The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-02-05 00:00:00

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groom part of 'Oka ay.._
or pt rid of by the preview! qeeition. The Cosset
as Casa, Minister of Police, has been elevatiii en
the Peerage by a Royal Ordenneece. The confer«
ring: if this dignity, indicates pretty strongly tin,
assidoents of the Klee with regard the the
viaribiof his Minister. The price of bread hiss fallen
.fit Pitts to about 9d. the pattern loaf.
ilambergit Mails have also arrived. The plans for
the military organization of the German Confedera.
doe are the most prominent topics le the Papers thus
forniihed. In time of war there are to be raised,
from the collective population of Cormany, two men
out of every hundred for the army in the field (which
would amount to 579,000 men), and one sot of
every hundred for garrisons and recruits. In time
of peace the limy is to be 120,000, of which 18,000
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are to be cavalry and 6000 artillery. The' King of
PuussrA has had a legitimate descent down nein,
and Burt his leg. ,

'lle me& of constituting the Committees for eat
mining and reporting on the contents of the Minis-
ter's Green Bags was noticed last night in the House
of Commons. Mr. BROUGHAM enquired of Lord
CASTLEREAGH, whether it was intended to empower
the Committee to send fur persons, papers, and re-
cords, to which his Lordship answered that no such
powers would be granted to the Committee, and that

if any Member would propose to grant such powers,
he should feel it his duty to oppose the motion.
—This is exactly the mode of proceeding which
we have anticipated. The same course is Is be
pursued in the Upper House. According to -the
notice, the ballot for a Committee on the sealed pa-
pers, is to take place in the House of Lords this day.
The mode of appointing the Committees is expected
to undergo some further discussion in the Commons
this evening; but the ballot, which is still the mode
of election recommended by Lord CASTLEREAGH, is
proposed to be held to-morrow. The Carrot lATER•
Poor. apprehends so little opposition, that be thinks
the debate upon the mode of choice, and'the choice
itself, may both be completed in one evenly/ ; Lord
CASTLEREAGU, aware of much resistance in his more
popuiardepartment, assigns a whole evening for the t.
bate. It is indeed strange, but perfectly illustrative
of the.object, that a mode of appointing Committees
should be persisted in which deprives their enquiries
and decisions of great part of the effect they are in-
tended
.to produce: According to the Report which
the Committee may make, will be the ulterior measures
recommended to Parliament. Is not this reason suf-
ficient, that the Committees should be armed *kb
proper powers to investigate the subjects upon which
they are celled to decide, and that a most minute
scrutiny should be instituted ? It is ridiculous to
say that more ostensive powers ought not to
be granted to the future than were possessed
by the former Committees, for Ministers re.
quired and were granted more extensive powers
by the help of their preparatory Committees than they
possessed before; and there is reason to believe, for
respectable Members of these Committees have
avowed the delusion, that had not the necessary end
correct information been withheld at the time, the
Suspension Act would not base been passed, and the
history of the country would not have been
stained by the innumerable oppressions co*
mitted under it. The purpose of the Com.
mittees, we yippee', is merely to have documents
laid before them, sub silentio, and Ministers
are to report upon them. Thwoiay as well'
lay their papers before their own p e Secretaries
or valets de chambre, Who know too well the wishes
of their masters to run great risk in offending them
by uttering diugreeable truths. It is asked, in de-
fers of this mode of smoothing the way to a Bill of
Indemnity, " would it conduce to the maintenance
of that dignity which ought to surround high and re.
spostsibk Officers of State, that a -Minister of the
Crown should be put upou his trial, and reduced to
plead bis innocence at the will of 'very man who
thought himself aggrieved?" We will osk, in return
to this deprecation of all legal enquiry into the con-
duct of State Officers, in what their boasted respoo-
sibility consists, if no attempt should be made to in-
vestigate their motives and proceedinget The higher
and more extensive their trust, the more should they
be exposed to public trial, and the heavier ought to
be the responsibility attached to the exercise of their
duties. Innocence and conscious integrity ,ne►er
shrink from the ordeal—critique!' alone fear the ex-
posure of their acts. They " bate the light because
their deeds are dark." It is because responsibility
has become a word without meaning, that we
see the offices of the State, on which the de.
stioies of millions depend,, filled with ignorant,
ambitious, and avaricious pretenders to poli-
tical science; that such expeditions as Walcheren
were projected, and were followed by no reopens.

sibility ; that the blood and property of this country
bars been sacrificed to re•plsce foreign Despots on
their Thrones, and that the commercial interests of

