The Statesman.
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and few would deny that these Here essential, not new so widely felt. But it is not by a Petition against
only to the comfort and well-being of society, but I this or that tax that we can procure the redress ne-
to the preservation of all those rights which, as me i, , cessary. Petition and demand mutt take a wider
we pnwesattel ; for if we were unacqnsinted with scope. Government must be that for which it was
those rights and our Constitutional Inas, how could intendAl before the mass of ills which press upon th
we (tuard them from violation. But when he pee so heavily can be removed. Government has,not an-'
ruseLl those Statutes which were framed for men's swered the purposes for which it was intended; Had
benefit, and not for the purpose of legalizing op- the intention to protect rather than oppresshad
pcession—when he looked at our laws, tisil and po- Government punished rather than screened violators'
iltielti--at the Constitution and its charterat the ,of the Constitution, we should not hate hao.to Wit- •
secret) rights and invaluable privileges thereby gua-ei ness the Representation of a free people sold like
mooed to the people—at what Blackstone had 'cattle in the market—we should not have seen Men
%I' rote, and Grey and other distinguished -pall- Igo unpunished who were proven to be guilty of Mimes
tired authorities had spoken, with virtuous in- i for which they ought to have lost their heads cm the
dignation, in the ears of corruption and Partin- 'scaffold. How do Judges proceed In similar cases,
went i•self ; and when at the same _time he be- ! when notorious criminals are brought before them—
teed how grossly those salutary Statutes, those rights 1 is the notoriety 6f the crime allowed to plead in ex-
rot nri:leges, and that Constitution which English- 1 colpation of the offender? The Speaker of the
men ',nested in vain, were violated, and rendered of I house of Commons did, indeed, exhibit a feeling of
no avail to screen them from the daring infractions of horror at hearing it asserted that seats in Parliament
sicovig,.tie was ahuost made to regret that he had I had been publicly Sold. Was his !terror excited
heei taughtto read, that he had been made acquaint- merely because the sale was public? Re must
ediwith.the extent-of our loss—for have long been aware of the extent to which
" -Where i:ninorwe is hli.s, transactions of this nature were =lied. But
.ri, fatly, in be ui.,.." the fact was, that Parliaments and ''Governments
-olkiefliing, however, to men e ho knew their rights, . now acted as if they were independent of the people
anti were determined to maintain them, nothing, he
—as if no such things as constitutional charters and
would assert, short of the independent exercise of the popular rights existed. Welted certainly been each
guaranteed privileges of the naturally-horn free indebted to our ancestors • but for what will posteri-
neente of. Ewslr,tul would insure to them that. :ty be indebted to us' Weil might the words of a poet,
liberty w hich they loser], and was necessary ' who wrote at the time of the Revolution be quoted :
to their honour and existence. For himself he i
t• Posterity will blush to own
wou!d say, notwithstanding he felt not the smallest 1 The acts their aticeitnrchnd dear,
inclination to eltPr Warlitmment, constituted as it is, 1 Ti' see one tyrant.bastish'd ft am his home,
And mark five hundred in his room."
and movieg under the influence which it is proved to'
The Hon. Baronet also took that oortunity of re.
be; he had, nt the same time, fcfranklyly to confess,
butting the charge which the • govppernment prints
that if they should think fit to return him as their
are in the constant habit of bringing against those
Reprceentetive, lie should feel himself bound, both
who express an independent opinion on ttie measures
_ th;gyhdtustayodAnd r
privileges
el
ga
ewi• , 0
ft to eisxecrtohnsimtitsuelefilttus,mannidultioilfrthhies
of administration and in favour of refcilln. The
advocates of popular right amid representative purity
• countrymen at large. He had the utmost veneration •
for Purity of Election, and knew the value and fie-
are always the advocates of justice. The public are
ceesity of Parliamentary Reform. He would :he
liberal rewarders of those who labour or suffer in its
service. The mutilated soldier, the unfortunate sea-
would declared advocate upon all occasions; bat it
and he vs ho boss stood foremost In the hour of
would he inconsistent with his notions of that Purity , want
danger in defence of his country's rights, never fail
and Reform necessary for him to offer - kiwr- •
xe ' to receive the meed of public reward and grafi-
self as a candidate for a seat in Parliament.'
()lude ;—it is because honours and rewards are
therefore declined making oilers or pretension's ; but
slot conferred ne Vet really deservAng, because
,bold, if delegated in the honourable manner pro-posed, join his efforts with theirs and the friends the ere are lavished on Court parasites, sad' po-
of Freedom and Parliamentary Reform to obtain for
litical tools and dependants, upon men who will not
•
pay their debts, that the ftimids of the people and
the.people of this kingdom the advantages guaranteed
to them by the nature of their 'Constitution, but of of justice complain. After dwelling with warm and
jest. commendation on the exertions
,of Major Cart-
which they have been so long and unjustly deprived.
wright, in the cause of Reform, the worthy earonet
He returned Thanks for the honour done him, and
drank the health,' of all the compaoy. I concluded by recommending petitions and public
meetings on the subjects on which they felt so deeply
Tork.t—The Liberty of the Press, with dans times three. ' '
letreCeAsta, after paying some merited compli-
iuterested, as the best means of making their voice
,
meat to Sir Francis Burdett amid the Independent to be heard, end the people respected.
—The ca of Liberty an over the World.
'Vert'org of Westminster, whom he called opOn those i , feast.—The
w
, Mr. Kottstslt then proposed a, a.toast.=
