Highness the Duke of YORK sitting
on his right, out) Sir Wu. ()RANT 00 lila left Laud. The
other Commissioners were, Lord Ilan LILT, Sir WiLLIASI
SIACrt; and Sir 11. KVISELL.
The Noble Chairman directed WlLLtsa BUTT, F.sq.,
the Dephry Seejeant at Arms, to make the Proclamatar ,
for silence, anti for claimants to bring in their prook in
support of their claims.
Mr. Painsos, the Solicitor of Mrs. Jane fireene. who ,
claimed to perform the duties of Naperer on the day of 1
his Majesty a Coronation, in the right of the Manor of
Little Torruck, otherwise Torrell, under an inquisition ,
taken in the Stith year of the reign of King Henry VIII., i
in the year 15.34. There being no proof to show tlsat '
the predecessors of -the claimant had claimed to have I
performed the service since that time; the Court found
that the claim was not proved.
An application was matte on the behalf of the Ladies
IVillottgliby and Cholmondeley, for leave to present a
petition on the next l'otirt day, in consequence of the
death of Lord litrydir, rot leave to appoint a Deputy
lireat Chamberlain to the duties of that °eke on the day
of his Majesty's Coronation.—llianted..
His lirree the Duke of Bedford's Agent attended, and
produced title deeds, tic., in proof of his claim to performs
the service of King's Almoner on the day of his Jlajes-,
ty's Coronation, in right of the. Barony
.and Castle of
Bedford. It appeared that the site of the Castle is near
to'the Swan Inn, Bedford, which is the Duke's property.
The Castle of Bedford is held of the King by service at
it Kit 'a Almoner on the Coronation. The servite v
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°rated by the person in possession of the l:alitlit
z reign of Edward I.l.—The Court determined, NO
'saving allowed the claim of another person to do Hia
lime service, the Duke of Bedford could have only of
li I incutrent claim, which was granted. •
' • ' Mi. Devereui, of the county of . Wexford, attended (
*Pith statements of proofs to enbstantiate his claim til '
•earty the sceptre and dove, icc., before his Majesty, on
,the dny of the Coronation. It appeared that the clais
maul's ancestors performed the service at the Coronas,
tion of Richard 1., baton account of his not being *DV
to prove that the service had been done wince that
*HA, the Court decided that he bad not made good
his' claim.
The agent of the Earl of Shrewsbury attended, who
claimed to perform the services of Lord Steward•of Ire-
land at the Coronation of his Majesty. 1
The Court was of opinion that lid. clair
under their jurisdiction, and referred '
Council.

Sir lj. NATLFR, on behalf of Lord IC
be allowed to have his place on the dal
his Majesty, as Lion King at Arnie of S.
The. Court decided, if called on to perform
should have his place.
Mr. Wild claimed to serve his Majest
the day of his Coronation for his hands,
basin and ewer as his fee.
The Court decided that he had not marh
The claims of the Duke of Hamilton ar
of .Douglar, to carry the Crown.of Srotl
of the Coronation, were both decided
Court.
The'Marqnis of Ormond's claim to
Chief Butler of Ireland on the day of
ronation, was allowed by the Burt, wit
it should be referred to the King in '
and what, services he was to perform,
'Usk@ 4if Norfolk had made good leis claim to perform
thecieruiee as Chief Butler of .England.
411. r . ..,Estimart's and the Earl of Abergsveuny's
4 am, service of_Lardevers on the day of Idsblajesty's
Move allowed by the Nutt.
• adjourned acthret o'clock, by prociansa-
INC eillluaday, the tith instant, at twelve o'clock.
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' • :411' PROJECThD EXTRA POST.

