The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-08-19 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN,

because the patting an end to his life, sod tltat,too.
by his own bat de, removes him out of the way. effec-
tually prevents hint from doing thews any wore wrong.
and, at the same time, makes bins appear In the light
either of an insane person or in that of afelon.
is real, ream!, sad just grilled for exultatioe In the'
wronged party; and that party is by no means to be
accused of triumphing over the re/aliens and private
friends of the deceased; aud•is a poor, weak-minded
thing indeed, if be be restrained from expressieg his
joy merely because be may thereby give pain to such
relations and friends. To act on a principle liko this
would introduce strange customs indeed. We must
write and print about criminals of any sort;
and, indeed, we mast wholly cease to pnuisb and no-
tice crimes; for any criminal Las big " relations said
friends."
Bat, what doe. the Chronicle mean by saying, In
case like this, that a "men': opinions" are nut to b
raked up on such an' occasion ; sad that we ate set
to exult at his fall on account of them. Bpi/dome!
Faith It is net opinions that we *scribe to COSMO.
,IlltAG/f, or that we ascribed to Pitaccvax. Asa. here,
let us stop a moment, to remark, that when Mr. BOL-
LING/1111 was tried for shooting Pertcava L, no atten-
tion was paid to the plea of insanity pat forward by hi,
friend., though the grounds for such plea were ten
thousand times stronger than in the case of Catme-
IlllAon. He had been dancing attendance atiht offices
for mootbe and months in vain. His despair *4s the
effect of this. Yet. though there was plenty of evi-
deuce to prove the melancholy, into which. he had
been pillaged for some months, he was hanged as a
riffs/ murderer. But, the insanity of CASTIASZAON
is to be credited at once, though he was sitting in
conned with the king only about arty hours before be
I did the deed.

To return, it is not opinions, but sets, publi7 acts,
acts affecting the freedom, the happiness, the lives,
of a people, that we ascribe to CASTOLIMAGII and to
PCRCEVAL. The latter, it the very moment when lie
expired, had the design of calming a fortress to be erect.
od in Hyde Park, sufficient to contain thirty thousand
horse, foot and artillery, for the avowed purpose; for
the purpose explicitly stated by himself, of keeping the
people of London in awe ! This was the most insolent
of all mankind, as far as our observation has gone.
And, when the people of Nottingham made bonfires 4
and rang the bells on hearing of his death, did they
do it to give pain to his relations gaff f• iemis ? Did
they do it in mitosis!' over him on account of his
"opinions?" No: it was his deeds which bad given
them offence ; and, it was on account of those deeds
that they felt and expressed joy at the death of the
man. And, is it not the same in the case of Cisfs.n•
anion ? We do not know or care any thing sheet his
opinions. We do not know what he thought ; bat
we have good reason to know what he did. Ilia deeds
are written in ten thousand plates, where we read them
every day of our lives. Can we forget these deeds?
And shall we not rrjoire that the like of them can OC•
Ter araio be committed by the same man ?
It is ssid, that we are not to tilumph over a fallen
enemy. This, like most other rules, must have its
exceptions; and, mind,
Gaol to as enemy that
'no inefitir means. It
him ; to defend oars&

the compass of possibilii
ways supposed, when
umph over him after
assails u with means
sible, we can trit
So that, if we are not,
over a firden enemy, we are never, even when the act
of Ood, or his own act, frees us fiom his,corpit n rods,
to express our eatisfiction ; and yet, such, of ;alt the
cases that can happen, is a case which ought to call
on us to rejoice. Tibet were the sort of toms with
which CASTLEREAGH assailed us: whether his were
fair and open combat with us ; whether We had
fair play with him ; whether it were possible for us to
te iamph by any means other than such as would effect
his/all; three are questions that every one is able to
decide, and if decided in the negative, our present
triumph is natural and just, and no more argues a
want of manfiaers in the people of Engisntl, than the
crowing over a dead fox would argue want of game
in the inhabitants of the hen-roost.