of Southwark to emulate, gave I Polianseutary Reform, find its most titre:muss Advocate,
Sir Front-is Burdett, and may Sae cause of Reform he cr 'ward iltlior C. urivrihitiL ..
with Inirceni. i '1 • •
This toast was received with theen, and drank i he toast being drank with three times times—
with three times three ; being also necompanied with
• Major CARTWRIGHT retained thanks, encl•compli-
the discharge of guns without. i mewed the Electors of Southwark on' the discrimi-
. scr Fatness Banners,
who, is
irssa.sha.theasig ! station they had evinced ki selecting Mr. JonesAir-
dett for theirittcprosentative--thefitadthereby'shrwo
great pleasure to perceive, was apparently in excel- •
could distinguish between. the Wheat of pa-
ten health, then rose amidst Continued aceraatuttooi. that the 7
" i
He said, that though he had never before met the
triotism and the chaff Of corruptlen, ncrlie fer-
Electors of the - Borough of Southwark, after the randy hoped their wishes would be accomplished.
Major Cartwright also, in an able speech, •atleanced
handsome compliment paid him in wishing his brother '
many arguments in favour of Parliamentary Refosen.
to become their Representative, he could not- omit
He observed that the disposition which
,Peeiialet
the opportunity
unnecessary for him to repeat his brother's semi-
itself showed towards petitions on this'topic, put bid)
meats. He had expressed his mite' clearly ou the
in mind of the story of the, child with, the odd stsie
subject of beeoming their Representative. He (Mr.' mach. The mother of this .citild knew not nnit to
d
J. B.) had told them it was far from his wish to be do with it, on account of squeamishness and, refusal
to swallow any thing that was delicate; andeousilte
returned ; yet he had confessed, as in duty bound,
that if them returned him he would discharge the her friends, who advised her to try it with *meth' ..
.
substantial. She did so, anti to her astonishment'.
He reposed in him to the utmost. of his ability.— substantial.
child, who lied refueed pap, swalloWe4 lit-rge
(Sir F. B.) would be answerable fur his inte-
of : pieces of beef and bacon, without a murmur. SO
grity. lie would not go farther. in the stay . s
profession. The meeo„.4 had given proofs of the ; when the subject. of popular rights and Reform is
. served up in delicate morsels for the digestive
couiidnc.l they reposed in him aud his relation,
faculties of Parliament, and the weather happens
all that confidnce, he would reetare to say,
eto be sere fie, it, poor thing, cennot swallow at
would never bee abused. It was always a plea-
but as soon as the storm of popular feel-
sure to hint to meet his countrymen on political sub_ all ;
ing begins to rage, and a Whitbread, a RomillYs
jests, and to point out to them the most effectual
min
and the necessity of being fairly represented.. or a Brougham, are heard wielding the energies of
iiiseo but the
elec-
tion
p re hanetiti ons,►
conds as black:asn th g e
snore evident, and the securing the
kettle, and as greasy as the fryinglart, the child
that could swallow nothing before, instantly opens a
this and securing also the best interests of (Imo sta..
mouth that can receive whole cart loadfols. Se
tint,. He must, however ~ say, the sending of one '
or two independent men to Parliament was not sutii- w°,'ltl, therefore, earnestly recommend fo the
Electors of the 'Borough of Southwark, should they
eient to effect the Reform necessary. • The People
M
ought to exert themselves more than this. It was send Jones Burdett in Par-
to supply him with a cart load Of petitions.
q frequent Meetings, Petitions, and the constant liam")
and general expression of the opinions amid wishes I Tease.. -The Independent Electors of Westminster.
Mr. Mit.r.ea, in a speech in which be insisted on
of the people, that popular right could be main.!
!flitted, t' at corruption could be checked
sod . the inanlt which the Electors of the Voronelm of*
• ,
*uthwark had received by Mr. Barclay's attempt-
:het Parliaments could be- brought to be, if (bat was
nos at all possible, what it was intended they should; log to walk into the seat of representatioti, as It
be, the voice and depositorroktbe .sentiments of Om ' were, over their heads, without deignisig to declare
Ration. lie was aware that many good-men had A. any thing of his politics, proposed—
jectiosts to petitioning ; some might object (a it, be- i The ludepend.an Electors of Southwark, and success to Itself
Cause a petition was considered as a sort of mendicant lexerstmla In the cause of Refoilli.
prayer; but this was not the case. A petition,. Mr. Juoxes, in theneme of the Independent Elec.
ss here a right is involved, is and ought to be a de- • tors of the Borough, returned thanks'for the honour
mand. The people of this country had many de- done them km the toast. He added the expression of his
mends of this sort to make, and it rested with them-
; conviction, that unless is subscription was't;ntered into
selves whether they should he freemen or slaves. or' to cope with the great purse of Mr. Barclay, and the
what avail is it for an individual to speak in de- !
Electors were not determined, collectively and indivi-
fence of rights which the people themselves
seen' dually,, to exert themselyee pt the most active and
strenuous manner, they would have the mortification
our imaginations with the recollection
to have abandoned. We could indeed phase of seeing their wislset frustrated.
things as Magna Charta and the Bill of Rights, 4
~,,SidoGgiPtion was accordingly immediately com-
or, as Paine called it, the Bill of Wrongs ; we mend'
The following toasts Were then Overt t----
could also flatter ourselves•with the way in which
coliclirit.ninireutternettg • PolaElifs lindeyeiuletit ii,nro
these had been wrung from the hands of despotic i amte—Lorel
power ; but can we say we enjoy the advantages! After which thank: w'eren7soted to -the Chairman
which these wereintetuled to confer ? —These Char. 1 for his independeitt•conduct" in • the Chair,-,aud the
tees which we boast, can only be consideredas the; Meeting broke pp.
title-doeds to an estate/ out of which we are un-

