The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-06-03 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

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when millions of the population are drained to the
very dregs, and reduced to the condition of paupers—
and win n distress is stalking through the land, and
complaints are deep and general, ten millions of mos!
ney must be annually raised to stim,ott an army in a
time of peace. and n,ure than 9t1,L011 men must be iu
arms to keep that peace from being vioht•ed. At
a period when the vtr:ctest eetwonly is requisite
a most expensive estahlishment is niaintsined ; when
retrenchment is demanded, additional borthens are
imposed : when re:i unstrances and petitions are pre-
!tented, fresh battalions are aerated to suppress their
murmurs; and the distress and ttiwontent which these
measure• excite. only turnish a pretext for int reusing I
their extent and sevei itv. '1 he thilleat scholar comp 1.-
bends the ultia.e ret..o ,egsm and the dullest of our
political logicians are adepts in the use of the convenient
syllogism. If the means they apply to stifle clamour
anginvnt and aggravate the tenses of complaint,
they ran have recourse, they think, at any time,
to what Defoe hail termed a Anil ray uit4 diesruie,t.
lf, as Lord IC Lome c well observed last night, in pro-
portion to the distress that prevailed, the military
force of the country was to be increased, one knows
not where. bat to a most ile;dorable alternative, the
system will eventually lead. With retry additiou to
the military force, the evils occasioning discontent
must become opine. sive : ro that at length it must of
necessity termiliate in a contest between the Govern-
ment and governed s—a contest at the i.•ne, or at
the strtiggle, of vLich the mind of humanity must
slinchlei —a contest which %%mild necessarily merge itt
the triumph of popular disaffertion, or the establi.h
went of a military police. To this complexion, it
appears, we are likely to come at last. 'I he measures
now resorted to have the most intrnedi..te tendency to
produce the issue. 'll hey are not of a nature to re-
lieve: they do not even affect to soothe. They aim
at nothing less than meeting and overwhelming re-
sistance. lint what man is there who has at heart the
welfare of the State. or who feels for fellow-men, would
involve himmif and his country in this dreadful 411-
lemma ? The discontetits that furnish the pretext
kr these additional oppressions, have themselves
originated iu Misrule. The bitrthens of taxation,
the did pidation of the public finances, 31111 the ge-
neral pressure of poverty iod been produced by men
who delighted In wrr, by those who bad been lavish
bulls of blood and money. he circumstances bf
which the people ate aunplaininr, and the objects they
anxiously solicit, require a treatment of a very dif-
tsreii: charmer fermi the oppressions and provocations
of a military force.

THE Qvieze.—lt is und:rstood that Mr. Brougham
set out fur Calais in Thursday, to :...et her Majesty
'at teat }lace.—Whatever din'eretsce of opn;ln may
exist a: to the question at issue between the hing and
Queen, it %reins clear that from the course pursued by
Ministers no alternative was left to the Queen. To
have remained abroad, would have been recorded as a
compromise for toollev. She must come to face the
accasatioos that are made against her. wherever she
may afterwards be disposed to take up her residence,
, . His Majesty nil! return to town to-morrow : orders
to that eifect were received at Carlton Palace yesterday.
Yesterday a Committee of the Lords of his Majesty's
, Council assembled at Whitehall. to consider of the
approgAing col. eitilty. 1 here were present, their
Royal Highnesses the Dukes of York. Clarence, and
Ulou. ester, and Prince Leopold of Saxe Cobourg, the
! Duke of Wellington, lice. &:. So. We learn that it
! was arranged by the Council. that the Peeresses
ishould nut attend in the procession to the Coronation, 1 which still remains fixed fur the Ist of August. The
Court of Claims will sit again this day in the Painted
• Chamber at le o'clock, when it is irtpected some ca-
rious claims will be presented.
There will be a creation of new Perm and of me- I
tations to higher ranks in the Peerage, previous to
the Coronation. It is expected that there will be four
Dukedoms its the persons of Lord Ilertford, Bucking-
ham, Stations!. and Hastings. Lord Eldon will re-
ceive the honour of an Earldom in reward for his long
service.
I Oeneral Coffin, the newly appointed Deputy-Oover-
' nor of St. Helena, sails from Bristol in the ship Eris-
tol, bound fur Madras.
We are happy to state, that Mt. Orattan's health
, continues as well as can be expected after his lento.).
He is determined to take the earliest opportunity of
submitting to the House of Commons a series of Re-
' solutions uu the Catholic. Question. The most distin-
guished characters in the empire have been to inquire
after his health since his arrival in town.
Mr. Trafford, the late Major of the Manchester Yen-
' maitre, has contradicted the report of his having re-
signed his coniusission from disgust, and of t,is having
not been present at St. Peter's-field, en the 16th of
' August. He declares that the statement as to both
i these points is incorrect, And that his resignation of
his commissioe, as Commandant of the corps. did not
arise fr.as any disgust or dissatisfaction at its pa-
cerslings.
1 Oesiltaal. MUMMA 07 TUE (..11'3C11 or SCOTLAND.
I —At the close of the tieneral Assembly last week,
. an overture was taken into consideration against the
Editor of The Cra.i‘timm Imetrrefor, which occasioned
la curious discussion, and a nice resalt. An article in
; that pithl.cation was stated to be calculated to injure
the characters of ninny Ministers and Elders of the
Church, who were members of the last Assembly, and
I
to vilify and uegrade the sroxeme judicatory of the
Church in the estimation of the county. On this
I point all 1 attics were agreed ; tut, on the question
being Argued. whether the calumny should be the ob-
ject of legal cognizance. a discassuni took pia e. and
a reference of the matter to the Procurator of the
1
Church was carried by 1 asajori,y of only One ; the
slumbers being in the affirmative 53. sal in tLs: siege-
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