BISHOP AND SOLDIZILLWG have mentioned the
bailof Mr. eset.tut and the females of his family,
compared with that taken in the case of the Bishop.
We now have to point out the boil, taken, before trial.
in the ease of Mr. JOSIPII Jonsson of Manchester.
Mr. Jounson, a tradesman, was indicted for attending
the meeting of 16th of Atigut ; and he was held in
bail to the amount of TWO THOUSAND POUNDS!
And yet the same bill of rights was in existence that
did, we are told, comp( Mr. Deus to let the Right
Reverend Father is GOD and Cotomissioner of the
hoard of Education go with bail to half the amount
given by Mr. JOHNSON, wbo, in a very interesting
pamphlet states this fact of the bail incidentally.
Wives or SCIFIRIRG.—We are not to meothin the
throat-rutting of CASTLIME•OII on account el Lis wife.
It Is very right to feel completion fur the wives amen
in unhappy circumstances. But, we recollect, that,
when Mrs. Tuts ILIWOOD most hutubly petitioned the
KING to have the beheaded body of her husband de-
livered to her, in order that she might perform to-
wards her husband the last sad duties of an affection-
Ste wife, the Teases: was rejUsed. We also remember,
that, when Mrs. Jonsson, brought to a death-bed by
the persecution endured by her husband and the thought
of his being it. a dungeon ; when this affectionate wife
implored diet she might see her husband on that death-
bed, and when that husband most bonttly petitioned
for permission to gratify her dying wish, offering to
give any bail and to endure any length of imprisoment
as the price of the indulgence, the petition was re-
jected! That amiable and tender wife and mother was
left to expire sat rounded by her helpless children, and
the husband was left to learn the fact in his dongeon
while one side of " the House" so:icited and the other
aide agreed to the release of Sir lIIANAISZII Loren!
Talk of history indeed! This is the kind of history
that is of ace. When we have seen a suitable degree
of compassion be-towed oo the relations of the suf-
fering reformers by persons in the ries rooks, we shall
begin to bestow compassion on their relations; bat sot
before.

Txs H•avesT.—Very little core is eat in Roy part
of tho Wisdom south of Staffordshire; aid the crop

is so large and so good, that the price mast be ►ow.
Apple. are abundant too ; aid sterna and bock•nate
are a good crop. The turnips, cont►ary to all rupee-
tatioo, are good, and the crop will be large, though
sot so forward as some years owing to the dry weather
in JIM aid July. The wheat has been got off SO
early, that it will, in many cases, be followed by large
crops of turnips. It is a year of years. Such crops
base never been known since 1762, which was talked
of for thi►ty or forty years afterwards. What, then,
is now to be the eff.ct of •' over-production!" What
will our ?ripe cock of a Minister say now!

The reports of the day relative to ministerial ar:
rangemeets are that the Duke of MILLINGTON, ll-
listed by Lord Magri!Ham, is to attend Congress. in
lien of the late Marquess of Loadooderry, and that
the duties of the late Marquess of Londonderry will
be divided between Mr. Peel and Mr. Cannieg ; Mr.
Peel to take the Secretaryship, and Mr. Canning to
supply the deficiency occasioned by the death of the
Marquess in the House of Commons.
Mr. Walters, the King's Messenger, arrived at Lord
Bathurst's Office on Saturday, with dispatches from the
King, and immediately set off to Coombe Wood, where
the Ministers are assembled, and a Cabinet Council is
expected to be held this day.
A King's Messenger arrived in the course of yester-
day at North Cray, with despatches (said to be from
Edinburgh) for Lord Clanwilliato ; and a letter from
the Karl of Liverpool to that Noble Lord arrived at the
same time. A
On Wednesday evening. Lord Sidmonth passed
through Doncaster, from the North, on Lis way to
town.
The King. in the course of his stay in.Edinburgb,
will lay the first stone of the grand national moue
meet, the Parthenon, which is to be erected on the
Calton Hills. _ . .

