The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-08-18 00:00:00

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To rue EDITOR or nisiST4TES HAM - • ..t..vfoANT L.DA
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via,—This being aiday set epatt for Devout Medi. 'lt is 'astonishing with what nttligentite, net tO•say
sation, I was induced to take a view of the document contempt, the Secretary of
ct Stare for the Herneasie-
partment treats the A of Parliantents passed
i.sued by high authority as a " Form of Prayer and
for the Relief of Insolvent Debtor,; and . yet this
Thanksgiving for the repeated successes obtained
Minister has been always reported to be a religious
over the French army in Spain by the allied forces, man, and is considered as the leader of those. persons
and especially for the signal victory of the 21st of *hit assume to be the firm supporters of the church.
June." I have paid close attention to this precious i . Report has been busy in attributing the delay of
.tifepointing a Commissioner for the discharge of
morceau, and am not afraid to say, that a mere cen.
surable and unmeaning jargon has not been put forth ~. btors to its being determined *to appoint Mr.
steseic'
e to that office ; and that this gentleman be-
for some time—it almost seems to have arrived at its
log a Welsh Jude, the Government must wait his
grand climacteric. The ALMIGHTY is in that article return from Circuit. This report is not likely to be
devoutly thanked for having induced us (right or correct, for several reasons—ln the first place, al-
„lst%) to assist the Spaniards and t•Portuguese in , though he is ao M.P., yet he holds not only the skim-,
ition of a' he
. Welsh Judge, but eis also Master of the
French (as it is termed), when obstinate
emancipating themselves from the invasion of the
facts ' household in the Lord Steward's department ; and,
ut .
the neat place, Government would not so em-
stare us in the face, that those nations do i bitter the cup to the unfortunate Debtors, as to up-
not seem to entertain the sane opinion of the . point Nlr. KEN RICK, who was so inimical to the In-
benefits to result from our assistance, as we do ; ' rivent Bill in its progress through the House of,
for my part, Sir, I am fully.a
principle convinced,
that the , t.;ommons, to the office of interpreting the law,
liberation of the Peninsula,
of true' where such a latitude is given to.the decision of the
.on
Commissioner.
fiscal], has never yet entered the heads of our wise ln this pretended age of philanthropy to what
Administration; but that, by keeping alive the [cause can it be.assigned, that this Act of Parliament,.
passions of the people, self-interest only has been:the result of three years struggle against priritte in-
the actuating motive : in what instance can my as. I terest, after it had passed the House of Lords, should
sertion be disproved ? If I look to the iticonsider- .take four months time to go through the House of
Commons eked that during that period the professed
able number of the Allies in arms, am sufficiently licader , 9.
Pi PIG IllelltUre, Mr. Kersarct, should. pro.,
borne out in my opinion ; or again,' if I advert , pose to lengthen the confinement on . the Prisoners;
to the apathy and indifference of those people dur- , and' *hen defeated in that attempt, should give
ing a period of repealed successes, it is more suf. notice that he would in the next Session bring in a
, Bto sh te rules ores o Kig's
Sciently evinced. How abominable, how disgusting, Bench and
Fth ern
Prisons ; and tt nowfthe
henn, w the
then, to make the ALMIGHTY a party in so scan.
B ill has passed
.into
,a law,. the Prisoners should be
dalous a transaction.. Though the Peninsular war is ;deprived of the benefit of it by the non-appointment
attended with great hardships and privations to the of a Commissioner, although a month has elapsed
population of those devoted countries, I am well 1 since the Royal Assent was given to the Bill ?
aware that the destruction of the spiritual and i It surely cannot be because that this measure oil-
„ , ginated with Lord Morita ;—certainly, if the Parece
temporal tyranny, under which the people la
l REGENT had been officially applied to by the Secretary
boured, will be more than a compensation for the
i
1 of State for the Home Department, he never would
inconveniences they are compelled at present ' have permitted his Noble Friend's favourite object
to endure. Referring to the numerical force of the Ito be so frustrated, or delayed ; nor would his
Allies, lam ashamed to find that the British only • Royal Highness have allowed so many wretched ob.