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prisons of the country have thrown back again epos,
Society, where shall we find men of honour, and
character to conduct the Executive Goveremesit."-f.
Really this is begging the question indeed. No body
'of character will perforM the duties of the rich and•
highly pampered °Aces of the State, not even, we soli.
pose, the CAN town, or the young Roses, or the firtt of
all responsible Ministers, CASTLERRAGH, unless lheie
is not a JACK, or Is Tom, or a HARRY, whom they
cannot frighten into silence. But have not even these
lowlypersooages rights to preserveand to plead? "The
meanest insect that we tread epon,in corporal suferiog
feels& pang as great, as when a giant dies." Bat what,
if in this despised class of subjects, we trace the chant:
tors and the rights of the majority of the British
People? It is to escape from the demean of thee
despised persons, expressed in no unconstititional
manner, that the great Suite Functionaries who ate
now surrendering - their extraordinary powers, be..
cause they cats no longer exercise them In pees"
cbaias upon the People, are laying foundations for
their indemnity, and their hirelings are vilifying the
cries for justice. 'The advocates of the indemnity are
Compelled to grant in their eqeivocsl manner, that
Miuisters and their inferior authorities did not ja.
diclously exercise the extraordinary powers assumed
by them. " What," says the Courier, " though we
grant the gratuitous assumption, that the powers ea.
trusted under the Saspensiou Act, were not always
cautiously I exercised ? What though we wane
to admit, that one or two persons may baps
been unnecessarily detained fls it unprece-
dented, that even in the calmest and most se.
ruffled period of a nation's history, men may err ?
This is crying fog. mercy in the ,roe casuistry of the
Suspension School. But what if it can be made eat,
as was selliciently obvious at the time, that the
persons who were uuneceuarily made to suf.
fer by the tyrannies of pewee, were seized le
the @swiss of a Constit u dons! tight—that of petitioe.
ing for-I'l4l4nm in Parliament ; and that it was
stray thisConst t tional right and repress the will of tits
co u ft!eytt hot Ministers obtained andexerted their writ.
ord►nary powers ? Is ibis an error to be lightly
pulsed over, and will the Representatives of the Bri-
tish People, whose will-was thus thwarted, we hope
only for a time, sanction an oblivion of such acts ? If
they do, how can they again lay claim to representsech
an abased People? We would recommend that the
Committees of Enquiry should have the power of
sending for sod examielng such persons as Meer
:and his associates, as well as the injured men whose
letters we insert in this day's Paper, hi addition to
the similar interesting details we halm gives on the
same subjects.

We heartily rejoice la thi opportunity .forded es
of congratulating the Public on a reduction to the
price of Porter. The Golden-lane Brewery has
publicly notified it deferents to public opinion, is
the ascertained injesfice of the late rise, and has re.
dined their charge to 51d. per pot. There is little
doubt but the °tints great Breweries will follow this'
' example. If the reduction is made generally, a
daily saving of upwards of a thousand pounds will
have been made for the Labouring Poor of the Me.
tropolis, through the exertions of a single individual,
aided by a free and patriotic Press. If the ether
Breweries bold out, it will furnish an additional
illustration of the mischief of the arbitrary Licensing
System; which, by interdicting the 'peeing of any
new houses, prevents the Public from receiving ge.
smelly the bowl of reduced prices thus offered to
them. In either case the public importance of cos.
petition most be manifested. On a former occasion,
viz. in 1804, the Golden-lane Brewery saved the
fAbsering Classes of. the Metropolis nearly a Mil-
lion sterling i one year's consumption, by caus;og
reduction equal to Id. per quart.

Yesterday the Dispatches were closed at the East
India House, and delivered to the Pursers of the fol•
lowing ships, via. Dunira, Capt. M. HAMILTON • Intl
Castle lluntly, Capt. H. A. Davmstoxn, for Bengal
end Chins.
'Patsenevss per Denira—For Bengal. Mr. R. C. Clyne. fac-
tor Mr. it. Isarlaw. writer ; Mr J. Poole,. free manner; Mr.
ll—rsendellt Messrs. Peasbenne, Meade, Wean. carklf-
.Per. Ciwtie !lastly—roe B.mgsl. lira-rip Simmons
Hews. Beanie. Ramsay Cvi..Liest. R. Pinney; Mr. D.
'S. Nippier ; Messrs. Herniae, Hurst. free.
esinia..rst Messrs. Hamilton, Brown. Swinens, cadets.
. The Anniversary of Mr. Fox's birth was rala
meted at Edlnbargh, on Saturday sennight, with
much spirit and conviviality. A numerous and re.
spectable company assembled at M'Evmee, Royal
&whence, GEORGE SEEMS, Esq. in the Chair, sup-
ported by Sir ALEIANDER RAMSAY, of Belellint
Bart.; Sir CHARLES RAMSEY, of Pitferren, Bert.;
Mr. MANSFIELD, of Midmar ,• Mr. SPIER/40f Cul.
creed; ; Mr. Mums, of Lindertis ; Mr. ilt/NT, of
Piftelieriec &c. &c. The lion. Wit.t.iam
M.P. Croupier. Some energetic speeches in favour
of public right., and in condemation of the recent
Governmtpnt prosecutions were made, and a handsome
sum was collsictr
A Court M'

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of his Mojest:
their conduct

of December,

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the, aimed, negatived, to every Jaen, end. Tom, and MARY, whom the
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prosecutions were made, and a handsome
Acted for Mr. Ilone.
411rtial was held on the 28th alt. on CaPt•
ITCH ELL) the Officers, and surviving crew
des late sloop Martin, to enquire Into
t on the occultism of her toss. an the 11th
in Trlht I)iy, on the North-oe.t coast
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id a Ilitti•compliotent to the skill and et-
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