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The object of the Extra Pest is to accommodate cer-
tain Commercial towns at a certain distance from the
metropolis, with an unusually expeditious delivery of
lettere, isy accelerating the convevauce from the rate
of eight miles an hour, which is the rate of the snail
coach plan, to that of 12, which is to be the rate of the
projected mail carts. Against this project many strong
objections have arisen, on account not only o( the ex-
cessive and unnecessary exertion of animal labour to
affect tbe purpose where it is established, bat of its in-
jurious operation on the places to which it does sot
extend. the project is founded on a supposition that,
the great expence of the conveyance may be defrayed ;
by the payment of doable postage, but it will of course
be never tried bat where the great expence is likely to
be reimbursed, slid trill therefore be limited and partial.
The unfair advantage in the way of trade, which this
partial use of the accelerated conveyance will give to
the inhabitants of one district above those of another,
will be manifest to every one on the slightest consider-
ation. if, for instance, the Extra Post should pay its
expences to Manchester and Liverpool, but net further,
in what it situation would merchants and manufacturers
in all the neighbouring, listricts be placed, who would
have epecolators in their nierkets purchasing and pur-
suing all their objects, with information derived by the
extra post, which the ethers could not possibly obtain. I
How con it be supposed that this Post would pay
for Its extension to lilar.row' when to reach that
city, if would fur near two hundred miles traverse
a country iii which an extra post letter could scarcely
ever be expectiell. Yet a person 'shied leave Maw
,thrister after The extra pest gets there; and be in
Ohogove the•day before the mail-coach letters would be
delivered, to tie great detriment of the mercantile in-
terests of that city. Atidif it did extend to all the large
commercial towns, hew would the farming interest be
situated 1, Fnetors and coin epeeuleters would possess
theloogitel of tbeinstoations• at llark-Intse; and beside'
-In trawlers, whole camas.* before the ordinary post bad
arrived.' The landed proprietors would soon ban their
tenants eintplaining that they could never sell, except to
a disadvantage, to those persons who colas from the
lowa, which the extra post may embrace. • The suit
reasoning applies to every branch of trade t and thigh
'its benefit to few great capitalists may be gratifying
them id the advantage it would give tlimn over the maim
of the community, there is hardly prey general interest
which this- extra post would not teed to inure. With
respect to London newspapers, for the diffusion of which
j we may be allowed to be solicitous, and about which, fat
I the sake of the revenue they produce, the Oriverasiset
cannot bo serpent", be indifferent, it is evident their
sale mssl be ammideeibly dinai *hod in thecoontry;fir
when those by the sins post have been read at the
Subscription Roams, which iroald have one at any ex•
passe, what interest could people take in those by Cho
, common post, which woold be one day old. Unless
I the extra post be as universal as the mail' coaches'
and common horse posts, it sever can be freed from this
objection; anti while it is mast unlikely to create say
new revenue of importance, the exposes will he enoo,
mons for conveyance; for sew offices, elerka, letter cow
Tiers, he., and in this way to be sure It may be a am.
source of patrbnati. In expense, sad in its gispieste
to robbery, it -is able to the two greet objectless
which the estabNainnert 'of nail coaches overeamo.
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Tito emstrapoliswemid, besides, be grievously perplexed
bf the aeritainf two daily 'posts, ode oinning
Oils,' A lwadisa raercisaat sow riesivOs any f
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I Liverpool, between nine and ten o'clock, and proceeds
to busiuess ; hat en the new plan he may hare another
letter at eleven or twelve o'clock the same day, from
Liverpool, •olateol almost 21 hour% later. What, there-
fore, can he fin with hi% first letters? If he were ordered
to insure a ship and does not effect it, the next two hours
may bring him advice that she is lost. A Limited
questions on insurance, bills of exchange, and bargains,
will arise out of the two posts, which the Courts of Law
only can decide. At Liverpool it will be worse, for the
letters from London, now delivered at eight A. N., can be
of little lase till the extra post has arrived at one r. N.,
and as it returns at three, the post-day wilt be virtually
abridged to an hour and a half, deducting the time to
sort the letters for delivery, and to make up the mails. In
addition to all this, the machinery of the system is so
' strained that any thing less than the proposed speed
would be equal to a failure. Only &portrait of the mails
on any road are to be carried, and as many towns are to
be skipped as may be supposed to form any impediment.
The letters are to be sorted and delivered in Liverpool
and London witlo almost miraculous haste, and after all
only a circle of the metropolis or of Liverpool, or any
other large town; can have the benefit; for the interval
between the arrival and departure of the extra post at
Liverpool will be only two hours. The travelling toast
be twelve miles an hour, to cover the proposed rate of
eleven miles, all stops included ; and any loss of time
upon the road would he hardly recoverable, the practica-
bility of the project on a permanent basis cannot bat be
held as doubtful.

ylis QUEEN.
" Brave, brave, by 11 s—ebe deserves a Crows!"
" All that had bees fallisderl towards bar Majesty was
herseer, ea tamer, fedi
--Kg. sad benevldesee."—Mr. CAS-
JIINS.II Spawn, June 7, 1940.

We are governed by a set of drivellers. wbose coodaet
takes away all dignit)• from distress, and ■aka eves ca-
lamity ridicalouv."--Bir R. STIMI.I.

LEITYR XIII.
TO THE ZDITOR OF TIIE STATESMAN.