are nearly equal to the whole united force of. our jects of pity to have remained in confinement, now
.Allies in the field. Surely, then, they cannot with . rendered more distressing by the heat of the weather,
and the crowded state of the prisons, when by the
propriety address the ALMIGHT Ton their great veer- i
exercise of his 'Royal authority he could so readily
tions. We are again amused with a decisive victory— i have alleviated their miseries.
so was said of the battle of Salamanca—the next i Busy rumour, always assailing the ears of the un-
battle will be the same in all probability, all are fortunate, now alleges, that the Act was so itnper-
decisive, and while the best blood of England, as fectly conducted through the House of Commons
also its treasure, are wantonly squandered away, we
that it did not provide a salary for the Commissioner,
land that the Prisoners must wait till the next Session
are only to enjoy the great satisfaction of obtaining i for a Bill to be brought in to amend the present Act
one decisive victory after another, without end. P. in that respect.• This cannot be a good reason for
always deprecate the idea of prayers being put up on ! such a cruel delay, as the Bar can furnish men of
a subject of legalized butchery: it has occprred of- sound heads and liberal hearts, who would accept
ten that Te Deuin has been ordered in France for a ' this office upon the promise of an adequate salary
victory, while, at the same time, their enemy has being provided at a future time; and I with go further
issued a Proclamation for solemn prayers and thanks- and say, that there are Barristers of the best talents
giving to the GOD of Peace fur success on the same ' who would act in this employment for the relief of '
occasion. I cannot find out what great cause we have their fellow-subjects, even without any remunern-
of
triumph, or how the interposition of the ALMIGHTY ! lion, rather than see the Prisonets! sufferings extended
can he alluded to in accomplishing the defeat of sit , till the next Session. ,
enemy, composed of, perhaps, not more than i It is pretty clear, at all events, that this Act of Par-
one half the number opposed to them. Is the fitment is no favourite with our religious Secretary of
decisive victory made out by taking guns and State, as though it has wrought so great and impor-
baggage, with a Marshal's Staff? The first are easily, taut a change in the laws of this country; yet it was
replaced, the last any French carpenter can sup- I not taken any notice of by the Learned .Speaker of
ply ; but possibly souse of the ecclesiastical scribes I the House of Commons in his review of the Acts
of the day, waiting for titles and promotions, may ! passed in the Session, in his memorable speech at the
be able to explain the matter. Twenty years or ! Bar of the House of Lords ; and the Segazta is a
more hare we been .in the habit of putting up our] relation of Lord Sromourn's, and, like him, as his
prayers and ejaculations for success ; and twenty 1 speech disclosed, averse to all kind of emancipation.
years have we been repeatedly unsuccessful in our l- The Duke of Sussex, in his speech •at the Free-
stain object, viz. that of bringing the French people masous' Hall, aniongst other matters, congratulated
to a proper sense of the duty they owe—to what? F Lord Motna on this measure .being accomplished,
Why, to the re-establishment of all their former : and would now, it i 3 presumed, if properly addressed,
nuisances under the old Government!! Reilly, interferkwith his, Royal Brother, and not suffer any
Sir, 1 do not profess to be a prophet, or tedive longer this refinement of official cruelty.
into the inscrutable decrees of Provideuee, as some
of our prayer-makers do ; but I am inclined fo think
the prayer of our arch enemy the most acceptable iii.
the divine regard, if I may judge from, the crash 1 ,
among the Princes, and from the numerous powers .- The Piled Mayor has issued - the following very
*Lich have succumbed under..his fora, although' proper notice:—
the Sovereign Pontiff, CuktsfaNice-gerent ii,iecartii, 1 " MeesionMouse, Aug. 10..1843.