justly kept, and which we will never,possess uulese
we stand up and legally and constitutioiially demand.

justice. The Representutives of the P.eople ought to
bathe Attoraies of the People, and they cmght to
the power of chusing these Attoraies tliamseires, and
of dispenving With their services, when these Chetielit
of advocation prove unworthy of the trust. Liberty
nd property wereever united in the mouths of our

ancestors; 410 ‘4' the question is,.have w', or shall we

hate either Real Representation is the wily secu-
rity against ezarbitant lases and • the politicat evils

LAW INMLIIGENCH:
COURT OF CHANCERY, Ji.x.l7.

vy -4-47.4:16

The LOAD CHANCELLOR *as occupied' almost the
*bola of this day in his private room; in conference
with. Mr. Serjeant Frere end Air. Christian, relative
to Downing College, Ambridge. The rent/ wes
-not:made known.

CONSISTORY COutit, bOCTORS' COMMONS,
J55..27. •
JOIINSTON, FAL9ELY cAtt4ED MILLER, 17. MILLER,
..1.1115 was a proceeding at the instence of Sophia
Johnston, spinster, of St. Martin-in-the-Fields,
Middlesex, against Charles William Miller, of the
settle parish, for nullity of a marriage that had taken
place between them, on the ground of
.her minority,.
and a want of legal consent.
It appeared that the minor was born on the 29th
of February, 1788, and baptised shortly afterwards
at Kensington, where her parents, who were persons
in an obscure situation of life, then resided. From
thence they removed in the autumn of that year to
lodgings let by a Mrs. Martha Cole, in St. George's
Fields, and upon quitting them, continued the child
wider her care, at intervals until she was nine years
of age. In 1799, the father went to the West In,
.dies, deserting• his wife and family, and has never
since been heard of. The minor, in consequence, re-
mained modes her mother's care; but becoming ac.
qualified with Miller, who was then a perfumer At
the Circus, a fact of marriage clandestinely took
place between them on the 19th of March, 1807, by
licence, at the church of St. George, Southwark, she
being then only 19 years of age. The licence was
obtained by Miller, and the ceremony wit performed
wit out the presence of any of the minor's family,
the.parish clerk officiating as father to give her away.
It gas,
-however, discovered two days afterwards in
the course of some conversation which took place 9n
the grandmother calling to see her daughter, when
the minor avowed it ; but her mother doubting the
intelligence, the former produced her ring, upon
which the latter expressed herself in the strongest
terms of disapprobation of the marriage; and in the
heat of her irritation kicked down the table and tea.
things. Miller called a day or two afterwards, bet
! was denied access. It war several times in content-
' plathui to institute a suit to annul the marriage, and
sane preliminary steps were once taken, but the par.
ties' circumstances prevented the matter being, until.
now, brought to a conclusion.
These circumstances were detailed in the evidence
of Mrs. Martha Cole (the person at whose house the
father and mother retitled in the nutinno of 17f)8,
with the minor, then a child of about seven months
' old); and of the grandmother, and others acqtainted
with the family history of the parties, supported by
the production if Properly authenticated copies of the.
entries of baptism and taarriege, and affidavits to ob-
tain the licence, with proof of an inAlfectual search
in the records of the Court of Chancery, to ascertain
whether any guardian had been appointed.
Ne defence being tet up on the part of Mr. Miller,'
who declined.appeating in the suit,
„Sir W. SCl:ryr, observed, that it MRS the object of
tilis suit lu afoul a marriage that had remsined
disturbed for many years, and however relnctatit
Court might feel in giving it this effect,. yet, if the
necessary facts were proved, it bad no other alterna-1
tive. • From the situation in life of the parties, their
;history was necessarily much involved in obsc'uritY,
tend, difficult to be traced. The difficulty in this re-1
spiet wee' Id, therefore, require the proof to be ton-
hAlerecl With indulgence. He then recapitulated the
leatiOns points of ft, and was or opinion that the mi-
nority and fact Of marriage were sufficiently proved.
The part (nest in obicurity was the absence of the
father abroad, and his consequent non-consent_
This, however, was positively averred by Martha
Cole, not only from the information she had received
frot, the mother, but likewise from enquiries she had
herself made after him, in order to procure pa).ment
of some arrears due to her for the support of the
minor; and it was corro.borited presnmptii:sly by
the affidavit to lead the licence, stating her to be of
age, and the alisince of every.one of her filetels from
the ceremony, the parish clerk Ovine *her aWay. The*
inother, 100, was not likely to have acted us she did,
hal the, father been living. The non-consent was,
therefore, sufficiently established for the impose of
the pregeoi slid no guardian was appointed by
the •Court of Chancery. Thus all the oecessary
facts to inialidate the mil Triage being proved, the
Court was hound to pronounce it null and void.
MONK V PAGE, FALSELY CALLED MONK.