Sm.—The rinse of the Queen is the cause of
the people. If Minhiters should succeed in their ma-
chinations against her Majesty, no man or woman in
the kingd would be safe. If they can immolate the
the State, what is to hinder them
successively all the lowest? Let us
magnanimous example of her Ma-
the right to justice, of every man,
in the nation, which, through her,
wantonly attacked, and grossly vio-
known how to assert our rlgkes,
that she has asserted her's, usel
the despoiled, trodden down, and'
that we are. It is most certain,
misters, and the two " Chambers,"
punished, as often as they violate the
'‘cipks of justice, the blame principlly
if we allow them with iurpueity
In our own ignorance, abjectness
to be found the principal cause,- me
oppression generally, as of the pro-
carried on against the Queen. Nothing
than, that, if there were no slaves,
there could be no tyrants. Let us no longer, then, be
inioled, or cajoled, by that " ignis litmus," the ghost'
of our departed Constitution. Are any of us still se be-
lled us to expect that the departed Conetitation is
capable of spontaneous reesseitstion? Is there any
longer a man upon whom experience is so wholly,
thrown away as to expect any thing but a perseverance
in evil courses, from a "Chamber" that refuses to re-
-1 sine a petition offering to prove at their Bar that so
many of its Members are returned by Peers, and are
thelefore not representatives of the people, and stating
-eke .isaines of those Members, and of the Peers by
wham they are returned—and this rejection made
under the pretext, equally false and frivolous, of its
being an election petition ? The essence of the Con-
Meution, then, is to be subordinate to the forms of the
Souse of Commons falsely interpreted! We observe,
toe, this House, or Chamber—this perfect model of
virtue, and virtual representation—this Green Bag as-
yokly of purity and perfection, declines to print the
Mom of those Lords and Commoners, who, out of
their exubeeset patriotism, are determined to serve the
Illespluin spite of themselves. Their modesty and dis-
holleestedness will doubtless finally have their reward.
Be- what, in the wean time, is to become of us ? Or,
*kb is the same thing, what is to become of our
gracious Queen, in the hands of those modest and dis-
Immreeted Peers and Commoners ? Her fate is iden-
41kpi with that of the nation. If in her ease, the
highest subject of the State, every principle of justice,
oven Amu of • law, and every semblance of decorum,
Me be violated ; if precedents can be twisted, and fol-
lowed, or rejected at pleasure, in order to ob-
tain a conviction ; If, by a Milan tribunal, and a
menbination of other intpaisitorial, or Star Chamber
meeediega, such as were never before known in any
eisilised nation, her 'Majesty could besaerificed, what
safety would there be for any subject of inferior de-
gree ? Positively none, Everyone of us individually,
the whole nation collectively, would be completely
at the mercy of a set of men more dangerous than any
ibM seir wielded power since the creation : and we
olisoloiriaves no other guarantee than that to sir
erillootits all would not suit their purpose. No-
Was • then, can avail, but our firm and unani•
181110 determination, openly manifested, not only
in weeds but by actions, to protect her Majesty
*om oppression, and to bring her persecutors to
punishment. Popular exertions and vigilance may
.pet prevent Ministers and the "Chambers " from
pushing matters tp a formal decision, and induce them
le retire from a contest. which, whatever that decision
.may be. can only terminate in their disgrace and hit.
isiliation, not to say absolute destruction. If, indeed,
nothing short of a formal decision, at any risk, will
natisfy them; if, justice out of the queition, they are
Oa incurably blind as not to see oullioient motives for
Writing' their steps, in the unanimous voice of the
made,. most unequivocally pronounced, against each
and every one of their proceedings, upon this leper-
tint imeasion, they may happen to fin when it is tee
late, that such decision will be wholly disregarded.
If. therefore, it be not their object to provoke revise.
seas, they will do well, before they proceed farther,
to Mimi whether the few hundred penes/. who evil-
dilate the eikk against ber Majesty, are likely, by
yin. sesame inherent infallibility, is he mere ea-
lightened, respeettag the great inserests of the emplrir.
than the millioos who constitute the British people;
" Wit On ace, Vhatker it woad tket.ba deasommi Ii

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claim did not come ; frost destroying: sung
it to the King gal shun. imitate the ma
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it of I 'oronaition 4
elainsea to woroas. or child, in
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lased. if we had
ierforus services, he. 4
with the same spirit
.sly with water gp4 ahonW not now he t
is, and to hare the isiaerahle creatures,
that, altisoigb Mini
made out his clam. _I-
Imes
in and Nye Marti* . fry to be punish
rotland on the it/ taw* or the principh
led against by the I litcys with ourselves,
to commit crimes.
', do the qerrires of sad servility, are to
his Majesty's Co. well of the national c
rich d'lrectimls that ceedings now carrier
Conneil, as to any
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mo letrue,su
as his (trace the ,