was at ile it head. At length, to sum up the whole,' "4 in consequence of the want of correctness in
these votaries of MA its invoke the Creator, in die the Returns
manner of making the of Meal or Flour
tame avtl through the mediation of • the Lamb of bought within the-City of London, :and the weekly
Con! Ater millions upon milli e ens have sacri- 'Bills .f Mortalityt and within ten .miles of the Royal
frill, these men are determined to
.persist in the : Exchange, aelsing priocipally fromthe non-ohservance
same strain, I may almost say impious strain, of ad. .of the Bth section, of the Act, passed in the 37th year
dress to that power, who cannot •withsitisfaction •of his present Majitty'S reign, whiCh directs, that
behold man endowing hioneir..wiih.,the'indficiinsi. the price Wall be absolutely fixed a,t the time of sale,
nate slaughter of
,his fellow-cieaturer,: lo satisfy And before the deliviry,'•and 'shall not depend upon
the inurdinate ambition of "a few -de,oithite hidi. , any future market price dr otter Contingency, under
Quids. I have been told that the French Emperor, the penalty of twenty pounds on both buyer and
the monster on the Banks of the Elbe (now on those seller, the Lord Mayor is unable to fix the Assize of
of the Oder), is an instrument in the bands of the' Bread with justice to the public.
ALMIGHTY to punish the nations of Europe! What :a ! " The Lord Mayor, therefore, gives this Notice
melancholy conclusion is there' to be drawn. Am I' to the Trade, that he feels himself most imperatively
to suppose that the most pure and civiliited part of called upon to put the penal clauses of the Act in
the world, breathing the tree, principles ofibligion : force to the full extent ; and particularly 'against all
Chislianily, are most vicious, and selectedlia the • persons who shall sell and deliver or receive any
principle object of 'Divine' indignation ?-L-If I Meal or Flout without a regular Bill of Parcels, set-
agree to suds an' opinion, I must then attribute: ting forth the true price actually agreed upon, ac-
the conquests of any aintiltious leader over an : cording to the directions of the said Act.
Inoffensive people, more virtuous than their invaders By Order of his Lordship,
(South Americans, Indians, &e. for instance, though • )f BANCIS AMBLER, Civic.
at the expellee of the extermination of millions Of . .„....-
the aboriginal inhabitants)) as acceptabl ° 1700
on. A Cir;ren of London hey to" t.theerre, that there are about
e to G
Baker., tu.stly wider the onSeence of the Alliter, who In
Never, Sir, while I breathe, will I sanction so abo. i now also boron F..ctor and merchant, and that 'lathing short of
minable a doctrine. Self-defence is the
grand law of . etn, ying the trade open 1.) competition can redttly the eluting
il.—Yots from a Corresponefant.
nature; but if I lied a nation quietly submitting to
the invader, on receiving as the purchase a total ex-
emption flora the numerous grievances they laboured
%elder duritig the dominion of an old dynasty, do not
lit me be told that out of a populatiou of 13,000,000
of souls, 50,000 only can be found to take up arms)
and those actually paid by another power, whose in-
terest it is to keep up the flame of war; that this is
to be called patriotism, and' therikestionTY appealed
10, to give effect to their mercenary endeavours.
Such magnanimous instances of lore of liberty may
du with thed •pp ers and sycophants of a Court, but
will never make any impression oa the rational part
of flue community . .
Bl4ansan-!ireet, liorsougle, Aug. 11. S. P.

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CORN LAWS.

At the Chelmsford Assizes, Thomas Neva, a
mariner, for wilfully aiding and assisting Ales..
Frederick Augustus de Massey and Felix Andre de
Breton, two French prisoners of war at large on their
parole of honour, to quit his. Majesty's dominions,
was ordered to be transported for life:
. The ship Volante, of Boston, hits been captured
by .a British cruizer : the vessel and cargo are valued
at 700,000 dollars.
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The 6:rumpus lately captured and carriefi into Bar 4
bidoes the American ship Sterling, laden
,vdtit oil;
&c. from the South Seas. She is , cionieptit#l
worth 30,0001. sterling. ' '

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