The Duke of Wellington arrived on Friday night
at Apsley-bouse, and on Saturday dined with the
Earl of Liverpool at Coombe Wood. His Gene, it is
said, has not yet visited North Cray.
Th. Duke of Cambridge is expected to arrive in
England the latter end of this month.
The Duke of Bedford is sufficiently convalescent to
hike hit departure from his present resideace, Ends-
leigb, Tavistock, which his Grace purposes to do is
a few days.
Sir Francis Burdett is now residing with his lady
end family in the house of Sit John Keunaway, at
Sidmouth.
The Antelope bas arrived from Buenos Ayres with
letters of the 6th May; the following is an extract :
BA D News most USU.—Lord Cochrane has disap-
peared with the fleet. Two Spanish frigates are off the
coast taking all the vessels they can meet with. San
Martin bas got sick of the English; there is only one of
them with him new.
A Mail from Lisbon has arrived, by which letters and
Papers to the 4th instant have been received. By the for-
mer we learn, that on the morning oldie 3d, a notice had
been issued by Government that they were ready to.re-
ceive tenders for a loan, to the amount of about one
million sterling. A new Report on the Government of
the Brazils was read in the sitting of the Cortes on the
2d. The plea consists of ten articlee, of which the first
shall be in the kingdom of the Brazils
the BIOCIbIiVe Power, to which all the
that hillside= shill be subject, and whit);
td " The Regency of the Kingdom of
the title of Majesty, aid to reside in tier
tt part of Brazil which the law shall
lie Regency is to consist of seven Mem-
by the King, from a certain number of
,ed by the Provinces. Among the other
sued by the Cortes in their late Sit‘ings,
is a project of law for the secularisation of tie reli-
gious orders. The preamble says, The Cortes. he.
considering the necessity of reducing the number of
the religious of both sexes, and of their convents, to
such a number that they may not be detrimental to
labour and industry, enacts the project—the substance
of which is, that no novices shall be admitted for the
present, and till further orders, and that monks sad
nuns may leave their convents under certain regula-
tions, which are contained in five articles.—This plan
was discussed in three saccsasive sittings (July 31,
August 1, and 2,) and gave rise to mach deLate: it
was adopted.
Dutch papers to the lfith inst. bring accounts of a
terrible fire which bed broke out in the woods of Not.
way. Several bandied peasants were collecting to
cut down as many trees as would arrest the progress of
the conflagration. Two Russian frigates, which
were fitted out three year. ago by the Imperial Chan-
cellor, to make a voyage round the world, hive re.
turned, hating accomplished the object of their voy-
age. The King of the Netherlands rent-nod to the
Hague on the 14:h. The Bill respecting the Salt
Duties had passed the First Chamber of the States-
General by a majority of 24 to 2, and that r,-I;tive to
the grinding of corn, by a majority of 22 to 4. The
Second Chamber has under consideration a preposi-
tion for vesting in his Majesty in full property a por-
dun of the national domains, sufficient to yield a clear
annual income of 500,000 f. The Emperor Alston-
der war expected to arrive at Vienna between the 1:0:4
and 20th instant. The King of Prussia was estreted
about the same time ; and after a short stay i t the
Austrian capital, it was understood that these S..ve-
reigns, with the Emperor Francis, would repair to
Verona to open the Congress to be there held.
The following is from a United States Newspaper.
—A short time since there were published in the Sew
York Statesmats, certain queries to the honourable
Jonathan Russell, which insinuated in very plate
terms, 'hat during the negociations at Ghent, he was
engaged in giving a house in London certain informa-
tion as to their progress, for the purpose of commercial
speculation, in the advantage of which, he was to be
a participator. On this the Boston Stateetnin ass its
that " Mr. Russell has inquired of the New York
Editor, who published the series of innendoes against
him, the name of the author, and has given an utter
and indignant denial of the charges which they involve
—To this the Nett York S'ettesotaa joins issue ss fol-
lows Our correspondent • Ariel,' has rcturhed to
this city from which he has been absent for the last
fortnight. We have had an iuttrview with him this
morning, and authorises us to say, that in a few
days he will write Mr. Russell, in relation to the
queries which were published in the of the
14th instant. and communicate to him hie real name
and address. As soon as the letter is tumoral-Li, we
will give public notice of it." We give the naked
facts in the ease, and shall watch the progress at the
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