„ .
This. NltS II similar e!Ofeediag at he iustaoce of
Mr. Charles Mopk, of Aylesbury, Bucks, agaiust:
Miss Mary Page, O. Shaclge)l, for nullity of mar.
rige, by reason of his. minurhy, and as legal cwt.,
sent.

...it appeared that the miner was horn on the 10th
of June, 17b1,and LeptiseditHerkhalnpStiad,Hetts,
five weeks afterwards. Ha *tinned tp reside there
with his wents daring his youth, was editcated and
bound eppreutice tpa tradesman in the town ; at the
expiration of his appreoticeship.his father established
him in business at Aylesbury. jn 1819, he became
itermeinted with Miss Page, whom he often met, for
the puiposi of courtship, at a friend's house in Shad-.
well, who, however, declitied, being ;relent it the,
rnarriageon accOrunt of its clendestinity. The li-
cence we, procured by him, and the marriage took
place isy virtue 01. it at tke church of St. Paul, Shad-
-Iwell, on the 24th of June„ 1810, be being they only
19... It wes, hewiver, kept secret nisei! June, 1813,
when it wits discovered 4Y Mr. Monk's brother, who
informed his mother, and'she constounieated it to his
. father. He expressed his slisapprobation. in ilte
I. strongeit terms,.eud declared,• that had .he been
.•aware of it, he should not have advanced his sou" in
•hnsittess ; and that, 111 as he thee was, he *Could take
1.
a jeurory of 50 miles to set the mar' int aside. His
, health, 4 hick
_was then veryitullfferept, deCiined
The Colunrlcy of the second. dragoons (or Scotcisi rapitly,and he died upt loug afterwards. Authen-
Greys), which was vacant in, coesequence of ti :, fixated, copies. of the.eutties ofhuptiiin end marriage,
death •of the Marpsii of Lorin sx, Still !teen given t •and of the.ptlidevit to p,Wain the licence, were pro.
General Sir JAVili SzLw Art.rVioiii i*, Omit ; t duced, ;ed. slie fsigpity circittlSOuces . stated. were
succos.sor. of Sir JAME 3 to•the 12th, is not yet named. fully spokep te by thi*.Pther. and two brothers! of
With the 'Patch lectors delivered from the Post tlAa minor. .. . .
Offkceyestenlay, we Itsd adrice's from Hambergh tot Thi ..Clutspek.feA;ttle .*ire dfinicted,,lhet.. it wish
the 17th instant, when the holders, of American pro. impossible trs;oler. silty phiection tn. this evilie.tlcet
.
duce were regretting the reduction of its price. in :ipsl.slr .Wsx.r.tafivoo4.Vwg qc opinism *bac it xs
contegnenee of thr .recept pacification. The Elbe .amply Sufficient, prastail.VMAS !;4404.46 PP!! 40
was closed by the ice. I void. .